You don't know how TV show episodes are written in America, do you?

 

Yes, actually. I know what scripts coordinators do, I know what writers assistants do and I know both are junior roles in the writing department. Calling her a showrunner and trying to blame the show on her was just laughably pathetic. Beechen, sure, he is the producer. But not Scott. People pulled this same shit with Prime after Scott got to write Windblade, all of a sudden SHE was the problem with the shows writing despite only writing a few episodes and again being a writers assistant.

 

No different than how you're giving her all the credits for "writing the best episodes" when the writer's credit merely means "wrote general outline of treatment dictated by show head, rest of the writer's committee filled in the lion's share"

 

I'm not giving her credit for the writing on the ENTIRE show, the way he was. I'm saying the episodes with her name as the writer are the best, there is a difference.

 

M.A.S.K may be the only line that will get me to contemplate starting a new collection for a toyline.

I've since given up collecting all the other toylines (Spawn, Saint Seiya, Gundams & etc) over the years & I'm seriously streamlining my collection to recover space.

If I have to find a reason to start/justify collecting a new toyline, this will be the one.

 

 

My classic MASK sets are still pretty awesome, but they'd cost Hasbro a fortune to run, lots of parts and springs and tabs and deco. There's likely not much chance we'll see those original molds anyway, they were made under Kenner so they never had to meet Hasbro's stringent safety testing, and the many missiles and whatnot would no longer meet with Hasbro's standards. And a lot of parts on the smaller vehicles required folding plastics that simply don't get used either due to breakage or materials issues. Reworking those existing tools would be worse than just starting from scratch, most likely.

 

Sad but quite likely accurate.  

If they do all new toys then I hope they don't end up like the stealth force toys where one button/action did everything, a lot of the fun in mask vehicles for me was the manual parts of their transformations.

 

Kenner's attempt to combat loss of sales to ARAH and Transformers.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.A.S.K.

 

So glad to hear I'm not the only one who's excited about M.A.S.K. making some sort of come-back!
Not really too fussed about what form it will take, but some new toys would be great. Back in the day, Kenner should really have taken a cue from Hasbro's Transformers and GI Joe by reissuing repaints of the original vehicles. They did issue quite a few repainted figures, but I guess that was too little, too late to keep the brand alive.
This time around, I'd LOVE some Masterpiece style reissues of M.A.S.K. vehicles   But realistically, all I really want is a couple more newly designed vehicles with figures that are able to fit in them.

Back to the conference call itself: I just really REALLY wish Hasbro would up their presence outside of the US. Newest toys I've seen have been a paltry few wave 1 CW toys: nothing after that, and even those were hard to find in stores.

 

^ I can certainly hear the fans shouting:

"Please release that d@mn Shark vehicle which Gloria Baker's driving!"  

 

My crazy ass theory is that Hasbro is trying to create a sort of "shared universe" between MASK, GI Joe, and Action Man. In theory, you could create a single media offering that could tie all of them together and promote them (ie, a recurring GI Joe cartoon where the Joes help MASK against VENOM, or a buddy team episode with Roadblock and Action Man, etc). Potentially allowing each brand to "feed" into the others (2.5" Joe members in the MASK line, a large scale Cobra villain in the Action Man line, a 3.75 rendition of Action Man, etc), while still maintaining a degree of product uniqueness (and potentially allow Hasbro to better market lines outside the US without a direct branding to GI Joe).

The idea is not entirely without merit:
Matt Trakker has popped up in rumors about GI Joe 3, and got a GI Joe action figure in 2009.
Action Man has had a long tie to GI Joe, including a 3.75 figure in 2004 and was a part of some early versions of Rise of Cobra.

 

I can see MASK being like the Stealth Force Stuff from a few years ago with a small driver. The full size action figures getting vehicles days are past it seems.

A large part of Hasbro's problem right now is dividing it between movie years and non movie years, and everyone treating the movie line as the more important, It's not 2007 anymore. I think they need to be adopting a model more like TMNT did last year.