The MASK Premise seems wasteful. It would have worked better with Vortech or simply as MASK the next Generation. but to have someone who's still Matt Trakker in a Robocop's Detroit seems odd to me.


I can't say I'm impressed by Hasbro's need to rework everything all the time, sure it sometimes works but even when it works it often detracts from the Original in some way.

Even Prime has the bad feature of mixing Comic with Cartoon continuity story points and using the name Orion Pax - who is just made of lame really. so it is a little distracting from the character arc as I'm remembering the whiny looser (Young Luke Skywalker) like character he was in the cartoon. I always thought Orion Pax smacked of childish wish fulfilment really where a child becomes a super hero.. Optimus Prime is not Captain Marvel ! and never should have been.

 

Having Mask and Vortech in the same sentence gives a credability to VT that it doesn't deserve. Crappy toyline with half-@$$ remolds of MASK toys and a cartoon that just made me want to cry. I'm not saying MASK was perfect as a cartoon, but as a toyline there were a lot less misfires overall compared to other lines at the time.

Hasbro's done several of MASK-lite toys in the recent past (Stealth Force anyone?) but we still haven't gotten a proper MASK revival. I'm not a purist and know it'll have to be updated (Scott leading a new team-say the kids he met in the org show have grown up to join his new M.A.S.K outfit) but if they do it anything close to Vortech, I'd rather not see anything at all. This isn't a 'play my way or I'll take my ball and go home' but more 'I've seen that garbage once-I really don't want to see it again'. Beast Machines after Beast Wars was bad enough, but BM is poetry compared to Vortech.

I just want to see a Visionaries relaunch. As popular as the magic/mystical/supernatural is nowadays, a relaunched series done right could do pretty damm good.

Plus we'd finally get that second wave of figures that never was released!

 

For those wanting it, Hasbro Toy Shop is selling it for $4.59

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I don't know,
with all joking aside, this is a huge gamble for hasbro.
I know already that some critics and audience will say that "it's just a marketing ploy to sell
more of hasbros' toys. it's just a 2 hour long toy commercial."

So depending on how they write the plot and characterization, it could be a flop.

edit: whoops, and here I thought it was going to be made into a movie soon