Post by ironhold on Sept 18, 2016 0:22:36 GMT
It's been confirmed that Hasbro is still wanting to push forward with revivals of various properties, including Micronauts, M.A.S.K., and movie adaptations of several of their games.
There's more than enough with Transformers and G. I. Joe / Action Force for them to warrant their own threads, so this is for less popular / less successful franchises.
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M.A.S.K. (Mobile Armored Strike Kommand)
1 - The basic premise behind this franchise is that everyday vehicles can convert into something else entirely at the drop of a hat. This here is a full listing of the product line. The question is, however, how easily could such machines be made in real life? Note that these machines have to pass casual inspection, so there can't be anything major that would give them away.
To make it perhaps easier on whoever does this, I'm listing a few of the potentially simpler designs below:
Piranha - This vehicle appears to be a custom rally motorcycle with an over-sized sidecar. The sidecar can detach and convert into a one-man submersible.
Slingshot - This vehicle appears to be a motor home. The body panels flip out to reveal that the vehicle is actually a transporter for a mini-jet.
Billboard Blast - This fixed emplacement consists of a massively over-sized billboard that opens up to reveal a manned weapon emplacement.
2 - This one comes from the episode "Fog on Boulder Hill", first US broadcast December 12th, 1985.
Terrorist group VENOM discovers that a car which once belonged to a man who was arrested for stealing printing plates from the US Treasury has been put up for auction and sold by the authorities who seized it. Since some of the plates he stole were never recovered, VENOM suspects that some of the plates may have been hidden inside the vehicle and so they go to steal it.
Thing is, the new owner is a pensioner who is baby-sitting at the time VENOM comes to steal it. The pensioner was heating up a batch of fudge on the stove, and in the confusion the fudge was forgotten about. By the time anyone remembered it, both fudge and stove were on fire.
At the 3:20 mark in this excerpt from the episode, we see the young boy who was in the home escaping the property and using a water hose to try and put it out. In this case, the spigot is several feet removed from the house, so it's possible that the heat from the house fire isn't affecting the temperature of the water. But what of the spigot was, like so many other homes, attached to the house? Would it still be useful as a means of helping to extinguish the blaze?
(MASK arrives at the 4:12 mark to help handle matters. One team member has a foam cannon as part of his emergency gear, while another takes over the water hose so that the boy can help with a bucket brigade. They save the house, but it's still heavily damaged and in need of extensive repair.)
There's more than enough with Transformers and G. I. Joe / Action Force for them to warrant their own threads, so this is for less popular / less successful franchises.
**
M.A.S.K. (Mobile Armored Strike Kommand)
1 - The basic premise behind this franchise is that everyday vehicles can convert into something else entirely at the drop of a hat. This here is a full listing of the product line. The question is, however, how easily could such machines be made in real life? Note that these machines have to pass casual inspection, so there can't be anything major that would give them away.
To make it perhaps easier on whoever does this, I'm listing a few of the potentially simpler designs below:
Piranha - This vehicle appears to be a custom rally motorcycle with an over-sized sidecar. The sidecar can detach and convert into a one-man submersible.
Slingshot - This vehicle appears to be a motor home. The body panels flip out to reveal that the vehicle is actually a transporter for a mini-jet.
Billboard Blast - This fixed emplacement consists of a massively over-sized billboard that opens up to reveal a manned weapon emplacement.
2 - This one comes from the episode "Fog on Boulder Hill", first US broadcast December 12th, 1985.
Terrorist group VENOM discovers that a car which once belonged to a man who was arrested for stealing printing plates from the US Treasury has been put up for auction and sold by the authorities who seized it. Since some of the plates he stole were never recovered, VENOM suspects that some of the plates may have been hidden inside the vehicle and so they go to steal it.
Thing is, the new owner is a pensioner who is baby-sitting at the time VENOM comes to steal it. The pensioner was heating up a batch of fudge on the stove, and in the confusion the fudge was forgotten about. By the time anyone remembered it, both fudge and stove were on fire.
At the 3:20 mark in this excerpt from the episode, we see the young boy who was in the home escaping the property and using a water hose to try and put it out. In this case, the spigot is several feet removed from the house, so it's possible that the heat from the house fire isn't affecting the temperature of the water. But what of the spigot was, like so many other homes, attached to the house? Would it still be useful as a means of helping to extinguish the blaze?
(MASK arrives at the 4:12 mark to help handle matters. One team member has a foam cannon as part of his emergency gear, while another takes over the water hose so that the boy can help with a bucket brigade. They save the house, but it's still heavily damaged and in need of extensive repair.)