Kenner Maskatron Commercial Six Million Dollar Man

[Labzo441]

Look out Steve, he's got a plunger!!!

[balderdashman]

I own two of these still in the box!

[Labzo441]

@greenjeansmjr I remember that stuff. Verti bird was pretty cool. I also recognize your you tube name. Mr green jeans lol

[TheBassmaster730]

dude, i'm 45 and still have all my toys from the 70's. u name it i have it . all in near mint condition. anyone what to come over and play. lol...

[greenjeansmjr]

@TheBassmaster730 Familiar with 'Verti-Bird'? Mattel 'Super-Eyes'? 'Wall-Walkers'? 'Klick-Klacks'? I'm trying to stump ya!!!

[TroyFullrt]

The heading on this video is not accurate. It was filmed in the early summer of 1976 and began airing in the US during the 1976 Christmas holiday. I know because I am the kid playing with Maskatron . . . the other kid is my brother.

It was filmed in England when Kenner (and other companies) used kids from the American schools to film the commercials in a royalty free country for airing in the US.

[shelly10538]

My brother wanted this real bad but was very disappointed with it. We still joke about it today. The ultimate crappy thing is now referred to as a Masketron or Masketron siuation.

[SuperGamer68]

i love reliving these memories ...I loved those toys

[dwilmer7]

that kid looks like a total fucktard.

[derman077]

IT'S NOT A DOLL, IT'S AN ACTION FIGURE !

[DarthKreeg]

I wish they would remake these toys,they re-did planet of the apes and the mego star trek and superheroes so why can't they redo these toys?I love star wars toys but they stopped making the 12 inch ones a while back.I bet they would sell millions of the 6 million dollar man toys if the re-did them.

[TummyLover]

Wow!!! I thought I remembered all my SMDM stuff, but I forgot all about Masketron! He was the shit!

[laceyschism]

Toys sure fought slower back then and didnt really do much beyond raise their feet and swivel a bit. Dont get me wrong I dont need toys to be all apeshit crazy, but all those two did in that comercial was dangerously close to high school dance with each other

[2199William]

STEVE AUSTIN YOU ARE AN ENEMY OF THE DALEKS! YOU WILL BE EXTERMINATED! Seriously, with that plunger you have to wonder.

[brianpadraic]

What boys actually had to be shown how to play with dolls?

[cyberzonie]

I liked masketron's Dalek attachment.

[Billbosh1]

I just found my Maskatron intact in my basement! I'm debating whether to give it to my 4 1/2 year old. The plunger is a little gooey though.

[SuperGamer68]

Maskatron was modeled after a villain played by John Saxon

[SunsetSupermanRMB]

NO ONE could clear clogged drains faster than Maskatron.

[BIGBOY2TON]

Oh no!!!

He's gonna touch you with a DIRTY PLUNGER!

RUN!

LOL!

[colanderhead1971]

:24 LOL look out for the robo-plunger!  ROTFLOL!!!!

[uselessman73]

Maskatron has a plunger arm

[DasGoldenBoy]

Did Maskatron come with a toilet plunger?

[TubeFreakJonas]

@DasGoldenBoy

It was clearly a suction cup so that he could fling himself at a window, and then wait to be rescued.

It worked like shit though! Yes I too lost my Maskatron and Steve Austin DOLLS. The cash would be handy... but go buy some Transformers shit and wait 30 years...

[CodyZamboni]

if I held onto my Maskatron doll, I could sell it on ebay today for thousands of dollars to suckers on ebay.

[colanderhead1971]

OMG, I have heard of launhing robot FIST, but robot LEG? Wah-ha-ha!!! Thanks for sharing from an oldskool Steve Austin fan!!!!

[phillydisco]

What was that toy that was a man with a see through body, and when you pressed on his back, you could see his lungs move and fluid running through veins? I thought it was the Six Million Dollar Man doll, but this doesn't look like it.

[joeyvader]

Pulsar was his name!!!!

[phillydisco]

@joeyvader Awesome, thanks!!!!

[LordRufus]

Did someone mention Pulsar? Dude! I had that! I remember how his white hair always puzzled me. He was so cool though.

[joeyvader]

You can still find them with the liquid still in liquid form too...even after all these years they have stood up...

[odinata]

Yeah, but when Steve plugs up the toilet, he'll wish he had a Maskatron Plunger Arm!

[palitoy]

His name was Pulsar but he wasn't part of the SMDM line, he was made by Mattel.

[BiggJ1969]

@palitoy The action figure you speak of is"Pulsar" (who was made by Mattel, The Six Million Dollar Man,was made by Kenner. The commercial is on youtube under "pulsar toy". Pulsar had an enemy named Hypnos.

[mykidsdad36]

Did anybody else besides me have the Bigfoot, from the Six Million dollar man series? It was my favorite toy as a kid.I believe the Bigfoot on this show was played first by Andre The Giant, and then Ted cassidy, the one who played LURCH on the Adam's Family TV series! Anyways, just curious if anyone else had that Bigfoot figure, I would love to find one for sale (I did find one on Amazon, they wanted like $400- I don't want it that Bad!)

[TheJediCharles]

Heck yea, I had it. I had it, Maskatron, SMDM and Oscar Goldman. Oscar's suitcase was awesome, with a "boobytrap" that if opened incorrectly would self destruct, but if correctly would open to a computer panel. I had the SMDM control center too, that you could hook up his arm to a control panel and stuff. AWESOME toys.

[witt66]

I had the Big Foot too. Loved it. The chest had a square that popped out and showed the bionics inside. He was a big action figure too. I also made him be my Chewbacca when playing with the large star wars figures.....lol

[mykidsdad36]

LOL- Sounds like something I would have done too! Hey, I also got another action figure that Christmas too,but I can't remember his name, He had blonde hair and tan skin and most of the front was clear plastic where you could see the organs and blood vessells,do you remember who this was by any chance? I got all three that christmas ( The Sasquatch, The Six million dollar man, and that one with the see through insides?) Man, those were the good old days!! ~Lee

[witt66]

Or maybe it was the other way around....I made chewbacca bigfoot...lol

[witt66]

I sent you an email in your inbox about your question. For some reason I couldn't get it to post.

[fjccommish]

Maskatron will break your foot with his claw. You missed! Then Maskatron will break your foot with his foot - haha! Maskatron wins again. Bang! No, not the head spring!

[chillcity1]

I remember as a kid thinking "Why would any kid get Oscar Goldman AND Maskatron. I'd just use Maskatron as Oscar when I needed him...and use him as Maskatron when I needed a villain.

[zzzombie888]

I had Oscar and the Briefcase was really cool! "Exploding" Breifcase that is!

[zonqor]

Well, I'm glad I'm not alone in that I could never get his limbs to stay put.

My little chums at the time all had regular action men and could never take my feller seriously with his head constantly flying off at random.

I still have the little guy in a box somewhere but truth be told I always found him a bit frustrating.

[mrrictus]

I Maskatron...I lost his fucking leg!!

[videojomo]

I had Maskatron; good times!

I remember seeing a commercial for a $6M Man playset with an exploding briefcase, but none of the toy stores knew what I was talking about.

[mortone]

That was the Oscar Goldman action figure. He had the exploding briefcase. That's right... the Six Million Dollar Man's boss!

[videojomo]

Thirty-five years later and the mystery of the exploding briefcase is solved! Good work, gang!

Seriously, though- an Oscar Goldman action figure with Real Briefcase Action. That's sublime; I could get into that. I'd buy one just so I could have Oscar call Steve in to watch a mandatory classified tape about how to avoid bionic sexual harassment in the workplace.

He could show it from his briefcase!

[clintbronson5]

I remember a friend of mine having the VENUS PROBE toy

[Eddie62070]

that venus probe was SCARY!

[MLA03]

i was spoiled i had them all,THANKS MOM!

[IIIIdepechemodeIIII]

I had the steve austin doll and always lost the damned bionic pieces from his arms somewhere.

[wrestlingfan4life08]

Btw John Saxon Played the Maskatron villain

[wrestlingfan4life08]

I had all the Action figures of Steve..Jaime, Maskatron and Oscar Goldman...I loved all of them

[DevilDan83]

- Take that!

- Ow!

[nyyterp]

I had this! It was a great but the plastic parts were a bit on the cheap side, due to the fact it was hollow to hold the spring mechanisms. One problem I had when playing it is that the body parts ejected too easily, even with the locking mechanism. The arms and legs weren't as articulate as the regular Kenner action figures. Moving it around too much resulted in the limbs detaching from the socket (or cause the aforementioned ejections).

Still got plenty of playing with this, however!

[wrestlingfan4life08]

My Parents Bought him too for Xmas 77...I Had all the figures except for the Fembot,,Steve Austin was my childhood hero....I even had the Rocket/repair table...I miss those days!

[kikayei]

I will never forget christmas 1977. I received Maskatron, Steve, Bigfoot, and a SMDM 3 wheeled vehicle (can't remember what it was called0. Sigh.

[seawyatt]

And the actor who played him was Michael Ironside...just a fun fact.

[VolumedMusicMan]

Any of y remember the steve austin fan club! Was a member then LOL

[Suprahajimoto]

When I found out Evil Knivel's bike came without ryder I felt gipped.

[myndenway]

Why does maskatron use a toilet plunger?

[visor109]

Ha! You are right!

[scaryforkids]

Maskatron constantly blocks up the toilet. :P

[Cavillier1970]

Never heard of Maskatron. Was he a villian from the show?

[seawyatt]

Yeah, he was a robot that fought Steve Austin. He wasn't called Maskatron...they only used that name for the action figure.

[Cavillier1970]

thanks, all I ever had was Steve and his rocket ship/ repair bay. I never realized there were so many cool 6 Million Dollar toys back then.

[nf8011]

ha que bien yo tenia estos juguetes los recibi para un ragalo cuando tenia 6 años que lindos rcuerdos

[lewpie4pool]

Had this as a kid and have such fond memories of it that i've bought another off ebay,

mint in its box, sad i know but cool.

[SpaceWars2025]

haha kick ass... old skool

[eci4r]

I remember having maskatron

[silexsong]

This was my FAVORITE toy as a kid!

[mushroomhead777]

I had a maskatron a steve austin and that crazy spaceship toy that you could put steve austin in.

[JoeSmoeX]

Maskatron was my favorite.

[mx94racer]

I had Maskatron! I remember I lost his pop off leg in the creek. I was so pissed.

[TummyLover]

@mx94racer LOL!!!!

[mmbmrock]

I remember this that maskatron was a real asshole.

[bijeto]

I never saw this commercial back in the day (or don't remember it), but thanks for posting it all the same.

[ohtaydee]

I had maskatron, he rocked! I think I got him the same year I got Stretch Armstrong....remember? :)

[ftyjhghjk]

I got the Steve Austin doll, which I still have, in its original box, with the fan club and t-shirt order forms, as well as the engine block. I also had the bionic test lab, which doubled as the Northrop HL-10 which he originally crashed in, although it beared no resemblance to the actual test vehicle. I never got the Maskatron, however, which I desperately wanted. The John Saxon-Oscar Goldman android episodes were-and still are-my favourites.

[bijeto]

My story is the reverse of yours. I still miraculously have my Maskatron with (a very beat up) original box, but for some reason, never got a Steve Austin.

[ftyjhghjk]

Bizarre. Which is your favourite episode?

[bijeto]

Same as yours! (Of course!)-lol But I also like the one with the Robot Bigfoot.

[bobowayney]

Strange as it seems, I seriously recall Kenner making a "Bionic Woman" action figure. And Ms Jamie Sommers had an opponent as well - "Fembot" who seemed very much like "Maskatron" but had only two masks instead of three

[bijeto]

You're right. I have no memory of either, but the commercial for both can be found here on YouTube.

[bobowayney]

wow, I had no idea. thanks for telling me

[tranurse]

i had the bionic woman doll. got her for christmas when i was five. i didn't have the fembot, but my brother had steve austin.

[cha5]

Same here, I think the first Six Million Dollar Man villain doll ever made was a lame doll called 'Dr Chromedome'

Yes that was the actual name, I doubt that anyone remembers THAT particular doll LOL,

It had a metal hat and was dressed in purple

and a cape, Terrible doll (shudder)

Maskatron came out after that and was a big improvement.

[Eddie62070]

I got that Christmas of '76. Complete with Seve Austin, Oscar Goldman, & John Saxon masks