Hikari Sentai Maskman Masking Brace 光戦隊マスクマン マスキングブレス

You read right! This is a review of THE Masking Brace. The one and only! Let's get right into it...

Watching the first episode of Maskman, you'll notice something. The lack of a Henshin device. OK, well that's not too uncommon...but as the series goes on...it seems pretty clear that the Masking Brace hardly has any screentime. It's basically used as a communicator. It's featured nowhere in the Henshin sequence... Here I am though, looking at one of the oddest looking chunks of plastic in my collection. Some call it beautiful, some say it's ugly. I just think it's misunderstood. Well, not really. It's just not as beautiful as the Prism Flash [Flashman's Henshin Brace]. Nor is it as cool as the Twin Brace [Liveman Henshin Brace] a year later. It's just...there.

The toy itself is of the usual brilliant quality Bandai used throughout the 80s [and basically into the final years there made their toys in Japan]. Not only does it feature the flash device from the Prism Flash [again, the flash mechanism from a disposible camera] but it features a three mode watch! Date, Time, and Seconds. I guess my only two gripes are that it lack an animation [therefor this isn't an Anime Watch like Goggle Five, Dynaman, Bioman, and Changeman had] and it's also an odd design. Not to mention, it runs on two different batteries! One for the flash and the other for the watch! Worse, the watch battery is completely different from the previous Anime Watches. Bah!

So there you have it. It's an interesting toy. Good and bad...and certainly swept under the carpet. If you spot one...snap it up right away! It's extremely rare and valuable!

Thanks for watching my review of the Masking Brace! This was initially going to be my Christmas review...but no worries. Next Monday I will post a special two-part review in time for Christmas!

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P.S. I love every oportunity I get to use a song by Hironobu Kageyama! He rocks! [except in JAM Project...yick]

P.S. 2: My fingers are webbed...some worse than others.

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Entertainment

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• Hikari
• Sentai
• Maskman
• Masking
• Brace
• Bandai
• Japan
• 1987
• Toy
• Commercial
• CM
• CF
• MV
• Henshin
• Tokusatsu
• 光戦隊マスクマン
• マスキングブレス