Emerje wrote:Overcracker wrote:Gauntlet101010 wrote:TF-fan kev777 wrote:Overcracker wrote:Considering other collabs have used the 80 and 90s versions of the IPs, it's almost 100% certain it will be the 1983 Pontiac Trans Am.
I'd be willing to bet on the Trans Am. Hell they hilariously licensed the fron end of the Soundwave/Thunder Machine collab already so we know they have the Pontiac licensing current and ready to go for packging even if the brand doesn't really exist anymore.
I remember reading over at TFW that a source said a recent collabs were possible now that weren't before. I didn't put much stock in that, but you bring up a good point. They probably wanted to do the Joe collab and it opened up Knight Rider as a possibility financially.
If we look at it that way, I wonder what else we could get.
Yeah, that was super silly they went to the trouble of doing that for the Thunder machine. But I guess it was a way of making sure they could get the license for an old car from a now defunct brand from GM.
Kind of makes you think how far in advance they were working on the Knight Rider collab concept.
Isn't the MASK Thunderhawk based in part on the Pontiac Thunderbird?
If they'd go to that length for the Thunder Machine then maybe we could get a Transforming Thunderhawk (with Matt Trakker??) in the future?
Emerje
The Thunderbird is a Ford car not Chevy or Pontiac.
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Thunderhawk is a 1985 Chevrolet Camaro. which used the same F platform as the Pontiac Firebird (Trans Am) in real life.
M.A.S.K did have a Thunderbird stock car in its Racing series called Razorback piloted by Brad Turner though.
But to answer your question, yes, they could use the licensing deal with Chevy / Pontiac to make the M.A.S.K Thunderhawk, Hurricane, Stinger etc...
I'd be all over a throwback line of M.A.S.K vehicles. Even if the conversions had to be manual instead of spring loaded.
It's a real mystery why Hasbro has not yet revived M.A.S.K. They've teased it several times with Matt Tracker in different G.I. Joe lines but nothing ever comes of that.