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Do you distinctly remember seeing an item that doesn't exist?
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03-09-2009, 07:55 PM
KungFuDestro
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Stiletto. It was a Lamborghini Countach that turned into a helicopter and a glider. Sealed examples in American boxes are pretty scarce.
European boxed examples pop up fairly often, Kenner Europe had deep stocks of a lot of the vehicles when the line was canceled. Some of which were liquidated through retailers, or never hit shelves at all. A few years back threre was a lot of them circulating around Germany and The Netherlands.
Reportedly, Shark never made it to release because Porsche wouldn't grand Kenner licensing rights. Unsubstantiated rumors abound that it was released as a test market piece in Ohio where Kenner's headquarters was located.
Okay, went off on a bit of a tangent there, but i will always have a very soft spot for M.A.S.K. Some of the designs were pretty clever, loved the realism aspect... In retrospect, it seems like Kenner were really the underdogs at the time compared to Hasbro.
I saw a Stiletto at a TRU in Salisbury, MD only once. I had moved on from MASK by that time, and I think that was the only time I'd ever actually seen it in a toy store.
That same TRU actually gave me one of my best toy-find experiences as they had a MMS with Hawk out in 1989 or so! It must've lingered in the back room or something. I loved it especially since it had one of the early catalogs within.
Back to Shark, though... my parents even called Kenner in Ohio and they said it was coming out "soon," but clearly it never happened. Oh well.
For the person who mentioned V - it's coming back:
VisitorSite.net: V on ABC - News And Information
(that's my fan site created for it)
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