# Half-remembered cartoons... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 14, 2002, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-remembered-cartoons/103626 "2002-04-14T22:09:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2002, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-remembered-cartoons/103626/1 "2002-04-14T22:09:59Z")
Ok, this is really bugging me, so I’d appreciate any and all help you can give me to preserve what’s left of my sanity: There were two cartoons that I remember as a child. One had guys wearing funky masks that had diffrent powers, and their vehicles could turn into other vehicles. ``` The other had knights in some kind of post-apocalyptic world, where a wizard gave them little holographical animals that they could change to in order to fight each other. ``` Please, someone tell me that I really remember these and I’m not nuts or a :wally ---
**Author:** ![Airbeck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/airbeck/32/6574_2.png) [@Airbeck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airbeck)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2002, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-remembered-cartoons/103626/2 "2002-04-14T22:15:29Z")
The fist one sounds like [MASK](http://www.yesterdayland.com/popopedia/shows/saturday/sa1250.php) ---
**Author:** ![Airbeck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/airbeck/32/6574_2.png) [@Airbeck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airbeck)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2002, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-remembered-cartoons/103626/3 "2002-04-14T22:16:58Z")
The **first** one, that is ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2002, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-remembered-cartoons/103626/4 "2002-04-14T22:59:41Z")
The second one was probably **Visionaries**. The age of science has ended on Earth, and the remains of humanity had to scrabble by with a new age of magic. A bunch of heroes and villians had holographic shields and totems that gave them magic powers. Like **M.A.SK.** (Mobile Armored Strike Kommand), this was a toy tie-in teevee show. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2002, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-remembered-cartoons/103626/5 "2002-04-14T23:24:56Z")
Yes, yes! Thank you, you have saved my sanity! Now I’ll actually have to think about something meaningful (but where’s the fun in that?) ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2002, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-remembered-cartoons/103626/6 "2002-04-15T04:29:46Z")
I always liked _Visionaries_ because of the pseudo-political conflicts they had on the show. I also liked that all the heroes and villains actually knew each other personally. So the episodes were frequently about disputes between groups of people because of their differing views and opinions, as opposed to some abstract clash between good and evil. _MASK_ just had cool toys. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2002, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-remembered-cartoons/103626/7 "2002-04-15T19:20:11Z")
Bah, **M.A.S.K.** toys were nothing more than wanna-be [**Transformers.**](http://www.digiserve.com/eescape/tf/Transformers.shtml)😉 Though I admit the motorcycle that turned into a jet plane was cool… ---
**Author:** ![Koffing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@Koffing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koffing)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-remembered-cartoons/103626/8 "2002-04-16T00:51:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by rjung \* > \*\*Bah, **M.A.S.K.** toys were nothing more than wanna-be [**Transformers.**](http://www.digiserve.com/eescape/tf/Transformers.shtml)😉 > > Though I admit the motorcycle that turned into a jet plane was cool… \*\* Bah, not a robot among them. Yes, I refuse to acknowledge that stupid, stupid little scooterbot that Matt Tracker’s son rode. _shudder_ ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-remembered-cartoons/103626/9 "2002-04-16T01:55:40Z")
Yeah, Visionaries was good because there was a sense of coming in on a place that had already had a lot of history; these weren’t total strangers thrown together. Mmm pseudo-politics and cartoons = fun!