street sharks

[Shellfox]

I have no clue what dad lokked like, but near the end Paradime was a lizard taking orders from Badrap And Slam-U ran around in a superhero costume

[Albrecht]

who is badrap?

[Albrecht]

here is my toy list:

good guys bad guys
1.ripster 1.paridine
2.blade/streeks 2.slobster
3.jab 3.slash
4.slamu 4.repteel
5.moby lick hehe 5.killamari
6.rox 6.manta man

[Snailman]

Street Sharks was a decent cartoon show, the toyline rocked & I have most of them, just annoyed they never made more bad guys.

I recently came across a Mattel Dealer Catalog from 1996 which shows pictures of various Street Sharks toys, includeing Several un-produced figures, an unproduced vehicle AND an unproduced Street Sharks Street Playset. Pretty awesome stuff, sucks Mattel never made it (& I really wanted the Clamando figure too...).

The Street Shark figures I have in my collection:

Good Guys
Ripster
Blades (aka Streex, but this was the first figure before his name changed)
Big Slammu
Rox
Moby Lick
Manta Man
Jet Pack Jab
Slugger Slammu
Pool Shark Ripster
Super Slammu
Turbo Jab

Bad Guys
Dr. Paranoid
Slash (Swordfish guy)
Slobster
Killamari
Repteel
Mecho-Shark (large robot shark thing)
Power Bite Piranoid

Vehicles
Shark Cruiser
Shark Force Jet
Shark Force Tank
Sharkopter
Slobster Zooki (basically, just Slobster, but re-designed so it looks like he's laying ontop of a motor cycle, but his one claw is holding the front wheel, pretty neat actually)
Ripster on a Motorcycle (basically the same thing as Slobster Zooki, except his is a complete motor cycle & he has jaw chomping action as you roll him around).

They had made some other figures too, towards the end of the line, but they were sold on blister cards instead of the familiar "cage" boxes they were sold in for a few years. I have one of them, called "Cactus Shot Streex" (or something to that effect) which is essentially a re-colored version of Moto-Streex, just with different accessories. On the back of those boxes they showed pictures, or made mention to something called "Dino Vengers", which was the line that would become "Extreme Dinosaurs".

Extreme Dinosaurs figures were made in the same exact scale & design as the Street Shark figures, so playing with the two lines together is totally duable. In fact, I seem to recall an hour-long episode that was made that introduced the Street Sharks too the Extreme Dinosaurs. After that I think the Street Sharks was cancelled & the Extreme Dinosaurs took off. From what I know, the dinosaurs toyline had about 3 different waves & then also tanked.

The last wave they did of Extreme Dinosaurs, the Dino-Vision one, was the best one of the bunch, as the figures actually looked better & did cooler things (the figures from the first wave had no action features, which is odd as the first wave of Street Shark figures all had action features). Street Sharks would be cool to see brought back, but I think they have to wait until it's been at least a good 10 or 15 years before trying to tap into the nostalgia factor of it.

-Snailman

[Shellfox]

Dinovengers snd Extrme Dinosaurs are not the same. Same 4 good guys and 3bad guys yes but they are not the same.
Dinovengers came out with their own show that featured the Steet Sharks. The show contained multipl eps and included the Sharks and the dinos teaming up and the raptors and paradimes forces teaming up. The Dinovengers were aliens modified through genetic manipulation into bigger stonger forms that just happen to resemble earth Dinos. They were hunting the Raptors a trio of villians that were trying to take over botht he dinos world and earth (for earth they needed to increase the tempreture). The creature that was introduced in the Mantaman orign ep was actually a tool of Badrap. Paridm wanted badraps genetic power of the raptor so he lurde him to earth, Badrap gave him him the genetic material and in Pardimes rush, he failed to fully cheack the material and used it on him selfs becomeing a lizard, and in order to become a raptor, paradime had to work for Badrap. All the eps had to do with the Raptors and paradimes forces trying to heat up earth and the sharks and dinos stoping them. All eps all a brief musical video.
where as
Extreme Dinosaurs had an alien bad guy come to earth and discover this world still had dinos (apperently all worlds have dinos at one time or another) and modified the 4 good guys to be tools of war, they refused and were thrown oof the fhip tot eh surface. Then he collected the 3 raptors and they agreed to work for him (though they were far more commical than the dinovenger versions of them selves). Chedra, an alien cop of the same specicse shows up to arest him, he sends the raptors to stop him, and the extremes try to stop them, Badrap fires his weapon which results in all mass extinction of the dinosaurs. Some how the 7 and the alien cop survive to present day and contune their fight. The raptors are now obsesed with making the world hot enough for them (badrap lost his gun arm because it was to powerful). The 5 ended up in a desert with a local (the cop Chendra) also managed to keep her ship. And ealry on the Dinos get a pet Ostritch and eat nothing but hot salsa.
Main Cast for both shows
good
T-Bone-t-rex
Spike- T-Tops
Stegs- stegosaur
Bulls-Eye- phetradon
bad
Badrap
Spitter
Hacks
Extreme dinos extra cast
Chendra- humaoid blue female cop (and suprisingly everyone she knows is still alive on her world, cause on her world only a year has gone by as opposed to the millions of years here)
Hardrock- ankleyosaur (Exolved dino from another reality, a former bouncer at a juice bar [bartender was an orange version of chenda] who helped the guys get badrap off his world [BR wanted to make all the raptors evil and take over this reality] and ended up in our world and become part of the cast.
Ridge- allosaur (alien who resmbled an allo, possible evolved dino the guys met after being abducted and used as gladeators. He lasted about 3 eps, but there was a toy for him)

[cqb101]

Originally Posted by Snailman

Street Sharks was a decent cartoon show, the toyline rocked & I have most of them, just annoyed they never made more bad guys.

I recently came across a Mattel Dealer Catalog from 1996 which shows pictures of various Street Sharks toys, includeing Several un-produced figures, an unproduced vehicle AND an unproduced Street Sharks Street Playset. Pretty awesome stuff, sucks Mattel never made it (& I really wanted the Clamando figure too...).

The Street Shark figures I have in my collection:

Good Guys
Ripster
Blades (aka Streex, but this was the first figure before his name changed)
Big Slammu
Rox
Moby Lick
Manta Man
Jet Pack Jab
Slugger Slammu
Pool Shark Ripster
Super Slammu
Turbo Jab

Bad Guys
Dr. Paranoid
Slash (Swordfish guy)
Slobster
Killamari
Repteel
Mecho-Shark (large robot shark thing)
Power Bite Piranoid

Vehicles
Shark Cruiser
Shark Force Jet
Shark Force Tank
Sharkopter
Slobster Zooki (basically, just Slobster, but re-designed so it looks like he's laying ontop of a motor cycle, but his one claw is holding the front wheel, pretty neat actually)
Ripster on a Motorcycle (basically the same thing as Slobster Zooki, except his is a complete motor cycle & he has jaw chomping action as you roll him around).

They had made some other figures too, towards the end of the line, but they were sold on blister cards instead of the familiar "cage" boxes they were sold in for a few years. I have one of them, called "Cactus Shot Streex" (or something to that effect) which is essentially a re-colored version of Moto-Streex, just with different accessories. On the back of those boxes they showed pictures, or made mention to something called "Dino Vengers", which was the line that would become "Extreme Dinosaurs".

Extreme Dinosaurs figures were made in the same exact scale & design as the Street Shark figures, so playing with the two lines together is totally duable. In fact, I seem to recall an hour-long episode that was made that introduced the Street Sharks too the Extreme Dinosaurs. After that I think the Street Sharks was cancelled & the Extreme Dinosaurs took off. From what I know, the dinosaurs toyline had about 3 different waves & then also tanked.

The last wave they did of Extreme Dinosaurs, the Dino-Vision one, was the best one of the bunch, as the figures actually looked better & did cooler things (the figures from the first wave had no action features, which is odd as the first wave of Street Shark figures all had action features). Street Sharks would be cool to see brought back, but I think they have to wait until it's been at least a good 10 or 15 years before trying to tap into the nostalgia factor of it.

-Snailman

Do you think you could scan the page of that catalog?

[That Matt Guy]

Sounds kinda dorky.

[Snailman]

Originally Posted by Shellfox

Dinovengers snd Extrme Dinosaurs are not the same. Same 4 good guys and 3bad guys yes but they are not the same.

REALLY??? Wow, I had no idea. I just thought the toyline was one & the same, not that they made 2 toylines for 2 different shows. Wait, they never did make any Dino-Vengers toys, everything was always labled "Extreme Dinosaurs". I've seen some of these shows, but never realized the plots were so different. I wonder why they made two different shows with the same characters??

Originally Posted by Shellfox

Hardrock- ankleyosaur (Exolved dino from another reality, a former bouncer at a juice bar [bartender was an orange version of chenda] who helped the guys get badrap off his world [BR wanted to make all the raptors evil and take over this reality] and ended up in our world and become part of the cast.

They made a figure of this guy & he is as hard as hell to find. I saw him once in a Kay-Bee toystore, & couldn't pick him up (lack of money ithink) & never saw him again. It sucks too, cause he looks awesome.

Originally Posted by Shellfox

Ridge- allosaur (alien who resmbled an allo, possible evolved dino the guys met after being abducted and used as gladeators. He lasted about 3 eps, but there was a toy for him)

Okay, now this guy I have NO recollection of seeing, ever. As far as I was aware, the last Extreme Dinosaurs wave of figures was the "Dino-Vision" assortment, that included Bad Rap, Missle Mouth Bullzeye, Big Bite T-Bone, Hard Rock & Head Strike Spike. Were any other figures made besides this Ridge character?

Originally Posted by cqb101

Do you think you could scan the page of that catalog?

Sure thing, but it might have to wait until tomarrow when I go over my friends house. Then I could use his scanner to scan the pages in.

There were like 3 un-made figures (all of secondary characters/villians), an un-made vehicle & the playset. I'm not sure if the Street Sharks toyline lasted until 97', so if a Mattel 1997 Dealer catalog exists, it'd be the best way to find out.

-Snailman

[cqb101]

Ok. Thanks!

[Shellfox]

Originally Posted by Shellfox

Ridge- allosaur (alien who resmbled an allo, possible evolved dino the guys met after being abducted and used as gladeators. He lasted about 3 eps, but there was a toy for him)

Okay, now this guy I have NO recollection of seeing, ever. As far as I was aware, the last Extreme Dinosaurs wave of figures was the "Dino-Vision" assortment, that included Bad Rap, Missle Mouth Bullzeye, Big Bite T-Bone, Hard Rock & Head Strike Spike. Were any other figures made besides this Ridge character? [/quote]

I've never seen the toy either, but I saw a toy mag that had pictures of all the Extreme Dino and Street Shark Toys, and he was there, along with and exceptionaly sweet Sharkbot
I have no clue if these guys were ever put into production or if they were readaliy avalible, but he did have a toy

[NinjaKameko]

I had the fruit snacks of street sharks....and my mom never really let me watch it.

[Snailman]

Originally Posted by cqb101

Do you think you could scan the page of that catalog?

As per your request, here are the scans from the catalog that show the un-produced stuff planned for Street Sharks in 1996. The name of the thing in the picture is above it, followed by the name again & then the description the catalog gives on the item(s).

El Swordo (good guy) & Clamando (bad guy)


El Swordo: Heroic marlin has an extendable sword-like nose and double saber-fighting weapon action.

Clamando: Evil mutant clam packs mean weapons and has a clam shell face mask. When his shell is up, his eyes pop out.

Tentakill (bad guy)


Tentakill: Evil jellyfish fights with biting mouth and spinning tentacles.

Road Ripper vehicle* (*Name was subject to change)


Road Ripper vehicle
• Sleek, fierce and fast...the ultimate asphalt-ripping vehicle! Now Street Sharks heroes can really rip up the streets and round up the bad guys!

• Features power-squirting water gun for long-range shooting action and fold-out, spring-loaded panels for shark-disk firing attacks.

• Asphalt-ripping, fin studded blade spins when rolled into action.

• Shark ski tether for high speed skiing or dragging the bad guys around.

• Figures not included. Not for use with some Street Sharks figures.

Hang-out Playset


Hang-out Playset
• They bite, they fight; they kick some serious fin! They're the Street Sharks, and this is where they hang out and do battle with the evil "seaviates." This playset is specifically designed for the fighting, biting action of Street Sharks.

• The street surface is primarily foam, so kids can simulate the action of the Street Sharks as they tear up the street from below with their fins, then burst through to the surface. Features include break-away walls, doors and floors; break-apart mailbox, phone booth and fire hydrant; bite-apart arcade sign; and rip-off light pole. There's also a working elevator which connects the street level to the Street Sharks' subterranean hideout plus a periscoping fire hydrant.

• Designed wo work with all Street Sharks vehicles. Figures and vehicles shown not included.

Personally, I'm ticked they didn't make Tentakill & Clamando- more bad guys is always a good thing, espeically if they're new sea-animals. As for the playset. WOW. That would have been SICK to own, probably expensive too as Street Sharks are a bit taller then TMNT figures.

Well, there you go guys, some never before seen figures & things for you guys to look at. Enjoy!

-Snailman

[cqb101]

Man, those are awesome. Were those three unprodused figures ever characters in the show?

[Shellfox]

Originally Posted by cqb101

Man, those are awesome. Were those three unprodused figures ever characters in the show?

yes they were, Clamando and El Swordo were introcuced in the ABC run of the show, El Sword like mantaman were replacments for moby lick and Rox

Tentakil was also in ABC and I think the version of the show that preceded it.

And the Slamu witht eh shild in the first pic was also in a Dinovengers ep

[Snailman]

Originally Posted by cqb101

Man, those are awesome. Were those three unprodused figures ever characters in the show?

Yep, but Shellfox has a better explanation then I do.

Originally Posted by Shellfox

yes they were, Clamando and El Swordo were introcuced in the ABC run of the show, El Sword like mantaman were replacments for moby lick and Rox

::nods:: Oh, okay. Cause I remember the episode with Clamando. He was like some sort of dock worker or something & fell off a pier into the ocean & was "gene-slammed" somehow. I might have the episode with El Swordo on tape somewhere, as I taped lots of Street Shark episodes back in the day, but I'm not sure. What I do remember is El Swordo was created when he was merged with his "pet" marlin that he used in his sword act. I always found it funny, that with both El Swordo & Slash, when they were created some how their noses were replaced with a mechanical device. Gotta love that super-science stuff.

Originally Posted by Shellfox

Tentakil was also in ABC and I think the version of the show that preceded it.

Yes, this episode I have on tape actually. I remember it because it was also the first episode I ever saw with that Shrimp Louie character in it. I think it was called "Sir Sharks-A-Lot" or something like that, because Dr. Piranoid develops a time machine to go back in time & get rid of Dr. Bolton's anscestor so he & the Street Sharks would never have exisited. I remember once Repteel & Killamari went back in time, the sharks went with them or something, so then the good docotor sent Tentakill back there, but with all this armor & stuff on him.

From what I remember of his brief appearence in the episode, Tentakill was something of a non-talking, ferocious beast. Then he got scarred or something & ran away during the episode I think. Not exactly a great first impression. Shellfox, did Tentakill ever appear in any other episodes?

As far as the toy goes, I remember it being pictured on the backs of action figure boxes, & always trying to find it whenever I was at the store but having no luck as it was never made. I DO remember someone selling the prototype of the figure on eBay once, but I didn't get to win it.

Originally Posted by Shellfox

And the Slamu witht eh shild in the first pic was also in a Dinovengers ep

Never saw this one, glad to know he actually wore the costume once though.

-Snailman

[Shellfox]

Originally Posted by Snailman

Shellfox, did Tentakill ever appear in any other episodes?

As far as the toy goes, I remember it being pictured on the backs of action figure boxes, & always trying to find it whenever I was at the store but having no luck as it was never made. I DO remember someone selling the prototype of the figure on eBay once, but I didn't get to win it.

Never saw this one, glad to know he actually wore the costume once though.

-Snailman

I think so, it was near the end, I have no idea when, but I have a clear recolection of Tentikil with very good animation.

As for Super Slamu, Slamu was into comics and designed a costume for him, and his brothers laughed at him, but bends got ahold of it and made the costume. For some reason Slamu in costume along with Bulleye went to Washington to see the president. Bullseyes ends up making his own costume from odds and ends (a pink feather boa among other things) and they save the president, and slamu gets rid of the costume.

And on the note of Bends, as the series progressess, he get very vital to the series. Before the Dinos arive, pardime plans on making every human mutate at once. For some reason Bends is emune to the geneslam and his decendents as well as others are tring to stop a cyborg Paradime in the future. Some how the Sharks get pulled forward in time, and Clamado is there (no time has passed for this guy). The guys get back and try to find there dad and protect bends from paradime at all costs. I think in the eps in this line they may have shown there dad, I know they found him, but I have no real recollection if he was ever seen

[Snailman]

Originally Posted by Shellfox

I think so, it was near the end, I have no idea when, but I have a clear recolection of Tentikil with very good animation.

::nods:: Oh. It wasn't the episode with the time-travel to Medieval times was it?

Originally Posted by Shellfox

As for Super Slamu, Slamu was into comics and designed a costume for him, and his brothers laughed at him, but bends got ahold of it and made the costume. For some reason Slamu in costume along with Bulleye went to Washington to see the president. Bullseyes ends up making his own costume from odds and ends (a pink feather boa among other things) and they save the president, and slamu gets rid of the costume.

Yeah...that actually sounds familiar to me, maybe I did see the episode once, but didn't rememberit.

Originally Posted by Shellfox

And on the note of Bends, as the series progressess, he get very vital to the series. Before the Dinos arive, pardime plans on making every human mutate at once. For some reason Bends is emune to the geneslam and his decendents as well as others are tring to stop a cyborg Paradime in the future. Some how the Sharks get pulled forward in time, and Clamado is there (no time has passed for this guy). The guys get back and try to find there dad and protect bends from paradime at all costs.

WOW, there was a lot going on with this show it seems, sucks I missed so many episodes. Are there any websites devoted to this stuff? I'd love to read some reviews & refresh my memory a little bit.

As for Clamando not aging or looking older, aren't giant clams sapposed to live for like a LONG time or something? If so, that would explain why he didn't age much, unless he time-travelled into the future or something.

Originally Posted by Shellfox

I think in the eps in this line they may have shown there dad, I know they found him, but I have no real recollection if he was ever seen

Yeah, I remember that was one of the things I always wanted them to show us: what the father looked like. He had gotten gene-slammed by the good doctor in the first episode & from then on you only see him in shadows & never up-close. Was he sapposed to have been transformed into a animal aswell, or some sort of disgusting freak too hideous to lay eyes on?
I DO remember some episodes he'd leave a trail of slime around, which got me to thinking that he was a sea-slug or something.

::shrugs:: It's like that comerical about the tootsie pops- the world may never know.

-Snailman

[Shellfox]

Its not just that Clamando didn't age, if I remember right its like he didn't know who they were. I know in a world of mutants you could forget a few, but considering they kicked his shell all over the place in his first ep, you'd think he'd be a little aware of them.

As for the dad, the only other thing I can remeber about him is he helped establish a city of wierd mutants under the city.

No clue about the website, I'm just pulling all this info out of my head.

I swear Tentakil pre-dated the ABC run of the show I just have no idea what ep he was attached too, he may be ABC exclusive, but I swear he had like 2 origins.

And what ever happened to Lena? She was there through the first season then simply vanished with out a clue.

[Snailman]

Originally Posted by Shellfox

Its not just that Clamando didn't age, if I remember right its like he didn't know who they were. I know in a world of mutants you could forget a few, but considering they kicked his shell all over the place in his first ep, you'd think he'd be a little aware of them.

Yeah, totally. Maybe he had memory loss from gettin' beat down all the time? Or, a more plasuable explanation, maybe he existed in a future were the Street Sharks didn't?

Originally Posted by Shellfox

As for the dad, the only other thing I can remeber about him is he helped establish a city of wierd mutants under the city.

What kind of wierd mutants? Like, rejected experiements or something?

Originally Posted by Shellfox

No clue about the website, I'm just pulling all this info out of my head.

Oh, okay.

Originally Posted by Shellfox

I swear Tentakil pre-dated the ABC run of the show I just have no idea what ep he was attached too, he may be ABC exclusive, but I swear he had like 2 origins.

I dunno, the only episode I ever saw of him was in the Sir Sharks-A-Lot episode where he reveals Tentakil to Shrimp Louie, Repteel & Killamarai. Now, since neither Slobster nor Slash were present, maybe he was introduced once to them, & then the Doc was introducing Tentakill again, but this time to the newer seaviates?

Originally Posted by Shellfox

And what ever happened to Lena? She was there through the first season then simply vanished with out a clue.

Yeah, I know right? It's the same way with Slobster & Slash. They were in alot of episodes then *POP*- you never see them that much anymore. Maybe their toys didn't sell enough?

-Snailman

[Shellfox]

No the guys existed in Clamados world, cause the future Paradime knew who they were. The more plasible explination is the animators just used his modle sheet, and never bothered to look to what happened in his other ep, that or it was a second, but still it was sloppy.

The mutant city was due to chemical from somrthing pardime did (illegal dumping maybe) mutating a buch of bugs or rats or somethings into these wierd mutants. The dad found them and helped stabilise them and teach them.