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Solaria Park

Season: 1  ·  Episode USA No.: 12  |  Episode GER No.: 10
22 min  ·  First aired: 1985
V.E.N.O.M. hides a heat ray weapon in an amusement park.
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Solaria Park
US Air DateTuesday October 15th, 1985 on A&E
German Air Date1987 at RTL
Runtime22 min
Previous Episode11 - The Magma Mole
Season: 1
Episode: 12

•01 - The Deathstone

•02 - The Star Chariot

•03 - The Book Of Power

•04 - Highway To Terror

•05 - Video VENOM

•06 - Dinosaur Boy

•07 - The Ultimate Weapon

•08 - The Roteks

•09 - The Oz Effect

•10 - Death From The Sky

•11 - The Magma Mole

•12 - Solaria Park

•13 - The Creeping Terror

•14 - Assault On Liberty

•15 - The Sceptre Of Rajim

•16 - The Golden Goddess

•17 - Mystery Of The Rings

•18 - Bad Vibrations

•19 - Ghost Bomb

•20 - Cold Fever

•21 - Mardi Gras Mystery

•22 - The Secret Of Life

•23 - Vanishing Point

•24 - Counter-Clockwise Caper

•25 - The Plant Show

•26 - Secret Of The Andes

•27 - Panda Power

•28 - Blackout

•29 - A Matter Of Gravity

•30 - The Lost Riches Of Rio

•31 - Deadly Blue Slime

•32 - The Currency Conspiracy

•33 - Caesar's Sword

•34 - Peril In Paris

•35 - In Dutch

•36 - The Lippizaner Mystery

•37 - The Sacred Rock

•38 - Curse Of Solomon's Gorge

•39 - Green Nightmare

•40 - Eyes Of The Skull

•41 - Stop Motion

•42 - The Artemis Enigma

•43 - The Chinese Scorpion

•44 - Riddle Of The Raven Master

•45 - The Spectre Of Captain Kidd

•46 - The Secret Of The Stones

•47 - The Lost Fleet

•48 - Quest Of The Canyon

•49 - Follow The Rainbow

•50 - The Everglades Oddity

•51 - Dragonfire

•52 - The Royal Cape Caper

•53 - Patchwork Puzzle

•54 - Fog On Boulder Hill

•55 - Plunder Of Glowworm Grotto

•56 - Stone Trees

•57 - Incident In Istanbul

•58 - The Creeping Desert

•59 - The Scarlet Empress

•60 - Venice Menace

•61 - Treasure Of The Nazca Plain

•62 - Disappearing Act

•63 - Gate Of Darkness

•64 - The Manakara Giant

•65 - Raiders Of The Orient Express

•66 - Demolition Duel To The Death

•67 - Where Eagles Dare

•68 - Homeward Bound

•69 - Battle Of The Giants

•70 - Race Against Time

•71 - Challenge Of The Masters

•72 - For One Shining Moment

•73 - High Noon

•74 - The Battle For Baja

•75 - Cliffhanger

Quick Facts

English Title:Solaria Park
German Title:Der Solar Park
Alternative German Title:Der geheimnisvolle Park
French Title:Parc d'attraction
Location of the episode*:Aegean Sea, Greece

V.E.N.O.M. hides a heat ray weapon in an amusement park.


Voice Cast:

 

Information and Synopsis

Safety tip*

Scott assures his father that he made sure to have the handbrake set really tight and all the wheels blocked before working on a car.  

Particularly in this episode*:

•Bruce Sato is Thunderhawk's co-pilot during this mission.
•Gloria Baker is Gator's co-pilot during this mission.
•The sequence of Brad Turner receiving the call from M.A.S.K. while practicing his guitar was first seen in Highway to Terror.
•The sequence of Dusty Hayes dropping a pizza when he gets the call from M.A.S.K. was first seen in The Deathstone.
•The jeep part of Gator is left at the starting point of the mission, meaning that the speedboat part has to be mounted on the back of Firecracker for the rest of this adventure.
•Cliff Dagger and Vanessa Warfield are present at Solaria Park but have no active roles in this scheme. Cliff's vehicle Jackhammer is only used as a getaway car.  

Small mistakes in the episode*:

•Matt asks Thunderhawk's satellite link to call the M.A.S.K Computer in Boulder Hill. But the answer comes from the computer in his stately mansion.
•During the first confrontation between Thunderhawk and Switchblade, Matt Trakker switches off the jet engines and goes into a nose dive. In one of the wide shots, the engines can still be seen burning right before he turns them back on.
•When Dusty Hayes and Gloria Baker enter the Funhouse, their shadows are cast on the floor. But as the camera pulls back, it reveals that the shadows are not drawn past their shoulders.  

Other publications from Solaria Park:

•DIAMOND used the episode used for its sticker album in the U.S. and Canada  


Teams

Agent
Mask
Vehicle
Role
Hocus Pocus
Condor takes damage
Pilot
Lifter
Thunderhawk gets destroyed
Co-Pilot
Backlash
Pilot
Aura
Co-Pilot
Spectrum
Thunderhawk gets destroyed
Pilot
 

Civilians:

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Scott Trakker

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T-Bob

 Pilot 


M.A.S.K. Technologies:

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M.A.S.K. has its headquarters at a gas station in Boulder Hill. Boulder Hill Gas works as a functional gas station, complete with gas pumps and a repair garage. Buddie "Clutch" Hawks, M.A.S.K. agent in charge of upkeep on the fleet of transforming vehicles, also maintains the gas station's cover as a working facility. If under attack, the gas station has offensive and defensive transformation abilities, including freeze cannons and armor plating.

Inside, M.A.S.K.'s headquarters is far from ordinary; M.A.S.K.'s vehicles are stored inside, as well as theenergizing device that powers the team's masks. Matt Trakker has a subterranean transportation system that shuttles him between his mansion and M.A.S.K. headquarters. All this is supplemented by an incredibly powerful computer.

 
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The MASK energy room is one of the central elements of the first MASK episodes.

Hidden deep in Boulder Hill, the energy room consists of two parts. The room where the M.A.S.K. agents come together to discuss the mission, and the actual energy room, also called the mask room.

The table and chairs in the energy room are on a huge platform, which rises up following the meeting.

Once the platform has moved up, it reaches the mask room where the masks will be charged for the mission.

The masks are moved out of the ceiling with the energizing device. The energizing device can hold a maximum of 8 masks.

After the energizing device was mopved out of the ceiling, the arms fold out and an energy beam flows through them, into the masks. With this, the masks are then charged for the mission, and can be used.

In the course of the episodes, the energy room always looks different. He has several designs.

 
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The M.A.S.K. Computer is housed at both Matt Trakker's mansion and at Boulder Hill. Trakker often uses voice commands to ask the computer to analyse objects and photographs and has programmed the computer to select the most suitable M.A.S.K. agents for each mission.

Occasionally, Trakker uses a portable version housed in a suitcase that has the same capabilities.

The computer is also connected to all MASK vehicles. So Matt uses it regularly in Thunderhawk to let the computer choose the best agents for the mission.

 
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Every MASK agent had it, every fan wanted it, the iconic MASK watch.

With the watch, today we would say smartwatch, the agents were informed that they were selected by the M.A.S.K. computer for a mission.

A flashing mask, similar to Matt's Ultra Flash mask, appeared in the watch's display, signaling to the agents that they were needed.

These left thereupon everything and drop, and hurried to the mission.

The watch was silver / red with a metal bracelet.


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V.E.N.O.M. TEAM:

Agent
Mask
Vehicle
Role

Stiletto
Pilot


V.E.N.O.M. Technologies:

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The solar park is at first sight an ordinary amusement park, which an eccentric millionaire built in secret on a private island in the Aegean Sea.

Matt becomes aware after a fire on his yacht at the beginning of the episode. As it turns out later, it was probably a test run of the park.

On the way to investigate the park, V.E.N.O.M shows up. Matt had already assembled the M.A.S.k. Team gathered and therefore V.E.N.O.M tries unsuccessfully to keep the M.A.S.K. Team away from the island. V.E.N.O.M operated from a secret base built into a mountain with a secret entrance that Switchblade used to avoid a fight withM.A.S.K. during skirmishes.

After the M.A.S.K team reached the island, they visited the park. This had several rides, including a Ferris wheel, a roller coaster and a carousel, a video arcade and other castle-like buildings. The symbol of the park was a giant statue of Zeus holding a thunderbolt.

As it turned out, all the buildings and rides were just dummies. Inside the buildings and under the park were large mirrors and pistons that could form solar panels.

After M.A.S.K. inspected the park, they were forced to flee when the park transformed. Most of the park's buildings were destroyed when the mirrors appeared, which MASK narrowly escaped.

The mirrors formed around the statue. The mirrors collected the sunlight, and the lightning on the statue used the reflected solar energy to fire a powerful heat beam. Once enough solar energy was collected, the weapon was unstoppable, even at night.

M.A.S.K. launched an attack on the weapon, drawing Condor's heat beam fire and landing Thunderhawk on top of the mirrors. Matt left Thunderhawk on top of the mirrors with the help of Bruce's mask lifter. Per plan was to destroy the collector with use of Thunderhawk's thermite bombs, and sacrifice Thunderhawk.

While Gator and Firecracker's freezing rays covered Thunderhawk in a protective layer of ice, Gloria used her Aura Mask to push Thunderhawk and his Thermite Bombs down to the base of the statue.

Mayhem tried in vain to destroy Thunderhawk with the heat beam, but the ice protected Thunderhawk long enough for his thermite charge to reach the statue. Thunderhawk was destroyed by the blast, but the statue collapsed when large explosions stopped the weapon.

V.E.N.O.M escaped through tunnels (one for ground vehicles, one for Switchblade). The M.A.S.K. team and Scott had a new Thunderhawk built to replace the destroyed one.

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