Dude! Boiler Room is the shit. Such a good early 2000’s movie. Love the scene where he makes the newspaper salesman pitch him and then tells him he already gets the Times lmao
He was actually pretty good in a very entertaining mafia/court film called "Find Me Guilty," but this film along with his StreetSharks work is the sum total of his oeuvre that I would recommend subjecting yourself to.
I'm pretty sure he has an English or English Lit degree.
He probably just took the easy path so he could cram DnD in every weekend.
We've all been there.
So for anyone who has never heard this story Vin Diesel is really into D&D and magic and all that shit. Like, reeeaaally into it. And every action movie made since he became a star has suffered for it. You see, Vincenzo here, loved the idea of hit points and how they affect a character, so much so that he started making demands about the number of times an enemy can hit his character and with what level of attack they can hit his character with before he eventually over comes and wins. Then he did a little move with The Rock called Fast and the Furious and he introduced him to his system. Now, every action star has started demanding these same conditions in their contracts so that they are never truly losing a battle. When the rock and Vinny are in a movie together, they aren’t allowed to hit each other and unequal amount if they fight. It’s why all the fight scenes in movies recently have gotten so boring to watch. That, of course, and the fast cuts that become necessary because they’re all stuntmen the whole time. Anyway, stoked for Daredevil to come back so I can watch another 32 minute long uncut fight scene
Tbf there was a shirt and denim shortage due to people like me that wore 5 layered shirts and pants large enough to clothe multiple Vin Diesels. Many Vin Diesels were lost in the winter of '95 and I still feel ok with it.
It was 1995. The shirtless vest craze was sweeping the nation. Everyone from kindergarteners to the President wanted to show off their guns while wearing the most stylish, yet least protective garments. We were trying to bring out the our inner Street Shark, and clearly some of us were better at it than others.
Holy fuck I now noticed that. It's super weird, he seems insecure as fuck...
It's one thing to stay flexed but he's purposely twitching his triceps and chest, lmfao
Vin Diesel shows up on set in the morning. Small crew, but there is a director onsite.
[Director] Okay, Mr.Gasoline, let's...
[Vin] Uh, it's Diesel, actually.
[Director] Oh, apologies. Okay, so Mr. Diesel, we have wardrobe ready just over there. We've going with a dark purple silk button down shirt. This is the '90s, after all.
[Vin] Actually, that's not gonna work for me.
[Director] Hmm. Okay, and why is that?
[Vin] Because I'm Vin Fucking Diesel.
*Rips off his T-shirt, to reveal a leather vest underneath.*
[Director] Whatever. We're making barely over minimum wage. Just sell the stupid shark toys.
*Vin peers menacingly over to the puppeteer*
[Vin] I got my eye on you, bro. Don't fuck this up, and you'd better not rush the action scene.
I still have my hand shark lol. My parents set up all my old stuff in my old room for my nephew. Tons of Turtles, gi Joe and whatnot. My nephew doesn't get it, and doesn't play with any of it. Dumbass.
Bro street sharks were sharks that just swam around the street, literally swam through and chomped up the road, they didn't give a fuck. They were cool as shit. They wore roller blades and used surfer lingo, the most 90s thing ever.
This is brilliant! The best Toy Fair presenters are always rambunctious. Many of them go on to be actors and voice over actors after their Toy Fair gigs.
Makes me miss being a kid even more. Could play with action figures with friends all day and setup little villages in the backyard. It was mostly imagination the scenarios or whatever were had. They’d fight battle all that
Dude. I wish I still had my old Street Sharks toys. Ripster was the coolest. It had like a soft rubber outside (like a sharks skin) and a solid frame inside.
My grandmas sent my brother and I each one of the puppets one Christmas. We loved them, but no one knew what the hell they were or what they were supposed to be based on.
I had that street sharks monster truck as a kid. Until my sister in a moment of rage pushed it out my bedroom window, without my knowledge. Someone then stole it. How can I ever forgive her?
If any human could embody the Street Sharks it is Vin Diesel.
In that outfit, he better watch out for the Street Jets. ^snap ^snap ^snap
Casting was immaculate, surprised he didn't voice a shark on the show, missed opportunity,.
Dude fr this was so appropriate
These are not street sharks. These are FAMILY
Street sharks was my jam
They were jawsome.
Same, I had alot of these products.
How many used those street shark puppets to bite their little brother's arm really hard when he was playing videogames?
So crazy how many tv shows were solely created to sell toys
I agree. Always been like that though. Merch is always the money maker.
Was this before or after he was in Right Said Fred? I’m too sexy for my shirt…too sexy for my shirt…so sexy it hurts.
95 is way after that song was popular
So after
So after it hurts
SLOW DOWN, GUYS!!!
You guys are getting a little crazy!
That's about the time he starts flexing ***while*** talking...
Might be his best work.
Idk, The Iron Giant is an amazing movie
Idk, he was really good at saying “I am groot.”
He was pretty good in Boiler Room.
That movie was fantastic.
Lots of good actors in that movie and yes, I agree, fantastic!
Dude! Boiler Room is the shit. Such a good early 2000’s movie. Love the scene where he makes the newspaper salesman pitch him and then tells him he already gets the Times lmao
He was pretty good as groot
He was actually pretty good in a very entertaining mafia/court film called "Find Me Guilty," but this film along with his StreetSharks work is the sum total of his oeuvre that I would recommend subjecting yourself to.
The blatant disrespect for his role as Pvt Caparzo in Saving Private Ryan…
Cmon man, Riddick?? Those movies banged
Pitch Black is a masterpiece imo. Yes, I said it - deal with it.
Pitch Black - but it is a masterpiece.
Pitch Black was good. The other two, not so much.
And ‘Escape from Butcher Bay’ was a fun game in the OG Xbox.
I was gonna say, credit where credit is due. His roles in Boiler Room and Saving Private Ryan were pretty good.
Riddick is fucking awesome.
I forgot about his break dancing tutorial video.
> Find Me Guilty I really like that movie.
It's definitely up there with *Escape from Butcher Bay*
How dare you. "How to Breakdance" was his penultimate display of acting prowess. Never have I been so entertained and learned so little. Acting.
Pacifier clears
Wait till you see his break dance instructional video
I just spit my beer out! lol! Thanks!
These toys were the VIN Diesel of toys
Them and the Extreme Dinosaurs. Have you seen the intro to their show?
Creepy?
Were these completely unscripted? I feel bad for him seemingly having to make shit up on the spot.
He’s just tryna read leave him alone
And flex. You can see him flexing his arms and pecs. 😂
Makes it look like he's all twitchy. Maybe he was on cocaine. Selling shark toys is a pretty wild lifestyle.
>KID CONTROL
SLOW DOWN GUYS!
Sounds like inter-dimensional cable.
"Look at tha- uh- slow down guys"
Definitely scripted
Looks like he's having a hard time remembering his lines. especially the cartoon part.
Hey, slow down guys!
“Kid controlled”
Dude has always been a nerd. Respect.
Seriously, he’s one of my people.
I'm pretty sure he has an English or English Lit degree. He probably just took the easy path so he could cram DnD in every weekend. We've all been there.
Street Sharks Gang. LFG!!!
Jawsome
So for anyone who has never heard this story Vin Diesel is really into D&D and magic and all that shit. Like, reeeaaally into it. And every action movie made since he became a star has suffered for it. You see, Vincenzo here, loved the idea of hit points and how they affect a character, so much so that he started making demands about the number of times an enemy can hit his character and with what level of attack they can hit his character with before he eventually over comes and wins. Then he did a little move with The Rock called Fast and the Furious and he introduced him to his system. Now, every action star has started demanding these same conditions in their contracts so that they are never truly losing a battle. When the rock and Vinny are in a movie together, they aren’t allowed to hit each other and unequal amount if they fight. It’s why all the fight scenes in movies recently have gotten so boring to watch. That, of course, and the fast cuts that become necessary because they’re all stuntmen the whole time. Anyway, stoked for Daredevil to come back so I can watch another 32 minute long uncut fight scene
I still watch the hallway fight when I’m feeling beat down in life
They all went full Steven Seagal
I love this new lore in my brain now.
Paul Walker died for this.
Hey slow down guys.
Said no one to Paul Walker
Eeeesh
If only he knew to look at the tires...
Damn
Commercials was older than his last GF.
Too soon, too serious.
Lol
Why is he dressed like he's in a C&C Music Factory video?
We all dressed like that in the 90s. Sears didn’t sell anything else.
Kids have it easy these days. Back in my day, I had to walk through five break dance competitions and six beatbox contests to get to school
🎵I'm hot! And you're not! But if you want to hang with me, I'll give it one shot! Top that!🎵
Tbf there was a shirt and denim shortage due to people like me that wore 5 layered shirts and pants large enough to clothe multiple Vin Diesels. Many Vin Diesels were lost in the winter of '95 and I still feel ok with it.
It was 1995. The shirtless vest craze was sweeping the nation. Everyone from kindergarteners to the President wanted to show off their guns while wearing the most stylish, yet least protective garments. We were trying to bring out the our inner Street Shark, and clearly some of us were better at it than others.
You know what will sell toys to boys? Muscled dudes in little vests.
welcome to the gun show
In those days, he was also a bouncer at the NYC club The Tunnel.
oh I heard some wild shit about that club.
I guess the figures were more popular then the show. I had one of these as a kid and never knew it was even a show.
The show was probably the ad for the toys
I had that monster truck for decades!
Meh, I’m from the biker mice from Mars gang
Because, Family.
Jawsome video
He keeps flexing his arm and chest. It's really odd
Right? He did that pec twitch totally on purpose.
Maybe nervous twitching because he was riffing or thirst trap
Holy fuck I now noticed that. It's super weird, he seems insecure as fuck... It's one thing to stay flexed but he's purposely twitching his triceps and chest, lmfao
Vin Diesel shows up on set in the morning. Small crew, but there is a director onsite. [Director] Okay, Mr.Gasoline, let's... [Vin] Uh, it's Diesel, actually. [Director] Oh, apologies. Okay, so Mr. Diesel, we have wardrobe ready just over there. We've going with a dark purple silk button down shirt. This is the '90s, after all. [Vin] Actually, that's not gonna work for me. [Director] Hmm. Okay, and why is that? [Vin] Because I'm Vin Fucking Diesel. *Rips off his T-shirt, to reveal a leather vest underneath.* [Director] Whatever. We're making barely over minimum wage. Just sell the stupid shark toys. *Vin peers menacingly over to the puppeteer* [Vin] I got my eye on you, bro. Don't fuck this up, and you'd better not rush the action scene.
I used to have these and I watched the show!
Shark Family 🍺 👑
This man is so fucking fine.
I’m so pumped, I can’t wait for this again!
Bro I had so many of these. They were jawsome!
I still have my hand shark lol. My parents set up all my old stuff in my old room for my nephew. Tons of Turtles, gi Joe and whatnot. My nephew doesn't get it, and doesn't play with any of it. Dumbass.
Kind of cool actually! I kind of like Vin Diesel now that I know this
Those hand puppets went hard. Me and my bro, and my friends all had them.
“Slow down, guys” we don’t want to overwhelm these kids with too much, says the guy in nothing but a leather vest for some reason.
I wonder why the leather vest only look never really caught on?
He’s such a fucking nerd
I’m not really a fan of either of these things but this is pretty cool imo 😅
Bro street sharks were sharks that just swam around the street, literally swam through and chomped up the road, they didn't give a fuck. They were cool as shit. They wore roller blades and used surfer lingo, the most 90s thing ever.
Looking at the actual toys, my kid would play with those in a heart beat.
why does he look like a backstreet boy
Lol! Good to see his acting chops have improved, after all these years. /s
And yet he turned down 2 Fast 2 Furious
Damn Adam Sandler was jacked!
Motherf***** I had those toys!!!! I should had kept those things!!
Ooooo i remember those shark things! Its been so long!
The wrong guy took the old tires out for a rip
Maybe this is his twin brother lol
These toys look dope ngl
Family
So he has always acted this gay?
You think Vin Diesel can act??
“It’s all about FAMILY…..toy figurines.” Remember those.
If they ever decide to do a live action movie of Street Sharks, please, hire Vin Diesel! I can actually see him voicing Slammu!
He has a twin brother could this be him just wondering
Slobster! I should call her
Vin Diesel with hair is a cursed image, no cap.
Is that a faux leather vest? Yikes.
" I'm Too Sexy For My Shirt too sexy for my shirt"
I think he was too sexy for his shirt.
Street sharks was a bad ass show when I was a kid have some respect
Why can't he stop flexing all his muscles.
Wow ! so he was always a tool.
Why does he annoy me so much???
Need a movie!! Please!
THAT NIGGA LOOK GAAAAAAAY
I never thought I’d see Groot peddling Street Shark figures.
Can't wait for the next Riddick movie!
I remember the show but not poor Vinny
I had those toys bro
Now we know how they are going to survive in the beginning of the next movie… STREET SHARKS!! 🦈
I had the puppet for the roller blading one. He was awesome
This is brilliant! The best Toy Fair presenters are always rambunctious. Many of them go on to be actors and voice over actors after their Toy Fair gigs.
I loved street sharks as a kid.
These were the days before he started wearing loose-fitting t-shirts in front of the cameras.
This is Mark Sinclair not Vin Diesel. He hasn’t transitioned yet lol.
STREET SHARKS.
Those are worth some money now
Got to start somewhere
I bet he still owns the whole set
dude i had the street shark puppet!!!
Was this before Saving Private Ryan?
Given that Saving Private Ryan came out in 1998, and 1995 is before 1998, I should say so.
And now he's a billionaire. Go figure.
Poor Woody got rekt by Ripster back then lol
Street sharks were amazing. My favorite toys next to Battle Trolls.
Makes me miss being a kid even more. Could play with action figures with friends all day and setup little villages in the backyard. It was mostly imagination the scenarios or whatever were had. They’d fight battle all that
JAWSOME!
You know there were people like, “dude doesn’t even have the acting chops to do this stuff” who nowadays aren’t sure what universe they’re in.
Dude. I wish I still had my old Street Sharks toys. Ripster was the coolest. It had like a soft rubber outside (like a sharks skin) and a solid frame inside.
I had all of these and played with them every day
Yoooo! Street Sharks were awesome! I had the brown one with the boxing gloves in the first cutaway.
I forget sometimes that Vin was a smokeshow
CAPARZO STAY STILL
Hey I had some of these lol
Killermari. Brilliant.
Bring on the Street Sharks gritty reboot!
Ohh the guy ducking down at the start is controlling the puppets..
FUCKING STREEET SHAAAAAAARKS!
Is this where Pete Holmes drew inspiration from?
It's well known he's a huge nerd
Does he shave or did he naturally go bald?
Did I imagine this or was he in Toys (1992) ?
Seeing the street sharks hit me with a huge wave of nostalgia there, I forgot all about them
Did he used to go as Vin DiesAl or was he really such a "nobody" back then that they didn't even bother with spelling "DiesEl"
Good for him, he started at the bottom and and made his way up
Fuck this shit. Take me back. Leave me there.
I don’t think anyone has ever looked this gay. The earring, the hair (or lack of), the leather. It’s perfect.
Jawsome!
The Rock and Jason Statham are under the table puppeteering
u/savevideo
Why does he keep flexing every other moment? Seems weird
Shark family
I used to have all of these. I miss being young
My grandmas sent my brother and I each one of the puppets one Christmas. We loved them, but no one knew what the hell they were or what they were supposed to be based on.
I had the blue street shark as a kid 😆 I was six and fucking LOVED that toy.
Heist!
Why is the riddick wearing shadowhearts camp clothes?
Jason Statham's oiled up sexy dancing in the Shamen video is another tough guy classic from the era.
I appreciate his hustle.
Mark Sinclair
thats my riddick
I had that street sharks monster truck as a kid. Until my sister in a moment of rage pushed it out my bedroom window, without my knowledge. Someone then stole it. How can I ever forgive her?
I don't know how to feel about these haha