--- title: Vin Diesel Sells Street Sharks Toys in 1994: video description: The clip, from 1994, was uploaded to YouTube a few months ago, but is now circulating around the Internet. canonical: https://time.com/4195609/vin-diesel-street-sharks-toys/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-27T16:03:57.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:29:18.119Z og:title: Please Enjoy This Video of Vin Diesel Selling Toys in 1994 og:description: He was basically a hype man for Street Sharks og:url: https://time.com/4195609/vin-diesel-street-sharks-toys/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Please Enjoy This Video of Vin Diesel Selling Toys in 1994 twitter:description: He was basically a hype man for Street Sharks twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Please Enjoy This Video of Vin Diesel Selling Toys in 1994 by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jan 27, 2016 4:03 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jan 27, 2016 4:03 PM UTC A video of [Vin Diesel](http://time.com/4074895/vin-diesel-jimmy-fallon-tonight-show/) in his 20s, wearing a leather vest with no shirt underneath, promoting [Street Sharks](http://www.ebay.com/bhp/street-sharks). It sounds too good to be true, right? But it’s real. It’s so, so real. The clip, from 1994, was uploaded to [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4HLBfTcAUg) a few months ago, but is now circulating around the Internet after popping up on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/Protoman/status/691807397770297346) and then on [Kotaku](http://kotaku.com/in-1994-vin-diesel-was-selling-street-sharks-at-toy-fa-1755326330). He appears to be making a sales pitch for Street Sharks at a toy fair, and he gets _so into it._ Please, we urge you to enjoy this completely unexpected footage of the man who’d later become [Dominic Toretto](http://images.fandango.com/r99.1/ImageRenderer/1040/650/redesign/areas/movie/moviesubpages/img/noimage%5F900x900.jpg/111708/images/masterrepository/fandango/111708/fastandfurious-mv-vindiesel-32.jpg) freaking out over something called a “hand shark.” Vin Diesel Sells Street Sharks Toys in 1994: video ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4195609/vin-diesel-street-sharks-toys/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4195609/vin-diesel-street-sharks-toys/"},"headline":"Please Enjoy This Video of Vin Diesel Selling Toys in 1994","datePublished":"2016-01-27T16:03:57.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:29:18.119Z","description":"He was basically a hype man for Street Sharks","url":"https://time.com/4195609/vin-diesel-street-sharks-toys/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrity"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4195609/vin-diesel-street-sharks-toys/","name":"Please Enjoy This Video of Vin Diesel Selling Toys in 1994"}}]}] ```