Welcome to Masters of the Universe General!Previous thread: >>11555409Origins/Cartoon Collection:>Snake Lair crowdfund over. Pythonus failed to unlock>Lords of Power Castle Grayskull up for order on Amazon>Announced at SDCC: Snake Lair, Dragstor, Sting-Or, and 200X retail refresh.>FRIGHT ZONE available for pre-order on BBTS and EE. BBTS Shipping pre-orders now.>Bow, Shadow Weaver, and Whiplash available at BBTS. Amazon and Mattel Creations taking preorders.>Sharella, Despara, Hurricane Hordak, Vultak, He-Ro, Rio Blast, Geldor and Night Stalker all STILL available on Mattel Creations.>Sketchbook Sy-Klone is available at Target. Spikor coming soon.>Two-Bad is confirmed sculpted but remains unrevealed.>1 MORE Preternia character confirmed.>CC Swift Wind/She-Ra on MC in September.>$10 Necro-Condas on Walmart.comMasterverse:>Announced at SDCC: Mantenna, Mosquitor, Anti-Eternia He-Man, Dragstor, Despara, New Eternia Keldor.>40th Anniversary She-Ra, Terror Claws Skeletor, Ninjor and Blade shipping.>NE Hordak, Teela and Kobra Khan and vintage style Stratos coming soon.>Panthor sold out. MC exclusive figures still in stock.>MV NE Moss Man went on sale Aug 26th on MC.>big sale on unsold Masterverse figures at BBTS.Crossovers:>Skele-Shredder available on MC>Megatron Skeletor and Bumblebee Man-At-Arms have shipped. Mini-comic shows Optimus He-Man and Evil Ghost of Starscream.>Thundercats wave 3 is Panthor-Man, another Panthro, another Lion-OArchive:https://archive.palanq.win/toy/search/subject/MotU/Thread Question: What's your MOTU wishlist BUT you can only pick one character per letter of alphabet?
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Sketch Series Target Exclusive 3-pack when?TC: Army builder CC Goblins and Shadow Beasts now that the retro game is coming out.
>>11561162Fuckin do it mattel!
>>11561125Brak?
>>11561162Speaking of the game, I hope the boss fights are fun and diverse, unlike that GI Joe beat em up.Like Skeletor copies himself like Shredder in TMNT Arcade, or he starts off as a melee with the Terror Claws but also armor and Dragon, a certain amount of damage kills Dragon leaving just his skull/spine, more damage knocks the Terror Claws off and he switches to spells with the Havoc Staff, his armor dents and then breaks off and vanilla changes to a final attack pattern.
Shit guys, the other thread has hit the image limit but i did gather up my figures. Sorry, i was hoping i could keep this in the old thread but if you want to talk or see more pics etc just lemme know.
>>115611252002 release when goddammit
>>11561213Are you selling your stuff to buy new furniture?
I just now noticed that the Battle Ram blog has this Esteban Maraoto painting with a rare appearance by Dragon.
Sketchbook Series?
>>11561301>gay concept character>posts something rad as fuckWhere does the head go when the mouth is open?
Creations exclusive WWE Superstars The Rock 2-Pack in 5 days. Doubt it sells quickly but more figures.
>>11561349>doesn't understand why he called it gayLook at the two modes of this figure, and then think about what He-Man must be sitting on
I want a nice 1/12 She-Ra and a nice 1/12 He-Man with a good face. Why is this impossible in 2025?
>>11561301kekloving this, just motu stuff being motu
I picked up Evilyn, she might be my new favorite fig.>>11561213Do you have any Masterverse figures for sale?
>>11561465She looks nice, I wish these figs weren't 1/10, I would have gotten her as well.
>>11561060absolutelymore weirdos that fit the classic sword and sworcery with slight sci-fi psychedelia influences
>>11561486She fits in with most 6” muscle mommies.
>>11561360He's sitting on his weight lifting belt which doubles as a saddle in beast mode. you act like He-man's riding a greased up sparkly cock.
>>11561514Off topic but damn I hope Hasbro re-releases Titania on a retro card at some point without the altered suit and that struggling to shit head sculpt. Even if it's in a two pack with Absorbing Man.
>>11561703I'm not acting like anything. I'm explaining the other guys joke to you. You seemed to think he labelled it "gay MotU concept" in a "this is lame" way by saying it was actually rad, and I was telling you he meant in the literally homosexual way because He-Man was sitting on his crotch.
>>11561465Loose yeah. Its the early waves but they are boxed up. What are you looking for?
What are some unexplored dynamics you'd like to see between Evil Warriors? Mostly we get endless interactions between members of the Diamond Ray of Disappearance group. There was Webstor/Kobra Khan before 200X simplified KK to "obsessed with King Hiss from the moment he steps in Snake Mountain".Outside of the movie guys with Evil-Lyn and Beast Man and a mute Blast-Attak's membership in the Motherboard cult, have 1987 Evil Warriors even met the earlier ones?
>>11561828i'd like some non-leader interactions between evil groups. Maybe Grizzlor and Beast Man are rivals or Webstor and Modulok.
>>11561828I think i remember that Merman looked down on Beast Man and tried to be secomd commamder to Skeletor.
>>11561855
>>11561857Both being an amalgamation is a lame origin story. I like it better when his race is a double headed race.
>>11561861
Anyone has this? is it worth it? found it for a decent price. I got into MOTU with classics so it would be cool to own "vintage" versions of these 2 since I don't have any.
>>11561861>I like it better when his race is a double headed race.Listen to this guy, Mattel. You could sell me more figures from Two Bad's race.
>>11561868You could give them a good counter part too.
>>11561869Yes, I want Two Good.
>>11561870Double-Hero
>>11561875In Transformers G1, all the Deception Pretenders plus Double Header and Longtooth from the last assortment of Autobots had MOTU vibes.
>>11561886These guys were neat.
Just look at all these monsters next to a samurai with a skull for a face and a half-naked muscleman.
>>11561886>Transformers starts losing popularity and starts giving the robots shells that look like MOTU figures>Meanwhile MOTU starts losing popularity and introduces transforming robots into the lineThe 80s were mental.
>>11561895"They're changing into other forms. What evil robots."
>>11561828I'd like to see Spikor have a rivalry with whomever's the fiction's making the Evil Warriors' techie, because he crafts magic gear.
>>11561886One of my fav figs back then, still is.
I think my ideal "Double Hero" for Origins would be the unseen vintage Two Bad torso, scaly arm and upper leg, Rio Blast hips, sculpted pant leg (from a wrestler?), one Rio boot, Spikor arm in (white) flesh tone with a chainsaw instead of the extendable trident, one Rattlor shin/foot and heads that look like Bruce Campbell and a friendly scaly reptile man. Pick your favorite color for the scaly half.
>>11561125>MV Mantenna>They actually went with the red gloves and shoes.Why do this?
>>11561864I've only seen reviews of it online. I wanted a set but it went out of stock so fast I never got the chance.
In the Brazilian MotU comic's last issue, #33, there's a "Demon of Madness" held in a cell in Castle Grayskull and escaped.Can anyone dig up an image of this? Might be fun to have a maddening roommate for Frog Monger, the Orlax and that wolf or baboon demon.
>>11561967https://youtube.com/shorts/3Cc2_Kav7XU?si=3PSVlf61eqBo8jzfThis what you're looking for?
>>11561977Yes! Thank you!
Remember when we used to collect Origins art Easter eggs? Let's look back at the most exasperating:Marlena (old, based on DC 1982/minicomics of 83-84). From 2020 and still no Marlena of any kind.
Loo-Kee in Wave 3 as a joke instead of a preview seems more understandable."Didja see me?"
Two Bad was first teased in 2022 (Terror Claws Skeletor card).
>>11561864>>11561961I have this set and it's great and talked about it before here. Its great. Extra paint apps are nice and the figures also feel solid enough. Spring action works great and feels famliar to original. The only gripe I see is the heads being similar or from the commemorative series as opposed to the true original but I can look passed that I guess, as I dont have any commemorative.From what I've seen there is no full power sword included, maybe some foreign sets do, but the accessory count on the box doesnt account for it at least on the ones I've seen, seems to be a thing only seen in that render to me... The paint apps on the halfswords and the havoc staff both have that nice metallic sheen on the figures as well. Both sword halfs and the havoc staff are the same from origins wave 1, but the colors reversed for the swords probably to differentiate them from origins.Is there anything specific you want to know ?
If Origins just did the box art teases before ending, would you be satisfied?Queen MarlenaLoo-KeeImpTwo BadMulti-BotStonedarBlast-AttakTwistoidEldorTytusMegatorLaser Power He-ManLaser Light SkeletorDeloraDactusQueen AndreenoChooblah200X centaur (name?)StroboHe-Man with bare feet/bare forearms/no belt AKA Oo-LarrConcept Rattlor AKA Stretch NekPythonusRed Snake ManRed ShadowToxoidOrangish Snake Man from Kol-Darr cardWolf or baboon demon in the Dwell of SoulsRed Obelisk weirdo"Warrior in red"Purple cyclopsArmored TeelaEvil Pterodactyl riderIlkortsGranitaHuntaraScorpion man with four legsBonus round: steedsMantisaurTeela's unicornPoG dinosaursBonus round: POWERCONVintage versions of Kowl, Bow, Arrow, Glimmer, Catra & ClawdeenWitchDylamugOctaviaYetiConcept Rock Person
>>11562040I think Imp (Collector art) has to not count, or a lot more Filmation characters do (Adora, Scorpia on Leech's, CC Octavia and Sea Hawk on She-Ra's, down to extreme never evers like Stanlan on Ram Man's)
my walmart has a very nice display for mattel and hasbro products. (hasblow crap on the other side.)
Crazy seeing CC, Thundercats, ToG shelf warmers, and wrestlers together in such nice quantities.
best of all is the store display for Masterverse. This is kinda rare for anything besides Lego.
>>11562040Most of these I care so little, I'd trade them 3 to 1 or more to finish vintage instead.I think Plasmar was on those too.>>11562074Would be cool if those counted too though, you'd get pretty decent PoP cast that way.
>>11562089And by yes, by rest of vintage I mean no-names like Rotar and movie figures who I think are the only ones who were never teased.
>>11561961>>11562017Fuck it, I went for it, maybe one day I'll get an actual vintage one, but his will do for now.
What's the logic behind changing Origins to Cartoon Collection for a cartoon that ended 23 years ago instead of the new movie? Is Mattel precommitting to the aging man fandom being willing to re-purchase the core cast every two years but disliking the upcoming movie?
>>11562104Rule 1 is keep your A-listers on shelves as much as possible. There's a reason why you can always find bee and prime in every store. They sell better than any other bot. Skeletor and He-Man. Are the same.Also, the movie isn't out yet.
>>11562040Naw. The vast majority of what you listed is stuff I don't care about. With this list, I'd get all the vintage I want, fine, but only half the Sketchbook stuff and none of the minicomic stuff I want. And no Goat Man.
>>11562104>>11562106Even when the movie will be out, it will have limited cast of characters. Might as well do Filmation now, movie later and already think what you will replace them with.
>>11562081MoTU figures have such nice boxes, I would have loved those as a kid. I want that Cheetara.
>>11561886Good eye
>>11562174L-R; Octavian, Bad Man-At-Arms, Samurai Skeletor.
>>11562097I dont think you'll regret it. I like them quite a bit and can't put them away, had them for over a month now. I also have the originals but they will stay packed away, my he-mans legs are super wobbly now... Couple other things I need to mention; the 80th set has ball pegs for the legs as opposed to the rubber things and they stand a little squatter naturally probably so they can mount easy with the pegs etc. Skeletor is a lighter blue than he should be imo.
Dumbass Necroconda is 10 bucks on walmart.com. Why can't they send some up North, I'd buy some.
>>11562359Quick Googling suggests that even in Trump's second term, one of us could send you up to 4 for cost + $15 USD shipping with USPS.
>Arguably the coolest figure in the line so far>Impossible to get and already extremely expensive in the aftermarket because so little of it was distributedThank you Mattel, very cool. Glad we could get Grizzlor pegwarming instead.
>>11562359>>11562373Sisters, I have been suggesting that we try to help each other out for years. It wasn't just bitchposting when I said that one of the reasons I cooled on buying Origins was reading the constant "oh shit, that toy I really wanted and can't get is on clearance down there." Why even bother trying to be a completionist if you can't get most of the stuff. It auto kills the hype for new reveals to. I don't understand Mattel's reasoning on this.
Based on what has been mentioned in this thread>vintage He-Man and SkeletorI never had the vanilla pair of them as a kid, just the later variants. The exact moment Origins 100% hooked me was being able to finally put together the two halves of the sword. You read about the two halves in the Golden Books but didn't get to the thing with your toys....life is hard bros.Anyways once I became a toy collector, I know I had to have these two vintage.>UnicornaFunny but sucks to stand on his own and can't pose for shit. I probably should have got the carded one...life is so hard bros.>MagoonI guess he's the best KO? All those lines seemed like they had a blond, boring good guy leader. But this one has a helmet! >Battle Cat ManAlmost perfect. I think his helmet sits weird on his head and looks bad. Otherwise though this is exactly what I want from the crossovers.Maybe its just the way my taste work, but I'd rather see crossovers work like the companies make the mashups that fit perfectly (like Battle Cat as a Thunder Cats character) but do a wider varity of IPs.
>>11562359I think necroconda was one of walmart collector figures that sold out immediatly during a collector con event. Can anyone remember that? Either way, walmart kinda sucks at exclusive figures that often end up somewhere else.is it a taz write off between wal mart ans mattel?
>>11562017>Is there anything specific you want to know ?How do they stack up to true vintage figures? Do they have the same feel as origins?
>>11562485They feel like modern plastic
>>11562401I dont fucking trust that horse and I dont fucking like the look he's giving me.
>>11562464You aren't wrong, but the BA Skeletor is worse than usual. Maybe they'll release it again? Who knows, but it's strange.
>>11562631To be fair the whole wave went fast other than Man-At-Arms.
>>11562089>Would be cool if those counted too though, you'd get pretty decent PoP cast that way.You'd getAdoraScorpiaCC OctaviaSea HawkGlimmerCastaspellaKowlImp2 MagicatsFrom MOTU:CC RandorKittrinaHawke or CC Delora (blonde)Birdman troop builderSpydraAzrogSherlandor (green-skinned old wizard)Prince JeremyStanlanWidgets
>>11562377I found mine at Target lol
>>11562640See that's just Entrapta, Razz and maybe another Rebellion member shy of great.>>11562017What are paint differences from vintage?>>11561125>Thread Question: What's your MOTU wishlist BUT you can only pick one character per letter of alphabet?Hmm, you wouldn't be able to get all of vintage but you would get pretty far. You would have to pick betweenTwo-Bad, Twistoid or TytusStonedar or SaurodBlade or Blast-Attak Megator or Multi=BotLaser He-Man or SkeletorWith guarantee of... Rotar and Gwildor. Wow.Pop you would get most except of Sweet Bee/Spineralla and Perfuma/Peekablue. But it gest much worse once you add extra characters like Scorpia, Adora, Sea Hawk, Dylamug, Starla...And dont even try to combine Pop with vintage or other groups.
If Classics continued who should be in it? It does feel like it covers almost every important character from Motu (it's hard to find Origins wishlists that dont copy characters from there.Rest of NA cast)Character Costest characters, old and new, including Crimson CountessSon of He-Man CharactersLady Slither and other fuckloads of Axel characters introduced in comics or concept art200X giants, Tuvar, Baddrah, few other kingdom representativesMiro, Melaktha, Darkdream, Enchantress, False Face, Admiral Scurvy. Hunga, Aramesh, Widgets. Slavemaster Coronel Blast, Kol-DarrIlluminaSongsterScrollosMinoxFuerza-TYeti, Witch and other concept art charactersHarameshmovie versions of MAA, Teela, Sorceress, Evil-Lyn and Beast Man, Pig Boy
>>11562485They stack up just fine against true vintage. Paints are better, are brand new and will reliably stand on their own for a very long time.Does feel like modern plastic but origins feels a bit softer to me.
>>11562651Different figure
>>11562651You have my envy. I guess it's just as well since the 200X Origins and Mondo stuff is on the horizon. Hopefully we'll get more news on both soon.
Keldor should have met Geldor.
>>11562731And their long lost father should be Eldor
>>11562733Yes.Wow, that's the largest group of names one letter apart in MOTU, isn't it? Classics had both Mo-Larr and Oo-Larr, but there's no such person as Ko-Larr.It would be fun to get figures of both Aramesh and Haramesh.
>>11562714Look closer. That anon put the Terror Claws gear on the Battle Armor body.
>>11562739He’s literally me
>>11561828>Outside of the movie guys with Evil-Lyn and Beast Man and a mute Blast-Attak's membership in the Motherboard cult, have 1987 Evil Warriors even met the earlier ones?PowerTour, lol
>>11562778Oh man, that's right.
>>11562796I was watching a video on YouTube of the Power Tour and I'm pretty sure this is Tung Lashor. I'd never heard that he was in the show before. For someone that likes weird villain combinations, Beast Man, Evil-lyn, Ninjor, Blast Attak and Tung Lashor is a pretty cool line uphttps://youtu.be/Ge1_kTNAG1I?si=3w0pjnKMrod0AAHmThe 3:55 mark is about when this happens
>>11562807Purple with black trunks and there were costumed extras the actors call Snake Men, so it must be him.Songster: Snake Men lacked but one thing: a leader to lead them! Then one day he appeared! Hordak!
This is such a pointless book until Origins and Masterverse end, or Dark Horse makes a Volume 2 with enough art from after its release to fill 320 pages like their book of vintage art.
>>11562737>>11562739How many demons or other beings from another dimension get summoned by Skeletor or show up on their own but serve him for an episode/comic?Aramesh of TrollaHarameshMolkrom"The Ordeal of Man-E-Faces!" demonGrimalkinYogPossibly the only time this succeeded for him long-term was Whiplash, depending on which of his origins you accept.Sh'Gora (uncontrollable)
I keep going back and forth on fangman. I've skipped every CC figure unless it's something like Cringer, or a PoP character who hasn't got an origins figure yet. But fangman is so...
>>11563112>But fangman is so...fucking lame?
>>11563112I say go for him.CC I haven't skipped: She-Ra and new PoP characters, Fang Man, Uncle Montork, that Snake Man-looking Clawful.
>>11563112Hes pretty nice, i canbsee why you might not be very high on him but i like it. Most of the cc stuff is pretty decent over all imo and the figures that were in origins and now in the cc line have been unique enough for me to double dip.
>>11562377Yeah what is the story with this? And basically any figure with such little stock?Is it just a case of they stuffed up the amount the factory produced and moved on quickly to the next or something? Overproduction on something else to compensate (so 9x of one and only 1x of another instead of a more sensible split of 5x and 5x?).It just astounds me how regular line releases sometimes just have an impossible to find figure, Regardless if it's popular or not, as plenty of popular characters can be found in abundance at other times.It just always baffles me how this can continually occur in so many toy lines.
>>11562653>paint differences from vintagePretty clear from photos. Extra bit of detail, painted bracers and the orange has a metallic sheen.Took some photos for fun and because there is interest it seems
>>11563210My og he-man is a bitch to stand, got lucky the first time but had to re-take and used sticky tack to get him to stay upright lol... I got him not new in the 90's at a flea market, his right arm is glued but I was still stoked to have him back then.
>>11563213I like the anniversary skeletor. He's got highlight details on his armor and toes, its hard to see but its there and has the same metallic sheen.
>>11563214I used my origins version of preference that I've parts mixed sublty
Also, tried this today and I am digging it. Might keep him like this.
>>11563190I am wondering this too. I wonder if its a situation where retail demand plays heavily into production quantity? So if the retailers all go 'cool it down a bit on the MotU stuff Mattel' then they reduce qty. on the next planned waves? The impact of the Naked Stratos wave will probably be felt for years to come. I still see figures from that wave in retai stores collecting dust.
>>11563150>figures that were in origins and now in the cc line have been unique enough for me to double dip.
Wish I could get an Enchantress figure from the Sorceress mold.
>>11562613nice to see a fellow words worth enjoyer
Is the MOTU x TMNT Skeletor glow in the dark?
>>11563329It is not. You basically only get him if you want the mutagen accessory (which is the wrong color) or if you REALLY like ToG.
>>11563338It's a cool design but that green is hard on the eyes.
I know not everyone likes the 2021 style, but I really dig it. I think this version of He-Man is appropriately... stacked.
I know his whole bit is being the most powerful man in the universe, but can any of the Evil Warriors/Horde/Snake fuckers actually wrestle with He-Man without getting instantly folded like a lawn chair? Minicomic Tri-Clops seemed like he could hold his own, but the other continuities seem to really downplay his strength. Seems like Beastman or Grizzlor should be strong as shit.
>>11563415He-Man has this thing where he logically should be strong no one should touch him. Like for example we see sometimes Skeletor swordfight him despite that only one duelist here can benchpress a mountain. You can see that sometimes with Thor too when he had adventures in Asgard.I guess He-Man is holding back a lot. Pretty sure Tri-Klops and Clawful could wrest him a bit in Filmation (since no one can throw a punch)
What would be your wishlist for Origins BUT you cant pick anyone who showed up in ClassicsVariants are acceptable but only if we have at least one version of character in Origins. So you can ask for vintage Catra, Slime Pit Teela and Anti-Eternia Man-At-Arms but you cant say "Revolution Goat Man" to slip him in.
>>11563415>>11563478I see it like the Goku problem. Goku is essentially always the strongest, but he has to be pushed to tap into that as the situation calls for it.
Any info yet on the movie toy line?
>>11563524No. And we probably won't until New York Toyfair
Old parts swapping photo. I'll do better today.
Return From Terror Island is a really good minicomic. So weird that it didn't get released with vintage Flying Fists He-Man as intended.
>>11563535Ive got a similar build on my table, hes kinda permanent now. Like my homage to shirt tales.
>>11563257The Enchantress a real odd duck. Like she captures King Miro for decades and doesn’t want a ransom. The only logical conclusion is that she’s lustful and has been banging the great King all this time.Kind of funny to have a evil version of the Sorceress capture a descendant of Grayskull and imprison him for life to fuck him
Anyone else make up stories based on what figures you do and don't have available?>The Rebellion lost She-Ra to Hordak>only Bow and He-Man's wife Frosta remain free>Hordak, Despara, Grizzlor, Leech, Mantenna, Modulok, Catra and Shadow Weaver are now able to establish an outpost on EterniaI guess if Etheria is entirely "off-screen", Entrapta is in charge of the prisoners back at Doom Tower.
>>11563566>a clone of the Sword of Protection>a clone of She Ra's bubble power gunSo swords and guns have DNA.
>>11563571Looks at Faker
Is there in story reason why Evil-Lynn’s the only female member of Skeletor’s crew?
>>11563555>Like she captures King Miro for decades and doesn’t want a ransom. The only logical conclusion is that she’s lustful and has been banging the great King all this time.Calypso from the Odyssey.In Miro's case, everything worked out for the monarchy without him, but it's even sadder than Odysseus' return if he actually loved the Queen.
>>11563576>Is there in story reason why Evil-Lynn’s the only female member of Skeletor’s crew?No.
>>11563577Enchantress probably saw that he impregnated a Gar woman, and in order to keep the Grayskull “pure,” captured him and kept him locked up and keep his potent sperm for herself.
>>11563579Too bad. I need a new monster girl waifu that works for Skeletor.
>>11563576You want in story or meta?Because the answer is "she's the only girl figure they made in the vintage line"That's it. There are a couple of "maybes" you could consider.Ted Mayers witch of she'd been made might've been an Evil Warrior (the Lord Faker box positions her as one, but then boxes also showed Frog Monger as one and then the comic writer came up with bullshit, so I'd expect Origins witch to be some tragic backstory unaffiliated moral gray wankery if they give her a story, but I'm getting sidetracked now...)In the Golden books Skeletor had a monster posing as Lady Irena (but we don't know that the monster itself was female because it was generically monstrous)
>>11563588>>11563597There's a well-known tendency in mainstream SF/fantasy to not make female characters monsters.In MOTU, the Horde has taken most of the lion(ess)'s share with Scorpia, Octavia and Catra-sorta.Lady Slither is sometimes just a green lady like Evil-Lyn is sometimes yellow, Shokoti is blue, Crita is purple and the unnamed concept witch is also green, but sometimes monstrous. But she's definitely not working for Skeletor.You could bug Mattel to make Shezar (see pic for her forms).
>>11563604>ShezarI'm not 100% sure she's an Evil Warrior (not being able to read it)Like, was Skeletor showing up because they were working together and she expected help but got betrayed?Or was she independent and Skeletor showed up to hijack her shit for his own purposes? (Personally I hope it's the former because I like the idea of placing her on the team)
The Space Mutants had Felka, the Bride of Slush Head, but she was a noncombatant whose plot (a ceasefire for the Guardians to attend the wedding because Sagitar saved her life, which Skeletor plans to violate) foreshadowed that the Mutants only had reasonable grievances that a peace treaty could be made with, leaving only Skeletor and Crita irredeemable.
>>11563613"Shezar plans to flood Eternia to make it inhabitable by her people, and she has allied with Skeletor to manage this, but Skeletor betrays her and steals the Polarizer, a sphere that Shezar uses to project images and control sea creatures. He-Man frees the four Eternian women and eventually retrieves the Polarizer, but Shezar re-takes it."She's the last survivor of the destroyed planet Antar. It's not clear narratively how she'd ever work for Skeletor again, but you could say the same about an Evil Warrior like Dragoon.
>>11563624Thanks for the clarification.Glad to hear she's an actual Skeletor ally
>>11563535
I’m surprised there was never a Wolf man Evil Warrior.Seems like low hanging fruit for Mattel..
>>11563560I used to have my own head cannon lore for my figures, but nothing was ever off screen or dependent on who i dont have. >>11563650I think there are, or were wolf men. The three terrors or something,
>>11563555I mean aside from obvious "maybe she just hated him" kidnapping people and then doing fuck all with them is pretty standard for Filmation. It's just a way to get the plot going. It's like bad guys deep down want to run a hotel and need someone in the prison cell.
>>11563535That reminds me of the Wuzzles.>>11563650Grizzlor and Beast Man cover those fur animal men. So they called it a day.
>>11563210Nice!! Does the axe fit in the Origins hand? I had grabbed a vintage one when I got the first set and it just fell right out of his hand. Same with the regular Origins one too. For some reason this new 80th anniversary one looks bigger.
>>11563650The Masks of Power wolf was a goblin that worked for Skeletor before he put on the mask, then decided he was too big for his britches and betrayed him (until he lost the mask)So there's KIND OF a wolf man
>>11563542The lost mini comics always seemed to be good ones. It’s crazy that we’re still finding out about them today. BattleRam Blog recently discovered that one that was supposed to come with the original Faker release called Ring of Dreams. It sounded pretty neat. There was also the art for the one for the Evil Robot that Etock bought from Larry Huston. Sadly the 2 absolute grails of the other parts of Powers of Grayskull seemed to get past an outline unless something else turns up.
>>11563674Has the Evil Robot minicomic Eatock bought been posted anywhere?
>>11563210>>11563213>>11563214>>11563214I know it'd be incredibly redundant at this point but the more I look into these guys the more I wish they'ed make an entire vintage reissue line the same way playmates has been doing with TMNT.
>>11563667So I tried this and here's what I figure, I like these axes allot so I understand why you're wondering. The vintage axe has a narrow handle and it doesn't fit well in origins hands - or the og one either as it is now.But the newer axe does have a thicker handle and might fit better, but it depends, here's the thing ... when the hands are new and havent had an accessory stuck there for a period of time, they can hold things tighter. Example: My thunder punch he-man has only ever had a blue vintage axe from the weapons pak in his open hand and he holds it tight enough and will also hold a basic grey vintage axe although looser. My normal origins he-man has been holding a power sword for like 4 years and he does not hold even the new axe very well... So you could try to use a "fresh" hand and see how you fair, and I'd probably recommend that for both old and new honestly
>200x Cartoon OriginsAnyone got the pictures from the sdcc? I heard Mattel showed 13 figures?
>>11563820https://toyhabits.com/motu-origins-200x-cartoon-collection-sdcc-2025-booth-images/
How do you handle King Hiss and the original Snake Men?1) Living in Snake Mountain with Skeletor?2) Attacking Skeletor and all Evil Warriors on sight, as established in the 2002 toon?
>>11563896I've always been a fan of third factions and/or anti-heros, especially if they lead to the inevitable reluctant team-up trope, so I prefer the Horde, Snakemen, Evil Warriors, and Masters all disliking one another to various degrees and having conflicting, if not completely opposing, goals. I really liked the way 200X handled the snakes and Zodac/k.
Tim: “I also love that it’s a bunch of colorful little plastic men with crazy, stupid names hitting each other on the head. I love that. I think one of the things that Freddie and talked about this was we’re going put everybody in this. Like, there’s no reason why we can’t use every toy. So, in this arc alone you get, SPOILERS, but you get Rokkon and you get Fearless Photog and you get Extendar, Roboto, and Spikor and Kobra Khan, and I could go on and on and you get a whole bunch of other ones.”Cautiously optimistic that all these characters will actually get dialogue balloons (in Sword of Flaws). Because it's old news that Freddie Williams II draws nearly every toy into crowd scenes of their faction.
>>11563908I really liked how art on figures always didnt just showed Heroic Warriors fighting new heroes but in-fight between all villain factions. We really need Motu adaptations that cover that.And hey, everyone loves Skeletor. Consdering he's underdog (some bastard upstard with band of randos compared to ancient interstellar conqueers) It would be cool in some adaptations he got to best Hordak and Hiss before inevitably losing to He-Man. Let him have his wins.
>>11563910You know...this was all I wanted out of Sword Of Flaws just because of how rarely we see most of these guys.
>>11563791That thought crossed my mind and while I do think that'd be cool. I probably wouldnt get many others, maybe Buzz off, Faker and a true stinky Stinkor, so maybe a few...
>>11563650These were theguys i thought about, they look wolf like to me.
Revelation Tri-Clops is 10.50 at BBTS if anyone needs a cheap Tri-Clops. I just grabbed him. Looks like he can be somewhat classic with the robes and such off, but might not have the extra rotating eyes play feature though
Horde Colonel Blast figure?
>>11563912>I really liked how art on figures always didnt just showed Heroic Warriors fighting new heroes but in-fight between all villain factionsPiece of autistic trivia for you...There is no box art featuring Evil Warriors fighting Snake Men. Both factions are featured fighting Heroic Warriors and Horde, but never each other
which is the best Origins Skeletor in your opinion?
>>11564149My favorite example of "What was up with the Snake Men?" is Extendar's card back.
>>11564214>which is the best Origins Skeletor in your opinion?Dragon Blaster! He's a bit top heavy to balance on display, but it was the best play feature on a Skeletor in the 80s and it is now.I just wish Origins Kobra Khan squirted too. Vintage KK and Dragon even had swappable heads.
>>11564214Battle Armor, probably. Both heads are good, it's a classic functional gimmick, and a solid design just as an action figure. Terror Claws is bad and has always been bad, and Dragon Blaster is whatever.200X Skeletor is pretty good but something about the head sculpt is rough. I think it's the eyes.
I wish I had a higher resolution wide shot of this 1986 mall display.
>>11564269that video is so fucking kino
I still can’t believe the ultimate big bad of the entire line turned out to be an ancient evil Orko.
>>11564300That was just Scott Trollin us
>>11564304 ouch
>>11564300thankfully, everyone unanimously hated that so much that it's no longer canon. right...?
>>11564300Thankfully Scott was retconned out of continuity years ago :)
>>11564300Come on, that's just being closeminded.It's like saying in Revolution, King Grayskull is just ancient buff Melaktha.
What's the consensus on the Thundercats stuff? I thought I might grab at least Lion-O.
>>11564231Bite your tongueThe only problem with Terror Claws is the weird sports bra armor design. The gimmick is fun to play with, and the accessories are great not just for the figure itself, but for using with any other figures
>>11564477I don't mind the claws themselves or the gimmick, but they don't save the terrible, terrible design. The new Masterverse figure is the only time they've almost managed to get it to look cool, but without the gimmick the conceit of doing figures like Terror Claws Skeletor or Thunder Punch He-Man feels hollow.
>>11564215I rather like Multi-bot's
>>11564486Forgot to attach pic
>>11563673"Evil-Lyn! Send the orcs... controlling orcs is one of your usual powers, right?"
Would that be good Unnamed One?
>>11564509Not if that's supposed to be Horde Prime. If Horde Prime and the Unnamed One were rivals from the same family of extradimensional beings, sure.
>>11564509Ive said it before and I'll say it again: if you want a "unnamed one" character who is mysterious, commands the snakemen, and could tie a lot of shit together... Picrel is right fucking there.>appeared once in the very first minicomic, if you can view her as seperate from Teela the Goddess>Filmation Sorceress took her name and role in the story>is a fucking snakeThen you have two women who are each possessed by the wills of the two gods of Eternia. One is zoar the falcon, and the other the nameless serpent.
>>11564527
>>11564477the crop top rules, the only problem he got and which ruins him is that he can't stand unassisted with his gimmick.>>11564219>Dragon Blaster!I honestly think he is the worst, he looks bad and the gimmick isn't that great. Look Mom I drenched my room in water. Also why a padlock instead of a collar?>>11564231>Battle ArmorHe's cool but his weapons look probably the worst.Any opinions on the Cartoon Skeletor? He would be perfect if they gave him another skeletor head or an axe, maybe a hand instead of those mask things.
>>11564527That would be a good decision.
>>11563604Funny enough, there are as many good Eternian monster girls as Horde, but they're spread across different canons and so never hang out:Kittrina, Kex Queen, Queen Andreeno
Is Battle ram blog down?
>>11564269here friend. i put that up together from the three individual pics i found on reddit
with better colors
Are there significant characters you just don't like? If so, how would you change them to make them cool?I remember a lot of dunking on Whiplash's vintage look (copied by Classics and Origins) for looking like a retarded Shrek.
>>11564759Funny thing is when I became MOTU fan I used to mostly like 200X and think that they basically 'fixed' a alot of designs, including Whiplash.But now there is something I appreciate about his non-200X designs - they draw attention to the tail. When you look at 200X Whiplash, your first thought is not "oh look, a tail guy"Meanwhile regular Whiplash - has a really big long tail- has a dark green body, with colors following the tail, drawing eyes to it- has a crocodile tail on more human (well orc) body. The fact that it's mismatched is what makes it eye-catching.Anyway, Multi-Bot looks stupid and is lamer than Modulok in everything except that 2 torsos makes it easier to make 2 figures from him.
>>11564759Most of the OCs introduced in classics and Stratos are the biggest ones.>>11564731Fantastic work anon.
>>11564792>StratosMer-Man should have been a good guy and Stratos an evil ape with wings on his back, like something Conan fought.
What's our opinion on these ladies?
>>11564806They've been on my wishlist ever since I got into MOTU for the first time in 2020 and started watching the cartoon. It would have been cool to get them in their vintage styling, but if I had to choose I'd always go for the filmation versions.They could use a little more paint detail or an ab crunch, but otherwise they're perfect for what they are.
>>11564759Zodac doesn't do it for me
>>11564806a little lame, but i got frosts for her gloves, boots and cape
>>11564813>It would have been cool to get them in their vintage styling, but if I had to choose I'd always go for the filmation versions.
I know it's autistic to ask... but what the heck was up with vintage Catra?In the first She-Ra minicomic, baby Adora was stolen by Hordak as usual, but then there's a time skip to her as a young adult and no sign of the Horde. Catra is a sorceress harassing Adora with summoned cat monsters.
Posted pics out of order. By the last minicomics, she's referring to Horde rule but no on-screen Hordak.
>>11564863Maybe she joined Horde later. Or she's very freelance in her work, doing her own shit while Hordak harasses Eternians.
>>11564806Some faggot at mattel does not like the heroes for some reason. He-man Mansterverse face sculpting is always crap and now Frosta here made to look like she has downs. Whoe evever that sculptor is needs to be laid off in the next round. Pretty sure the same person did the MV NE Shera and Teela recently. Both fucking atrocious compared to Evil Lyn.
Question, do the masterverse weapons fit into the origins hands?
>>11564806The dresses for Catra, Frosta, and Cheetara are removable so... quite fun
>>11565031And they're letting Cartoon Collection die without making Marlena with a removable dress...
This Youtuber had hands-on experience with Dragon Pearl of Destruction."Players take on the role of He-Man, Teela, Man-At-Arms and several other characters."Several?https://youtu.be/VkGwHmpPM7A?si=Mvp_UUc_t5Dhv4HI
>>11565096once you finish the heroic campain, you will be able to play as Skeletor and friends.
So since Origins is turning into the 200X CARTOON Collection, can we expect to see the following variants from that toy line, no more or less?Samurai He-Man & SkeletorBattle Armor He-Man & SkeletorIce Armor He-ManSnake Armor He-ManBattle Sound Skeletor
>>11565116GET AWAY FROM HER YOU BITCH!
>>11565039she's another one fans have been asking for since forever, they will make her eventually- she's just been put on the back burner so they can pad it this all out.You may ask me why they're padding this out, and I could tell you some shit about retail and keeping interest up with their consumer base, but ultimately the answer is fuck you.
I did it all for you, guys!
>>11565142lol. Give us Anti Eternia.
>>11565142>more Snake Men in Origins than figures for a galactic empireMattel should fire that Axel guy and replace him with an artist who's obsessed with Bird Men or cats or something.
>>11565014Yes, and the Masterverse hands can even swap onto Origins, as well as most heads and armor. I use the Skelegod hands in my swaps often.
>>11565170>who's obsessed with Bird MenArise, it's time to build a barn in the clouds today!
>>11565014>Question, do the masterverse weapons fit into the origins hands?>>11565180>Yes, and the Masterverse hands can even swap onto Origins, as well as most heads and armor.Also WWE Basic/Elite/Ultimate figures have compatibility with Origins. Origins/Masterverse uses the WWE hands so you can swap those over at will. Most pre-2025 figures from the last 5-6 years can pop on with little trouble.More recently the WWE line has been shrinking wrestler heads to save pennies on production costs, but this recent set of WWE Ultimate LA Knight parts still fit on the Origins buck. Only needed to heat up the heads with a hair dryer to make the fit perfect like a glove.
>>11565145Anti-Eternia Snakemen are a great idea.
>>11564883That was always my interpretation, that she's only a part-time Horde member
Do I need to pay something extra to buy from Despara at creations? Sharella says I need to pay 10 bucks for club greyskull but Despara doesn't have that warning. Can I buy her without joinging them? Does Mattel put some small checkmark at the end to try to scam me into it?
>>11565348Afaik the only figures that are supposed to be "members only" are He-Ro and Sharella (so far)Everything else including Despara was supposed to just be member early access but anyone could buy after 24 hrs. So you SHOULD be able to buy Despara I wonder if they'll ever drop the club requirement since shit doesn't sell out Will they eventually say "everyone can buy He-Ro to get rid of them" and incur the reeeeing of Club members who paid extra to be allowed to get them? Or will they stubbornly prefer to sit on unsold units in their warehouse so as not to relent on pay walling figures?
>>11565142>What character variantsI dunno, how about vintage Two-Bad, you fucks?
>>11565434Sketchbook Series Two Bad first!
>>11565457Kinda hard to fit him in one faction. Is he good? Is he evil? Or is he like Zodac?
>>11565039Well they made Shadow Weaver which they can use 90% of to make her easily. Shell be likely a Con exclusive 2 pack with CC Randor though.
>>11565503make up your own stories
>>11565503Put "Double-headed balanced strategist" on his card.
>>11565039>I have seen enough hentai to know where this is going.
I narrowed it down to these two. Anything I should consider before making the final decision? I heard that the battle armor one is hollow. Does this affect balance in any way?
>>11565640Idk if its hollow but it does need room for the drum to move and i dont think the torso and waist come apart like other origins figures. Id say cc if you just want a skeletor and battle armor if you plan to collect more origins figures. Neither is a bad choice but it depends on what you want from the figure.
>>11565640My two cents is that both of the BA heads are kinda lame. But I like Skeletor to be scary not goofy. CC is more neutral.If you want the best Skeletor, 200x with the head from the Keldor 2pack is supreme.
>>11565689>>11565709thank you guys, I think I will get the CC version for the more Skeleton-Lich like look. I will miss the shield tho.>both of the BA heads are kinda lame.I do like the idea of having one smiling head and the other one frowning but some reviewers said that their heads barely look different which would be really bad.>If you want the best Skeletor, 200x with the head from the Keldor 2pack is supreme.Considering that google didn't show me a shop where I can buy the 2pack on the first page I'm 100% sure I'm not willing to pay whatever it costs. I do like the 200x look wise but his head is weird, that's why he isn't an option.
>>11565750It was a huge shelf warmer, you should be able to find the rise of evil 2-pack for cheap. Hell, I have a spare set I'd give you if we were neighbors.
>>11565750You can try looking for it on Facebook marketplace, right now there are several for sale close to me. It was one of the first big Origins distribution fiascos. At first no one could find it but then it was everywhere and no one wanted it.>Scott was right, it should have been a Skeletor and Trap Jaw set with bonus heads for motufags to swap out.And full disclosure - after thinking about it, I made my Skeletor from the Snake Armor (minus the snake armor) with the 2pack head, and accessories. I wanted Skeletor to have a closer pale blue tone to vintage than the Origins' bright ass blue.
Mattel needs to either go back to having a figure subscription, or do 12+ PoP characters and call it a crowdfund. Some of us have daughters we'd like to pass the nostalgia down to.
>>11565997Are you impersonating me?
The horse can get naked
Translucent hair
And, hey look, it's our scorpion bro
>>11566066Blue board!
>>11563817Cool. Thanks for the update. The SDCC one was screwed since that sword handle was ridiculously thick and ruined the hand shape. It was fixed on the later toyline releases. I’ve been using a couple of the MV He-Man axes that come close.
>>11566066Is the saddle scratch and sniff with a musky scent?
>>11563697Sorry for some reason Battle Ram Blog has been down all week. He hasn’t so far from what I seen. I know that other one he had he made physical copies to sell but got shut down after the first batch was sent out. He said last March he started the scanning and restoration process. From what I understand Skeletor builds it but Hordak steals it. Here’s the cover I found on IG
>>11566098The other page. It would be cool if a fan started drawing the lost Faker mini comic since they have a completed script.
>>11566099>>11566098thank you. I really need to try modeling a 3d model of this to make some sort of kit.
>>11563597>Ted Mayers witch of she'd been made might've been an Evil Warrior (the Lord Faker box positions her as one, but then boxes also showed Frog Monger as one and then the comic writer came up with bullshit, so I'd expect Origins witch to be some tragic backstory unaffiliated moral gray wankery if they give her a story, but I'm getting sidetracked now...)I wonder what the green witch's story SHOULD be?I want to say green skin + spellcasting = she's Skeletor and Evil-Lyn's daughter, but that would require a convoluted explanation for why we never saw her growing up at Snake Mountain.
>>11566016>Are you impersonating me?No, my kids are younger than yours.
>>11566140Ok well.... in that case be careful. Kids like to chew on power swords.
>>11566139I'm a firm believer in "simple is better" so I'd just treat her the same way vintage treated every other Evil Warrior...Skeletor has an evil plan. He says "nyeh, Two Bad, Spikor, Witchy, my henchmen who have always been here from the start. Get in the Roton, we're going evilling ". And that's her first appearance and "origin"That's all most henchmen ever are and all they really need to be as long as they have cool powers and a fun personality.
>>11566016>>11566140Neat, this means there's 3 of us with young daughter(s)
>>115662094 of us.
>>11566067>Translucent hairBruh..
>>11566067Translucent hair... so you'll also buy normal CC She-Ra if you didn't already?
>>11566236My WM will be so happy to sell those 12 pegwarmers
Do any of these lines scale well with Mythic Legions, Marvel Legends etc.? I can't ever seem to find motu reviewers who collect anything else, so they never do comparisons with other lines. Are the cartoon collection too small?
>>11566250>Do any of these lines scale well with Mythic Legions, Marvel Legends etc.?Masterverse is intended to be that scale.
>>11566251They all seem 7 inch scale though, are they not too tall?
>>11566250look up reviews on youtube. typically at the end they put figures from other lines side to side to compare scale.
>>11566250>https://www.reddit.com/r/MythicLegions/comments/1hzdh5f/how_well_do_mythiccosmic_legions_pair_with_motu/
>>11566264Cheers anon.>>11566262That's why I mentioned it, I find MotU reviewers specifically, don't do that they only ever seem to compare against other MotU figures.
>>11566231I'll always remember that one anon saying his daughter was like 'I don't like Bow ..but if they make a Bow figure I guess I'll want him..' or something like thatkek that perfectly describes Bow for me>>11566066>>11566067>>11566068I don't like how Swift Wind's tuft of hair on the head is different than the mane. That's a major nit pick I have with figures, like goodness gracious be consistent with your paint.Also the wing pockets are kind of weird. The mask looks strange with the added frills. The chest armor doesn't go down far enough in the front. Does the head look a bit big too?Oh no, I'm starting to get upset the more I look.
>>11565457I think were getting the Pirate Snot Monster version.
>>11566302yep. kino even
>>11566309What she said was "I don't really like Bow but if they make him you can still buy him for me."He's on pre-order for you now kiddo. Merry Christmas.
>>11565997Yeah that's the only way it could be done in reasonable time - if ever.
>>11566472I made a list of how many new parts each recurring character would need:Glimmer: new torso, head. Standard hips and legs with Catra boots, She-Ra arms.Angella: new head, boot legs. Standard hips and legs, heel feet, She-Ra arms, Glimmer torso, April wings.Adora: new torso, boot legs*. Standard hips and legs, heel feet, She-Ra arms. Could use an existing head.Entrapta: new head, dress, thighs. Standard torso and hips. She-Ra arms, Frosta calves and heel feet.Octavia: new head, tentacles. She-Ra arms, standard hips and legs, existing boots with heels. New torso needed due to tentacles?Netossa: new head, boot legs, dress. Soft goods net/cape. Standard torso, hips, legs, She-Ra arms.Peekablue: new head, dress, tail. Standard torso, hips, legs, She-Ra arms. Netossa boots.Perfuma: new head, new bare shins, new slipper feet, dress. Standard torso, hips, thighs. She-Ra upper arms, Sharella forearms.Castaspella: new head, bracers, boot legs, dress. Standard torso, hips, rest of legs, She-Ra upper arms.Sea Hawk: new head, arms, boot legs, vest, rubber cravat. Standard torso, plain male trunks, CC male legs with plain shoe feet.Flutterina: new head, torso, wings, skirt. Standard hips, legs. She-Ra upper arms, Angella boots with flat feet.Sweet Bee: new head, wings, skirt, bracers. Standard hips, legs with flat feet, She-Ra upper arms. Flutterina torso.STRETCH GOALS?Scorpia: new head, torso, tail, forearms, hands, boots including feet. Standard hips and legs above boot cut.MermistaMadame Razz with Broom*legs of Adora's boots can be reused for Shokoti, concept witch, etc.
>>11566309>>11566471Vintage Catra: "Well I like Bow."
What is the likelihood of this getting released on its own?
Call me racist, but I don't know why any heroic person would trust Zodac when he shows up with Evil feet instead of normal boots.
>>11566543How ironic. I consider it a goal to stretch out Madame Razz as well.
>>11566066>>11566302Did they pose the hind legs backwards?
>>11566597It does look that way.
Any Sky High fans out there? I wouldn't mind him in Origins, he's cool and in tooling, cheap as dirt. Head, armor, wings. Bam.
>>11566667I like him.I'd like him more if I'd arrange enough display spce for an Origins Wind Raider. But even without one, I'd buy him and put him on my Sky Sled.Now if Mega Construx was selling well enough to make him and the Larry Elmore vehicle drivers, instead of getting cancelled? I'd be over the moon.
>>11566589Why does this make more sense R-to-L instead of L-to-R?
>>115665760%, just grab the set on MC when it gets clearanced out. Maybe ROSS will even grab them since it's been sitting at MC warehouse for years now.
>>11566716I wonder if there will be a sale down to 75% off. I'd definitely buy it for $37.50 since there are two figures in it worth about $20 each to me (NA and CGI).
How many Evil Warriors do you imagine live at Snake Mountain and how well or poorly do they get along with their housemates?
>>11566066god damn it I managed to avoid the membership so far but I like this enough I guess I’ll bite the bullet
>>11566800You only need the membership if you're impatient. Swift Wind is only 24 hr early access for members.
Live action He-Man lookin good
>>11566855>brown hairSince there's a Wun-Dar, there should be a silly name for if we ever see a redhead He-Man.
>>11566872Ginjor
>>11566786Imagine the smell
>>11566855Removing the iron cross for that hideously generic "H" is so infuriatingly on brand for mattel
>>11566209>>11566231I don't have a daughter but I have a grand daughter I'm buying she-ra stuff for when she gets a little older along with he-man stuff for her brothers. It's a family tradition at this point. I had og he-man toys their father had 200X he-man toys along with og he-man toys
>>11566309i personally enjoyed the one kid who claimed her dads terroar and called him "snakey"and posted the aftermath of him invading grayskull, shooting most of the inhabitants, all to free hemans imprisoned twin brothergave me a good laugh,also elder god taste in weirdosi just recently got my grrasp and terroar in and really love themgrrasp grew on me more than i expected, only gripe is his arm/leg pattern looks a bit too artificial or "digital" compared to his claw and headand with terroar i kinda want to shave some plastic off the base of his neck so he can look up furtherbut man both are so much fun!
>>11567040>the aftermathIs this the one you mean?>>11567038If you can, I recommend picking up the vehicles while they are cheap to find. The Landshark and Roton are favourites. Snout Spout and a vintage Kobra Khan for the squirting action. Go vintage for Rattlor and Mekaneck too. Origins Flying Fists and Terror Claws are good value too.Whenever I see someone say kids don't play with toys, in the back of my mind I figure they probably gave the kids modern toys that are more about articulation than doing anything fun.
I can't believe Wiki Grayskull treats the unofficial Classics bios as official canon...(This one features groomer Sharella)
>>11567055>Snout Spout and a vintage Kobra Khan for the squirting action.As I've mentioned before, my childhood collection included those and Dragon Blaster Skeletor. Discovering that you could swap KK and Dragon's heads amused preschool me.
>>11567067Sorry sister, its hard to keep track of other anonymous people's childhood collections. I was just throwing out suggestions for what got the best reactions from my kids.
>>11567066what the fuck did I just readThat made me want to give up on motu forever
One of my headcanons is that Wun-Dar was Miro's father. All the prior kings of Eternos appear to be redheads. So I bet the hero who looked just like Adam introduced the dominant gene for brown hair.
>>11566309I must have been grumpy when I wrote that post last night.I do like Swift Wind, but I wanted it to be a bit more accurate to the cartoon. I think it hurts more because I want much more PoP stuff yet Mattel doesn't seem to feel the same. That She-Ra looks good though. The translucent hair is pretty neat.>>11567040>>11567055kek its like Rio Blast walked in too late Tung Lashor is having a panic attack
New York Comic Con is in 3 weeksAre we expecting anything new or interesting, or just a repeat of SDCC showing off the same upcoming figures? Or nothing at all?
>>11567102movie figures, more vintage, who knows? Maybe a 200X vehicle if we're lucky.
Opening my most recent purchases.
The naga king is more stable this way.
Frosta without her cape and dress.
>>11567102I can imagine Mondo's line will probably go up for preorder then. I think at most we might get some renders or concept art for some distant stuff, but yeah I imagine it will be just a rehash of SDCC.
>>11567102Maybe they'll show off another wave of 200X releases, expect to see the other two Transformers collab releases, and maybe some movie teases?
Do these figures feel nice? Like, are they decently well made? How do they compare against Hasbro stuff are they basically the same? I'm weighing picking up one or two and I'm a bit hesistant.
>>11567224The Origins and Masterverse figures both feel good to me. The only thing sometimes weird are the capes, because the clothes can feel too thin and the plastic capes feel too thick sometimes. But otherwise they've all felt good to me.>I'm weighing picking up one or two and I'm a bit hesistant.Watch out for the slippery slope anon! I thought the same thing back then. So many figures. So many.
>>11567066>>11567069>caring about a toy line "canon" instead of making your ownngmi
>>11567055lel, yeah that was the one i meant
>>11566597>>11566615I sure hope they didn't actually sculpt the joints that way. I refuse to believe Mattel would be THAT incompetent.
>>11567500Nah, if you look at the other promo images the thigh is around the right way.
If Filmation had survived long enough to make the He-Man sequel that became Jetlag's New Adventures of He-Man, would the family Skeletor was reunited with have been so memorably bizarre that "The Search for Keldor" wouldn't have been dug up as his backstory for every cartoon and comic?
>>11567055>If you can, I recommend picking up the vehicles while they are cheap to find. The Landshark and Roton are favourites. Snout Spout and a vintage Kobra Khan for the squirting action. Go vintage for Rattlor and Mekaneck too. Origins Flying Fists and Terror Claws are good value too.Flying Fists and Terror Claws are $9.60 and $10.80 at BBTS.Origins Wave 7 is currently overpriced at $6.65-7.60 It had them as low as $4.75 without selling out.
>>11567515Which one? Every one I've looked at it's on backwards
Sword of Flaws #4>In this series finale, Orko and the Sorceress discover the truth behind the violet blade while He-Man and the Masters of the Universe face-off against Skeletor and his henchmen. It’s a battle between good and evil; a clash between magic, technology, and might. But who will be victorious? Can good always triumph over evil? Or is this where the end begins?
Alternate cover
Note that this is fan-colored. I would hope they intended her face to match Skeletor's color.
>>11567556I'd fuck her
>>11567543I made a comparison image. The figure is facing different directions in the two photos, but the main thigh is facing the same way in both. You can tell by the angle of the knee.
>>11567557"Skeletrix went to all the best schools of the Evil Arts and is convinced that she can be a far more effective baddy than Skeletor. Constantly correcting him and pointing out his flaws, she makes him so nervous that he becomes a babbling bundle of bones whenever she's around. Worse, she thinks He-Man is a really cute hunk -- the most magnificent mass of muscle in the galaxy."Additional note: has two twin kids - Funnybone (boy) and Hunnybone (girl).
>>11567570KekAre you the same anon who does the fake Classics bios? Because you are good at nailing the right tone fr fr
Have they announced a date for this yet? I keep refreshing the Limited Run site waiting to see if it gets added to the coming soon page.Also you think they're gonna do alternate skins? One of the great things about TMNT Shredder's Revenge was being able to change the turtles to their various incarnations from the whole franchise. Sure they were just palette swaps, but it worked. I'd be content with the devs using the same base sprites and just doing basic costume swaps.
Holy fuck is Mumm-Ra huge.
>>11567701What would be a satisfying set of skins for He-Man, Teela, MAA and She-Ra? Would He-Man need more than the others?
>>11567714That's what she said
>>11567789Cardboard standee to advertise the movie?Man I hope that thing is successful even if it's not good, or Mattel will cancel MotU toys.
>>11567789read the article. This is at a retailers only event.
>>11567789>all dressed up with battle cat>will be the final shot of the movieSo often Hollywood tries to pull this trick. Not getting any hopes up. Remember the photoshoot leak of the Spider girls from the Madame Web movie? Yet they were in costume for all of a minute as a possible future.
>>11567864I also won't be surprised if Ran Man, Fisto, Mekaneck, Moss Man, Roboto, Goat Man and Pig Boy exist only in one set-piece battle to sell toys.
>>11567565I meant the joint below that
>>11567877>Implying they'll sell toys of Goat Man and Pig Boy>Implying they aren't only in because some corpo shit is pants laughing at the Revelations "look how shit these characters are!" joke, which will probably be recreated verbatim in the film>Implying fans asking for toys of them won't be met with "you don't want them. We just told you how shit they are. You want more Nick Galitzine in He-Man cosplay figures!"
Extendar hates Hordak for turning him into an extending cyborg.So why doesn't Mekaneck hate Duncan?
I snoozed on a masterverse she-ra and lost out. Indecision is annopying.
>>11568011Context>Mekaneck broke his neck and woulda died, Duncan's shit saved him. Mek is also still mostly human >Extendar was just a dude either minding his own business and altered against his will or a guy Hordak tricked into getting the upgrade for power without realizing Hordak was gonna try mind wiping him and f enslaving him. He's also not human at all anymore
>>11568011duncan also extended his penis on the house
>>11568011Where the hell is my evil Extendar Mattel?
>>11567910anon...we need to try and be optimistic and manifest the best possible outcomes. They are going to make a the best 5.5 Goat Man we've ever got and that will be a win.
I am going to post the most joyous motu pictures I have saved to cheer up anyone worried about the movie.
>mfw eating movie theater chicken at the He-Man movie and its great.>the movie not just the drumstick
>the movie is nc17, Sydney Sweeney is the Sorceress. 20 minute long scene that is just her in costume doing squats over the camera
>>11568226Masters Boff the Universe
>>11568212Post more pls
>>11567725Honestly if they did just the main four outfits for He-Man ('83, NA, 200X, CGI), and the corresponding outfits for Teela and MAA along with the Dreamworks outfit for She-Ra too obviously, that would be enough. But they could do variants based on the toys, Battle Armor He-Man, Ice-Armor, Thunder Punch, etc.
>>11567893I think they did, but it's probably a simple peg joint and you can just swivel it around the right way. It's the thigh joint that has me concerned.
>>11567819>Man I hope that thing is successful even if it's not goodI also hope it's successful. I'm just trying to mentally prepare myself for how it will differ from previous incarnations, which I think is fine. The biggest comparison for me is TMNT in that the core mythos is basically the same, but each incarnation is very different in style and tone, and I think MOTU would do well to follow the same roadmap, rather than slavishly stick to the '83 cartoon lore all the time. The '87 movie was fun in that it based its lore on the mini-comics and toys, it was just the budget and Courtney Cox dead parents storyline that hurt it.
>>11567725I'd be fine fine with straight pallette swaps, so>He-Man, He-Keldor, Slime Pit, and Anti-Eternia>Teela, pink suit Teela, Golden book red costume Teela, green goddess>Duncan, grey "movie inspired" again, white and gold "Man of war" inspired, serpent claw >I honestly don't know alt color schemes for She-Ra afaik she's always dressed in white and gold so an actual pop fan can fill in the blanks here
>>11568207>They are going to make a the best 5.5 Goat Man we've ever gotThat'll be an easy task when it'll be the FIRST 5.5 Goat Man we ever got lol
Man, why did they have to change Despara's look so much for their bigger version, she looked so good before, it's depressing.
>>11568457Because they wanted to make it so you could turn her into regular Adora by swapping the head and removing the armor
>>11568457So she can parts swap into Adora figure.
Dont talk to me or my son ever again.
>>11568451goatman looking zesty>>11568464kek
screencap thisMattel, who made barbie, knows when to and not to do woke. They already saw how much fans hated woke he-man in revelation, and how that translates to poor toy sales for Masterverse. They know how much people love Thor ragnarok.The movie will be good. There have been 0 red flags so far unless you want to count Leto's casting, and Teela not running around in a thong.
>>11568463>>11568459Well, fuck guys, what a way to execute me with reason.
>>11568464>tfw you will never have a Moaty
>>11568463I didn't even realise that you could do that. I'm gonna have to buy two now.
>>11568457>>11568463Yeah, that's clearly Adora's Filmation suit with dark leggings.
>>11568492Moaty and King Blackskull are the only unique characters missing from my Origins collection.
>>11568444My ideas would beblack (Depara)white-red (Adora)white-gold-pink (Starburst/Bubble Power)orgive her recolors based on gimmicky Fantastic Fashions dresses that were part of the line.
>>11568457>>11568497You think they were worried about the bare legs and used the Dreamworks series as a reference point?
>>11568526Worried that the bare legs wouldn't blend in when the figure is dressed as Despara, I think.
>>11563914If you (any anon, really) got a chance to write the next MotU comic, what would you try to fit in all these characters doing?For me:Modulok takes the Evil Warriors techie role Filmation/CGI Trap Jaw or 200X/Rev Tri-Klops.Trap Jaw gets promoted when Modulok defects to the Horde.Blast-Attak gets an origin: built by Modulok.Spikor is a magical smith like in "The Terror Claws Strike", argues that magic items are better than technology.Ninjor and Saurod get sent on a mission together because Skeletor needs an agile sneaky guy backed up by a warrior with breath weapon and guns, realizes Webstor and Kobra Khan are off doing their own thing.Blade sits at a table playing solitaire because when Skeletor calls for a swordsman, Tri-Klops or Jitsu is available.Jitsu wants to fight Fisto because I'm using the latter's Filmation backstory of once holding a forest as an evil fief from Skeletor, and breaking fealty is dishonorable.Faker is seen struggling to build himself a cat and use magic, foreshadowing Lord Faker.Icer kidnaps Princess Snowflake (who's been redesigned to not have dirt-brown clothes).Goat Man's training Pig Boy is brought up with "kid" and "nanny" puns.The spelling of Draego-Man's name gets changed to Dragoman and he translates other people's languages for Skeletor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DragomanStrongarm, Twistoid... uh, sorry, out of EW ideas.
>>11568579I feel like I've pitched this idea in this thread before, but if I haven't...I've headcanoned a group I call The Junkers which can either be a subgroup of EWs or a stand alone crewBasically the low tech cyborgs, pseudo-cyborgs and robots fashioning weapons and body parts for themselves out of scraps and more or less living in junk pilesTrap Jaw, Spikor, Blast-Attak, Minox, Strong-Arm and Stinkor. And before anyone asks...Tri-klops isn't in because I don't see him as cybernetic, I had always seen him as having just some kind of special helmet in the vintage era. It was only after 200x explicitly made him a cyborg that the thought ever crossed my mind Twistoid also isn't in because he seems more high tech than Blast-Attak, who looks like he'd made of a scrapped furnace boiler so doesn't fit my "junkyard" conception of this teamAnd Minox gets a pass despite what I just said because in this headcanon, Minox isn't a full robot like his comic had him. He looks like a living bull man, so that's what he is with some scrap tesla coil "horns" jammed into his head
And Heroic Warriors:Rotar complains to Man-At-Arms about being turned into a top. "You made Roboto's legs!" "But you can move faster than Roboto or any of us." "Hordak made Dragstor and he has legs!"A group of heroes go on a submersible mission and Mekaneck acts as a periscope.Whenever the Horde is around, Extendar acts like a much better warrior than Mekaneck. Whenever only the Evil Warriors are around, he slacks off due to lack of motivation.Snout Spout also hates Hordak and fights better against the Horde.Rio Blast wants to go home and He-Man passive-aggressively promises to help fly him there as soon as the warriors of Skeletor are defeated once and for all.Sy-Klone and Slamurai have a dojo or such, to practice pseudo-Asian martial arts. He-Man takes one or both on missions with Orko and/or the Sorceress in her white outfit, making a Final Fantasy party.Stonedar and Rokkon sleep outside the abyss Castle Grayskull's jawbridge crosses so any attempted break-in wakes them up (swiped from a vintage minicomic).Clamp Champ is a braggart.Gwildor tries to study Orko because you can't have a Theory of Everything unless it explains magic (swiped from the newspaper comic).Kol-Darr accomplishes cool things in fight scenes, but only because he has a more useful steed than anyone except She-Ra.Fisto, Moss Man, the Goddess, Man-E-Faces and Buzz-Off are there own subgroup of nature heroes (sometimes I have them take the similarly neglected Mekaneck and Roboto along even though they don't fit the theme: at least Roboto can bounce off Man-E's robot personality).>>11568604That's neat.
>>11568472But Duncan is black.Teela is Latina.
>>11568664Why do you have Clamp Champ be a braggart?
>>11568680>Why do you have Clamp Champ be a braggart?Maybe not necessarily bragging, but he wanted everyone to only call him Champ - presumably even before mastering clamps added the adjective. Anything that lost his Champ status would be psychologically devastating.
If I may ask a silly Lore question as we float towards the bottom of the board.Sharella is in Preternia, comes from the same village that He-Ro was born to, and she saved him after the Black Wizard (not Skeletor person) destroyed their village a few years ago. He-Ro meets the Green Goddess in his own comic and I think learned about Grayskull. The back of Creations Wun-dar card has Sharella teamed with Wun-dar fighting the glow in the dark Skeleton 2-pack warriors. So how does Wun-dar fit in if He-Ro is basically the champion of Grayskull in Preternia era?
>>11568733I think you're misremembering because I just looked up He-Ro 's comic and it has no Goddess, just Eldor and Moss ManAnd the answer is "convoluted Scott bullshit lore" is apparently still on the menu>He-Ro is the Preternian hero of Grayskull with Eldor and Sharella>Sharella herself becomes Green Goddess eventually due to a blood transfusion from Moss Man (from Classics bios, but we see Sharella become Goddess in Wun-Dar comic so it must still be the official canon)>Sharella as Goddess is now immortal so she recruit Wun-Dar as the new champion in his own time (long after He-Ro and Preternia) because we're going with a lineage of champions through the ages
>>11568751"A dark evil has returned. I have been searching for one worthy of the power to wield these ancient weapons and stop the evil.">holds up the head of the Havoc StaffI wish this minicomic had clarified whether there's a Havoc Staff user ~100 years before Skeletor she's been concerned about and she's conjuring an image to go with her statement, or what.Because her offering Wun-Dar the Havoc Staff to wield would imply she's secretly not a good guy - as suggested here. >>11564528
>>11568751Vikor is also a champion at some point.Iirc, it goes King Grayskull > He-Ro > Vikor > Wun-Dar > He-Man Classicsfags also have Oo-Lar to slot in somewhere to, but I personally refuse to acknowledge Oo-Lar as a separate entity from He-Man. There is no "Oo-Lar", only minicomic He-Man. If you're gonna call minicomic He-Man a separate character because "muh Prince Adam" you might as well call Alcala Skeletor that came from the Skeletor dimension a separate character because "muh Keldor" and him something retarded like Skull-Lar or some stupid shit...but I'm ranting now
>>11568751>Sharella herself becomes Green Goddess eventually due to a blood transfusion from Moss ManThat's the most retarded thing I've ever heard.
>>11568766I wish I could find the exact bio it came from now...it's not in Goddess's, but it does show her real name is Sharella, I just can't find the source of the Moss Man connection
>>11568766Moss Man: Ancient Mirror of Avathar? The wizards of Avathar didn't even craft that until generations after I gave Sharella a blood transfusion that turned her green and immortal..Melaktha: I'm going to pin you to the ground until you tell me something that's not retarded.
>>11568772>I'm going to pin you to the ground until you tell me something that's not retarded.Snakemen were genetically engineered by an ancient Trollan using DNA from Lizard Man's race and Saurod's raceAnd He-Ro only arrived on Eternia after Horde Prime infected him with a memory erasing techno-virus and banished him there, spreading the virus and creating the biomechanical dinosaurs
>>11568763>Vikor is also a champion at some point.Having found his box recently we need an Origins version because I don't think anyone matched that skin color to simply convert him to Origins from MV
Technically, adding the bit about being a robot in the last panel is kinda pointless because if you're dousing him with water, his electric horns would shock him and he'd be incapacitated anyway
>>11568795Considering Vikor is basically bootleg Conan, that would be cool.
>>11568820Yeah, don't say the biological-looking character is a robot. Just give him cybernetic parts.(Groundchuck from TMNT makes a better MOTU Minotaur.)
>>11568843They could have stuck his head in with Geldor pretty much given him a second use for sales.
>>11568763Nope. He-Ro was first and wasn’t originally from Eternia.This explains the lineage of the Sword.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T5bhQLNd2IA&pp=ygUOTGluZWFnZSBoZS1tYW4%3D
>>11568820>>11568843If the guy that digs the pairing of Goat Man and Pig Boy is around, here's another crack pairing for you: Karg and Minox are a team according to Karg's bio.He's also a creepy simp for Lt Andra (Karg that is. Not Minox)
New thread so we can post images again!>>11568955>>11568955
>>11568472>There have been 0 red flags so far unless you want to count Leto's casting, and Teela not running around in a thong.In addition to what >>11568676 pointed out,Roboto is played by one of the 2016 ghostbusters actresses and the entire thing is set on earth AGAIN. There's also evidence of Adam having brown burger king kids club friends. Nothing about the movie is shaping up to look or sound remotely positive. Even the Ragnarok influence is a red flag for me.
>>11568579>write the next MotU comicAs much as I didn't like netflix He-Man, the general story idea of He-Man and Skeletor gone and the resulting power vacuum is really fertile ground.Without Skeletor leading them on his strange pursuits to enter Grayskull, the Evil Warriors become more like marauding criminals. Venturing into the light side of Eternia to steal your villages crops, try to steal weapons and tech from royal outposts, waiting for opportunities to ambush lone heroes out on missions. Skeletor gave them a purpose and had the power to make them all cooperate.Trap Jaw and Tri-Kolps would step up to try and keep to keep the whole Snake Mountain thing gang going and "waiting for the boss to get back." Maybe because I think they look mean, but as the leaders of the Evil Warriors both of them become more cruel and petty. Tri-Kolps won't try to summon a demon to help take over Eternia but he will poison the village's well if they don't deliver their tribute. Trap Jaw would go stalk Man-at-Arms and Melaktha as they explore ruins just to kill them not as part of a bigger plan.Without Skeletor's presence clouding his mind and soul, Mer-Man no longer feels any ill will towards He-Man and Eternos society. He swims away into the ocean. At times he cooperates with the Heroic Masters but never can be quite trusted.Beast Man is very similar; no Skeletor to goad him into fighting he feels no loyalties to the others and leaves for the Vine Jungle to return to his people. Is he going to be accepted as their leader again or their be challengers from younger, feral members of his tribe?Scare Glow is freed but lacks a purpose. He drifts around Eternia and sightings are considered bad omens for travelers.Jitsu leaves as well. He was basically a mercenary and without Skeletor his contract his void.Stinkor isn't truly a bad guy and was only ever an EW because no other society would have him. After some half-hearted raiding, he to deserts in the night.
>>11568763>Kang We-Wuz
Explain this>Mondo 1/12 Scale MOTU 200x Figures>Product information>Height: 7.5″>1/12 Scale>Height: 7.5″Is He-man 7"5'?
>>115727127'5" rather
