Welcome to Masters of the Universe General!Previous thread: >>11561125Origins/Cartoon Collection:>CC Swift Wind/She-Ra on MC September 24.>Unknown drop on MC September 26. Could be Sting-Or or Dragstor, since there's no Masterverse exclusive buzz?>Snake Lair crowdfund over. Pythonus failed to unlock>Lords of Power Castle Grayskull up for order on Amazon>Announced at SDCC: Dragstor, Sting-Or, and 200X retail refresh.>FRIGHT ZONE available from BBTS.>Bow, Shadow Weaver, and Whiplash available now 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.>$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: Will you buy Swift Wind and are you interested in any other horse/rider packs?
>>11568955I still dont grasp the choice for her hair, the box art gives the impression she is mid or just completing her transformation into she ra. Idk, it would be a great alt head. Or maybe they couldve done a swappable clip on set of solid and translucent hair pieces. Regardless, swiftwind looks great and id be happy to get this set even though i have 2 origin she ras and the cc one.
>>11568763>Vikor is also a champion at some point.>Iirc, it goes King Grayskull > He-Ro > Vikor > Wun-Dar > He-ManWhen she goes to not-Valhalla in Revelation, Andra fangirls over He-Ro, saying "He fought the Horde invasion with King Grayskull!" Ignoring anything Scott-ish that hasn't been repeated in the 2020s, it's unclear which of these two is older or died first (with Scott it was He-Ro).Vikor comes after both, then Wun-Dar is AGES after the first two (100 years before Prince Adam).Moss Man being far older than (the current) Sorceress also started with Scott, but Revelation pushed his age up to a million years. They never specified how long ago He-Ro/KG/the first Horde invasion was. Could have been a million, could have been as little as a couple thousand.>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 nowYeah. Ugh.
>>11568865>They could have stuck his head in with Geldor pretty much given him a second use for sales.And being with Geldor is why his name is MinOX, not Min-bull!
>>11568967feels like they just made her different to try to get people to double dip who don't care about her horse
>>11568903>If 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)Haha, that's certainly something.That bio is from 2018. I'm surprised to see a reference to anyone or anything from the Star comic before Revelation brought her back as a black woman in trousers.
>>11568955TQ: No to the first part, maybe to the second. I'm a minicomicfag so they'll get me if they release Charger. But that'd be it>>11568978I grinned.>>11568984The post-Scott bios seem particularly more wanky to me. Probably because they were written (iirc) by actual fanfic writers
>>11568955>are you interested in any other horse/rider packsDo this in origins please
Do you guys think that the Origins Cartoon Clawful and Fang-Man fit in well with the snakemen?
>>11568960I do not believe the movie will take place entirely on earth, and I would love a lady roboto. They just have to stop her from doing any improv.I'd also argue that Teela being attractive is a green flag. She at least has red dyed hair and didn't get the dyke Valkyrie treatment.
>>11568973This is the correct lineage order of He-Man through the ages:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T5bhQLNd2IA&pp=ygUOTGluZWFnZSBoZS1tYW4%3D
>>11569038So you think they’ll keep that Adam’s mother Marlena was a NASA pilot?
>>11569018WTF?Even ScareGlow has a beast ride.So altogether that’s He-Man: Battle CatSkeletor: Panther She-Ra:SwiftwindHordak: MantisoidCatra: ClawdeenHe-Man, Fisto: StrydorSkeletor, Jitsu: Night StalkerAnti-He-Man: Anti-BattleCatFaker: Dupli-CatScareGlow: Scare MareKing Hiss: Tytantisauris RexBo: ArrowWho else am I missing?
>>11569045That's Mantisaur
>>11569045>Who else am I missing?
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"Shortly after King Grayskull's death, Vikor, a great warrior from the north was chosen by the Goddess to help protect the Sword of He while all of Eternia waited for a true heir to be born."So they were waiting less than nine months, right?
>>11568978Seriously underrated.
>>11568978damn that was some next level dad joke. holy fuck
>>11568955>are you interested in any other horse/rider packs?Maybe. Horses and mounts are cool but I can't see myself being hyped to pay for this >>11569064 if that's how they want to sell PoP figures to me.
>>11568541This is the downside of the Masterverse figures not being modular like Origins. In the grand scheme of things the darker legs is not that big a deal, but it would be nice to have Adora with the bare legs. Maybe like >>11568457 said, it would have been better to do the regular Despara design, that way the could just produce a regular Adora. I wonder if the thought was that regular Adora wouldn't sell well enough to justify doing a dedicated figure?
Being an Aussie MOTU collector is pain, the only place that carries any recent He-Man stuff is Kmart and it's almost exclusively Grizzlor. Every store you go in there are at least five Grizzlors, MAYBE a Fang Man or Orko.At least they got plenty of the MOTU X Transformers collab figures, so that's something.
>>11568955>Will you buy Swift Wind?Yes, although I have a few criticisms with it. I am happy they finally made him.Now all we need is Adora herself. I don't get why she's taking so long.Are you interested in any other horse/rider packs?Not really, at least not at this time.
>>11568979>feels like they just made her different to try to get people to double dip who don't care about her horsAdora would have been the only way to get me to buy one. Didn't even buy BC, but have 4 from the Target pack with blood on them. Ok, did buy the MV version but that was cooler
>>11568955When are mattel just gonna drop masterverse? no one cares about it.
>>11569134Bro Grizzlors literally everywhere I don't know why so many. I've checked in both Qld and Vic and yeah nothing but Grizzlors basically. I did get a whiplash and a shadow weave and bow. Haven't seen an orko yet. Kmart is better than big W.
If you had to choose between the two, who you picking? Jitsu or Ninjor?
Trailer is rumoured to release ahead of Tron Ares. Thoughts?
>>11569264purely for liking a character reasons?probably ninjor
>>11569281>purely for liking a character reasons?For whatever reasons you want. I'm not gonna dictate how anyone has to the answer. I just wanna see which Evil Martial Artist has more fan support
>>11569287Yeah i'm more weeb than chinaphile i guessbut it's also his colours are more to my taste and I really like the samurai bald with little bound tuft hairstyle.I'll have to agree i recently got the origins one that got mostly thrown into the parts bin, but those being versatile is also what I enjoy of him.I do wish his origins one came with his unhooded head too. Even if the more precise plastic cowel and tunic are good looking that did remove some of his appeal.
>>11569264one of them looks like a motu, has a vacmetal fist, and is a great rival to fisto.>>11569280you almost tricked me into wanting to see area, just for the motu trailer
My wallet is scared you guys
>>11569321Leto isn't calling to you?
>>11569042that's always been a consistent part of her backstory, yeah. I truly believe that only the first act will be about Adam on earth. This will be an Adam down on his luck, stuck working fast food, with no memory of where he came from thanks to Skeletor. The first act will end with Teela taking him back to Eternia. If it's not something like that, then yeah, we're cooked.
>>11569344Evil-Lyn is spying on him as a college professor. So I'm thinking1) Adam is 22 or younger, not 30 like his actor.2) Skeletor knows he can wield the Power Sword. Secret identities are out.
>>11569330He's the best-looking Clawful. Shame the cartoon made him so retarded he doesn't understand his own people's language.
Timeline lore from the 1986-90 newspaper comic.King Hiss is from "thousands of years" ago, just like in the minicomic "King of the Snake Men".
>>11569357>Clawful reforms>"What you're going to call yourself now, Clawesome?">"Why would I need to change my name? It's a play on Handful. Wait...were you all calling me Awful this whole time?!">He decides to call himself Clawful as play on Lawful.
In "Terror Takes Time", Adam has to travel back in time "millions of years", where he meets Eternia's first humans. They're Etherian slaves from Adora's time Hordak and Mosquitor brought to mine "every last molecule" of the mineral Castle Grayskull was built out of so it can never exist and power a Champion to stop him. Of course, if he'd never done this, Eternia wouldn't have any humans at all!
The Snake Men are the indigenous people of Eternia (and existed for millions of years before King Hiss was born).
>>11569241>I did get a whiplash and a shadow weave and bow.I saw a Whiplash (passed on him because I don't really dig the design), I had to go to the Mattel pop-up store in Chadstone to get Bow, I'm gonna go back later in the week to see if they have re-stocked Shadow Weaver. I have seen an CC Orko at Big W, but I have the Origins version they're basically identical, other than that it's all Grizzlors there too. Anywhere else that has He-Man still has stock from years ago, My local Toymate still has CGI He-Man figures and a shit-ton of Masterverse Catra and Skelegod.Also I hated Revelation, but is Skelegod a decent figure? I'm on the fence about it, I don't hate the design, and I kinda wanna steal the sword to give to my Battle Armor He-Man.
In "It'll Be a Cold Day", we meet Iandir the Ice Empress, who was cryogenically frozen 20,000 years ago by some of her own people for oppressing them. Castle Grayskull already stood that long ago.
In "At the Edge of the Darkest Night", Adam, Teela, Clamp Champ and some OCs follow Skeletor and Whiplash into the burial place of Kartan, an ancient ruler who was buried with an army of stone soldiers.When he climbs out of his coffin, Kartan knows that Prince Adam is He-Man, saying privately "Long has the royal family of Eternia wielded the Power of Grayskull."Well that's hard to square with Randor's being kept clueless that his son is a hero, which here as all the other fiction until the 2021 cartoons was the main narrative driver of their relationship.
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>>11569377I kinda wish they had published the newspaper strips in two volumes, since I think all the still missing stripes are from the tail end of the series, they could've published at least one book that's complete.
>>11569409Is this the guy that fights Anti-Eternia He-Man?
Toy characters with even less fiction appearance than Twistoid:MegatorTytusRattle HoodGorgonNagaNecro-CondasHolographoKiktoZap ManHorde Trooper PrimeHorde Revenant Skel-KnightPit WardenParagon ChampionAny I'm missing?
So why is Sting-Or getting made before the other scorpion man he shares box art appearances with? I think the one whose toy hasn't been announced looks cooler.
>>11569784He won the coin flip.
What’s with the rumor that Queen Amelia once worked for the Horde and was originally sent to kill him, but fell in love with him and became his wife?
>>11569784I didn't think either one of them looked that good, and didn't really care if either got a toy That said, the actual Stingor toy won me over so there's a chance the other one will end up looking cooler as a toy than I think he looks in box art
>>11569795What?
>>11569784There’s a Huntera figure?
