When I was playing with my figures, He-man was always a total badass who would happily mow down any of Skeletor’s minions if provoked, which made for far more exciting play than just throwing them into ponds. I’m probably gonna cover the books on here in the future, as they’re awesome and feature some really nice artwork. Although He-man still wasn’t really a brute, he didn’t seem to shy away from actually fighting his enemies like he did in the cartoons. Seeing as the original cartoon wasn’t still being broadcasted in the ’90s when I was playing with MOTU figures, my first introduction to He-mans adventures was in the Ladybird book series. I mean, what’s the point of owning a sword and being to ripped to hell if you ain’t gonna try and snap Beastman’s spine in two or attempt to hack off Merman’s legs? I gather that merely throwing your enemy into a small pond is technically more kid friendly but it’s a bit namby-pamby. Though I do love the silly campness of the Filmation cartoon, He-man was originally intended to be more of a violent barbarian, solving problems with the swing of his axe instead of the violence-free, overly moralistic way that he defeats his foes in the cartoon. He comes equipped with his sword of power, a battleaxe and a shield that seems ridiculously out of proportion to the rest of his body. The main man! With a ripped physique of an ’80s Arnold Schwarzenegger and sporting a silly blonde pageboy hairstyle, He-man is the obvious protagonist of the series. With my love of fantasy, sci-fi and cheesy cartoons, MOTU should definitely have appeared long before now. It’s a bit of a wonder that I’ve been posting on this site for as long as I have without really mentioning MOTU. More specifically, the original first wave of figures from 1982. I might have to pick up another Saurod one day as I sadly don’t own one anymore and the fact he was instrumental in teaching me about bargaining for a better deal, I think as an adult my appreciation for him would even surpass my childhood love of his ability to spew sparks.īut enough about toys that I don’t even own, I’m going to take a look at some that I do. They did, and with a little lever thing on his back which you could wind up to make sparks shoot out of his mouth, he swiftly became one of my favourite toys. I recall that it was with a MOTU figure that my Grandad first taught me how to haggle, with him inquiring as how much a Saurod figure was at a local jumble sale (he was told £1) and then getting me to ask if they would take 50p for it. I don’t quite know when I was first introduced to the overly muscular He-man and his bizarre assortment of chums and adversaries, but I definitely owned quite a few of them as a kid. Awesome stuff that was just begging to be discovered, usually at a very reasonable price.Īfter recently watching a YouTube video from my buddy 6sh0t Changer Reviews, I was reminded just how much love I had for an ’80s toyline I picked up cheaply in the ’90s. The good thing about being a ’90s kid was that there was always an abundance of discarded ’80s toys lying around in cardboard boxes at car boot sales and antique fairs when I was growing up.
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