Toy Guru talks about his personal top ten figures who never made it into the MOTUC line. Secrets of how toys are made revealed! He-Man and She-Ra toy line.
Ahh, that Skelecon! I would have loved to have at least 2 or 3 to flank Skeletor's side. And that Tug O'War that had "Blackstar Features" written on that concept pic definitely would have warranted a spot in my collection. Thanks for sharing and glad I subscribed!
I would have loved to have gotten the rest of NA, especially the Space Mutants. Those are the biggest personal holes that i feel when I look at my collection. Also Scott, out of curiosity towards the end you said that you would have liked to have done keldor before he was Skeletor, but we ended up getting a Keldor figure. How would the one you mentioned ended up being different?
What I should have clarified is an "outcast" Keldor with an alt Keldor with Skeletor's hood up to use on the existing Keldor body. (as seen in issue 4)
As much as I would have loved any of these, I'm still in awe of how many characters we did get. It's not hyperbole to say that it was beyond my wildest dreams to get so many characters in toy form.
Every single one of those characters are so cool I would of love to have them in figure I hope classics come back again all of you guys in Mattel back in the day did an amazing job
I would have loved a Dragoon figure from the filmation cartoon. It probably would have needed some tooling but it would have been awesome. Skelatine looks awesome, great video
I am still holding on to hope that this is just a hiatus and Mattel comes back with Lady Slither Illumina and Tug O’war I want them all! That said I would buy any new figs as long as they are in the classics style and not the filmation style
I can only hope with how great the Origins line are selling they go back into making new Classics figures. It happened with Star Wars Vintage collection. It was over for some time and it came back again selling better than ever!
Skeleteen and Captain Randor are the two that I would’ve wanted the most, and for the same reason; having them provides balance, Skeleteen balances out Dare and Captain Randor balances out Keldor. Great video!
That Aremesh custom using a RoboCop body is pretty neat. :P I had the Ladybird books as a kid and always found those Skelcons creepy and cool. Would have been a nice army buidling in a seperate or double packs as you say. in my Mega Construx collection I currently use a couple of spare Skeletors with the goat skull of their havoc staff in place of their actual heads to fill in as Skelcons til Mega gets to making real ones (I hope they do, it would be a cheap and easy reuse of parts only needing a new head and fans like me would buy multiples). This is a cool list. :)
I really wanted Skeleteen, especially since we got Dare. It feels unbalanced as it is now. I also wanted the rest of New Adventures. And I think I mentioned it in another video, but I think I was one of the biggest Bandwidth fans on He-Man.Org. I would have really liked to have him (and pretty much any of the other new mini-comic characters as well.)
Love hearing about all these characters. Hope to see more videos talking about the more obscure. :) On a side note: Today I realized that Master's of the Universe is basically like if Conan the Barbarian and Flash Gordon had a kid..... Explains why I liked the line.
There's so many characters that I still wanted. I could have easily purchased another 200 unique character before calling it a day. But I definitely wished we could have gotten the rest of New Adventures, Great Black Wizard, Lady Slither, Skeleteen, Scrollos, Songster, Ileena, Dream Mistress, King Hiss' Slave Girl, Twiggets and Widgets.
My personal number 1 is, and always has been Melaktha. . I have always wished for more non-warrior characters to get made as figures. But alas... Thank you for these videos. I really look forward to seeing them!
Yes! And his kid assistant, Stanlan, is a rather unique character, too, since he got telepathically communicated with by the Sorceress through He-Man's sword in the House of Shokoti! (And had an additional episode where he was a major character, too!) A two-pack of Melaktha and Stanlan would have been great!
Celice was one I wanted to see; she could've been packed with that monster she had to sing to sleep. Stratos's wife, Delora, could've been packed with Mulkram; minicomic/human Delora could've come with Haramesh... Ilumina could've been packed with the cat, and it could've become a whole subset of characters packed with beasts and monsters... Truth be told, MOTU is one of those toylines which will always seem incomplete, because there are always plenty of great characters out there in its surrounding mythos that rarely, if ever, become toys. I'm just thankful for the ones that have. 😊
So would've loved to see all those choices as well as all the new Heroic Warriors that appeared in one of the Mini comics. I absolutely loved their design. I definitely would've loved that Prince Keldor and Randor 2 pack I absolutely loved those designs. I personally took an extra Keldor head and place him on an extra Enternian Palace guard as my fill in got a Heroic Keldor
GREAT list! I agree on all points, though Aramesh is a low priority. I always am wanted An Odiphus! Oh, and Catra’s panther form. And Spirit! I never knew why Swifty couldn’t be easily turned to Spirit.
Oh man!! I would have loved Tug-O-War! The frustrating thing is that he could have totally been made with existing molds. Arrrggghhh!!! Please do another video about other characters who didn't make it in!
The thing about the characters you mentioned that made it to a list is that they were up against some other heavily(some more than others) requested/demanded characters.
Its crazy how we never got Miro which was a rather simple design, especially since Marzo (his nemesis) came rather early on. And given the idea of a Prince Keldor/Randor two-pack and from a narrative perspective a Miro would further complemented things.
I always felt that Dwarves and Goblins were missing from the toyline in MOTUC. Seeing as they are such major elements of fantasy and were featured in various media during the Masters creation, was there any plans to do General Tataran or the Widdgets ? I still think they would have been so cool!
I think every one of those you listed were on my personal Wish List, except for Aramesh. Heck, I had enough on that list to keep MOTUC going for another eight years at peak Full Sub + Mini-Sub levels. The ones I really wanted the most, though, were Dragoon, Kothos, Melaktha, Hunga, and General Tataran.
Lady Slither would've been amazing :) When the original line was around, when I was a kid, I came up with so many Snakemen & Snakewomen, I wish I could remember them now :)
The concept art for "Gladiator" and the "Black Wizard" were always cool. The biggest shame to army building was the whole licensing issue with the 87 movie. As generic as Skeletor's black stormtroopers were, they would have been the ultimate army builder. (Besides the Horde Troopers)
Spector Creative I’m really surprised that once you start bringing 200x characters into the Classic line like Count Marzo, Evil Seed, & Callix. That you didn’t think to doing a 2 figure convention exclusive like the Comet Warriors of Tuvaar & Baddar before they got merged into Two-Bad. Bummer😕🤷♂️
Wasn't there a character called Michael Pisces mentioned in the comics? I remember because it was a play on the name Michael Fish, who was a famous weatherman in the UK.
I would have bought every single one of these figures if produced. I’m not an expert in MOTU lore but even just these few show the breadth of the concept - silly, serious, sci-fi, fantasy... it all has a place in MOTU. Would have really loved a Lady Slither - King Hsss is the only faction leader without a prominent female team member (He-Man/Teela or the Sorceress, Skeletor/Evil-Lyn, Hordak/Shadow Weaver)
I would have dearly loved Melcatha, Negator and his Nerbs, the giants from 200x, and, honestly, a few "slime monster" based on anyone slimed in the various media (Beast Man, Spikor, Buzz-Off, etc). Would have also liked a normal Teela head with Goddess (as she was also in the slime pit in one continuity, and green teela would have done it). Beyond that, the lack of smaller characters like the Widgets, the Twiggets, the Manchines bugs me to no end. I wish they'd been included somehow.
I like the concept here, but I was hoping for more details on why these characters weren't made! Like, what were the business factors that contributed? I assume all these characters were considered and then ruled out. Actually, I'd love a video about pegwarmers! The figures that got into the line and why, but flopped at retail.
I know this is something that only Super 7 could have done, but I wanted Meg Foster Evil-Lyn so badly. We were so close, I'm sure she would have been in CC Wave 4 had they gotten that far.
Yeah, I know I am in the minority those first few mini comics are overlooked by a lot of fans. You did a great job combining mini comics with filmation to get a cohesive story. Thanks for all your hard work
Question: So the new Masters Origins Panthor isn't fuzzy like the original one was, it's just painted plastic like Battle Cat. Any idea how I can make it properly flocked? What was used on the original release?
Three questions 1. Why didn't Skeletor come packed with his bonethrone? 2. Were you involved with the collectionbook that contains all the mini comics? If yes, maby a video on how that project came to be? 3. Was Geldor from the comic The secret liquid of life, ever made into a classic lineup?
1: Cost and tooling expenses 2: No, I wasn't involved with the Coffee table book but they did reprint my work 3: Yes he was released as a figure, in fact he won a fan choice poll!
@@spectorcreative1872 I love that book. Enjoy it alot more now as adult. Lots of the coverarts should have been made as wallposters. What prints are yours? Wish I had got him. Geldor was a really interesting guy. Too bad he was eaten by a tree
Do you have or can you recommend any videos that actually show the toy manufacturing process (ideally from internal concept pitch to store planagram/order negotiations to factory selection to prototype to tooling to early samples to production)? How does a toy company decide which factories to work with? Some figures are made in multiple factories leading to variability in quality and content. Do toy companies have strategic agreements with factories to only do products for them? Do they have chosen factories that they go back to time and time again based on relationship and know quality or is it always a bidding war to determine the winner?
@@spectorcreative1872 Yeah, thanks for that. Good video! Was actually the one that led me to your channel originally. I was thinking of like a "How It's Made" video with product running through a factory from tooling creation to pellets loaded/heated/screwed to parts being injected/ejected/complex parts to paint/masks/instructions/decals to assembly to QC to packaging to loading onto the container - all in the actual factory making the parts.
Masters Of The Universe Classics: Missing In Action Series (2021) Propose this concept to Mattel Creations. Aramesh looks similar to one of the scientists from Inhumanoids and sort of similar to the Centurions.
Not a fan of the She-Ra-at-Arms idea or Bandwith but I'm on board with the rest of them. There are a lot of others we're still missing as well and it goes to show how bad of a decision it was for Mattel to not let Super7 continue making them. I really hope they come to their senses in the future and let Super7 revisit the line because Origins is garbage that I won't be supporting. The fact that they killed a line that the fans were enjoying just to try to force them to buy another product which wasn't being asked for made my decision pretty easy. The ironic part is that if Classics was still going and they released Origins at the same time, I probably would have supported the new line as well to contribute to the success of the overall property.
Unfortunately, at a certain point you're down to characters that only appeal to a niche segment of what was a niche audience to begin with. I would have been cool with Eternian Peasant #3, but realistically, there's probably not a big enough audience to support that.
Was the classic lines successful? I thought it was and I supported it when I could with my hourly wage at game stop at the time. I HOPE WITH Origins their is a revival some day. I thought Classics was amazing and you did a great job.
I would have like to see New Adventures finished off instead of shoehorning new , original characters into the line. And now Mattel has put MOTUC on hiatus. #ThanksScott
I just thought up of a new figure to solve a small problem. How do you display all the variant heads of your figures? You call for Hed-Lock, the Evil Hord Headhunter Robot. Hed-Lock is a wide boy with a large transparent dome to protect the eight still alive heads he has captured for Hordack. He also has eight eight "Body Control Units" he can place upon the bodies of the heads he captured for the Horde. Can He-Man and She-Ra keep their heads after a confrontation with this noggin thief?
@@spectorcreative1872 I'm shocked that you like all of my ideas. So far I didn't create a idea you dislike. As for Matell, the company probably doesn't for legal reasons do anything with these ideas. And I can't blame them. At least I have an outlet for them. I can still imagine the comershel for it. "Hed-Lock! Hed-Lock!"
Lady slither is my favorite on the list... I just cant get behind skeleteen though, something about 2 kids continuing on seems goofy to me it's too symmetrical for me I think.
Man what I’d give for that 2 pk prince Randor n Keldor! The motuc line ended too too soon. We need to find a way to revive this line. Not looking forward to the short n squatted looking 5” origin line
There are a load I'd have loved to have seen, a top 10 of my picks, trying not to pick the same as you, could be 1 Prince Dare 2 Starburst She-Ra 3 Kay-La 4 Battle Bird 5 Black Armoured Ram Man (son of Ram Man) 6 Kayo/Tartarus 7 Sagitar 8 Master Sebrian 9 Samurai He-Man vs Samurai Skeletor 10 Battle Blade Skeletor
Never got an actual 200X Evil Lyn despite you admitting you had the budget. Just the cheap repaint. Never got Dragoon. Instead the 4H just ripped him off with Draego Man. And yes, single carded Skelecons would have been nice.
Every line, even this massive one which ended up running longer than The Transformers (1984-1993) but not quite 12 years to beat G.I.Joe A Real American Hero (1982-1994), had some unmade main figures from other series. Masters Of The Universe Classics is a phenomenal toyline and one of the greatest since Masters Of The Universe (1982-1987). I don’t collect ARAH (A Real American Hero) by the way.
My biggest wants have by far gotta be the runner ups for the create a character contest. I wanted those so bad and held off on making customs until just recently. I've made my own Major Header and am working on a Ra-Jar. It kills me that we'll probably never get all those figures. I guess I'll just have to cry myself to sleep every night from now until I pass on 😭😭😭😭😭💔💔💔💔💔
How many characters are actually missing from the toy line. Whenever, you hear people talk about MOTU Classics, they always say how complete it is and there were no more characters to be done, but then there is a video like this and we can see that there were more characters to be done. How many characters were there to actually complete the line. From this video I can count 10, and don't include Filmation because that's kind of something different and it ended up being its own thing. We might see these in Masterverse. Have you done the video about what happened after you left Mattel. It was really a benefit to Super7, because they were able to do Thundercats from that and now Ninja Turtles Ultimates.
I’m a little confused. You mentioned that Keldor (before becoming Skeletor) was a figure that wasn’t made when he was. I have him. He’s an awesome figure. Was there another version besides regular Keldor and the Keldor from the 2-pack that you wanted to tackle? czcams.com/video/dWLonBqkUos/video.html
Yes, we did do standard Keldor. What I was hoping to get to was Keldor in a few different outfits and/or head combinations (hood up, hood down with floating skull (Skeletor), Great Wars armor, outcast &c...
Spector Creative That would’ve been awesome. I’ve always loved the character. I was in that same line at Comic-Con with you when the original version was released. 😊
just now seeing. I never had a problem with there being a character or even a figure that was the offspring of Evelyn and Keldor. It was, and still is, the name. Deer gawd that's awful. I think the only characters I wanted in any line version was Filmation Clawful and like one other that was also in Filmation. But that character that escapes my mind.
I always felt shoe horning in all these random characters that didn't have figures into the new mini comics was a mistake. It would have been better to develop the personalities of characters we were getting toys of. Instead pages of the comic would be wasted on just showing a bunch of characters with their names labelled next to them who then don't really do anything or further the story.
This honestly feels like you were scrapping the bottom of the barrel at this time, looking into characters that appeared in only 1 panel of artwork or were in a very unrelated spin-off production. But I mean-- you put out everything that was in the entire Masters of the Universe line and the She-Ra line-- well, a lot of the Beasts were never done like Bionotops and Clawdeen. You even got movie-only characters, unreleased characters, and 200X only characters. And then I guess you were up to everything to the 1991 toys which is where it got cut off. It is amazing you got out as many as you did. Even looking things up on the Wiki, other than the remaining "He-Man" 1990s line, only character I can find that might have been a nice addition would be General Tataran.
@@spectorcreative1872 There was hardly an episode of the Filmation series that didn't introduce a 1-off villain or ally. Most toylines barely get out 8 to 10 unique figures. The fact that you got out every figure made between 1982 and 1990, over 100 unique figures, and even added a lot of characters that never got them is well beyond any sort of expectations. Sure, I guess its sad that the 1991 to 1994 toys didn't get made, but I don't recall the "New Adventures" being a particularly popular era. As for the Fimation characters-- there was hardly a single episode of the 200 or so episodes between Masters of the Universe and She-Ra that didn't introduce some one-off villain or ally. It would have been impossible to do them all. Actually, it is kind of funny how the He-Man and She-Ra cartoons produced after 2000 focused in on such comparatively small casts making the worlds seem comparatively small and empty, I guess the animation studios were given far more free reign to just make stuff up to fill out episodes. And yet even some of those Filmation one-offs still got made in the Classics line even though they were never produced in the original line. Really, it feels like you might have even overdone it.
All of these videos have re-kindled my love with this line, please keep them coming!
Well so glad! Tell your friends!~ ;-)
Ahh, that Skelecon! I would have loved to have at least 2 or 3 to flank Skeletor's side. And that Tug O'War that had "Blackstar Features" written on that concept pic definitely would have warranted a spot in my collection. Thanks for sharing and glad I subscribed!
Thanks for supporting the line (and the channel!)
Love this channel. Thanks for your hard work, Scott!
Well thank you for your kind feedback, I am most grateful! Please do share with others online, it helps the channel a ton
I was hoping for Colonel Blast, but he really was icing on the cake after getting Dylamug. Such a comprehensive line.
So many great Filmation figures we never got to
Dylamug is probably my favorite figure from the Super 7 era.
Nice video, nice choices
"King Tamusk, Last of Eternia's Sorcerer Kings", how cool can that be.
So cool
Thanks for the heads up!
Enjoy!
I would have loved to have gotten the rest of NA, especially the Space Mutants. Those are the biggest personal holes that i feel when I look at my collection.
Also Scott, out of curiosity towards the end you said that you would have liked to have done keldor before he was Skeletor, but we ended up getting a Keldor figure. How would the one you mentioned ended up being different?
What I should have clarified is an "outcast" Keldor with an alt Keldor with Skeletor's hood up to use on the existing Keldor body. (as seen in issue 4)
Great video as always. Melacta and Col Blast were the figures I thought I think you missed out on. King Miro is another.
All three of those top a lot of lists
Nice! Most of those would have been epic. Beast lord was one idve loved to have seen as well.
I wish the line never ended
As much as I would have loved any of these, I'm still in awe of how many characters we did get. It's not hyperbole to say that it was beyond my wildest dreams to get so many characters in toy form.
Mine too! I was just happy with King Grayskull!
Love these videos! Been sharing them on my page Masters of the Universe Uncensored on Facebook. Keep them coming Scott!
Also would have loved to see a Tuvar and Baddra two pack!
A Tuvaar & Baddar 2 figure pack would have been awesome 👍
It was talked about!
Spector Creative damn! Why didn’t it happen?!
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Every single one of those characters are so cool I would of love to have them in figure I hope classics come back again all of you guys in Mattel back in the day did an amazing job
Thank you! I only wish the line could have kept going after I left
I would have loved a Dragoon figure from the filmation cartoon. It probably would have needed some tooling but it would have been awesome. Skelatine looks awesome, great video
Wish we could have gotten to him!
I ALWAYS wanted to see Garth, that butterfly looking guy from the Filmation episode Eye of the Beholder, as a figure.
So many that could have been made from that show!
I am still holding on to hope that this is just a hiatus and Mattel comes back with Lady Slither Illumina and Tug O’war I want them all! That said I would buy any new figs as long as they are in the classics style and not the filmation style
I'm in! But I wouldn't hold your breath. A line like MOTUC really needs an internal champion willing to work on it in his or her spare time.
I hope MOTUC comes back, too. But not for a couple of years. Need to save up. ;)
Those were the exact three that stood out to me as well!
I can only hope with how great the Origins line are selling they go back into making new Classics figures. It happened with Star Wars Vintage collection. It was over for some time and it came back again selling better than ever!
Skeleteen and Captain Randor are the two that I would’ve wanted the most, and for the same reason; having them provides balance, Skeleteen balances out Dare and Captain Randor balances out Keldor. Great video!
If only the line could have kept going!!
@@spectorcreative1872 Agreed!
That Aremesh custom using a RoboCop body is pretty neat. :P I had the Ladybird books as a kid and always found those Skelcons creepy and cool. Would have been a nice army buidling in a seperate or double packs as you say. in my Mega Construx collection I currently use a couple of spare Skeletors with the goat skull of their havoc staff in place of their actual heads to fill in as Skelcons til Mega gets to making real ones (I hope they do, it would be a cheap and easy reuse of parts only needing a new head and fans like me would buy multiples). This is a cool list. :)
Glad you like the list. This one is just my opinion of course, many other figures have come up that are MIA!
I really wanted Skeleteen, especially since we got Dare. It feels unbalanced as it is now. I also wanted the rest of New Adventures. And I think I mentioned it in another video, but I think I was one of the biggest Bandwidth fans on He-Man.Org. I would have really liked to have him (and pretty much any of the other new mini-comic characters as well.)
I love that a character that started as an inside joke became a fan favorite!
You’re the ONLY one that wanted NA lol
Other than Songster, there are so many cool characters that are still to be made. Sagitar is on the top of my list for sure.
He came so close to being made!
Love hearing about all these characters. Hope to see more videos talking about the more obscure. :)
On a side note: Today I realized that Master's of the Universe is basically like if Conan the Barbarian and Flash Gordon had a kid..... Explains why I liked the line.
OH many more to come I promise~
There's so many characters that I still wanted. I could have easily purchased another 200 unique character before calling it a day. But I definitely wished we could have gotten the rest of New Adventures, Great Black Wizard, Lady Slither, Skeleteen, Scrollos, Songster, Ileena, Dream Mistress, King Hiss' Slave Girl, Twiggets and Widgets.
I know this line could have gone forever if there was someone willing to do thew work.
Awesome video. I hope we see this figures i n origin's line
That would be awesome
All the new evil warriors and new masters of the universe from the he-ro line! they are SO awesome :)
Bad guys are always way cooler.
My personal number 1 is, and always has been Melaktha. . I have always wished for more non-warrior characters to get made as figures. But alas... Thank you for these videos. I really look forward to seeing them!
Yeah, Melaktha was the impetus behind quite a few adventures. He was always on my "I hope he's in the NEXT wave" list.
Yeah Melaktha comes up a lot. He has so much screen time after all
@@Beedo_Sookcool I always thought it would be funny if one of his accessories was Professor Smollen. Hehe
@@ryanlemay6296 HA! Love it!
Yes! And his kid assistant, Stanlan, is a rather unique character, too, since he got telepathically communicated with by the Sorceress through He-Man's sword in the House of Shokoti! (And had an additional episode where he was a major character, too!)
A two-pack of Melaktha and Stanlan would have been great!
Celice was one I wanted to see; she could've been packed with that monster she had to sing to sleep. Stratos's wife, Delora, could've been packed with Mulkram; minicomic/human Delora could've come with Haramesh... Ilumina could've been packed with the cat, and it could've become a whole subset of characters packed with beasts and monsters...
Truth be told, MOTU is one of those toylines which will always seem incomplete, because there are always plenty of great characters out there in its surrounding mythos that rarely, if ever, become toys. I'm just thankful for the ones that have. 😊
I feel the same way!
I actually have no problem with The Mighty Spector. Great concept. Really wish we could have got most of these.
Me too!
🥷🏻🔧🎨 I just picked up some purple paint that will be used for a couple customs I’m making and MOTU ORIGINS: MIGHTY SPECTRE, is on that list!
So would've loved to see all those choices as well as all the new Heroic Warriors that appeared in one of the Mini comics. I absolutely loved their design. I definitely would've loved that Prince Keldor and Randor 2 pack I absolutely loved those designs. I personally took an extra Keldor head and place him on an extra Enternian Palace guard as my fill in got a Heroic Keldor
I only wish we got to that set!
GREAT list! I agree on all points, though Aramesh is a low priority. I always am wanted An Odiphus! Oh, and Catra’s panther form. And Spirit! I never knew why Swifty couldn’t be easily turned to Spirit.
If we could have gotten to Sprit and Cringer...
Oh man!! I would have loved Tug-O-War! The frustrating thing is that he could have totally been made with existing molds. Arrrggghhh!!!
Please do another video about other characters who didn't make it in!
Seriously right! Easy fig to do.
The thing about the characters you mentioned that made it to a list is that they were up against some other heavily(some more than others) requested/demanded characters.
One of those things where you can NEVER please everyone.
Its crazy how we never got Miro which was a rather simple design, especially since Marzo (his nemesis) came rather early on.
And given the idea of a Prince Keldor/Randor two-pack and from a narrative perspective a Miro would further complemented things.
So close to getting to him too!
I definitely would have loved the 2 pack for SDCC 2016!
I cry myself to sleep over that one a lot
I always felt that Dwarves and Goblins were missing from the toyline in MOTUC. Seeing as they are such major elements of fantasy and were featured in various media during the Masters creation, was there any plans to do General Tataran or the Widdgets ? I still think they would have been so cool!
Doing standard fantasy figures would have been cool. But if they took up a slot, who would we replace?
Nice list Scott, would you consider doing one for DC Universe Classics as well?
Done! czcams.com/video/Pa_zq1pEDBo/video.html
I'd not heard of Songster before this, and would now like to see a revival of the Power Tour as a Broadway style musical :p
Oh if only we could make that happen!
I think every one of those you listed were on my personal Wish List, except for Aramesh. Heck, I had enough on that list to keep MOTUC going for another eight years at peak Full Sub + Mini-Sub levels. The ones I really wanted the most, though, were Dragoon, Kothos, Melaktha, Hunga, and General Tataran.
Yeah Filmation want lists are huge. But i time it could have been done!
Lady Slither would've been amazing :) When the original line was around, when I was a kid, I came up with so many Snakemen & Snakewomen, I wish I could remember them now :)
I really thought the Snake Men as a faction needed a female. Too bad we couldn't get her into the toy line!
The concept art for "Gladiator" and the "Black Wizard" were always cool. The biggest shame to army building was the whole licensing issue with the 87 movie. As generic as Skeletor's black stormtroopers were, they would have been the ultimate army builder. (Besides the Horde Troopers)
I so wish we had access to the 87 movie. But we did not.
I was waiting for a Sagitar figure since the beggining of the line ... never happen ...sad.
Had him on the roll out and in the 2016 line up. But sadly....
Spector Creative I’m really surprised that once you start bringing 200x characters into the Classic line like Count Marzo, Evil Seed, & Callix. That you didn’t think to doing a 2 figure convention exclusive like the Comet Warriors of Tuvaar & Baddar before they got merged into Two-Bad. Bummer😕🤷♂️
@@babylonsquared Evil Seed and Marzo are classic Filmation characters.
The Classics figure versions of Count Marzo & Evil Seed are based on their 200x cartoon design/appearance not their Filmation look
Sagitar would have been massive.
Wasn't there a character called Michael Pisces mentioned in the comics? I remember because it was a play on the name Michael Fish, who was a famous weatherman in the UK.
Gosh, not that I can recall, but there are lot of UK comics I have not gotten to
I would have bought every single one of these figures if produced. I’m not an expert in MOTU lore but even just these few show the breadth of the concept - silly, serious, sci-fi, fantasy... it all has a place in MOTU. Would have really loved a Lady Slither - King Hsss is the only faction leader without a prominent female team member (He-Man/Teela or the Sorceress, Skeletor/Evil-Lyn, Hordak/Shadow Weaver)
If only the line could have kept going after I left!
Hoping to see a video that is all about this proposed 2016 roll-out
It is out now in three parts!
@@spectorcreative1872 Thanks for letting me know; I've been tracking your channel and very much enjoy its content!
A 200x Teela Head is still missing, sadly. It would have been good as accessorie in She-ra at Arms.
The Randor/Keldor 2Pack is an awesome Idea.
So much is missing
The 2 that I want are an odd couple. Lizorr from the New Adventures and Yuckers from Filmation.
Lizzar was so close too
I would have dearly loved Melcatha, Negator and his Nerbs, the giants from 200x, and, honestly, a few "slime monster" based on anyone slimed in the various media (Beast Man, Spikor, Buzz-Off, etc). Would have also liked a normal Teela head with Goddess (as she was also in the slime pit in one continuity, and green teela would have done it). Beyond that, the lack of smaller characters like the Widgets, the Twiggets, the Manchines bugs me to no end. I wish they'd been included somehow.
If only we could have gotten that deep!
I like the concept here, but I was hoping for more details on why these characters weren't made! Like, what were the business factors that contributed? I assume all these characters were considered and then ruled out. Actually, I'd love a video about pegwarmers! The figures that got into the line and why, but flopped at retail.
Well really it was just running out of time. The line would have continued had someone been willing to run it.
I would like to have Garth. Two versions of course.
Hear that Mattel!~
Lady slither? Yes, please
Make it happen Mattel!
I know this is something that only Super 7 could have done, but I wanted Meg Foster Evil-Lyn so badly. We were so close, I'm sure she would have been in CC Wave 4 had they gotten that far.
Yeah too bad we didn't get her while we had the chance
Are you going to do video on motuc vehicle's please?
Yes! As we get to each vehicle I will do a video. Windraider is coming up!
Songster and Aramesh won't be my favourite, but I would love to see all those other characters one time.
I"d like to see MOTUC go on forever!
The mask demons from the mini comics should have been there from the start
They would have been fun. But i do have to say I didn't see them come up much on fan requests.
Yeah, I know I am in the minority those first few mini comics are overlooked by a lot of fans. You did a great job combining mini comics with filmation to get a cohesive story. Thanks for all your hard work
I would have loved the crystal horses, Clawdeen, and a toy variant of Angella.
Those were in the original release list
I hoped we would get a Hans Hammer Holder. That Ram Man buck is so awesome.
Yeah that design was intentional to reuse the body
Question:
So the new Masters Origins Panthor isn't fuzzy like the original one was, it's just painted plastic like Battle Cat. Any idea how I can make it properly flocked? What was used on the original release?
Walmart has an exclusive flocked version!
@@spectorcreative1872 yeah I found that one after I posted this...they want $75 for it! Are they insane??
1)200x Skeletor 2)Dragoon 3)Hunga 4)200x Sorceress with Odiphus 5)200x buzz off’s queen to complete the council 6,7,8...the 3 200x giants 9)more trollans 10)widgets
Anytime we can do more "bee people" I am game.
Plai Tyme Hunga was definitely a missed opportunity with a second head for army building.
I concur. The ability to complete the council with the inclusion of Queen Andreeno would have been awesome
What was the Star Trek line at the bottom of the opening shot?
A placeholder for something new.
2000X Prince Adam would have been great...... and vintage Catra as well
Sad we never got to either of them
Wished we could have gotten a Classics LandShark vehicle & the Red Knight character from the She-ra cartoon episode 👍😕🤷♂️
Red Knight would have been awesome!
Hunga the Harpy and the Twiggets - important and prominent Filmation She-Ra characters sadly neglected.
Yeah a Twigget pack would have been awesome, but alas the tooling...
A 200X Sorceress. I would love to have seen one added to the line.
At least the Four Horsemen did a Staction!
@@spectorcreative1872 I know, but I'm still curious about how her presence in the line could have been explained in the bios.
Three questions
1. Why didn't Skeletor come packed with his bonethrone?
2. Were you involved with the collectionbook that contains all the mini comics? If yes, maby a video on how that project came to be?
3. Was Geldor from the comic The secret liquid of life, ever made into a classic lineup?
1: Cost and tooling expenses
2: No, I wasn't involved with the Coffee table book but they did reprint my work
3: Yes he was released as a figure, in fact he won a fan choice poll!
@@spectorcreative1872 I love that book. Enjoy it alot more now as adult. Lots of the coverarts should have been made as wallposters. What prints are yours?
Wish I had got him. Geldor was a really interesting guy. Too bad he was eaten by a tree
Do you have or can you recommend any videos that actually show the toy manufacturing process (ideally from internal concept pitch to store planagram/order negotiations to factory selection to prototype to tooling to early samples to production)? How does a toy company decide which factories to work with? Some figures are made in multiple factories leading to variability in quality and content. Do toy companies have strategic agreements with factories to only do products for them? Do they have chosen factories that they go back to time and time again based on relationship and know quality or is it always a bidding war to determine the winner?
Does this do it?czcams.com/video/uoN3WN7cfOM/video.html
@@spectorcreative1872 Yeah, thanks for that. Good video! Was actually the one that led me to your channel originally. I was thinking of like a "How It's Made" video with product running through a factory from tooling creation to pellets loaded/heated/screwed to parts being injected/ejected/complex parts to paint/masks/instructions/decals to assembly to QC to packaging to loading onto the container - all in the actual factory making the parts.
Alas it is hard to get images or video of those steps
I can't believe how much I want Tug-O-War.
Other wants include Ra-Jar, Gray, Prince Daken, and Scrollos.
I will take all of those!
Masters Of The Universe Classics: Missing In Action Series (2021)
Propose this concept to Mattel Creations.
Aramesh looks similar to one of the scientists from Inhumanoids and sort of similar to the Centurions.
I thought so too
Not a fan of the She-Ra-at-Arms idea or Bandwith but I'm on board with the rest of them. There are a lot of others we're still missing as well and it goes to show how bad of a decision it was for Mattel to not let Super7 continue making them.
I really hope they come to their senses in the future and let Super7 revisit the line because Origins is garbage that I won't be supporting. The fact that they killed a line that the fans were enjoying just to try to force them to buy another product which wasn't being asked for made my decision pretty easy. The ironic part is that if Classics was still going and they released Origins at the same time, I probably would have supported the new line as well to contribute to the success of the overall property.
Hey not every figure will be for everyone. But that is half the fun
Unfortunately, at a certain point you're down to characters that only appeal to a niche segment of what was a niche audience to begin with. I would have been cool with Eternian Peasant #3, but realistically, there's probably not a big enough audience to support that.
Was the classic lines successful? I thought it was and I supported it when I could with my hourly wage at game stop at the time. I HOPE WITH Origins their is a revival some day. I thought Classics was amazing and you did a great job.
Very successful. We did over 300 figures
More Robots!
Ah to be young again. and also a robot.
You forgot to update your title! ;) Great video though
D;oh!
I would have like to see New Adventures finished off instead of shoehorning new , original characters into the line. And now Mattel has put MOTUC on hiatus. #ThanksScott
We would have gotten to more, but alas the new team was not as interested. I still blame myself
I would happily buy a sub that contained every figure from this video.
And I would happily sell one if I could
I just thought up of a new figure to solve a small problem. How do you display all the variant heads of your figures? You call for Hed-Lock, the Evil Hord Headhunter Robot.
Hed-Lock is a wide boy with a large transparent dome to protect the eight still alive heads he has captured for Hordack. He also has eight eight "Body Control Units" he can place upon the bodies of the heads he captured for the Horde. Can He-Man and She-Ra keep their heads after a confrontation with this noggin thief?
You hear that Mattel. Make it happen!
@@spectorcreative1872 I'm shocked that you like all of my ideas. So far I didn't create a idea you dislike. As for Matell, the company probably doesn't for legal reasons do anything with these ideas. And I can't blame them. At least I have an outlet for them.
I can still imagine the comershel for it.
"Hed-Lock! Hed-Lock!"
Was Molkrom ever made? That was a scary beast.
Nope. But would have been cool.
Lady slither is my favorite on the list... I just cant get behind skeleteen though, something about 2 kids continuing on seems goofy to me it's too symmetrical for me I think.
If only we could get to her!
I love it! Illumina - Brilliant! Tug o' War - Better!! Lady Slither - Best!!!
More I say!
Would have loved to see some Blackstar characters
Well yeah, but Blackstar is not part of the MOTU license or brand.
@@spectorcreative1872 for some reason i thought the cartoons were in the same universe, kinda like GI Joe and Transformers
I wanted to see Górgone, the giant woman from the Brazilian comic.
Alright Mattel, make it happen!
Man what I’d give for that 2 pk prince Randor n Keldor! The motuc line ended too too soon. We need to find a way to revive this line. Not looking forward to the short n squatted looking 5” origin line
Yeah, MOTUC really needs an internal champion to thrive at Mattel. Maybe someone will step up
Spector Creative I think you’re the most qualified candidate and we believe in you. Would you consider going back to Mattel
There are a load I'd have loved to have seen, a top 10 of my picks, trying not to pick the same as you, could be
1 Prince Dare
2 Starburst She-Ra
3 Kay-La
4 Battle Bird
5 Black Armoured Ram Man (son of Ram Man)
6 Kayo/Tartarus
7 Sagitar
8 Master Sebrian
9 Samurai He-Man vs Samurai Skeletor
10 Battle Blade Skeletor
Not a bad list!
@@spectorcreative1872 thanks, I'm pretty sure I could have gone a lot longer with the list but I wanted to limit it to ten
Never got an actual 200X Evil Lyn despite you admitting you had the budget. Just the cheap repaint.
Never got Dragoon. Instead the 4H just ripped him off with Draego Man.
And yes, single carded Skelecons would have been nice.
That was the plan for them
We got Fearless Photog and Gygor but Evil Horde Robot never gets a mention...
Yeah. We tried. Too much unique tooling.
The only one on this list I do wish was made is King Miro.
Yeah I am really sad we didn't get to him. especially from a toy as story perspective
@@spectorcreative1872 I was surprised he never got made as he's a pretty important character really.
Skeleteen would’ve been so cool 👍🏼
He will be missed in plastic form.
Every line, even this massive one which ended up running longer than The Transformers (1984-1993) but not quite 12 years to beat G.I.Joe A Real American Hero (1982-1994), had some unmade main figures from other series. Masters Of The Universe Classics is a phenomenal toyline and one of the greatest since Masters Of The Universe (1982-1987). I don’t collect ARAH (A Real American Hero) by the way.
I still can't believe how many we made!
My biggest wants have by far gotta be the runner ups for the create a character contest. I wanted those so bad and held off on making customs until just recently. I've made my own Major Header and am working on a Ra-Jar. It kills me that we'll probably never get all those figures. I guess I'll just have to cry myself to sleep every night from now until I pass on 😭😭😭😭😭💔💔💔💔💔
My nightly ritual
@@spectorcreative1872 misery loves company 😔
How many characters are actually missing from the toy line. Whenever, you hear people talk about MOTU Classics, they always say how complete it is and there were no more characters to be done, but then there is a video like this and we can see that there were more characters to be done. How many characters were there to actually complete the line. From this video I can count 10, and don't include Filmation because that's kind of something different and it ended up being its own thing. We might see these in Masterverse. Have you done the video about what happened after you left Mattel. It was really a benefit to Super7, because they were able to do Thundercats from that and now Ninja Turtles Ultimates.
Well considering the hundreds of characters that appeared on the filmation show it is hard to really pin down. This was just my persona opinion.
Prince Keldor 🙌🏼
Hail the prince that was not made
King Miro is probably my biggest missed chance in the line figure.
I agree. He was really needed, especially from a story POV
What about New Adventures Skeletor V2?
Meaning the other outfit he had. I suppose that could have been done!
@@spectorcreative1872 the outfit he had for most the series around 58 out of 65 episodes.
Could you see if you could do the Original M.U.S.C.L.E line of figures ? We desperately need new characters .
Well Mattel owns the US trademark for those, so you will need to ask them. I left Mattel in 2014.
Skeleteen and Aremesh would have been awesome.
Seriously right?
Too bad, I was hoping there would a be a 'Garn' figure finally.
Maybe Classics will come back!
I’m a little confused. You mentioned that Keldor (before becoming Skeletor) was a figure that wasn’t made when he was. I have him. He’s an awesome figure. Was there another version besides regular Keldor and the Keldor from the 2-pack that you wanted to tackle?
czcams.com/video/dWLonBqkUos/video.html
Yes, we did do standard Keldor. What I was hoping to get to was Keldor in a few different outfits and/or head combinations (hood up, hood down with floating skull (Skeletor), Great Wars armor, outcast &c...
Spector Creative That would’ve been awesome. I’ve always loved the character. I was in that same line at Comic-Con with you when the original version was released. 😊
just now seeing. I never had a problem with there being a character or even a figure that was the offspring of Evelyn and Keldor. It was, and still is, the name. Deer gawd that's awful. I think the only characters I wanted in any line version was Filmation Clawful and like one other that was also in Filmation. But that character that escapes my mind.
Well the character is legit. Skeleteen and Dare are both from concept shows from the 1980s. One would have involved some live action segments!
I always felt shoe horning in all these random characters that didn't have figures into the new mini comics was a mistake. It would have been better to develop the personalities of characters we were getting toys of. Instead pages of the comic would be wasted on just showing a bunch of characters with their names labelled next to them who then don't really do anything or further the story.
See the new video I did about "leaving the brand better than we found it"
No New Adventures.... :-(
They just didn't sell that well sadly.
This honestly feels like you were scrapping the bottom of the barrel at this time, looking into characters that appeared in only 1 panel of artwork or were in a very unrelated spin-off production. But I mean-- you put out everything that was in the entire Masters of the Universe line and the She-Ra line-- well, a lot of the Beasts were never done like Bionotops and Clawdeen. You even got movie-only characters, unreleased characters, and 200X only characters. And then I guess you were up to everything to the 1991 toys which is where it got cut off. It is amazing you got out as many as you did. Even looking things up on the Wiki, other than the remaining "He-Man" 1990s line, only character I can find that might have been a nice addition would be General Tataran.
Oh completely! And I see that as a victory because the unmade figures were just that.Hitting all the "musts" was a huge win.
@@spectorcreative1872 There was hardly an episode of the Filmation series that didn't introduce a 1-off villain or ally. Most toylines barely get out 8 to 10 unique figures. The fact that you got out every figure made between 1982 and 1990, over 100 unique figures, and even added a lot of characters that never got them is well beyond any sort of expectations. Sure, I guess its sad that the 1991 to 1994 toys didn't get made, but I don't recall the "New Adventures" being a particularly popular era.
As for the Fimation characters-- there was hardly a single episode of the 200 or so episodes between Masters of the Universe and She-Ra that didn't introduce some one-off villain or ally. It would have been impossible to do them all. Actually, it is kind of funny how the He-Man and She-Ra cartoons produced after 2000 focused in on such comparatively small casts making the worlds seem comparatively small and empty, I guess the animation studios were given far more free reign to just make stuff up to fill out episodes.
And yet even some of those Filmation one-offs still got made in the Classics line even though they were never produced in the original line.
Really, it feels like you might have even overdone it.
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Yeah!