I was a kid when these toys first came out. My dad worked as a Dental Lab technician for a dentist in town (he made dentures for the dentist patients) Anyway It was my seventh birthday and my dad came home from work with all of these packages. He kept going back out to the car and bringing in package after package. For my seventh birthday, the dentist Dr. Harden bought me the entire collection of Masters of The Universe toys that were available at that time. He-Man, Skeletor, Man At Arms, Castle Greyskull, I mean every toy available for the MOU toy line. That was one of the best birthdays ever. Dr Harden was so good to our family when he found out he had terminal cancer he gave my dad the best gift and advice ever. He gave my dad all of the Lab equipment and told him to go in business for himself. That was over 40 years ago and my dad is still running that successful business today at the age of 84. Each time I see MOU I can't help but think of the Dr that gave us all the life that my family has today.
OMG you are so lucky! I had 4 sisters and a brother. Lol all my toys became cannon fodder. I had 1 He-Man when I was 5 and it didn't make it to me being 6 years old
I didn't know of Silverhawks as far as I remember, Thundercats was later for me in the UK, but He-Man, She-Ra, Danger Mouse and Count Duckular (both voiced by the awesome David Jason aka Del 'Boy' Trotter), and many more great cartoons of the time, Transformers, M.A.S.K., etc...
As an 80's kid born 1977 He-Man was my very first franchise that i loved endlessly!! I had the entire original run collection from He-Man and Skeletor to Castle Grayskull Snake Mountain and the Eterna playset where you could put all of the castles together as one. I even collected She-Ra Hordak and the Crystal castle not ashamed to admit this as a growing boy at the time. Also had the mini comics magazine and saw the crossover Secret Of The Sword in its theatrical release. Met Tom King the creator of He-Man and She-Ra this year at New York Comic Con and thanked him for creating a masterpiece. He even gave not sold me the entire original episode boxset of He-Man which I will treasure forever. We Have the power so can you!!!
1st year of elementary school...I was so proud of my He-man backpack...I had all the action figures, books, stickers and tapes with narrated stories...it felt great being a kid in the '80s
I have never been more excited about seeing a Minty 10 things you didn't know in my subscription list as I was today... Frank Langella was definitely the best part of the MOTU movie. The 2002 show was actually pretty good.
Back in 83', Scooby Doo and He-Man used to come on back to back in the afternoons (Scooby Doo at 4:00 & He-Man at 4:30).... My dad got me all the main action figures in 84'. He's always been my absolute favorite hero character ever since! "THE MOST POWERFUL MAN IN THE UNIVERSE!!"🗡️ 😁👍
The best line in the movie was "Let this be our final battle!" I was about 11 when it came out and while everyone left, including my 4 older sisters, I stayed for the credits pissing them off, but they waited for me by the doors and saw Skeletor rise out of the water and say "I'll be back!"
Just about to come off my lunch break and spotted this. Can’t wait to get home. I’m a child of the 80’s, this and thundercats were a massive part of my childhood. I had so many of the action figures. One of my regrets as an adult is not having kept a few for nostalgia. Cheers Minty.
Ah yes. He-Man. One of the biggest and most successful series of the 80s. And it was one of the first cartoons I was exposed to as a child. It was such a great era.
When the show was airing in 1983, my brother and I were living in England. We used to race home from school at 3pm to watch it on TV and have our tea. Wow so long ago!!!! 😮
The movie was filmed in a little town called Sierra Madre in California, and my friend's father worked for the police department, keeping the streets and other locations clear for shoots. One night my friend was able to go over during a break and got to meet Mr. Lundgren thanks to his dad. The town hasn't changed much, and most of the locations are as they were, including the small cemetery (it's really small!).
I always remember the birthday party scene in Ghostbusters II. Ray and Winston: "When there's something strange, in your neighborhood. Who ya gonna call?" Kids at party: "He-Man!"
I was a huge he-man fan back in the day.The Castle Grayskull I got as a kid sits on a shelf in my shop to this day. My son even played with it when he was little.
Quick side note. Filmation did not come up with the dual identity of Prince Adam/He-Man, the dual identity came from the DC comics that predated the cartoon.
Yeah, my understanding was that the original toy line want inspired by Conan but was going to be Conan. Then they watched the movie and saw very adult content and had to do something to recover the investment they had already put up
I was a huge He-Man kid, but I have to say, I think the 2002 adaptation was an even better show than the original. It kept the same spirit while smoothing out the rough edges of the 80's version.
I watched both 1980's cartoon and 2002 reboot as a kid. And I'm kind glad I introduce my 5 year old sister's daughter to He-Man, and she absolutely love it.
My wife got me the box set of the 80s cartoon when my son was 3. It's probably the best gift I've ever received. No more of these crappy new cartoons. My son watched TNMT, Captian PLANET, GI Joe, and X men. That and putting him in The Boy Scouts early were some of the best things for our relationship. I strongly suggest young fathers try this.
Love this cartoon and still watch it today. Amazing cartoon that I ate up each time I could when I was younger. One of the crowning achievements of my childhood was owning a Castle Grayskull playset!
In all fairness to Mattel passing on Star Wars, most everyone assumed the movie would flop before it actually came out. Every toy company passed on the deal, with Kenner only accepting sort of begrudgingly a month before the film's release. Fox studios had little hope of it doing well too. I think only Lucas himself & Alec Guinness believed it would succeed... and even then it's believed that if the original Lucas cut had been released it may have. Fox got an editing team in last minute to re-cut the movie before release. Keep in mind most sci-fi at the time was either marginally successful(Star Trek was canned for low viewership, Dr Who managed to survive in the UK despite a poor budget) or often failed. But the overall art design, using actual aliens instead of someone with a rubber forehead & a strong initial story is why Star Wars did so well, nothing really like it had been made before. It's success helped revive Star Trek & push a lot of other franchises.
So true,the cast and crew thought SW was weird and silly and it would crash and burn at the box office. LOL. Never,ever thought it'd be an astounding success and have audiences hungry for more sci-fi films/tv shows.
Not quite true. Lucas spent the entire time filming ensuring he had total editorial control of the film and keeping FOX or anyone else out. He even took a reduced cut of hte revenue to keep it when FOX tired to intervene. Lucas did not like the original cut. So, he got rid of the editing crew and enlisted his wife at the time, Marsha, along with RIchard Chew and Paul Hirsch, to re-cut the film which also included significant re-shoots. FOX had NOTHING to do with it.
Here's a trivia tidbit that I never see discussed: Alan Oppenheimer and George DiCenzo's characters, Skeletor and Hordak, often fought each other in the cartoons, but they also played opposing lawyers in a movie about Charles Manson, "Helter Skelter." Honestly, I think you should give the 2002 MYP cartoon another try. If it's not THE best MOTU series, it's certainly in runner-up position. I really was not fond of the 1987 movie, but I liked the new characters they introduced. Would've loved a Lubic action figure.
thanks for the trip down memory lane as a child no matter how bad at home it was for 30min at a time you had a hero in your corner a will never forget!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He-Man and Voltron, my most favorite cartoons growing up in the 1980's! I was 5 when He Man came out and watched every single episode on tv after school. To this day I will still hop on CZcams and go through all the episodes in a day every now and then, even at 46.
Love Voltron but it was toned for kids. It was originally called Go Lion Beast King. That was Earth that was being ravage because you can see a melted Tokyo Tower and it was WW3. They fight between Voltron and the Goddess happened centuries ago. Because the keys looked like that they were in the coffin for decades not days.
Thank you, Minty, for taking me back to my childhood in the mid 80s. This was probably the only toy line that I had a near complete collection including Castle Grayskull and Snake Mountain (Skeletor’s lair).
As a big fan of He-Man I actually knew every one of these facts this time still a great video and a lot of fond memories of the show and this franchise.
He-Man was always my favourite of all the 80's stuff. Between the toys and the Cartoons it was just fun. Transformers were out of my families price range, but I did love the show. I had tons of G.I. Joe's but the show was on as much for me. He-Man was there first and left the fondest memories. It's not as "cool" as the other two, but I loved it & She-Ra.
He-Man was my toddler days in life! And yeah, never called it Masters of the Universe. Always wanted the castle but never got that. But He-Man was the first of any of my childhood toys. Before legos and hot wheels. But then the TMNT action figures was my prime!
He-man was one of my favorite things when I was a kid. I remember going on vacation as a kid. I found Tri-Klops half buried on the beach. Nobody ever came to claim him so my Mom let me keep him. That was a great vacation for me. Probably a terrible vacation for the other boy.
I'll never forget when my friend asked me if I wanted to come over his house and play Masters of the Universe? I was like WTF? After seeing and playing with Castle Greyskull and the other action figures he had, I was hooked! Two weeks later for my birthday, I had He-man, Skeletor, Teela, and the Battering Ram. A few months later for Christmas, I had the whole collection.... So I thought? I think Mattel did a soft release on some of the other toys! I only found this out cuz my friend down the street, who was a spoiled rotten only child, actually had EVERYTHING!!! Good times though!
I'm shocked to learn that the popularity of the toys cratered so quickly. My enthusiasm for the franchise hadn't waned at all, much like I didn't get the memo about the video game crash and still played my Atari 2600 right up until getting a Nintendo. Some of the coolest figures came out toward the end.
I was a huge He-Man fan back in the day. I still count Christmas ‘83 as my best Christmas when I got all that He-Man stuff. I had kind of aged out by the time of the movie but was still excited to see it. I left disappointed, though Frank Langella was awesome. And props to him for saying that Skeketor was his most favorite role he’s ever played! And no props at all for Kevin Smith who lied and continually lied about fellow CZcamsrs, Clownfish TV when they had tweeted that they heard Revelations was going to be a bait and switch. I was a fan of his from the very beginning but lost all respect for him after that.
CFTV claimed that Teela would take over from Heman as champion as he would die. They also claimed Teela would be gay. Both was incorrect. They then went on to say Teela's sidekick would be champion which again was incorrect. I'm not getting where these CFTV meat riders are coming from. They were wrong about everything. Garbage channel too. Just a couple of dorks that got fired by Disney and now set up a channel to cry about it.
Let's all be honest, the 2002 animation is the BEST version of he-man, the smashed it out of the park and kills me to this day that it wasn't finished.
Poor distribution of the toys & odd repaints meant poor sales, and that’s what Mattel was looking at before they pulled the plug before season 2 finished properly. Season three would have brought on the horde, She-ra and other characters like Rio-Blast & Clamp champ
I was a young girl back in the 80s, and I was fascinated by He-Man and She-ra. I always raced home from school, so I wouldn't miss an episode. I met Dolph Lundgren in March of this year, and I had the chance to ask him about Masters of the Universe. It was so cool listening to him talk about his training for He-man.
As someone that grew up on the original he-man, I honestly didn't hate Revalations. It had some iffy moments, but I enjoyed it overall. To each their own though.
My favorite story from the early days of He-Man was from Mark Taylor. From the He-Man episode of Toys That Made Us. The bosses at Mattel wanted them to use the tiger molds from the Big Jim line. Mark complained that the tigers were scaled wrong, they were as big as a horse compared to the figures. They said "So put a f$cking saddle on it!" And Battle Cat was born.
I’m shocked no mention at all of Blackstar the 1981 Filmation predecessor to MOTU with many direct comparisons to MOTU. He-Man owes a debt of gratitude to Blackstar. The irony that the Galoob Blackstar toys came out in 1985 to capitalize on the success of He-Man 4 years after the cartoon was cancelled and was long forgotten.
I grew up on He-Man and the Masters of the Universe in the 80’s. I’m 40 years old and still watch He-Man before I go to work in the morning! “He-Man!”💪🏽
Yeah, so many memories... here in Germany, everybody I knew called them just "Masters". Back then almost nobody had Satellite-TV or cable, so me and my friends only knew a few episodes avaiable at the video-rental. But there was an audioplay series on cassettes which we all loved. There are 37 cassettes and one special, like an introduction to the world of MOTU, sold as a bundle copy with HE-MAN (if I remember correctly). When I later in life saw the whole TV series I noticed, that the audioplays we knew, deviated quite a bit from the filmation show. It had a more serious tone, there even was a 6 episode story arc where Skeletor had won, and the last free MOTU had to act from the underground to take back the palace and Eternia. Thanks for your videos !!!
As a person growing up in a remote place in India, I never watched most of the episodes of the series either. The only ones I ever watched were the first two episodes of He-Man, the Secret of the Sword movie and the Christmas special movie, all in video cassettes. Lucky for us we can now see the rest on CZcams.
THAT was my toy series and cartoon. So good, and based, if in a admittedly cheesy style at times. The music by Shuki Levy was also extremely epic. And the show was primarily voiced by its producer, Lou Scheimer.
I love the masters of the universe and even watch the cartoons when I came home from work. I never collected any of the action figures but my nephew did, and I even took him to see the movie.
I had a huge collection! Almost all the figures (missing 6 or 7 of the latest releases) and my friends and I would spend whole afternoons playing big battles, with our collections together! Such fun times! Note: in Italy, where I grew up, they were extremely popular, possibly the biggest thing in the 80s, and they were known indeed as Masters of the Universe. Never heard anyone referring to them as "He Man". The cartoon, which I followed, was quite disappointing, though, so bland and condescending, with Skeletor being the comic relief.
I was a fan of the 80's cartoon and introduced my children to the 2002 one. They 2000 toys had chips in their feet that would allow them to interact with Castle Grayskull which was kinda neat.
It's not only the boomers or what you call folks in their 40s n up but kids these days are fans of 80s pop culture. There will never be a 80s culture again and it was fantastic
@@8arrows yea and screw these gen z with their im in my teens n 20s so im better than you, you music movies and tv are below subpar your friends are secretly into 80s culture and even you
Here's a bit of nerd trivia: season 2 of Star Trek Deep Space 9 started and ended with Skeletor... Frank Langella was in the first three episodes as Minister Jaro and Alan Oppenheimer was in the last episode as Captain Keogh.
My brother and I had all the action figures and accessories growing up..That was our childhood hood in the 80’s… We also loved Thundercats and had all those figures as well and loved the cartoons of both He Man and Thundercats…I’m 47 and loved watching and playing with the toys
Back when I was in 3rd grade, I got in trouble for non-stop talking in school (later would be diagnosed with ADHD) and as part of my punishment, my parents forbid me from watching the He-Man & She-Ra special that was on that night. I never did get another opportunity to see it, and, almost 40 years later... I'm still SALTY about it... 🤣🤣🤣
The idea of Superman v He-man is hardly far-fetched. During the second season, an episode called “The Rainbow Warrior” outlines how Prince Adam’s mother Marlina ended up being transplanted from Earth to Eternia. We had several of the action figures growing up. Also, my brother dressed up as Skeletor for Halloween 1984. I suspect that I’m the only family member who actually liked the Masters of the Universe motion picture. Watching it during the 2010s and fixating on the character played by Robert Duncan McNeil actually got me in an obsessive mode, trying to imagine what kind of keyboards and synthesizers I would’ve played if I were that age during the 80s.
I remember the movie being released when I was a teenager, and I always enjoyed it. I developed a huge crush on Courteney Cox too, oddly enough. I hadn't followed the cartoons, so I wasn't bothered by anything not matching the original story. I also wasn't bothered by Dolph Lundgren's acting. It seemed to me that the boyfriend was the most unbelievable actor of them all. Oh, and the cop ... "Jesus, didn't that guy ever have hair?" (from Back to the Future lol)
Interestingly, the original cartoon was going to have the villains be the Masters of the Universe. The idea was dropped, but there were three vestiges left in. 1. One of the episodes released to VHS had a prototype intro(accidentally, early print before it was "corrected") where He-Man says that he and his friends defend Greyskull from "The evil Masters of the Universe.". Not Skeletor as it was changed to. 2. I forget the episode, but Skeletor unleashed some crystal based monsters on He Man and Co. He Man saw the monster and said, "So, this is the Master's plan," 3. Skeletor resurrected a monster and introduced himself as, "Skeletor, Master of the Universe."
I used to have the castle , battle cat, and a bunch of figures in the 80's, if only I knew there would one day be a site like ebay to sell them for a profit.
I figure the magic which transforms Prince Adam also adds a glamour effect to hide his identity. You should do the MOTU movie in itself, it's awesome, especially Meg Foster as Evilyn.
I was a kid when these toys first came out. My dad worked as a Dental Lab technician for a dentist in town (he made dentures for the dentist patients) Anyway It was my seventh birthday and my dad came home from work with all of these packages. He kept going back out to the car and bringing in package after package. For my seventh birthday, the dentist Dr. Harden bought me the entire collection of Masters of The Universe toys that were available at that time. He-Man, Skeletor, Man At Arms, Castle Greyskull, I mean every toy available for the MOU toy line. That was one of the best birthdays ever. Dr Harden was so good to our family when he found out he had terminal cancer he gave my dad the best gift and advice ever. He gave my dad all of the Lab equipment and told him to go in business for himself. That was over 40 years ago and my dad is still running that successful business today at the age of 84. Each time I see MOU I can't help but think of the Dr that gave us all the life that my family has today.
1) Was previous He-Woman and before them She-Woman!
OMG you are so lucky! I had 4 sisters and a brother. Lol all my toys became cannon fodder. I had 1 He-Man when I was 5 and it didn't make it to me being 6 years old
That's an awesome story. RIP Dr. Harden.
Ill Never forger Xmas of 84! Me and my brother woke up to MOTU figures that morning with Castle Grayskull! It was a great time to be an 80s kid!
@@TwistedSense Yeah I count my blessings daily
I was a huge fan of He-Man. I had the He-Man and Skeletor Battle Damage figures and Castle Greyskull Playset for Christmas 1984.
I had Snake Mountain. It had a voice changing microphone.
Good times.
@@joshoshea3194I couldn’t ever get my voice changing microphone to work
@@jimhoover7345that's a shame it rocked
As did I. Got it a bit later, tho. Maybe 86?
Wow... You're so lucky
I remember coming home from school and watching this cartoon. This one and the ThunderCats as well as the Silverhawks.
I remember watching He-Man, Voltron, Thundercats, and Silverhawks on WGGT-TV 48 on weekday afternoons.
Exactly. He man, she ra, Voltron, thundercats, transzor z, the list can go. Miss those cartoons.
Some great theme songs as well 😊
I didn't know of Silverhawks as far as I remember, Thundercats was later for me in the UK, but He-Man, She-Ra, Danger Mouse and Count Duckular (both voiced by the awesome David Jason aka Del 'Boy' Trotter), and many more great cartoons of the time, Transformers, M.A.S.K., etc...
I own all these series on dvd 😀😀😀
As an 80's kid born 1977 He-Man was my very first franchise that i loved endlessly!! I had the entire original run collection from He-Man and Skeletor to Castle Grayskull Snake Mountain and the Eterna playset where you could put all of the castles together as one. I even collected She-Ra Hordak and the Crystal castle not ashamed to admit this as a growing boy at the time. Also had the mini comics magazine and saw the crossover Secret Of The Sword in its theatrical release. Met Tom King the creator of He-Man and She-Ra this year at New York Comic Con and thanked him for creating a masterpiece. He even gave not sold me the entire original episode boxset of He-Man which I will treasure forever. We Have the power so can you!!!
Ill Never forget Xmas of 84! I woke up to all these MOTU figures!
That was such a great Christmas,83 and 85 too
1st year of elementary school...I was so proud of my He-man backpack...I had all the action figures, books, stickers and tapes with narrated stories...it felt great being a kid in the '80s
I grew up in the Eighties, He-Man was definitely the show to watch immediately after school before heading outside to play with the neighbors kids.
...He-Man...Gi Joe...Transforrmers...Thundercats! Great 80s!
I have never been more excited about seeing a Minty 10 things you didn't know in my subscription list as I was today...
Frank Langella was definitely the best part of the MOTU movie. The 2002 show was actually pretty good.
My uncles had all the He Man toys. They passed them on to me in the mid 90s and I still have some today.
In the loving memory of Ruben Moya. Mexican voice actor for He-Man (1960-2023)
Both myself and my brother were really into He-Man during its peak. Had many of the toys and watched the formulaic cartoons. Pure nostalgia Minty. 👍🏼
Back in 83', Scooby Doo and He-Man used to come on back to back in the afternoons (Scooby Doo at 4:00 & He-Man at 4:30).... My dad got me all the main action figures in 84'. He's always been my absolute favorite hero character ever since!
"THE MOST POWERFUL MAN IN THE UNIVERSE!!"🗡️ 😁👍
The best line in the movie was "Let this be our final battle!" I was about 11 when it came out and while everyone left, including my 4 older sisters, I stayed for the credits pissing them off, but they waited for me by the doors and saw Skeletor rise out of the water and say "I'll be back!"
Just about to come off my lunch break and spotted this. Can’t wait to get home. I’m a child of the 80’s, this and thundercats were a massive part of my childhood. I had so many of the action figures. One of my regrets as an adult is not having kept a few for nostalgia. Cheers Minty.
Ah yes. He-Man. One of the biggest and most successful series of the 80s. And it was one of the first cartoons I was exposed to as a child. It was such a great era.
Loved He-Man as a kid. Had the toys, had a costume, and watched every episode of the cartoon.
Man I miss being a kid in the '80s.😞
When the show was airing in 1983, my brother and I were living in England. We used to race home from school at 3pm to watch it on TV and have our tea. Wow so long ago!!!! 😮
The movie was filmed in a little town called Sierra Madre in California, and my friend's father worked for the police department, keeping the streets and other locations clear for shoots. One night my friend was able to go over during a break and got to meet Mr. Lundgren thanks to his dad. The town hasn't changed much, and most of the locations are as they were, including the small cemetery (it's really small!).
I always remember the birthday party scene in Ghostbusters II.
Ray and Winston: "When there's something strange, in your neighborhood. Who ya gonna call?"
Kids at party: "He-Man!"
I was a huge he-man fan back in the day.The Castle Grayskull I got as a kid sits on a shelf in my shop to this day. My son even played with it when he was little.
Quick side note. Filmation did not come up with the dual identity of Prince Adam/He-Man, the dual identity came from the DC comics that predated the cartoon.
Yeah, my understanding was that the original toy line want inspired by Conan but was going to be Conan. Then they watched the movie and saw very adult content and had to do something to recover the investment they had already put up
Would love to see a video like this for the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon from the 80s!
Loved that show.
I was a huge He-Man kid, but I have to say, I think the 2002 adaptation was an even better show than the original. It kept the same spirit while smoothing out the rough edges of the 80's version.
It was too bad the show got cancelled before She-Ra could make an appearance. I would have loved to see her
Loved MOTU as a child of the 80s and just as big a fan now. Revelation rocks and I think Revolution Will be even better!
I watched both 1980's cartoon and 2002 reboot as a kid. And I'm kind glad I introduce my 5 year old sister's daughter to He-Man, and she absolutely love it.
My wife got me the box set of the 80s cartoon when my son was 3. It's probably the best gift I've ever received. No more of these crappy new cartoons. My son watched TNMT, Captian PLANET, GI Joe, and X men. That and putting him in The Boy Scouts early were some of the best things for our relationship. I strongly suggest young fathers try this.
Your sister must be the youngest mother in the world!
@@HalfdeadRider Actually, she is older than I am. I was born 1991, and my sister has born 1988.
@@HautaAntero you said she was 5 years old though! 🤷♂️😂
@@HalfdeadRider I mean sister's daughter was 5 year old. 🤦
Love this cartoon and still watch it today. Amazing cartoon that I ate up each time I could when I was younger.
One of the crowning achievements of my childhood was owning a Castle Grayskull playset!
I loved this cartoon back in the day, plus Thunder Cats, GI Joe, Transformers. those were fun cartoons for sure.
So many fond memories of this show, thank you.
In all fairness to Mattel passing on Star Wars, most everyone assumed the movie would flop before it actually came out. Every toy company passed on the deal, with Kenner only accepting sort of begrudgingly a month before the film's release. Fox studios had little hope of it doing well too. I think only Lucas himself & Alec Guinness believed it would succeed... and even then it's believed that if the original Lucas cut had been released it may have. Fox got an editing team in last minute to re-cut the movie before release. Keep in mind most sci-fi at the time was either marginally successful(Star Trek was canned for low viewership, Dr Who managed to survive in the UK despite a poor budget) or often failed. But the overall art design, using actual aliens instead of someone with a rubber forehead & a strong initial story is why Star Wars did so well, nothing really like it had been made before. It's success helped revive Star Trek & push a lot of other franchises.
So true,the cast and crew thought SW was weird and silly and it would crash and burn at the box office. LOL. Never,ever thought it'd be an astounding success and have audiences hungry for more sci-fi films/tv shows.
Not quite true. Lucas spent the entire time filming ensuring he had total editorial control of the film and keeping FOX or anyone else out. He even took a reduced cut of hte revenue to keep it when FOX tired to intervene.
Lucas did not like the original cut. So, he got rid of the editing crew and enlisted his wife at the time, Marsha, along with RIchard Chew and Paul Hirsch, to re-cut the film which also included significant re-shoots. FOX had NOTHING to do with it.
Here's a trivia tidbit that I never see discussed: Alan Oppenheimer and George DiCenzo's characters, Skeletor and Hordak, often fought each other in the cartoons, but they also played opposing lawyers in a movie about Charles Manson, "Helter Skelter."
Honestly, I think you should give the 2002 MYP cartoon another try. If it's not THE best MOTU series, it's certainly in runner-up position.
I really was not fond of the 1987 movie, but I liked the new characters they introduced. Would've loved a Lubic action figure.
He-Man was my favourite tv show and figures to play with as a kid. Then Thundercats came along …….
thanks for the trip down memory lane as a child no matter how bad at home it was for 30min at a time you had a hero in your corner a will never forget!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Man, hearing that "I am she-ra!" still gives me chills
This was my first toy love as a child. I had Castle Grey Skull and He-man. Good memories. Later to co-exist with my Transformers.
I was a faithful watcher of the cartoon. Christmas of 83 I was 5yrs old when I got all the toys from HE-MAN. .....oh yeah and Castle Greyskull.
He-Man and Voltron, my most favorite cartoons growing up in the 1980's! I was 5 when He Man came out and watched every single episode on tv after school. To this day I will still hop on CZcams and go through all the episodes in a day every now and then, even at 46.
Love Voltron but it was toned for kids. It was originally called Go Lion Beast King. That was Earth that was being ravage because you can see a melted Tokyo Tower and it was WW3. They fight between Voltron and the Goddess happened centuries ago. Because the keys looked like that they were in the coffin for decades not days.
To this day, I call it He-Man. We all called it He-Man from Day 1. Thanks for making this!!!
Thank you, Minty, for taking me back to my childhood in the mid 80s. This was probably the only toy line that I had a near complete collection including Castle Grayskull and Snake Mountain (Skeletor’s lair).
As a big fan of He-Man I actually knew every one of these facts this time still a great video and a lot of fond memories of the show and this franchise.
He-Man was always my favourite of all the 80's stuff. Between the toys and the Cartoons it was just fun. Transformers were out of my families price range, but I did love the show. I had tons of G.I. Joe's but the show was on as much for me. He-Man was there first and left the fondest memories. It's not as "cool" as the other two, but I loved it & She-Ra.
He-Man was my toddler days in life! And yeah, never called it Masters of the Universe. Always wanted the castle but never got that. But He-Man was the first of any of my childhood toys. Before legos and hot wheels. But then the TMNT action figures was my prime!
He-man was one of my favorite things when I was a kid. I remember going on vacation as a kid. I found Tri-Klops half buried on the beach. Nobody ever came to claim him so my Mom let me keep him. That was a great vacation for me. Probably a terrible vacation for the other boy.
Born in ‘79, so this was literally my childhood. I even liked She-Ra.
Loved the show and the toy line. Hopefully, one day, Hollywood will get He-Man right on the big screen.
He truly was a master of the universe.
The Newest He-man revelations is really well done and continues the story of the original
Loved the heman and shera toons and heman movie. I miss my 80s toons on tv lol. Need get my dvds out lol
I'll never forget when my friend asked me if I wanted to come over his house and play Masters of the Universe? I was like WTF? After seeing and playing with Castle Greyskull and the other action figures he had, I was hooked! Two weeks later for my birthday, I had He-man, Skeletor, Teela, and the Battering Ram. A few months later for Christmas, I had the whole collection.... So I thought? I think Mattel did a soft release on some of the other toys! I only found this out cuz my friend down the street, who was a spoiled rotten only child, actually had EVERYTHING!!! Good times though!
One of my best childhood days especially my brother too. 😊❤
I'm shocked to learn that the popularity of the toys cratered so quickly. My enthusiasm for the franchise hadn't waned at all, much like I didn't get the memo about the video game crash and still played my Atari 2600 right up until getting a Nintendo. Some of the coolest figures came out toward the end.
I was a huge He-Man fan back in the day. I still count Christmas ‘83 as my best Christmas when I got all that He-Man stuff. I had kind of aged out by the time of the movie but was still excited to see it. I left disappointed, though Frank Langella was awesome. And props to him for saying that Skeketor was his most favorite role he’s ever played! And no props at all for Kevin Smith who lied and continually lied about fellow CZcamsrs, Clownfish TV when they had tweeted that they heard Revelations was going to be a bait and switch. I was a fan of his from the very beginning but lost all respect for him after that.
No 🤡💩📺 lied about Kevin Smith!
Amen to that. Kevin Smith will never live that down.
@@mikeadams7904 I'd bet that most people have already forgotten lmfao
CFTV claimed that Teela would take over from Heman as champion as he would die. They also claimed Teela would be gay. Both was incorrect. They then went on to say Teela's sidekick would be champion which again was incorrect. I'm not getting where these CFTV meat riders are coming from. They were wrong about everything. Garbage channel too. Just a couple of dorks that got fired by Disney and now set up a channel to cry about it.
@@HendoCalrissianI've seen what they look like & their outsides match their insides.
They're both ugly, inside & out.
My friend had that exact castle. It was fun. Skeletor! The most muscle bound, pile of bones.
Are used to have Prince Adam aka he-man head money box was a massive fan of he-man back in the day
Let's all be honest, the 2002 animation is the BEST version of he-man, the smashed it out of the park and kills me to this day that it wasn't finished.
You're so right. That 2002 series was well done, it's a shame that it didn't keep going.
Poor distribution of the toys & odd repaints meant poor sales, and that’s what Mattel was looking at before they pulled the plug before season 2 finished properly.
Season three would have brought on the horde, She-ra and other characters like Rio-Blast & Clamp champ
I was a young girl back in the 80s, and I was fascinated by He-Man and She-ra. I always raced home from school, so I wouldn't miss an episode. I met Dolph Lundgren in March of this year, and I had the chance to ask him about Masters of the Universe. It was so cool listening to him talk about his training for He-man.
As someone that grew up on the original he-man, I honestly didn't hate Revalations. It had some iffy moments, but I enjoyed it overall. To each their own though.
"Joke's on YOU, I'm into that sh!t!"
-Skeletor
HE-MAN WILL FOREVER BE ONE OF MY ALL-TIME TOP !0 CARTOONS OF MY CHILDHOOD!
I dont think I had any of the toys, but I do remember loving the heck out of this show as a kid in the 80s
I love my He-Man and my baby Battle Cat. ❤❤❤❤❤. My favorite cartoon
My favorite story from the early days of He-Man was from Mark Taylor. From the He-Man episode of Toys That Made Us.
The bosses at Mattel wanted them to use the tiger molds from the Big Jim line. Mark complained that the tigers were scaled wrong, they were as big as a horse compared to the figures.
They said "So put a f$cking saddle on it!" And Battle Cat was born.
Ha! You unlocked a memory for me. We saw the stage show at Univeral Studios along with Kit from Knightrider
Always asked my parents to rent that and the GI Joe movie as a child. Watched it countless times!
Minty , the 2 posted pictures of Linda Gary one of them is Linda Gray from Dallas TV seies
I’m shocked no mention at all of Blackstar the 1981 Filmation predecessor to MOTU with many direct comparisons to MOTU. He-Man owes a debt of gratitude to Blackstar. The irony that the Galoob Blackstar toys came out in 1985 to capitalize on the success of He-Man 4 years after the cartoon was cancelled and was long forgotten.
I grew up on He-Man and the Masters of the Universe in the 80’s. I’m 40 years old and still watch He-Man before I go to work in the morning! “He-Man!”💪🏽
Yeah, so many memories... here in Germany, everybody I knew called them just "Masters". Back then almost nobody had Satellite-TV or cable, so me and my friends only knew a few episodes avaiable at the video-rental. But there was an audioplay series on cassettes which we all loved. There are 37 cassettes and one special, like an introduction to the world of MOTU, sold as a bundle copy with HE-MAN (if I remember correctly).
When I later in life saw the whole TV series I noticed, that the audioplays we knew, deviated quite a bit from the filmation show. It had a more serious tone, there even was a 6 episode story arc where Skeletor had won, and the last free MOTU had to act from the underground to take back the palace and Eternia.
Thanks for your videos !!!
As a person growing up in a remote place in India, I never watched most of the episodes of the series either. The only ones I ever watched were the first two episodes of He-Man, the Secret of the Sword movie and the Christmas special movie, all in video cassettes. Lucky for us we can now see the rest on CZcams.
I HAVE THE POWER Baby!!
Still love This show, and now my kids Love the Netflix show. Love it.
THAT was my toy series and cartoon. So good, and based, if in a admittedly cheesy style at times. The music by Shuki Levy was also extremely epic. And the show was primarily voiced by its producer, Lou Scheimer.
I loved watching He-Man as a little girl.
I was a big He-Man fan, had the toys, comics, video tapes, was lovely to relive a bit of nostalgia :)
I love the masters of the universe and even watch the cartoons when I came home from work. I never collected any of the action figures but my nephew did, and I even took him to see the movie.
God, I love the 80's, no decade like it.
I love reminiscing about the toys and cartoons i had as a child, during the holidays.
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I had a huge collection! Almost all the figures (missing 6 or 7 of the latest releases) and my friends and I would spend whole afternoons playing big battles, with our collections together!
Such fun times!
Note: in Italy, where I grew up, they were extremely popular, possibly the biggest thing in the 80s, and they were known indeed as Masters of the Universe. Never heard anyone referring to them as "He Man".
The cartoon, which I followed, was quite disappointing, though, so bland and condescending, with Skeletor being the comic relief.
I was a fan of the 80's cartoon and introduced my children to the 2002 one. They 2000 toys had chips in their feet that would allow them to interact with Castle Grayskull which was kinda neat.
Who remembers seeing He-Man and She-Ra in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade? I thought that was more epic than Santa Claus.
It's not only the boomers or what you call folks in their 40s n up but kids these days are fans of 80s pop culture.
There will never be a 80s culture again and it was fantastic
To be a boomer one has to be over 60. Ppl around the ages 40-60 are Gen X
@@8arrows yea and screw these gen z with their im in my teens n 20s so im better than you, you music movies and tv are below subpar your friends are secretly into 80s culture and even you
I was a huge He-Man fan as a kid, and I've been blessed enough to relive it with my own kids 30 years later.
Here's a bit of nerd trivia: season 2 of Star Trek Deep Space 9 started and ended with Skeletor... Frank Langella was in the first three episodes as Minister Jaro and Alan Oppenheimer was in the last episode as Captain Keogh.
Who still pulls out their 80s Heman toys and yells I have the POWER lol
My brother and I had all the action figures and accessories growing up..That was our childhood hood in the 80’s… We also loved Thundercats and had all those figures as well and loved the cartoons of both He Man and Thundercats…I’m 47 and loved watching and playing with the toys
I remember Saturday morning cartoons being awesome in the 80’s
Good morning Minty! Thank you, this was an interesting episode. Your video content is always presented in a fun way. Hope you have a good weekend!!
I LOVED He-Man… I had a castle Greyskull (thanks to a yard sale next door) even loved the movie! lol!
He man is still a huge popular. Revelations was hugely despite the internet Fanboys crying. And the second season revolution is about to debut.
Honestly I had never heard of He-Man until sometime in the mid-2010's, when reruns were aired late at night on the former Qubo network.
She-ra is the reason He-man went from most popular toy to least. That was done by design by the women of Mattel who ran Barbie.
From what i remember of the She-Ra line of figures most of them basically were designed with the Barbie look rather than Teela's look so to speak
Great job. Still such a fun watch ⌚️ ☺️ 😊 🤗
Back when I was in 3rd grade, I got in trouble for non-stop talking in school (later would be diagnosed with ADHD) and as part of my punishment, my parents forbid me from watching the He-Man & She-Ra special that was on that night. I never did get another opportunity to see it, and, almost 40 years later... I'm still SALTY about it...
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Mattel design center in the 90's had a wall of every He Man figure ever made. Poor kids trying to collect all that plastic !
The idea of Superman v He-man is hardly far-fetched. During the second season, an episode called “The Rainbow Warrior” outlines how Prince Adam’s mother Marlina ended up being transplanted from Earth to Eternia.
We had several of the action figures growing up. Also, my brother dressed up as Skeletor for Halloween 1984. I suspect that I’m the only family member who actually liked the Masters of the Universe motion picture. Watching it during the 2010s and fixating on the character played by Robert Duncan McNeil actually got me in an obsessive mode, trying to imagine what kind of keyboards and synthesizers I would’ve played if I were that age during the 80s.
I remember the movie being released when I was a teenager, and I always enjoyed it. I developed a huge crush on Courteney Cox too, oddly enough. I hadn't followed the cartoons, so I wasn't bothered by anything not matching the original story. I also wasn't bothered by Dolph Lundgren's acting. It seemed to me that the boyfriend was the most unbelievable actor of them all. Oh, and the cop ... "Jesus, didn't that guy ever have hair?" (from Back to the Future lol)
Interestingly, the original cartoon was going to have the villains be the Masters of the Universe. The idea was dropped, but there were three vestiges left in.
1. One of the episodes released to VHS had a prototype intro(accidentally, early print before it was "corrected") where He-Man says that he and his friends defend Greyskull from "The evil Masters of the Universe.". Not Skeletor as it was changed to.
2. I forget the episode, but Skeletor unleashed some crystal based monsters on He Man and Co. He Man saw the monster and said, "So, this is the Master's plan,"
3. Skeletor resurrected a monster and introduced himself as, "Skeletor, Master of the Universe."
Min-Tee!!! The masterrr ooof the univerrrse!
I used to have the castle , battle cat, and a bunch of figures in the 80's, if only I knew there would one day be a site like ebay to sell them for a profit.
Hehe yup had all those toys gave them away when I was a teenager
"Fabulous magical power were revealed to me the day I held aloft my magic sword and said, "By the Power of Minty-Skull!"
When I saw those He Man toys at Walmart, it brought back my childhood memories. Love to that cartoon and loved to watch She Ra as well.
I figure the magic which transforms Prince Adam also adds a glamour effect to hide his identity. You should do the MOTU movie in itself, it's awesome, especially Meg Foster as Evilyn.
The 2002 series was great, really deserved more seasons.