Who is Clamp Champ from the Masters of the U/niverse Classics He-Man toy line from Mattel? Secrets!
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- čas přidán 27. 03. 2022
- Scott Toy Guru Neitlich from Spector Creative finally gets to Clamp Champ, the first of a new group of Masters from the second half of the vintage line. How does this Fisto armor repaint fare when translated into Classics glory? Let's find out!
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He came out great in classics. And for the record, he is legendary in the Black community and no one ever viewed him as a token character. One thing though, his availability back in the day was minimal, but that added to his lore. Had to wait for MOTUC to get him, and I got the origins one for my birthday.
Yeah when I was a kid all my black friends loved him.
Clamp Champ has been a staple of my heroic Masters since the 80's. The Classics take on him was perfect - and representation of different ethnic groups is very important. It was great to see a variety in the 1980's and it's great to see now. Everything about this guy is a positive role model and badass.
Your videos are always so well done and very informative! Thank you for all your hard work SDN! It is greatly appreciated!
Hes a pro! Un retroassing and anal toys!
I had family members refuse to buy him for me as a kid for ridiculous reasons. Was glad to buy my Origins fig.
My dad made a disparaging remark after my mom and I came home from the store with this figure. It just made me like Champ more. My kid-mind realized he was different, but different makes him extra cool.
Why?
Liar
I loved this 1 back in the day & am tempted to pick him up now.He is an awesome character! Thanks for the great video sir- keep up the excellent work!
Clamp Champ is one my favorites in my Origins collection. Like top 5 at least. I'm always putting him in my displays and play.
Love his figure in Origins, the piss-off face is great.
This might be my favorite head sculpt in the entire line. There's so much detail and character in that face.
I am glad they took some of the concepts u and your team developed or put out in the Classics line, introduced it as well in Revelation! Love Clamp Champ!
The Guru creating a Thirst Trap Thumbnail with Action Figures... respect.
NAH! That's the alt cover to a MOTU fan fic romance novel he wrote.
I passed on getting Clamp Champ in the 80s, I felt he didn’t have much play value, most of the characters in the later run of the MOTU had inbuilt gimmicks (superpowers ?) he felt very plain, his clamp easily could have been sold separately or packed in with He Man. I also spotted the re-use of the chest armour at the time, that played a factor in me not buying the figure.
Not even talking about the He-Bro meme, I've seen my share of 80s kids on facebook MOTU groups claim that they used him as He-Man's successor.
Like, they'd have He-Man die and then give his gear to Clamp Champ, essentially making him the new He-Man. I've seen like 3 or 4 different people independently claim they did this as kids. Popular custom in the Origins fandom too, even I do it! (I have two He-Mans, one of which I repainted into Wun-Dar, so I give THAT He-Man's weapons and harness to Raenius). I call him He-Champ.
Thoughts?
I seen people mostly strip his armor off for some reason lol
This may explain why one of the vintage Clamp Champs I eBayed (for a custom I never put together) came with a blue He-Man armor I hadn't seen before. (Dark blue with He-Man's red St. Andrew's(?) cross.)
one of my holy grails from MattyC, I missed him as I was abroad, when he came out..but at least, we have another chance w/ Revelations
Classics did a lot for this Character. He has a great story.
His armor and main accessory were always among my pet favorites!
Another great video once you all done you need to put them on DVD
Clamp Champ always looked like a bad ass character to me. I didn't even care about his race nor ethnicity. He was just another Master of the Universe, and at this time that I am collecting Origins figures, I'm on the hunt for him at Walmart or Target.
I'm glad you didn't focus on his skin color. So many companies and the media especially obsess over skin color now like it's the most important and only thing that matters. It's really unhealthy.
Was my fav figure. Got him on sale at kay b toys when the motu were being discontinued
He’s a good character, well written at the end to clean up his story. Looks good on the shelf with the rest of the origins on the card back.
Very much so
Clamp Champ was one of the MOTU figures I specifically remember having back in the day, so I was happy to get his Origins figure.
I wish the character "Garn" from the "Tale of two Cities" from the filmation series was produced for the classics line, he was a lethal character.
I love this character. I have my Classics set up in little "Teams". Clamp is in Team Asskicker along with Battle Armor He-Man, Fisto, Ram-Man, Battleground Teela and....Stratos (every team needs someone to pick on). His name is goofy; I like to think he was an arena fighter before taking up heroics.
Sounds like an awesome team!
Too bad the revelations show screwed him really bad
Well that was just in one telling of the story.I wouldn't say it is definate canon.he'll be back I'm sure of it.and if he lives in your own head canon that is legit as well
@@joemartin5669 oh yes just hoping another show will do him justice plus I'm disappointed a masterverse figure of him wasn't announced yet
In the end isnt everything restored?
Please say you aren’t saying or even implying that anti Heman is considered black in the way that we are considering Clamp Champ?
Watch the Anti-Eternia He-Man/German audiobook video. There’s a story behind it.
It was a joke, i dont think it was meant to be a serious comment.
Who were the other black characters available when he was released? I think it's a stretch to say there were a lot or even a few. I can't think of a single one before him and the images you show in the video aren't from the original lineup so don't really back up your point. Weird corner to argue when it seems pretty clear they wanted to add some diversity and representation to the lineup.
Yeah I dont recall other black characters either. At least not in the toyline. And yeah characters need to be interesting but diversity doesnt hurt.
@@jamespaul6315 I'm honestly bemused by the need to argue this wasn't what it was in this video. It's not a negative thing at all, even when you are crowbarring it in because you acknowledge you are lacking.
They had some missed opportunities between the mini-comics and Filmation series to add diversity. Garn from Filmation could have 3 figures as he was a citizen and gladiator in two different episodes and referred to as “king” in another. Garn from mini-comics was Native American based.
Exactly! There were damn near 0 but closeted racists love to pretend that 1 token is more then enough to solidify them not being racist. Which is ironic considering that mentality proves just how racist they probably are to be able to put an "acceptable" limit on minorities or to just plain pretend minorities don't exist or face inequality altogether. 😒
Clamp trap will make a good token to my collection.
Love the origins figure. Hope we get to see him in masterverse to pair up with fisto. Wish they got like an episode more of screen time in revelations.
So many thoughts about the mythos of this character/figure. And after watching this video I added another thought to that list. I guess I'm one those who thought he was plain and passed up on him. That stays with you and it's hard to shake. I guess I didn't "get" him. Guess I didn't understand the clamp gimmick.
Next time:Ya got me. I'm stumped. I have no idea who or what is next.
I always thought Clamp Champ looked a little too old. He's not a bad sculpt....but he looks easily twice as old as He-man, if not older.
Still a great figure, though.
The toy does indeed look older
6:22 I'm always a fan of extra head
I like Clamp Champ a lot. He is a great figure in every way.
True that
He turned out real good.I found a way to use the staction loincloth and hoses to add even more uniqueness to my figure.one of the better classic figures the line made.
I did the same exact thing
Who's the black private fig that's clamping onto all the chicks?
Champ!
You're damn right
(someone had to do it)
They say this champ is a bad mutha SHUT YOU MOUTH!I'm just talking about champ!he's a complicated man and the only one who knows him is his butterfly woman!Champ!
Origins Clamp Champ is peg warmer at my TRU. They've had a stack of them there for a year.
You should what Scott's video "A-list characters peg warming" ..... I would say that Mattel wants Clamp Champ to peg-warm for representation .
Here are some reasons why I think that :
- the figure was produced a lot to the fact that he is rather unknown
- he was one of the first figures
- you can find him everywhere at least 2 times in a store
I think Clamp Champ as a character is awesome , but I'm not a big fan of the 2 heads of the origins figure ... the MOTU Classics head looks much better . I'm from Germany and you can find here him in every store , even little toy stores got him many times since the release . Strange thing is that Clamp Champ was in some stores even the first figure ever for many months before they had He-man and Skeletor . Beleave it or not , but I was in stores that had him over 10 times on the shelf .
I recently bought Origins Clamp Champ just because I thought he was cool - no other reason. I just watched this video a few days after my purchase. I initially was just going to pass on the figure; I'm glad I got one now :)
Nice. Glad the video shed some light on his coolness
Hey Scott, I would love to see a Songster video. Was he ever in the classics road map?
See the 2016 vidéo!
@@spectorcreative1872 I really enjoyed the 2016 videos thanks for all the information!!!!!!
Appreciate the history video, but it still feels as though Clamp Clamp was an afterthought in the original toy line especially when you consider that Sun Man (who was an unrelated property at the time, yet created in a MOTU-esque style) was produced before Clamp's introduction by about a year. Seems like he was quick and low cost response to get sales away from the competitor.
I would love to see some kind of video that gets into your personal headspace when it comes to MOTU Lore. I mean, do you still see a difference between what 'old school classic' lore is, vs. 'What you created yourself for Classics?'
I mean, the names you created, the ideas you pushed... the backgrounds and connnections... Now with Revelatiosn and Netflix, it's gone from a kind of 'fan fiction you wrote yourself in your spare time' to 'multi-media forms canon'. I think we're going to see a lot more of some of your contributions now, than we are 'two halves of the sword to open the jawbridge/Skeletor cloned sorceress to make teela/Cave of Power etc. etc.' that "I" grew up with.
For example in this video you made a commment about how Clamp Champ is 'more than just the Black one'... but really, anything added to him outside of 'New head on reused body' pretty much came from you. One minicomic didn't give kids much insight into how 'cool' he was and he was never in any cartoon unitl 2020... So really 'The Black one' was all we had. Nobody else until classics.... So yeah, it's hard not to see him as the 'token'.
Basically, how does it feel to see your depictions and stuff being accepted as a modern canon and outliving 'Classics'? or is it all just 'MOTU' now to you? Do you still see the stuff on screen and say 'Ohhh I did that!! That was mine!!'
I have a stupid question... I believe I have an answer but when I went to verify I'm correct I couldn't find it answered anywhere online to confirm... "The original" on the front of classics figures are reprints of a figure in the line? Are there any differences in the figures besides the red around he-mans eyes? I have 10 figures and none of them have "the original" on them but some others I'm looking at now have both options more often.
Correct. When a fig says « the original » it is the second release
I really wish I could get some of the Universe Classics figs but the aftermarket prices are steep.
I always liked Clamp Champ. The giant mechanism attached to his arm and sharing armor with Fisto made me think they came from similar backgrounds.
And then I can’t block out what Kevin Smith & crew did to both characters in Revelations.
Well maybe the prices will come down now that the 40th he man body has been introduced?
@@spectorcreative1872 We can only hope. That new 40th He-Man looks good. Just waiting for the preorder to drop.
I had never even heard of this character until MOTU Classics.
I only watched the Filmation series, so if they weren't in the show, most likely I won't know who they are.
Yeah filmation didn’t need to do anything mattel said
Always felt that Fisto's, Clamp Champ's and even Jitsu and Spikor being Similar or the same meant they came from the same warrior or battle school. Would be a more interesting story if you ask me that if The Clamp Champ was supposed to replace his hand like all the others and be stuck in one fighting style. Then decided not to because there is no WAY but WAY. For all those Bruce Lee fans out there know what I am talking about.
Hey it could have been!
He was the token black guy in the original line from the 80's ......
Just like Lando was for SW in the 80's ........
I would say Lando was not a token character because the role was big and well written .
@@paluxyl.8682 What does the success of his character have to do with him being casted/written as black for the sake of diversity? Do you even know what a token means?
@@rupturefarms21 A token character is someone who is in a group , does not much important stuff and in some case says nothing .
Lando on the other hand has done a lot things like betray Han Solo , rescued Luke while hanging at Bespin and he has even destroyed the second Deatstar .
Princess Leia was the only female , would you call her also a token character ?
@@paluxyl.8682 You're making up your own definition for what you want tokenism to be. And yes Leia could be considered a token from a main character perspective but there were roughly 38 females in the original trilogy. How many black people aside from Lando and james earl jones voice were there? How many black background and side characters?
@@rupturefarms21 There was more black actors in the original trilogy than you think , for example Femi Taylor (Oola) or Willrow Hoods (aka the Ice Cream Man) .
You should watch the youtube video ..... Star Wars: Return of the Jedi - Rebel Briefing .......... just take a look who sits next to Leia .
It is a shame you don't get royalties for all the fleshing out of characters you did while on classics.
i remember i got him for origins when my first order for man e faces didn't come thru
Yeah they got him out super fast
My photo at the 9:43 mark. (With my watermark cropped out) 🙄
That is awesome! If you let me know your credits and can add to the description
Is he modeled after OJ Simpson? He seems to have the Buffalo Bills colors.
Hey Scott, how do you feel about the recent MOTU Origins leak? There's one from the same group of leakers out of Brazil who've been accurate on previous leaks saying there's a wave being solicited that features: Kobra Khan(a photo has leaked already of him), Gwildor, and...
Spector
An April Fool's or legit? We could be seeing an Origins Spector reveal in the not too distant future.
Wait seriously? That would be awesome.
@@spectorcreative1872 The leak was posted in a few facebook groups the other day. The same leak also has Masterverse Roboto, Frosta, another Revelation Evil-Lyn, and something called Anniversary Skeletor(a 40th Skeletor?).
06:24
that's what she said
not one of your better takes, but by no means surprising.
We shouldn’t judge fictional characters on the Color of there skin but buy A good character.
Lando in Skiff costume was cool to me! I got him in all the lines ever released for star wars. Hes perfect for Jabbas palace
Humm...
Thinking...
Name: Pock-Ett
Title: Evil Thief Working For Skeletor
Mod: Take Rio Blast, remove the guns. New head.
Lore: Pock-Ett is a sneak thief who was caught inside Snake Mountain one day. He was frightened that the evil warriors were going to kill him that he offered his services to Skeletor. Using his special spacial armor, he can hide his Ill gotten loot from search. He can't make the Sword of He fit into the armor's pockets.
Make it happen Mattel!
Clamp Champ and Fisto got screwed over in Revelations.
And their souls got destroyed!
Some also believe that he served as Randors Guards than made elite guard than championed his way to the the kings court as clamp champ..thus the extra head on guard two pack.....from classics
Hey that works!
I like Clamp Champ more than Sun Man and both are awesome
Greaat video! Thank you! As a kid, I was always happy to get more characters in the MOTU line, and Clamp Champ was a fun one who I enjoyed. He turned out great in Classics, too! Seeing the Staction makes me ponder how I would go about customising his weaponry and backpack with pneumatic hoses, though.
Speaking of which, there's a very cool video from last year here on CZcams detailing how to make a working, pneumatically-powered Clamp Champ Power Clamp. If you haven't seen it yet, here's where you can see it: czcams.com/video/dJNfgvhfSFU/video.html
Sorry but he was the token Black man for the series in the 80s
Teela ends up romantically with Clamp Champ not Prince Adam
No.
She likes BBC!
Clamp Champ made sure he didn't miss his Protein Shakes!
No he didn’t
I love that thumbnail of Teela hanging on Clamp Champ. Hey, he never lied to her (as far as we know).
People get so ticked off whenever Clanp Chanp shows up uh a line.
One of the few black characters in MOTU, unceremoniously, brutally killed in Kevin Smith's reboot...
I think they restored everything by the end right!
And his soul was destoryed
@@spectorcreative1872 i thought it was all restored?
Revelation is a blur 🤣🤣🤣
I have blocked it out
Why would Sunman "pay homage" to Clamp Champ? Clamp Champ came out 2 years after Sunman was created! So Clamp Champ should be paying homage to Sunman. 🥴
I never liked the hump back he was given in Classics. I have no idea what that lump thing on his back is for. The face sculpt looked so old and ugly in Classics too. I much prefer his vintage and 200X face. He was one of the few Classics figures where I felt the sculpt was way off.
Exactly!
As a young black kid I always hated the fact there was a world full of people, monsters, creatures, robots and yet there was only 1 black guy? There was even two asians!
She ra followed suit as well with one black female.
Glad now we have many more
I think you are a racist. Why would you not like white characters? There is no sense to have a black character in a Viking scene. Don’t worry to much about skin colour.
If you don’t care, why are they no black people in Israel? 👃🏼
Imagine spending half of your video on Snout Spout trying to get us to forget he's an elephant for some reason. A character being cool and a character being the line's token black character aren't mutually exclusive. I mean, Lando was cool as all hell. Doesn't make him NOT the token black guy.
Well Mace Windu, Finn, …
Exactly! Closeted racists use that tactic all the time. They also put a number on how many minorities are acceptable (which is usually 1 or 2 for them) and then they like to pretend someone's color doesn't exist as if it's something bad that has to be ignored. Also did you notice how he pretended that Clamp champ came first when Sunman was created in 1985 which is 2 years prior? 😒
I like Clamp Champ looking more barbarian like the earlier waves of figures. The only thing I don't like is his actual clamp. Seems a lame weapon. What can you do with that? Clamp one person then......? Seems useless really in a battle. I always gave him a mace.
...and then revelations makes him a part of the wu tang clan.
You got the Clap?
No, I got the Clamp!
The best STD!
The Masters of the U/niverse? 😉
according to my girlfriend clanp champ is the reponsable to bring soul music to eternia
Sure Mr. White Man
Huh?
It’s ok to not care about race.
It's always "OK not to care about race" when you're white and don't have to face racism. It's easy to ignore race when your race is the majority race in the brand/property.
I also find it annoying when people bang on about the race of characters. Real minority inclusion happens naturally, and when it's not always scrutinized and drawn attention to. *Clam Champ is black, big deal.* He's just another character. Whiplash is green, Clawful is red.
I mean you are thinking about it from your point of view. You dont think it would be nice for black kids, asian kids etc to see people who look like them in the mix too? Every kid deserves that and not to feel left out. That doesnt mean that skin color should be the only or even main defining trait, but if you look at it from someone elses perspective not your own, you will see it has value.
@@jamespaul6315 *Nope. You my friend are 100% wrong.* We need to educate society to stop dwelling on the concept of skin colour as an identity badge. It's a destructive and divisive ideal invented by racists, which benefits no one but hate ridden types on both wings of politics. *I don't need to see myself on screen to be inspired by the art, and nor should anyone else.* I enjoy old Godzilla movies for example. The entire cast of those movies is Japanese. I'm a white guy. How can I feel included in those movies? *I don't need to, because the movie is not about me.* Modern people need to leave their ego wagons at the door when they engage in entertainment. Black people, white people, asians or anyone should learn to appreciate other human characters, regardless of their colour. "Representation", "Inclusion" and "Positive discrimination" are just as bad as the racism they claim to be a solution to. *End.*
@@The_Cosmic_Yog-Sothoth godzilla isnt about the human characters. Let me guess youre a fairly average white guy right? So most media in the west has characters who look like you- so when minorities tell you it means a lot to see themselves represented why cant you just listen? Can you really not stand the idea that some characters might not be physically like you?
@@jamespaul6315 Read what I said last time, and stop falling into the woke leftist trap, and becoming an actual racist yourself. Only racists worry about race and care about race. I have no issue with characters being different skin colours, so long as it's kept consistent through the franchise. I have no problem watching shows where the majority of the cast is black. It simply is not a factor we should be worrying about in this day and age. But I do not buy the idea of "I need to see myself on screen". That is abject nonsense, and pandering to millennial egotists, who cannot put their own self absorbed identity politics to the side for 2 seconds, in order to enjoy something. Entire cast white? Entire cast black? Mix of the 2? *STOP CARING.*
@@The_Cosmic_Yog-Sothoth You're a typical delusional racist who's comfortable not allowing minorities to emphasize on race in media because your race is the one that is always emphasized in media and jammed down everyone's throats. It's easy to falsely claim you don't need inclusion when you're already included in everything. 🤡
I'm not a huge fan of Clamp Champ, he's rather bland to me. I'm neutral.
I liked the classics figure, but I certainly didn' t love it.
I really like his colors scheme - silver and blue.
I like his clamp gimmick, but it's unfortunate because the classics buck was showing its age by this point after so many characters.
The lack of wrist hinges, no butterfly joints, no rocker ankles etc, it really limited your ability to pose and play and really enjoy the clamp gimmicks.
You could basically just pose him with the clamp extended in front of him.
It was boring.
Not a bad figure, but not great.
He grows on you
Diversity not only matters, but it also creates new market possibilities when new target audiences might develop more interest in a franchise when they see themselves reflected on its products. It's no coincidence that a mother created Sun Man for her kid. There's no racial diversity in the MOTU/POP franchise the way they were portrayed in the 80s, there's no problem in admitting it. It's important to notice those mistakes so they won't be repeated. If you're already creating a racially diverse world with people with blue, green, purple skin.... why not black? And whenever there was a black person it was a less than secondary character, like a random soldier in Randor's army, the Eternian architect or Netossa, which no one will remember unless they're a hardcore fan. Sorry dude, Clamp Champ is a token black character and one that didn't even get to be properly used in the content.
But Scott, todays market comprises of three kinds of people.
1. The ones who put emphasis on a character regardless of skin color, gender, religion, shoe size.
2. The ones who ONLY care about skin color, and yes, both extremes are equally bad.
3. The ones buying other stuff.
Absolute WORST head sculpt in the line! hes the only figure that Ive never had in my cabinet from MOTUC!
#drugs
Really? Worse then Spector?
@@spectorcreative1872 LOL, I was one of the defenders of 95% of Spector in the Borg! and when he arrived I loved him..... the ONLY thing I truly hated was the Spade...Too Terrestrial for me. always meant to get one of the Faces from the GID rings put over it! lol
But Yeah.....I was on your side on him! Hes a great, fun figure...aside from the spade!
Clampchamp is not a good character gimick and design is not cool at all lol and yes he was a token character no matter. What they say 😄 but that is. Fine it is a world set up on a barbarian theme
I thought he was corny looking and honestly dont remember him in the cartoons. I only bought and still buy figures for Nostalgia
@@robd1329 he never. Appeared on the show only on mini comic never grabbed my attention as a kid because his design and dumb weapon ... 🙄 now days I will buy it if he makes it in to the masterverse line because they make figures very well he is one of. The new core masters and The token one even tho Mr guru say it is not lol
@@culeroconnor1686 ahh..no wonder i never bothered to but this figure in any of the lines
I'm going to pass on clamp champ and sunman because they are low characters if you ask me I don't remember clam champ back in the cartoon in the 80s and who is Sun man and these other characters now I don't remember them either looks like a raisin minute maid package
WOKE
U say in the beginning about CC being black and not to make a quota. But it was to make a quota and in an attempt to appease blacks. Thats why he was made to be a good guy. Why wasn't he a Skeletor minion?? Ahaaa precisely because i am right. Lastly, why dont u have any Jew characters? After all youre trying not to be racist and satisfy the minorities...
The main reason why Masters got no jewish characters is the fact that on Eternia other religions exits (or none religions) . On Eternia lives only just one person from the earth ... Queen Marlena (Marlena Glenn) , we don't know much about her religion .
But what about the asians ??? ........ wait a second Jitsu and Ninjor are Skeletors minions .
@@paluxyl.8682 Sure Jitsu is Asia but Asians dont play race cards 🤓
Well there is no Judaism or Christianity or Islam on Eternia
@@spectorcreative1872 u dont know that. He Man is, "The most powerful man in the universe" right? So hes a man, right?