… I have no good explanation for this. It’s He-Man, in space, with windblown hair. Figure that out.
yellowbananaslug asked:
… I have no good explanation for this. It’s He-Man, in space, with windblown hair. Figure that out.
Here’s another MOTU contest guy. This one’s all me.
Long story short, he’s basically naked.
yellowbananaslug asked:
A lot of people hated those characters, glad they were ghettoized, and aren’t happy at the prospect of more.
We live in a wonderful age, an age in which no one tells us to put away our childish things. This makes us think these things never stopped being for us. Take the latest Ninja Turtles movie, for example. It was not a movie for the 30-to-35-year-olds who grew up with the ‘80s cartoon. That’s why if you were one of those many thousands of people across the Internet who posted things like, “They ruined my childhood!” after seeing so much as a trailer, well, I’m so, so sorry to break it to you, but that movie has absolutely nothing to do with your childhood. Adult you watched a kids movie and thought it was stupid. A kid will watch it and think it’s the most spectacular thing they’ve ever seen.
Eon Quest Graphic Novel - The spirit of action figure mini-comics from the 80s is reborn with a modern twist in a new graphic novel. - http://kck.st/1bLoC9m
So, I made a comic book! It’s inspired by mini-comics and action figure lines from the 80s like Masters of the Universe. It’s called Eon Quest. It’s all done, but I’ve launced a Kickstarter to get it printed! I’m really proud of the way it came together, and I hope you’ll check it out!
THIS IS MY FRIEND’S KICKSTARTER, YOU SHOULD ALL GO LOOK AT IT AND STUFF AND THEN PLEDGE OR WHATEVER
nailed that sales pitch
When some friends and I were trawling through an action figure archive, one of us noticed that like 80% of Mattel’s Demolition Man movie tie-in line was made up of reused molds from The New Adventures of He-Man series… including He-Man himself being remolded into Sylvester Stallone.
Obviously, this means Mattel needs to do Sly in Masters of the Universe Classics, because after you’ve got an evil musclebound purple rabbit-man themed around pollution in your line-up, it’s not like things can ever get less weird.
So I’m sorting our incomplete He-Man figures today and cataloging them, and I find a She-Ra “Double Trouble” figure. She uses the same face-changing gimmick as Man-E-Faces, and is the Rebellion’s “double agent”. Okay.
So here’s her “good face”.

And here is her “evil face”.

Yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyeah.
“Is that one of the Rebellion’s warriors?! … wait, no, she’s slightly annoyed-looking. Well! You must be one of our most trusted allies then! Come on in, let me give you some vital Horde secrets!”
President Ronald Reagan waves the paw of a stuffed kitty cat. Scan from The Clothes Have No Emperor: A Chronicle of the American ’80s.
Defenders of the Earth was a Marvel Productions cartoon of the ’80s that brought together characters from three King Features Syndicate comic strips - Lee Falk’s The Phantom and Mandrake the Magician, plus Alex Raymond’s Flash Gordon - to create a “brand new” group of world-saving, alien-beating adventurers. A friend once described it as a show that teamed “your grandpa’s favorite superheroes” together; not only is this an apt description for a cartoon that starred characters who first collectively hit newspaper comic pages in the 1930s, but the observation might explain Stan Lee’s apparent enthusiasm for the project. Lee, at the time part of Marvel Productions out in California, not only wrote the first issue of Marvel’s DotE tie-in comic, but the (admittedly quite catchy) lyrics to the show’s themesong.
One thing that always struck me about Defenders of the Earth - aside from the somewhat random decision to make Ming the Merciless green - was a note that I spotted in the credits, which is reproduced above. “(This is 27th Phantom)”. For those who don’t know, the Phantom is a lineage-based adventure hero, with the mantle passed on from generation to generation to create the illusion of the Phantom being immortal. The note made me wonder: since DotE took place in the (nebulously established) future, did someone on the production staff sit down and work out the chronology of Phantoms-yet-to-come? Did Lee Falk, who was still alive at the time, make the call from on high?
The most fascinating thing about this note, though, came to me with hindsight. See, I was a regular watcher of another animated take on the Phantom franchise, Phantom 2040, which was produced in the ’90s. Phantom 2040 starred the 24th Phantom… which, I deduced, made the Phantom of Defenders of the Earth the grandson or great-grandson of the Phantom from Phantom 2040. This meant that I was watching a character whose descendant’s adventures were chronicled years before his own show was ever on the air.
With that, I had blown my own mind.
Then there was the time the early ’80s had a head-on collision with Peanuts.
There were no survivors.
My favorite queer-coded Disney princess.
(HRT = Human Rear Transformation)