He-Man, and also the Masters of the Universe

Badgertron

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I picked up Battle Cat-Man (The most Powerful Cat in the Universe) at Target yesterday.

I like him. Very cool figure. The included comic is a hair odd. Good art. (There's one spot where the word balloons are either misplaced or badly designed)

The story is just a bit confusing in a continuity sense. The Thundercats parts seems to take place in their original Cartoon continuity referencing events from the later part of the show (The Tower of Omens, the Thundercats defeating Mum-Ra and moving from Third Earth to New Thundara) and the He-man stuff looks at first like it's the same way starting with what seems like Normal Eternia and Normal Skeletor doing normal Skeletor stuff (summoning Mum-Ra's pyramid via an ancient spell book).

The pyramid appears before him BUT ALSO at the same time Skeletor's world is pulled into the Thundercat's Space/Universe/Dimension as the planet materializes in space in the path of Lion -O's space ship just after he's had a vision of Tyra captured in the Black Pyramid. The Thundercats (Lion-O, Cheetara, and Panthro) crash on the newly appeared planet and are immediately met by He-man and his companion Battle Cat-Man, a Thundercat who recognizes Lion-O and the sword (the package says Battle Cat-man crashed on He-Man's world after the destruction of Thundara and now protects his adapted home). BCM welcomes them to Third Eternia. They set off to rescue Tygra while Skeletor says the Mum-ra thing and becomes Skel-Ra the Everliving.

Soooo... I guess the spell that summoned the Black Pyramid to Skeletor also merged Eternia into the Thundercats world making it Third Eternia and replacing Cringer-Battle Cat with the Thundarian Kal-El Battle Cat-Man? I guess. It's a mini comic and not the best written one ever so the events of the plot are all a bit vague.

I would like to see other characters in this merger. Zoar as a humanoid Falcon-Woman would be cool. Slythe as a Snake man. I'd also really like a Bengali and Kit and Kat (but since they weren't on the Space Ship I guess they're not gonna be in this story)


-ZacWilliam, and what are we even doing here if we don't get a Snarf/Orko merger.
How does he look standing next to S7 Thundercats, if you have them?
 

Daith

I’m not dead yet!
Citizen
So I'm curious here. Has no one here talked about the Snake Lair crowdfund finally going live again? Are we against it?

Honestly for the price they want I understand completely. 300 is steep for what seems to be a slightly better playset than Grayskull or Snake Mountain. Not to mention the addition of S&H.
 

Platypus Prime

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Citizen
I wouldn't worry about if anyone else is for or against it, I'd preorder it if you like it and can afford it. I won't because I can't afford it (though I do like it a great deal). It's the lack of money and space for me, same reason I don't have a Snake Mountain or Fright Zone. I think the playset itself is awesome.
 

ZacWilliam1

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I would buy it for $90 to $140 at retail. I can't justify $300 backing it.

-ZacWilliam, Also I don't know what I can do with it. I have no place to display the 6ish He-man bases I already have.
 

Platypus Prime

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Citizen
I do wish I could get a Fright Zone for one weird thing. I have no connection to it or what it's about except knowing it's the Hoard base, but I took one look at it and thought the modern remake would be a great Mumm-Ra tomb.
 

ZacWilliam1

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Citizen
I think the only pre-existing He-man base-thing I'd like them to do at this point is the Slime Pit. I LOOOVED that thing as a kid.

-ZacWilliam, that's the one left that I'd feel like I have to buy.
 

LBD "Nytetrayn"

Broke the Matrix
Staff member
Council of Elders
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Isn't the Snake Lair a much more limited crowdfunded production run than the mass retail release of Castle Grayskull and stuff?

As for bases, I'd love to see that cartoon-accurate version of the Fight Zone they were showing off.

Not that I'd be able to get it, but I'd love to see it. And if my fortune ever takes a serious upswing, buy it someday.

Not a base, but I'm surprised we still haven't seen an Attack-trak. I feel like it was one of the most common vehicles on the show!
It was, but besides the wheels, it looked virtually nothing like the toy.

Which, strangely enough for "half-hour toy commercials," was the style at the time.
 

Platypus Prime

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Citizen
I loved the Slime Pit! The only problem is that modern Origins figures have so many little joints that would probably not play nice with the goo. Likely, the slime pit would come with clip on green slime effects, rather than actual slime, though I'd be in favor of that anyway, seeing as running out of slime was a constant issue (I really did overuse it).
 


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