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He-Man was basically my religion when I was a young kid, I watched the cartoons obsessively and had a ton of hand-me-down toys and sets because while I was born in 81 the cartoon was still on TV throughout the 80s and I had two older brothers that were into it when they were a little younger so the toys were in my hands since as long as I could remember. All my fellow kids were into it too and our elementary school even had this giant poster of He-Man with a speech balloon they'd change out to say like "I HAAAVE THE POOOWWER....to [thing obedient good kids should do]!" And I was even into She-Ra also because it was more people with magic weapons battling robot skeleton wizard monster poo poo fuuuuuuck yessssss I hadn't really thought about it much since beyond laughing at Skeletor/He-Man memes, but that poo poo was always awesome to me. And I think it definitely contributed to me getting into fantasy and sci-fi stuff in general as I got older too. So I figured they were going for pure campiness when I saw the trailers for this one which is fine. What little we saw of the new She-Ra was really really good so we gave this a chance and it just immediately grabbed us. I really like how it leaned into the weird sci-fi/fantasy mix and sort of dark fantasy territory setting and all those other elements that were kinda sorta in the cartoon but not really while still having tons of stupid puns. Especially the way the second episode opened up and the way Tri-Klops was rolling around almost gave me like a Book of the New Sun vibe. Like they just did such a fantastic job taking all of the exact stuff and basic characterization there was in the old cartoon and actually moving it forward well without actually losing anything from the original. Genuinely impressive stuff. It would have been really easy to fall into the trap of making this too dark or boring but they struck a perfect balance with it, and it was so awesome to see characters like Orko especially actually move forward. And it was really cool how they made use of so many of the unused/little used figures and concepts to do that and to deal with questions we had as a kid like whey doesn't Adam just tell Teela that he's He-Man and so on. I remember a lot of the figures I had were basically figure-only characters that never actually appeared in the cartoon and always watching it thinking "okay maybe ____ will actually show up now," so it was even a great treat to see some of those show up in the show especially the legendary Scare Glow AND he's voiced by Tony Todd? I remember seeing ads for the figure but never had one myself I mean it's a big skeleton dude and it glows in the dark! Like even just seeing the ads made it stick in my mind  That was almost a cooler than the Preternia stuff. I like how the Andra character is written like she's totally going to be a future champion too with her often being the pun-maker and doing a lot of the sudden corny goody good dialog and actions He-Man was doing in the original show. Neo Rasa fucked around with this message at 16:18 on Jul 26, 2021 |
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I remember being insanely jealous of my friend having the TMNT slime one, I would buy slime out of those gumball machines all the time as a kid lol
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Mikl posted:Finished watching the new MOTU yesterday. Yeah I'm expecting that character to forget her own talk and try to work with Skeletor as an equal or/and have some ambitious machination of her own that Skeletor doesn't want to hear about causing her to leave or and be working against him while still posing as his ally. Orko will definitely of course be involved in her leaving him for good somehow. thrawn527 posted:I didn't remember that plot point at all, and at that moment I still said, "Oh, so she's Teela's mom?" Same here, just as soon as that interaction happened we were both like "when will they have Teela realize she's the the Sorceress' daughter"
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Jul 28, 2021 13:22
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say the world will be saved because of Lyn turning against Skeletor at a critical moment.
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tsob posted:
Reminds of that particular fan film He-Man more like HGH-Man amirite https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK5Orcd0RNo
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