Mattel MOTU Chronicles Movie Figures

Reefer Shark said:
Dammit.... I bought a chronicles He-Man and Battle Cat. I wasn't going to do this line... ughhh

Im going to try my hardest to just stick with He-Man & Skeletor... .but that Trap Jaw looks really great too... God dammit.
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I feel like an insane person too. I'm selling off all of my Masterverse but keeping my Origins and have got all the Chronicles stuff so far.
 
Poe Ghostal said:
I feel like an insane person too. I'm selling off all of my Masterverse but keeping my Origins and have got all the Chronicles stuff so far.
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It's been a constant battle in my head.... "sell the Origins, and keep the Masterverse? Only keep the main players & castle for Origins, sell the Masterverse? Vice Versa? Or Sell it all and start anew?"

So now Im in freeze mode with way too many MOTU action figures, it's completely ridiculous.
 
Reefer Shark said:
It's been a constant battle in my head.... "sell the Origins, and keep the Masterverse? Only keep the main players & castle for Origins, sell the Masterverse? Vice Versa? Or Sell it all and start anew?"

So now Im in freeze mode with way too many MOTU action figures, it's completely ridiculous.
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So I got into "fantasy" as a genre in 1994, excluding the year or two I was into He-Man as a kid. I went Star Wars > He-Man > Transformers > TMNT, then a brief foray back into Transformers, and then my father gave me a copy of Lord of the Rings while buying me my first set of Magic the Gathering cards after reading about them in Time or Newsweek or whatever, and I was all about fantasy fiction for the next decade.

MOTU came back around for me (like most of us) when the Four Horsemen (who I was very aware of as a big McFarlane/Movie Maniacs fan who spent a lot of time on the Spawn Board) started the 200X line for Mattel. They'd noticed me as an early booster of theirs on the forums and so I got to visit their studio when they were still working on the MOTU 200X prototypes.

What I find kind of crazy is that MOTU has never really gone away since then. There was a pause between 200X and MOTUC, and an even briefer pause between MOTUC and Origins/Masterverse (since Super7 mostly kept that torch going, and still does to this day), but otherwise MOTU has been around ever since.

I do think that Ground Zero for all of these licenses making their comeback was that October 2000 issue (#111) of Wizard with a feature called "Big 80s" about the idea of new comics based on classic '80s toylines. I still adore the art Ed McGuinness made for that issue.

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Ha, back then, Wizard actually did have an influence on this culture, didn't they? It's always interesting to see how fellow collectors have evolved with this stuff! I remember seeing the first "Masters of the Universe" toy commercial way back before the toys and show ere out with a neighborhood buddy while were playing with our SW & Joe figures. We were like "what are those weird big figures, anything outside of 3 3/4" was completely foreign and weird to us. But by the time the show came out, were already converted and into it, mixing our huge warriors with the silly little space guys and GI-Joes. Good stuff, miss those days!
 
Reefer Shark said:
Ha, back then, Wizard actually did have an influence on this culture, didn't they? It's always interesting to see how fellow collectors have evolved with this stuff! I remember seeing the first "Masters of the Universe" toy commercial way back before the toys and show ere out with a neighborhood buddy while were playing with our SW & Joe figures. We were like "what are those weird big figures, anything outside of 3 3/4" was completely foreign and weird to us. But by the time the show came out, were already converted and into it, mixing our huge warriors with the silly little space guys and GI-Joes. Good stuff, miss those days!
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Heh - here's photographic evidence I did the same!

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Dude that is so awesome - hell yeah! God i wish I had a pic like that, hold on to that thing!

Editing to say - god damn that carpet is awesome! 70's & 80's style at it's finest! :ROFLMAO:
 
God, the 80's were so good. The toys, the cartoons, the movies, the music, the styles, the tech, the NES, the carpet. We had it all.

I was born in 82. I am almost pissed I wasn't born in 1979 so I could enjoy the ENTIRE 80's

But that is such a great picture Poe. The epidemy of the 80's and just sitting down on the floor playin' some toys. Good times.
 
The 80s were fucking *terrible*. Reagan and Thatcher with their twin reigns of terror, a culture of greed and narcissistic behavior being legitimized, “yuppies”, massive regressive conservatism, many things initiated then that are coming to fruition in our current sociopolitical hellscape.

Great pop culture stuff, though.
 
It's a hard line to walk.. loving all of this stuff from my childhood that literally ONLY exists because of the rampant greed of the '70s and '80s. Finding ways to skirt around the law specifically to market toys to children through 30 minute cartoon-commercials. They got away with it. And I'm STILL addicted to these brands. It's probably not a good thing.
 
I’m just at “jokes on you, boomer capitalist shitheads, I ingested everything you tossed at me but made it weird and Inclusive and kind and queer as fuck in my head and there’s not a damn thing you can do about it, fuckers”.
 
AceofKnaves said:
The 80s were fucking *terrible*. Reagan and Thatcher with their twin reigns of terror, a culture of greed and narcissistic behavior being legitimized, “yuppies”, massive regressive conservatism, many things initiated then that are coming to fruition in our current sociopolitical hellscape.

Great pop culture stuff, though.
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The 80's also gave us incredible music, the very best (though I may be biased as those were my formative years).

Damien said:
It's a hard line to walk.. loving all of this stuff from my childhood that literally ONLY exists because of the rampant greed of the '70s and '80s. Finding ways to skirt around the law specifically to market toys to children through 30 minute cartoon-commercials. They got away with it. And I'm STILL addicted to these brands. It's probably not a good thing.
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I'll take those 30 minute commercials over the ADD drivel they have kids watch these days. I feel like the 90's was where good kids cartoons went to either grow up or die.
 
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