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Hi, this is Larry Dottilio, writer for He -Man

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and Beast Wars, and you are listening to the

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Geekcast Radio Network. He -Man and the Masters

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of the Universe! I am Adam, Prince of Eternia

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and defender of the secrets of Castle Greyskull.

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This is Cringer, my fearless friend. Fabulous

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secret powers were revealed to me the day I held

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aloft my magic sword and said, By the power of

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Grayskull! Cringer became the mighty Battle Cat,

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and I became He -Man, the most powerful man in

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the universe. Only three others share this secret.

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Our friends, the Sorceress, Planet Arms, and

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Orko. Together, we defend Castle Greyskull from

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the evil forces of Skeletor. Hello and welcome

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to an all -new generation of the Powers of Greyskull

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series, as we get the origins of any and all

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Masters of the Universe fans that we can. This

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is our 135th episode, or chapter, or whatever

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you want to call it. Of course, I am one of your

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hosts, TFG and Micah, and joining me as always

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is... Optimus Solo. That's right. And today's

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guest for the origins, well, we're starting with

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ourselves. So instead of us asking the questions

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to each other... I have Skeletor here with us,

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and he's going to be asking the questions. So

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when you find folks are hearing this, you'll

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hear Skeletor ask us the questions, and then

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you'll hear us give the answers to the 30 questions

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we have for Masters of the Universe fans from

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all generations. Yes, even new adventures. So

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it's time we got into the Grayskull goodness

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and we're kicking it off with the first question.

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Take it away, Skeletor. Did you grow up with

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Motu? At what age do you remember first noticing

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the franchise? Well, of course I grew up with

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Masters of the Universe. What are you, crazy

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Skeletor? Because you're old. I was three. Huh?

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Because you're old. Yes, yes. I was three years

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old when the Filmation cartoon debuted. I know

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the toy line debuted a year earlier in 1982.

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We were both very young when this thing started.

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Yeah, I don't really have any memories pre -Transformers,

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pre -He -Man, or Transformers really, but especially

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He -Man. I do remember He -Man. being exposed

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to it before transformers. It was around since

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I was like one or two. So obviously I don't remember

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much from when I was one or two. So my earliest

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memories masters universe would have been part

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of, um, because we were already watching them.

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I had older cousins that was not just watching

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it, but also collecting the toys and things like

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that. So I remember going to their house and

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being exposed to the toys and then obviously

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having toys myself afterwards a little bit. So

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it's the earliest memories I have are masters

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of the universe. So at what age do I remember

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first noticing the franchise? Whenever my first

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memories existed, I would say for me around the

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sweet spot. And even though this is kind of sad,

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but. The sweet spot from my memory of watching

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it as a kid is probably close to when it actually

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ended, even though I didn't know it was ending.

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I kind of picked it up. I had the toys. I had

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the castle. I had all that stuff. But as far

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as watching the show as a kid, Syndication was

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the king in the 80s. It's not now, but it was

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then. And you could always catch an episode wherever.

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At some point or another, they always reran those

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because, you know, as long as you have 65, you've

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got 65 half hours you can rerun. And I remember

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watching it all the time. I remember, you know,

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like I said, I've said before on the show, basically

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breaking the Secret of the Sword VHS video because

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I rented it way too many times from the adventure

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and video store that we had had. So, yeah, I'd

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say somewhere around five, six. Yeah, I mean,

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that's obviously when most memories are forming.

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Four, five, six. So it's probably the same age

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for me. Give us the next question, Skeletor.

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Which Motu series have you watched in their entirety?

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Filmation, She -Ra, New Adventures, 2002, Netflix

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She -Ra, Revelation, live action movie. I think

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question two is just funny for us since we're

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doing this podcast. Yeah, I would say so. But

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there has been a lot of new stuff recently. So

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I guess when it comes to which ones have we watched

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in their entirety, everybody should know that

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we've seen all of the ones that we've done the

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podcast for, which would be the Filmation He

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-Man She -Ra New Adventures 2002. Plus Revelation.

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Yeah, but we didn't do an episode -by -episode

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review of that. No, and we were never going to.

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That's just too painful. What? I don't even know

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what that means. Revelation is incredible. No,

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I mean doing it episode by episode. Oh, I would

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do it. But anyways, so the Netflix She -Ra, The

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Revelation, and I guess there's another series

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that attaches a He -Man name to it, even though

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it's nothing to do with He -Man. Do it! Masters

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of the universe, all your power on me! We have

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the power. That would be the CGI Netflix. So

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which of those newer series have you seen all

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the way through? I've seen all the way through

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all of them, except as we're recording this,

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we're about a week away from season two of the

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CGI series on Netflix. So I've seen all of them.

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Okay, I need to catch up on the end of She -Ra,

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the Netflix She -Ra. I haven't seen the last

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little bit of that. I did watch the first two.

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How many seasons were there? Four? Five. I've

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seen the first three seasons, so I need to catch

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up on the last two seasons. I've seen all of

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Revelation twice, and I refuse to acknowledge

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that He -Man and the Masters of the Universe

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exist because it's just He -Man in name only.

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So it's whatever. We're going to agree to disagree

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on that, but... It's garbage. It's such a cash

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grab. Don't get me started on that bullshit.

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They just put He -Man on there so they can get

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some money. It should just be called whatever

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else other fantasy sci -fi name you want to throw

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out there. It should just be called whatever.

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Masters of the Realm or something stupid because

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the only reason they put He -Man on there was

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to get money. Anyway. Okay then. Skeletor, what

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say you for the next question? What Motu series

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is your series? And why? All right. Which one's

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mine? I mean, that's clearly the one I grew up

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with. So it's Filmation, He -Man, the original,

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the OG. But that's not to take away from anything

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else that's come after it. The only ones I despise

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are the New Adventures and the most recent one.

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And for me, Filmation will always have my heart.

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However, as an adult, I have to say 2002. 2002

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and Revelation for me are so neck and neck. They're

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so good, both of them. Yeah, 2002 is so good.

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And Revelation. No, it has too much Kevin Smith

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in it. You were singing us praises when we did

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the review for it. You've had a change of heart

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apparently recently. No, I was not. No, I was

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not. I was not seeing... I liked certain things,

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but there were also many things in there that

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like... The whole Kevin Smith and Evelyn thing.

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Skeletor and Evelyn thing. No, that was very

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Kevin. I can't believe you prefer the CG bullshit

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over the revelation. I don't. No, no, no. Okay,

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so I'll get into it since you said that. I didn't

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say I preferred it. What I said was. The new

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He -Man and the Masters of the Universe CGI cartoon

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from Netflix is to what I think kids of today's

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new, their new journey as to what Filmation was

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for us back in the 80s. There was nothing like

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He -Man before the Filmation cartoon. And that

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started us on this whole 30, 40, 50 year journey.

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I think the new CGI series is... Kids of this

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era is their version of that. That's what I said.

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I feel sorry for them. Anyways. My God. Skeletor,

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please. Give us the next question. What is your

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opinion on the other series? I mean, if I haven't

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made my opinion clear on what the other series

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are, I don't know what you guys have been listening

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to. But Filmation has got great moments. It's

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got some dud moment too, obviously. It was early

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on and it was what it was. It wasn't trying to

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be this continuity -based storytelling, which

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a lot of people prefer. So if you judge it on

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an episode -by -episode basis, which is how it

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was meant to be viewed, there's good episodes

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and there's bad episodes, just like every series.

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I kind of feel neutral to positive on Filmation,

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both He -Man and She -Ra. I think the New Adventures

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is an abomination. I think 2002 was phenomenal.

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If it would have been able to finish, it would

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have been the best series, but it wasn't able

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to. So for me, it's neck and neck with Revelation

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so far, which I'm waiting to see where they go

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from next. Yeah, Revelation has some bad moments

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as well, but overall it's really good. The visuals

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are fantastic. I think the characterizations

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are great. And I'm just looking forward to seeing

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where that goes. I think the Netflix She -Ra

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is good for what it is. I think that is what

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you would say is an introduction to kids of these

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days into that realm. And it is made for the

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youth of today. And I think that does a phenomenal

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job of still staying true to what He -Man actually

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is, unlike the CGI version, which is called He

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-Man and the Masters of the Universe, which is

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He -Man in name only. Skeletor, next question.

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Did you own any Motu toys as a child? If so,

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do you remember what your very first Motu toy

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was? Of course we own the toys. Why would we

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be doing this if we didn't own the toys, Skeletor?

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Yeah, I mean, I own more toys now than I did

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as a child for that series, obviously. And I'm

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talking about the actual vintage toys. I have

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more now than I did before. Right, yeah. Before,

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when I was growing up, I can almost tell you

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exactly what I had because I think it was like

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a half dozen. I had the actual He -Man and She

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-Ra, or excuse me, He -Man and Skeletor. as well

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as like a battle armor, battle damage, He -Man

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and Skeletor. And I think I had another one,

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which was like a flying fist or whatever. So

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I think I had like three Skeletors and three

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He -Mans. So I had Sorceress. I had Rattler.

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I had one of the rock people. And that might

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have been it there. I think I'm missing like

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one or two other ones that I had, but that was

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about it as far as when I was a child. So I think

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my first one was just the original Human and

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Skeletor figure. I believe I got them both at

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the same time, which was probably either at my

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birthday or Christmas. Very cool. For me, I was

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very lucky. My mom bought me everything. And

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I've told this story before, but I, for some

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odd reason, I kept most of the good guys at my

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mom's house and most of the bad guys at my dad's

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house. I mean, obviously there would be some

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cross -pollination with having a hero. blah blah

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blah but gray skull was at my mom's house and

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i was lucky enough to have both gray skull and

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snake mountain snake mountain was at my dad's

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house and i've told this part of this story over

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and over and over in the last 14 years that i've

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been podcasting when i was six years old my dad

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said you were too old for toys and he sold them

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all all the ones that i had at his house i had

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gray skull i had he -man i had battle armor he

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-man i had battle armor sky i It was so weird.

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We were creating our, you know, they always talk

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about the multiverses now and the this verse

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and the that verse and the whatever verse. We

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were creating multiverses when we were kids in

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the 80s because I had the regular He -Man, like

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I said, the battle armor, regular Skeletor, battle

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armor Skeletor, you know. You had all four of

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those versions. I had Battle Cat. I had Panthor.

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I had the sorceress, I think. I know I had two

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different versions of Zor. I had the... Yeah,

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I didn't have the sorceress. I had Zor. I should

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correct that. Okay. Yeah, the little Zor accessory

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or the little Zor... It was tiny. It wasn't even

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like a super large thing. It was a tiny little

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bird thing. I had that. What I ended up... There's

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an infamous picture that's been going around

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since I've been online with... me and my toy

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box with castle gray skull. And I have like the

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Raven from mask and Dick Tracy and James Bond

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jr. And cap basically any, any other figures

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other than masters of the universe figures in

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front of my castle gray skull. Yeah, I did. I

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think I had Tila as well. And I had a couple

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of the vehicles. I had like the bones thing that

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you could put like as a carry in thing for all

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of the figures. And then I had, I think it was

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called laser bolts. or something the red uh laser

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bolt is the only thing i can think of it looked

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like a like a mouth like a thing and then i had

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two guns next to it i had three wheels i had

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one in the wheel in the front and two wheels

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in the back so i had that it was a red one with

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eyeballs on the side uh so that those were like

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the only ones i have but currently i have like

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i don't know 150 of the masters of the universe

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toys from different lines and stuff like that

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including almost Probably 75 to 80 % of the original

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line I think I have. I need to do a check to

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see what I'm missing. Yeah, I'm going to talk

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about what I have now later because all the stuff

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I have now is Funko and it doesn't really, it

00:14:06.509 --> 00:14:08.470
relates, but it doesn't relate to when we were

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kids because we didn't have Funko when we were

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kids, sadly. Right. All right, Skeletor, what's

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question six? Growing up, did you ever express

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your fandom in the outside world? Friends role

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-playing? dressing up on Halloween, et cetera.

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Yeah, I think I remember at least one Halloween

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dressing up as He -Man. The classic, like, 80s

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Halloween costume where you just had the plastic

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mask type thing that you wore and then whatever

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outfit they gave you. So I think I was He -Man

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once. I don't remember, like, 100%. For me, though,

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He -Man was more of something that I did play

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with my cousins a couple times because, like

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I said, they had a big bench in their dining

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room and you could open the bench and it was

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storage and it was full of all of his He -Man

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toys. So I remember playing with those, but it

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was more so the early. toys and cartoons that

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i was watching so it wasn't like transformers

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and gi joe where i actually played with those

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uh outside with my actual age friends and we

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would role play like with the thundercats claw

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and like different things like that so those

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cartoons that came afterwards were more of the

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ones that i expressed outwardly whereas he -man

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was more of when i was like really young so it

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wasn't something that i really had a lot of uh

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outward expression, I guess, in the outside world.

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And for me, it's kind of the same thing. I was

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more so doing the whole role playing thing at

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school or the playground or whatever with other

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franchises like Transformers or whatever else.

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Funny you said you were He -Man one year. I was

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Skeletor one year. No surprise there, guys. Yes.

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I'm not as good as the Skeletor we have asking

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us the questions, so take it away, Skeletor.

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Who is your end -all, be -all favorite character

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from any Motu incarnation? Let it be known there's

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only one true choice. All right. End all, be

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all, hero and villain. So we each get two choices.

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For me, it's so hard. No, it really is. For the

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hero side, it's so hard because... There were,

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like, he's not really the hero of the series,

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but for irony's sake, I almost want to say Orko.

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Maybe that was for comedy's sake, not irony's

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sake. Sometimes I feel that I am not appreciated.

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I mean, how can you go wrong with classic Filmation

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He -Man or even any of the other versions of

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He -Man? Except I think that... I think with

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He -Man and Prince Adam, even though technically

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they are the same person, it isn't like, it is

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and it is not like Bruce Wayne dressing up as

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Batman. I'm kind of equating it to that where

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He -Man is more of the adult side of the character.

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And while He -Man can still have character growth

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as He -Man, really the character growth we end

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up seeing in most of the cartoons is all about

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Adam. So. Yeah, for me, for the heroes, I did

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like Stratos as a child, but I wouldn't put him

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as like my end -all be -all. I did like the sorceress.

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I did like Orko, but I think if I had to pick

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like my end -all be -all favorite character as

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we have watched the entire series back and all

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the different incarnations and whatnot. I think

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I have to still go with Zodak as my favorite

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hero. I know he is somewhat of an anti -hero

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because he kind of stays on the outskirts, but

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he never is really a villain. So I would put

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him as my all -time favorite hero character would

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be Zodak. Villains, man, that's tougher because

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I guess I liked a lot more of the villains for

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some reason, it seems like. I liked some of the

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Snake Men. I liked Merman was probably my favorite

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as a child. But I think after the rewatch, it's

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really a toss -up between Skeletor and Evil -Lyn,

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depending on which version of each it is, depending

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on what series it is. Some series I prefer Skeletor

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slightly, and some series I prefer Evil -Lyn

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slightly. Hurry, Skeletor, hurry! I am hurrying,

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I'm hurrying! So from any Motu incarnation...

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I'm going to kind of cheat, and I'm going to

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pick a toy version because I am going to pick

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Tongue Lasher for my villain because I love that

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toy. I don't know what it was about the Tongue

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Lasher action figure. That is one action figure

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I brought everywhere we would go. Yeah. A lot

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of the kind of. Goes into the overall appeal

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of the toy line and the series in general is

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that the toys did things that other toys before

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that didn't. Like when you got a lot of the lines

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that came right before this, such as Black Star,

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I think was a little bit before this, but like,

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or any of the toy lines in the seventies, really,

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you know, you think like the big 12 inch GI Joes

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and things like that were very similar to like.

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what girls were playing with in their Barbies

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and things like that, which is you could change

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the outfits. You could change some of the accessories,

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but they were very static. They were, they didn't

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do things. They didn't have a lot of articulation.

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And then they, obviously the, the original He

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-Man line doesn't have a lot of articulation

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either, but what they did is they started giving

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individual figures, different abilities to do

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things, whether it was a tongue that came out,

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whether it was the, the tail that rattled for

00:19:41.640 --> 00:19:46.970
Rattler, whether it was Triclops' eye change

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or Manny Face's face change or different things.

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There was a lot of different, especially some

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of the more tertiary characters that weren't

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the main cartoon characters, especially when

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you started adding in all the horde and stuff

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like that. They had a lot of different abilities,

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whether it was Mosquito or with the blood, things

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of that nature. So it was something that made

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it so that you could... have an enjoyment of

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both a character that you saw on TV, but you

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could also have a separate or sometimes similar

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attachment to toys and the characters that did

00:20:16.859 --> 00:20:18.500
certain things. So that was kind of interesting

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way that they kind of differentiated themselves

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from what had come before. Yeah, absolutely.

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All right, Skeletor. What are some other Motu

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characters you like? I mean, I've mentioned some

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of them. I was not the classic He -Man fan. I

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didn't just love He -Man and Adam because of

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whatever. He would probably be down, although

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I appreciated him and realized his importance

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and was probably rooting for him at times. If

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I was listing my favorite characters, he wouldn't

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be in my top five at all. Whereas Skeletor on

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the one way is just because of how he was portrayed

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and how funny he was in certain series and things

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of that nature and the voice work, et cetera.

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So I wouldn't tend to go to He -Man, but I would

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go to some of those other characters. But since

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it's Motu in general, I think one thing that

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I should mention that we've kind of ignored a

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little bit was the She -Ra characters and some

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of that. So I did. have a liking because, hey,

00:21:14.089 --> 00:21:16.170
this was the series for females, I guess, for

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girls. That didn't mean that I wasn't exposed

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to it because I had a sister and things of that

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nature. And a lot of these characters were semi

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-attractive or had powers or things of that nature.

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So I was a fan of a lot of the She -Ra characters,

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both She -Ra and probably Glimmer a little bit.

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And then there was a lot of the other ones like

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Lee Frosta and I can't remember all their names,

00:21:37.670 --> 00:21:40.369
but some of those that I thought were cool. I

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didn't have a strong attachment to them, but

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I thought they were likable. I didn't like the

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She -Ra villains as much as the He -Man villains,

00:21:49.349 --> 00:21:51.069
though, so I still wouldn't put any of those

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in there. For me, as far as other characters

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in the MOTU franchise, the overall series, the

00:21:57.890 --> 00:22:01.650
overall whatever, I more so was interested in

00:22:01.650 --> 00:22:05.349
Adora than She -Ra. I mean, don't get me wrong.

00:22:05.609 --> 00:22:10.109
She -Ra is She -Ra. Right. I wanted there to,

00:22:10.210 --> 00:22:12.349
and I know this is not the way it was ever going

00:22:12.349 --> 00:22:16.670
to be in filmation because syndication, blah,

00:22:16.750 --> 00:22:19.089
blah, blah, writing for television was not really

00:22:19.089 --> 00:22:21.890
continuity driven at that point. And I mean,

00:22:21.890 --> 00:22:24.470
yes, there is continuity to it, but the biggest

00:22:24.470 --> 00:22:27.349
reveal that we got was that she's the twin sister

00:22:27.349 --> 00:22:32.049
of, like, there was no other, other than the

00:22:32.049 --> 00:22:35.750
explanation of Hordak stole her as a baby. We

00:22:35.750 --> 00:22:38.690
didn't see, we never saw how Shadow Weaver and

00:22:38.690 --> 00:22:40.849
Hordak raised her or anything like that. So,

00:22:40.869 --> 00:22:42.809
I mean, there's character development for Filmation

00:22:42.809 --> 00:22:45.829
Adora, but there really isn't either at all.

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Other characters, Cringer, Battle Cat. Even though

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I know Panthor is technically supposed to just

00:22:51.950 --> 00:22:55.930
be there to growl and fight Battle Cat, I wish

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there was a little bit more to Panthor. I agree.

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You know, other characters, I'm trying to think.

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We saw a whole lot of Mossman. We saw a whole

00:23:05.329 --> 00:23:09.609
lot of, like you said, Stratos and Buzzoff and

00:23:09.609 --> 00:23:14.569
all that. I liked Merman simply for Alan Oppenheimer's

00:23:14.569 --> 00:23:18.430
voice. Right. Basically Seaspray, but still,

00:23:18.690 --> 00:23:21.549
same thing. Absolutely. So there are plenty of

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other characters that I just... I just don't

00:23:26.160 --> 00:23:29.559
know if at this point at 42 years old, even though

00:23:29.559 --> 00:23:32.200
I like the characters, they're not so fresh in

00:23:32.200 --> 00:23:34.200
my mind. Even though you and I have spent the

00:23:34.200 --> 00:23:37.759
last decade or so covering all of this stuff,

00:23:37.960 --> 00:23:41.200
I can barely remember four hours ago, let alone

00:23:41.200 --> 00:23:45.160
10 years ago. And I guess that's kind of why

00:23:45.160 --> 00:23:47.079
we have the podcast. Maybe I should go back and

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listen to those old episodes. We understand,

00:23:51.039 --> 00:23:55.470
Mike. Yeah, I know. I'm broken. I get it. All

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right, Skeletor. Are there any Motu characters

00:23:57.809 --> 00:24:02.690
you hate? Most preferably the blonde, beefy type.

00:24:02.910 --> 00:24:05.549
Hate's a strong word, so I don't know if I'm

00:24:05.549 --> 00:24:08.509
going to go all the way to that. But if I was

00:24:08.509 --> 00:24:11.130
forced, let's just say just He -Man -wise, if

00:24:11.130 --> 00:24:14.130
I was forced to list three villains and three

00:24:14.130 --> 00:24:18.970
heroes that I wasn't huge on, for villains, it

00:24:18.970 --> 00:24:23.880
would be Clawful, Whiplash, and Jitsu. I think

00:24:23.880 --> 00:24:25.740
Jitsu is just a problematic character in general,

00:24:25.819 --> 00:24:28.960
just stereotypes, et cetera, et cetera. But clawful

00:24:28.960 --> 00:24:32.339
and whiplash just are blah to me. They just don't

00:24:32.339 --> 00:24:35.099
bring much pizzazz or they don't have that it

00:24:35.099 --> 00:24:38.160
factor that you're looking for. Yeah. They're

00:24:38.160 --> 00:24:40.220
basically dumber versions of beast. And then

00:24:40.220 --> 00:24:42.119
for the good side, I was never a fan of Tila.

00:24:42.259 --> 00:24:45.900
She has been represented better in certain. stories

00:24:45.900 --> 00:24:47.819
on certain lines or whatever but i was never

00:24:47.819 --> 00:24:50.440
a fan of her growing up but if i had to go with

00:24:50.440 --> 00:24:53.240
uh two other ones i wasn't huge on fisto it's

00:24:53.240 --> 00:24:56.059
a weird name first of all and i was never big

00:24:56.059 --> 00:24:58.799
on queen marlena and some situations she's been

00:24:58.799 --> 00:25:03.319
real bad that's one of the downfalls of or not

00:25:03.319 --> 00:25:06.460
downfalls that's one of the downsides bad points

00:25:06.460 --> 00:25:08.940
of revelation is how they do queen marlena and

00:25:08.940 --> 00:25:10.799
that and i'm sorry the voice work is terrible

00:25:10.799 --> 00:25:13.380
on her but those were some that i didn't gravitate

00:25:13.380 --> 00:25:15.619
towards A whole lot. I think if you're talking

00:25:15.619 --> 00:25:20.420
She -Ra, I mean, Bose, whatever. Like, not great.

00:25:20.599 --> 00:25:25.319
And then the voice work of, shoot, what's Glimmer's

00:25:25.319 --> 00:25:30.019
queen? Angela. Angela was kind of a blah from

00:25:30.019 --> 00:25:31.819
a voice standpoint. And then there was a couple

00:25:31.819 --> 00:25:33.079
of villains in that series that were just kind

00:25:33.079 --> 00:25:34.440
of whatever. But those are the ones that come

00:25:34.440 --> 00:25:36.099
to my mind. What about you? If you had stopped

00:25:36.099 --> 00:25:40.079
talking earlier, I would have said. As if. Oh,

00:25:40.220 --> 00:25:46.900
God. Anyway. Yeah, you're right. I mean, hate

00:25:46.900 --> 00:25:51.559
technically is a strong word. In general, I'm

00:25:51.559 --> 00:25:53.339
not a fan of the Snake Men, even though I put

00:25:53.339 --> 00:25:55.319
Tongue Lasher as one of my favorite characters.

00:25:55.680 --> 00:25:58.759
I just like the way the toy is and whatever.

00:25:59.099 --> 00:26:01.599
But overall... I liked Rattler and Cobra Khan.

00:26:01.740 --> 00:26:04.819
They were all right. Yeah, I was never a fan

00:26:04.819 --> 00:26:08.460
of them. And King Hiss was the worst. Yeah, King

00:26:08.460 --> 00:26:09.700
Hiss is probably one of the worst out of them.

00:26:09.759 --> 00:26:14.559
I just could not. Snake face. Yeah. Oh, no. You

00:26:14.559 --> 00:26:18.140
know, for good side, I don't want to throw him

00:26:18.140 --> 00:26:20.460
under the bus, even if I could find him to throw

00:26:20.460 --> 00:26:24.759
him under a bus. But, Lukey, guess? I don't know.

00:26:24.920 --> 00:26:28.059
Like, I mean, there are, if people go back and

00:26:28.059 --> 00:26:31.039
you listen to our Filmation He -Man episodes,

00:26:31.380 --> 00:26:36.380
episode 1 through 30, 1 through 45, there's a

00:26:36.380 --> 00:26:39.509
couple of, like, Other characters, like Ed Weiner

00:26:39.509 --> 00:26:42.109
and other characters that we can't stand that

00:26:42.109 --> 00:26:46.089
we don't like. And Cousin Jeremy. Oh, fuck Cousin

00:26:46.089 --> 00:26:47.890
Jeremy. A lot of side characters that you didn't

00:26:47.890 --> 00:26:51.049
like. Yeah, there were a lot of side characters.

00:26:51.210 --> 00:26:54.750
But for the main characters, there weren't a

00:26:54.750 --> 00:26:57.390
lot. It depended on what they were doing. It

00:26:57.390 --> 00:27:00.910
depended on what Skeletor was doing to them because

00:27:00.910 --> 00:27:04.559
they didn't do the job right kind of thing. Agreed.

00:27:04.559 --> 00:27:07.220
It is what it is. All right, Skeletor, you can

00:27:07.220 --> 00:27:10.359
stop punishing your minions now and give us the

00:27:10.359 --> 00:27:12.960
next question, please. Over your lifetime as

00:27:12.960 --> 00:27:16.900
you get older, did your interest in the Motu

00:27:16.900 --> 00:27:22.150
franchise grow stronger or get weaker? I think

00:27:22.150 --> 00:27:24.329
for this one, as does everything in life, it

00:27:24.329 --> 00:27:27.109
comes in waves and, you know, it goes up and

00:27:27.109 --> 00:27:29.269
it goes down type of thing. There are some things

00:27:29.269 --> 00:27:31.430
that I've watched and then it was basically hit

00:27:31.430 --> 00:27:33.009
a point where I was done with it forever type

00:27:33.009 --> 00:27:34.950
thing, I guess. But most things that I was a

00:27:34.950 --> 00:27:37.910
big time fan of as a child have come in spurts.

00:27:37.910 --> 00:27:39.930
So it's like it faded away because it got overtaken

00:27:39.930 --> 00:27:41.970
by other stuff. So like, for example, this one,

00:27:41.970 --> 00:27:47.019
you know, as Transformers. GI Joe, Thundercats,

00:27:47.019 --> 00:27:50.240
Silverhawks, Turtles, etc. Each new flavor of

00:27:50.240 --> 00:27:52.640
the week came, another one gets knocked down

00:27:52.640 --> 00:27:57.099
and stuff like that. I think the difference between...

00:27:57.569 --> 00:28:00.049
this one is that it has popped up at specific

00:28:00.049 --> 00:28:02.829
points. So it's not necessarily my interest that

00:28:02.829 --> 00:28:04.589
has gone. My interest has always been there with

00:28:04.589 --> 00:28:06.029
Motu. I've never had a moment where I was just

00:28:06.029 --> 00:28:08.309
like weak on it. It was just, was it relevant?

00:28:08.390 --> 00:28:10.910
Was there something new for me to bite into,

00:28:11.029 --> 00:28:13.509
et cetera. And the He -Man has a little, Motu

00:28:13.509 --> 00:28:16.309
has a little different story than say Transformers

00:28:16.309 --> 00:28:18.509
or GI Joes, which I think we'll get into in a

00:28:18.509 --> 00:28:22.329
future question here. But yeah, it's grown stronger

00:28:22.329 --> 00:28:25.279
and weaker, but that's not because. My interest

00:28:25.279 --> 00:28:27.059
was less. It was just there was less of me to

00:28:27.059 --> 00:28:29.640
partake in. Yeah, it's one of those things that

00:28:29.640 --> 00:28:34.799
I've said recently is that the 80s for us was

00:28:34.799 --> 00:28:39.420
full of choice and full of waves. So if you take,

00:28:39.500 --> 00:28:44.240
let's say, G .I. Joe, Real American Hero, He

00:28:44.240 --> 00:28:48.180
-Man, Transformers, Thundercats, Silverhawks,

00:28:48.180 --> 00:28:53.670
and Turtles. So that's 1982 to 1987. Even though

00:28:53.670 --> 00:28:57.470
those shows had whatever runs that they had during

00:28:57.470 --> 00:29:02.089
those five years, that's five years of content

00:29:02.089 --> 00:29:05.609
for kids that you could go from one to the other.

00:29:05.650 --> 00:29:09.609
And we enjoyed so much of it as kids. And for

00:29:09.609 --> 00:29:12.319
me. And you have so much time as a child. We

00:29:12.319 --> 00:29:14.319
don't think of that. Like when you're an adult,

00:29:14.420 --> 00:29:15.720
you don't have a lot of time, but when you're

00:29:15.720 --> 00:29:17.640
a child, five years is a long time. Think of

00:29:17.640 --> 00:29:19.900
your life from your fifth birthday to your 10th

00:29:19.900 --> 00:29:22.380
birthday or from your 10th birthday to your 15th

00:29:22.380 --> 00:29:25.799
birthday. You consume a lot. Yeah, absolutely.

00:29:26.079 --> 00:29:30.539
So I, I don't think like my fandom is still there

00:29:30.539 --> 00:29:33.480
and my, you know, my, my love of the franchise

00:29:33.480 --> 00:29:35.480
is still there. But like you said, it depends

00:29:35.480 --> 00:29:41.049
on if there is like, we've been waiting. If it

00:29:41.049 --> 00:29:46.509
hits 2027 and there's no live action film, 40

00:29:46.509 --> 00:29:49.390
years we have been waiting for a new live action

00:29:49.390 --> 00:29:54.309
film. Yeah, I know. I just have a feeling it's

00:29:54.309 --> 00:29:55.849
not going to do it justice when we finally get

00:29:55.849 --> 00:30:00.349
it. I don't think it is either because I don't

00:30:00.349 --> 00:30:03.349
think the problem, and I don't want to get on

00:30:03.349 --> 00:30:05.210
this whole soapbox, but I'm just going to say

00:30:05.210 --> 00:30:08.900
this as a blanket statement. Hollywood from the

00:30:08.900 --> 00:30:13.500
late 70s up until the year 2000 and maybe five

00:30:13.500 --> 00:30:17.000
years past that. Amazing. You had all these actors.

00:30:17.079 --> 00:30:18.660
You had all these movies. You had everything,

00:30:18.759 --> 00:30:21.380
not just He -Man, not just whatever, but just

00:30:21.380 --> 00:30:27.500
the whole gamut of the entertainment industry

00:30:27.500 --> 00:30:37.299
from 1979 to 2008. Those years we had, like,

00:30:37.339 --> 00:30:42.319
you could envision Dolph Lundgren as a, you know

00:30:42.319 --> 00:30:46.400
what? As long as he's still alive in 2027 and

00:30:46.400 --> 00:30:49.339
he wants to reprise. I've seen Dolph Lundgren

00:30:49.339 --> 00:30:52.559
in a lot of good movies lately. The man has kept

00:30:52.559 --> 00:30:56.079
up his physique and this, that. So I wouldn't

00:30:56.079 --> 00:30:58.599
mind seeing Dolph as He -Man again. But my point

00:30:58.599 --> 00:31:03.839
here in saying this is that nowadays. Every time

00:31:03.839 --> 00:31:07.200
I see a casting news for anything Motu, I'm like,

00:31:07.319 --> 00:31:11.779
who is that person? Because I'm not so in tuned

00:31:11.779 --> 00:31:15.880
to like, oh, Eddie Murphy, Beverly Hills cop.

00:31:16.039 --> 00:31:18.640
Oh, Mel Gibson and Danny Glover, lethal weapon.

00:31:18.759 --> 00:31:21.220
Oh, Bruce Willis and the worst Christmas movie

00:31:21.220 --> 00:31:24.740
of all time. You know, that kind of thing. Like

00:31:24.740 --> 00:31:28.180
it was more, even though we had less access to

00:31:28.180 --> 00:31:33.640
it 40 years ago, it was more of. And those actors

00:31:33.640 --> 00:31:36.579
and actresses doing more – like you saw Bruce

00:31:36.579 --> 00:31:38.940
Willis in so many films. You saw Mel Gibson in

00:31:38.940 --> 00:31:40.539
so many films outside of the ones that they're

00:31:40.539 --> 00:31:44.240
famous for kind of thing. Like we knew who they

00:31:44.240 --> 00:31:48.099
were. Now that we are the ages that we are, 40s,

00:31:48.099 --> 00:31:51.380
whatever, you know, I don't know what these,

00:31:51.539 --> 00:31:54.380
you know, kids and their – Did you just call

00:31:54.380 --> 00:31:57.119
Die Hard a bad movie? Yippee -ki -yay, Mr. Falcon.

00:31:57.160 --> 00:31:58.980
I don't know what these young kids and their

00:31:58.980 --> 00:32:00.960
hipping and their hopping are doing anymore.

00:32:02.990 --> 00:32:06.829
Anyway, Skeletor, let's ask us the next question,

00:32:06.890 --> 00:32:09.390
please, sir. Was there ever a moment in your

00:32:09.390 --> 00:32:12.849
life where you were through with everything Motu?

00:32:12.950 --> 00:32:16.670
And the thing with this question is, it's more

00:32:16.670 --> 00:32:20.009
of a moving on thing. Like I was mentioning earlier

00:32:20.009 --> 00:32:23.230
about those five years that we just moved on

00:32:23.230 --> 00:32:25.210
from one thing to the other thing to the other

00:32:25.210 --> 00:32:27.529
thing. As far as watching it when it aired with

00:32:27.529 --> 00:32:32.910
those five things I mentioned. Moe 2 has never

00:32:32.910 --> 00:32:36.609
gone anywhere for me because the stuff I love

00:32:36.609 --> 00:32:40.029
and enjoy has always been there and will always

00:32:40.029 --> 00:32:42.450
be there, at least until I die. Who knows when

00:32:42.450 --> 00:32:46.069
that's going to be? But point is, what I love

00:32:46.069 --> 00:32:49.230
about the franchise is still there, no matter

00:32:49.230 --> 00:32:52.130
whether they create new stuff or not. Yep. All

00:32:52.130 --> 00:32:55.130
right, Skeletor. Question 12, sir. When there

00:32:55.130 --> 00:32:58.829
wasn't a current Moe 2 series airing, how did

00:32:58.829 --> 00:33:02.839
you keep your fandom alive? Rewatch old series,

00:33:03.220 --> 00:33:09.940
write fanfic, draw art, toys, comics, etc. I

00:33:09.940 --> 00:33:12.299
think that's an interesting one for me because

00:33:12.299 --> 00:33:14.460
this is where I'm going to go back to what I

00:33:14.460 --> 00:33:17.160
was saying earlier with the reason it was different

00:33:17.160 --> 00:33:21.160
from, say, Transformers, G .I. Joe, a few things

00:33:21.160 --> 00:33:24.619
like that. Okay, I didn't know new adventures

00:33:24.619 --> 00:33:30.009
existed, I don't think, for... decades until

00:33:30.009 --> 00:33:33.210
we did this so i will take that out because for

00:33:33.210 --> 00:33:36.289
me that was like that was akin to like generation

00:33:36.289 --> 00:33:39.210
two transformers like that's not a real thing

00:33:39.210 --> 00:33:42.269
that's just like uh that's just a weird like

00:33:42.269 --> 00:33:46.230
thing that they're doing to like whatever so

00:33:46.230 --> 00:33:48.450
like i don't know like so take new adventures

00:33:48.450 --> 00:33:52.329
out of the equation in my mind when i think about

00:33:52.329 --> 00:33:56.039
he -man we had a series in the early 80s This

00:33:56.039 --> 00:33:58.200
isn't like Turtles. This isn't like whatever,

00:33:58.339 --> 00:33:59.940
whatever that was in the mid to late 80s. This

00:33:59.940 --> 00:34:03.200
was early 80s. Granted, we had syndication at

00:34:03.200 --> 00:34:04.640
different times for different series that would

00:34:04.640 --> 00:34:07.640
reruns, et cetera, et cetera. But its main run,

00:34:07.759 --> 00:34:10.000
its main relevance, toys being on the shelves,

00:34:10.179 --> 00:34:12.260
people talking about it, et cetera, was early

00:34:12.260 --> 00:34:17.400
80s. We go until 2002 before there's another

00:34:17.400 --> 00:34:20.820
thing that brings it back into the forefront.

00:34:21.539 --> 00:34:24.440
When you think about, let's just use two things,

00:34:24.500 --> 00:34:27.659
for example. When you think about Star Wars and

00:34:27.659 --> 00:34:29.559
Transformers, you can maybe even throw G .I.

00:34:29.559 --> 00:34:32.480
Joe in there. But especially Star Wars and Transformers,

00:34:32.500 --> 00:34:35.480
there has almost never been a year, a full year

00:34:35.480 --> 00:34:38.539
in my lifetime where those things haven't been

00:34:38.539 --> 00:34:41.539
on the toy shelves. So Star Wars has always been

00:34:41.539 --> 00:34:43.639
on there. Yes, there was expanded universe and

00:34:43.639 --> 00:34:46.239
some weird stuff going on, you know, in the late

00:34:46.239 --> 00:34:48.639
80s, early 90s before we started getting the.

00:34:49.340 --> 00:34:51.340
prequels and the sequels and the Disney verse

00:34:51.340 --> 00:34:53.639
and all this other stuff. But Star Wars has always

00:34:53.639 --> 00:34:56.079
remained on the shelves. Transformers for the

00:34:56.079 --> 00:34:58.159
most part has always remained on the shelves.

00:34:58.239 --> 00:35:00.099
There might've been a little brief, brief time

00:35:00.099 --> 00:35:01.820
periods where they weren't, but it was basically

00:35:01.820 --> 00:35:06.280
G1, G2, Beast Wars, Beast Machines, Unicron Trilogy,

00:35:06.519 --> 00:35:09.280
you know, Prime, Classics, et cetera, et cetera.

00:35:09.380 --> 00:35:11.940
It's always been reinventing itself and going

00:35:11.940 --> 00:35:13.639
on live action movies, et cetera, et cetera.

00:35:13.719 --> 00:35:17.800
He -Man, we had a 20 year stretch with nothing.

00:35:18.959 --> 00:35:20.900
So it's just a little bit different. So it's

00:35:20.900 --> 00:35:24.780
not that I didn't it wasn't relevant for a long

00:35:24.780 --> 00:35:26.380
time. It wasn't that there was no interest. It

00:35:26.380 --> 00:35:28.860
was just buried under other stuff. So there was

00:35:28.860 --> 00:35:30.380
a long time where there was no series airing.

00:35:30.420 --> 00:35:32.420
So how did I keep my fandom alive? I didn't necessarily

00:35:32.420 --> 00:35:34.519
do anything to keep it alive. It still was existing.

00:35:34.659 --> 00:35:38.639
It still was there. But it wasn't there wasn't

00:35:38.639 --> 00:35:40.960
anything that I did to try to I didn't do any

00:35:40.960 --> 00:35:42.659
fanfic. I didn't draw art. I didn't really even

00:35:42.659 --> 00:35:45.019
collect the toys for a long time. I didn't rewatch

00:35:45.019 --> 00:35:49.159
the series that much. Until later on, this was,

00:35:49.219 --> 00:35:52.320
you know, after 2002 probably spawned me to watch

00:35:52.320 --> 00:35:53.780
that and then rewatch some of the old stuff.

00:35:53.820 --> 00:35:56.099
And then we did the podcast, et cetera. So there

00:35:56.099 --> 00:35:59.039
wasn't much active involvement in me in the fandom

00:35:59.039 --> 00:36:00.739
in any ways. I wasn't visiting message boards

00:36:00.739 --> 00:36:02.940
or websites like I did with Transformers fandoms,

00:36:02.940 --> 00:36:04.860
et cetera. As I've mentioned throughout the last

00:36:04.860 --> 00:36:07.820
40 minutes of the episode so far, for me, things

00:36:07.820 --> 00:36:10.079
come and go in waves, as you've already said

00:36:10.079 --> 00:36:15.210
as well. By 1980. Seven when She -Ra ended. Because

00:36:15.210 --> 00:36:18.050
there were several He -Man crossovers in there

00:36:18.050 --> 00:36:21.150
outside of Secret of the Sword. So we did see

00:36:21.150 --> 00:36:26.449
some of He -Man continuing on in animation in

00:36:26.449 --> 00:36:33.170
86 and 87. 1987, Turtles hit. 1989 to 1990, Simpsons

00:36:33.170 --> 00:36:39.269
hit. In 1990, when I saw the intro. Just the

00:36:39.269 --> 00:36:43.809
intro. Not even the full episode. The intro music

00:36:43.809 --> 00:36:46.130
and the intro whatever to New Adventures, I'm

00:36:46.130 --> 00:36:51.210
like, ooh, my He -Man is back. And then 22 minutes

00:36:51.210 --> 00:36:53.769
later or 30 minutes later or whatever it was

00:36:53.769 --> 00:36:57.909
with commercials, this is not my He -Man. And

00:36:57.909 --> 00:37:02.809
I just moved on to other things, you know. By

00:37:02.809 --> 00:37:04.570
that time, I was in the middle of the Nintendo

00:37:04.570 --> 00:37:08.949
cartoons, so Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Super

00:37:08.949 --> 00:37:11.269
Mario Bros. 3, Super Mario World, Legend of Zelda,

00:37:11.630 --> 00:37:13.730
Captain of the Game Master, all that kind of

00:37:13.730 --> 00:37:19.449
stuff. And my enjoyment of Masters of the Universe

00:37:19.449 --> 00:37:22.750
has never, ever faded, nor will it ever. But

00:37:22.750 --> 00:37:27.579
it's just, like you said, it's not... so much

00:37:27.579 --> 00:37:29.900
in the forefront of your mind. It's funny you

00:37:29.900 --> 00:37:33.079
mentioned message boards. When I got fully into

00:37:33.079 --> 00:37:37.239
fandom somewhere between 2006 and 2008, between

00:37:37.239 --> 00:37:40.500
2006 and December of 2008 when I started the

00:37:40.500 --> 00:37:44.420
TFG1 podcast, at some point or another I learned

00:37:44.420 --> 00:37:47.179
about He -Man .org and their message boards.

00:37:48.659 --> 00:37:51.320
At that time, and I still have this email address,

00:37:51.539 --> 00:37:54.340
and it is what it is, not that I really care,

00:37:54.480 --> 00:37:59.699
but it was, you know, My hotmail address. I went

00:37:59.699 --> 00:38:02.440
on He -Man .org to join their forums. We're sorry.

00:38:02.619 --> 00:38:07.880
We don't accept applications to join the forums

00:38:07.880 --> 00:38:12.320
from this email. I'm like, wait, what? Huh? I

00:38:12.320 --> 00:38:15.099
couldn't even get into the damn He -Man .org

00:38:15.099 --> 00:38:20.500
forums. So I had no... It isn't like TFW2005

00:38:20.500 --> 00:38:22.800
.com, which is the Transformers forums, and I

00:38:22.800 --> 00:38:24.460
don't even want to get into that discussion.

00:38:25.630 --> 00:38:28.510
It isn't like that where I got in and I realized

00:38:28.510 --> 00:38:33.530
how much of a Toxitron that board is at times.

00:38:34.409 --> 00:38:37.030
But the He -Man forms, I could never get in.

00:38:37.070 --> 00:38:38.809
I could never get on them. And I just, okay,

00:38:38.909 --> 00:38:41.809
sure, fine. And by that time, we were about ready

00:38:41.809 --> 00:38:45.250
to start Powers of Grayskull series. And, you

00:38:45.250 --> 00:38:50.070
know, it's funny because... We're recording this,

00:38:50.170 --> 00:38:52.889
and hopefully I can have him on to do this with

00:38:52.889 --> 00:38:56.690
me for his own personal He -Man journey. I just

00:38:56.690 --> 00:38:59.309
recorded and released an episode of ToyCast a

00:38:59.309 --> 00:39:02.590
couple of weeks ago with Scott ToyGuruNightlyk,

00:39:02.610 --> 00:39:05.190
who used to work at Mattel, who worked on classics

00:39:05.190 --> 00:39:07.050
and everything else, and we went through the

00:39:07.050 --> 00:39:10.909
ToyCast toy collecting questions with him. So

00:39:10.909 --> 00:39:13.869
I'm sure he'd be up to come on here. There you

00:39:13.869 --> 00:39:17.449
go. Yeah. There you go. All right, Skeletor,

00:39:17.510 --> 00:39:19.769
what's the next question that we got? With the

00:39:19.769 --> 00:39:22.570
internet giving birth to the fans all having

00:39:22.570 --> 00:39:25.750
a voice about what they like or don't like about

00:39:25.750 --> 00:39:29.489
Motu, do you find that your voice gets lost in

00:39:29.489 --> 00:39:36.030
the shuffle, or do you just shout louder? I love

00:39:36.030 --> 00:39:41.500
hearing Skeletor ask that question. So, folks,

00:39:41.679 --> 00:39:45.159
the origins questions when it comes to Transformers

00:39:45.159 --> 00:39:49.219
and now here with Masters of the Universe, I

00:39:49.219 --> 00:39:52.500
have always had this question, and I've always

00:39:52.500 --> 00:39:55.059
phrased it the way that it is phrased, with the

00:39:55.059 --> 00:39:56.980
internet giving birth to the fans all having

00:39:56.980 --> 00:40:04.219
a voice, yada, yada, yada. So, for me, I like

00:40:04.219 --> 00:40:08.380
surrounding myself with like -minded people for

00:40:08.380 --> 00:40:11.829
the most part. I would say, 85 % of the time,

00:40:11.849 --> 00:40:14.570
the people that I surround myself with, we generally

00:40:14.570 --> 00:40:17.849
agree on the same things. It's perfectly fine

00:40:17.849 --> 00:40:19.750
that we disagree on things. It's not the end

00:40:19.750 --> 00:40:21.750
of the world. I mean, am I going to throw away

00:40:21.750 --> 00:40:26.869
a 14, 15 year friendship just because Mr. Solo

00:40:26.869 --> 00:40:29.329
over there wants, you know, would rather have

00:40:29.329 --> 00:40:31.929
mac and cheese than watch He -Man and the Masters

00:40:31.929 --> 00:40:34.619
of the Universe on Netflix? No. I don't care.

00:40:34.719 --> 00:40:37.260
That's his opinion. I have a different opinion.

00:40:37.619 --> 00:40:39.780
It's fine. It's not the end of the world. Yeah,

00:40:39.820 --> 00:40:41.599
I mean as podcasts go, it would be boring if

00:40:41.599 --> 00:40:43.519
we agreed on everything. So I prefer to have

00:40:43.519 --> 00:40:45.380
differing opinions as long as it's respectable

00:40:45.380 --> 00:40:48.480
and this, that, and the other. So like the nonsense

00:40:48.480 --> 00:40:50.900
that was being spouted on almost all social media

00:40:50.900 --> 00:40:53.780
outlets when Revelation was coming out or before

00:40:53.780 --> 00:40:56.739
it came out was nauseating and that type of conversations

00:40:56.739 --> 00:40:58.880
I want nothing to do with. So I will shout louder

00:40:58.880 --> 00:41:01.789
than or just leave. those conversations because

00:41:01.789 --> 00:41:05.909
that's just nonsense. Just stupid. Yeah. But,

00:41:05.909 --> 00:41:08.929
uh, I, I don't feel like we, we, I'm going to

00:41:08.929 --> 00:41:11.750
speak for you. I don't feel like we have needed

00:41:11.750 --> 00:41:13.909
to talk louder. We've just talked more. We just

00:41:13.909 --> 00:41:16.989
have more because we have like 150 episodes of

00:41:16.989 --> 00:41:20.809
this nonsense talking about Motu. 135. This is

00:41:20.809 --> 00:41:23.690
the 135th chapter of the Powers of Ice. So we

00:41:23.690 --> 00:41:30.409
have over 125 chances to talk to you about Motu.

00:41:30.429 --> 00:41:31.929
So we didn't need to talk louder because we were

00:41:31.929 --> 00:41:33.349
just talking to ourselves anyways. You couldn't

00:41:33.349 --> 00:41:34.769
talk over us because we're recording it separately.

00:41:35.639 --> 00:41:38.519
Right. And I think the same thing with this question

00:41:38.519 --> 00:41:42.159
is more so, again, on those message boards. Like,

00:41:42.239 --> 00:41:45.079
okay, let's say, for example, I was able to get

00:41:45.079 --> 00:41:47.820
in with my Hotmail email address back in the

00:41:47.820 --> 00:41:51.280
day. And most forums have like a, hey, introduce

00:41:51.280 --> 00:41:56.380
yourself to us kind of thread. At the time in

00:41:56.380 --> 00:42:01.360
2007, 2008. I would have said, my name is Mike.

00:42:01.519 --> 00:42:04.320
I'm blah, blah, blah. I grew up watching He -Man,

00:42:04.440 --> 00:42:06.199
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I like this, this,

00:42:06.300 --> 00:42:10.440
and this. Hope everyone has a nice day. And this

00:42:10.440 --> 00:42:12.820
is what I meant about the Toxitron stuff that

00:42:12.820 --> 00:42:17.019
ends up sometimes on the other boards. If I say

00:42:17.019 --> 00:42:19.239
I like something and somebody comes back and

00:42:19.239 --> 00:42:22.059
says, oh, you can't like that. That's wrong.

00:42:22.519 --> 00:42:24.420
I'm like, I don't have time for that. I don't

00:42:24.420 --> 00:42:28.690
have time to argue. Arguing over... Whether the

00:42:28.690 --> 00:42:33.030
sword needs to be silver or purple. That's just

00:42:33.030 --> 00:42:37.630
dumb. There's a purple sword. There's a silver

00:42:37.630 --> 00:42:42.190
sword. They were toys. That's it. Yeah. And I

00:42:42.190 --> 00:42:44.550
like how they work those into the fiction too.

00:42:44.690 --> 00:42:47.610
Even though originally those, the two have thing,

00:42:47.769 --> 00:42:51.590
like I think over the, over the times that Motu

00:42:51.590 --> 00:42:55.389
has been, how they've worked that aspect of the

00:42:55.389 --> 00:42:57.429
fact that it's just two halves of the same sword.

00:42:57.840 --> 00:42:59.420
I like how they've worked it into the fiction,

00:42:59.579 --> 00:43:03.300
so. Yeah. So, yeah. All right, Skeletor. Is there

00:43:03.300 --> 00:43:06.320
any music from the franchise that stands out

00:43:06.320 --> 00:43:08.920
to you the most? For half a second there, I was

00:43:08.920 --> 00:43:13.199
expecting him to play a flute. I have to be careful

00:43:13.199 --> 00:43:15.960
here because I know how I am, even though I may

00:43:15.960 --> 00:43:18.820
only include a three -second clip or something

00:43:18.820 --> 00:43:23.320
with this question, because I generally love

00:43:23.320 --> 00:43:30.559
all of the Filmation. He -Man music. I know you're

00:43:30.559 --> 00:43:33.739
a very musical person. I've seen your wedding

00:43:33.739 --> 00:43:35.760
video when you were singing and everything else,

00:43:35.780 --> 00:43:37.960
and you like music in general. But you know what

00:43:37.960 --> 00:43:40.179
I mean. I know that you are a musical person.

00:43:40.280 --> 00:43:43.599
I just don't know. Music is not something you

00:43:43.599 --> 00:43:47.519
and I have talked about. For me, when my musical

00:43:47.519 --> 00:43:50.599
tastes are such that I prefer music that has

00:43:50.599 --> 00:43:53.340
lyrics, I prefer songs, I prefer singing, I prefer

00:43:53.340 --> 00:43:56.960
that side of it. I'm very much anti -instrumental

00:43:56.960 --> 00:44:01.400
stuff. I shouldn't say anti, but I don't gravitate.

00:44:01.440 --> 00:44:03.539
I'm not going to listen to instrumental music

00:44:03.539 --> 00:44:06.349
in my spare time. Now, that doesn't mean I don't

00:44:06.349 --> 00:44:08.250
appreciate soundtracks and instrumental music

00:44:08.250 --> 00:44:10.550
that is attached to things like Star Wars and

00:44:10.550 --> 00:44:13.030
Indiana Jones and Lord of the Rings and things

00:44:13.030 --> 00:44:14.789
of that nature because they're just iconic and

00:44:14.789 --> 00:44:17.349
they set the mood and that type of stuff. But

00:44:17.349 --> 00:44:19.550
for me, when I'm asked, is there any music that

00:44:19.550 --> 00:44:21.130
stands out to me, it's always going to be ones

00:44:21.130 --> 00:44:24.030
with words. So for me, it's the intro, the original

00:44:24.030 --> 00:44:26.949
Filmation intro, and it starts and ends there.

00:44:27.130 --> 00:44:29.250
Not to say I didn't like some of the instrumental

00:44:29.250 --> 00:44:30.750
stuff done throughout the series, but I could

00:44:30.750 --> 00:44:32.960
never point. to my finger to like a specific

00:44:32.960 --> 00:44:35.579
theme and be like well this music they play when

00:44:35.579 --> 00:44:38.219
they're in eternia or something like that like

00:44:38.219 --> 00:44:39.480
i'm not going to be able to do that because it

00:44:39.480 --> 00:44:42.219
doesn't stick with my mind the overture for returning

00:44:42.219 --> 00:44:50.260
it is great for filmation the orco music that

00:44:50.260 --> 00:44:52.920
that that i'm doing it wrong but you know what

00:44:52.920 --> 00:45:10.260
i mean Every time Orko pops up, he has his own

00:45:10.260 --> 00:45:12.900
theme. I like the royal theme. I wish they used

00:45:12.900 --> 00:45:30.300
that a little more. And I wish whatever the next

00:45:30.300 --> 00:45:33.659
series ends up being past Revelation and past

00:45:33.659 --> 00:45:39.280
the CGI stuff. I want to get more. You know how

00:45:39.280 --> 00:45:42.480
we always, most of us, not all of us, but a lot

00:45:42.480 --> 00:45:46.360
of us will remake. And I'm one of these people,

00:45:46.400 --> 00:45:49.820
so I'm lumping myself in here too, folks. Remake

00:45:49.820 --> 00:45:54.940
again. Reboot again. Why isn't there anything

00:45:54.940 --> 00:45:57.519
original in Hollywood? Well, that's because IP

00:45:57.519 --> 00:45:59.679
needs to stay up and whatever else. So my point

00:45:59.679 --> 00:46:03.699
here is. We have always focused, and I know this

00:46:03.699 --> 00:46:05.440
is probably never going to happen again. This

00:46:05.440 --> 00:46:09.500
is like, what's his name? Kyle Higgins. asking,

00:46:09.539 --> 00:46:11.739
even though he was able to write it, but asking

00:46:11.739 --> 00:46:15.599
for an adult version, a more adult Power Rangers,

00:46:15.599 --> 00:46:17.920
not Kyle Higgins, Jason David Frank, who played

00:46:17.920 --> 00:46:20.380
Tommy Elwood. I know you're out of the Rangers

00:46:20.380 --> 00:46:22.960
thing, but the point is Jason David Frank, who

00:46:22.960 --> 00:46:25.000
played the original Green and White Ranger on

00:46:25.000 --> 00:46:27.820
the original 90s Power Rangers series, has always

00:46:27.820 --> 00:46:31.159
said as a person and as an actor, he wants a

00:46:31.159 --> 00:46:35.969
more adult. So for me, if they were ever able

00:46:35.969 --> 00:46:38.349
to do something, because most toy companies now

00:46:38.349 --> 00:46:41.590
have two lanes. They have the child lane to hook

00:46:41.590 --> 00:46:44.389
all your kids, and they have the lane for us

00:46:44.389 --> 00:46:46.829
adult collectors who want to be children in our

00:46:46.829 --> 00:46:49.730
40s so we can relive our childhood kind of thing.

00:46:50.510 --> 00:46:54.429
So for me, what I would love to see, even if

00:46:54.429 --> 00:46:58.110
it was just an opening three -parter, not necessarily

00:46:58.110 --> 00:47:02.900
repeating what 2002 did, I want to see, basically,

00:47:03.019 --> 00:47:06.119
as bad as this is going to sound, because I know

00:47:06.119 --> 00:47:09.340
it sounds like me asking for Anakin and Padme's

00:47:09.340 --> 00:47:12.440
love story in Attack of the Clones. I want to

00:47:12.440 --> 00:47:17.079
see Randor and Marlena. I want to see how, like,

00:47:17.119 --> 00:47:20.380
before they had Adam and Adora kind of thing.

00:47:21.400 --> 00:47:23.460
And then you could always flash forward it, too,

00:47:23.519 --> 00:47:25.440
after they've had them. I would prefer to see

00:47:25.440 --> 00:47:29.340
much... further into the future than much in

00:47:29.340 --> 00:47:31.800
further into the past but that's just me oh so

00:47:31.800 --> 00:47:34.199
you want to see king he -man with queen tila

00:47:34.199 --> 00:47:37.280
got it no no no i want to see uh like a he -man

00:47:37.280 --> 00:47:40.360
shira crossover where they were both just you

00:47:40.360 --> 00:47:43.239
know whatever doing stuff to save the world together

00:47:43.239 --> 00:47:47.380
for a while yeah the reason why i say that is

00:47:47.380 --> 00:47:51.440
that happened in the comics from dc anyway all

00:47:51.440 --> 00:47:55.460
right skeletor Take it away. Have you ever rewatched

00:47:55.460 --> 00:47:59.659
any of the series later on in your life? If so,

00:47:59.800 --> 00:48:04.780
how often do you go back and rewatch any of the

00:48:04.780 --> 00:48:07.699
Motu cartoons? I think with this one, we've kind

00:48:07.699 --> 00:48:11.400
of already answered. 135 episodes. If we don't

00:48:11.400 --> 00:48:13.500
have an answer by now in the last decade. As

00:48:13.500 --> 00:48:14.860
far as how often are we going to go back and

00:48:14.860 --> 00:48:16.880
rewatch it, though, it has dwindled to almost

00:48:16.880 --> 00:48:20.159
nothing now. See, that's the thing. When you're

00:48:20.159 --> 00:48:23.500
a podcast host and you decide to do a specific

00:48:23.500 --> 00:48:28.800
overall genre podcast on a show and you've spent

00:48:28.800 --> 00:48:31.579
the last decade of your life going through every

00:48:31.579 --> 00:48:35.219
aspect of all of it, you're not going to want

00:48:35.219 --> 00:48:37.039
to go through with it again. You're not going

00:48:37.039 --> 00:48:38.619
to want to go back and rewatch. I'll watch the

00:48:38.619 --> 00:48:40.500
live action movie every once in a while and I'll

00:48:40.500 --> 00:48:43.179
probably watch Revelation again at some point.

00:48:43.320 --> 00:48:46.500
But I'm pretty good on the rest of it for a long

00:48:46.500 --> 00:48:49.519
time. Yeah, and that's kind of what I was saying

00:48:49.519 --> 00:48:53.519
in another episode you and I recorded recently

00:48:53.519 --> 00:48:58.159
about the Transformers. Because I went through

00:48:58.159 --> 00:49:02.280
for our countdown and watched all 98 episodes

00:49:02.280 --> 00:49:07.760
of G1 last year in 2021. It's probably going

00:49:07.760 --> 00:49:10.460
to be the 40th anniversary before I'm going to

00:49:10.460 --> 00:49:13.519
want to watch. Even though I have episodes that

00:49:13.519 --> 00:49:15.340
I love that I could go back to watch, I'm in

00:49:15.340 --> 00:49:17.579
the process of moving on and doing other podcast

00:49:17.579 --> 00:49:23.000
things and doing other stuff. So, yeah. I mean,

00:49:23.000 --> 00:49:25.280
right now we don't go back and rewatch most of

00:49:25.280 --> 00:49:29.360
it, but if we had not done this podcast series,

00:49:29.739 --> 00:49:32.579
you know, I'd probably go back maybe every couple

00:49:32.579 --> 00:49:34.679
of months and catch an episode here or there.

00:49:34.940 --> 00:49:37.500
All right, Skeletor, what do you got? Have you

00:49:37.500 --> 00:49:42.820
ever read any of the Motu comics? If so, which

00:49:42.820 --> 00:49:47.440
ones? Do you have any favorites? This question's

00:49:47.440 --> 00:49:50.380
for you. My answer is the ones that Mike has

00:49:50.380 --> 00:49:52.820
forced me to. Yes. I don't have time for reading.

00:49:53.019 --> 00:50:00.940
Sorry. So, okay, here's the thing with you and

00:50:00.940 --> 00:50:02.800
I. It's not that you don't have, don't say you

00:50:02.800 --> 00:50:05.139
don't have time for reading. It is so hard. I

00:50:05.139 --> 00:50:07.179
have three novels of Star Wars that I've meant

00:50:07.179 --> 00:50:09.079
to read for the last year and a half that I can't

00:50:09.079 --> 00:50:11.179
get to. Well, yes, but that's also because you've

00:50:11.179 --> 00:50:15.280
had a child, you know, and all of that. But the

00:50:15.280 --> 00:50:19.659
thing of it is, is your media focus is, again,

00:50:19.800 --> 00:50:21.559
you can correct me if I'm wrong, but your media

00:50:21.559 --> 00:50:25.559
focus is the cartoons, the movies, the this,

00:50:25.579 --> 00:50:29.860
the that. And obviously it's not just on. He

00:50:29.860 --> 00:50:33.219
-Man, Transformers, it's on whatever visual medium

00:50:33.219 --> 00:50:36.380
you're, you know, whatever. And the only reason

00:50:36.380 --> 00:50:39.059
why I've offered you the comics is because I

00:50:39.059 --> 00:50:41.699
don't, you know, this is our show. I don't want

00:50:41.699 --> 00:50:45.420
to sit here and say, I'm TFG1 Mike and I am the

00:50:45.420 --> 00:50:48.780
master of powers of grace. Like, the whole point

00:50:48.780 --> 00:50:50.980
is it's our show. As long as we generally agree

00:50:50.980 --> 00:50:55.320
and I bring something to you and you say... yeah,

00:50:55.420 --> 00:50:57.260
I don't have time for that right now. Maybe you

00:50:57.260 --> 00:50:59.000
could find, and you've said that a couple of

00:50:59.000 --> 00:51:01.159
times and that's fine. And I make up some excuse

00:51:01.159 --> 00:51:03.460
of how you've gotten dragged off to the, you

00:51:03.460 --> 00:51:05.599
know, fright zone or something or other, whatever,

00:51:05.699 --> 00:51:08.400
you know? So I do plan on reading most of the

00:51:08.400 --> 00:51:10.239
comics at one point. Yeah. I mean, we do have

00:51:10.239 --> 00:51:14.260
a, a future plan that you'll hear a little bit

00:51:14.260 --> 00:51:17.119
of at the end of this episode, folks. So the

00:51:17.119 --> 00:51:22.219
comics keep it short and sweet. Uh -huh. Yeah.

00:51:23.009 --> 00:51:26.110
I wish Skeletor was actually here live with us

00:51:26.110 --> 00:51:28.309
because he would have a whole lot to say on this.

00:51:28.449 --> 00:51:31.250
So, ladies and gentlemen, this is question number

00:51:31.250 --> 00:51:34.449
16. And for those of you that may or may not

00:51:34.449 --> 00:51:38.090
know, my buddy A. Das Baron is the voice of the

00:51:38.090 --> 00:51:41.269
Skeletor you've been hearing. He does – I had

00:51:41.269 --> 00:51:44.250
to voice direct him. I wanted him to go darker,

00:51:44.349 --> 00:51:49.050
more towards 2002, less of the Filmation funny

00:51:49.050 --> 00:51:52.670
kind of thing. So, anyway. He is the one that

00:51:52.670 --> 00:51:55.510
generally joins me for the Motu comics and we've

00:51:55.510 --> 00:52:00.409
covered most of them. I enjoy them. They're okay,

00:52:00.530 --> 00:52:03.429
but I have not gone back and reread any of them.

00:52:05.389 --> 00:52:09.090
Just haven't. Yeah. All right. But I mean, they're

00:52:09.090 --> 00:52:13.429
not, again, it isn't like I read a comic and

00:52:13.429 --> 00:52:16.599
was like, oh my God, I could never be it. associated

00:52:16.599 --> 00:52:19.519
with He -Man ever again. It's not that at all.

00:52:19.820 --> 00:52:22.019
Some of them were good. I enjoyed some of them.

00:52:22.639 --> 00:52:27.400
They're alright. Okay, Skeletor. Quit playing

00:52:27.400 --> 00:52:29.400
with your toys and ask us the next question,

00:52:29.500 --> 00:52:34.059
please. How? Big is your Motu toy collection.

00:52:34.340 --> 00:52:37.579
How big is my what? How big is my Motu toy collection?

00:52:37.639 --> 00:52:42.460
It is 125 plus. So it was 125 last time I counted.

00:52:42.559 --> 00:52:44.179
I've bought some stuff since then. So it's more

00:52:44.179 --> 00:52:46.559
than that. Most, let's say probably a third of

00:52:46.559 --> 00:52:49.699
that is the original line. Third of that is probably

00:52:49.699 --> 00:52:53.400
the classic slash origin slash lines that have

00:52:53.400 --> 00:52:57.619
come out in the 2000s. And then I have almost

00:52:57.619 --> 00:52:59.360
all of the Revelation figures that have come

00:52:59.360 --> 00:53:01.360
out except for one, I believe. I'm missing one.

00:53:01.500 --> 00:53:03.400
And then I have some random other stuff, kind

00:53:03.400 --> 00:53:06.260
of offshoots and whatnot. So over 125. I have

00:53:06.260 --> 00:53:13.219
10. My toy collection is bigger than yours. Yes,

00:53:13.219 --> 00:53:17.659
it is. I have 10 Funko Pops of Masters of the

00:53:17.659 --> 00:53:21.920
Universe. And so, again, trying to keep this

00:53:21.920 --> 00:53:30.079
short, but from... 2005 to 2011, I had a regular

00:53:30.079 --> 00:53:35.380
everyday action figure robot Transformer He -Man

00:53:35.380 --> 00:53:39.320
collection. Sometime in 2012, just after we started

00:53:39.320 --> 00:53:43.039
this podcast, my mom said, I've been carrying

00:53:43.039 --> 00:53:45.860
this thing around for 30 years. It's your turn.

00:53:46.039 --> 00:53:48.920
And she gave me my original Castle Grayskull.

00:53:49.019 --> 00:53:51.659
Now, my original Castle Grayskull, sadly, is

00:53:51.659 --> 00:53:57.150
just a shell of its former self. It didn't have

00:53:57.150 --> 00:54:05.909
the plate, the frame, the holder where you put

00:54:05.909 --> 00:54:07.949
the chair, where you open the trap door. It didn't

00:54:07.949 --> 00:54:14.429
have any of that. It had one of the two turret

00:54:14.429 --> 00:54:18.030
stands, so basically the left one above the window

00:54:18.030 --> 00:54:20.690
or the right one above the window. It didn't

00:54:20.690 --> 00:54:24.769
even have the jaw bridge anymore, sadly. My mom

00:54:24.769 --> 00:54:26.889
had been lugging this thing around, moving from

00:54:26.889 --> 00:54:29.010
city to city, town to town over the years, over

00:54:29.010 --> 00:54:31.809
30 years, and she's like, yep, nope, I'm done.

00:54:32.710 --> 00:54:38.210
So in 2012, I grab it, and by, I think, the time

00:54:38.210 --> 00:54:42.389
my mom passed away, it died with her. So, fun

00:54:42.389 --> 00:54:45.010
fact, folks, I try my best to keep my apartment

00:54:45.010 --> 00:54:48.769
as clean as I possibly can, except sometime at

00:54:48.769 --> 00:54:51.349
the end of 2014, the beginning of 2015, right

00:54:51.349 --> 00:54:55.420
before my mom passed away, I had just gotten,

00:54:55.559 --> 00:54:58.239
and I'm sure I have these years right. I don't

00:54:58.239 --> 00:55:00.460
remember, and somebody can correct me. This is

00:55:00.460 --> 00:55:04.199
right as the Queen Marlena SDCC figure came out

00:55:04.199 --> 00:55:06.800
from Masters Classics. Hello, ladies and gentlemen.

00:55:06.900 --> 00:55:10.260
Future TFG1 Mike here, and what I'm saying about

00:55:10.260 --> 00:55:12.940
Queen Marlena when she was released versus when

00:55:12.940 --> 00:55:16.639
I had to give her up or let her go, she was actually

00:55:16.639 --> 00:55:20.380
released in 2011. Can you believe that Comic

00:55:20.380 --> 00:55:24.380
-Con 2011 is now just a few days away? Yada,

00:55:24.380 --> 00:55:27.800
yada, yada. This is coming from the foosh. I

00:55:27.800 --> 00:55:30.920
will put the link in the post on the website.

00:55:31.260 --> 00:55:34.119
And yeah, the Queen Marlena action figure was

00:55:34.119 --> 00:55:38.000
SDCC 2011. So even though I ended up giving her

00:55:38.000 --> 00:55:41.599
up or letting her go because of the bugs in 2014,

00:55:42.159 --> 00:55:45.440
she was actually released in 2011. So now...

00:55:45.880 --> 00:55:48.260
Back to the show. God, I forgot how good this

00:55:48.260 --> 00:55:52.519
figure was. Anyway, back to the podcast. As if.

00:55:52.539 --> 00:55:55.539
Where she had both the queen outfit and the outer

00:55:55.539 --> 00:55:59.099
space outfit. So I'm like, ooh, yeah, I have

00:55:59.099 --> 00:56:01.500
a Queen Marlena now. And I had had other classics

00:56:01.500 --> 00:56:03.559
figures at the time, so I was just, you know,

00:56:03.579 --> 00:56:07.719
posing them with, you know, the old castle. And

00:56:07.719 --> 00:56:11.079
picked up Queen Marlena one day and picked up

00:56:11.079 --> 00:56:13.619
Castle Grayskull one day in late 2014, early

00:56:13.619 --> 00:56:17.889
2015. a bug came out of Queen Marlena's dress.

00:56:18.789 --> 00:56:20.769
And then I looked at Grayskull and I'm like,

00:56:20.889 --> 00:56:26.469
give me a big garbage bag. See you later. Just

00:56:26.469 --> 00:56:31.530
could not deal with it anymore at all. Dun, dun,

00:56:31.570 --> 00:56:37.190
dun. Yeah. So my Motu toy collection right now

00:56:37.190 --> 00:56:42.110
is basically Funko Pops. And I enjoy it. I think

00:56:42.110 --> 00:56:45.929
it's fun because I try my best not to just get

00:56:45.929 --> 00:56:49.989
the standard He -Man, Skeletor, blah, blah, blah,

00:56:50.010 --> 00:56:53.429
blah, blah, blah. I have the Prince Adam. I have

00:56:53.429 --> 00:56:56.750
the King Randor. I have the blue. I originally

00:56:56.750 --> 00:56:58.949
had the purple, the more show -accurate version

00:56:58.949 --> 00:57:02.210
of Evil -In. And I think I still have that. It

00:57:02.210 --> 00:57:04.309
might be in storage. But out of the ones here

00:57:04.309 --> 00:57:07.929
that I have, I have the new blue, the more toy

00:57:07.929 --> 00:57:12.110
-accurate version. I have Slime Pit He -Man from

00:57:12.110 --> 00:57:16.150
Funko. So Slime Pit not included. Slime Pit not

00:57:16.150 --> 00:57:18.309
needed. They already did it for me. So I've got

00:57:18.309 --> 00:57:23.269
that. I've got Terror Claws Skeletor. And then

00:57:23.269 --> 00:57:26.369
I've got Grizzlor and Merman. Nice. And then

00:57:26.369 --> 00:57:28.630
the other two I have, which I still have to take

00:57:28.630 --> 00:57:31.170
out of the box, but Funko does this art series

00:57:31.170 --> 00:57:35.289
stuff where they do all kinds of designs and

00:57:35.289 --> 00:57:38.739
whatever. Well, He -Man is like... Grayskull,

00:57:38.820 --> 00:57:42.019
green color. And Skeletor is purple snake mountain

00:57:42.019 --> 00:57:47.539
color. So, you know, gotta have those. And then

00:57:47.539 --> 00:57:51.900
I have He -Man on Battle Cat flocked. There you

00:57:51.900 --> 00:57:55.099
go. Yep. Good stuff. Absolutely. Skeletor, take

00:57:55.099 --> 00:57:59.219
it away. What is the one Motu toy you could never

00:57:59.219 --> 00:58:04.920
part with ever? Or the one toy you wish you had

00:58:04.920 --> 00:58:08.920
that you'd... I don't know if there's a toy I

00:58:08.920 --> 00:58:11.940
could never part with ever, but any of the original

00:58:11.940 --> 00:58:14.239
vintage line that's in good shape, if they're

00:58:14.239 --> 00:58:17.199
not loose, if they're in decent overall shape,

00:58:17.280 --> 00:58:18.940
I probably would not part with those just to

00:58:18.940 --> 00:58:20.579
part with them. As far as something I wish I

00:58:20.579 --> 00:58:21.880
had that I didn't, I don't really have a big

00:58:21.880 --> 00:58:24.280
wish list when it comes to Motu. Maybe the Fright

00:58:24.280 --> 00:58:27.400
Zone playset from the original or the Eternia

00:58:27.400 --> 00:58:29.480
playset, because I have Snake Mountain and Castle

00:58:29.480 --> 00:58:31.079
Greyskull, so I don't have those other two playsets.

00:58:31.159 --> 00:58:33.280
I don't have a lot of the vehicles, but it's

00:58:33.280 --> 00:58:36.119
not like it's something that I'm dying for. Once

00:58:36.119 --> 00:58:39.079
I do my run -through of what I have from the

00:58:39.079 --> 00:58:41.239
original line, there will be some that are on

00:58:41.239 --> 00:58:44.239
a wish list of completing it, I guess. But yeah,

00:58:44.280 --> 00:58:46.320
I'm not selling anything or getting rid of it

00:58:46.320 --> 00:58:48.480
unless it's in bad shape, and I'm trying to replace

00:58:48.480 --> 00:58:50.219
it with a better -shaped one, I guess. Yeah,

00:58:50.239 --> 00:58:55.940
absolutely. I also phrased this question as in,

00:58:55.980 --> 00:58:58.880
like, if the house is on fire but every human

00:58:58.880 --> 00:59:01.300
and pet is safe, what would you run in and save

00:59:01.300 --> 00:59:05.480
kind of thing? And for me, if I'm only picking

00:59:05.480 --> 00:59:11.039
one, it's got to be that Slime Pit He -Man. Because

00:59:11.039 --> 00:59:13.960
that Slime Pit He -Man Funko Pop, again, like

00:59:13.960 --> 00:59:20.960
I said, our parents loathed that Slime Pit. That

00:59:20.960 --> 00:59:25.019
Slime Pit made things so dirty. Yeah. It was

00:59:25.019 --> 00:59:28.559
such a mess. It would be hard for me to grab

00:59:28.559 --> 00:59:30.360
just one thing. I don't have one that stands

00:59:30.360 --> 00:59:32.119
out above the other, so that's hard. And for

00:59:32.119 --> 00:59:35.440
me, just out of design standpoint, if I was only

00:59:35.440 --> 00:59:40.480
going to grab XXX, it would be that the art series

00:59:40.480 --> 00:59:43.679
pops, because I need to make my next YouTube

00:59:43.679 --> 00:59:46.179
video on the Funko Pop Masters of the Universe

00:59:46.179 --> 00:59:48.219
art series, He -Man and Skeletor, because they

00:59:48.219 --> 00:59:51.039
really are cool. All right, Skeletor, get your

00:59:51.039 --> 00:59:55.340
wallet out. What was the most money you spent?

00:59:56.010 --> 01:00:00.449
on a Motu toy item ever. You know, you would

01:00:00.449 --> 01:00:02.710
think with as many toys as I have that I'd have

01:00:02.710 --> 01:00:04.389
some story of one that cost a bunch or something

01:00:04.389 --> 01:00:07.070
like that. But I actually hit the gold mine or

01:00:07.070 --> 01:00:09.570
the jackpot, whatever you want to say, a year,

01:00:09.750 --> 01:00:12.769
year and a half ago on eBay. I found somebody

01:00:12.769 --> 01:00:14.590
that was selling off almost their entire collection.

01:00:14.670 --> 01:00:17.449
It seemed like they were in spectacular condition,

01:00:17.750 --> 01:00:21.010
great shape. And there was ones that I got for

01:00:21.010 --> 01:00:27.449
like a dollar, $5, $6, $8. So overall, the entire

01:00:27.449 --> 01:00:30.409
haul was a little expensive, but each individual

01:00:30.409 --> 01:00:32.789
component was not very expensive. I think probably

01:00:32.789 --> 01:00:36.329
the most I've ever spent would be when I was

01:00:36.329 --> 01:00:38.170
building my hero and villain collection. I think

01:00:38.170 --> 01:00:43.250
I re -bought either He -Man or Skeletor, the

01:00:43.250 --> 01:00:44.909
original one, because mine was a little bit more

01:00:44.909 --> 01:00:46.289
loose and I wanted one in a better condition.

01:00:46.449 --> 01:00:50.170
So I think maybe that was probably 40 bucks,

01:00:50.269 --> 01:00:53.670
maybe 30 bucks. I don't spend a lot on my Motu

01:00:53.670 --> 01:01:01.039
stuff. Yeah, and for my Motu stuff, I mean, in

01:01:01.039 --> 01:01:07.019
relative to what Funko actually has stores charging

01:01:07.019 --> 01:01:10.599
for figures, I would say that the art series

01:01:10.599 --> 01:01:15.639
pops were the most expensive ones at... just

01:01:15.639 --> 01:01:19.760
around $50 each only because it, and Funko is

01:01:19.760 --> 01:01:22.659
this whole other realm of things, but that was

01:01:22.659 --> 01:01:26.739
the aftermarket eBay price. Yeah. And you know,

01:01:26.760 --> 01:01:30.719
it is what it is, but this question here is more,

01:01:30.820 --> 01:01:33.719
again, when we do the all things transformers

01:01:33.719 --> 01:01:36.559
episodes of origins, when I can tell the story

01:01:36.559 --> 01:01:42.940
of, I spent $800 on the 2008 botcon set. Along

01:01:42.940 --> 01:01:46.000
with everything to go with all the extra things.

01:01:46.179 --> 01:01:49.519
But that was a set of five figures plus, you

01:01:49.519 --> 01:01:52.539
know, three or four more figures. But as far

01:01:52.539 --> 01:01:57.579
as like one individual item, I think the most

01:01:57.579 --> 01:02:00.179
that was ever spent was whatever the original

01:02:00.179 --> 01:02:03.820
price of Castle Grayskull was in 82. Yeah. I

01:02:03.820 --> 01:02:07.820
did buy Birdman Dodd's collection of He -Man

01:02:07.820 --> 01:02:09.920
stuff, including Castle Grayskull, just to kind

01:02:09.920 --> 01:02:11.719
of do him a solid and to add some pieces to my

01:02:11.719 --> 01:02:14.840
collection. But again, that was a haul. It wasn't

01:02:14.840 --> 01:02:16.820
just an individual thing. So there was multiple

01:02:16.820 --> 01:02:20.860
things together. All right, Skeletor, time to

01:02:20.860 --> 01:02:25.579
get fictitious on us. If you could create any

01:02:25.579 --> 01:02:32.619
Motu fiction toy, cartoon, comic, etc. what would

01:02:32.619 --> 01:02:37.139
it be and what story would you want to tell with

01:02:37.139 --> 01:02:40.000
it? I kind of have already said it. I want to

01:02:40.000 --> 01:02:43.400
see something. If I'm creating fiction specifically,

01:02:43.760 --> 01:02:47.219
I want to see something before the twins are

01:02:47.219 --> 01:02:52.460
born. I want to see how Marlena and Randor are

01:02:52.460 --> 01:02:57.900
before all that happens. And then I like, so

01:02:57.900 --> 01:02:59.840
that would be like the first half of the story.

01:03:00.960 --> 01:03:06.000
Let's say if I'm getting Netflix 30 minutes time,

01:03:06.159 --> 01:03:09.860
no commercials, the first 15 minutes would be

01:03:09.860 --> 01:03:15.079
pre -birth of children. The last 15 minutes might

01:03:15.079 --> 01:03:19.039
be like 40, 50, 60 years in the future when they're

01:03:19.039 --> 01:03:23.179
almost dead and Adam and Adora are doing whatever

01:03:23.179 --> 01:03:25.559
they're doing as adults kind of thing. What about

01:03:25.559 --> 01:03:27.420
you? This would be fairly easy for me. I would

01:03:27.420 --> 01:03:31.719
finish the 2002 series. Me too. So I would write

01:03:31.719 --> 01:03:34.460
a conclusion to it. I would take on after the

01:03:34.460 --> 01:03:36.860
fact, go with the Snake Man, introduce Hordak,

01:03:36.920 --> 01:03:40.920
and we would finish that story. Yep. All right,

01:03:40.940 --> 01:03:43.840
Skeletor, don't get all parental on us. Do you

01:03:43.840 --> 01:03:48.719
have a my parents got rid of my toys story? I've

01:03:48.719 --> 01:03:50.659
kind of already told this story. I said it at

01:03:50.659 --> 01:03:52.559
the beginning of the episode, but do you have

01:03:52.559 --> 01:03:56.420
a my parents got rid of my toys story? My mom

01:03:56.420 --> 01:03:59.000
had a garage, so once upon a time, she knew better

01:03:59.000 --> 01:04:01.719
than to put any Transformers in it. But I did

01:04:01.719 --> 01:04:05.579
lose, I think I lost a couple G .I. Joe things,

01:04:05.659 --> 01:04:08.340
but I lost most of my Motu collection, which

01:04:08.340 --> 01:04:12.099
wasn't huge. But I believe Teela, some of my

01:04:12.099 --> 01:04:14.000
He -Mans and Skeletors, the various ones I had,

01:04:14.159 --> 01:04:16.860
things like that. Luckily, some of it didn't

01:04:16.860 --> 01:04:18.420
sell, so I got to hold on to it. But I know I

01:04:18.420 --> 01:04:21.639
lost a few figures there. I lost a Silverhawks

01:04:21.639 --> 01:04:25.489
figure there. I was pretty angry when I got home

01:04:25.489 --> 01:04:27.690
from my friends and realized that she had even

01:04:27.690 --> 01:04:29.190
done that. But at least she knew not to put my

01:04:29.190 --> 01:04:31.250
Transformers in there. There you go. All right,

01:04:31.250 --> 01:04:33.409
Skeletor, you've been very vocal to this point.

01:04:33.510 --> 01:04:36.570
Let's talk about some more acting. What are some

01:04:36.570 --> 01:04:40.429
of your favorite voice performances over the

01:04:40.429 --> 01:04:45.110
course of the franchise? This question is too

01:04:45.110 --> 01:04:47.570
hard to answer. We've talked about this in Ad

01:04:47.570 --> 01:04:50.579
Nauseam. In all the other podcasts. So, I mean,

01:04:50.599 --> 01:04:53.039
I think when it comes to Alan Oppenheimer, that's

01:04:53.039 --> 01:04:56.019
the first name that pops into my head. Just because

01:04:56.019 --> 01:04:57.699
of all the different stuff he did for Filmation.

01:04:59.099 --> 01:05:01.059
Mossman, I guess, in the most recent with Revelation.

01:05:01.739 --> 01:05:04.599
But he's the one that comes to my mind first

01:05:04.599 --> 01:05:09.000
and foremost. I think there's been individual

01:05:09.000 --> 01:05:10.619
performances, though, that have been good in

01:05:10.619 --> 01:05:13.699
each series. And there hasn't been a lot of garbage

01:05:13.699 --> 01:05:15.960
outside of I wasn't a big fan of Orko's voice

01:05:15.960 --> 01:05:19.559
in the 2002 version. I wasn't a big fan of Queen

01:05:19.559 --> 01:05:22.599
Marlena and a couple. There was one other voice

01:05:22.599 --> 01:05:24.159
that drove me nuts. I can't remember which one

01:05:24.159 --> 01:05:27.400
from Revelation. But overall, Alan Oppenheimer.

01:05:27.579 --> 01:05:29.940
I think there's been other good versions of Skeletor

01:05:29.940 --> 01:05:33.440
and He -Man along the way. Merman's voice has

01:05:33.440 --> 01:05:36.639
usually been pretty good. So those are the ones

01:05:36.639 --> 01:05:38.559
that come to my mind right away. Except when

01:05:38.559 --> 01:05:43.099
he's dressing up for Halloween as Batman. I love

01:05:43.099 --> 01:05:45.760
you, Kevin Conroy. And I know it's not your fault,

01:05:45.840 --> 01:05:50.280
but that was a miscast role. Yeah, not my favorite

01:05:50.280 --> 01:05:53.119
Merman. Well, it's just more misdirected. It

01:05:53.119 --> 01:05:55.179
wasn't that it was miscast. They just didn't

01:05:55.179 --> 01:05:57.460
tell him to do anything to make it Merman. And

01:05:57.460 --> 01:06:03.110
again, I... Okay, there are, you know, we should

01:06:03.110 --> 01:06:05.550
do a whole episode on another show all about

01:06:05.550 --> 01:06:08.449
voice acting, but there are voice actors like

01:06:08.449 --> 01:06:11.769
Rob Paulson, Maurice LaMarche, obviously Mel

01:06:11.769 --> 01:06:15.010
Blanc and Frank Welker that can do a thousand

01:06:15.010 --> 01:06:19.210
different character versions. Even when he's

01:06:19.210 --> 01:06:23.400
just speaking in his normal, regular voice. I

01:06:23.400 --> 01:06:25.880
hear Bruce Wayne Batman with Kevin Conroy. It

01:06:25.880 --> 01:06:28.719
doesn't matter what role he's in. That's what

01:06:28.719 --> 01:06:32.400
I hear. I think Lena Headley, though, as like

01:06:32.400 --> 01:06:35.079
Eva Lynn in this most recent one. Fantastic.

01:06:35.480 --> 01:06:38.159
Man at Arms in The Revelation. I'm blanking on

01:06:38.159 --> 01:06:40.019
the name of the voice actor, but he was phenomenal.

01:06:41.280 --> 01:06:44.179
The other dude from Game of Thrones. I can't

01:06:44.179 --> 01:06:45.860
remember what his name is. We'll look it up later.

01:06:46.570 --> 01:06:49.510
For me, if I'm going to pick a favorite voice

01:06:49.510 --> 01:06:53.230
performance, I love Alan Oppenheimer. I do. I

01:06:53.230 --> 01:06:55.730
absolutely love him. But I love that darkness

01:06:55.730 --> 01:06:59.289
that Brian Dobson did or Michael Dobson, one

01:06:59.289 --> 01:07:01.050
of the Dobson brothers. I forget which one it

01:07:01.050 --> 01:07:05.070
is off the top of my head from 2002. So if I'm

01:07:05.070 --> 01:07:07.349
picking, I'm going to pick John Irwin He -Man

01:07:07.349 --> 01:07:11.800
and the 2002 Skeletor. Sounds good. All right,

01:07:11.800 --> 01:07:14.280
Skeletor, maybe you should be answering this

01:07:14.280 --> 01:07:17.800
question. Who is He -Man's most formidable enemy?

01:07:18.719 --> 01:07:24.139
Skeletor, Hordak, or King Hiss? I mean, seriously,

01:07:24.579 --> 01:07:27.179
who's writing these things? I thought there was

01:07:27.179 --> 01:07:30.579
only one possible answer. Like, a snake man?

01:07:31.079 --> 01:07:34.179
Come on. This is my favorite part of the episode

01:07:34.179 --> 01:07:36.039
here. We're getting to the fun questions now.

01:07:36.179 --> 01:07:38.980
Who's He -Man's most formidable enemy? Skeletor,

01:07:39.059 --> 01:07:41.820
Hordak, or King Hiss? This is an easy one. If

01:07:41.820 --> 01:07:44.679
you've watched all of the episodes of all the

01:07:44.679 --> 01:07:48.159
different cartoons, Hordak is more powerful than

01:07:48.159 --> 01:07:50.760
both of those other two. He is, but who's the

01:07:50.760 --> 01:07:55.800
more formidable one? Like, you're right. Skeletor,

01:07:55.820 --> 01:07:59.480
never best He -Man, really. I mean... Yeah, that's

01:07:59.480 --> 01:08:02.559
true. Hordak bests both Skeletor and King Hess.

01:08:02.860 --> 01:08:06.199
That's true, but the question isn't about who

01:08:06.199 --> 01:08:09.760
Hordak is going up against. It's about, you know,

01:08:09.860 --> 01:08:14.320
we never really... I mean, technically, He -Man

01:08:14.320 --> 01:08:16.680
handed Hordak his ass in The Secret of the Sword.

01:08:17.880 --> 01:08:20.720
I mean, yes, Hordak trapped him, but once he

01:08:20.720 --> 01:08:25.239
got loose, it's kind of all over for Hordak.

01:08:25.420 --> 01:08:29.930
I don't know. Yeah. It's kind of like the Tootsie

01:08:29.930 --> 01:08:33.670
Roll Pop. It's an answer we'll never know. Yeah,

01:08:33.689 --> 01:08:34.930
I guess it depends on how much you're going to

01:08:34.930 --> 01:08:38.189
go by, like the 2002 series, because that one

01:08:38.189 --> 01:08:41.710
certainly sets it up for Hordak to be the end

01:08:41.710 --> 01:08:45.170
-all, be -all. All right, Skeletor, who are you

01:08:45.170 --> 01:08:48.850
questing with? If you had to go on a quest and

01:08:48.850 --> 01:08:52.510
could only have three evil warriors or masters

01:08:52.510 --> 01:08:55.970
of the universe with you, Who would you select

01:08:55.970 --> 01:09:00.909
to be on your team? No He -Man or Skeletor. Mike,

01:09:01.210 --> 01:09:03.229
what do you got on this one? I know mine. I am

01:09:03.229 --> 01:09:06.689
going to pick Man -at -Arms. Decent pick. Stratos.

01:09:07.310 --> 01:09:15.600
And just for fun, Tongue Lashore. That makes

01:09:15.600 --> 01:09:19.460
no sense. I get, I get your man at arms one cause

01:09:19.460 --> 01:09:23.039
he's resourceful engineering style, et cetera.

01:09:23.060 --> 01:09:26.619
Maybe you need Stratos to fly. What purpose would

01:09:26.619 --> 01:09:31.199
tongue lash? I don't know. All right. Mike and

01:09:31.199 --> 01:09:33.220
my tribe will beat yours easy. Then I'll go with

01:09:33.220 --> 01:09:37.899
Zodak. I'll go with the sorceress. And with the

01:09:37.899 --> 01:09:40.920
third one, I guess you can throw him in and I

01:09:40.920 --> 01:09:47.250
can't speak. Nope. Nope. Zodak, Sorceress, and

01:09:47.250 --> 01:09:50.909
since that's a lot of magic, I guess I won't

01:09:50.909 --> 01:09:53.930
throw Hordak or Evil Lynn in there. I'll just

01:09:53.930 --> 01:09:55.689
go with Man -at -Arms like you did. I was going

01:09:55.689 --> 01:09:58.430
to pick Mechaneck, but there's only so many ways

01:09:58.430 --> 01:10:01.289
you can use a long neck. All right, Skeletor,

01:10:01.390 --> 01:10:04.449
look out. I need a roommate. If you could live

01:10:04.449 --> 01:10:07.850
in any of the following places, which would it

01:10:07.850 --> 01:10:13.460
be? Castle Grayskull, the Royal Palace. Snake

01:10:13.460 --> 01:10:17.979
Mountain, the Fright Zone, or Bright Moon? So

01:10:17.979 --> 01:10:21.399
from a comfort level, it depends on what you're

01:10:21.399 --> 01:10:23.579
choosing. From a comfort level, the Royal Palace

01:10:23.579 --> 01:10:25.500
would be your selection because there's nothing

01:10:25.500 --> 01:10:29.960
that's more with it more amenities and more people,

01:10:30.060 --> 01:10:33.119
staff, and things of that nature. Castle Grayskull

01:10:33.119 --> 01:10:34.880
would be the place where you're most protected.

01:10:35.819 --> 01:10:38.939
Yep. Snake Mountain in the Fright Zone would

01:10:38.939 --> 01:10:42.340
be odd choices for somebody to pick. I could

01:10:42.340 --> 01:10:44.239
see somebody picking Bright Moon if they like

01:10:44.239 --> 01:10:46.079
the outdoors, they like camping, or they just

01:10:46.079 --> 01:10:48.340
want to be around, I guess, a lot of girls type

01:10:48.340 --> 01:10:53.920
thing in that situation. Bo included. So for

01:10:53.920 --> 01:10:56.699
me, I guess it would come down to either the

01:10:56.699 --> 01:10:59.520
Palace or Greyskull. Yeah, I'm right there with

01:10:59.520 --> 01:11:08.939
you. I guess I'll pick Greyskull. It's not that

01:11:08.939 --> 01:11:11.140
far of a trek to Grayskull, so I guess I'll pick

01:11:11.140 --> 01:11:15.060
the palace. All right. Skeletor, are you sure

01:11:15.060 --> 01:11:17.899
you have your license yet? No way, does he? No

01:11:17.899 --> 01:11:21.800
way. If all of the MOTU vehicles existed in real

01:11:21.800 --> 01:11:25.579
life, which would you want to own, drive, or

01:11:25.579 --> 01:11:27.880
pilot the most? All right, I'm going to answer

01:11:27.880 --> 01:11:32.659
question 26 first, because as a kid, even though

01:11:32.659 --> 01:11:36.260
I know I could never do this, but... Most of

01:11:36.260 --> 01:11:41.300
us had big wheels as kids in the 80s. I always

01:11:41.300 --> 01:11:48.100
wanted to drive or ride on the Sky Sled. Yeah.

01:11:50.220 --> 01:11:53.460
So much of the stuff that was available, especially

01:11:53.460 --> 01:11:56.319
in the toy line, was more land vehicles with

01:11:56.319 --> 01:11:58.960
wheels and things of that nature. So there would

01:11:58.960 --> 01:12:01.039
be a lot of those to choose from, but I don't

01:12:01.039 --> 01:12:03.159
think you can pass that up when you have something

01:12:03.159 --> 01:12:05.970
like the Wind Raider. Skyslade would be similar,

01:12:06.090 --> 01:12:08.409
but either one of those, something that's going

01:12:08.409 --> 01:12:10.409
to fly is going to be where I'm going to choose.

01:12:10.569 --> 01:12:15.390
Yep, absolutely. All right, Skeletor, get planetary

01:12:15.390 --> 01:12:18.189
here with us. Which planet would you choose to

01:12:18.189 --> 01:12:23.789
live on? Eternia, Etheria, or Trala? So thank

01:12:23.789 --> 01:12:25.689
God this is coming to a close soon because your

01:12:25.689 --> 01:12:29.850
puns keep getting worse and worse. They're not

01:12:29.850 --> 01:12:32.489
even dad jokes on your standpoint. So, all right.

01:12:33.270 --> 01:12:35.869
Eternia, Etheria, Trala. The safest place? Trala.

01:12:36.029 --> 01:12:38.550
That would be the one where you have to least

01:12:38.550 --> 01:12:41.529
to worry about. There's not any evil stuff coming

01:12:41.529 --> 01:12:43.369
after you unless they go through like portals

01:12:43.369 --> 01:12:45.489
and things of that nature. But it's also like

01:12:45.489 --> 01:12:48.250
living at like Willy Wonka land. So I don't know

01:12:48.250 --> 01:12:51.409
how much you want to do that or not. I'm still

01:12:51.409 --> 01:12:53.189
deciding. What do you think, Mike? I don't think

01:12:53.189 --> 01:12:58.550
I would ever pick Etheria only because. I mean,

01:12:58.550 --> 01:13:01.590
if it's Etheria after Hordak's defeat, sure,

01:13:01.729 --> 01:13:05.010
I'll pick Etheria. But if it's Etheria before

01:13:05.010 --> 01:13:07.729
Hordak's defeat, you're basically an enslaved

01:13:07.729 --> 01:13:14.710
people. Yeah. You know, so Trella has too much

01:13:14.710 --> 01:13:21.609
magnets, too much magic, and dumbassery at times.

01:13:21.729 --> 01:13:23.750
I found the way to answer this question, Mike.

01:13:24.390 --> 01:13:30.039
Okay. All right. if I am 10 years old or less,

01:13:30.100 --> 01:13:33.180
I'm living in trial because that seems to be

01:13:33.180 --> 01:13:35.819
a good place for kids to live. Lots of fun, et

01:13:35.819 --> 01:13:39.840
cetera, magic, et cetera. If I am like 12 to

01:13:39.840 --> 01:13:45.640
25, I'm living in the theory because hormones.

01:13:46.859 --> 01:13:49.659
And then if I am an adult, I'm going to live

01:13:49.659 --> 01:13:52.880
in eternity. Yeah. That's a good way to answer

01:13:52.880 --> 01:13:56.479
that question. Obviously, the 80s was a great

01:13:56.479 --> 01:14:01.060
time for action cartoons aimed at boys. Why did

01:14:01.060 --> 01:14:05.619
Motu stand out amongst the crowd for you? What

01:14:05.619 --> 01:14:09.359
made you a fan? All right. Oh, boy, the 80s.

01:14:09.699 --> 01:14:12.319
Yeah, the 80s was a great time for action cartoons

01:14:12.319 --> 01:14:15.140
aimed at boys. That is for dang sure. So what

01:14:15.140 --> 01:14:17.600
made Motu stand out for me amongst the crowd?

01:14:18.860 --> 01:14:21.460
here's where I will go with that since it came

01:14:21.460 --> 01:14:25.479
first for me, as far as action cartoons that

01:14:25.479 --> 01:14:28.420
I gravitated towards was a fan of was number

01:14:28.420 --> 01:14:30.500
one on my list before anything else came out.

01:14:31.060 --> 01:14:34.640
Why did it do that? Well, up to that point, obviously

01:14:34.640 --> 01:14:36.600
I wasn't alive in the seventies, but the stuff

01:14:36.600 --> 01:14:38.579
that came before it that I would have been exposed

01:14:38.579 --> 01:14:40.460
to and things of that nature just came across

01:14:40.460 --> 01:14:43.539
more boring to me. The stuff like thunder, the

01:14:43.539 --> 01:14:47.270
barbarian black star. All the stuff that's kind

01:14:47.270 --> 01:14:49.510
of in that He -Man mold that came first just

01:14:49.510 --> 01:14:52.210
didn't have that it factor, didn't have that

01:14:52.210 --> 01:14:56.029
wow factor. And something about Motu, and maybe

01:14:56.029 --> 01:14:57.909
it was because of the toys and all the different

01:14:57.909 --> 01:14:59.409
things you could do with it, like I talked about

01:14:59.409 --> 01:15:01.289
with the blood and the necks and the eyes and

01:15:01.289 --> 01:15:03.350
the things that you could play with and ram in.

01:15:03.369 --> 01:15:05.970
You could make them ram into things and all that

01:15:05.970 --> 01:15:08.130
different stuff just separated it from the static

01:15:08.130 --> 01:15:11.289
toys, the dolls. They weren't dolls. This is

01:15:11.289 --> 01:15:15.720
action figures. almost more than any other line

01:15:15.720 --> 01:15:17.880
i know some people would say star wars but like

01:15:17.880 --> 01:15:20.420
this is the line that transitions from being

01:15:20.420 --> 01:15:24.100
a doll to being an action figure and so that

01:15:24.100 --> 01:15:25.880
helps separate it and then there was just something

01:15:25.880 --> 01:15:28.220
about the voice work something about the music

01:15:28.220 --> 01:15:30.800
and the intro and something about it where it

01:15:30.800 --> 01:15:33.840
was just like the thundar stuff and the herculoids

01:15:33.840 --> 01:15:35.899
and the black star and all that kind of stuff

01:15:35.899 --> 01:15:39.859
for me was more conan the barbarian type it was

01:15:39.859 --> 01:15:42.430
more Almost in the vein of superheroes. And I

01:15:42.430 --> 01:15:44.409
didn't gravitate towards superheroes back then.

01:15:44.869 --> 01:15:46.750
Because they just all seemed the same to me.

01:15:46.869 --> 01:15:49.250
So like this was something where I got. To see

01:15:49.250 --> 01:15:52.350
something different. And something crazy. And

01:15:52.350 --> 01:15:54.010
I don't know. It just was something that broke

01:15:54.010 --> 01:15:57.729
the mold for me. So I think that's what kind

01:15:57.729 --> 01:15:59.789
of made it stand out. Now it doesn't stand out

01:15:59.789 --> 01:16:01.949
as much. As you get that other stuff going into

01:16:01.949 --> 01:16:03.569
it. Because obviously Transformers did different

01:16:03.569 --> 01:16:05.109
things with the toys. Mask did different things

01:16:05.109 --> 01:16:08.310
with the toys. Etc. Turtles tried to do different

01:16:08.310 --> 01:16:10.729
stuff with the toys. As you go through the 80s.

01:16:11.000 --> 01:16:13.619
Maybe it blends more into the crowd, but in the

01:16:13.619 --> 01:16:15.600
beginning, it really stood out about what came

01:16:15.600 --> 01:16:17.640
before it. You just want to say ditto? No, I

01:16:17.640 --> 01:16:21.600
mean, I agree with what you said. I just think

01:16:21.600 --> 01:16:24.840
it's animation has come so far in the last almost

01:16:24.840 --> 01:16:28.720
40 years or hell, let's just say the last 40

01:16:28.720 --> 01:16:33.699
years from 82 to 2022. And the way animation

01:16:33.699 --> 01:16:39.220
is presented has changed. You look at filmation.

01:16:39.789 --> 01:16:42.050
You look at He -Man and or She -Ra, either one.

01:16:42.170 --> 01:16:44.489
I'm Prince Adam, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

01:16:44.630 --> 01:16:47.489
Go through all of that. You get that entire opening

01:16:47.489 --> 01:16:56.729
theme. And then you get the title card. But you

01:16:56.729 --> 01:17:01.270
also get music on top of that. So, yes, you have

01:17:01.270 --> 01:17:05.689
the vocal slash instrumental theme for Filmation

01:17:05.689 --> 01:17:09.039
He -Man. But as soon as that's done. You get

01:17:09.039 --> 01:17:11.479
a title card to see what the episode title is,

01:17:11.600 --> 01:17:13.800
and maybe that's all you focused on was the title.

01:17:14.140 --> 01:17:17.760
Not you specifically, but in general. Not a lot

01:17:17.760 --> 01:17:19.819
of us as kids are focusing on how many episodes.

01:17:20.100 --> 01:17:22.680
May the man rest in peace. Larry Dottilio wrote

01:17:22.680 --> 01:17:27.279
for Filmation He -Man, but that title card with

01:17:27.279 --> 01:17:37.340
that little jaunt of music got me so excited.

01:17:38.510 --> 01:17:43.810
And nowadays it's kind of not there anymore because

01:17:43.810 --> 01:17:47.750
they've kind of switched about a decade or decade

01:17:47.750 --> 01:17:51.050
and a half or so ago. They switched to doing

01:17:51.050 --> 01:17:53.550
like a cold open and then a theme song and then

01:17:53.550 --> 01:17:55.670
something else or they whatever that sometimes

01:17:55.670 --> 01:17:58.829
some shows forego an entire theme altogether,

01:17:59.069 --> 01:18:02.909
like an opening credits thing. So it is what

01:18:02.909 --> 01:18:08.260
it is. What made. stand out the most was because

01:18:08.260 --> 01:18:14.699
it was action -packed for both boys and girls.

01:18:17.479 --> 01:18:21.159
Yeah, I agree with that. I think the intro in

01:18:21.159 --> 01:18:23.699
and of itself is such a hook to get you in that,

01:18:23.800 --> 01:18:25.739
so it really had a way of getting your attention,

01:18:25.939 --> 01:18:29.810
for sure. Absolutely. Okay, Skeletor, don't go

01:18:29.810 --> 01:18:32.029
casting yourself in the new live -action movie,

01:18:32.170 --> 01:18:35.689
please. If the long -rumored live -action movie

01:18:35.689 --> 01:18:39.770
were to ever happen, what story would you want

01:18:39.770 --> 01:18:42.170
it to tell? Who do you think should play the

01:18:42.170 --> 01:18:46.149
role of He -Man, and why is or isn't it Chris

01:18:46.149 --> 01:18:49.409
Hemsworth? This question. This movie has been

01:18:49.409 --> 01:18:52.810
rumored for almost 40 years. There have been

01:18:52.810 --> 01:18:54.750
things happening, there have been things aren't

01:18:54.750 --> 01:18:58.489
happening. And you're of the opinion that Thor,

01:18:58.710 --> 01:19:02.670
of all people, needs to play He -Man slash Prince

01:19:02.670 --> 01:19:07.050
Adam. Yeah. Don't agree, but that's okay. That's

01:19:07.050 --> 01:19:09.130
because you're dumb. But here's the situation.

01:19:09.550 --> 01:19:11.949
If this was a movie that was done legit with

01:19:11.949 --> 01:19:14.689
a real director, a legit director, quality director,

01:19:14.890 --> 01:19:19.210
and was done in the same vein as, let's say...

01:19:19.720 --> 01:19:22.460
the marvel cinematic universe where it's something

01:19:22.460 --> 01:19:24.340
that we're going to take something that's fantastical

01:19:24.340 --> 01:19:27.680
and we're going to try to put a spin on it and

01:19:27.680 --> 01:19:30.100
make it for a modern audience and make it believable

01:19:30.100 --> 01:19:33.199
and make it visual visually appealing and this

01:19:33.199 --> 01:19:34.960
that and the other and it's all seriously done

01:19:34.960 --> 01:19:39.260
trying to be successful there is nobody in hollywood

01:19:39.260 --> 01:19:42.760
that looks more natural as he -man like he literally

01:19:42.760 --> 01:19:45.600
looks like he -man so that would be and he's

01:19:45.600 --> 01:19:48.899
a legit seasoned actor that has done this type

01:19:48.899 --> 01:19:50.899
of stuff then that's who we would get unfortunately

01:19:50.899 --> 01:19:52.500
what we're going to get is we're going to get

01:19:52.500 --> 01:19:54.880
some second rate director because it's the only

01:19:54.880 --> 01:19:56.680
person that'll take on the project for some reason

01:19:56.680 --> 01:19:58.460
and then it's going to be some no -named actor

01:19:58.460 --> 01:20:02.239
that may or may not be good but he's not going

01:20:02.239 --> 01:20:05.439
to look like him so that's my problem like it

01:20:05.439 --> 01:20:07.880
is Right there in front of you. Like if you did

01:20:07.880 --> 01:20:10.640
a lineup, like a police lineup, Law & Order style,

01:20:10.899 --> 01:20:13.359
and you put all these different actors in there,

01:20:13.460 --> 01:20:15.800
and you were to try to use a computer program

01:20:15.800 --> 01:20:20.039
and say which one, like specifically from a science

01:20:20.039 --> 01:20:22.560
standpoint, which one matches the most features

01:20:22.560 --> 01:20:29.520
of He -Man, it is fucking Chris Hemsworth. I'm

01:20:29.520 --> 01:20:33.300
going to let you have it, but my problem with

01:20:33.300 --> 01:20:36.399
Hemsworth is it has nothing to do with him. It

01:20:36.399 --> 01:20:38.659
really has nothing to do with him. What it has

01:20:38.659 --> 01:20:43.659
to do with is his portrayal of Thor in Thor 1

01:20:43.659 --> 01:20:46.920
and 2. Thor 3 is a little different, but Thor

01:20:46.920 --> 01:20:51.479
1 and 2, I just can't deal. And again, as of

01:20:51.479 --> 01:20:55.159
this recording, I just recently rewatched Avengers

01:20:55.159 --> 01:20:59.880
Infinity War and Endgame. Now, if you want to

01:20:59.880 --> 01:21:03.409
put Chris Hemsworth... You know, at the end of

01:21:03.409 --> 01:21:05.989
his He -Man – I know this is not what you want,

01:21:06.170 --> 01:21:09.770
Kevin, but if you put Chris Hemsworth as He -Man

01:21:09.770 --> 01:21:12.630
at the end of his career and basically use drunk

01:21:12.630 --> 01:21:17.170
Thor from those Avengers movies, that I would

01:21:17.170 --> 01:21:22.050
pay to see. Yeah, but I think you're associating

01:21:22.050 --> 01:21:24.250
too much of the character that he plays. Chris

01:21:24.250 --> 01:21:26.409
Hemsworth is an actor, so he can play other roles.

01:21:26.649 --> 01:21:30.390
Yeah, but – So he's not going to play Thor. He's

01:21:30.390 --> 01:21:33.239
going to play He -Man. I haven't seen him. He's

01:21:33.239 --> 01:21:34.680
an actor. He can do it. I haven't seen him in

01:21:34.680 --> 01:21:36.779
too many other good movies, though, besides.

01:21:37.500 --> 01:21:40.420
Fair enough. From a look standpoint, he's perfect.

01:21:40.939 --> 01:21:43.420
And the girls would like it, so maybe they would

01:21:43.420 --> 01:21:45.760
go see it. Okay, so if this is live action and

01:21:45.760 --> 01:21:50.079
this is basically, let's just say it's 87 -ish

01:21:50.079 --> 01:21:53.000
where it's He -Man all the time. So you're saying

01:21:53.000 --> 01:21:55.600
you want him as He -Man all the time and no Prince

01:21:55.600 --> 01:22:00.300
Adam? Or you want somebody else because... Hollywood

01:22:00.300 --> 01:22:02.279
can do it. So he was Prince Adam too. That'd

01:22:02.279 --> 01:22:06.180
be a lot of CGI. I actually cast this whole live

01:22:06.180 --> 01:22:08.300
action movie on cinema geeks a long time ago.

01:22:08.359 --> 01:22:10.420
So you can search it on Google. I did the whole

01:22:10.420 --> 01:22:12.300
thing. I have perfect people for everybody. Remember

01:22:12.300 --> 01:22:15.960
what episode that was? Oh Lord. I'll try to find

01:22:15.960 --> 01:22:17.880
it by the end of the show so that we can get

01:22:17.880 --> 01:22:21.920
it in there. All right. Final question, Mr. Skeletor,

01:22:21.920 --> 01:22:25.859
sir. What? Is one piece of advice that you'd

01:22:25.859 --> 01:22:29.380
give the Motu fandom and the Motu collectors

01:22:29.380 --> 01:22:33.380
in general? This question. Question 30. Wow.

01:22:35.119 --> 01:22:42.460
Calm the fuck down. Yeah, I think I think the

01:22:42.460 --> 01:22:44.960
biggest thing for me is and this is obviously

01:22:44.960 --> 01:22:49.180
came to big time awareness when Revelation came

01:22:49.180 --> 01:22:54.170
out that. we really need to stop thinking that

01:22:54.170 --> 01:22:56.029
everything has to be exactly how it was in the

01:22:56.029 --> 01:22:59.810
past. So like, just because it was this way or

01:22:59.810 --> 01:23:02.949
that way does not mean that it has to be that

01:23:02.949 --> 01:23:04.850
way. You can make minor tweaks. People can evolve.

01:23:05.090 --> 01:23:07.390
Characters can take on new tasks, new roles,

01:23:07.529 --> 01:23:09.649
et cetera, et cetera. Right. So I think that's

01:23:09.649 --> 01:23:11.590
just something that we all need to like appreciate

01:23:11.590 --> 01:23:16.220
and everybody needs to calm. When it comes to

01:23:16.220 --> 01:23:18.420
just a little, like you said, like the color

01:23:18.420 --> 01:23:21.399
of a sword or the fact that Tila was promoted

01:23:21.399 --> 01:23:24.859
to the man at arms or whatever, things like that

01:23:24.859 --> 01:23:27.720
are just silly. Now I get it. Sometimes if you

01:23:27.720 --> 01:23:29.760
completely change and make it so it's nothing

01:23:29.760 --> 01:23:32.920
like the original one, like the Netflix CGI does,

01:23:33.060 --> 01:23:36.539
where it's just like work, there's no similarity

01:23:36.539 --> 01:23:38.739
between what that is and what he meant has ever

01:23:38.739 --> 01:23:40.960
been. And that, that why call it he, man, I get

01:23:40.960 --> 01:23:43.319
that. But when it's just minor little tweaks

01:23:43.319 --> 01:23:45.789
and things like that, Everybody calm down. Like

01:23:45.789 --> 01:23:47.109
they were freaking out because somebody got a

01:23:47.109 --> 01:23:50.409
haircut. I think the problem with specifically

01:23:50.409 --> 01:23:53.470
to revelation, I'm going to put revelation and

01:23:53.470 --> 01:23:57.329
filmation in the ring, basically Rocky and Apollo

01:23:57.329 --> 01:24:01.810
in the ring. Okay. The problem with Rocky is

01:24:01.810 --> 01:24:06.850
that you had a guy, we now live in the internet

01:24:06.850 --> 01:24:09.789
age. We've been living in the internet age, but

01:24:09.789 --> 01:24:14.260
you got a guy as a show runner, whatever. in

01:24:14.260 --> 01:24:19.739
Kevin Smith that I get he's excited for it. I

01:24:19.739 --> 01:24:22.460
understand that. That's fine. Great. I want the

01:24:22.460 --> 01:24:24.640
showrunner to be excited about the show that

01:24:24.640 --> 01:24:27.119
they're doing. Just like I want a podcast host

01:24:27.119 --> 01:24:29.199
like myself or yourself or Steve Megatron or

01:24:29.199 --> 01:24:31.140
anybody to be excited about the podcast that

01:24:31.140 --> 01:24:34.979
they're doing. But if he would have just come

01:24:34.979 --> 01:24:39.979
out and said, Mattel owns this. We are going

01:24:39.979 --> 01:24:45.180
off of the toys that Mattel owns. Nobody ever

01:24:45.180 --> 01:24:48.359
would have said a damn thing about filmmation

01:24:48.359 --> 01:24:54.220
rehash or filmmation continuation or any of that

01:24:54.220 --> 01:24:58.579
stuff. But he didn't say that until after it

01:24:58.579 --> 01:25:02.180
had already been. on netflix right but that's

01:25:02.180 --> 01:25:04.640
the that's the problem is that people get so

01:25:04.640 --> 01:25:07.020
wrapped up in what they see in a poster what

01:25:07.020 --> 01:25:09.140
they see on a trailer what they see in a teaser

01:25:09.140 --> 01:25:11.260
what somebody says in an interview that they

01:25:11.260 --> 01:25:13.380
always have prejudged something before it ever

01:25:13.380 --> 01:25:16.420
actually happens and like that part is just like

01:25:16.420 --> 01:25:18.880
infuriating because like you should actually

01:25:18.880 --> 01:25:21.039
see the thing you should watch the thing before

01:25:21.039 --> 01:25:23.729
you've come to a predetermined you know course

01:25:23.729 --> 01:25:25.750
of action on what you think it's good or bad

01:25:25.750 --> 01:25:28.050
and they do that all the time and the sickening

01:25:28.050 --> 01:25:30.489
part about it these days that always goes on

01:25:30.489 --> 01:25:33.390
it always gets warped into some stupid political

01:25:33.390 --> 01:25:35.710
thing where you're either right or you're left

01:25:35.710 --> 01:25:38.329
or you're trump or you're not trump or you're

01:25:38.329 --> 01:25:40.369
republican or democrat and they brought that

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the Powers of Greyskull series. And before we

01:29:46.369 --> 01:29:48.850
close, I wanted to look this up because I know

01:29:48.850 --> 01:29:50.590
this was a piece of news that happened back in

01:29:50.590 --> 01:29:57.350
December. Sadly, as of December 2021, Masters

01:29:57.350 --> 01:29:59.689
of the Universe designer Mark Taylor has passed

01:29:59.689 --> 01:30:02.829
away. I know this is old news, folks, but we

01:30:02.829 --> 01:30:04.710
haven't done an episode of this podcast in a

01:30:04.710 --> 01:30:09.260
long time. He was basically, you know, if you

01:30:09.260 --> 01:30:11.899
look at the first like 10 minutes of the powers

01:30:11.899 --> 01:30:15.180
of gray skull documentary that we covered, he's

01:30:15.180 --> 01:30:18.420
in that talking about how he man and Conan and

01:30:18.420 --> 01:30:21.539
mixture of both. And he's basically the guy that,

01:30:21.560 --> 01:30:24.760
you know, he was credited with shaping much of

01:30:24.760 --> 01:30:28.579
the Motu aesthetic. And turtles. And yeah. And

01:30:28.579 --> 01:30:31.239
turtles. So may the man rest in peace. I didn't

01:30:31.239 --> 01:30:35.810
want us to do this episode and not. acknowledge

01:30:35.810 --> 01:30:39.029
that that guy passed away. We just keep, I know

01:30:39.029 --> 01:30:40.909
death is an everyday thing, but we just keep

01:30:40.909 --> 01:30:44.609
losing so many awesome, awesome, awesome people.

01:30:44.869 --> 01:30:49.010
So, with that being said, if you, now that Kevin

01:30:49.010 --> 01:30:51.729
and I have our stories out there, if you would

01:30:51.729 --> 01:30:54.050
like to be on the Origins episode here at POGS,

01:30:54.229 --> 01:30:56.869
send an email to feedback at geekcastradio .com

01:30:56.869 --> 01:30:59.430
with the subject line POGS Origins Guest Spot.

01:31:00.720 --> 01:31:03.039
You must have one year or more of podcast experience

01:31:03.039 --> 01:31:08.779
and have a decent microphone, please. I use Skype

01:31:08.779 --> 01:31:11.920
or Zencaster to record these. Anything else you

01:31:11.920 --> 01:31:13.720
want to say, Optimus Solo, before we get the

01:31:13.720 --> 01:31:16.100
heck out of here? Nope. Just bring on the live

01:31:16.100 --> 01:31:17.899
-action movie, bring on the next season of Revelation,

01:31:18.180 --> 01:31:21.479
and let that other thing die and fade away. Ladies

01:31:21.479 --> 01:31:23.760
and gentlemen, in the future, mixed in with these

01:31:23.760 --> 01:31:26.899
Origins episodes, we will be doing all five seasons

01:31:26.899 --> 01:31:32.279
of Netflix She -Ra. And, and the two seasons

01:31:32.279 --> 01:31:37.939
of the new show. Nice. Oh, Hey, by the time we

01:31:37.939 --> 01:31:39.760
get to it, it may have three seasons. I don't

01:31:39.760 --> 01:31:46.920
know. Be gone by the time. We'll stop it. So

01:31:46.920 --> 01:31:50.880
thank you for listening to us as we are the powers

01:31:50.880 --> 01:31:53.359
of gray skull series podcast here on the geek

01:31:53.359 --> 01:31:56.239
cast radio network. If you'd like to get in contact

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01:32:17.340 --> 01:32:19.960
for the show. I'm at TFG1. Mike, what is your

01:32:19.960 --> 01:32:22.899
Twitter? At Optimus Solo. You also want to promote

01:32:22.899 --> 01:32:26.199
the other one you use? Um, not too much yet,

01:32:26.199 --> 01:32:28.420
but be on the lookout for something called the

01:32:28.420 --> 01:32:30.300
geek showcase. It's going to come soon. You're

01:32:30.300 --> 01:32:31.899
going to be able to see a lot of vintage He -Man

01:32:31.899 --> 01:32:33.699
toys and things of that nature. Very cool. Very

01:32:33.699 --> 01:32:35.500
cool. Become a fan of Facebook, go to facebook

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01:32:41.220 --> 01:32:44.760
as well. I finally set up a, uh, a Facebook page

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for this show. We hope you enjoyed the gray skull

01:32:47.760 --> 01:32:49.420
goodness today. And don't forget to join us in

01:32:49.420 --> 01:32:52.340
our next adventure when we will be doing something.

01:32:53.180 --> 01:32:55.579
I don't know. Comics, maybe. She -Ra, maybe.

01:32:55.840 --> 01:32:58.600
Comics, maybe. It might be... I don't know. It

01:32:58.600 --> 01:33:00.479
just depends on when we can actually record one

01:33:00.479 --> 01:33:03.180
of these things. Dun -dun -dun. So, for now,

01:33:03.260 --> 01:33:06.159
I am TF2 and Mike with... The one and only Optimus

01:33:06.159 --> 01:33:08.739
Solo. By the power and for the honor of Grayskull,

01:33:08.880 --> 01:33:14.840
we have the power. Amen. But only now do they

01:33:14.840 --> 01:33:22.829
understand. It was all for Skeletor. That'll

01:33:22.829 --> 01:33:25.670
teach you to fool around with magic. Curse you

01:33:25.670 --> 01:33:29.210
all! Once I've restored evil linen faker, I'll

01:33:29.210 --> 01:33:34.529
be back to have vengeance! So swears Skeletor!