Hi, this is Larry Dottilio, writer for He -Man
and Beast Wars, and you are listening to the
Geekcast Radio Network. This is Man at Arms,
and you are listening to the Masters of Greyskull.
Not long ago, when times were simpler, this was
a healthy breakfast. This was a powerful workout.
And this was a hero. Now, more than ever, we
need that kind of hero again. Hello, this is
Optimus Solo, and welcome to the 136th chapter
in our Powers of Greyskull series. With me for
this journey into the Masters of the Universe
franchise, as always, is TF21 Mike. Hello. Hello.
We're back. Sort of. And I feel like I need to
say this, like... I mean, there hasn't been a
lot in the last four years. I feel like we need
someone to do the best rock here. And finally,
after 39 years, we're getting our next Masters
of the Universe movie. And we are here to react
to our first look at the trailer for that movie.
So we hope you're ready, because it's time, finally,
to go back to Eternia. All that stuff that only
exists in legends and bedtime stories. Talking
tigers, spaceships, and magic swords that can
make a man as mighty as a god. Where I come from,
that stuff is real. Why did you send me away?
I wanted you to be safe. So I sent you to a place
I knew that they'd never find you. There is.
This obsession with nerd stuff and sword things,
it's not a good look for human resources. I know
it sounds crazy, but that sword is going to show
me the way home. What? Sir, you can't do that.
Don't worry. The sword's mine. hang on it's about
to get weird what am i supposed to do Yes, sir.
As you said, and as you just heard, folks, the
trailer for Masters of the Universe 2026 coming
out June 5th, only in theaters. They dropped
the trailer. And I'll say this right now. So
I made up this script back when we were doing
Masters in Space, I think, or maybe it was Masters.
I don't know. The good moments and the bad moments,
Grayskull goodness and Motherboard of Madness
or whatever it was probably when we were doing
the Revolution Revelation stuff for Netflix.
The only bad things I have are nothing to do
with the trailer itself. Okay. It's everything
else around it. that has like, like it's not
necessarily other people's reactions to it, but
it's certain things people have said. And it's
nothing about anyone that I know. It's just the
general public about what people say. So we'll
get into that way later. But, uh, yeah, this
trailer, Holy crap. Where do you want to start?
Well, I've obviously known what we've been hearing
about this movie for at least a decade, if not
two. Yeah, there's always been rumors about another
one and then there's been ones in the works and
scripts being written by this person and that
project gets scrapped and then it gets passed
off to this person or that person and this company
and that company. And, you know, obviously it
got to the point where it's almost like a running
joke for Masters of the Universe fans. And that's
why I totally understand you when we were talking
about it. I don't know how long ago that was
where you're like, I'm not believing it until
I'm sitting in the theater watching it or whatever
the case may be. I get that reaction. Yeah, so
my thing is, just so the audience knows, my thing
is that when a movie or a show or a cartoon or
whatever is coming out, something visual that
I can see, it's kind of like believing is seeing,
seeing is believing, the old Casper thing from
31 years ago. I can't believe in something until
I see and know something. You don't have to tell
me, oh, it's coming June 5th. You can tell me
it's coming soon. But I need to see a 20 second,
a 30 second, a minute and 45 seconds, whatever
it is. I need to see an actual trailer. I do
not believe news stories. I don't care how reputable
the news organization is. I'm not saying anything
against any insert. whatever news website you
want to believe here i'm just saying anyone that
is ever anyone i don't care who could be you
could be steve anybody in my life anyone that
has ever sent me a news article about new masters
of the universe movie coming soon no it's not
i until there's a damn trailer and until they
sit until the trailer at the end of the trailer
it says coming soon to a theater near you I refuse
to believe it because for the last 39 years,
they've been promising us this. Pretty close.
Okay. But again, my point in saying that. The
39 years thing is because it's been 39 years
since the 87 film. It'll be 40 years since the
87 film next year in 2027. Yada, yada, yada,
yada, yada. That's my point. Okay, yeah, great.
I'm going to ballpark it as saying 20 years since
2006 just to give it a round number. And honestly,
these days you could see a trailer and it could
still be fake. So you never know. Exactly. True.
And again, until an official. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Until an official channel, blah, blah, blah,
blah. And then there's people out there on YouTube
that will take this trailer that we are about
to comment on. And I get it. They want their
nostalgia back. Look, man, you've known me for
2008, 2009, whenever we first started talking.
What is that? 17, 18, whatever years. You know
I run on nostalgia. But somebody on YouTube took
this trailer and put the original Filmation song
to it. Like, just blanket put the original Filmation
intro music to it. And I'm like, okay, great.
That doesn't make me want to see this movie more.
Yeah. The original Filmation song is the original.
Filmation opening song? It goes with that. It
doesn't go with... It would sound weird if it
was with this. I'll send you the clip afterwards.
There would be a disconnect there. But they do
have a couple notes here and there where it sounds
like they're going to intertwine a version, a
modernized musical callback to it. Right. Yeah,
exactly. If they intertwine the music that was
done by Shuki Levy and Ham Saban, God, I can't
believe I just pulled that out of my ass and
my brain at 10 o 'clock at night. If they intertwine
the music from it and not, you know, because
literally how that person did the clip, how they
figured it out or whatever, they timed John Irwin
saying, by the power of Grayskull. And at the
time when, oh, what's the kid's name? yeah when
when he does his i have the power it's john saying
it over him so they so they timed it right to
make it feel like it and again i'll i'll share
it with you once we're done recording but it's
like no i don't i don't i i have that i have
that from 40 plus years ago if i want that i'll
go back 40 plus years ago and watch that i want
I'm not, I'm not saying I don't want homages.
I'm like, we start with czar, czar, whatever.
Like, I mean, this is a, this is super, super
heavy. Yeah, absolutely. And I love this. It's
a modern take on with a lot of filmation crumbs.
So I don't think anybody from our, anybody that
grew up in the 80s series or anybody that if
that is their series, like you, you should have
a lot to enjoy with this. uh as far as like where
it's getting its nods from it seems to be most
absolutely yeah yeah like you're saying right
from zor and the first sequence of the trailer
where we get to see the colors and then the that
form of the sorceress like throughout the entire
rest of it like it's so much information that
that's good so i that's one of my positives like
i love the filmation s ness of this trailer yeah
i love how much the they tried to get as many
of the characters, vehicles, and places to look
like they did in either the original toy line
or the original artwork or the original cartoon.
There's so many that are getting nods to one
of those elements. Yeah, there's so many Mark
Taylor designs in here. It's just crazy. And
it's crazy good. Crazy in a good way. It's so
awesome. different but you can tell it's gray
skull the power sword looks almost identical
a lot of the characters themselves yes some of
them are different races or different genders
or different whatever like take that out of it
you can tell who they are you know who the characters
are yeah i'm i'm over that when they did that
years ago they've done that a couple of times
in the last 40 plus years of this franchise I'm
over that at this point. If they decide that
they need to do that, if they decide that this
actor who is this race is the best actor for
the role, go ahead and cast them. If that's the
best person you got in 2026, great. Okay, sure,
fine. The most separated from the original look
that we get or the most distance that we get
is in Roboto just because of how large. the character
is a Roboto and it's not a humanoid like figure
that we get to see. It's definitely a robot and
it's definitely big and bulky. So like that is
the, the one instance where we have a deviation
that you, I mean, you can still tell it's a robot,
but it completely does not look like the original
Roboto. And like, maybe there's layers to that
armor and maybe some of it can come off and it'll
look smaller at some point during the movie and
look more human. Like we don't know that yet.
But just based off of what we got from the trailer,
that's really the only character that you're
like, oh, that looks a little different. Yeah,
that did look a little different, but that's
okay. And again, it wasn't necessarily bad. It
was just like, oh, I can tell that that one's
a little different. Whereas all the other ones,
you're like, yep, that's that person. That's
that person. That's that person. It looks the
same, etc. At least they didn't replace Roboto
with, you know, blades or something. Well, so
far, what I've seen, at least from the trailer,
and again, this is a trailer. This is two minutes.
in however many seconds out of a movie that's
probably going to be at least 90 minutes or more.
So it's just a snippet, right? But I believe
that we got a lot of characters so far. The ones
that we've seen are ones that existed. So, so
far it doesn't look like they've just created
a new character specifically for this movie.
They may do that. We may get a character somewhere
along the way that's like, hey, I don't know
where this one comes from. I'm hoping we don't.
But so far, I like the fact that all the characters
that have appeared in this trailer are ones that
we know. I would say that just based on the trailer
and based on what happens in the trailer, based
on, let's just say, this is the story trailer
kind of thing, based on the story that's told
in the trailer, whomever the parents are, of
Adam on Earth, that's going to be... Cause I
don't know how that's going to work. So I'm assuming
that's going to be a created character. I don't
know. I know, but I'm saying like, like I'm basing,
basically saying like the new characters that
we don't know of are going to be the earthbound
care. I don't think you're absolutely right.
I don't think they're going to be, I don't think
they're going to pull an attorney and care, you
know, a new attorney and character out of their
ass just to pull it out of their ass. Right.
As far as like the, He -Man characters. There's
going to be some He -Man Earth characters that
are new, obviously. Another thing I liked is
I really liked the way that one challenge in
doing this in 2026 is the fact that you're modernizing
something that existed 40 years ago, right? And
not only 40 years ago, but 40 years ago in cartoon.
So one of the challenges that they were going
to have in front of them, not only is taking
cartoon to live action, I get that part, but
the other part is taking some of like, for example,
I guess my main example here is Prince Adam in
the original cartoon wears an outfit that you
probably would not see anywhere today. Like you're
not going to see it in 2026. You're not going
to see it on earth. You're probably, Not going
to see it on even in this version of Eternia,
right? Like with the pink outfit that he has
in the cartoon. So I thought they did a good
job of paying homage to that in his Prince Adam
getup with a modern version that fits the color
scheme and is believable. So I like that. Yep.
I also like that we get to see a seemingly tone
for this film that's going to be mature yeah
so we have one sequence particular where they
show the bridge going from i believe it's the
bridge going from eternia to castle grayskull
which we can get into that later but there's
a a walkway bridge etc and you literally see
what appears to be a variety of dead bodies on
the bridge or on the different things like it
at least looks like that so it looks like they're
not going to shy away from maybe we don't get
like the main characters die but we're going
to get minions i will call them for you know
lack of better term you know whether it be like
skeletors foot soldiers whether it be attorney
and guards like we are going to see that not
everybody survives yeah no whether it be in flashbacks
whether it be stuff that's happening At the moment,
there's going to be some death. So I like that
they're... It seems like they're going to try
to do some Filmation -esque stuff. And maybe
there will be some humor and some camp and some
of that. But they're also going to have a mature,
serious side to that. And I dig that. Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah, no, I absolutely dig that. As far as the...
Let's just get to the bridge too far there. I...
For convenience of the plot... I don't mind that
there is a bridge from the palace to the castle,
even though we know deep down the palace and
the castle were always like three days away from
each other, three days separated from each other,
because that's just the way it always was. But
for convenience of the plot. the fact that they're
connected in this and maybe that makes it so
much easier and so much better for the plot of
this to keep the story moving. Cause maybe you
only have, like you said, a 90 minute runtime.
Maybe you only have a. two hour runtime who knows
what the look man hollywood plays fiddle faddle
with runtimes these days you might have heaven
forbid i don't want this because i didn't no
i didn't want this with the movie that i'm going
to reference heaven forbid we have a three and
a half hour the batman runtime look no movie
needs to be three and a half hours ever it just
does they want to make this thing six hours i
will sit in the theater for six hours no i'm
just kidding Ladies and gentlemen, the powers
of gray skull series podcast is looking for our
new cohost. I don't care what the timeframe is.
I will watch this, split it into a trilogy. I'll
watch all of it. Like it's fine. Give me more
human. You can have multiple movies. Absolutely.
But you, you gotta have a, you gotta have a good
cutoff point. You gotta have a good cliffhanger.
You gotta have a good, you know, hanging off
the abyss at gray skull hanger kind of thing.
You got to have the, is Skeletor dead or is he
not dead at the end of this? It's like the shredder
when he pokes his arm back through the floor.
Yeah, exactly. You got to have Adam, not in this
movie, obviously, because he's just going to
be finding it. But let's say this does, and I
hope it does, because we don't know. But let's
just say in a future where this is released.
Well, it will be, obviously. But let's just say
when this is released and in the future it does
really well, it gets a sequel. The sequel is
The Problem with Power. And the cliffhanger to
that is Adam throws the sword into the thing
next to Greyskull. Let the power return! And
that's the cliffhanger of the second movie. There's
so many directions. We'll get into that. No,
no, no, I know, I know, I know. But I'm just
saying, like, this is the one way. Anyway, yeah.
Okay, where to next? So other things I like.
I feel like the Power Sword and the Havoc Staff,
we get a shot of both of those, and they look
amazing. They look spot on, exactly how they
should look, and I'm 100 % down for that. As
far as some of the characters' looks, I think
all of them are fine, but I think some that really
appealed to me was Teela. I think she looks great.
And I would probably say that my next two favorite
shots that I got would, well, three. I'll say
Cringer, Crapjaw, and Skeletor. Like, I thought
all of them looked freaking amazing. The face
of Skeletor is perfect. Yes, it is. as long as
it's just the skull so i enjoyed all of that
i also enjoyed that they gave us a smattering
of characters but they didn't necessarily freeze
frame and give us like every single person we're
gonna see like i want there to be some that i'm
not sure if we're gonna see and we find out in
the theater during the movie that's like oh there's
that person or oh they did include this person
like i want those moments so i like that we got
a variety We got to see little clips of quite
a few characters. I mean, you see the glowing
eyes of mechanic, right? You see a very glimpse
of, of in the background of Ram man, you get
to see a little bit better pictures of goat man
and trap John spike or, and beast man and evil
lens. So like you get a good amount, but I feel
like there may be some others that we're going
to see during the course of the movie that will
be extra fun when we get to see them in the theater.
So I like that they're holding some of them back.
Yeah, absolutely. Another thing I love that they
make some references and kind of give something
to the collectors and the toy fans out there.
Seamless. Multiple things. Not only do we get
the whole sequence in the toy store where he's
trying to find the sword, but if you look...
in his room if you freeze frame a few frames
when he's in his room at the one beginning of
the trailer there's some action figures on his
desk as well you can't quite tell exactly who
or what they are but you can see that there's
some action figures there so i just love that
they're like hey we know that there's a large
part of the diehard audience that loves the toys
the action figures and the collector aspect of
this and so they found ways to do that and not
only that but they brought in so many of the
vehicles Oh yeah. That were present in the original
line that, that you can easily tell which ones
are which. And I thought that was very fun. Yeah,
that was so awesome. Absolutely. I think another
thing that I, three things more that I really
like. So first I love that a majority of the
trailer is on Eternia. Yep. That could be a bait
and switch. It could be that that's about all
we're going to see on Eternia. And they spent
a whole lot of time on earth. I'm going to hope
against hope that that's, Not the case. And that
the ratio of Earth to Eternia in the movie is
similar to what we got in the trailer. Like,
go get him, bring him to Eternia, let's do everything
else in Eternia. I'm hopeful, based on how much
screen time we get of Eternia, that that's going
to be a thing. Another thing that I love is that
in the beginning, he says something, he says
the line, and PixelDan points this out in his
review on YouTube. If you're not a PixelDan fan,
you should be. Go watch it. But the opening line
in this where they say, talking tigers. Yeah.
Please tell me that's going to be a thing. Please
tell me that they found somebody to do Cringer
or Battle Cat's voice. That would be fantastic.
My last bit of super positive part about this
trailer is I've known about this for a while,
obviously. I've followed the rumors. I've followed
a lot of the stuff. And it seemed like, hey,
this is actually going to happen. So I was all
about it. And in my mind, I've been scarred by
so many maybe. reboots and remakes and adaptations
of stuff from our childhood that I was deep down
I'm thinking this is probably going to be somewhat
terrible I'm going to be excited for it I'm going
to be there on day one to watch it and I might
be in the minority but I'm going to enjoy my
time and I don't care how it does this trailer
has completely flipped the script on the momentum
that this project had It went from something
that we knew about to having more views than
any other trailer. It broke records. It had more
views than the Avengers trailer. People, whether
it be good or bad, I don't care. Talk about it.
Complain about it. Talk about it. Post it. Circulate
the news. Because if this thing does well enough,
we will get more, and I am here for that. Because
there are so many ways that they could go. They
could do a sequel. where they bring in snake
men right they could do a sequel where we bring
in shira and hordak they could do so many different
things if this is successful so i am super excited
that the trailer has gotten the amount of hype
that it has because to me it means that this
thing might actually make some money and not
that i care about how much money movies make
but if this one makes money we'll get more and
i'm here for that yeah no absolutely yeah no
it's just yeah See, here's the thing about Masters
of the Universe. It's a franchise that has become,
and we all hate this. I know we all hate this,
but I'm going to say it anyway. Because it is
true. From 2003 to now, it is a franchise that
has been toy -based only. And the reason why
I say that is because half the time when a cartoon
would come out, from 2004 to now because 2003
was the last year that they did the mike young
series uh the you know the gun up until they
released the netflix shiro or dreamworks i should
say because it's not netflix the series it's
the dreamworks series shira and the princesses
of power and then they did the actual netflix
series the two kevin smith series revelation
and revolution not a lot of people outside of
us and outside of the people that are in our
sphere, the toy collecting sphere, the whatever
sphere, the masters of the universe fandom. I
don't think the general public was, was paying
that much attention to masters of the universe.
Cause when you don't have a cartoon and it's
had comics over this entire time, there's plenty
of masters of the universe comics that I can
send your way that we could do podcast episodes
of. I mean, I'm just saying that there's plenty
of stuff, but I'm saying like, The reason why
this trailer did so well is because it showed
the world, look, finally, again, after 39 years,
there's another Masters of the Universe film.
And unlike Transformers, it hasn't been beaten
to death yet. And I'm not saying that there's
not room for Transformers, but I'm just saying
we've gotten so many films of that, and this
is kind of a breath of fresh air. We haven't
got this. The other thing that can happen if
this does really well, knock on wood, but...
Maybe we do get a Thundercats movie or maybe
we do get something else from an 80s property
because we're in a period where a lot of the
80s properties are done being rebooted and adapted
and they've moved on to 90s things because now
that's the age of the parents, right? Like the
people that have kids are 90s kids. So they're
going to try to appeal to that and they're not
going to try to appeal to us 80s kids as much
anymore because we're older and we don't have
as many young kids. This could be a thing where
it's like, well, maybe there's a few things that
we can still do from the 80s that haven't been
done yet. So I'm all about the hype. So overall,
I think the trailer is fantastic and there's
a lot of positive. Yep. As for me, he knows everything.
That's good. I don't want Adam not knowing. I
don't want the secrets. I don't want him being
sent to Earth and him not knowing why he was
sent away. I didn't want that at all. I think
they pick a good age to send him away because
he's old enough where he's going to remember
some of that. So it's not like, why is he drawing
pictures of swords? He's drawing pictures of
swords because that's his childhood and he remembers
it. I'm fine with that. As far as transitioning
to... your motherboard of madness well wait a
minute wait a minute hold on you got something
else okay yeah i thought you were are we well
it was a question that pixel dan threw out and
it was something we haven't really talked about
and i i don't care either way but i i'm curious
because it's going to be interesting to see what
they do with it dan asked are we throwing the
secret idea out the window Well, I have that
in my motherboard of madness. Oh, okay. Well,
let's get to that then. All right. So starting
there, secret identity. Do we have it? Is it
a thing? Do we care? So I don't know if I'll
be upset one way or the other. I think it does,
though, add some elements to the interactions
between the good and the evil characters. I would
like it to still exist as far as Skeletor not
knowing who he is. But I do believe there's a
way around it that can make it work. So I'm still
undecided on that one. I don't know if that's
a good thing or a bad thing until I see how they
execute it. I agree. And I think the reason why
this question came up so much is because of the
toy store scene. No, it's okay. This is my sword.
It's my sword. I need it. I think that's really
why where it's Prince. And there's so many shots
where he's in his Adam garb in front of like,
yeah, literally fighting with trap jaw in his
Adam outfit. Yeah. So that's the other thing
is, Hmm. He's also reaching back for a sword.
So maybe he's just carrying a sword and maybe
they're going to act like they don't know he's
different. Or maybe they realize that they look
so much alike that like today's audience is going
to be like the whole Superman Clark Kent thing.
Like we're not buying the same person. Yeah,
I'm fine either way. I want to see how it comes
out. My only thing with the secret identity before
you move on, my only thing is as long if they're
going to keep it, as long as he doesn't have
to go run around a corner and hide behind a rock
to do it. Right. I don't want to have to read.
If I want Adam to go run around, hide behind
a rock, I will go crack open my Filmation DVDs.
and watch the transformation from 40 -plus years
ago. Yeah, so I don't know. But go ahead. What
do you got? I got two other things. I got a lot
of things, but my next two are kind of combined.
So number one, yes, they should be putting Battle
Cat in the MGM Lion logo at the beginning. No!
I hate that! No! No! Please do that before the
movie. No! yes veto no needs to be there that
was the thing that was the other thing people
were saying and i'm like that would be too hokey
no i'm glad they did no disney does that all
the time for their movies we they should do it
for this too this is not disney and the other
question is will we get battle cat we only see
cringer in the trailer we only see cringer which
is i'm happy that we only see cringer in this
trailer now if they start doing tv spots for
this where it's shorter clips and we see a battle
cat clip, I will be fine. But I'm happy that
this trailer was just cringer because there's
so much in this trailer that if you had added
battle cat, like if you had done, I have the
power and then two seconds and done the battle,
it would have been too much. It would have been
the, I have the power for you. Yep. Okay. Number
one, will you be upset if it's cringer the whole
time? And number two, will you be upset if Cringer
slash Battle Cat doesn't talk? Yes, I will be
upset if he doesn't talk because of one reason
only. And I don't know if they're going to hire
this guy, but I hope they do. And I'll say who
it is in a moment. And I would be upset if it
is Cringer the whole time, but I wouldn't be
as upset as long as he talks. And the one guy
that I think they should hire, David Kaye. My
only, my only. reason why i say will it be cringer
the whole time is because there's a sequence
in the trailer that they show cringer growling
yes and that's not something grint cringer would
have done right so is that the just cringer is
just going to be both him and battle cat without
a formation change or without a look is there
going to be a cowering cringer and a ferocious
battle cat or is it going to be just the same
cat kind of the whole time you know what i mean
because in the information we kind of get two
distinct personalities and i feel like this may
be a blend of those two or just the the serious
one so i'm not sure how i feel about that and
if you're gonna and it didn't show this you're
right it just showed cringer or just showed the
cat growling it did not show the cat with a saddle
on him so why wouldn't he man right look folks
if you're and we didn't touch on this i don't
know if this is further down in your bad moments
because i didn't care about this either way but
if you're gonna put he man in his traditional
skirt garb you gotta give the guy a saddle to
sit on if he's gonna ride the damn cat man will
he ride the cat that but that's but that's my
point like Maybe he doesn't ever ride the cat.
That would be silly. I feel like that would be
a miss. And a side question. So we know Cringer's
in here. Where's Panther? Are you hoping for
Panther? Yeah, you're damn right I am. So I'm
going to be interested to see how they deal with
Cringer and Panther. Cringer Battlecat slash
Panther and how they work that out. So we'll
have to wait and see. I mean, Panther only has
one personality. So maybe they're doing the same
with Cringer. I don't know. We already talked
about it a little bit. I'm a little not sure
yet on Roboto, both the size and the female voice.
Not that it has to be male or female. Oh, it's
a female voice? Yes, Kristen Wiig is the voice
of Roboto. Oh, that's right. She could probably
add some humor to it or do different things.
My problem is Roboto is just so known for that
clear midsection. And I really want to see that
some of that armor comes off and we get to see
that. Otherwise I'll be slightly disappointed
with robot. I think, I think they'll do that.
I think there, I think again, this is, this is
such a good trailer because they give us just
enough without going overboard. Like this is
almost, I dare, I say almost a perfect trailer
where they give us, us people that are fans enough
Easter eggs. without going overboard where it's
too much, where it turns us off to, Oh my God,
I didn't need to see that much of it. Oh my God.
It's you've shown me the whole, this isn't a,
you showed me the whole movie plot trailer. This
is a. You told me what it is. You've told me
how it's going to sort of you haven't told me
the whole story, but you've told you give me
the basic plot points here and you've shown me
a bunch of cool things. Roboto was one of them,
but you didn't show me everything with Roboto.
So maybe there's something there that his stomach
could. Whoops, sorry. I hit my microphone there.
Maybe his stomach could unfurl, unfold, clench,
whatever. I'm holding out hope. Hold on. I hope
I'm wrong on this next one. I was not 100 % sold
on Alison Brie as Evelyn. I think the outfit
is great. I'm not sure she's got the right face
for the character, and maybe that's just because
I've seen the toy sculpt, and the toy sculpt
face for Evelyn is not good. But is the toy sculpt
face based on her face, though? It seems like
it is. And I'm hoping that she just plays the
part well enough where I, where I won't care.
But when I first got my first glimpse of her
face, I was like, that's not evil into me. Whereas
all of the other ones seem like they fit fine.
So I'm, I'm not, that's me being super picky.
And then, like I said, I hope she proves me wrong.
Cause I think she's a capable actress. It was
just at first sight. I was like, Ooh, that's
not my evil Lynn that I'm used to, I guess. Well,
at least she has the white hair. Yeah. Question
about the. whatever you want to call them, Skeletor's
army. We don't get that really. Hordak has soldiers.
Yeah. We don't get a whole lot of Skeletor having
kind of the foot clan, so to speak, for lack
of a better term, in any other. We've reviewed
every He -Man thing that is just about to review,
right? Almost. Not a lot of times where he has
the foot clan behind him. So what is your thoughts
on this army of evil soldiers? I gotta go back
and look at it again, but my only thought when
I first saw it, and I know it's not this, but
the Night Beasts? Yeah. But they could only come
out at night, though. They hated the daylight.
Right? So I'm not sure. I get you need it for
the movie purpose, because you're gonna have
a bunch of Eternian guards, and you need a big
battle scene, so you can't do that with just
ten bad guys. So I get why you're doing it, but
I'm just like, it's a little change, but I'm...
I think I'm okay with it. Just for lack of something
else that you would be able to create a large
-scale battle without them. I think Goatman being
in here is interesting. Obviously, he is very,
very rarely depicted anywhere. He's not one of
the major ones, so it's kind of strange that
they picked him, but I'm still holding out hope
that that is okay and works. He looks like somebody
from Hellboy. Yeah, I'm holding out hope that
that's a two -second scene and he's just, hey,
guys, I'm here. And all I can think of is frigging
Adam Sandler from the 90s. Hey, goat, why don't
you come over here and we'll talk to you. Oh,
you're going to kick the footballer. That's all
I can think of is Adam Sandler and his goat skit.
When I think of goat man. What else you got?
My next question for you is about. The Prince
Adam to He -Man transformation. Pixel Dan touches
on this as well. Do you think we get one of those
at the end of the movie and he is only He -Man
for a very short amount of time? Or do you think
we get multiple transformations? How do you think
they're going to handle that? Oh, where would
they put that? Hollywood thing would be that
we just get one. Right. I know, but I'm saying
the reason why I said where would they put that
is Where did they put it in the trailer? The
way they made it look in the trailer is that
they made it look like it was kind of in the
battle. Yeah. In the midst of the battle. Personally.
Go ahead. If the plan is to hopefully have more
than one movie, I'm fine if the majority of this
movie, he's Adam. He finally gets this figured
out and does a transformation to He -Man in the
final act of the movie. We have a battle and
everything is fine. my worry is that there's
a bunch of idiots on the interwebs and social
media and in society that are going to make that
same complaint that they did with the kevin smith
one that basically says the whole movie was prince
adam and it's a he -man movie and we didn't get
any he -man like i can't stand that type of backlash
and i feel like that's what's going to come if
they do that but i would be personally fine if
they did that yeah so the way this trailer is
the way it reads to me And again, it's a bunch
of clips from the movie put together. I get it.
It's a bunch of things. It's not how the movie
is going to be presented once it's in theaters,
June 5th, 2026. Is that hopefully that scene
is to get you to the battle scenes with him and
Skeletor that we see later. Because that, right?
I would be shocked if we got a second transformation.
right me too because it wouldn't make any sense
because the point of the film is his journey
to figure out who he's supposed to be especially
if they're bypassing the secret identity then
there's no reason to go back and forth right
exactly so you know have you seen my have you
seen this sword hey i found your sword yada yada
yada blah blah blah go go go get the sword fights
as adam fights in the battle Get the Skeletor.
Holy shit. There's Skeletor. By the power of
Greyskull. He -Man saves the day. He -Man saves
the day. Fight Skeletor. There you go. I got
three final points and two of them are questions.
Number one. Are you upset at the size of He -Man?
I think I need to see more. In this trailer.
in this trailer no because again you want this
to be like okay if you're playing it as this
is but if you're playing it isn't supposed to
be filmation he technically should look the same
in both modes in both modes wow transformers
much in both identities he should look the same
but to me when i saw him as he man he almost
looked a little bit smaller than he did as adam
I could be, I'm probably wrong in that, but I
don't know. Definitely come to the process. Not
as big as maybe we were expecting. Okay. I don't
know. I'm I'm. So I've watched the trailer. I
watched it the first day it released. And that
was the only time I watched it. I gave it a couple
of days. And then the first. I watched was pixel
Dan's reaction. Cause pixel Dan is the guy that
I trust the most outside of you and outside of
Steve Megatron and outside of our circle of friends
that talk about this stuff. Pixel Dan, who I
consider in my circle of friends, even though
I don't talk to him as much as I used to, uh,
he's the guy I would trust the most outside of
everybody else. And I watched his reaction and
then I watched his breakdown and whatever. And.
Even then I've seen the trailer like seven more
times right before we not, not seven total times
before we did this record, but leading up to
this, I've seen the trailer seven more times.
And every time I watch him in the He -Man persona,
I'm always thinking, okay, yeah, technically
He -Man should be a little bit bigger, but. I
don't know. I need to see it more. Second to
last question here. They give us Skeletor's face.
They give us the Havoc Staff. They give him some
of his magical powers and things like that. They're
very careful. They give one line. He does say
one line when he's not on camera. He says, get
the sword or bring me the sword or something
of that nature. If you watch it carefully, he
does have one line. But they do not give us much
of Skeletor's voice and anything else around
Skeletor. Are you still worried that it's Jared
Leto and that the voice is not going to work?
Or do you think everything you saw in the trailer
put all that to bed? As many times as I've seen
this trailer now, I missed it every freaking
time. So now I have to go back and listen for
it again. No, seriously. Well, look. I think
it's him. Unless it's somebody else. It seems
like it's him saying it. Okay, I don't know because
I didn't even realize he spoke. When I saw Skeletor,
when I saw the visual, I was like, okay, cool.
So they're going to keep Leto in the suit the
whole time. We're not going to see. This is not
an Eternos origin story. This is a He -Man origin
story. Okay, wait, wait, wait, wait. Hold on.
Maybe it is. Maybe it isn't. But if this is just
Skeletor. no keldor i'm perfectly fine i do not
want to see a blue jared leto so i don't know
there is a there is a part in the beginning that
there we're gonna see young adam uh -huh we see
that in the trailer they don't show it but there
is also in the imdb db credits there is a young
tila So we're going to get a flash to that time
period at some point where he's being escorted
off of Eternia, sent to Earth, etc. We know that's
happening. It does open up the door for the potential
for us to see the early versions of Trapjaw and
Skeletor and some of those characters. So there
is a chance we can see Kronos and Keldor. I'm
not saying it's going to happen, but I would
not be shocked. Okay, so let me get my Jared
Leto rant out of the way. I liked him in My So
-Called Life. Okay, you can have that. I prefer
Party of Five over My So -Called Life. That's
the point. I first noticed Jared Leto when he
was the lead singer of... 30 seconds to Mars
when they had that one hit Capricorn brand new
name. That one song is the only song I really
ever listened to from that band. And that's pretty
much all I ever knew him from up until he started
his acting career and everything I've seen him
act in. I just keep, I haven't even watched Tron
yet. I just can't. So when they showed Skeletor,
full garb, skull face and all, Filmation looking
Skeletor. Awesome, awesome, awesome. I'm only
curious to hear what his voice sounds like. And
apparently I missed it eight times in this trailer.
I think Pixel Dan did, too, because he said we
haven't heard the voice. And I'm like, I think
we did. Yeah, I think we did. Yeah. And I'm like,
damn, I got to go back and listen again. But
again, this is just the first, you know. trailer
hit they're gonna hit us with other trailers
between you know now recording this in february
and when the movie comes out in june so and i'm
sure they're also gonna hit us with oh behind
behind the scenes here behind maybe they're gonna
do some sort of that okay i don't even know if
i'll watch a second trailer i don't know i don't
want anything else to be spoiled for me the rest
of the way i don't either and this is the only
trailer reaction you're gonna get from us folks
but it's one of those things where I'm curious
enough about Leto's Skeletor to watch something
about that. Everything else, I'm good with just
this trailer and waiting until June. My last
note, and I don't want to spend hardly any time
on this, so take it for what you want. I guess
I'm somewhat glad because maybe it led to the
hype and maybe it led to more people watching
the trailer and getting more views and being
more popular and all that other jazz, which I'm
good with that. But for anybody that said anything
with the words woke or I'm not watching this
because they did this, this, that, and the other
and the people that are freaking out about the
pronoun joke. You can all just jump off a cliff
and jump off that bridge that's going from Eternia
to Castle Grayskull. You don't deserve this He
-Man. It's a freaking joke, people. Yeah, it's
a joke. And the funny thing about the joke is
it has nothing to do with the pronouns. Right.
Pixel Dan pointed it out. He's like, Adam, he,
him, Adam, He -Man, Adam, He -Man. Get it? That's
the joke. It has nothing to do with, like, stop.
Nobody's got an agenda here. This isn't a politically
engineered or based movie. They're not trying
to push their agenda on anybody. It's stop. Stop,
stop, stop, stop, stop. Just stop. Take the stick
out. Let yourself have fun for once. Let yourself
enjoy something. Like, stop. Yeah, no. Absolutely.
I am excited overall. I think if I was to give
this trailer, like, a score of, like, 1 through
10, I'm probably at, like, a 9. Yeah, I'm right
there with you. That's how much I enjoy this
trailer. To me, this went from something that
was like, yeah, some fans are going to watch
this, almost like when they re -release something
to the theaters, like when they do the Transformers,
the movie re -release or something. There's going
to be a selection of us that go, and it's going
to probably not make its money back, and it's
going to get panned, win some Razzies and stuff
like that, to being like, this film may actually
make money. It may be popular. So not that it
needs to be popular, but I want more movies and
I want a Thundercats movie and a Silverhawks
movie and all the other things. So I hope it
does well. Absolutely. Absolutely. All right,
folks, I think that's going to do it for us.
No ad break this time. It's after 10 o 'clock
at night and I'm tired. And even though I'm not
editing this until tomorrow. I'm still tired.
I'm always tired. So what do you got coming up
on the Cinema Geeks, sir? Well, we just released
our top 10 films of 2025. Dan and I did. And
our next release will be our top 10 most anticipated
films of 2026. Maybe Masters of the Universe
makes an appearance. I don't know. Number one.
Number one. I want to know which movies you should
be keeping your eye out for. tune into our next
episode of the cinema geeks and we'll tell you
which ones you should be watching. Yeah. I think
out until this trailer hit outside of this, there
were only two movies on my, okay. Two movies
that are not based around any preexisting franchises.
I will say like, I'm not counting any of the
Marvel stuff. I'm not counting any of the, any
of the other stuff that we always, uh, mercy,
which is already out. And I think actually both
of these are already out now. Mercy and Crime
101, at the end of last year, those were the
two that I was most excited to see this year.
There is a who's who of directors coming out
with movies this year. Stuff like Christopher
Nolan, David Fincher, Steven Spielberg, J .J.
Abrams, Ridley Scott, Francis Ford Coppola, Steven
Soderbergh. I mean, there is a ton of people
coming out with films. You'll have to wait and
tune in to see which ones Dan's looking forward
to, see which ones I'm looking forward to, and
there may be some crossover. You never know.
So that's our next episode coming up. All right,
folks. Well, that's going to do it for the 136th
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