I was a kid when these toys first came out. My dad worked as a Dental Lab technician for a dentist in town (he made dentures for the dentist patients) Anyway It was my seventh birthday and my dad came home from work with all of these packages. He kept going back out to the car and bringing in package after package. For my seventh birthday, the dentist Dr. Harden bought me the entire collection of Masters of The Universe toys that were available at that time. He-Man, Skeletor, Man At Arms, Castle Greyskull, I mean every toy available for the MOU toy line. That was one of the best birthdays ever. Dr Harden was so good to our family when he found out he had terminal cancer he gave my dad the best gift and advice ever. He gave my dad all of the Lab equipment and told him to go in business for himself. That was over 40 years ago and my dad is still running that successful business today at the age of 84. Each time I see MOU I can't help but think of the Dr that gave us all the life that my family has today.
OMG you are so lucky! I had 4 sisters and a brother. Lol all my toys became cannon fodder. I had 1 He-Man when I was 5 and it didn't make it to me being 6 years old
I didn't know of Silverhawks as far as I remember, Thundercats was later for me in the UK, but He-Man, She-Ra, Danger Mouse and Count Duckular (both voiced by the awesome David Jason aka Del 'Boy' Trotter), and many more great cartoons of the time, Transformers, M.A.S.K., etc...
1st year of elementary school...I was so proud of my He-man backpack...I had all the action figures, books, stickers and tapes with narrated stories...it felt great being a kid in the '80s
As an 80's kid born 1977 He-Man was my very first franchise that i loved endlessly!! I had the entire original run collection from He-Man and Skeletor to Castle Grayskull Snake Mountain and the Eterna playset where you could put all of the castles together as one. I even collected She-Ra Hordak and the Crystal castle not ashamed to admit this as a growing boy at the time. Also had the mini comics magazine and saw the crossover Secret Of The Sword in its theatrical release. Met Tom King the creator of He-Man and She-Ra this year at New York Comic Con and thanked him for creating a masterpiece. He even gave not sold me the entire original episode boxset of He-Man which I will treasure forever. We Have the power so can you!!!
I have never been more excited about seeing a Minty 10 things you didn't know in my subscription list as I was today... Frank Langella was definitely the best part of the MOTU movie. The 2002 show was actually pretty good.
Ah yes. He-Man. One of the biggest and most successful series of the 80s. And it was one of the first cartoons I was exposed to as a child. It was such a great era.
Just about to come off my lunch break and spotted this. Can’t wait to get home. I’m a child of the 80’s, this and thundercats were a massive part of my childhood. I had so many of the action figures. One of my regrets as an adult is not having kept a few for nostalgia. Cheers Minty.
The best line in the movie was "Let this be our final battle!" I was about 11 when it came out and while everyone left, including my 4 older sisters, I stayed for the credits pissing them off, but they waited for me by the doors and saw Skeletor rise out of the water and say "I'll be back!"
Back in 83', Scooby Doo and He-Man used to come on back to back in the afternoons (Scooby Doo at 4:00 & He-Man at 4:30).... My dad got me all the main action figures in 84'. He's always been my absolute favorite hero character ever since! "THE MOST POWERFUL MAN IN THE UNIVERSE!!"🗡️ 😁👍
When the show was airing in 1983, my brother and I were living in England. We used to race home from school at 3pm to watch it on TV and have our tea. Wow so long ago!!!! 😮
I was a huge he-man fan back in the day.The Castle Grayskull I got as a kid sits on a shelf in my shop to this day. My son even played with it when he was little.
The movie was filmed in a little town called Sierra Madre in California, and my friend's father worked for the police department, keeping the streets and other locations clear for shoots. One night my friend was able to go over during a break and got to meet Mr. Lundgren thanks to his dad. The town hasn't changed much, and most of the locations are as they were, including the small cemetery (it's really small!).
Love this cartoon and still watch it today. Amazing cartoon that I ate up each time I could when I was younger. One of the crowning achievements of my childhood was owning a Castle Grayskull playset!
Quick side note. Filmation did not come up with the dual identity of Prince Adam/He-Man, the dual identity came from the DC comics that predated the cartoon.
Yeah, my understanding was that the original toy line want inspired by Conan but was going to be Conan. Then they watched the movie and saw very adult content and had to do something to recover the investment they had already put up
I watched both 1980's cartoon and 2002 reboot as a kid. And I'm kind glad I introduce my 5 year old sister's daughter to He-Man, and she absolutely love it.
My wife got me the box set of the 80s cartoon when my son was 3. It's probably the best gift I've ever received. No more of these crappy new cartoons. My son watched TNMT, Captian PLANET, GI Joe, and X men. That and putting him in The Boy Scouts early were some of the best things for our relationship. I strongly suggest young fathers try this.
thanks for the trip down memory lane as a child no matter how bad at home it was for 30min at a time you had a hero in your corner a will never forget!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was a huge He-Man kid, but I have to say, I think the 2002 adaptation was an even better show than the original. It kept the same spirit while smoothing out the rough edges of the 80's version.
I always remember the birthday party scene in Ghostbusters II. Ray and Winston: "When there's something strange, in your neighborhood. Who ya gonna call?" Kids at party: "He-Man!"
He-Man was always my favourite of all the 80's stuff. Between the toys and the Cartoons it was just fun. Transformers were out of my families price range, but I did love the show. I had tons of G.I. Joe's but the show was on as much for me. He-Man was there first and left the fondest memories. It's not as "cool" as the other two, but I loved it & She-Ra.
As a big fan of He-Man I actually knew every one of these facts this time still a great video and a lot of fond memories of the show and this franchise.
Here's a trivia tidbit that I never see discussed: Alan Oppenheimer and George DiCenzo's characters, Skeletor and Hordak, often fought each other in the cartoons, but they also played opposing lawyers in a movie about Charles Manson, "Helter Skelter." Honestly, I think you should give the 2002 MYP cartoon another try. If it's not THE best MOTU series, it's certainly in runner-up position. I really was not fond of the 1987 movie, but I liked the new characters they introduced. Would've loved a Lubic action figure.
In all fairness to Mattel passing on Star Wars, most everyone assumed the movie would flop before it actually came out. Every toy company passed on the deal, with Kenner only accepting sort of begrudgingly a month before the film's release. Fox studios had little hope of it doing well too. I think only Lucas himself & Alec Guinness believed it would succeed... and even then it's believed that if the original Lucas cut had been released it may have. Fox got an editing team in last minute to re-cut the movie before release. Keep in mind most sci-fi at the time was either marginally successful(Star Trek was canned for low viewership, Dr Who managed to survive in the UK despite a poor budget) or often failed. But the overall art design, using actual aliens instead of someone with a rubber forehead & a strong initial story is why Star Wars did so well, nothing really like it had been made before. It's success helped revive Star Trek & push a lot of other franchises.
So true,the cast and crew thought SW was weird and silly and it would crash and burn at the box office. LOL. Never,ever thought it'd be an astounding success and have audiences hungry for more sci-fi films/tv shows.
Not quite true. Lucas spent the entire time filming ensuring he had total editorial control of the film and keeping FOX or anyone else out. He even took a reduced cut of hte revenue to keep it when FOX tired to intervene. Lucas did not like the original cut. So, he got rid of the editing crew and enlisted his wife at the time, Marsha, along with RIchard Chew and Paul Hirsch, to re-cut the film which also included significant re-shoots. FOX had NOTHING to do with it.
Thank you, Minty, for taking me back to my childhood in the mid 80s. This was probably the only toy line that I had a near complete collection including Castle Grayskull and Snake Mountain (Skeletor’s lair).
He-man was one of my favorite things when I was a kid. I remember going on vacation as a kid. I found Tri-Klops half buried on the beach. Nobody ever came to claim him so my Mom let me keep him. That was a great vacation for me. Probably a terrible vacation for the other boy.
I was a huge He-Man fan back in the day. I still count Christmas ‘83 as my best Christmas when I got all that He-Man stuff. I had kind of aged out by the time of the movie but was still excited to see it. I left disappointed, though Frank Langella was awesome. And props to him for saying that Skeketor was his most favorite role he’s ever played! And no props at all for Kevin Smith who lied and continually lied about fellow RU-vidrs, Clownfish TV when they had tweeted that they heard Revelations was going to be a bait and switch. I was a fan of his from the very beginning but lost all respect for him after that.
CFTV claimed that Teela would take over from Heman as champion as he would die. They also claimed Teela would be gay. Both was incorrect. They then went on to say Teela's sidekick would be champion which again was incorrect. I'm not getting where these CFTV meat riders are coming from. They were wrong about everything. Garbage channel too. Just a couple of dorks that got fired by Disney and now set up a channel to cry about it.
He-Man was my toddler days in life! And yeah, never called it Masters of the Universe. Always wanted the castle but never got that. But He-Man was the first of any of my childhood toys. Before legos and hot wheels. But then the TMNT action figures was my prime!
He-Man and Voltron, my most favorite cartoons growing up in the 1980's! I was 5 when He Man came out and watched every single episode on tv after school. To this day I will still hop on RU-vid and go through all the episodes in a day every now and then, even at 46.
Love Voltron but it was toned for kids. It was originally called Go Lion Beast King. That was Earth that was being ravage because you can see a melted Tokyo Tower and it was WW3. They fight between Voltron and the Goddess happened centuries ago. Because the keys looked like that they were in the coffin for decades not days.
Let's all be honest, the 2002 animation is the BEST version of he-man, the smashed it out of the park and kills me to this day that it wasn't finished.
Poor distribution of the toys & odd repaints meant poor sales, and that’s what Mattel was looking at before they pulled the plug before season 2 finished properly. Season three would have brought on the horde, She-ra and other characters like Rio-Blast & Clamp champ
I was a young girl back in the 80s, and I was fascinated by He-Man and She-ra. I always raced home from school, so I wouldn't miss an episode. I met Dolph Lundgren in March of this year, and I had the chance to ask him about Masters of the Universe. It was so cool listening to him talk about his training for He-man.
I'm shocked to learn that the popularity of the toys cratered so quickly. My enthusiasm for the franchise hadn't waned at all, much like I didn't get the memo about the video game crash and still played my Atari 2600 right up until getting a Nintendo. Some of the coolest figures came out toward the end.
My favorite story from the early days of He-Man was from Mark Taylor. From the He-Man episode of Toys That Made Us. The bosses at Mattel wanted them to use the tiger molds from the Big Jim line. Mark complained that the tigers were scaled wrong, they were as big as a horse compared to the figures. They said "So put a f$cking saddle on it!" And Battle Cat was born.
I'll never forget when my friend asked me if I wanted to come over his house and play Masters of the Universe? I was like WTF? After seeing and playing with Castle Greyskull and the other action figures he had, I was hooked! Two weeks later for my birthday, I had He-man, Skeletor, Teela, and the Battering Ram. A few months later for Christmas, I had the whole collection.... So I thought? I think Mattel did a soft release on some of the other toys! I only found this out cuz my friend down the street, who was a spoiled rotten only child, actually had EVERYTHING!!! Good times though!
Yeah, so many memories... here in Germany, everybody I knew called them just "Masters". Back then almost nobody had Satellite-TV or cable, so me and my friends only knew a few episodes avaiable at the video-rental. But there was an audioplay series on cassettes which we all loved. There are 37 cassettes and one special, like an introduction to the world of MOTU, sold as a bundle copy with HE-MAN (if I remember correctly). When I later in life saw the whole TV series I noticed, that the audioplays we knew, deviated quite a bit from the filmation show. It had a more serious tone, there even was a 6 episode story arc where Skeletor had won, and the last free MOTU had to act from the underground to take back the palace and Eternia. Thanks for your videos !!!
As a person growing up in a remote place in India, I never watched most of the episodes of the series either. The only ones I ever watched were the first two episodes of He-Man, the Secret of the Sword movie and the Christmas special movie, all in video cassettes. Lucky for us we can now see the rest on RU-vid.
I grew up on He-Man and the Masters of the Universe in the 80’s. I’m 40 years old and still watch He-Man before I go to work in the morning! “He-Man!”💪🏽
Great work Minty! I’ve been a fan of your videos for a while and it seems in finally catching up to the new videos! And this is fantastic. Doing this episode really opens up a whole new venue for you for fondly remembered cartoons for people our age. Hope to see a Thundercats or Transformers video soon! I wonder if you in Australia got the same cartoons as we did in El Salvador. Ahhh the 80s good times
THAT was my toy series and cartoon. So good, and based, if in a admittedly cheesy style at times. The music by Shuki Levy was also extremely epic. And the show was primarily voiced by its producer, Lou Scheimer.
I had a huge collection! Almost all the figures (missing 6 or 7 of the latest releases) and my friends and I would spend whole afternoons playing big battles, with our collections together! Such fun times! Note: in Italy, where I grew up, they were extremely popular, possibly the biggest thing in the 80s, and they were known indeed as Masters of the Universe. Never heard anyone referring to them as "He Man". The cartoon, which I followed, was quite disappointing, though, so bland and condescending, with Skeletor being the comic relief.
My brother and I had all the action figures and accessories growing up..That was our childhood hood in the 80’s… We also loved Thundercats and had all those figures as well and loved the cartoons of both He Man and Thundercats…I’m 47 and loved watching and playing with the toys
I love the masters of the universe and even watch the cartoons when I came home from work. I never collected any of the action figures but my nephew did, and I even took him to see the movie.
I was a fan of the 80's cartoon and introduced my children to the 2002 one. They 2000 toys had chips in their feet that would allow them to interact with Castle Grayskull which was kinda neat.
I'm loving this video Minty, but wow, I saw one of the pics you used the Haunted House pic, the reason was I noticed it because I used to go in that specific haunted house in Ocean City Maryland as a child back in the 80s. Now they had a massive haunted house down on the pier that went out towards the ocean but that one you shared l had a car that you would go in on the lower level and it would go to a upper level, super creepy, inside but mostly the coolest part about about the boardwalk itself was in the 80s, before and after the release of The Lost Boys , this has literally always reminded me of the shooting location in Santa Cruz on thier boardwalk. Ours even had a parking lot that reminded me of that scene where this poor couple got attacked in thier car towards the very beginning of the film. Thanks for adding a part of my childhood, was glad to see it.
Still love the He-Man franchise till today. 5 years ago i bought a big convolute of the original toys, castles, vehicles and made my own masters-room of it. Then i rewatched the entire filmation cartoon series. That ages very well as said, it is so wholesome and lighthearted. Simply heartwarming.
I’m shocked no mention at all of Blackstar the 1981 Filmation predecessor to MOTU with many direct comparisons to MOTU. He-Man owes a debt of gratitude to Blackstar. The irony that the Galoob Blackstar toys came out in 1985 to capitalize on the success of He-Man 4 years after the cartoon was cancelled and was long forgotten.
It's not only the boomers or what you call folks in their 40s n up but kids these days are fans of 80s pop culture. There will never be a 80s culture again and it was fantastic
@@8arrows yea and screw these gen z with their im in my teens n 20s so im better than you, you music movies and tv are below subpar your friends are secretly into 80s culture and even you
