I'm up to 14 Horde Troopers in my Horde Army.. I wish I would take advantage of more of these troopers but It's hard when you don't get excited for something new coming in the mail.
well i'm happy to help. always glad to keep a fellow collector in the happyness. btw, some collectors don't mind soo much what the item looks like, they don't even display pose their stuff. they just buy it, look at it when it comes, then rebox it for possible sales later. hell my dad is sitting on a retirement stash of duplicates of my old vintage figures. hell he even has the new adventures stuff. he has one or two of everything i ever played with as a kid still blistered and boxed up tight
Building an army? That's a pipedream thanks to people being allowed to buy more than one figure (of the same kind) at a time. People just buy 10x in huge packs, then sell them on ebay for more than twice that. The Horde Troopers being fairly expensive on Matty's to begin with (since there are two figures in a pack) that means you need to pay at least 100 bucks (if you are lucky) for them when you buy on ebay. Sad really, I had a dream of buying at least 10 packs myself (not to sell) and then setting up an army of 20 troopers.
I'm thinking some customizers could use the Trooper bodies for some armor wearers or maybe some original characters. Having seen those amazing heads Dan's shown us from his customizer friends I could see them do some awesome custom jobs.
I'm glad the battle damage is just some black paint, provided the figure is cast in all grey, a little sandpaper will give me a second duplicate trooper.
well, you could try some touchup painting.... maybe even try to match the paint scheme before using paints on it, it'll save you the possibilities of any potential scaring to the plastic
Been waiting for this review Dan, thanks. These guys are amongst my all time favorite MOTU characters but I am with everyone else on the eyes. They don't look devious enough more like they just won the lottery or got the crap scared out of them. Still, great review as always.
I'm not a MOTU fan or collector (I just like watching Pixel Dan), but THESE... I want these. XD They look so cool! They kinda remind me of one of Dr Robotnic's robots in the 90's cartoon. I'd love to get a set of these, absolutely amazing looking! I wouldn't mind a Skeletor either, I've always liked Skelly. XD
Its gonna be an expensive October this year! these are the perfect army builder and also perfect for customizations..im hoping we get lots of vids of peoples armys and mods ;)
I hope that now that they have Filmation's rights they come up with re-invent of all the figures as how they appeared in the cartoons ! Hopefully they nail the heman headsculpt from the cartoon !
well, it's not a very hard customization task, only thing you have to work on is making sure where you paint stays consistant with the colors already there. and besure you smooth it out before it dries. that way it still looks flush with the rest of the figure. i work with alot of models soo i have practice doing repaints of alot of things and custom paint jobs. hell i reworked a gundam00 model into my own custom model once. turned out pretty good i think
Excellent review! Thank you! Was that . . . was that Brian Dobson as Skeletor at the beginning?! 😮 This was such an amazing set. >SIGH< If only MattyCollector had kept these things "evergeen" for the rest of the run of MOTU Classics, once they'd been introduced! I would've bought a 2-pack a month until the end of the run, and I'm sure a lot of other people would've, too. Pffft. Five-minute day-of sellout, and nothing for years unti they were about to close down their online store the second time around? Just leave huge piles of money on the table, Mattel . . . .
So, the heroic warriors have the royal guards, the snakemen have, well, snake men, and the evil horde has horde troopers. But skeletor has no army builder... Wow all of a sudden skeletor and his evil warriors seem like a small band of troublemakers. And now i feel bad for skeletor!
Good advice! I'm surprised this issue hasn't caused a tidal wave of Matty-directed outrage. Nobody asked for it, and the point of an army builder set is to achieve a uniformed look. Still, I'm super excited to finally get this set.
Hey Dan just wondering why don't you have Rattlor, & the Fighting Foe men displayed with your horde? I mean technically they're all part of it at some point
I'm new to He-Man. I just watched the 2002 series a couple weeks ago on Netflix and the original animated movie. I'm interested in the action figure history. Really liking these videos. Watching it via playlist.
Great figure. However, now that Mattel has the Filmation rights, why wasn't one more Filmation while the other was more vintage figure? Tooling be damned! Am I the only one who wonders why Mattel haven't allowed the 4H to go for broke with Filmationesque designs? I could have used huge fangs on the new Castle Grayskull, for example. Anyway, despite my concerns this is still another great video from PixelDan!
hello I am a fanatic: I really like your videos. My question is this: I live in Mexico, the castle grayskull, will be offered for sale to my country? would appreciate your answer, for very crude you it is .
I hate hopw slavish the 4H are towards some of the 80s toys. The Horde Troopers weren't given round button symbols because that's how the designer wanted them to look, it was out of necessity for the action feature. The symbol looks rubbish now on these new figures for no reason as there is no action feature! Stupid.
No you are right. The eyes are just plain wrong. I was so excited for this figure until I saw what they did with the eyes. Now it's an easy pass for me until (or if) they ever fix this. Even the vintage figure got the eyes right. I can't see why more collectors aren't pissed about this.
No thanks. XD If anything like I said, I just want Skeletor, and if these Horde Troopers are the price I see them for... I won't be getting these at all. XD
I'm glad I got my Troopers, in fact I got three sets! But it's very messed up of Matty collector To screw everybody out of getting those Troopers. I'm pretty sure they didn't make as many units they claimed. I'm also telling them to be reissued. sounds like they sold out of the overstock is well. Agrippaiscaript666, Why do you care about how did and plays his figures? Get a life bro! Leave Dan alone and get a girl bro.
So gut sie aussehen sind sie qualitativ sehr schlecht. Ich habe 20 trooper nach dem Auspacken haben 10 Stück sich davon am Helm verfärbt dunkle Flecken . Was sehr ärgerlich ist. Die eigentlich keine Verfärbungen aufweisen sollten.das schöne Grau am Helm bekommt links und rechts am Helm schwarze dunkle Verfärbungen
