The Battle Ram was the first vehicle and could split into two with the front half becoming the sky sled that was always in the cartoon. Stridor came first and was actually Fisto's horse. Night Stalker was meant for Jitsu.
Ironically, you put two of the vehicles most commonly seen on the show in the number one spot. The Wind Raider was used a lot on the show, and the Battle Ram detached into the sky sleds you always saw them ride around on.
There is a lot of love for the Battle Ram here. It looks cool, but I never thought it looked great as a toy. I just wanted the Sky Sled. I bought the Origins sled with the big guns and rockets and converted it to villain mode and put laughing Skelitor on it. Prince Adam is at the bottom of a box somewhere. The Battle Ram doesn't make sense unless the sled is short range and runs out of gas quickly (the tank part has exhaust pipes). The original Wind Raider is iffy, but I love my modern versions. I totally disagree with Junkman about the Talon Fighter and Point Dread. These had a lot of play value. I had them and thought they were cool, though the cardboard control consoles were very lame. I should get the Origins version. The 80s cartoon didn't portray the Talon Fighter well. It was just transport. Though I like how it made a version of Attack Trak a character.
Or maybe the tank part charges the projectiles which project force blasts or something. Maybe it's a reactor which emits radioactive exhaust, but it doesn't affect them as much. 🤔🤔🤔🤔
Ponys are awesome I found some a few years ago at Marshalls. I can’t believe you gave the Battle Ram 1 star it had a missle launcher and a detachable sky sled.
I had the battle ram and liked it. Since it had the flying seat from the show that’s what I used it for mostly. Although I did like calculating missile shots too.
"I had the battle ram and liked it. " -- You're obviously old enough to maybe remember this so... You remember the Grumpy Old Man on SNL? He would tell us how things was back in his day and -- no matter how silly or unbearable it sounded -- he would finish off with "And we liked it!". That's what I thought of!
I only had one vehicle and that was Point Dread with Talon Fighter. So for me, it would be at the top of my list. I always had it connected to Castle Grayskull. Also it was because I was more into the mini comics and the DC comics where it was featured more and was magical where in the cartoon it was just portrayed as more of a plane. Point Dread was the rock it sat on and where Teela was created. In the comics she was a clone of a goddess and she raised by Man at Arms as his own daughter. Teela would eventually become the new guardian of Grayskull. Also Point Dread would only appear every 20 years. Only He-Man was capable of flying it and it would come to He-man whenever he would call for it. Skeletor would later capture it and use it to try and destroy the Royal Palace but He-man and the Wind Raider defeated it. I was always upset they never did a thing with it in the cartoon. Although I always felt that He-Man didn't need a vehicle since he already had Battle Cat.
The 80s cartoon was lame, especially Prince Adam. I loved my Talon Fighter and Point Dread except for the awful cardboard control console which I didn't use. I should get the Origins one if the console is plastic with stickers.
I preferred toy vehicles that weren't motorized when I was a kid. I thought the Battle Ram and the Wind Raider were cool. I liked Stridor and Night Stalker, too. The Land Shark was definitely the coolest vehicle, though.
Stridor is a cool horse, so buck off. :) I'd put Stridor as a 4, but I see him as more of a character than a vehicle. He was in the cartoon, you hotdog! 😏🌭 Totally agree on the Landshark, though, that one's the best. 🦈 Thanks for the video
The Masters of the Universe REALLY weren't in a hurry to get anywhere. Between the Attack Track and Dragon Walker, they could get to Snake Mountain faster if the took a casual stroll
I had all of them but the Laser Bolt and the Fright Fighter which I don't even remember existing. I loved them all except for the battery powered ones since I was super hard on them (yeah, I was one of those kids, still am in some ways) and would have them broken in no time.
The only vehicle I did have WAS the Wind Raider. Although I did have Castle Greyskull and would have liked the one that sat on top of it. The Wind Raider was okay you move the wings, just spin them and the hook on the front had a string tied to it and you could rescue a friend or capture a villan with it. It flew like our X-wing did. You had to hold it and pretend or throw it if you needed a crash landing that day.
Many of the MOTU vehicles are the most creative and innovative toys made. Sure they don’t make a lot of sense in reality but we were kids. I’m jealous you had so many of them.
Junkman, you are too hard on the Battleram. I had it as a kid and I loved it! Sleek look on the front, firing missile, splits into 2 vehicles, and appeared heavily in the early days of the cartoon. Spydor looks creepy as hell. I would've given it a 4 star. Spiders are creepy and that thing walked. I never had it. I believe it was motorized.
Have never been a "He-Man" fan but I do own a Spydor, only because . . . the original "MacGyver" owned one. I have mine on display in my Movie & TV Costume & Prop Room.
Junkman forgot the true best, Hordak's Mantisaur. I'm waiting for the Origins version. I loved him. He was one of my favorite toys. Giving the Battle Ram, Wind Raider, and Talon Fighter/Point Dread ones is blasphemy, but I see what Junkman means. It seems they were reluctant to make them look like war vehicles. (I had the Talon Fighter and Point Dread and thought they were cool except for the cardboard control console which I didn't use. The sides could fight over them. I have the modern Wind Raiders which are cool for display. My Origins Sky Sled is in villain mode and piloted by a laughing Skeletor, not Prince Adam.) We had Attack Track and the Dragon Walker. They were cool but not very fun to play with. (My brother had the Road Ripper.) All of these vehicles and mounts were cool, but the play value was limited. We needed a villain air vehicle early, though I guess both sides could fly the Talon Fighter. (Grayskull was awesome, but I took Snake Mountain back to get Omega Supreme.) He-Man was much better for figures and some beasts.
I got into MOTU pretty late in the toys run when the line was dying out in 1987 so I never got any vehicles but Skeletor's Night Stalker horse would probably not be released under that name today as it will invoke memories of serial killer Richard Ramirez who was dubbed the Night Stalker in the mid-80's.
But...but...Battleram was 2 (or maybe even 3) toys in 1! It separared and the front part became a skysled! That was the vehicle they ALWAYS used in the cartoon. If your He-Man figures didn't have a skysled to fly around on that was lame! Battleram is 5 stars, best of the vehicles!
Wind Raider sucked with the weak wing stems that broke off at the body. Road Ripper was my fav, and my friend's sister when I kidnapped her She-ra Swift Wind Horse. Swift Wind is what you call a hard fart, so we would make her cry.
Battleram was awesome because it was like two vehicles in one.....one for land one for air and the missiles it launched went really really far....either that or I got one with too much tension on the spring and it just sailed! 4 stars!
I only had Skeletor, Battle Armor He-Man, and Man-E-Faces. X-Mas 1984. Last Star Wars X-Mas. Second to last G.I.Joe X-Mas. One last Transformer 1986. And that was it. I didn't quit toys, but my parents did.
Okay, I had the Bashasaurus -- not because I wanted it, but because a relative got it for me for a birthday present that I had to pretend to like and say thank you for -- and I can tell ya... I didn't _throw_, it did exactly as the name implies. You pressed down on a button and the basher arm would swing forward and BASH down on whatever was within its reach. You could also somewhat adjust the reach by sliding the bash ball thing forward or back into its original position. Lame? You bet your Bashasaurus balls it was! And that was the only He-Man vehicle I had. They never really caught my interest like GI Joe and Star War -- or Sectaurs, for that matter -- did. Had many He-Man figures, but vehicles never seemed to belong, in my mind.
This time ya wrong. Point dread attached to the top of castle greyskull and the talon fighter perched on top of that. Very cool. And windraider is iconic. Good vid brought back memories.
@@ThatJunkmanNope. The Talon Fighter and Point Dread were also cool without the castle except for the awful cardboard control console which I didn't use. And you missed the best one and my favorite He-Man toy, Hordak's Mantisaur. I need an Origins version.
Gotta say spydor rocked it walked by itself never where you wanted it to go but it walked all by itself.The Battle ram was the coolest it shot out missiles with an angry face and the front detached and was the jet sled the most seen vehicle in the cartoon this should have been no1 or at least no2 .Maybe I am backwards but I always liked the vehicles that did not need batteries because without batteries those vehicles sucked. The worst were the horses the legs did not even move these were basically statues though I never had he-man or skeletons in them it was always fisto and jutsu riding. Great list Junkman.
Rating only the ones i had as a kid 1 star: Dragonwalker, Night Stalker 2 stars: Attack Track 3 stars: Wind Raider 4. stars: Land Shark 5. stars: -- I have to say MOTU kinda stunk as a vehicle line. The figures weren't really designed for them. And most were one trick ponies that got tiresome or static nonsense like Stridor that were never fun even if they looked cool. Instead if saying I wish I had Roton or Battle Ram back then, I think that most of those I got, the money would've been better spent on GI JOE or Star Wars. I think most were gifts, though.
I had the Wind Raider and it was awesome. It had a working wench and was He-Man's version of an X-wing. Also Point Dread and the Talon Fighter were very cool....it was an addtional turret you could actually add to Castle Greyskull and the fighter could really perch on it. Im a fan of the earlier vehicles i guess. The Land Shark is awesome though. Its by far the coolest bad guy vehicle.
I will definitely say that a lot of those vehicles are nothing but gimmicky. They were trying to be imaginative, but they just really looked lame and exciting to play with. I had the Tallon but that's because I like flying vehicles but it was really OK. It wasn't that great.
The Battle Ram is two vehicles in one. Has a sky sled and and artillery piece that shot missiles. I would at least give the battle ram 2 stars. Do agree the He-man vehicles were pretty lame. He-man was all about the figures and playsets. Castle Greyskull and slime pit are top tier playsets.
This list is blasphemy, the Battle Ram at the bottom? Come on Junkman!!! It seems if it wasn't motorized you didn't like it. By the way if I still had my Rotor, Battle Ram, Battle Cat and Panthor they would kick the Land Sharks butt!!!! LOL That dragonfly helicopter looks cool too. Why put that at the bottom?
Point Dread was the only one of these I had. Main reason: It attached to my Castle Greyskull and gave it an extra room. The rest were all lame. The whole series was lame in hindsight, and I'm glad I jumped ship and went back to Star Wars, I also quit watching the cartoon, becasue I knew it was just a 30 minute ad for the toys. And the story for the toys was to sell more toys, Ugh!
You put vehicles in low categories because they didn't do anything...yet you liked action figures who had no bending knees or elbows? The world kind of reminds me of the world of HEAVY METAL MAGAZINES... or what the French version that came first was called. Didn't bashasaurus bash things with it's heavy arm....which is the reason it's called that because it bashes things. Otherwise it would have been called catapultasaurus..(lol)
