Scott Toy Guru Neitlich from Spector Creatives dives into the secret to history of Scareglow. His backstory, his curse and his "species". All revealed only on Spector Creative!
I had Scareglow when I was a kid playing with the vintage line. And believe me they got played with a lot. Accessories got lost. Arms got switched from one body to another. I also had a bad habit of chewing on the soft head figure's heads.
Totally sweet video! Ordered my Scareglow Origins figure yesterday so this hit me in the feels. I love that you embellished the backstory you did for the card on Classics.. and I gotta say that I didn’t hate how he was handled in Revelations either. I do prefer the arc that he’s a ghost serving Skeletor as opposed to the ghost of Skeletor.
@@vanillajack5925 of course this “awesomeness” is directly connected to Castle Grayskull. You know, the thing she blames the death of her best friend on. 🤷♂️
@@johnmorey720 It was controversial in the UK. The event even used that as their hashtag. Does San Francisco have a Dickensian Festival? The UK locations at the top of the search list.
@@nicholasdickens2801 Funny YOU should ask. Search yourself if you do not believe me, preferably on on your own computer, lest someone search your internet history.
My absolute favorite character from the old line! Actually, he has been ever since as well! I love the concept of "Scareglows" being a ghost story to scare young ones in the darkened woods! Wish they would adapt it more... Gonna have to get my hands on those DC books...
Off topic here, but I was thinking about Faker the other day, I think Mattel missed a trick by not using the colour change plastic that was used for GI.Joe’s Zartan, so he would be flesh coloured but turns blue in the sun ( maybe even using the temperature colour change paint too ) ?
My understanding is that photosensitive paint or plastic dyes are pretty expensive, which might contribute to how little we see them (Gormiti used it surprisingly often, though)
I'm super grateful that I was able to get an Origins Scareglow. Like many of us, it was a figure that intrigued me for years, and the only lines I had collected thus far were Vintage and Commemorative.
As a kid, I had become fed up with the MOTU line and its increasingly intrusive action features by the time Scareglow came out. Seeing him on the shelves, I always thought of him as a poor-man's Skeletor. When I started collecting the Origins line, I wasn't planning on buying him, because I never had/wanted him as a kid, but I stumbled across one in some rough packaging on a store shelf and brought him home. I hadn't opened any of my other Origins figures at that point, so I decided to pop open Scareglow, since his card was damaged, just to get a feel for the articulation. I stuck him on my desk, and toyed with him for the next few days, and suddenly realized that he was, indeed, a great character. He looks super-cool and is fun, yet simple. I guess I had bad taste as a kid. I hated Scareglow, and loved Ram Man (I still love Ram Man). I guess there's no accounting for taste. (Ninjor is still lame, IMO.)
I like the idea of Scareglows being a creature like a banshee. Gives you a sense of there being more than one kind. It'd be cool to see a beastman species scareglow or merman etc. Possibilities are endless.
I loved that last wave of figures in the vintage line and how it felt like a return to the early days before all the gimmicks and overly sci-fi elements.
I genuinely liked episode 4 and Orko vs scsreglow even though classically Orko's magic failed because of differing physics rather than low confidence (discounting your secret agent theory.) Orko and evil-lynn had surprisingly heartfelt moments. I dislike rev for a lot of reasons, but that? Was great.
@@spectorcreative1872 considering Kevin Smith was insulting fans over being upset? Ya. He will and then bitch at how stupid we are given how he has been mishandling things so far. It is not the show I dislike so much as everyone around and attached to it acting like children.
The creepy and mysterious were always part of the appeal of MOTU vintage for me. The mini-comics and the details of the Grayskull playset made it seem like they were fighting for control of a haunted castle, which was totally cool to 7 year old me.
Tony Todd voicing him in Revelation was a stroke of Genius. I love the idea of parents using the tale of Scareglows to get their children to behave. He's always felt like Eternia's boogeyman to me. Love the fact that there are more Scareglows running around too. Cool way to make him an army builder.
Scarecrow pretty cool, powerful scary.. Up until Revelations where he got his butt kicked fairly easily and quickly by Tila, then what was left was destroyed by Orko quickly. Still cool to see the animation of him, and him talk in a little bit
if you want a chemistry lesson look up Phosphorescence - basically it is when a high energy photon excites an electron but that electron loses the energy slowly by emitting low energy photons (the glow) instead of doing it in one high energy photon.
I just bought someone else's MOTU collection and among the figures is a ScareGlow. Wasn't something I was planning on getting but with the background you provided I'm quite happy about him now 😅 So thanks as always.
Scareglow was one of those characters that escaped my notice for a surprisingly long time (probably because the Filmation shows had wrapped and New Adventures hadn’t started, so He-Man as a brand was sort of off my radar at the time). I don’t think I knew who he was until I started browsing what web stuff was around when the 200X line started up.
I often see/hear comments about the Funimation series suggesting that nearly every single episode was about Skeletor breaking into Castle Grayskull or that Skeletor was the main villain of virtually every episode. But after having recently rewatched the first season of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, in reality Skeletor features in way, WAY fewer episodes than everyone seems to recall. And even when he does feature, it can be only briefly before the rest of the plot goes off somewhere else. Out of the first 65 episodes, there are really only maybe 5 or 6 about him trying to take Castle Grayskull.
Yeah - that why Thundercats or GI Joe or anything else didn't really have the kind of story telling MOTU had. Everything else was very vey repetitive with the same villain every episode.
I always liked to think that perhaps Karak Nul had an earlier history, that he maybe came from the same group/people as the previous Sorceress, Kuduk Ungol and that they had a history of confrontation which led to Ungol transforming him into Scareglow. Perhaps my bit of fanfiction but MOTU does stir the imagination.
Scareglow is one of the few vintage MotU figures I still have. Used to have him be an expy of Crossbones as a Captain America baddie when he wasn't scaring Ram Man.
I’ve always wanted to see a Scareglow molded out of hollow translucent plastic with a skeleton inside that you can see, similar to the POTF Vader being electrocuted figure. That would be the best version of him. The rest just kind of look like the Cobra Kai kids on Halloween.
@@spectorcreative1872 There is a cost effective way to do it. Look at how they molded the under detail on the Power of the Primes Dinobots. They were designed to mimic the G1 figures, which had transparent material placed over gold chrome material. POTP molded it all in one piece and painted the inside gold to get the look of the original Dinobots. Mold the bone detail on the insides of the limbs, paint it with glow in the dark paint, and you have a figure that looks like a skeleton is in it. Too bad I don't have the brains or skill for such a task!
Excellent video- thank you! Loved the bio…Can’t have “Karak Nul” without a “Cracked Skull”! Looking forward to a video with explanations behind real names & bios.
Scareglow is great. I really like how the Revelation figure looks. Mostly black with the bones painted on. His other figures are absolutely fantastic but also a little weird in that the black is only painted on to suggest the negative space around the bones, rather than fully painting him and leaving just the bones. A dream Scareglow figure would be a translucent gray body with glow in the dark bones inside, but who knows how you'd do that with articulation and everything.
This was an awesome video sir- so thanks again for the quality content! I don't necessarily recall him as a kid, but it's possible my cousin had him as there's a few fuzzy memories of a non-Skeletor MotU style skeleton. (He had lots of toys.) I've seen him more as an adult recently & love the Undertaker twist. So who is your favorite skeleton (or toy of one) from fiction or days gone by?
Managed to get my hands on a Revelations Scareglow figure from San Diego Comic Con a month ago. Packaging looks so cool, I don't think I'll be opening it any time soon!
As amazing as Scare Glow and the video you just made I hope you get to talk about the Anti-Eternian figures. They look AMAZING. ...and more proof that MOTU as so many concepts in common to DC. While you anyone could argue that Anti-Eternian would have been Anti-Matter characters today they would fit more so with the Dark Multiverse.
I like the idea that he is Skeletor in ghost form better ... back stories are nice to have but in some cases somethings are best left to the imagination..
Me and my sister stayed with our grandparents wherein internet and cable television doesn't exist until sometime in the early 1990s when several telephone and cable providers started to do business in our town. As such, I never knew anything about Scareglow or Rodimus Prime replaced Optimus Prime because of the limited media we have at that time. One of my classmates even showed me a picture of him holding a Scareglow figure which I really thought was a bootlegged version of Skeletor.
Kool I don't know how I miss this video until this very moment I thought he was the ghost of skeletor Now I must move my scareglow figure off the skeletor shelf
I imagine the pitch meeting for scareglow to be like that commercial for haribo gummy bears with the adults having kids' voices. Boss: We need a new villian. kid 1: what about someone that can fly? Kid 2: No what about a skeleton? Kid 3: no skeletons are scary, plus there is already skeletor. Kid 1: skeletons are cool kid 2: Skeletor only had a skull face, this new guy would be a full skeleton. etc.
I really liked the "low effort" wave in the vintage line! The previous wave of fully tooled figures that didn't share a single part with any older figures, didn't really feel like MOTU to me as a kid.
Hey Scott, I'm really interested in the Lore of MOTU so THANK You for all the great videos. Is there a recommended order to watch them all? Otherwise i'ts a bit confusing... Pls keep up the great work.
I would question Glow in the dark as just 'overcoming fear of dark'... To me it was always more of witnessing magic. That glowing was somethign that didn't make sense, as a kid nobody understands when you tell them it 'absorbs light'... and for most adults it doesn't make any sense either. But shutting off the lights and having skeletons... or figures, or rings, or shirts, pirate ships or ceiling stars glow is is STILL amazing to me. It's like watching actual magic in your bedroom and being taken back to more magical worlds. On a separate note, I find it funny that he was made because he was cheap.... with just a new head.... but if they HAD just released more He-man and Skeletor's... IT would have been even CHEAPER!! Zero new parts at all. That's the one thing that I do think Mattel dropped the ball on. So many iconic characters in that first 8 and 12 backs that by 1985-6 nobody ever saw in stores again. Teela, MAA, Trap Jaw, should have all had rereleases after the cartoon blew up the fandom. I was fortunate enough to get in the ground floor in 82 when I was 5 and had all the originals.... but NONE of my friends did. There was a lot of jealousy because all they could find was variants.
I kinda like Skulls like Ghost Rider is a favorite even the Skeletons from Ray Harryhausen Jason And The Argonauts though I don't think I have or had Scareglow. I remember I had some Alien toy where their heads would glow but I melted them putting too close to lamp wish I knew what they were. Does each ScareGlow have a key to the backdoor like catching a Leuprachaun for their pot of gold. I have a mask that is supposed to glow though it don't work unless sunlight makes a difference as I've only used house lights? I wish I knew how it worked better its like serendipity or so where they created it thinking wanted more toys as the others didn't do that well hehe.
@@spectorcreative1872 I regret as a kid somebody had a bunch of the Ghost Rider on the Horse ones which I think Frazetta did but we didn't take any haha. I was into the Johnny Blaze even the later one was alright. I remember reading it was just better than most comics or Marvel I think it was issue 55 or so with like the Sirens or 3 Women. He was kinda silly when he had the Skull Cycle in Marvel Two In One or Team Up like the Spin offs I have the Marvel Spotlights but some of my collector glasses I think the paint rubbed off on each other so eh. They were the Hellfire NY Comic Con ones but I have the Bronze Age Toon Tumblers Frost and Clear :). Heh a lot of what Marvel did with Ghost Rider has given me Nightmares since the Bronze Age glory if makes feel better :).
I think Scaregrow is Skeletor from the future cursed to live in Pritenia forever, neither died or alive unable to leave punish for his crimes in Entenia.
@_@ 3:41 yea something similar is happening here with origins he man sell out (in mainly toy stores here it sell out all the figures, but in the others he man just disapears of the shelfs).
@@coffinbirth2847 Indeed, I meant Revelation, sorry. Revelation He-man and Skeletor vanish from the shelves near me. Origins He-Man and Skeletor... are present, we'll say.
I Love these Videos! Could you do one on the variants if She-Ra and Catra? Maybe you had new ones in mind? Catra is a very underrated character in the filmation series I feel. Did you have plans for Clawdeen or the fashion packs?
Hi. Yeah, Arbour day is my fave day of the year too! Now, I can say without a doubt if I had seen this Gringo on the racks, I woulda bought him "point blank"! Glow in the Dark had always fascinated me from my beginnings and skeleton-based characters even more so! Both versions you displayed are awesome. They both had their own unique charm and appeal. If I were to get one now though, I'd go for the original. Something about his simplicity appeals to me. I also was a big fan as a kid (even now) of two different characters that shared a similar appearance ie ScareGlow and Skeletor or something like Death's Head 1 and Death's 2 (Marvel characters) because one was usually the "underdog" and less powerful and I mean everyone pulls for the underdog right? It's funny how a misunderstanding can sometimes lead to something totally terrific! The ScareGlow!! Love it! Thanks for a swell show! \m/
His toy adaptation of Revelations is very neat, hopefully some day we could get a retail version since the exclusive one it's expensive, he would look great next to my River Styxx doll from Monster High and could be her father, lol
Is there a Moss Man video coming up? He's my favorite MOTU character. I'm searching for some of the recent Classic line releases where he's actually fuzzy: I'm so disappointed that MOTU Revelation Moss Man is just hard plastic with no fuzz!
I really like the new figure not having fuzz - flocked fuzz is great and all, but it’s nice to get some variety. What’s weird about the MOTUR figure is that, if you lift his skirt, it kind of looks like the sculptors put a tiny obscene joke in there.
I hadn’t watched the show in the past but am starting now and it’s cool. He looks sort of like Blight from Batman Beyond. The colors are opposite of black skeleton and body glows green. That would be an awesome figure.
My childhood head canon was that Scare Glow was Keldor's Soul, escaped from Hordak after Keldor sold it to him to attain the power that made him Skeletor.
I've often wondered why there are virtually no glow in the dark Transformers. The only one I can think of was a BotCon 2002 convention exclusive with a glow in the dark tampograph. Is there any property unique to phosphorescent plastic that makes it unsuitable for Transformers toys? Or do some brand managers discourage the idea of children playing with their toys in the dark?
I was collecting MotU action figures from the beginning. When I saw "Ghost of Skeletor", I gave Scareglow a pass. I'm glad it wasn't something like passing on stocks for a company that ends up being one of the bluechip stocks (like what happened with Coca-Cola, Amazon, etc.), or I would have been kicking myself for not getting one when it first came out.
I just got the MOTU Origins figures of Scareglow & Faker. Do you have any other videos about individual MOTU characters? Or plan to make more videos on different MOTU characters?
So, if he is such a popular figure, why make him a rare figure for Revelations? He is the coolest figure in the line, and will cost an arm and a leg to get. I think I used to dress up for Arbor Day, and have a carnival. Yummy cookie pastries too. Great video.
@@johnmorey720 that mentity is the reason the current business model of the toy industry is broken. 1. Make a desired toy rare. Less people buy it. Supports secondary and tertiary markets. 2. Make a desired toy in an initial average run. Be prepared to make second minimum qty run. People who want it, get it. Scalpers eat crap! Which one creates a bigger profit for the toy company?
@@spectorcreative1872 I want to buy it. So where is it, at retail price, right now. It was just released last month right. So it should be everywhere, as he was a pivotal character in the show. But no, make it in a very small quantity so it sells out in moments. If MOTU in the 80s was run like this, parents would have thrown a fit.
How well does the glow feature hold up over time? Does it wear out over time, like the color changing plastic? I'm curious about how well that 80s Scareglow glow feature works today.
So this idea that Scareglows are one type of ghost/monster...what if Skeletor were to become one when he dies? So people who thought he was Skeletor when they were kids could still technically be right. Might get myself an extra Origins Skeletor and Scareglow to kitbash this.
fanfiction musing: Rereading the original Jungle He-man 1982 minicomic where Skeletor says he wants the power sword to open a portal to his demon dimension and bring his demon army in. I think a fanfiction super simple Scareglow would be to have him be the same demon species as Skeletor (I actually thought Kevin Smith was doing that when Scareglow said he remembered Skeletor) - and I'd make him analogous to Starscream and Megatron - being this second in command demon always trying to betray him. And obviously Skeletor's original gang hates this guy too for suddenly showing up and having this prior relationship with the boss and cutting in line to be second in command. It kind of writes itself.
