He-Man: A Tribute

[njackets]

I loved D&D and found an episode on some random kids channel a few months ago with my lad. I'm sorry to report it has not aged well.

I stumbled across the complete box set in CEX for about a fiver a couple of years ago I was made up, and your right think I swerved it after the second episode, it's not as good as I remember it as a 7 year old!

[Mook]

Whoever done the sound effects on He-Man was off their tits on acid.

[General Dryness]

Was Dungeons & Dragons the one with the wizard in green who was a moany arsed cunt, and the baddie was a big dragon called Tiamat?

 

Shite.

[RedKnight]

Shelia is the reason D&D was good.

[Tony Moanero]

MASK > He-Man.

 

Discuss.

Grotbags > Yer Ma

 

Discuss.

[PestiRed]

Society has definitely gone downhill since our kids are no longer subject to a post-story, moral message from He-Man

[Stouffer]

I have read the script for the final episode of D&D as it was never made.

[manwiththestick]

M.A.S.K figures were great, I remember i had the black truck, the muscle car, the bike and also the chopper/jet plane which I won in a colouring in competition in John Menzies.

 

Also, on the subject of D&D, that cartoon used to piss me off when a portal back to earth would open up and you could see the fairground and you'd go "go ahead kids, jump in and get back home" but oh no, that baby unicorn has fallen over and a dragon has it cornered, we'd better all go and help. Portal closes.

[Strontium]

I always wanted M.A.S.K. figures but never got any.

 

I do however still have all my vintage He-Man figures and vehicles.

 

Also a bunch of the more recent figures when they rebooted them a few years ago.

 

Last year they began relaunching M.U.S.C.L.E. figures (those little pink wrestler figures from the 80s) on a limited scale in the USA and the first series were Masters of the Universe M.O.T.U.S.C.L.E. Of course I had to get those.

[RedKnight]

I had M.A.S.K. figures and vehicles, still have them, they were great. Scott and T-Bob ruin any scene they're in though, and don't get me started on the last series where they changed it to a racing theme.

[Bobby Hundreds]

How shit were the gobots. A fucking ginger moped as one of the main robots.

[Tony Moanero]

I always wanted M.A.S.K. figures but never got any.

 

I do however still have all my vintage He-Man figures and vehicles.

 

Also a bunch of the more recent figures when they rebooted them a few years ago.

 

Last year they began relaunching M.U.S.C.L.E. figures (those little pink wrestler figures from the 80s) on a limited scale in the USA and the first series were Masters of the Universe M.O.T.U.S.C.L.E. Of course I had to get those.

They sound boss.

 

*loads eBay*

[Tony Moanero]

How shit were the gobots. A fucking ginger moped as one of the main robots.

Kids who preferred Gobots to Transformers also wore strap-over velcro trainees.

[njackets]

I always wanted M.A.S.K. figures but never got any.

 

I do however still have all my vintage He-Man figures and vehicles.

 

Also a bunch of the more recent figures when they rebooted them a few years ago.

 

Last year they began relaunching M.U.S.C.L.E. figures (those little pink wrestler figures from the 80s) on a limited scale in the USA and the first series were Masters of the Universe M.O.T.U.S.C.L.E. Of course I had to get those.

I had loads of them MUSCLE figures, don't know why I was so fascinated with them as I remember they used to do my head in cos the arms or legs didn't move.

[Babb'sBurstNad]

I had loads of MUSCLE figures, the designs were great. I preferred Battle Beasts though, as their arms moved and they had heat up holograms on the front.

 

Battle Armour He-Man figures were the best. The ones where you reset the chest armour and when it got hit it'd spin round to show a big sword mark. I had a regular Prince Adam too, but he was just a fella in a velvet jacket really.

[Section_31]

I had the switchblade van from MASK, it had a jet inside and was quality. Miles Mayhem was also a boss name.

 

If I ran my own business I would insist that all the directors wore helmets at board meetings and had codenames.

 

"Where's slingshot and tornado pants?"

 

"They're at a health and safety training day"

 

"Twats."

[Curly]

MASK was boss. The vehicles were proper good and multi faceted. Nothing touched He-Man or Knightrider for me though.

 

Edit: Manta Force was also boss.

[Skidfingers McGonical]

Dungeons and Dragons had a character in it called Kyuss. That then became the band name that would spawn QOTSA.

 

D&D rules for that alone.

[Skidfingers McGonical]

Starcom, now there was some proper spaceships.

 

Terrahawks and Star-Fleet. Nothing else in comparison with regards to puppets. Or Brian May singing/writing/producing the theme toon.

 

Ulysses 31 is an all time favourite of mine too.

[Tony Moanero]

Action Force/GI Joe was boss. The cartoon series and toys were great. I used to rob the figures from Woolworths.

 

For a time, I loved Madballs, too.

[Adebisi]

Growing up my brother never let me play with his He-Man figures or Castle Grayskull but when my dad started taking me to car-boot sales I bought loads of them. Dunno why we got rid of all the figures and stuff. I would have given them to my eventual son or daughter's husband if I had it my way.

The shit youngsters are playing with today looks dreadful.

[Cardie]

I had the mask base with the Volcano that used to have a boulder on top and gun inside.

 

For those still into 80's cartoons Voltron is on Netflix now.

[Tony Moanero]

Boulder Hill.

[Section_31]

Action force was sensational, the themetune still gets me emotional.

[Cardie]

Boulder Hill.

That'll be the one.

 

That and the motorized dino-riders T-Rex were my favourite toys as a kid.