MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE Set Photos Tease Zodak, King Hiss, And Characters From SHE-RA

@ModHaterSLADE - Brie is my favorite actress. Ill watch just about anything with her in it

@NonPlayerC - GLOW was great. Shame it got axed.

@ModHaterSLADE - I love franchise and really don't want to see more of my childhood get shit on. Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Star Trek, Terminator, Predator, Aliens...it's numbing at this point.

@JacobsLadder - Yeah, these great 80s franchises have had some awful follow-ups to keep them relevant.

@SummersEssex - He is, he needs a better agent lol. I just can't see him doing the voice

@JacobsLadder - Eventually, everything you love will be destroyed.

@NonPlayerC -

@Steel86 - Still no reason to include it, just set the whole thing on Eternia.

@datfigures - Ah, so that’s why Lord of the Rings failed, because there was no character from OUR Earth to represent the audience.

@datfigures - If that is a main reason then they could have started with Queen Marlena for the first arc and half-way in the movie changed to Adam & Cringer.

Full Metal Jacket did it best felt like two movies in one transfer of story.

@ClintthaManster - I appreciate a good kink as much as the next @originalgusto1

@JacobsLadder - As a life-long TF fan (I've got a Deception symbol tattooed on my shoulder and an entire spare bedroom full of the figures MISB), I'm there with you on the "Bumblebee" movie intro. Hasbro apparently knows how popular that was with the fans as they are still making figures out of not only the characters in that opening scene, but also concept art for characters that didn't appear in that scene (i.e., Megatron, Rumble, Frenzy, etc.).

Unfortunately according to producer Lorenzo DiBonafutura, that 7 minutes of awesomeness was so expensive to create that if they did a whole movie of it it would cost around $500M. So don't hold your breath for that. It's too bad that "TF:One" didn't do better BO numbers, as I really enjoyed it and it set up a "TF:Two" sequel perfectly (they originally planned a trilogy). Considering how good the reviews were for that movie from both the fans and the critics, that was a real surprise.

But to your original point, as a child from the 80s myself, I want this movie to be really good as well and I think that Travis is the guy to do it. Although I never really collected He-Man toys at the time (too busy collecting my TFs) I watched the show and have seen some of the newer stuff as well. I have a pretty large movie room in my house and I have collections of toys and movie props in different areas (i.e. the MCU corner with Cap's shield, the Nano Gauntlet, etc.; the Star Wars corner with rereleases of the original figures and vehicles, etc.) and I have my 80s/90s toys corner with rereleases of He-Man, TMNT, Marvel, GI JOE, etc. My local Target has been handling the He-Man figures, so I think that I have pretty much all of the OG figures and vehicles, including some of the She-Ra stuff as well (although I don't recall ever really getting that into She-Ra). So fingers crossed! 😊

@JacobsLadder - Right there with you man. I sold all my SW figs in a garage sale when I was a kid because I was getting into TFs (I actually have one OG SW fig that is one of those guys in the gray suit with the big black helmet (can't think of the name right now) and the only reason I have him is because apparently our dog at the time got a hold of him and he ended up under the oven in the house that I grew up in so I found him when we moved out - he's standing on my desk right now).

I started collecting TFs when they first came out (my first was Thundercracker) and that's all I wanted for birthdays and holidays so that's what I got and I ended up with hundreds of the G1 and G2 figs and started into Beast Wars before I got into high school and pursued "other things" 😉. After that I was a starving college student and picked up a few here and there, but didn't really start collecting again until I got into grad school and figured out that I could get student loans AND a stipend for being a TA/RA, so I had extra cash for TFs (probably not the best idea considering how much I ended up having to pay in student loans by the time I finished my PhD).

Anyhow, the student loans are all paid off and now I can collect guilt-free (well, unless my wife gives me a hard time, which thankfully she rarely does), so I have literally thousands of them now from 2006 forward, like I said I a spare bedroom MISB, arranged according to each toy line.

As for my OG figs, unfortunately when I was a kid my little brother also liked TFs and no matter what kind of storage solution I devised he would always find a way to get at them and usually ripped their arms and legs off. That being said, every time that I visit my folks I try to bring some of them back with me (I live ~1000 miles away), so I have a good amount of the OGs now. One of these days I'll have to clean/fix them and get new stickers and such.

Speaking of the OG characters (yes Soundwave was probably my second one), if you haven't seen it, LEGO has released sets of actual transforming figures, starting with OP 2 years ago and Bumblebee last year (they're doing 1 a year). Although it hasn't been officially announced, they've teased that this year's is going to be Soundwave.

One last thing I'll mention regarding MotU and Target: I don't know if you've seen it, but they are doing MotU crossovers with the OG characters and then other franchises. Like, they currently have MotU x TMNT which actually look pretty cool. I'd pick them up but I only have so much room and I tend to lean more toward the original 80s/90s reissues. But I thought that I'd let you know in case you hadn't seen those in your area. Cheers!🍻

@JacobsLadder - Yeah, I can talk about that stuff all day as well. Like I said above, I got out of that stuff for the most part until I discovered the joys "disposable income", so now I'm kinda like "Eh, you know what? You only go around once so WTF why not?"

So I've got the premium membership for Hasbro's Pulse online store, which saves me shitloads of cash on shipping because the membership is only $50/year and I get free shipping, so I probably save hundreds of dollars a year on shipping (I'm pretty sure they have a plaque with my name on it somewhere for as much money as I spend there), BUT they toys are coming straight from the manufacturer so not only are they the same price as what I can get at Walmart, Target, etc. (except for a sale), but for a MISB guy like me they're almost always in prefect shape. And when they end up being delivered not in great shape, I just give them a call and the send me a replacement, and usually unless it's a higher priced fig they let me keep the one in the damaged packaging.

Also I usually hit up my local Walmart and Target once a week and check out their clearance areas (Target has the best by far), and if there are figs there that I'd be interested in picking up but not at regular price, I do. So I've ended up collecting a bunch of Marvel Legends figs, Funko Pops, retro Super-7 figs, etc., which I have in my movie room as well (I told you it was a big room).

Speaking of my movie room and Pulse, I mentioned that I have those different sections of the room dedicated to different franchises, but I didn't mention my Ghostbusters section. So in case you don't know, Hasbro (who has the GBs license) does these crowd-funded projects from time to time (called "HasLab" projects), and they did them for the GBs. So far they've done the full proton pack, neutron wand, PKE meter, and Ghost trap, all high-quality movie grade replicas, and being a huge GBs fan I had to have those.

Anyhow, I'll have to figure out how to post pics of my movie room and TF room on here one of these days, as I think you (and a bunch of other folks that I've talked to here) would get a kick out of them. But, hey, like I said, you only go around once, and I figure that if my wife can take over 90% of our master closet with her clothes, shoes, and purses I can have my TF and movie rooms. Cheers!🍻