I've been enjoying reading up on those cheeky bended-knee Imposters of the Universe, the He-Man bootlegs, Galaxy Warriors.
One line, The End of Time: The Last Battle, has card art that's so familiar but I just can't place it. Can you readers?
I've been enjoying reading up on those cheeky bended-knee Imposters of the Universe, the He-Man bootlegs, Galaxy Warriors.
One line, The End of Time: The Last Battle, has card art that's so familiar but I just can't place it. Can you readers?
On holiday our daughter put on a documentary called The Toys That Made Us, possibly on You Tube or Netflix.
The episode we watched was on Masters of the Universe, its origins and history. Quite fascinating stuff I must say and there were lots of things in there I didn't know.
One thing that stuck in my mind was how Mattel re-used earlier toys for the MOTU line.
Stand-out was Big Jim's tiger, which the company repainted as He-Man's Battle Cat. I for one will see this in a new light from now on. Unlike me, proper keen MOTU fans will know all about the Big Jim links. Did you readers?
You can read about loads of Mattel's Big Jim recycling here at Retro Junk https://www.retrojunk.com/article/show/1247/masters-of-the-universe
The Toys That Made Us is a series with each episode about a different toy line; Star Wars, Barbie and so on. I certainly enjoyed the Masters of the Universe one.
Have you seen the show?