{"id":20697,"date":"2015-10-13T15:45:07","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T19:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=20697"},"modified":"2015-10-13T15:45:07","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T19:45:07","slug":"watch-the-masters-of-the-universe-movie-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2015\/10\/watch-the-masters-of-the-universe-movie-for-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch the Masters of the Universe movie for free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paramount Studios is putting some of its movies up for free on YouTube, including 1987's terrible <i>Masters of the Universe<\/i>:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"239\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VVisd9ihWv0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>If you've ever wondered why the movie is so terrible, part of it is because Mattel placed strict restrictions on the script - no killing, etc. - then completely reversed course when the toy sales started to drop off, desperate for a success. Also, while the original plan was for Mattel to fund half the film and Cannon Films to fund the other half, that didn't work out: Mattel paid their half of the money, it got spent, and then Cannon refused to pay the rest, forcing Mattel to pony up or see everything go to waste.<\/p>\n<p>Here's a behind-the-scenes video with more:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"239\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p_u1nlmiGU8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><H5>&lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;<\/H5><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"My Toy Shrine\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2008\/01\/my-toy-shrine\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">My Toy Shrine<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"ATFC '12 - Day 2: Mattel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/02\/atfc-12-day-2-mattel\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">ATFC '12 - Day 2: Mattel<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Rustin's Spoils of the Week #166\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2015\/07\/rustins-spoils-of-the-week-166\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rustin's Spoils of the Week #166<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"In honor of SDCC this weekend\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2024\/07\/in-honor-of-sdcc-this-weekend\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">In honor of SDCC this weekend<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"More toys shilling for Honda\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2014\/12\/more-toys-shilling-for-honda\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">More toys shilling for Honda<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paramount Studios is putting some of its movies up for free on YouTube, including 1987's terrible Masters of the Universe: &lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;MOTU He-Man addendum Jeez Mattel, no need to do Mantenna dirty like that MotU Classics: Heads &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2015\/10\/watch-the-masters-of-the-universe-movie-for-free\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,42],"tags":[96,15,181],"class_list":["post-20697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mattel","category-videos","tag-he-man","tag-motu","tag-skeletor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20697"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20699,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20697\/revisions\/20699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}