{"id":26235,"date":"2002-08-05T14:51:18","date_gmt":"2002-08-05T18:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=26235"},"modified":"2018-05-04T15:00:13","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T19:00:13","slug":"motu-he-man-addendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2002\/08\/motu-he-man-addendum\/","title":{"rendered":"MOTU He-Man addendum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today's review of Mattel's <i>Masters of the Universe<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/poe\/motuheman.php\">He-Man<\/a> action figure discussed the fact that the toy's eventual \"anime\" look as not the Four Horsemen's original intent. Here, rather, is the more \"barbarian\" design they would have gone with:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2002\/08\/motuhemanalt1.jpg\" title=\"Barbarian He-Man\" width=\"450\" height=\"775\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>As you can see, they also made it to the sculpting phase:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2002\/08\/motuhemanalt2.jpg\" title=\"*angry He-Man sound*\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>What could have been, eh?<\/p>\n<p>As appropriate for the character as the alternative head may have been, I think it's quite apparent why the children in the focus groups chose the softer, friendlier face.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/poe\/art\/motuheman1.jpg\" width=\"295\" height=\"455\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/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=\"Five stars!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2023\/01\/five-stars\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Five stars!<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Soon Forget: MotU Horde Trooper\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/10\/soon-forget-motu-horde-trooper\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Soon Forget: MotU Horde Trooper<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"If Evil-Lyn was an inspirational wine-aunt\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2025\/11\/if-evil-lyn-was-an-inspirational-wine-aunt\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">If Evil-Lyn was an inspirational wine-aunt<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Keldor addendum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2003\/07\/keldor-addendum\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Keldor addendum<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"ATFC '13 - Day 2: Mattel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2013\/02\/atfc-13-day-2-mattel\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">ATFC '13 - Day 2: Mattel<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today's review of Mattel's Masters of the Universe He-Man action figure discussed the fact that the toy's eventual \"anime\" look as not the Four Horsemen's original intent. Here, rather, is the more \"barbarian\" design they would have gone with: As &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2002\/08\/motu-he-man-addendum\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,34,16,7],"tags":[96,15],"class_list":["post-26235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addendums","category-commentary","category-four-horsemen","category-mattel","tag-he-man","tag-motu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26235","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26235"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26240,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26235\/revisions\/26240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}