{"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=\"MotU Minis: Moss Man &#038; Battle Armor Skeletor reviews\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2016\/05\/motu-minis-moss-man-battle-armor-skeletor-reviews\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">MotU Minis: Moss Man &#038; Battle Armor Skeletor reviews<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"MotU Classics: The Map of Etheria\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/motu-classics-the-map-of-etheria\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">MotU Classics: The Map of Etheria<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"The second coming of Vikor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2011\/01\/the-second-coming-of-vikor\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">The second coming of Vikor<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Eternia Minis: He-Man &#038; Skeletor exclusive reviews\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2020\/08\/eternia-minis-he-man-skeletor-exclusive-reviews\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Eternia Minis: He-Man &#038; Skeletor exclusive reviews<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Christians vs. He-Man\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/christians-vs-he-man\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Christians vs. He-Man<\/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}]}}