{"id":30310,"date":"2012-10-22T00:00:13","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T04:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=30310"},"modified":"2020-02-03T06:06:16","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T11:06:16","slug":"soon-forget-motu-horde-trooper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/10\/soon-forget-motu-horde-trooper\/","title":{"rendered":"Soon Forget: MotU Horde Trooper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of blog posts memorializing cancelled toys. Our figure today is NECA's <i>Masters of the Universe<\/i> Horde Trooper.<\/p>\n<p>The Trooper would have been part of the <i>MotU<\/i> ministatue line, showing what Hordak's cannon-fodder soldiers would have looked like as designed by the Four Horsemen:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/motuhordt.jpg\" title=\"MotU Horde Trooper\" width=\"380\" height=\"435\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The Horde Trooper would have been in the same series as Spikor (as seen in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/shocka\/motucspik.php\">today's review<\/a>), presumably along with an unknown third figure. Six series of ministatues were released, all in sets of three; the cancelled Kobra Khan and Faker two-pack would likely have been part of Series 7, meaning Spikor and the Horde Trooper would have been part of Series 8 at the earliest.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/shocka\/art\/motucspik3.jpg\" width=\"305\" height=\"335\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>Other characters the Four Horsemen said they planned to do include<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a new Skeletor<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=10712\">Moss Man<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Horde Armor He-Man (with classic Zodac blaster)<\/li>\n<li>\"New Adventures\" Armor He-Man<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>No specifics were given, and no work was done on those, so we can only imagine what would have been. The ministatue line was superior to <i>MotU Classics<\/i>.<\/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=\"Rustin's Spoils of the Week #224\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2020\/04\/rustins-spoils-of-the-week-224\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rustin's Spoils of the Week #224<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"The MotU\/TMNT crossover that never was\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2021\/07\/the-motu-tmnt-crossover-that-never-was\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">The MotU\/TMNT crossover that never was<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"MotU Spikor addendum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2021\/11\/motu-spikor-addendum\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">MotU Spikor addendum<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Eternia Minis: Stinkor exclusive review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2020\/12\/eternia-minis-stinkor-exclusive-review\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Eternia Minis: Stinkor exclusive review<\/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>This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of blog posts memorializing cancelled toys. Our figure today is NECA's Masters of the Universe Horde Trooper. The Trooper would have been part of the MotU ministatue line, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/10\/soon-forget-motu-horde-trooper\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,331,37],"tags":[96,15,181],"class_list":["post-30310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addendums","category-cancelled-toys","category-lists","tag-he-man","tag-motu","tag-skeletor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30310","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30310"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30314,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30310\/revisions\/30314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}