{"id":39117,"date":"2023-02-26T08:31:19","date_gmt":"2023-02-26T13:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=39117"},"modified":"2023-02-25T19:28:48","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T00:28:48","slug":"soon-forget-motu-vs-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2023\/02\/soon-forget-motu-vs-dc\/","title":{"rendered":"Soon Forget: MotU vs. DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of blog posts memorializing cancelled toys.<\/p>\n<p>If you remember back when Mattel had the DC license, you may also recall they did a series of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/poe\/dcuc_motu.php\">DC Universe vs. Masters of the Universe<\/a> two-packs. The line began with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/poe\/art\/dcuc_motu03.jpg\">Superman vs. He-Man<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/poe\/art\/dcuc_motu04.jpg\">Lex Luthor vs. Skeletor<\/a>, and was well-received enough to continue through several others:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/poe\/art\/dcuc_motu03.jpg\" width=\"223\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/poe\/art\/dcuc_motu04.jpg\" width=\"222\"><\/center><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aquaman vs. Mer-Man<\/li>\n<li>Bizarro vs. Faker<\/li>\n<li>Green Lantern vs. Zodac<\/li>\n<li>Hawkman vs. Stratos<\/li>\n<li>Supergirl vs. She-Ra<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>However, there was an eighth set planned, though never even announced.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/motudcrtsk.jpg\" title=\"Red Tornado vs. Sy-Klone\" width=\"480\" height=\"335\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>Comic artist Bob McLeod <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicartfans.com\/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=1706860\" target=\"caf\" rel=\"noopener\">was commissioned to do the character art for all the sets<\/a>, and he was inked by <a href=\"https:\/\/waldenwong.blogspot.com\/2011\/12\/dc-universe-vs-masters-of-universe-2_28.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Walden Wong<\/a>. Though a Red Tornado vs. Sy-Klone set never made it to production, the fact that Mattel paid money to these artists to create the figures for the mini-poster and packaging proves that it was fairly far along in production before it was decided to drop the idea.<\/p>\n<p>Since both figures would have been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/poe\/dcuc1_red.php\">existing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/poe\/motucsyk.php\">molds<\/a> with minorly different paint apps, there are no prototypes specifically for the Red Tornado\/Sy-Klone set, but the art proves it did at one point exist.<\/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=\"Eternia Minis: Orko exclusive review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2021\/08\/eternia-minis-orko-exclusive-review\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Eternia Minis: Orko exclusive review<\/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=\"Goodbye, Skeletor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2014\/08\/goodbye-skeletor\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Goodbye, Skeletor<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"C2E2 - Mattel Panel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2011\/03\/c2e2-mattel-panel\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">C2E2 - Mattel Panel<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Toy Soldiers: War Chest\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2015\/06\/toy-soldiers-war-chest\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Toy Soldiers: War Chest<\/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. If you remember back when Mattel had the DC license, you may also recall they did a series of DC Universe vs. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2023\/02\/soon-forget-motu-vs-dc\/\">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":[331,27,7],"tags":[166,15],"class_list":["post-39117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancelled-toys","category-dc","category-mattel","tag-dcuc","tag-motu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39117","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=39117"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39121,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39117\/revisions\/39121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}