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7/21/2025, 4:16:24 AM
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That's the elephant in the room with New Adventures. Mattel was desperate to get MOTU back on it's feet, and quickly the decision boiled down to " He-man in Space". The groundwork for that much had been laid in the last releases of 1988, with Laser Power He-man and Laser Light Skeletor. As Mattel grew increasingly desperate (right after the failure of the Cannon film adaption, and both Captain Power and Bravestar flopping) they urged their designers to cook up newer fresher ideas. Thus the plan shifted to ape GI Joe. Yet they never stopped to pump the breaks on the Sci-fi direction. Presumably they had yesteryear's successes with Star Wars on the mind and went ahead with it anyways. From there it just coalesced into a half-baked mess of influences that never really came together right.
It's not really Star Wars, it's not really GI Joe, and it definitely isnt MOTU. Instead it all results in an japanimated saturday morning Flash Gordon ripoff with He-Man's name slapped onto it. Ironic considering Mattel's history with Flash. But having dropped the MOTU monicker, many of the familiar faces, AND entered the 1990's on the back of a pulp sci-fi throwback? It just never had a chance in hell.
For something like that to work in the 90's it would have had to take alot of cues from DOOM. And obviously it didnt.
>Maybe they could make it that Aliens invade Eternia and He-Man has his magical stuff, but characters like Man-At-Arms and Teela need to start using laser guns and wearing sci-fi armour
Honestly shifting gears to an outright Horde Invasion would have made for the essiest transition. Hasbro more or less did that with GI Joe across the same time span. Sticking to the clsssic proportions but going all in on poseable bodies with Spiral Zone/Aliens styled armor could have gone over well too. But again they were really deadset on pulp scifi for whatever reason.
That's the elephant in the room with New Adventures. Mattel was desperate to get MOTU back on it's feet, and quickly the decision boiled down to " He-man in Space". The groundwork for that much had been laid in the last releases of 1988, with Laser Power He-man and Laser Light Skeletor. As Mattel grew increasingly desperate (right after the failure of the Cannon film adaption, and both Captain Power and Bravestar flopping) they urged their designers to cook up newer fresher ideas. Thus the plan shifted to ape GI Joe. Yet they never stopped to pump the breaks on the Sci-fi direction. Presumably they had yesteryear's successes with Star Wars on the mind and went ahead with it anyways. From there it just coalesced into a half-baked mess of influences that never really came together right.
It's not really Star Wars, it's not really GI Joe, and it definitely isnt MOTU. Instead it all results in an japanimated saturday morning Flash Gordon ripoff with He-Man's name slapped onto it. Ironic considering Mattel's history with Flash. But having dropped the MOTU monicker, many of the familiar faces, AND entered the 1990's on the back of a pulp sci-fi throwback? It just never had a chance in hell.
For something like that to work in the 90's it would have had to take alot of cues from DOOM. And obviously it didnt.
>Maybe they could make it that Aliens invade Eternia and He-Man has his magical stuff, but characters like Man-At-Arms and Teela need to start using laser guns and wearing sci-fi armour
Honestly shifting gears to an outright Horde Invasion would have made for the essiest transition. Hasbro more or less did that with GI Joe across the same time span. Sticking to the clsssic proportions but going all in on poseable bodies with Spiral Zone/Aliens styled armor could have gone over well too. But again they were really deadset on pulp scifi for whatever reason.
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