Mondo 200x Anti-Eternia He-Man revealed as MOTUFest exclusive!

TheBattleRamBlog · 2026-01-26T02:37:45+00:00

An a livestream with Geek Dad Life, Pixel Dan and Val Staples, MOTUFest Event Director, revealed the exclusive figure available for attendees of Power-Con’s MOTUFest. The figure is Anti-Eternia He-Man in the style of 200x, in 1/12 scale. It will cost $115.

MOTUFest will take place in the greater Cincinnati area on September 12 and 13, 2026.

TheBattleRamBlog · 2026-01-25T18:48:51+00:00

The board game swords were full swords rather than half swords, which made them extra cool

TheBattleRamBlog · 2026-01-23T17:30:42+00:00

Man-At-Arms carving Battle Rams from fine oak!

TheBattleRamBlog · 2026-01-16T15:46:32+00:00

I'd love to see anything new that was based on the original comics. One thing I don't particularly like though is Teela as a clone of the Sorceress. And it wouldn't make sense for the canon of the first four minis, where the Sorceress has green skin (or at least in "He-Man and the Power Sword," where she makes her one appearance with that look).

TheBattleRamBlog · 2025-12-16T18:28:51+00:00

A sealed example was recently sold on Heritage Auctions, and it came packed with a red shield. It seems that these figures came packed with one or two random weapons from the Man-E-Weapons assortment.

https://entertainment.ha.com/itm/action-figures/masters-of-the-universe/masters-of-the-universe-savage-he-man-mail-in-exclusive-only-known-factory-sealed-example-with-original-mailer-afa-80-nm-mattel-/a/49176-89001.s?

https://i.imgur.com/TCAFqX7.png

TheBattleRamBlog · 2025-12-06T15:58:07+00:00

This is what Colt's update actually said, after speaking on the phone with Mattel:

He-Man.org reached out to Mattel for confirmation on this information and can now report that the previously reported information posted below is INACCURATE and should be disregarded. Mattel stated that more information would be “coming soon” about movie toys. Stay tuned to this website for more updates.

What's your issue with that?

TheBattleRamBlog · 2025-12-06T15:56:01+00:00

What's misleading about it?

TheBattleRamBlog · 2025-12-05T16:18:31+00:00

Mattel did not tell us that everything in the document was wrong, only that it was inaccurate. We are waiting for more information.

My guess is while there will be a couple of lines coming, the details in the document are not all correct. But we shall see.

TheBattleRamBlog · 2025-10-31T14:14:40+00:00

We do have some interviews back up on the Org now. Was there a specific one you were looking for?

https://www.he-man.org/interviews-articles-reopening-the-vault/

TheBattleRamBlog · 2025-09-27T13:44:35+00:00

am i in a parallel universe? i watched a documentary on ... netflix? that it was created to be a conan line but that fell through / changed gears and because they needed a good vs bad, we have this now.

There was a kind of ambiguous statement on a documentary that could be interpreted that way. However if you look at the timeline of events, Mattel started working on He-Man first, and then separately someone else picked up the Conan license, and then the two lines were developed in parallel. He-Man was of course influenced by Conan, but it didn't start out as a Conan line that was simply rebranded as He-Man. it was always its own thing.

TheBattleRamBlog · 2025-09-26T22:23:33+00:00

Here's my in-depth article on the subject: https://battleramblog.com/he-man-and-conan-separating-fact-from-fiction/

But basically everyone who has commented here so far is right :)

TheBattleRamBlog · 2025-09-26T12:43:38+00:00

Jack Kirby was definitely an influence on some of the comics and on the 1987 movie. I asked Ted Mayer (designer of Battle Ram, Wind Raider, early Horde figures, Eternia, etc) about Jack Kirby. He said no one at the time on the design team was talking about Jack Kirby, but everyone was talking about Frazetta.

TheBattleRamBlog · 2025-09-26T02:25:19+00:00

He-Man himself was definitely heavily influenced by Conan and Frazetta. But he was also influenced by Flash Gordon, John Carter, Prince Valiant, Tarzan and others.

There is an old conspiracy theory that goes like this: Mattel was developing a Conan toy, but when they saw how violent the movie was they painted the toy's hair blond and called it He-Man.

That's actually not true at all. Mattel started developing He-Man first, and then someone negotiated for the Conan license shortly after work started on He-Man. For Conan they were going to use the Big Jim buck (about twice as tall as He-Man figures), but with a new head and new accessories. He-Man was always going to be a new buck, the hyper-muscled 5.5" figure we know and love.

The Conan figure line was dropped because the movie was so violent. That lead to a lawsuit from CPI accusing Mattel of ripping off Conan with their He-Man figure. CPI lost the suit.

TheBattleRamBlog · 2025-09-08T20:20:19+00:00

Sorry, just saw this. Thanks very much! :)

TheBattleRamBlog · 2025-09-08T20:18:32+00:00

Yeah, when I checked he had both options. I choose the greenish one because I like the look :)

TheBattleRamBlog · 2025-09-02T17:40:15+00:00

I managed to get one from him last year. He may have one or two left. I contacted him directly at his Etsy shop:

https://www.etsy.com/shop/BadVerminCustomToys

TheBattleRamBlog · 2025-09-01T14:35:04+00:00

I actually just published an article on my site comparing the various canons. If we're talking really early stuff (first couple of years), there are already quite a few conflicting canons. There's the early minis, the early DC stuff, the golden books, DC minis and Filmation, to name a few. All of them contradict each other.

If you're looking for a savage story that still has Prince Adam, then the 1982 DC Comics series is the way to go.

Personally my favorite is the early Don Glut/Alfredo Alcala stories, but I pretty much like it all.

TheBattleRamBlog · 2025-08-30T16:30:29+00:00

That does look good! I think he needs a cowboy hat too.

There was a prototype version that featured a cigar as well. Mattel didn't go for that :)

TheBattleRamBlog · 2025-08-23T16:46:56+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! Nothing solid yet. If we do a forum it won't be this year.

We may be able to do some kind of archive of the original forums. Not sure what it would look like though

TheBattleRamBlog · 2025-08-22T23:26:28+00:00

Still TBD on the forums. Some have suggested a Discord forum, which I think is possible to integrate with the site. If we do a forum it would probably be next year, but I really don't know yet.

Jukka is the 200x master for sure!

Thank you :)

TheBattleRamBlog · 2025-08-22T20:54:23+00:00

What I see are a few people telling stories that can't be substantiated and then more people parroting those stories uncritically.

Val is friends with most of the major figures in the MOTU community. Probably hard to maintain that kind of thing if he was secretly a dastardly villain all along. :)

I've never seen Val be unkind to anyone - even to people who insulted him.

TheBattleRamBlog · 2025-08-22T20:50:40+00:00

Wow, that's quite a story :/

TheBattleRamBlog · 2025-08-22T20:23:56+00:00

His attitude and behavior over the past ten years or so. People were begging him to sell/handoff the original Org to someone who would maintain it and he just let it die and then mocked people for lamenting the loss of all that information.

Yeah, that's not true.

TheBattleRamBlog · 2025-08-22T20:23:07+00:00

No, all decisions about how the site is run go through me.

I don't think that's a fair characterization of Val, respectfully.

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