Stinkor is the only action figure whose selling point was that he smelled BAD (actually he smelled like plastic). He was bad in the original toyline, then good on the cartoon, so clearly TPTB found him forgettable enough they couldn't keep his story straight! It may get me flack, but I'm putting him low on the list because the parts were easy to lose and he was hard to construct. Gold, like velvet, was very fancy in the 80s. Said feature is realy just moving He-Man's arms up and down so it looks like he's doing the elliptical or jazzercising. You could mix and match various pieces of this figure. List of Masters of the Universe characters, with pictures when available. It's completley hypnotic. He also has this really weird, geometric shield that opened up into a bizarre shape and can, depending on one's crafitness, double as an earring. The heroic warrior He-Man battles against the evil lord Skeletor and … If you stuck the figure's arms straight out and threw him in a spinning motion, he acted like a helicopter. By submitting your information, you agree to our, Every He-Man and the Masters of the Universe action figure, ranked, Scarlett Johansson says ‘I do’ to Frankenstein movie ‘Bride’, Battlestar Galactica movie blasts off again with Simon Kinberg as writer and producer, A booger-eating Colonel arrives to play with a Back to the Future advent calendar (and more), Servant sets January return as Season 2 filming begins with snow-filled shoot in Philadelphia, The CW's new Batwoman Ryan Wilder is heading to comics ahead of her TV debut, WIRE Buzz: 'Miracle Workers' prays up third season; Hulu speeds up 'Run' trailer; more, 40 years later, X-Men: Days of Future Past remains the best X story ever, Why Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns is still the most influential comic, Catch up and rock out with our Back to the Future franchise rap-up, Picard finally joins the game in the Star Trek: The Next Generation finale [Warp Factor 4.5], 'Triflers Need Not Apply': The story of deadly Belle Gunness, A tribute to Ann Rule, the queen of true crime, Share Every He-Man and the Masters of the Universe action figure, ranked on Facebook, Share Every He-Man and the Masters of the Universe action figure, ranked on Twitter, Share Every He-Man and the Masters of the Universe action figure, ranked on Reddit. Despite being a She-Ra villain, Hordak was released under the Masters of the Universe line. First of all, Fisto looks like a refugee from a Tom of Finland catalogue. Lasers were really big in the '80s, alongside strangers, scoliosis and "very special" episodes. To keep sales up and interest in each wave of the line, Mattel had to come up with "new" versions of He-Man and Skeletor every year. Despite looking like Ganesha after a Cylon upgrade, Snout Spout actually has a cool aesthetic.
Trap Jaw's action feature may be simple - his arm allows for interchangeable weapons, saws, etc to snap on - but he just looks so damn cool. Clawful's big claw can't hold much, but it's incredibly detailed for a MOTU figure (it has all these weird little bubbles on it). Beast Man gets lots of points for nostalgia, his vibrant color and that plastic-painted-as-fur collar. usually they also had the Eternia playset, If there is a God, Roboto was named after the Styx classic "Mr. King Randor had a great cape and a crown you could remove (but there'd still be a weird indentation in his head, making it look like he had brain surgery that got cut off midway through).
Akin to Flying Fists He-Man, he was cooler because you could actually replace his hand and he has a gold armor plate. Sssqueeze is such a fun name to say outloud. It never really worked and Whiplash sort of looks like Sloth from the Goonies, but he's fun. Same deal as Multi-Bot, but Modulok looked cooler. With a face only Medusa could love, his novelty of snakes popping out of his eyes, mouth, chest and clavicle (!) Same principle as above, but Skeletor's just cooler. Despite virtually no articulation, Ram Man's spring loaded legs provided endless hours of fun because (unlike Whiplash's tail) he COULD knock things over. Skeletor looks weird. Movies.
Transforming rocks were actually once a thing (see Rock Lords). Whiplash's tail, ostensibly, whips things and knocks things down when one snaps his waist.
He's bad ass and that's all there is to it. Not to be confused with Emmanuel Lewis, Webstor had a neat grappling hook and a tight string in his backpack that could be put between two points so Webstor could "climb" things. Here is the next MOTUC Collector's Choice bio reveal: Zoar! Spin the dial on top of his head around and he can take on three different looks (normal, robot and monster). Same deal as Skeletor, but he looked marginally cooler with the lightsaber-esque sword. The entire concept, and inanity of Stonedar can best be illustrated through this scene from Big. Which likely resulted in many homes burning down in 1987.