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December brings along the hiatus of several current cartoon series (I miss you, Young Justice & Star Wars: The Clone Wars), but we can always look to the past (and particularly the 1980s cartoon explosion) for some amazing holiday specials. More »
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It wasn't the R&B madness of Marvel Comics' 1980s parade floats, but the 1986 Masters of the Universe rig did an admirable job showcasing such crowd favorites as Mosquitor and Snout Spout. Does anybody know what Snout Spout's doing these days? I'd love to interview that guy. Dolph Lundgren narrated this performance on another, blurrier channel. More »
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Take a journey to Eternia, where He-Man's bruised and battered enemies are a little worse for wear. And these realistic takes on Skeletor and his crew show off every rip, wrinkle, and tear. More »
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I will not rest until I see a man in leather ride a green tiger to fight with a purple man with a skull for a head. The He-Man movie must be made, and thankfully Sony is still on it. More »
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We've seen the psychotic amount of detail that went into He-Man advertising art, but that's nothing compared to the dog-and-pony show Mattel brought to America's malls in the mid-1980s. This toy tent would've made your 6-year-old head explode. More »
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For his "Paper Cuts" series, designer Olly Moss created 19th century paper cutouts of some of speculative fiction's most esteemed heroes and villains. Here's a dozen or so characters done up as old timey portraits. More »
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When it came to selling action figures depicting a friendly barbarian and his mutated, alternate dimension pals, Mattel spared no expense on the artwork. Here are some ridiculous detailed tableaus depicting the Master of the Universe and his wild gang. More »
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Being a barbarian is a thankless job. You spend all day slaying your foes in a loincloth and greased up in beef tallow, and nobody remembers your exploits. The zeitgeist moves on to pirates, vampires, zombies, and what have you. More »
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Artist Thurston Roscoe began to suspect his toys were committing acts of mischief while he was away. So he set up a hidden camera to figure out what He-Man, the Ewoks, and his Ninja Turtle toys are getting up to. More »
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Skeletor is known for his nefarious schemes, wheezy laugh, and for being a 1980s fashion iconoclast (after all, he more or less invented the hood/loin cloth/ram's skull staff combo). More »
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Sculptor Kilroy III built this insane Masters of the Universe igloo in Brooklyn after one of the Northeast's many snowstorms. It took two days of construction and was designed with a Korean soup spoon and bowl. You can check out more photos and information about this project here. More »
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Masters of the Universe animator Robert Lamb has posted a ton of storyboards, concept art, and diagrams from his days on The Masters of the Universe animated series. Here's but a sampling of the show's many awesome cartoon layouts. More »
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Back in the day, the Cannon Group were the high priests of lowbrow cinema. Their formula? Ninjas + Van Damme + nudity + aliens = the best movies nobody watches anymore. Here are posters advertising Cannon's lost classics. Slightly NSFW. More »
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During io9's Concept Art Week, we saw the highest echelons of scifi illustration and design. Now that the week's come to a close, it feels right to ease you down to earth with some awesomely bad art...featuring He-Man. More »
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The screenwriters who penned Robert Rodriguez's upcoming Predators have been hired to write a new Masters of the Universe script. I'm sorry, Hollywood. You can remake MotU, but you'll never replace Dolph Lundgren. My He-Man killed Apollo Creed. More »
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In the Kingdom of Eternia, there are fates worse than having "He-Man" or "Fisto" on your birth certificate. You could be a moss-yeti or an anthropomorphic pin cushion. If your parents gave you the following toys, they didn't love you. More »
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Strawberry Shortcake and a mute WilyKit prepare their 80s-toy troops for the battle against Brainy Smurf, aka The Brain. Check out the brilliant story behind Tom Kyzivat's twisted art, and see if you can name each "after the fall" toy. More »
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We have long clamored for Skeletor to become an artistic icon, and now he's finally immortalized on canvas. Galleries 1988 in Los Angeles is having a He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe art show, and the opening's tonight. More »
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Gallery 1988's art shows frequently pay tribute to fantastical popular culture, and soon the gallery will take a trip to Eternia with its Masters of the Universe show. Take a peek at how the artists reinterpret He-Man, Skeletor, and more. More »
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Under Brooklyn's elevated JMZ subway sits a curious clothing label. On one hand, their apparel often appears in rap videos. On the other, they've released a t-shirt featuring He-Man in S&M gear. Welcome to the wonderfully warped world of Mishka. More »
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Is that He-Man strangling Big Bird? Jon Vermilyea's unofficial Masters of the Universe book He-Man And The 13 Trials of Eternia is filled with all manner of pop-culture weirdness... and our dream reboot for the character. Click through for more. More »
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Their movie may be on-again, off-again, but that doesn't mean that He-Man and the rest of the Masters of The Universe aren't getting a modern-day makeover, thanks to illustrator Adrian Reimann. Masters of The Runway, anybody? More »
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Less than a month after Mattel put the end to plans to make a live-action He-Man and The Masters of The Universe movie at Warner Bros., the project is alive again at Sony. That's the power of Grayskull for you. More »
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Warner Brothers has dropped its He-Man movie partnership started with Mattel. Which means no live-action He-Man space movie. But really, this is all for the best, and here's why. More »
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Playing over and over in our minds, like some kind of fever dream, is this clip from the Bollywood He-Man musical. Reminder: What can be seen, can't be unseen. Thanks to Topless Robot for finding this bonkers clip. More »
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We weren't looking forward to the new Masters Of The Universe movie to begin with, but now that we know that the movie will show why magic is better than science? Now we're dreading it. More »
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It's early in the AM and we're catching giant blue Faker upskirts, cute geek girls are wearing "talk nerdy to me" signs, and we've just spotted out first cosplayer - it's Comic Con time. More »
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Warner Bros. and Mattel have finally found the man to remind everyone of the greatness of He-Man and the other Masters of the Universe. After all, if he could make a martial-arts panda convincing... More »
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Worried that Transformers may have inspired a spate of gimmicky movies based on the toys of your youth that'll ruin your childhood nostalgia? You may want to avoid this post, just in case. More »
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When I think of Christmas, the first thing that springs to mind is the happy fact that I am going to enjoy eternal life in Heaven. And the second is He-Man. More »
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Forget those rumors that the He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe movie has died due to a lack of interested directors. Latino Review is reporting that Kung Fu Panda director John Stevenson is vying to sit in the director's chair atop Castle Grayskull. After the bazillions of dollars that Panda made, I think that he may actually have a chance to see this project through to the end. More »
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G.I. Joe's Recondo teaches that the more you know, the less likely you are to hide in a fridge. Thanks, Recondo! Although honestly, it is a pretty great hiding place. Back in the day, Saturday mornings weren't just a place for awesome science fiction cartoons, they were also a chance for the government to instill morals into the minds of children via their favorite characters. After the jump a collection of some of our favorite science fiction Public Service Announcements, including Transformers, He-Man and Power Rangers. More »
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