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Eighteen Inches of He-Manliness
Wasn’t it just a couple of months ago that the creative types at Mattel were telling us that the Masters of the Universe line was in danger of cancellation, only to have it magically sell out over quota at the very last m...
Nine Questions I Have about the Blu-ray of The Room
If there’s one thing Rob and I do have in common, its our shared love of misshapen, muscular mutants, as evinced by our fandom of both Masters of the Universe and Tommy Wiseau. So the idea of my favorite cinematic disaste...
The Five Best (and Worst) Masters of the Universe Figures Not Represented in the Original Line
Today sees the release of Granamyr, the largest Masters of the Universe figure ever, with a wallet-weep-inducing price tag of $80 plus tax and shipping (just over $100 total). He’d stand about 30 inches tall if in fact he...
A Big Name Barely Makes the Cover of His Own Video Game
Tiger Woods isn’t on the cover of the “Historic Edition” of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14, the fifth such box—special or main edition—in which the game’s titular star has not appeared alone, or at ...
By the Power of Grayskull…And Fake Action Figure Ads
The winner of Mattel’s Masters of the Universe 30th Anniversary Create-A-Character Contest for his Castle Grayskull Man, toy designer Daniel Benedict just posted the above toy commercial to his YouTube page. Since it feat...
Here Are Some Things Somebody Said about the He-Man Movie
Jon M. Chu got the Masters of the Universe movie directing gig after seemingly knocking G.I. Joe: Retaliation out of the park, and proving tha you could have a movie based on an ’80s toyline that didn’t pander to th...
By the (Awesome, Expensive) Power of (Castle) Greyskull
I may bitch about Mattel’s Masters of the Universe line — and when I say “may” I mean “constantly and unceasingly” — but I have to give them full credit for debuting a huge, awesome, tr...
STYNK: Deadpool, Masters of the Universe, Jem, Gatchaman, The Goon, Etc.
• Marvel announced a new miniseries titled Classics Killustrated, starring Deadpool. It’s a sequel to the Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe miniseries. Writer Cullen Bunn says:In this universe, all the stories of classic...
He-Man's Getting a New Videogame, and Here's Why You Shouldn't Care
First and foremost, it’s an iOS game. Not a real videogame. And don’t get into semantics with me — cellphone games are mostly designed as fun timewasters, and since this Masters of the Universe game is a 2-D b...
