The Mystery of Wonder Bread He Man | Oddities #3
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- On this episode of Oddities we investigate the mystery of Wonder Bread He Man, also known as Savage He Man.
Find out why he's referred to as both "Savage" and "Wonder Bread" and all the theories about where he came from. But what is the real story?
How could this figure have slipped through the cracks of a company as big as Hasbro? What could they be hiding? Could this be a case of the Mandela Effect?
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"Wonder Bread He-Man" would be a great band name.
The '90s will never truly end. They will forever live on in the hearts and minds of '90s kids all across the world...
So still we are running in the 90's
This HeMan comes from an universe where Gobots are the premium alien disguised robots, Jodorowski's Dune was released in the 70s, erasing Star Wars from existence and the remake of "E.T. the videogame" was the best selling game on the Super Atari Entertainment Station.
Alejandro Martin Did you know. A universe where M.A.S.K and Go-bots are more popular than their hasbro counter parts are more popular exists and is canonin TF universe?
That sounds like a horrible universe...
Lucky for us, we are not from the wonder bread universe...
He came from the flea market
Is this the same world where Tom Cruise was cast as Iron Man?
So wait, this is the He-Man-della affect? *rimshot* I will see myself out now.
cujoedaman LMAO 😂😂👌😂😂
Good one.
🤣🤣
cujoedaman rim job probly
For the win😂
Dumbest moment of my childhood, I saw wonder He-Man on a swap meet when I was a kid and passed on it because of the brown hair
Right there with you... Freshman year in College I was in Kay-Bee Toys (RIP) They had an 'Optimus Prime' semi with a Missile Hauler Flatbed (think the Army Scene in Superman 1, minus the tarp) and a Stealth Bomber Starscream (Named so I knew they were official) but I Passed as a 'purist' because Prime was supposed to be a 'Cab Over' and Starscream a White/Blue Fighter Jet
I had this he man when I was a kid. I actually got it from Walmart. As I lived in a small town with limited means. I sold all of my masters stuff to my dad's friend so he could give them to his grandkids. $20.
I remember passing on Scareglow multiple times at the store because I thought there was no point of having another Skeletor knock off when I already had the original Skeletor. Now I see Scareglow going for 5,6,7, 800 bucks on ebay! 🤦🏻♂️
Many did in that time as we just viewed it as a cheap knock off. It was worth nothing then
@@6eostorm man try Amazon i seen one recently for like 100+ but im a tight wad and didnt want the additional bill on my credit card
Oh, yeah, I remember that figure! They gave it away free at the premiere of that Sinbad movie, SHAZAM!
Whyyyy
I love that movie.
Haa!🤭
What?👍
Yeah I stained my fruit of the loom cornucopia label.
They actually found proof of that movie
In my universe, you get bread when you buy action figures.
I like it!
Hot
That Black armour Wonderbread He-man is wearing comes from the weapons pack you could buy.
They mentioned that in the video...
@@zufalllx He mentioned the weapons, but he said the black armour was from a different figure.
@@oigitsuckit He literally says „wearing the black variation of the armor worn by Zodac included in the accessory pack“.
@@nikolajkappel1506 no shit... I said it came from another figure...
Yes it does! Would you buy it?
My theory of Wonderbread He-man is that he was a version of He-man that Mattel made for Wonderbread for a promotion, but Mattel made a last minute decision to cancel the figure after a small number of copies were sent out by Wonderbread. I think that Mattel cancelled this version of He-man was because he looked too much like Conan and they deny this figures existence as they didn't want to be sued by CPI for making a Figure that looked similar to Conan.
This, or something similar makes the most sense. A planned figure that was canceled, and only a few made it to the public.
I wouldn't be surprised if this is true as something like this, a figure that was put into production but canceled after a few copies got out to the public, happened in 2010 with Mattel's WWE Elite Series 1 Jeff Hardy action figure.
The WWE Elite Series 1 Jeff Hardy incident is why I have such a theory about Wonderbread He-man, as both Wonderbread He-man and Jeff Hardy were produced by Mattel.
Mattel made a undisclosed number of these "wonder bread" versions. They were part of the original connan line but since the lawsuit they could not be "sold" so they were given away. My source can not confirm they actually went to wonder bread though. But this figure was produced before he-man was he-man.
I believe I had the figure. Unfortunately, I was only like 12-13 years old. So my memory is questionable. I think I remember getting my parents to help me mail away for it because I did not know how to address a letter, put a stamp, go to the post office, etc. It took a long time to arrive, which was often the case with mailaway figures. He was in a clear plastic baggy. By the time it arrived, I didn't have much interest in the line anymore and was not playing with my He-man figures any more. He went into the box with the others. All my MOTU stuff was eventually given away or sold by my Mom. Not sure which. I thought it was strange that they would make a He-man with brown hair, but then again Faker had orange hair so it wasn't that much of an oddity for the line. I don't recall anything about any Wonderbread promotion. Think I remember sending in proofs of purchases from other figures.
Let's also not forget that when He-Man first came out, he was not "Prince Adam". He-Man was a barbarian that left his tribe to wander and adventure. He was met by a sorceress (not the actual "Sorceress" as we know her now) who gave him a sword and bade him to protect castle Greyskull from Skeletor, who had the other have of the sword He-Man had. I bring this up because I never see that original story talked about in videos about He-Man.
Yep, this is the story that the fine folks at Filmation want everyone to forget about ;) The mysterious woman he met was The Goddess, and she was basically an early variation of The Sorceress, thought in the new cannon they are now officially separate characters. I think the basic story told in the original four mini comics is now Wun-dar’s story.
Go watch The Toys That Made Us on Netflix, they talk about that (but not about Wonder Bread He-Man)
NoneOfTheAbove *half
Did you not just describe THUNDAR THE BARBARIAN???
Yeah he was based on Conan originally.
I can't say it enough. This is my favorite episode of Soy Galaxy.
Soy Galaxy? Oh their not THAT bad dude.
@@AnthonyDaFox 6:17
Same
"Wonder Bra He Man" is a close second.
The mystery was recently solved. He was part of the mattel buy3 get1 free promotion. He was the free mail in figure but it is believed he did not come with the armor, the black armor came in the weapons pack
The small booklets that came with the early edition action figures, especially those drawn by Alfredo Alcala, were quite arguably inspired by 70's Conan imagery by Frank Frazetta or Boris Vallejo. I especially recommend those, or the ones drawn by Mark Texeira. Those early books were beautifully illustrated, showing a quality and artistic ambition by Mattel that didn't seem to last beyond those individuals.
I was all about SilverHawks. That vacuum seal chrome effect was so cool. I loved the green guy, no idea what his name was. Bluegrass was dope too- i always wanted a guitar that turned into a gun lol.
blah: the green guy is "Flashback." He could travel back in time.
yeah that chrome wore off quick in the bathtub LOL
Buzz saw
In addition to Mattel denying any involvement with this figure, I can confirm that the makers of Wonder Bread (then Continental baking) also have no knowledge of a promotion for an action figure. I had a dialogue with a representative from Interstate Bakeries back in 2007 via email in which we discussed records of such a promotion. I got tired of seeing all the speculatory comments and theories on the forums by so-called experts so I decided to do my own research. (Some people commenting in the forum discussion actually thought Wonder Bread was the company name so it was hard to take their claims seriously). Although the company had changed hands and records may have been lost, they could NOT confirm such a promotion. Wonder Bread DID have a trading card promotion which everyone knows about but you can forget about the figure being a WB promo. Despite this information, people will still swear it's a WB figure which is ridiculous. That said, one of your commentors below suggested that this figure may have been given out at a convention perhaps as swag to employees which is a theory I can actually get behind. I'm very close to "a large toy company employee" (you can do the math) and there are constantly products floating around the offices and within the employee circles that never see the light of day. It's very possible that this figure was either an error from the factory that was given away to employees rather than destroyed, a figure intentionally produced and then held back for fear of being sued by the Conan people, or simply as a promo collector's item given to employees. Either way, despite the rarity of the figure, a WB promo would have had an ad campaign to back the promotion. After all, the point of a promotion is to sell more product which means there would be flyers, posters, magazine ads, and WB packaging to sell such a promotion. None of that can be produced for this figure which should seal the deal. In the 80's, mail in figures were common and you can find a TON of promotional documentation for figures like Cobra Commander, Duke, Sgt Slaughter, Fridge Perry, Mumm-Ra, Emporer, Boba-Fett, even Robo-Cop. A quick google search will produce documents as evidence for those promotions but nothing for He-Man? Mattel would have done a much better job at releasing promotional material to get this toy out there. I don't know where the toy came from but I can tell you where it did NOT come from.
It remains a fascinating toy mystery. I hope it never truly gets solved.
@@SecretGalaxyTV I am with you 100% I believe the mystery of the figure is why its so appealing to me. If we ever truly figured out the origin its going to be a sad day.
i don't know where those He-Man toys were produced at that time, but if it was in China, maybe the molds were used afterwards to produce counterfeits, and they changed the colors just to keep it off the radar..
Ah, in my mind it's a bootleg from Mexico. Prove me wrong, lol.
I remember this version of He-man & either a relative or a friend had it but i remember this. Im 42.
If they really did make a Wonderbread He-Man, surely by this point in time there would be some evidence of the promotion - articles, wrappers, etc?
If the promotional material was released, they wouldn't be able to hide it. It would be on cereal packets, etc, and would be in people's hands. So there would be pictures online and packets on eBay, but where is the evidence? Maybe it got no further than the pre-production promotion material?
That's interesting. Less a case of 'the promotions that time forgot' and more 'the promotions that people can't forget'. I can picture Optimus with some nice Pepsi stickers...
Sorry guys, but there would most definitely be a digital/paper/video footprint somewhere. There would have to be at least 500-1000 made or repackaged from warehouses in china just to justify an order to the states, and there most definitely isn't more than a couple of them floating around and even then I've found nothing of close examination for factory issued numbers or confirmation of factory spray used to change colors on the figure and not done in a fans home.
There is nothing out there. Fake
Foucault Effect The figure is not fake, it is indeed 100% real *however* it had absolutely nothing to do with wonderbread at all. The full explanation for the origin of the figure is detailed here with actual proof: twitter.com/timlybarger/status/951546136216645632
One of my childhood friends had a stepbrother that lived overseas for a couple years (army brat). He had some HeMan figures from over there that had slightly different colorations to ours. Perhaps Chinese manufacturers did a bootleg run using MOTU molds and had them painted somewhere else and sold as bootlegs on the Asian market.
Conan and He-Man create unrealistic body image expectations for young boys. This has been said MANY times in the alternate timeline....
Wonder Bread He-Man
Cards are completely real...Wonderbread He-Man is not. The simplest explanation is most often the correct one. i.e. neither Mattel or Wonder-Bread has enough evidence to back up the claims. This is coming from a kid who grew up in the 80's & was a total He-Man junkie (wearing my MOTU footie pajamas on X-Mas)and my family shopping at a Hostess Wonderbread store less than a mile from out house. The story is bullshit. I never once saw any advertisements for this figure in the store, I only saw the ads for the cards. Wonderbread He-Man does exist, but only as a custom and only as a classics reissue that's it.
i remember there being a lot of imitation figures that all had the same body molds. i got 1 from Showbiz pizza using tickets. it could be one of those types and not a true he-man licensed figure
This just made me even more confused lol
I remember chewing on there heads as a little kid yummy!
This discussion goes off the rails entirely at 2:37. I remember my best friend Josh having a browner haired he-man while mine had a neon yellow mane. Later iterations had much tanner skin, which made the yellow hair look so much more unnatural. They looked more Hulk Hogan to me, which was I thought was a dumb since he was a fake wrestler and He-man is supposed to be an actual galactic ass-kicker.
He-man is a shitty knock-off of Conan, no question. I feel like the oversized comic books were pretty good, but He-man 100% sucks when I look at it as an adult. Pre-teen boys and their Moms got taken for a ride in the 1980's. Sorry Mom. I was too stupid or naive to realize I was being played.
80's department store toy aisles were so rich with new products and TV/comic tie-ins. Rubik's Cube, hand-held Atari video games, Transformers, 3" GI Joe, Go-Bots, Hot Wheels, Voltron, Micronauts, Macross, Garbage Pail Kids, Nintendo, Cabbage Patch Kids, MUSCLE, Battle Beasts, Micromachines, the list goes on. It seems like 90% of modern toys are a half assed attempt to revitalize something from the 80's. There's nothing fundamentally new. As a kid in the 80's, it seemed like there was something life changing every weekend at the mall. Going to Toys R Us was like visiting Mecca.
My Dad once bought me an 18" Alien figure and presented it to me when he got home from work, and it gave me nightmares for days. This was just after the movie came out. It had a button on the back where you could expand and retract the faux chrome teeth. Later on as a teen, I loved that plastic monster. I even brought it with me to college. I brought it with me to a party, full of naivete, someone stole it and I wish to this day that I left it at home.
Come on... The biggest toy company and the biggest bread company would have records on any promotion of this kind.
you'd think so but as familiar with the toyline as we are to the people running things it was mostly another piece of paperwork to sign off on and file away. The bigger a company is the less number of people there are that know everything thats going on. I wonder how many of their records from that period were stored on computer. Clearly it wasn't a widely distributed item or a lengthy contract (if it happened) . The figure obviously exists and Mattel had good reason to avoid issues with the Conan people.
It absolutely was real. I never got one but my memory is solid. There was a coupon in a loaf of wonderbread. You had to send 4 or more Wonderbread UPC labels and a money order for $1.99. I walked to my grandma's house to cut a 2nd UPC label from her bread,got yelled at for it haha. My mom got me the money order and my 2 UPC labels..
The coupon and money order set with the 2 UPC labels in a coupon drawer for years because I lost interest in He-man and didn't collect more UPC s. My mother remembers it there till this day...
Sure, bud.
Mandela effect: the results of humans' selective memories and cognitive dismissal of any event considered by the observer to be unlikely to result in shared sexy times in the future.
You just described all of human cognition, not just the Mandela effect.
I got a few theories.
1) I bet it was a prototype/early production model that somebody got their hands on. They probably did a small run to test out the production facilities.
2) It might've been a concept character that was never meant to be produced. Much like how Zodac was originally labeled as one of the bad guys, this guy was probably meant to be the good guy version of Zodac. They may have made a few to pitch the product and/or to test the production facilities, but never picked it up.
3. Custom, but from the factory. Maybe meant as a promotion.
Otherwise, I got nothin.
Yeah, I'm thinking prototype that escaped the factory too.
Damn I remember this fig.
But I can't remember how got either🤔
It's a legitimate Mattel figure from the era, that's already proven. AFA grades them. A painted custom is pretty identifiable, whereas the legitimate examples of this figure were painted during the era - it's factory Mattel, in other words. So the legitimacy of the figure has already been proven. Where exactly it came from is the mystery. I know for a fact that my friend had one - because he still does. He kept it along with all of his other figures in the same box since he was a boy. He remembers getting it through a Buy 3, get 1 free deal.
Wonder Bread He-Man is bullshit. Grading companies have been notoriously known for grading fakes. They are about as trustworthy as Adolph Hitler.
"HI I'M STAN CARSON WITH SOY GALAXY" "THIS SOY SAUCE HAS 14 POINTS OF FLAVORTICULATION" "I REMEMBER THE GLORIOUS DAY OF CHRISTMAS MORNING TO FIND SEVERAL GALLONS OF SOY MILK UNDER THE TREE WHICH NO DOUBT WAS A CONTRIBUTING FACTOR TO WHAT WE DO ON SOY GALAXY" in all seriousness these toy oddities episodes are great and the addition of the retro music was great and added a creepiness feel to a episode about a alleged Wonder Bread tie in He Man figure, id love to hear it in future episodes
Funkadelic Railroad you sir, are a genius
Funkadelic Railroad That's so freaking awesome opening intro you have there bro. Soy Galaxy could very well be a legitimate alternate timeline channel on an alternate galactic youtube platform! 😂
Do you happen to work with Kikkoman? 😊
It was quite the 'hat tip' to see this version in the new Netflix series.
Spanish for "I am galaxy."
Wundar is really interesting. This is so weird and... Well... Odd
I remember getting a he-man knock off similar to this when I was a kid. It was clearly made from the same mould as Herman but it had black hair (I think) and had weapons that didn’t fit in his hand properly. It was in just a clear plastic bag. Not boxed. Years later I came across a test your skill game called stacker where one of the prizes was a he-man knock off which seemed to have been made from the same mould . I didn’t win it (but I won a knock off wolverine figure weeks later)
I think this wonderbread He-man is probably something like that.
i saw something where they said it was a early mistake at the factory where maybe a 1000 or so were made and were giving away at toy conventions as a sample....back then only industry people went to those and Mattel would give them out as swag (bc)
Very plausible explanation.
I agree with this possibility
I was something like this
But any records of this possible error were certainly destroyed to prevent further complications in the C.P.I. vs Mattel lawsuit.
7:10 - those fake “laughter in the background” situations ruin your videos...
Looking forward to your review of Corn-Fed Whiteboy He-Man 🌽💪
Brock Lesnar?
I had one as a kid. I mistakenly sold it during my college years. It was real 💯...but some of the explanations here are interesting. Alternate universe relic?! That’s interesting. I can say that most of my toys came from flea markets or garage sales and that is likely how I acquired him.
Well damn it I thought you were going to have an answer at the end.
Spector Creative channel has solved the mystery! They found a letter in the Mattel archives confirming it's existence! It had nothing to do with Wonder Bread, but the figure was produced and mailed out! Dan and Greg, I'd LOVE to see a follow up video!!!
This is all a result of Barry Allen's Flashpoint shenanigans. LOL
I had a Herman that you could put the red strip of bangers in and u turn a disc on the back of He man and the bangers strip snaps and makes a small snapping sound , what the fuck was that all about!
Thunderpunch He-Man!
I remember the Warlord toys, which for a while I thought were part of the He-Man universe as their appearance and articulation were identical.
He was part of a weapons pack. he came on a blister pack with a crap load of random weapons. I think it was unlicensed though, some of the weapons looked like the molds where slightly different. I remember some of the weapons did not fit as well in hand, and the power swords did not match up with the real swords perfectly. the colors where also unlike any other color in the figure line. Also the plastic was softer.
nah
I surely remember a clear plastic package containing several weapons (swords, clubs, axes, halberds, laser guns, shields) and armours, one of which was undeniably this black breastplate with the white symbol on it. I'm also quite sure I remember what I thought was a knock-off He-Man with a different colour scheme, though I'm not sure what colours it sported.
I had the Weapons Pak (I believe that's how they spelled it). It had this suit of armor in in and the He-Man sword and axe I bright blue, plus all the Castle Grayskull weapons including a sword like Teela typically had in the show, but I wasn't going to break the figure so that she could hold it.
The bottom two blisters were this armor on the left and a repaint of Beast Man's armor, yellow with a black medallion on the right, which I think the TV series used for a one-off villain inspired by Kraven.
Just talking to Pixel Dan about this this weekend! Great video!
My awnser: Kids bougth black haired bootlegg hemans (maybe similar to the Sungold figures), and when they saw the online sell (it being a custom) their mind asocisted the bootleg to the custom, creating false memories on how they got it
@@KenMabie A bit harsh on him Ken don't you think? Save it for your kids, mom,dad significant other. Whoever you think deserves it more than Jesus.
It's been proven its a legitimate mattel figure. So no. Not even remotely.
"How many inhabitants from that other world survived"
If I may insert a quote from Lost.
Rose-" My husbands not dead."
Jack-"Everyone in the tail section of that plane is dead."
Rose-" They're probably thinking the same thing about us"
This was a waste of time. I’m still confused about wonderbread origins 🤷🏻♂️
There was no implication this video would make you less confused.
Do not ever wear this shirt again.
That's Argentina He-Man
Hell I bet Mattel just made the thing for some little promo (maybe Wonder Bread, who knows) and have simply lost the records. If you have ever tried asking any company about stuff made that far back? You find that most of them really have lost most of the records.|
I got a Washburn Force bass in the 90s out of a pawnshop and decided to contact the company recently to find out when they made them, their answer? "IDK, sometime in the early 80s I guess" LOL. They literally made tens of thousands of these but they had lost most of their instrument records in a fire in the 90s so they had no clue. In that case a rep was nice enough to go through some of their old promo material and from that said it had to be between 81-84 but that was as close as they could get.
So considering this was a toy made in the 80s at a time when nobody collected that shit or cared? I can easily see them making a small run for some cross promotion and then tossing the paperwork after the promo ended, after all what use would it be to them to keep up with when they did some little promo 30+ years ago?
I have this figure. As a kid I would use it as a jobber wrestler when playing with my AWA Remco figures.
6:27 That was the perfect time to start your jumpcut wearing a Mirror-Universe Mr. Spock goatee and mustache.
My brother in law just contacted me today because he is selling all his old action figures. He had this character in his glut of figures and didnt know who he was. I about fell out of my seat. I asked him do you have any brown/maroon weapons and he took a screen shot of four weapons all brown or maroon. Some obviously came with man e faces heavy release. However he had two brown shields. I told him the extra brown shield goes to the Heman. When I told him he had a ultra rare Heman mail away he got excited. However he too had no clue where he got him from. I never dreamed I'd actually know someone with this figure.
My friend had strangely coloured he man vehicles. Remember grey RadioShack shockwave? Kids in canada used to call them bi-way toys I think.
yellowgut you mean Shackwave?
Haha! I didn't know it had that name!
scockery lmao!!
I think I did acid called Astro Magnum once.
I don't remember seeing him as a kid at Radio Shack here in Canada but apparently the radio shack version was called "Glactic Man".... There was also "Robot Pistol"....there were Tons in Grey here in Canada.... Bi-Way and every other discount store had them....so many that almost no stores stocked the Real Version....which cost a fortune....although all the Transformers were very expensive here....which helped all the fakes that you could find everywhere and anywhere.... Bi-Way, Bartain Harold's, Honest Eds....and probably even the chain stores.
Still have mine from childhood. I keep it to prove to people it's no fake. I have no idea where it came from. I do have an authentic photo from 1984 (kodak paper, it say 1984 on the back of the picture). Savage He-Man is on my parents kitchen table fighting Faker. My grandmother is sitting beside me an smiling. So it got out somehow. My older brother swears I got it bagged with thousands of Showbiz Pizza tickets.
pictures?
William Thompson I would love to see that picture of your wonderbread he man on the table as I collect he man toys is it for sale thanks
That picture could be the earliest documented existence of a Savage He-Man!
jordan the toy hunter from travel channel talked about this and if what HE says is true its one of the most valuable heman toys on the market. also, cool of you to mention mandella effect....now go get a jar of Jiffy peanut butter and read a copy of the Bernstain Bears while playing "We are the champions......of the world!"
Jason Smith he was early with having the show. He was ahead if the time. Now that collecting is becoming more popular and peoples hunts are rising in views, i think it would get better ratings. He just needs a new layout. The surprise looks on faces from mystery boxes-cut to commercial-is too early 2000s vh1 reality tv.
Yeah it probably came out around about the time that genie movie starring "Sinbad" came out ;)
Clint Hobson hahahahahaha
Memphis Hunter. He was not early with the show. In fact I would say he made it at the right time. They put the show on the Travel Channel, sandwiched between White people renovating houses, and extremely expensive beach getaways. it was never going to make it big there. If it was on any other channel I could see maybe something.
Also it was really cringing to see him BS his way through some of the stories and history for some of these lines. He knows shit in that Spider-Man themed episode. His mega finds were super staged and he was overvaluing certain product on some of the shows. Really among the junk inside a tool shed that's where a mint but uncomplete Wraith figure was? Really? I also love when he goes to a former Kenner employee home and rumages through his stuff and under the Corgi and Johnny Lighting products there are two rare, Kenner Batman figs. Yeah that just happened to be arranged like that.
Some of the narratives forced in as he found some of these toys just seemed off putting, like the woman who lost her entire Ghostbusters collection in Sandy, and Jordan sold her a Ghost Trap toy as a way to build her collection back up. It was touching till you see them haggle over the price. She lost everything, how about you show some class and let her have it? I know you run a business but everyone knows just how these shows are made and you are being paid handsomely for this gig. It was cool to see some of the rare stuff, but his demeanor was douchey.
Trans8010 well it definately was a fake show wuth some fake finds and bullshit stories but it was cool for nostalgia. Now i joined the syndicate facebook page and watch hunt videos to see real people making real finds. Ita awesome. If youre a collector join the syndicate. Its a real cool group with chill people and is constantly moderated so bullshit people and posts arent allowed in.
I love the fact that Wonderbread He-Man appeared in that new He-Man Revelations series. lol
His name is Wun-Dar too!
@@fulcrum6760 YES! I love it. :)
Conan is public domain?
Wonder Bread He-Man is He-Man from the Upside Down.
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A tan musclebound white man name Wonderbread man???!!! Lol you cant make this up!! Lol A damn good stripper name though!!! Lol
I can tell you factualy, there are variant runs. I can personally speak of Flying Fists He-Man. During the late 80's and early 90's I accompanied my aunt and uncle to several thousand yard sales and estate auctions as part of their antique business. I was able to amass a respectable collection of over two hundred figures (plus vehicles and playsets) at rock bottom prices. I know as a fact that the Flying Fists He man has a variant run where He-Man's skin is slightly darker and his hair is brown. I used the variant He-Man as a flying fists Faker during my play time (ages 5-11). Sorry folks, I sold my collection in 2001 for a very respectable price.
Mattel was very close too making a He-Man or "Masters" series based in space, but instead "Re-Branded" to a different scale all together. If these had come along 1988 or 1989, this could be a very plausible answer as Mattel would often just re-color to re-market past or existing figures and play sets (as would GI Joe, and even Star Wars). They may have started a batch, aborted, then sent out what they had in some sort of promotion or perhaps a promotion out side of the US.
Another possibility would be a highly marketed Bootleg. You could often find boot legs of VOLTRON in Swap Meets in California, that were pretty decent. I can remember being in Michigan one summer in 1985, (my grandma lived in a suburb of Detroit, not to far from Canada). There was a HUGE discount Drug store near her house, much of their stock was just in huge open boxes on pallets (Warehouse style). To my and my cousin surprise They had almost identical ( only minus the Auto-bots logo ) Dino-Bots. They had the whole series for $7 a piece, they also had very good bootlegs of the tapes that went in to Shockwave for $2 a set of Two. The writing on the box was both in French and English, we surmised these were brought down from Canada.
It's very possible these He-Mans were just a very good bootleg. That's how Kids remember owning them.
Did anyone run a check on Kilpatriks bread, Hostess bread or Langdorf bread? These were all popular white breads in the 1980's. Perhaps it was a different brand.
Both Transformers and GI JOE would also have mail away variants of charactors and vehicles as well.
I love this story. So bizarre. Kids don't care where their toys come from or any controversies about IP legal logistics. I didn't care for He-Man myself. MOTU figures made my Secret Wars Spider-man and Super Powers Superman feel....... inadequate.
Well, I mean, there's no arguing that He-Man is inspired by Conan the Barbarian, especially visually. The loincloth, the long hair, etc.
I hate lawsuits.... they might've been on the money if they tried that with Blackstar and John Carter or if they went after he-man with AT the Earth's core with the mix of technology and barbaric stuff and humanoid monsters with intelligence, but the works are public domain. dem lawsuits botching up everything. Like Greatest American Hero and so many fun things over minute stuff.
I do remember wundar being mentioned but it was by people duped by the customisers, it never happened. well, in this timeline...
false memories implanted by synthoid/ human hybrids and macic scone runes from Almuric. Dam Lord darkness and his mind altering MARS bs... the Joes will get him yet!
This surfaced somewhat recently - a stop-motion sequence from a chinese film that features MOTU toys. Pay attention to the He-Man figure...it's Savage/WB He-Man. Could it be that they planned on making a dark haired version of He-Man for the Asian market? The figures are clay reproductions of the figures and not the actual toys, but it's still interesting and too close to be a coincidence IMO. th-cam.com/video/P0C5NGp_6KA/w-d-xo.html
Psychologists explain the Mandela Effect via memory and social effects - particularly false memory. This involves mistakenly recalling events or experiences that have not occurred, or distortion of existing memories. The unconscious manufacture of fabricated or misinterpreted memories is called confabulation.
He-Mandela effect.
Did anyone watch the show wundarr the Barbarian? He was a barbarian in a post-apocalyptic Earth, befriended by a sorceress named Teela and a Chewbacca-like Ookla the Mok(?).
Oh wait...that was Thundarr... But still, tons of similarities there.
this was in fact from a buy 3 get 1 free promotion from back in 1983 where you bought 3 action figures in the store and mailed off the 3 proofs of purchase with the selected type of figures you wanted, you get one back. From what I hear the exact figure you got was slightly random though from the line of toys you checked on the mail in rebate card for the free figure. Some lucky people got this brown haired He-man which was in fact a Conan The Barbarian prototype that was the basis of the design of the later He-Man line. It's unknown exactly how many of these special proto-type He-man/Conan action figures were shipped out but by some estimates and checking by just how rarely they come up for sale or even seen, probably very few and they do fetch top dollar to vintage He-Man collectors as this would in fact be one of the very first He-Man prototypes ever made (some made as early as 1981).
Could it just be one of the Mexican bootleg figures like Diamond S Man and Superheroic Man? They came in convincingly similar blisterpacks to normal licensed figures, and they often used mold cavities from the same authentic figures, or at the very least molds made from the figures, so they were often hard to distinguish (for the average consumer).
You could often find them in bargain stores. I remember seeing a lot of them in the early 90s. I don't know if it was the same factory making all of them but I remember seeing 'product of mexico' on a lot of them, usually only as a sticker. They were often assembled out of parts from lots of different figures and the paint, if any, wasn't very good.
There used to be a website called 'bootleg action figures' that catalogued them but I haven't seen it in a long time. Maybe someone can find an archive dot org page for it?
Just watched a video solving this. Mattel buy 3 get 1 free promotion. No chest armor with castle grayskull sword and axe. Armor was put on by collectors. Very interesting.
It's time to do a video on the Remco Conan.You could tie it into Zoloworld's Kry-sis uncanny similarity to Remco's King Conan sans crown. (Of course all the Pirates of the Galaxseas and Warrior Beasts are reproductions of Remco's Pirates of the Galaxseas and Warrior Beasts.) I'd like know if Zolotorow got the Remco molds or tooled copies off of existing figures.
I'm from the reality where it was the mighty "Turbo Teen" that was the king of all 80's properties and Michael Bay has made 5 "successful" movies based on Shia LeBouf turning into a Trans Am when things get too hot.
…recent subscriber here, the algorithm showed me this video the day my “made to order” Origins Wun-Dar arrived…Good Journey…
I remember the Wonder Bread promotion. The deal was for proofs of purchase and a small amount and kids could get Wun-Dor or for girls I wanna say a Strawberry Shortcake or a My Little Pony toy that was an exclusive too. I remember the promotion on outside of the bag and inside was a order slip packed w/ the bread.
Figures, history, and mystery... great video!
I remember seeing the black chest plate in a pack of multiple accessories and it wasn't appealing because it had no action figure, I also remember kids in school talking about a heman you could order through bread but the brand and the facts about this were very vague since we were all 5 or 6 year old kids that had limited access to information. I also remember how all kinds of products like cereal, or cookies had mail in promotions to get toys like hotwheels, transformers and MOTU but i never really ordered anything. So perhaps it came from a different product but not wonderbread?
The original toy that inspired by a cheap rip off toy of He-man. While I never saw this, I know there were similar rip offs to other toy lines. When I was young I loved Transformers & GoBots, as result almost every Xmas & birthday at least one person gave me a cheap knock off of those franchises from someone who believed they were either a Transformer or a GoBot. So there were probably similiar knock offs for He-man
Grocery store he man...grocery store gi joe...there was a copycat figure at every grocery, convenience, and pharmacy store. I remember you could only find secret wars figures at CVS
It could be a prototype, a misprint, or a bootleg. Such occurrences are well-known to have happened in other action figure product lines.
I SWEAR that during the Voltron era I owned the lion voltron the entire soace/water/land/air vehicle voltron AND A 3RD it was 3 robots that stacked into essentially a 6 armed Voltron. It was labeled as such and so as a child I wanted it too. So wtf was it? Does anyone have a memory or own this?
The figure did exist I don't know if it had anything to do with Wonder Bread I got one at a yard sale as a kid and I pretty sure I don't have it anymore admittedly I have most of my He Man toys from when I was a kid but I don't think I still have that one furthermore don't have the energy to even look for it most of my toys are still packed in Rubbermaid containers and never got unpacked other than the stuff I sold a few years back and only thing I sold from my email and stuff of noteworthy was I had about half of the Castle Eternia play set sold it because I needed money. The TV show Toy Hunter heard of one of their episodes show the Wonder Bread He-Man and by all the information on that show claims it was a promotion from Wonder Bread where the hair was accidentally painted the wrong colour along with the boots because they were working with early promotional material or the brand line and that it came out before the material that was used in the books and the Animated Series. I don't know how much of the information from that show was correct.
My theory is that it was a prize giveaway by nes quik in 1984/85. They had a MOTU promo during that time where you could get a game piece and enter to win. I think those who entered and didnt win the larger prizes got won this as a smaller prize for playing.
As the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" explains it: There is a theory which states that if anyone should figure out what the Universe is for, and what it is actually doing here, it will immediately vanish and be replaced by something even more bizarrely inexplicable. There is another theory which says this has already happened several times.
I think it was a variation of he-man figures made at the time...I remember the figures at kaybee toy stores and cosco drug stores were remarkably different. ..my sister had a red haired teela with silver armor pieces while I know my teela had brown hair with gold armor pieces..the weapons were different colors as well. ..not to add to the controversy. .but I think instead of pulling factory mistakes or misprinted /mispainted figures ,they packaged and sold them anyways. .
Okay so this ones been solved, apparently it was a special edition version sent out on the "Buy three, get one free" promotion. A fella that worked on a MotU artbook with Mattel figured it out going through old correspondence in storage, lol.
Dan please do a retro toy review of 1977 Godzilla. You might be able to show us the scars you received from that ballistic claw hand!! (As proof you once owned it)
Could be it's a bootleg. Toy bootleggers are notorious for copying random pieces and jamming them together to make new figures, and they seldom care if they get the right color on any given part. They just use whatever's cheapest.
The figure came from a mail in giveaway promo after buying 3 figure and sending in proof of purchase. Here is the explanation. Review that twitter user accounts feed for additional proof of the promo. twitter.com/timlybarger/status/951546136216645632
Around 1991 my family received a prototype board game from a Mattel employee, we were also given a questionare form to fill out, this same thing may of happened with that pho-he-man
Im 40 now but i kinda remember the wonder bread deal in the 80s im pretty sure thats how i got that figure when i was 7. I loved ordering things off cereal boxes as a kid and playing the little 45 record that would come with the cereal.
Having lived near the wonderbred factory in framingham I storongly remember thhis figure and the bags of bread that had this figure offer. But so few of the figures were made that Mostt kids never received them and got refund letters instead. Myself included. But i had a freind who had one because his farther know someone who worked at the factory. the bags containing theses offers were soon recalled from store shelves.Only 5 figues are known to exist today.It is said that Wonderbread jumped the gun releasing the offer before an actual deal was made for Matel to produce them and only a few prototypes were made.BUt yes they were real.
Ps: I have this figure complete in an unopened small plastic bag which has a wonderbread leaflet inside so that tells you where it came from.... Also a Mexican Kaaarg figure unpainted with inscription KARG '87 under its foot!
upload a video?
Maybe it was a knock off or licensed to another company like Hasbro did for GI Joe. Funskool were just different colors..Maybe this he man is similar
I'm pretty sure I had the original Wonder Bread He-Man. But I can't recall where it came from specifically. Just one of many He-Man figures I got as a birthday gift from someone to add to my hoard... which sadly suffered the fate of many classic collectibles and was thrown away by my parents when I wasn't there to stop them. *cries*
After watching this video and seeing Dan's shirt...Dan's least favorite super hero? Iron Man.
Meh, is just an imagined analog of Cookie Crisp Jazz sparked by too many cookie-based white-bread sandwiches.
I don't remember the Wonder bread promotion. I did have the black armor and weapons. They came in an expansion pack. I've never seen the dark haired HeMan with black boots. Makes me wonder if it was a custom.
You are absolutely correct.
You nailed it.
Yes, He-Man is a direct rip off of Co-nan.
The truth of that story can be seen in the box art especially.