The 200x cartoon was incredible! It's such a shame that Netflix wasn't around at the time because it would have been a much better platform for it instead of Cartoon Network, which was ultimately responsible for its demise. CN was awful with how often they would change show times. I would love to see this story continued with the same animation. I am glad that the permanent snake MAA didn't happen though because it was cool for them to be changed and brought back. That actually brings up a question, did you plan on doing Snake Teela, Mekaneck or any of the others in MOTUC to go with 🐍 MAA? Man...you and the Horsemen did such a great job with MOTUC! It is awesome to have a collection that blends different elements of MOTU lore all into one awesome universe. I'd be curious to see a video detailing some of the biggest challenges you had with specific characters or their stories, what were the biggest "wins" for you on this line and what are some things that you wish were different or could change now that you've been able to see the line come full circle from start to finish (as of now)?
200X was my He-Man. I was five years old, I remember having all of the McDonald's Happy Meal toys and bringing them to school in Kindergarten. That Christmas, my grandmother got me Castle Grayskull, He-Man, Skeletor, Tri-Klops and Man-At-Arms, and I think a DVD or VHS that had a few episodes. I loved those toys. Sadly, I lost them all years ago. I really hope that the upcoming 2021 Masterverse line could do 200X He-Man.
Extremely interesting to see where 200x was headed! Also, I find it very interesting what you said about the 'Barbarian Look' not testing well with kids. I'm on several message boards, and any time I've said that I think Sword & Sorcery had it's HeyDay in the 80s, I get shouted down. ( Yes, MOTU is S&S mixed with Sci-Fi, but that's not remotely the point ) A lot of fans tend to forget that time moves on, and just because you loved something as a child, that popularity may not continue with the next generation.
That is true. Plus the 80's was the time of very muscle bound heroes like Arnold and Sly and Dolph &c... MOTU was really the right brand at the right time.Maybe if it reinvents itself correctly it can be big again! I'm thinking everyone is an animated bird, but that's just one idea.
Power of Grayskull is my favorite 200X episode so knowing that Hordak was not just going to be the ultimate antagonist of season 3, but it was a plan to have all 3 major MOTU bad guys go to war really burns lol. If MOTU Revelations does well I hope that Netflix & Mattel will consider telling the rest of the story.
Thank you for explaining this in-depth. It really saddens my heart and chaps my ass that we didn't get to see this played out in animation. 200X was so damn stellar.
I'm looking forward to revelations, but in a perfect world I'd love to see the 200x series get picked up again, or at least a few animated movies set in that universe.
i was a kid during the 1983 he-man series and absolutely loved it. i didnt even know that the 200X series existed, so i just recently watched it. its a a great series and its actually my favorite version now 💪
This show was robbed! Robbed, I say! I'm so glad you stuck to the overall plotline of the MYP show when doing the bios, Scott. It scratched an itch that was left severely neglected after the end of the show. That you managed to work in everything that you did is another feat in and of itself!
Wow! The lore to this toy line is absolutely amazing! These videos keep getting better and better! I am glad Skeletor was going to win against King Hiss. Skeletor should win against villains but always lose to He-Man. What an awesome plan season three had!
I remember when the toy line of 200x was announced I was very excited about it. To the point of replacing my old figures which I had sold on a garage sale. I was able to find He-Man Skeletor, and Snake men variant Beast man on ebay. I really enjoyed the Mike Young production cartoon. To the point that to me that's the canon version.
Thanks a ton for this in depth explanation, you really spelled it all out very clearly. I'm so sad we didn't get more of 200X. They literally killed the series RIGHT when it was heating up and getting good ;(
@6:41 YEESSSSSSS! I mean business had picked up when King Hisss and the Snakemen came in - and dominated and Skeletor and crew, and that there was an even bigger threat out that neither Skeletor OR KING Hiss did NOT want to fight directly! Hordak and the Horde! I was beyond hurt when season 3 failed to materialize. I could see Hordak defeating Skeletor leaving Adam standing alone, and then learning he has a twin sister at the end of Season 3.
MOTU Origins has just hit Walmart where I live and me and my boys are watching the 200X cartoons on TH-cam. We are so into this stuff! My boys are like why no 3rd season dad?
I really enjoyed the stories in the 200x series. It would've been so awesome to see it continue. Have to find the mini comics to this. Love your channel.
I remember in 2008 or 2009 i visited my local comic shop (it's not there any more) he had all the 200x action figures all hanging on the wall on display prices ranging from 50 bucks (snake men, mechanek, manEface ones i remembered) to 180 bucks ... when asked if anyone of those were for actual sale he would say no, it's just for show.
Spector Creative, I never realized during the He-Man Classics line you were such a fan of 200x (or maybe you mentioned it during one of your videos and I forgot). So many short lived shows in the last 20 years, but I think this one is still the hardest to accept for me.
Thanks for the upload that was great.....just subscribed to your channel. I was disappointed when they ended the 200x cartoon. IMO the 200x line had the best action figures and cartoon in the entire MOTU empire.
"Pick up the mini-comics..." I would *absolutely* love to know how to do this without having to spend hundreds (thousands now?) of dollars on figures I honestly have no room for.
I am new to the channel and slowly making my way through videos when time allows it. You mentioned the licensing problems where MOTU and POP are considered separate licenses. Is there a video where you go into this in greater detail? If not, could you do a video on this? I am greatly interested in the whys and hows of this split.
Well mini comics # 1 tells the finale of "season 3". As for any specific character bios, I think Battle Armor He-Man and Thunder Punch He man are a good place to start.
Was there ever talk to continue the seasons in comic form cause as much as I love The filmation cartoon the lore of 200x was always amazing. Love this show wish we could have a gotten it in some form.
Hey Scott. Only got to see this video now only. Also loved the 2000x series. Wow ... this would have been awesome cartoon stories ... pitty we never got to see them. Where can i find these mini comics ?? Would love to read those stories.
I was in the Collector's Club and I looked forward to those white boxes showing up more than I can say. I am a big Evil-Lyn collector and the Battleground Evil-Lyn, with her hair showing, was SUCH a cool inclusion. You did a great job with this line, as did everyone involved. That line was a love letter to fans. I am watching a lot of your videos all at once so you will see a lot of "thank yous" peppered into the comments from me. (I want more Evil-Lyn releasing things!!!! Lol) So wait....I need to know.....was Evil-Lyn going to die permanently in continuity, or was she going to come back in a snake form?
@@spectorcreative1872 That seems like a weird reason but then again, I suspect 10 year old me would have felt the same. My sisters would definitely have teased me for having such I toy I suspect.
They didn't read enough Savage Sword of Conan to appreciate just how totally boss you got to be to march off to a sword fight in just the bare minimum.
Really interesting. Shame She-ra couldn't be in 200x I didn't pay attention to the the scuttlebut internet at all when the show was out, so I think I wasn't alone in assuming she would show up when the Horde got out.
They really really need to stop separating She-Ra into a separate property. I appreciate where the bios went with bringing POP and NA into the overall mythos. Anytime they neglect to bring in She-Ra when the Horde comes on the scene I basically checkout.
My only question is why is it that cartoon Network did air the original version master of the universe versus The Snake Man . That was before the 2000 x series came out. It's like the the classic version of the master universe versus the snake man not exist anymore but you only get the 2000 x series .
It's a pity they never continued the 200x series. That was my favorite version of the Masters of the Universe. I was really disappointed when they cancelled it.
I would have loved to see season 3. I didn't really like when the Snake Men became the main bad guys because to me its always He-Man vs Skeletor and any other bad guy simply got their own episode as their claim to fame, but seeing Skeletor and Hordak fighting the Masters would have been the best. I also didn't like that the MOTUC story went with Man-at-Arms dying since he's one of my favorite characters.
I've been semi binging this channel for a couple of weeks and I can now assume what it's going to say on your tombstone after your name and the dates,. lol.
It's like...just when things were getting epic enough to break out into new mainstream success, they torpedoed it. Maybe it was just 10+ years ahead of its time: this is basically what Lego does with Ninjago now.
Is there a way to bring back 200x series season 3,4 & 5 back into production since large number of fans are very ardent fans of this series rather than recent Unwanted Revelation in Netflix
I love the 200x back then but the only problem with that kinda plot story is if they were going to introduced adora/she ra kinda contradicts if hordak & the horde is imprisoned in despondos then invasion of ethria is not been happening nor the story of twins.,and the 3 way battle occured long ago to the storyline of preternia wars kinghiss,hordak ang king greyskull w/ he ro. Hope mattel will have a detailed story line for motu cause reading some stories starting from preternia is really bad ass.and the problem with western animations today its either they always cancel it or it lacks the continuing story.unlike animes to think that some run even decades before it end the show,like the ones were watching it were kids till they are teens,
you forgot to mention the small mini comic that came with thethe 3rd dvd set that had the mini comic of how man at arms is changed permently into a snake man
I’m curious, do you have a video explaining why you no longer work for Mattel? Are you still on good terms with Mattel? Is there any future possibility that if they reached out that you’d be willing to become the MOTU brand manager considering how passionate you are for MOTU and have done great things for the brand.
I wish you were able to have the rights to He-Man so you could produce your own animated serries. You would do a good job with that. I cannot say enough I enjoy your storytelling. If not being exposed to the original Transformers line back in 1984. you probably would convince me to be a She-Ra/He-Man fan. I actually liked She-Ra next to Transformers.
Hi Scott, I didn't know about these mini comics at all, I'm going to hunt for them right now, I'm in the UK so I hope they are around here somewhere, going to be difficult with the lockdown still in effect but will try hard nonetheless, is there any way at all that you can continue the story in a cartoon or comic book form so we can get the full story? So there is no way to introduce Adora or do a 200x version of secret of the sword in comic book form?
I still think 200X cartoon would've done better on a non cable channel like Fox. I noticed CN had a tendency to move around shows that weren't produced by their production team. Bias and probably saved them money to favor their shows. Sucks.
I remember keeping CN on 24 hours a day to find the new time slot and it wasn't advertised very well. I'm sure many kids thought it was cancelled, so when ratings go down, CN was like "well I guess no one is watching it".
@@spectorcreative1872 that's up to you, man! It's "evergreen" content, so people are going to keep discovering it. Can't you pull the audio, boost the level, and re-export?
Honestly, if this was the plan for the 2nd and 3rd seasons of the 200X He-man series, I am actually glad that it stopped when it did. The sorceress dying from the poison of king hiss, King Randor being banished, He-man being framed for murder, Skeletor taking over Eternia, and the possibility of no She-ra in this continuity are ideas I just can't get behind, even if they allow the series to continue. I know that dark elements in the story could have made the 200X series of He-man more interesting, but I would much rather have He-man end on a positive note than have the story continue on a darker path without She-ra.
I think Dean and Ian wanted to move the story and brand forward with these ideas instead of it being the same thing of He Man vs Skeletor over and over
@@spectorcreative1872 fine, but like I said, I am not sure I would have liked the story to go in that direction. I'd be on edge constantly if that were the case. Also, I thought that the showrunners of the 200X series decided that Fisto being Teela's biological father was only going to be a red herring.
If Kevin Smith can revamp the 1st MOTU. Surely he could do the 200x wrap up. S3 should have happened they left it on a cliffhanger which was wrong ok the toys where a big part of it but Surely the ratings helped too. The thing I loved about the 200x show you fully believed Adam was a 16/18 kid then going into He-man as a 30/31 year old Bodybuilder. Plus how could you not bring She-ra if you could do sort of the same storyline but different as the 1st show. It would have been Epic Plus it would have brought girls onto the show.
@@spectorcreative1872 me too big time I was a Teenager when the show came around but now at 36 I still love the Show Cam Clarke as Adam/He-Man great bit of Voice acting. But honestly Someone should ask Kevin Smith to give the 200x A shot the audience is there. Much respect to your Channel. Stay Awesome. 👌👌.
Hey group, anyone have made up their own original Masters in their heads? I have. Mind-a-taur: The Heroic Minotaur With The Glow In The Dark Brain. Think-Gor: Evil Master With The Glow In The Dark Brain. Lazora: (female Horde member) Hordak's Mistress With The Glowing Lasers (Light up chest? Hands?). Bone-Appart: Evil Skeleton Builder For Skeletor (Comes with various building bones so he can change shapes). Hat Trick: Evil Magician With A Living Evil Hat (Imagine your typical magican, but his hat can be removed and put on any other figure to put others under his control).
If you read the interview and Ian’s direct reply. Man-At-Arms was only going to be turned into Snake Man for 3-5 episodes. Not permanent. Link still exists. 😃 www.he-man.org/forums/boards/showthread.php?118744-Ian-Richter-s-answers-to-fan-question-revealed!-Please-discuss-in-this-thread&p=1400544#post1400544
@@spectorcreative1872 I think you mean issue 40? 😃 Yes I’m familiar with it. I worked on the minicomic adaptation. And Ian’s own statement still stands as it not being a permanent. Its in that same thread. :) Same goes for Gary Hartle who directed the show.
it's not that the show wasn't relevant to kids back then much of the blame of the show's failing is cartoon network's incompetence. I could never find out when the show was being aired to watch it coz they kept moving it around.
How was Skeletor going to take over the castle when A Lot of the castle was taken out when the Snake Men toke over. And how is it that she-ra was not going to be a part of the 3rd season when every one knows she was. There was even a 200X toy of her for the show. If we can get 2 new he-man series. We can get a 3rd series. A 3rd season to the 200X Series.
At 10:00 in the video you used an image of the Neo Cobra Viral Core from Kamen Rider Drive! Noice! Kamen Rider Drive is AMAZING, well a majority of the Kamen Rider Series is anyway. Lol SOURCE: kamenrider.fandom.com/wiki/Viral_Cores
He-Man just seems kinda...there. Does he actually do anything? Make some kind if difference? Gives new meaning to the phrase "Evil happens when Good Men do nothing".
I loved this series but wtf! They were going to actually kill the Sorceress? That really pisses me off. So Zodak allows them to defeat him so they can take the staff, Evil-lyn assist in this and the Sorceress pays the price? As far as the battle with King Hiss I dont know why the Sorceress didnt activate the Elders power orb as she had done before to keep them out of the castle.
@@spectorcreative1872 But why her death why not her weakened power from King Hiss attack forces her to train Teela to step to the plate and become the next Sorceress?
I would trade a Season 3 (Masters vs the Horde) over Kevin Smith's horrid He-man show anytime ... it was a shame that the show ended/canceled before it's time
The way it ended on the first half of the season i thought it was the end of season 2.So yeah i was an still am they didn't even finish the whole season 2
You can clearly see why the 200x series got canned! It was becoming too dark for young children! You just can't kill off the heroes, and make a three way battle of evil, without having heroic warriors in the series. That doesn't do well for the youth, and for me either! That's why Filmation will always be my Masters Of The Universe! I loved the 200x series until the snake-men arrived. Just too much of it. Just my opinion, but everyone has their favs.
lol that had nothing at all to do with why it was canceled. Kids aren't dumb and don't need things to be watered down with no danger. For the generation that made MOTU the hit that it became, we watched movies like Conan, Rambo, Revenge of the Ninja, Star Wars, Enter the Dragon, Cobra, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Krull, Commando, Alien, Friday the 13th, NoES, etc...where there were on screen deaths, violence and dare I say...nudity! 😱 Although I liked watching cartoons like He-Man and G.I.JOE as a kid, I always remember thinking it didn't make any sense for He-Man to not just end Skeletor once and for all by actually using his sword or why G.I.JOE didn't have Snake-Eyes (or any other Joe) put an end to the terrorist organization once and for all by ending Cobra Commander, Destro, Serpentor and Zartan. People try to convince themselves of what children should like or what they wish they were like but in reality a child's mind is curious and constantly seeking understanding to figure out life and death is part of that. When we take away repercussions and consequences from stories and leave them with crap like Pokémon, POGs and Power Rangers, we end up with generations of weird, whiney, entitled, cry baby adults with manbuns and everyone deserving a trophy.
Nah, the biggest part of why Millennial Reboot floundered because of "Kenner Batman Syndrome." As in, loads of weird variants of the main character and main antagonist, but other characters were short-packed, sometimes as few as one-per-case. And when those got bought (usually by scalpers), the shelves were clogged with (hyperbole for comedic purposes) Neon Scuba Laser Grappling Hook He-Man with Net Launcher that never showed up in the cartoon, and nobody wanted to buy. Meanwhile, if you or your kids wanted an Evil-Lyn, you had to find a scalper online and pay at least triple price for her. And then toy sales declined, which contributed to the cancelling of the cartoon. As much as I loved the Filmation cartoon for its world-building, fun, and attempting to instill some good old-fashioned values -- and some good progressive ones, too -- I have to hand it to MYP and the relaunch for superior overall storytelling. While any Filmation episode involving Granamyr (for example) is automatically going to make it into my list of favourite cartoon episodes somewhere, and I will always support Filmation and think fondly of it, I think the MYP cartoon had a much higher ratio of good episodes vs. duds.
@@XFactorz17 thats funny cause when me and my one boys play toys he always wants to revive the heros and my other son prefers a killing field of unimaginable horrors. Except for his main guy that dude can never get a scratch, but his friends and family better get their affairs in order.
I agree I mean killing the Sorceress is too much for me, I know that Teela was going to eventually take her place but damn you got to kill her Mother she can just go off into peace like the Sorceress before her?
Hurts my heart that we never saw 200X series continues. What an awesome cartoon series. Sad that kids these days don't understand He-man
I loose sleep every night thinking about this
Sad that we dont get more MOTUC Figures with 200x influence. And that we never seen a 200x Season 3 & 4 :/
Truly
The 200x cartoon was incredible! It's such a shame that Netflix wasn't around at the time because it would have been a much better platform for it instead of Cartoon Network, which was ultimately responsible for its demise. CN was awful with how often they would change show times. I would love to see this story continued with the same animation.
I am glad that the permanent snake MAA didn't happen though because it was cool for them to be changed and brought back. That actually brings up a question, did you plan on doing Snake Teela, Mekaneck or any of the others in MOTUC to go with 🐍 MAA?
Man...you and the Horsemen did such a great job with MOTUC! It is awesome to have a collection that blends different elements of MOTU lore all into one awesome universe.
I'd be curious to see a video detailing some of the biggest challenges you had with specific characters or their stories, what were the biggest "wins" for you on this line and what are some things that you wish were different or could change now that you've been able to see the line come full circle from start to finish (as of now)?
I'm sue with enough demand we could have done the other transformed Masters, but MAA was the only one transformed permanently.
Even cartoon network 5-10 years later probably would have worked better. The series came along just a bit too early as far as being that serialized.
@@user-do2ev2hr7h well Thundercats 2011 did come out 5-10 years later and they still cancelled it another one of nice reboot shows that got cancelled
200X was my He-Man. I was five years old, I remember having all of the McDonald's Happy Meal toys and bringing them to school in Kindergarten. That Christmas, my grandmother got me Castle Grayskull, He-Man, Skeletor, Tri-Klops and Man-At-Arms, and I think a DVD or VHS that had a few episodes. I loved those toys. Sadly, I lost them all years ago. I really hope that the upcoming 2021 Masterverse line could do 200X He-Man.
I would love a 200X super articulated collector figure. I guess time will tell.
Extremely interesting to see where 200x was headed!
Also, I find it very interesting what you said about the 'Barbarian Look' not testing well with kids. I'm on several message boards, and any time I've said that I think Sword & Sorcery had it's HeyDay in the 80s, I get shouted down. ( Yes, MOTU is S&S mixed with Sci-Fi, but that's not remotely the point ) A lot of fans tend to forget that time moves on, and just because you loved something as a child, that popularity may not continue with the next generation.
That is true. Plus the 80's was the time of very muscle bound heroes like Arnold and Sly and Dolph &c... MOTU was really the right brand at the right time.Maybe if it reinvents itself correctly it can be big again! I'm thinking everyone is an animated bird, but that's just one idea.
@@spectorcreative1872 Great point about those very beefy action stars!
Thank you for this! I would have LOVED to see Hordak and his minions in a third season. The EVIL HORDE where always my favourite!
Oh that was so what we all wanted
Hordak looked absolutely sick in the 200X series! That was a fantastic battle scene!
Power of Grayskull is my favorite 200X episode so knowing that Hordak was not just going to be the ultimate antagonist of season 3, but it was a plan to have all 3 major MOTU bad guys go to war really burns lol. If MOTU Revelations does well I hope that Netflix & Mattel will consider telling the rest of the story.
Yeah that one was awesome. We screened it at SDCC one year and was a lot of fun
Thank you Scott for all you have done for Masters & MOTUC as a whole!
Well you are most welcome, and thanks for supporting the channel! Tell your friends! ;-)
Thank you for explaining this in-depth. It really saddens my heart and chaps my ass that we didn't get to see this played out in animation. 200X was so damn stellar.
Yeah more 200X would have been great. A big reason I used the notes as the backbone for MOTUC's storyline.
I'm looking forward to revelations, but in a perfect world I'd love to see the 200x series get picked up again, or at least a few animated movies set in that universe.
That would be awesome
i was a kid during the 1983 he-man series and absolutely loved it. i didnt even know that the 200X series existed, so i just recently watched it. its a a great series and its actually my favorite version now 💪
I want that Horde Armor He-Man in MOTUC. Along with Snake Teela and Snake Mekaneck.
Would have been cool
This show was robbed! Robbed, I say! I'm so glad you stuck to the overall plotline of the MYP show when doing the bios, Scott. It scratched an itch that was left severely neglected after the end of the show. That you managed to work in everything that you did is another feat in and of itself!
Seriously robbed
Just like Trump in 2020.
Wow! The lore to this toy line is absolutely amazing! These videos keep getting better and better! I am glad Skeletor was going to win against King Hiss. Skeletor should win against villains but always lose to He-Man. What an awesome plan season three had!
If only we could have seen it!
@@spectorcreative1872 These stories will at least live in our hearts!
I remember when the toy line of 200x was announced I was very excited about it. To the point of replacing my old figures which I had sold on a garage sale. I was able to find He-Man Skeletor, and Snake men variant Beast man on ebay.
I really enjoyed the Mike Young production cartoon. To the point that to me that's the canon version.
Me too
Thanks a ton for this in depth explanation, you really spelled it all out very clearly.
I'm so sad we didn't get more of 200X. They literally killed the series RIGHT when it was heating up and getting good ;(
Me too. If only we had gotten more!
MOTC was, is, and will always be the pinnacle MOTU Line. The care and commitment to the lore was the best.
And made with so much love I promise!
@6:41 YEESSSSSSS! I mean business had picked up when King Hisss and the Snakemen came in - and dominated and Skeletor and crew, and that there was an even bigger threat out that neither Skeletor OR KING Hiss did NOT want to fight directly! Hordak and the Horde! I was beyond hurt when season 3 failed to materialize. I could see Hordak defeating Skeletor leaving Adam standing alone, and then learning he has a twin sister at the end of Season 3.
Yeah I still wish we got season 3 and beyond. It is why I used that as a backbone for the bios
MOTU Origins has just hit Walmart where I live and me and my boys are watching the 200X cartoons on TH-cam. We are so into this stuff! My boys are like why no 3rd season dad?
So sad! It is awesome having kids into MOTU though. ;-)
Nice informative video! 👍
Glad you enjoyed! Tell a friend
I really enjoyed the stories in the 200x series. It would've been so awesome to see it continue. Have to find the mini comics to this. Love your channel.
Thank you so much for the kind words. Reposts are also most appreciated!
Everything you talk about that was supposed to be in 200X. I SO WANNA SEE THAT! Give me a comic, a movie, SOMETHING!
I'm up for that
Great video Scott. Really informative and entertaining. Btw saw you on the extras of HE Man dvd set. Hope all is well
That was a blast to do!
I remember in 2008 or 2009 i visited my local comic shop (it's not there any more) he had all the 200x action figures all hanging on the wall on display prices ranging from 50 bucks (snake men, mechanek, manEface ones i remembered) to 180 bucks ... when asked if anyone of those were for actual sale he would say no, it's just for show.
Spector Creative, I never realized during the He-Man Classics line you were such a fan of 200x (or maybe you mentioned it during one of your videos and I forgot). So many short lived shows in the last 20 years, but I think this one is still the hardest to accept for me.
Oh yes!~ I always saw Classics as a continuation of 200X from day 1. (from a story standpoint)
The decapitation of King Hssss really hit me in the Highlander feels. There can be only one (ruler of Snake Mountain)
Thanks for the upload that was great.....just subscribed to your channel.
I was disappointed when they ended the 200x cartoon. IMO the 200x line had the best action figures and cartoon in the entire MOTU empire.
Thank you so much for taking the time to comment and for subscribing. I am most grateful.
"Pick up the mini-comics..." I would *absolutely* love to know how to do this without having to spend hundreds (thousands now?) of dollars on figures I honestly have no room for.
They are available in a Dark Horse hardcover book.
That opening theme brings back memories
steven jimenez did the intro for me. He rocks!
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I am new to the channel and slowly making my way through videos when time allows it. You mentioned the licensing problems where MOTU and POP are considered separate licenses. Is there a video where you go into this in greater detail? If not, could you do a video on this? I am greatly interested in the whys and hows of this split.
Here you go! And welcome to the channel. Thanks for supporting it! th-cam.com/video/BLiogQTyIAI/w-d-xo.html
Can you tell us which Classics character bios and mini-comics that represented 200X Season 3 specifically?
Well mini comics # 1 tells the finale of "season 3". As for any specific character bios, I think Battle Armor He-Man and Thunder Punch He man are a good place to start.
Was there ever talk to continue the seasons in comic form cause as much as I love The filmation cartoon the lore of 200x was always amazing. Love this show wish we could have a gotten it in some form.
The 200X line left such a bad taste in many executives mouth that it was hard enough just to get Classics done!
@@spectorcreative1872 with the success of classics and hopefully origins, has Mattel’s opinion of motu turned more positively?
Hey Scott. Only got to see this video now only. Also loved the 2000x series. Wow ... this would have been awesome cartoon stories ... pitty we never got to see them. Where can i find these mini comics ?? Would love to read those stories.
Ask DC to reprint them. I want my royalties!
I was in the Collector's Club and I looked forward to those white boxes showing up more than I can say. I am a big Evil-Lyn collector and the Battleground Evil-Lyn, with her hair showing, was SUCH a cool inclusion. You did a great job with this line, as did everyone involved. That line was a love letter to fans. I am watching a lot of your videos all at once so you will see a lot of "thank yous" peppered into the comments from me.
(I want more Evil-Lyn releasing things!!!! Lol)
So wait....I need to know.....was Evil-Lyn going to die permanently in continuity, or was she going to come back in a snake form?
I miss those white boxes of joy
at least. at tel Action has put the complete season one and progressively putting season two up on their YT. It’s helpful for me
Man! They should have done all that!
I so wish!
Wow this makes me want even more 200x episodes! Any chance of Netflix picking this up where they left off? Thx for the info Scott
I wish!
Dude they are on TH-cam! Search MOTU 200X full episodes. The first one that comes up should be this guy that has them all in order.
A mi gustaron mucho los comics de esta época 200x...!!!
Merci beaucoup.
i really enjoy the folklore motu good video
Glad you liked!
I'm curious to know why the classic look for He-Man didn't test will with boys at the time of the 200x series.
They thought he looked funny in nothing but furry shorts.
@@spectorcreative1872 That seems like a weird reason but then again, I suspect 10 year old me would have felt the same. My sisters would definitely have teased me for having such I toy I suspect.
They didn't read enough Savage Sword of Conan to appreciate just how totally boss you got to be to march off to a sword fight in just the bare minimum.
200x was sooo good!
I only wish we got more
Great stuff! Thank you!
And thank you. For the glass as well.
Really interesting. Shame She-ra couldn't be in 200x I didn't pay attention to the the scuttlebut internet at all when the show was out, so I think I wasn't alone in assuming she would show up when the Horde got out.
Darn legal issues!
Okay, this really needs to happen as an animation! How much do we need---let me grab my check book...
Make the check out to me please.
They really really need to stop separating She-Ra into a separate property. I appreciate where the bios went with bringing POP and NA into the overall mythos. Anytime they neglect to bring in She-Ra when the Horde comes on the scene I basically checkout.
See the new video on just this issue!
Is a way for read the mini-comics, seeing I never got MOTU classics. I found my love for MOTU origins and don't want to pay hundreds for each figure.
Alas, DC has yet to collect them in a trade. Let them know if this is something you want!
My only question is why is it that cartoon Network did air the original version master of the universe versus The Snake Man . That was before the 2000 x series came out. It's like the the classic version of the master universe versus the snake man not exist anymore but you only get the 2000 x series .
It's a pity they never continued the 200x series. That was my favorite version of the Masters of the Universe. I was really disappointed when they cancelled it.
Moors the pitty
Is there a collection of the motu classics mini comics that you refer to?
I would have loved to see season 3. I didn't really like when the Snake Men became the main bad guys because to me its always He-Man vs Skeletor and any other bad guy simply got their own episode as their claim to fame, but seeing Skeletor and Hordak fighting the Masters would have been the best. I also didn't like that the MOTUC story went with Man-at-Arms dying since he's one of my favorite characters.
Oh man, me too!
I've been semi binging this channel for a couple of weeks and I can now assume what it's going to say on your tombstone after your name and the dates,. lol.
Angry Fanboy? (JK). Thanks for being part of the channel!
@@spectorcreative1872 lol. Nope; "Brand manager for Masters Of The Universe classics from Mattel between 2007 & 2014" 😜
I notices Skeletor was the major force to defeating the other big bads. So is he the real hero of eternia? Kidding.
Well, in a way...
I'm curious as to what was going to happen to Man at arms when the Snakemen went into hibernation at the end of season 2?
When he became a Snake Man permanently he would have followed them
11:00 what episode was it when Man-at-Arms had a He-Man training robot with the blue eyes? (pre Faker)
You know, I don’t recall off the top if my head. I’ll see if I can find!
@@spectorcreative1872 btw very awesome info you gave out. I really liked the 200X show and I hated that it was cancelled.
It's like...just when things were getting epic enough to break out into new mainstream success, they torpedoed it. Maybe it was just 10+ years ahead of its time: this is basically what Lego does with Ninjago now.
It clearly was ahead of its time!
200x was my introductiom to MOTU. I hate how it got screwed over by CN and Mattel
Such a great show!
Does anyone know if the MOTU 200X is on any streaming service? I never seen all the episodes and would love bing on these.
It was on Netflix, maybe it will come back
Fans need to push for new season..... Start the campaign
Oh there has been one for quite a while now...
Is there a way to bring back 200x series season 3,4 & 5 back into production since large number of fans are very ardent fans of this series rather than recent Unwanted Revelation in Netflix
Magic
I love the 200x back then but the only problem with that kinda plot story is if they were going to introduced adora/she ra kinda contradicts if hordak & the horde is imprisoned in despondos then invasion of ethria is not been happening nor the story of twins.,and the 3 way battle occured long ago to the storyline of preternia wars kinghiss,hordak ang king greyskull w/ he ro.
Hope mattel will have a detailed story line for motu cause reading some stories starting from preternia is really bad ass.and the problem with western animations today its either they always cancel it or it lacks the continuing story.unlike animes to think that some run even decades before it end the show,like the ones were watching it were kids till they are teens,
Alas, Adora was not available legally for the line.
you forgot to mention the small mini comic that came with thethe 3rd dvd set that had the mini comic of how man at arms is changed permently into a snake man
Exactly. See I'm not making this stuff up
I’m curious, do you have a video explaining why you no longer work for Mattel? Are you still on good terms with Mattel? Is there any future possibility that if they reached out that you’d be willing to become the MOTU brand manager considering how passionate you are for MOTU and have done great things for the brand.
I've mentioned it in a few videos. See here! th-cam.com/video/YOcbmciWjyI/w-d-xo.html
I wish you were able to have the rights to He-Man so you could produce your own animated serries. You would do a good job with that. I cannot say enough I enjoy your storytelling. If not being exposed to the original Transformers line back in 1984. you probably would convince me to be a She-Ra/He-Man fan. I actually liked She-Ra next to Transformers.
I appreciate that! But hey, if Universal ever needs me I am at Spectorcreative.com
Hi Scott, I didn't know about these mini comics at all, I'm going to hunt for them right now, I'm in the UK so I hope they are around here somewhere, going to be difficult with the lockdown still in effect but will try hard nonetheless, is there any way at all that you can continue the story in a cartoon or comic book form so we can get the full story?
So there is no way to introduce Adora or do a 200x version of secret of the sword in comic book form?
Oh I so wish I could. But it is in Mattel's hands now
I still think 200X cartoon would've done better on a non cable channel like Fox. I noticed CN had a tendency to move around shows that weren't produced by their production team. Bias and probably saved them money to favor their shows. Sucks.
I remember keeping CN on 24 hours a day to find the new time slot and it wasn't advertised very well. I'm sure many kids thought it was cancelled, so when ratings go down, CN was like "well I guess no one is watching it".
Hindsight is 20/20. Or maybe 70/90
In the 2000 series didn’t Hordak make Keldor into Skeletor and was his “mentor”?
He made him into Skeletor exactly as shown in this video: th-cam.com/video/8_I8Ocp3PNQ/w-d-xo.html
@@spectorcreative1872 yes, that’s what I thought. Which is why it’s weird they would fight. But I guess, you know, evil. Lol.
Dude, boost your audio. I wanna hear this great info!
Yeah this is an older video. I have gotten a new mic and it is much better.Should I re-record older videos?
@@spectorcreative1872 that's up to you, man! It's "evergreen" content, so people are going to keep discovering it. Can't you pull the audio, boost the level, and re-export?
Honestly, if this was the plan for the 2nd and 3rd seasons of the 200X He-man series, I am actually glad that it stopped when it did. The sorceress dying from the poison of king hiss, King Randor being banished, He-man being framed for murder, Skeletor taking over Eternia, and the possibility of no She-ra in this continuity are ideas I just can't get behind, even if they allow the series to continue. I know that dark elements in the story could have made the 200X series of He-man more interesting, but I would much rather have He-man end on a positive note than have the story continue on a darker path without She-ra.
I think Dean and Ian wanted to move the story and brand forward with these ideas instead of it being the same thing of He Man vs Skeletor over and over
@@spectorcreative1872 fine, but like I said, I am not sure I would have liked the story to go in that direction. I'd be on edge constantly if that were the case. Also, I thought that the showrunners of the 200X series decided that Fisto being Teela's biological father was only going to be a red herring.
If Kevin Smith can revamp the 1st MOTU.
Surely he could do the 200x wrap up.
S3 should have happened they left it on a cliffhanger which was wrong ok the toys where a big part of it but Surely the ratings helped too.
The thing I loved about the 200x show you fully believed Adam was a 16/18 kid then going into He-man as a 30/31 year old Bodybuilder.
Plus how could you not bring She-ra if you could do sort of the same storyline but different as the 1st show.
It would have been Epic Plus it would have brought girls onto the show.
I so wish the 200X show could keep going
@@spectorcreative1872 me too big time I was a Teenager when the show came around but now at 36 I still love the Show Cam Clarke as Adam/He-Man great bit of Voice acting.
But honestly Someone should ask Kevin Smith to give the 200x A shot the audience is there.
Much respect to your Channel.
Stay Awesome. 👌👌.
What a terrible shame the cartoon didn't continue to season 3!
Kills me daily
Hey group, anyone have made up their own original Masters in their heads? I have.
Mind-a-taur: The Heroic Minotaur With The Glow In The Dark Brain.
Think-Gor: Evil Master With The Glow In The Dark Brain.
Lazora: (female Horde member) Hordak's Mistress With The Glowing Lasers (Light up chest? Hands?).
Bone-Appart: Evil Skeleton Builder For Skeletor (Comes with various building bones so he can change shapes).
Hat Trick: Evil Magician With A Living Evil Hat (Imagine your typical magican, but his hat can be removed and put on any other figure to put others under his control).
I love customs~! I wish I had the talent to do heads.
@@spectorcreative1872 Just unloading ideas. Feel free to do whatever with it.
Too bad we didn’t see more out of the three giants from 200x, that picked on buzz-off. Did they even have names??
Azdar, Belzar, and Chadez
If you read the interview and Ian’s direct reply. Man-At-Arms was only going to be turned into Snake Man for 3-5 episodes. Not permanent.
Link still exists. 😃
www.he-man.org/forums/boards/showthread.php?118744-Ian-Richter-s-answers-to-fan-question-revealed!-Please-discuss-in-this-thread&p=1400544#post1400544
See issue 39 comic book included int he DVD release.
@@spectorcreative1872 I think you mean issue 40? 😃
Yes I’m familiar with it. I worked on the minicomic adaptation. And Ian’s own statement still stands as it not being a permanent. Its in that same thread. :) Same goes for Gary Hartle who directed the show.
Sorceress poisoned? That's sad :•(
Sad, but it does move the story forward.
actually the faker robot was sent to snake mountain as he man to rescue Adam when he's defeated he briefly becomes a blue he man
Yes, the whole junk pile thing was an upcoming episode that never got made from Ian’s notes
it's not that the show wasn't relevant to kids back then much of the blame of the show's failing is cartoon network's incompetence. I could never find out when the show was being aired to watch it coz they kept moving it around.
Plus the case backs were not assorted enough
@@spectorcreative1872 ?
Where can I get these comics.
They were packs in with MOTUC toys, usually one per year from 2012-2015. I'd ask DC if maybe they would reprint them if you want em!
is there a real 2 season out there
Well yes the Snake Men was season 2. At least the first half.
How was Skeletor going to take over the castle when A Lot of the castle was taken out when the Snake Men toke over. And how is it that she-ra was not going to be a part of the 3rd season when every one knows she was. There was even a 200X toy of her for the show. If we can get 2 new he-man series. We can get a 3rd series. A 3rd season to the 200X Series.
If only we could! But that is what Classics was
So this is where the renegades MotU suppose to happen. Where's Thunder-Punch He-Man?
He is on page 1 of mini comic # 1
@@spectorcreative1872 super! Thanks
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THE 200X SHOW but I really didn’t like the action figures
I would love a return to the show. Maybe even a one of film for Netflix
You and me both!!
At 10:00 in the video you used an image of the Neo Cobra Viral Core from Kamen Rider Drive! Noice! Kamen Rider Drive is AMAZING, well a majority of the Kamen Rider Series is anyway. Lol
SOURCE: kamenrider.fandom.com/wiki/Viral_Cores
Nice!
He-Man just seems kinda...there. Does he actually do anything? Make some kind if difference? Gives new meaning to the phrase "Evil happens when Good Men do nothing".
Well he does save the day a lot with his strength and agility
I loved this series but wtf! They were going to actually kill the Sorceress? That really pisses me off. So Zodak allows them to defeat him so they can take the staff, Evil-lyn assist in this and the Sorceress pays the price? As far as the battle with King Hiss I dont know why the Sorceress didnt activate the Elders power orb as she had done before to keep them out of the castle.
Yeah, the death of the sorceress was a necessary step to Teela's character arc. Classics just picked up the pieces.
@@spectorcreative1872 But why her death why not her weakened power from King Hiss attack forces her to train Teela to step to the plate and become the next Sorceress?
I would trade a Season 3 (Masters vs the Horde) over Kevin Smith's horrid He-man show anytime ... it was a shame that the show ended/canceled before it's time
Oh i so want more Motu 200x
Knowing that the 200X Season 2 was only a half season makes the way it ended less disappointing...or more disappointing🤔
I want more 200X so bad!
@@spectorcreative1872 Me too.
The way it ended on the first half of the season i thought it was the end of season 2.So yeah i was an still am they didn't even finish the whole season 2
I wish some one would take away this project from Kevin Smith and just do this.......
I would love more 200x....
You can clearly see why the 200x series got canned! It was becoming too dark for young children! You just can't kill off the heroes, and make a three way battle of evil, without having heroic warriors in the series. That doesn't do well for the youth, and for me either! That's why Filmation will always be my Masters Of The Universe! I loved the 200x series until the snake-men arrived. Just too much of it. Just my opinion, but everyone has their favs.
lol that had nothing at all to do with why it was canceled. Kids aren't dumb and don't need things to be watered down with no danger. For the generation that made MOTU the hit that it became, we watched movies like Conan, Rambo, Revenge of the Ninja, Star Wars, Enter the Dragon, Cobra, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Krull, Commando, Alien, Friday the 13th, NoES, etc...where there were on screen deaths, violence and dare I say...nudity! 😱
Although I liked watching cartoons like He-Man and G.I.JOE as a kid, I always remember thinking it didn't make any sense for He-Man to not just end Skeletor once and for all by actually using his sword or why G.I.JOE didn't have Snake-Eyes (or any other Joe) put an end to the terrorist organization once and for all by ending Cobra Commander, Destro, Serpentor and Zartan.
People try to convince themselves of what children should like or what they wish they were like but in reality a child's mind is curious and constantly seeking understanding to figure out life and death is part of that. When we take away repercussions and consequences from stories and leave them with crap like Pokémon, POGs and Power Rangers, we end up with generations of weird, whiney, entitled, cry baby adults with manbuns and everyone deserving a trophy.
Nah, the biggest part of why Millennial Reboot floundered because of "Kenner Batman Syndrome." As in, loads of weird variants of the main character and main antagonist, but other characters were short-packed, sometimes as few as one-per-case. And when those got bought (usually by scalpers), the shelves were clogged with (hyperbole for comedic purposes) Neon Scuba Laser Grappling Hook He-Man with Net Launcher that never showed up in the cartoon, and nobody wanted to buy. Meanwhile, if you or your kids wanted an Evil-Lyn, you had to find a scalper online and pay at least triple price for her. And then toy sales declined, which contributed to the cancelling of the cartoon.
As much as I loved the Filmation cartoon for its world-building, fun, and attempting to instill some good old-fashioned values -- and some good progressive ones, too -- I have to hand it to MYP and the relaunch for superior overall storytelling. While any Filmation episode involving Granamyr (for example) is automatically going to make it into my list of favourite cartoon episodes somewhere, and I will always support Filmation and think fondly of it, I think the MYP cartoon had a much higher ratio of good episodes vs. duds.
@@XFactorz17 thats funny cause when me and my one boys play toys he always wants to revive the heros and my other son prefers a killing field of unimaginable horrors. Except for his main guy that dude can never get a scratch, but his friends and family better get their affairs in order.
I agree I mean killing the Sorceress is too much for me, I know that Teela was going to eventually take her place but damn you got to kill her Mother she can just go off into peace like the Sorceress before her?
Still makes me a sad panda
This is How you do a reboot. Revelations is just agenda driven entertainment. It's the She-man show
There is a reason so many fans of this show
Very interesting but I notice you repeat yourself a lot. Have you considered using a script, that might help.
What's a script?