when I was a little kid, i had no idea what "tooling" was, but the least the characters looked like He-Man and Skeletor, the more I liked them. If they were an elephant or a mosquito, I wanted them. Which is then weird because my favorite He-Man character wound up being Faker.
Man-E-Faces was the first MOTU figure I ever got. It was at a promotion at Universal Studios, Hollywood on Easter 1986 which featured actors playing Skeletor and He-Man, and there was a life-sized Slime Pit as well. (I think we got to see He-Man get slimed, too.) My parents have a picture of He-Man and Skeletor autographing the figures my brother and I got, so that's how I know the exact date. ---- I think there was an MST3K where Joel invented a mask that was basically a life-size version of the Man-E-Faces gimmick, with the human face being a hole that showed his actual face.
@@spectorcreative1872 I found the clip (from episode 105 - The Corpse Vanishes), but I remembered it slightly inaccurately. While it really is basically a live-action version of the Man-E-Faces toy's gimmick, Joel's invention is a "Chiro-gyro" (as in CHIROpractor) and not meant to be a mask. The clip is below, from the episode th-cam.com/video/-yq9CbsS6Jg/w-d-xo.html There was another episode where "Demon Dogs" attacked the Satellite of Love (SOL). These "Demon Dogs" were "Battle Bones" toys painted pink and with ears added to them. mst3k.fandom.com/wiki/Demon_Dogs And in multiple episodes, the Millennium Falcon is among a bunch of other toys and random things glued to the wall in a room in the SOL as wall texture, the wall and the toys all spray-painted. (This is similar to they way an audio-cassette holder is glued to the wall of the Enterprise bridge in Star Trek II to add texture.)
There's a Transformer that got the 3 faces, with different personalities, treatment, in later incarnations. In _Transformers Animated_ (where it first appeared) & then a latter toyline (sadly, the face switching gimmick was jammed, on many, on the later one), because _Animated_ did it, Blitzwing has 3 faces: normal/bruiser, cool/ tactical, & psycho/ random. Part of Animated's characterization of Blitzwing incorporated the gimmick. 2 of his personalities were arguing over if they should scan a tank or jet, for their Earth alternate mode, & the crazy personality took over & settled the argument, & said why not both, & scanned both simultaneously.
"Man-E-Weapons" was my first MOTU figure, given to me for my 9th birthday, and the figure that started me on my path to Having No Money for most of my life. 😉🤣 Yeah, I was one of those kids who just figured he was very tanned. After all, a lot of the other characters went around showing a lot of skin (or fur), so I reckoned Man-E was doing the same. I took the cardback cross-sell art to be what he was intended to look like, with a fully-painted helmet, and any orangey bits on his helmet that looked like an extension of his flesh onm the figure were just due to Mattel cheaping-out on the paint apps. Looks like someone else pointed you in the direction of the MST3K Chiro Gyro as a potential basis for a Man-E-Faces costume, so I'll ask this: In that storybook & record set that came with the original Point Dread & The Talon Fighter (which you show at the 10:30 mark) -- is it my imagination, or does Linda Gary actually play Teela in that, too? Sure sounds like her!
It's interesting with the monster element, and kids feelings about it, because in the 90's it felt like monsters were really in. Not just as adversaries, but also with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and all the mutants both good and evil from that line.
Man E Faces was one of the very first (if not the first) action figures that I bought at a carboot sale. Still one of my personal favorites ever and this was before I knew about the cartoons. I still can't believe he wasn't a main character though
Besides the feature of a turning visage, I'm fascinated by his combination of bare flesh and mechanical tubing. The arm guards and thigh-high boots look like medical braces. It makes Man-E look like he suffered some crippling injury in his past and overcame it to become a hero.
I never made the connection between the Panache Place Voltron gun and Man-E-Faces gun before. I wonder if they were both mode in the same factory? They aren't identical, but it's obvious that someone just added some extra bits to the mold to make it look a little different like the extra cylinders on the sides. I'm guessing the handle came off a different weapon entirely, the only original part being the tail mount.
@@spectorcreative1872 Oh no, they're obviously the same, I'm saying the same factory probably made both guns but modified the handle and the bits on the sides in a thin attempt to make less obviously the same. Then they went and made them both red. 😅
My cofounder Jeff has the original Man-E-Faces figure from the original line, and I might do a video on it one day when he finds that figure in the future; he has the one that came with the orange ray gun and not the one with all the extra weapons.
The problem with the suit is the fact that the character is in a barbaric setting where numerous other characters wear relatively skimpy attire -- not just He-Man and Skeletor, but Mer-Man, Beast Man, Trap Jaw, and so many others, so a lot of kids/fans/collectors see the "orange" as "flesh." A different color should have been chosen to indicate it was a full-body suit like Man-At-Arms'. Ideally, the color would have been a neutral one that could go with any of the three identities. (Gray? Metallic gray with a green tint?) However, that brings up another problem: "Man-E-Faces" is obviously a pun on "many faces" but three is NOT "many" -- at least, not in any number system I know of! This is a character that needed to come with several alternate heads with each head having three different faces. THEN the pun works.
Awesome video. Have you already made a video on the three different versions of Zodac, from the original, 1980s release of the MOTU line of toys? Not just the colors with the blue/red wings and jet pack, but the classification of good, bad, and neutral cosmic enforcer. Also have you had a chance to read the email I sent you about the Toy line, lol.
I think Man-E-Faces was originally supposed to be more critical to the MOTU storyline than he actually ended up being. Filmation only gave him 2 appearances. Other than his own minicomic, I don't think he got many other appearances in minicomics either. Still, he was a cool toy and I sure wish I would have found myself a Man-E-Weapons back in the day.
He showed up in a couple of panels in the old mini-comics, mostly as background-filler, or in the biggest appearance outside his own story, to be captured by Dragon-Blaster Skeletor. Where he had magenta skin, for some unknown reason.
Trap Jaw vastly cooler especially that green skull belt gave me great memories. I think I liked Cyclops guy more with the spinning Eye over Man E Faces as odd as that might sound? Its like he changes alignment from Lawful to Neutral to Chaotic. I wear a Plague Mask when I perform. Many of my favorite wrestlers or characters growing up wore masks making me really upset when Iron Man or Spidey or others show their faces including Bobba Fett Knockoffs. I try to adapt or become the character when don the attire removing any fears or things that might hinder me in my normal identity or form. YOur just raising up levels higher to become larger than life. I liked the armor for He-Man or Skeletor that would spin to 3 versions more than Man E :).
@@alphatrion100 Thanks I used to really like that odd belt he had. I don't fully grasp why he has the jaw. Though just a cool design overall and visage. Faker is prob my favorite even if its basic.
i liked the kobra kahn figure the most. squirting my sister with it and then getting beat up by her (she was older than me). memories . .. . man-e-faces was definitely top three though
It is news to me that Man-E-Faces was considered so popular. My friends and family, including me, thought he was kind of lame and he was just essential because he appeared on the show.
when I was a little kid, i had no idea what "tooling" was, but the least the characters looked like He-Man and Skeletor, the more I liked them. If they were an elephant or a mosquito, I wanted them. Which is then weird because my favorite He-Man character wound up being Faker.
Man E Faces was the only 83 character that was available in my hometown that was still available in 85..great figure loved the mini comic too.
He is a classic all the way
I personally thank the 2002 Heman show for making Man-E-Faces personalities being tied to his faces. It was excellent as he also came off as an actor!
An actor on cam-er-a
Simple: he's a monster AND a robot! That's two of the most awesome things combined when you are a kid.
Man-e-faces was my first MOTU figure.
Man-E-Faces was the first MOTU figure I ever got. It was at a promotion at Universal Studios, Hollywood on Easter 1986 which featured actors playing Skeletor and He-Man, and there was a life-sized Slime Pit as well. (I think we got to see He-Man get slimed, too.) My parents have a picture of He-Man and Skeletor autographing the figures my brother and I got, so that's how I know the exact date.
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I think there was an MST3K where Joel invented a mask that was basically a life-size version of the Man-E-Faces gimmick, with the human face being a hole that showed his actual face.
Okay, now I need to find that episode
@@spectorcreative1872 I found the clip (from episode 105 - The Corpse Vanishes), but I remembered it slightly inaccurately. While it really is basically a live-action version of the Man-E-Faces toy's gimmick, Joel's invention is a "Chiro-gyro" (as in CHIROpractor) and not meant to be a mask.
The clip is below, from the episode
th-cam.com/video/-yq9CbsS6Jg/w-d-xo.html
There was another episode where "Demon Dogs" attacked the Satellite of Love (SOL). These "Demon Dogs" were "Battle Bones" toys painted pink and with ears added to them.
mst3k.fandom.com/wiki/Demon_Dogs
And in multiple episodes, the Millennium Falcon is among a bunch of other toys and random things glued to the wall in a room in the SOL as wall texture, the wall and the toys all spray-painted. (This is similar to they way an audio-cassette holder is glued to the wall of the Enterprise bridge in Star Trek II to add texture.)
I like that he's voiced by Stephen Fry in the CGI series, but having his head spin vertically bug's me, as his head cant be attached to his body.
I would have loved an "Icons of Evil" comics line but for the good guys.
There's a Transformer that got the 3 faces, with different personalities, treatment, in later incarnations. In _Transformers Animated_ (where it first appeared) & then a latter toyline (sadly, the face switching gimmick was jammed, on many, on the later one), because _Animated_ did it, Blitzwing has 3 faces: normal/bruiser, cool/ tactical, & psycho/ random. Part of Animated's characterization of Blitzwing incorporated the gimmick. 2 of his personalities were arguing over if they should scan a tank or jet, for their Earth alternate mode, & the crazy personality took over & settled the argument, & said why not both, & scanned both simultaneously.
Oh yes in no way was this one and done
"Man-E-Weapons" was my first MOTU figure, given to me for my 9th birthday, and the figure that started me on my path to Having No Money for most of my life. 😉🤣
Yeah, I was one of those kids who just figured he was very tanned. After all, a lot of the other characters went around showing a lot of skin (or fur), so I reckoned Man-E was doing the same. I took the cardback cross-sell art to be what he was intended to look like, with a fully-painted helmet, and any orangey bits on his helmet that looked like an extension of his flesh onm the figure were just due to Mattel cheaping-out on the paint apps.
Looks like someone else pointed you in the direction of the MST3K Chiro Gyro as a potential basis for a Man-E-Faces costume, so I'll ask this: In that storybook & record set that came with the original Point Dread & The Talon Fighter (which you show at the 10:30 mark) -- is it my imagination, or does Linda Gary actually play Teela in that, too? Sure sounds like her!
A cool way to start a motu life
I like it when you bring in all the psychological stuff.
The fact that we got the second ahead and include he man, Skeletor, and Orko’s face is one of my favorite Pack ins!!
The fact that he has his own holiday is unbelievably awesome!
It's interesting with the monster element, and kids feelings about it, because in the 90's it felt like monsters were really in. Not just as adversaries, but also with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and all the mutants both good and evil from that line.
Yup. How kids like to see the word
@@spectorcreative1872 And I think the Hulk has a nice aspect to him of going from someone that is small and scared to someone who is big and powerful.
as a kid i thought it was a good kind of weird that his helmet thing interfaced with his flesh in that weird castle top battlement pattern
Good kinda weird is the best
Fisto and Man E Faces were my favorite figures as a kid. Couldnt wait to pick up the origins version of both.
Origins is incredibly special.
One of my favorite characters. One of my best ToyHauls was getting 200x Man-e-face and Ram Man for 20 bucks at a local toy shop.
He is a true classic
Man E Faces was one of the very first (if not the first) action figures that I bought at a carboot sale. Still one of my personal favorites ever and this was before I knew about the cartoons. I still can't believe he wasn't a main character though
I had him as a kid. Not sure if I have the Classics version. I like him. Always thought that orange armor was strange.
6:17 he looks like he was inspired by the Xenomorph.
Possibly!
Wonder why TF Animated Blitzwing never encountered Man-E-Faces! They may an interesting discussion on their many personas!
If I only nines!
Besides the feature of a turning visage, I'm fascinated by his combination of bare flesh and mechanical tubing. The arm guards and thigh-high boots look like medical braces. It makes Man-E look like he suffered some crippling injury in his past and overcame it to become a hero.
that voltron tail gun isn’t exactly identical to the vintage M-E-F gun 🤔
No? Look again
The handle is very different. The top portion looks same.
@scott they’re definitely different Scott
I never made the connection between the Panache Place Voltron gun and Man-E-Faces gun before. I wonder if they were both mode in the same factory? They aren't identical, but it's obvious that someone just added some extra bits to the mold to make it look a little different like the extra cylinders on the sides. I'm guessing the handle came off a different weapon entirely, the only original part being the tail mount.
Look at it from the side!
@@spectorcreative1872 Oh no, they're obviously the same, I'm saying the same factory probably made both guns but modified the handle and the bits on the sides in a thin attempt to make less obviously the same. Then they went and made them both red. 😅
A Gargoyle’s character had a little spinner in their chest to switch personas. Infinitely toyetic.
My cofounder Jeff has the original Man-E-Faces figure from the original line, and I might do a video on it one day when he finds that figure in the future; he has the one that came with the orange ray gun and not the one with all the extra weapons.
Oh yes I have my original man e faces hanging from the lamp in my office
Because he’s awesome
The robot, monster, and human faces are kind of like Spock, Bones, and Kirk: logic, emotion, and who moderates -- or vacillates -- between them.
Damn it Jim, I’m an action figure not a brick layer
When I was a kid, I received a toy of manEfaces, I loved It a lot !!! Then I grew up and I gave It to my little cousin
Wow you had more than one?
The problem with the suit is the fact that the character is in a barbaric setting where numerous other characters wear relatively skimpy attire -- not just He-Man and Skeletor, but Mer-Man, Beast Man, Trap Jaw, and so many others, so a lot of kids/fans/collectors see the "orange" as "flesh." A different color should have been chosen to indicate it was a full-body suit like Man-At-Arms'. Ideally, the color would have been a neutral one that could go with any of the three identities. (Gray? Metallic gray with a green tint?) However, that brings up another problem: "Man-E-Faces" is obviously a pun on "many faces" but three is NOT "many" -- at least, not in any number system I know of! This is a character that needed to come with several alternate heads with each head having three different faces. THEN the pun works.
nah
Awesome video.
Have you already made a video on the three different versions of Zodac, from the original, 1980s release of the MOTU line of toys?
Not just the colors with the blue/red wings and jet pack, but the classification of good, bad, and neutral cosmic enforcer.
Also have you had a chance to read the email I sent you about the Toy line, lol.
Zodak didn't have wings that would be stratos
@@garymichael6899 yep that’s right
I was combining two, lol
Do a video about the Man at Arms moustache...and other changes made to the characters for the Filmation series.
I currently have two Man-E-Faces figures: the Origins one and the CGI Netflix version.
Interesting that he was in the same wave of figures as Tri Klops that basically uses the same concept..
Everything turns
MEF gun handle was changed for the Voltron release. Not exactly same.
I just ordered 200x man e faces and buzz off yesterday
two excellent figures
I think Man-E-Faces was originally supposed to be more critical to the MOTU storyline than he actually ended up being. Filmation only gave him 2 appearances. Other than his own minicomic, I don't think he got many other appearances in minicomics either. Still, he was a cool toy and I sure wish I would have found myself a Man-E-Weapons back in the day.
Like what they did with him in the CGI show.
"Very Well. Fisticuff it is."
@@brettwood1351 Agreed. I thought it was a great new version of the character. He had some lines like that one that made me laugh..
He was awesome in the 2002 series as well, had a couple spotlight episodes, but was in several others
Filmation wanted to focus on a core group and signed a contract that they didn’t need to listen to anything mattel said
He showed up in a couple of panels in the old mini-comics, mostly as background-filler, or in the biggest appearance outside his own story, to be captured by Dragon-Blaster Skeletor. Where he had magenta skin, for some unknown reason.
Because he's got two more-E-faces than the average toy! It's like getting two FREE faces!
😡🤖👽
Voltron? How about the SKULL TANK and LAND SHARK? Both had the chomping action and both had silver side mounted guns.
But not this gun!
why didn’t you make Big Jim a He Man Character?
I tried for Major Matt
but couldn’t even get that far
Rick and Morty have a Man e faces & robot mix character
I love gear head!
we should get Captain Drake in MOTU. You can make Man E Faces a part of a race of face changing humans too
I love it!!
@@spectorcreative1872 why didn’t we get Captain Drake in classics?
5:32 Tawara Touta concept art but he has three spinning faces
Eternia’s greatest actor.
Spector Creative binge day 2 episode # 6
I always thought Spark Mouth was pretty cool.
Trap Jaw vastly cooler especially that green skull belt gave me great memories. I think I liked Cyclops guy more with the spinning Eye over Man E Faces as odd as that might sound? Its like he changes alignment from Lawful to Neutral to Chaotic. I wear a Plague Mask when I perform. Many of my favorite wrestlers or characters growing up wore masks making me really upset when Iron Man or Spidey or others show their faces including Bobba Fett Knockoffs. I try to adapt or become the character when don the attire removing any fears or things that might hinder me in my normal identity or form. YOur just raising up levels higher to become larger than life. I liked the armor for He-Man or Skeletor that would spin to 3 versions more than Man E :).
GodzillaMendoza just made a great video on Acting with masks that you might like. th-cam.com/video/ptkYbL4tpko/w-d-xo.html
Agreed. always thought trapjaw was one of the coolest motu carachters
@@alphatrion100 Thanks I used to really like that odd belt he had. I don't fully grasp why he has the jaw. Though just a cool design overall and visage. Faker is prob my favorite even if its basic.
You left out Double Trouble from She-Ra.
Ooops! Thanks for the remnder
i liked the kobra kahn figure the most.
squirting my sister with it and then getting beat up by her (she was older than me). memories . .. .
man-e-faces was definitely top three though
Kids today wear masks because they are embarrassed of their parents. When I was a kid I used a mask to play as a racoon. LOL
It is news to me that Man-E-Faces was considered so popular. My friends and family, including me, thought he was kind of lame and he was just essential because he appeared on the show.
That would have made for a more interesting look with skin color
That it would!
Another no prize. I don't count since not a prize.
Not going to lie, watching the filmation appearance makes him look much less cool.
That can be said about pretty much all the Filmation appearances!