I honestly believe that the biggest reason for Faker's popularity is just he's got a great color scheme. That powder blue and florescent orange just pop and make him look cool.
@@SkeletorTclaws haha well I didn’t know about Faker when I took a favorite liking to blue Blanka, but same colors on both. Blue is also just a calm color and orange pops next to blue, as opposite / complementary colors. :)
"He's a hologram" only in the 200x canon, but certainly not in the Filmation, nor 80s mini-comics. You can't just wave a magic wand and fit together vastly different MOTU universes. Different universes have different Faker origins. Filmation's Faker was a demonic clone of He-Man, created with Skeletor's magic. In the mini-comics he's a pure robotic clone of He-Man, but with unexplained blue skin. King Randor kills him with his staff. *Each universe has it's own spin on every character.*
The vintage Faker was an intriguing character when I was a kid. The "evil twin" or "Hero Impersonator" was a trope we'd seen in cartoons, but this was the first time it was done as a toy! Mattel actually did release Faker more than once in the original 80's line-I had the original, but I remember seeing the re-release in stores, with a card announcing "He's back!"
When I found out he was discontinued -- this was 1984, I believe -- I asked some of my cousins back in England to see if they could find one for me . . . and they did! Then he got re-released in 1987, anyway.
@@Beedo_Sookcool If you have cousins in England, may I ask where is home? I'm fascinated that people around the world were into the same toys I had as a child.
Faker has a special place in my heart because when I was young, both my grandmother and Santa got me the standard He-Man figure, so my grandmother took me to the store and I got to pick any other figure I wanted to replace the spare He-Man, and I picked Faker, irony not being lost on me, even then. I was confused as a child because I was absolutely sure I'd never seen Faker in the cartoon series. Man, what life would have been like with Google and RUclips back then :)
@@bri55118 i hope you feel good that you know more now than I knew when I was five years old before the Internet was around. Let that be the warm thought that gets you through the long winters. Five year old me without the Internet would be very impressed by you knowing the blue man with the orange hair was the same character as the robot He-Man, who I just called "Robot He-Man."
Maybe the true Faker, the holo-bot, is just underneath a metal exoskeleton, and projects the hologram on top? It would make sense for Skeletor to alter the holo-bot into a more capable threat, as well as one that actually takes up the physical space of He-man, for a more competent stealth robot, otherwise people would try to slap He-man on the back and then they'd phase into those exhaust pipe things poking out of his shoulders.
I always have loved Faker, anything I ever see of Faker, I have to get, recently picked up his Origins Figure within the last few months, have his Mega Construx Figure, & his Original Figure as well, great video, Gotta Love That Faker!
I'll never forget my surprise at first seeing the tape player/recorder sticker underneath Faker's armor. It's what I've heard referred to as a 'flash-bulb memory'. I can remember everything about that moment in vivid detail, in all it's mid-80s glory. I know, it takes a lot to impress me, I'm really cool.
The Hologram robot idea got used for Proxy, Starkiller's companion/sparring partner in The Force Unleashed video games from several years back. He also acted as a communication device.
I never had Faker as a kid, but thought the figure was cool. I snatched up the Origins figure as soon as I saw him and gave it to son for Christmas. We played with him, BA He-Man, Beast Man, and Sorceress today.
I'm not sure I follow the logic near the end there... "A Gar killed the king! Chase him out of town!" "But who do we make our new king?" "How about a Gar?" "Brilliant!"
The whole Gar storyline makes a lot of sense figure wise. I honestly was very annoyed as a kid when Faker showed up in Filmation as just "glowey eyes He-Man". I mean I get cutting costs, but if you're going to go with "He-Man's stealth evil doppelganger" instead of straight up "He looks a lot like He-man but is visibly evil" the glowing eyes seemed a cop out.
Not sure how much this matters, but from what I read/saw there are a few points. 1. The Faker plotline you mentioned for the Mike Young/200X show was going to be the end of season 2. Remember Awaken the Serpent was only half way through season 2. 2. I think Skeletor/Tri-Klops were going to use Faker, but to fool everyone into thinking it was He-Man that betrayed Randor/Eternia. Not sure how much of the blue skin aspect they were going to utilize (It sounds like the Gar racist aspect was more of a Classics take on things). Skeletor was going to proceed to conquer Eternos, and at the suggestion of Evil-Lyn banish Randor to Despondos...which was going to result in Hordak's return.
Faker got most of his lore with me and the boys because he had a “who tf is this guy” factor. Somebody showed up to school with him before we had seen the cartoon, and even after seeing it, the figure left us more perplexed. How can Sorceress not know he’s a damn robot? How can Skelly know the ceiling of He-Man’s powers to create a carbon copy so easily? Why didn’t he make like 10 of them?! It was so obscure back then. And after listening to this, it still is lol.
Great vid, as a kid in the 80’s, I never knew about Faker. I only knew about the Evil Horde Slime Pit which turned him into an evil slime version He-Man. Which is really a more interesting take on the evil clone idea, imo. I don’t know if the slime He-Man ever got any screen time though…? I just had the play set and its comic. :)
Man-At-Arms also created his own robotic He-Man after Faker was done away with, in the cartoon. That's why I see Faker as either a hero or villain figure, depending on if he's wearing his Skeletor armor or not.
I remember the reason why i loved faker action figure was because when i was a kid back in the 80s i went to a friends house and he had tons of MOTU action figures even some repeat ones but the one that stood out the most was faker since i had seen the battle armor he-man and prince adam but i had never seen faker nor knew about him since a "blue heman" was never in the actual cartoon. I looked for it in stores with no luck and no other friend ever had it so it was just that one time that i saw him and then the mystery grew most likely due to the rarity as well as the desire to find out its origins etc.
Hey Scott: If the predgiduce against Gar is so great.... why did the people 'demand' skeletor come rule? What with his own history of supposed matricide, his civil war endingwith Randor burning his face off, his second civil war with he-man. It's like you wanted it both ways with both explainations 'Because Gar.'
@@spectorcreative1872 I apoplogize if I come off as combative here man but it feels like a very.... 'have it both ways' sort of explaination which feels lazy, which is the exact thing you guys AREN'T and have proven so repetedl yso it's like 'the thing that stands out in a bad way.' I didn't want to give a wrong impression.
We need a team up between Keldor and the Gi Joe animated movie version of Cobra Commander. I know this is random, but it's double random, so that makes it .... not .... random.
Yes, you _can_just make a project with someone else’s IP. A fan film is squarely within the intended territory of Fair Use. You even admit that there is no confusion between the authentic and tribute products within this video! But then, I think IP law should be overhauled to more resemble drug patents with limited periods of exclusivity followed by the ability for others to make generic versions.
Imagine if Universal had gone in on the project and added it to a Blu-Ray remastered collection, and even hired the team to make a couple more new episodes to go with it.
@@knightwolfpro4494 gee, they might’ve gotten a few million dollars worth of free press and a groundswell of goodwill. But who would want that when you could instead just regurgitate the shriveled up corpse of a once mighty brand?
I might be misremembering this, because I'm not allowed on The Org and don't have the full story, but weren't the fans planning on selling DVDs of the episode? If that's the case, I think it was more the "someone's making money off our IP" than anything else that brought about the legal action. If I'm remembering correctly, that is . . . .
Very cool video! Thank you! When I was a kid, I thought Faker was a stupid idea, being blue and all. And then I saw a bunch of photo negatives -- Anyone else old enough to remember those? -- and then it clicked, and I "got" the idea behind him. Gotta add "MYP Inner Robot Faker" to my growing list of custom projects to get around to, someday....
Christmas 1983. My first Masters of the Universe toys: Skeletor, Faker, and Point Dread & the Talon Fighter. Faker will always have a place in my heart because of that.
I love Faker. I have a number of action figures of him, including the tiny mega construct figure. I even have a Chiss in Star Wars: The Old Republic who I made look like Faker.
For me it was having that Faker toy as a kid. He just had character and a weirdness to him. I liked him more than the he man figure. It seems like people feel similarly.
Back in the day I was pissed the Bizarro two pack wasn't advertised to me. I tried to get my hands on that Battle Armor Faker afterwards but it wasn't either on ebay back then or for a price I just wasn't willing to pay.
@@spectorcreative1872 Mh? No, maybwe I slipped through a crack or whatever reason but I received mail notifications for every new release but never a word about those two packs.
My idea for explaining Fakers blue skin was that his blood "died" after some time as he has no Heart. Turning his skin blue-ish like a dead person. And aren't there some red/blonde people whos hair turns more red when they stay too long in the sun? Or are those just the ones whos blond dye fades in the sun?
Maybe I’m remembering this wrong but I think the 87 movie figures that Classics did also make reference this plot line as an event that transpired prior to the movie.
@@spectorcreative1872 Really? Wow I didn't know that. But yeah the Super 7 figures each had bios that discussed events that took place presumably before and after the film. And I'm pretty sure that the Rebel Leader He-Man figure's bio references that before Skeletor seized Castle Grayskull, he used Faker to out He-Man as a Garr with the hopes of limiting resistance against him. But yeah those bios were interesting considering some of the ideas that were discussed in them, while others were just kind of strange.
Oh...dude I got a 3d printer and I love found files for tons of MOTU stuff. Swords I can make in ANY color, and tons of Trap Jaw arms, even his cartoon spatula arm lol
@@spectorcreative1872 Arguably Anti-He-Man edges him out, but I didn't learn about anti-he-man til like... the comic and 'wait this guy is from the german audio stories? Duuude why the hell didn't he get used elsewhere?! This is amazing.' Still. the whole cyborg/doppleganger is honestly pretty great and lends itself t oa lot of story potential that never really got used.
I love the 2000x idea, but I see Faker not so much as a robot or a clone, but a hybrid version of Skeletor and He-Man, like they are merged together, from a spell or something.
As a kid I could never ever find he-man so one day I just found faker and used him to pretend as he man and then I saw that one episode where they didn’t even make his skin blue and I just felt so bamboozled lol
Was there ever a FAKER with a reptile body (arms) in the 80's? i pretty much remember seeing one boxed when I was a kid. would you know? I like this channel. my motu Siri.
Here's what I don't get. If the people of Eternia turn against He-Man because they think he's Gar; Why would they embrace Skeletor/Keldor as their new king when they already KNOW he's (half) Gar?
So he's more like Man E Faces in the sense that he can take many forms, not just He-Man. Pretty cool, but I don't think that's what the new mini comic was going for.
"Faker isn't just an evil version or opposite version of He-Man the way Bizarro is for DC and Superman, Faker has, well, he's taken on a life of it's own" I appreciate the enthusiasm for Faker and MOTU from your perspective as an insider and fan, but this is a little ... incorrect? ... too enthusiastic? Nothing against Faker, but has Bizarro not only has significantly more lore and fiction than Faker, but also far more than He-Man. Bizarro has been around off and on since 1956 as part of a comic book that has never stopped. Checking the references, he has been in 5 cartoon and 2 TV live actions shows at least if not more. Like Faker, Bizarro may have started as an opposite evil of Superman, but even in the Superfriends cartoon we saw as kids he had more going on
It's also a bit funny that 200X/MOTUC is being treated as the definitive "He-Man" history. Like saying that Faker is really a hologram projected onto training robot, when that is only the 200X Faker. Filmation Faker was created by Skeletor's magic. The UK comics apparently also had him be a creation of Skeletor's magic. Nor was the 200X incarnation like the original toy.
@@BainesMkII I appreciate that Scott has a special perspective on the He-Man toys. For many of us they were part of our childhoods and he was able to be a part of bringing them back. But like a lot of people deep into a fan base he can get a little narrow on how he sees a thing and I wish he would step back a bit. The issue for me is that when I see comments that are over the top for things that I'm familiar with or have enough knowledge of it makes me question the facts the person provides that I don't have enough knowledge of. I don't think content creators are trying to spread false info or know that they're wrong, I just think some creators aren't as careful as they could be. Scott's Faker/Bizarro statement was absolutely without malice and harmless. But it was so obvious it broke my "don't tilt at windmills" sensor. The real problem is always when a big creator says something wrong that turns into something everyone assumes is true. My favorite example of a false fact is "Alone in the Dark Inspired the gameplay/theme/genre/whatever for Resident Evil". I don't know how it started. I honestly don't care about Resident Evil or Alone in the Dark, but it's factually untrue for documented reasons. Yet people feel it's true so they keep repeating it.
@@spectorcreative1872 It's not about knocking Bizarro. I assume you worked on Bizzrro as well at some point. it's just about what you said being out of proportion the way it was said. But it's harmless. It's not like some of the videos out there that rewrite history and assume something was the most important ever. I probably wouldn't say anything if I thought you would be offended, and I hope you weren't.
I never really liked the whole racism plot idea because I always thought of the people of Eternia as being above such things. Not only that, but having absolutely everyone believe that He-Man was secretly a Gar the whole time made them seem kinda dumb. Now I know in recent years it has been shown that a surprising number of people will believe anything, but I hope that the people of Eternia would be smarter than that. lol As for Faker, I prefer his Filmation and Revelation origin. He just looks cool battle damaged like that. The Eterniator.
I dunno, you watch even the old Filmation cartoons, there were a lot of judgmental and intolerant people on Eternia -- from loads of species, Humans included.
@@Beedo_Sookcool Yeah, but even then most had their doubts. To think that everyone would turn on He-Man, who had saved the world and their lives countless times over, just because they thought he might have blue skin? Nah.
@@OzzieAstaroth No, they turned on him because they thought he was a Gar who'd been fooling them the whole time . . . who then used his influence to get close and kill King Randor. He DIDN'T -- it was just a smear campaign -- but that's what Faker and Skeletor made them THINK.
@@Beedo_Sookcool Yeah, but I still don't like the idea. Just doesn't make much sense to me. He-Man could just show up and fight Faker or show that he is actually Prince Adam.
@@spectorcreative1872 I was implying that it’s not faker unless he has a reel to reel somewhere on his person, a stab at humour. unfortunately sometimes doesn’t come across properly in type😁 still a very enjoyable video to watch.
That origin story kind of reminds me of the Star Trek lore of the Ferengi, a primitive culture given technology way too fast with a disastrous result. Bring that up just to add some counterpoint to the whole Eternians are racist thing. ^_^ And the whole trend of holograms kind of comes and goes, like you mentioning recent movies with it. You have to admit the endoskeleton damaged look is pretty kickass. ;)
I liked it except for one huge detail. If Teela had been torn up and upset the whole time because of grief (she believed both of Adam's identities to be dead), instead of over having the secret kept from her, the whole thing would have been both more palatable and more believable. That $#!t was weak, honestly. Lesser gripe: most of the dialogue was utterly godawful.
@@TitularHeroine Teela was disgusting and out of character. She was strong in the other series, not this bs ugly in the inside (and the outside) person
You mean, it wasn't the creation of some anti-NY Mets fans, perhaps angry about the 1986 world series, and their secret teammate in disguise, buckner? 🤭
I honestly believe that the biggest reason for Faker's popularity is just he's got a great color scheme. That powder blue and florescent orange just pop and make him look cool.
Yep it was always my favorite color version of Blanka in Street Fighter II
@James Chessman maaaan, i just realized why I liked that color on blanca as well
@@SkeletorTclaws haha well I didn’t know about Faker when I took a favorite liking to blue Blanka, but same colors on both. Blue is also just a calm color and orange pops next to blue, as opposite / complementary colors. :)
Definitely a great colour scheme.
Truth
"He's a hologram" only in the 200x canon, but certainly not in the Filmation, nor 80s mini-comics. You can't just wave a magic wand and fit together vastly different MOTU universes. Different universes have different Faker origins. Filmation's Faker was a demonic clone of He-Man, created with Skeletor's magic. In the mini-comics he's a pure robotic clone of He-Man, but with unexplained blue skin. King Randor kills him with his staff. *Each universe has it's own spin on every character.*
The vintage Faker was an intriguing character when I was a kid. The "evil twin" or "Hero Impersonator" was a trope we'd seen in cartoons, but this was the first time it was done as a toy! Mattel actually did release Faker more than once in the original 80's line-I had the original, but I remember seeing the re-release in stores, with a card announcing "He's back!"
Yup! He came back into the line in 86
When I found out he was discontinued -- this was 1984, I believe -- I asked some of my cousins back in England to see if they could find one for me . . . and they did! Then he got re-released in 1987, anyway.
@@Beedo_Sookcool If you have cousins in England, may I ask where is home? I'm fascinated that people around the world were into the same toys I had as a child.
@@shawnkarg3794 Born in England, but I've lived more than half my life in the USA.
Faker has a special place in my heart because when I was young, both my grandmother and Santa got me the standard He-Man figure, so my grandmother took me to the store and I got to pick any other figure I wanted to replace the spare He-Man, and I picked Faker, irony not being lost on me, even then. I was confused as a child because I was absolutely sure I'd never seen Faker in the cartoon series. Man, what life would have been like with Google and RUclips back then :)
Faker was in one episode of filmation. The only difference was he had glowing eyes, other than that he looked the same as he-man.
@@bri55118 i hope you feel good that you know more now than I knew when I was five years old before the Internet was around. Let that be the warm thought that gets you through the long winters. Five year old me without the Internet would be very impressed by you knowing the blue man with the orange hair was the same character as the robot He-Man, who I just called "Robot He-Man."
@@CyclopsWasRight616 glad to be at service.
@@bri55118 you should get someone to watch the video and explain it to you, so you'd know what information was already presented.
That is fantastic!
Maybe the true Faker, the holo-bot, is just underneath a metal exoskeleton, and projects the hologram on top? It would make sense for Skeletor to alter the holo-bot into a more capable threat, as well as one that actually takes up the physical space of He-man, for a more competent stealth robot, otherwise people would try to slap He-man on the back and then they'd phase into those exhaust pipe things poking out of his shoulders.
And that is kinda what was going to happen
When I was kid I thought of him as a combination of Skeletor and He-Man. Like if the two were spliced together with magic.
Like composite Batman!
I always have loved Faker, anything I ever see of Faker, I have to get, recently picked up his Origins Figure within the last few months, have his Mega Construx Figure, & his Original Figure as well, great video, Gotta Love That Faker!
It is year of the faker
@@spectorcreative1872 Must Be The Year of The Faker!
I'll never forget my surprise at first seeing the tape player/recorder sticker underneath Faker's armor. It's what I've heard referred to as a 'flash-bulb memory'. I can remember everything about that moment in vivid detail, in all it's mid-80s glory. I know, it takes a lot to impress me, I'm really cool.
I had a very similar experience.
And that is what surprise and delight is all about
The Hologram robot idea got used for Proxy, Starkiller's companion/sparring partner in The Force Unleashed video games from several years back. He also acted as a communication device.
Was just thinking that. Wow, I loved that part when Proxy switches off the Vader program.
Proxy: "I hate being him."
Galen: "I think he does too."
Perfect example!
I never had Faker as a kid, but thought the figure was cool. I snatched up the Origins figure as soon as I saw him and gave it to son for Christmas. We played with him, BA He-Man, Beast Man, and Sorceress today.
Way to parent!!
I'm not sure I follow the logic near the end there... "A Gar killed the king! Chase him out of town!" "But who do we make our new king?" "How about a Gar?" "Brilliant!"
Ah, that is vidéo for another Time!
Awesome video as always, Scott! I love hearing the back stories of the MOTU characters.
Any suggestions on whom else to cover like this?
The whole Gar storyline makes a lot of sense figure wise. I honestly was very annoyed as a kid when Faker showed up in Filmation as just "glowey eyes He-Man". I mean I get cutting costs, but if you're going to go with "He-Man's stealth evil doppelganger" instead of straight up "He looks a lot like He-man but is visibly evil" the glowing eyes seemed a cop out.
Maybe they thought that was enough?
So… Aside from Mekanek, Faker is my favorite from MOTU. I always thought… Faker should be more like Zartan; change color with temperature or water.
Now why has this not been done!
Not sure how much this matters, but from what I read/saw there are a few points.
1. The Faker plotline you mentioned for the Mike Young/200X show was going to be the end of season 2. Remember Awaken the Serpent was only half way through season 2.
2. I think Skeletor/Tri-Klops were going to use Faker, but to fool everyone into thinking it was He-Man that betrayed Randor/Eternia. Not sure how much of the blue skin aspect they were going to utilize (It sounds like the Gar racist aspect was more of a Classics take on things). Skeletor was going to proceed to conquer Eternos, and at the suggestion of Evil-Lyn banish Randor to Despondos...which was going to result in Hordak's return.
I enjoy the idea of Faker but I just wish he had more screentime and episode life! He barely lasts 1 or so but makes a great repainted action figure!
Yeah if only the 200x show continued
Faker brought us 90s color schemes while we were still in the 80s
Ha!
He is nothing more then a repaint but I can't imagine the line without him
And that is the sign of a good repaint
This was a really great story. Thanks.
So glad you liked!
Faker got most of his lore with me and the boys because he had a “who tf is this guy” factor. Somebody showed up to school with him before we had seen the cartoon, and even after seeing it, the figure left us more perplexed.
How can Sorceress not know he’s a damn robot? How can Skelly know the ceiling of He-Man’s powers to create a carbon copy so easily? Why didn’t he make like 10 of them?!
It was so obscure back then. And after listening to this, it still is lol.
Yeah almost like a bootleg!
Great vid, as a kid in the 80’s, I never knew about Faker. I only knew about the Evil Horde Slime Pit which turned him into an evil slime version He-Man. Which is really a more interesting take on the evil clone idea, imo. I don’t know if the slime He-Man ever got any screen time though…? I just had the play set and its comic. :)
That green version of he man has been a toy too!
Thank You for showing the true form of Faker.
Glad to enlighten!
Man-At-Arms also created his own robotic He-Man after Faker was done away with, in the cartoon. That's why I see Faker as either a hero or villain figure, depending on if he's wearing his Skeletor armor or not.
"Can we get Kopaka?"
"We have Kopaka at home."
Kopaka at home:
Sure
I remember the reason why i loved faker action figure was because when i was a kid back in the 80s i went to a friends house and he had tons of MOTU action figures even some repeat ones but the one that stood out the most was faker since i had seen the battle armor he-man and prince adam but i had never seen faker nor knew about him since a "blue heman" was never in the actual cartoon.
I looked for it in stores with no luck and no other friend ever had it so it was just that one time that i saw him and then the mystery grew most likely due to the rarity as well as the desire to find out its origins etc.
Neat! I mostly kinda ignored the existence of Faker, tbh. Thanks for the newfound appreciation! :)
Thanks! Any help sharing and reposting videos is most appreciated
In the past year James Eatock has figured out a way to release the custom faker Filmation like cartoon under a documentary type format.
Yes he is trying to find a way to do it legally
What a fun video. Thank you.
Well thank you! Any help sharing and reposting is most appreciated
Good stuff as usual, thanks!
Always appreciate that!
Hey Scott: If the predgiduce against Gar is so great.... why did the people 'demand' skeletor come rule? What with his own history of supposed matricide, his civil war endingwith Randor burning his face off, his second civil war with he-man.
It's like you wanted it both ways with both explainations 'Because Gar.'
Yeah I felt like I missed something there. It didn't make a lot of sense.
See the upcoming King Skeletor video
@@spectorcreative1872 I apoplogize if I come off as combative here man but it feels like a very.... 'have it both ways' sort of explaination which feels lazy, which is the exact thing you guys AREN'T and have proven so repetedl yso it's like 'the thing that stands out in a bad way.'
I didn't want to give a wrong impression.
Faker is my favorite MOTUC fig!
He is highly popular!
We need a team up between Keldor and the Gi Joe animated movie version of Cobra Commander. I know this is random, but it's double random, so that makes it .... not .... random.
Well maybe Hasbro will get motu rights in 2024
I remember getting Fakor when I was around 7, at a Hills store, I think.
Toy memories are the best!
Robot Chicken’s take on Faker is hilarious.
Indeed it was!
SCOTT you are the man 🤘😜🤘
Keeping it real
Yes, you _can_just make a project with someone else’s IP. A fan film is squarely within the intended territory of Fair Use. You even admit that there is no confusion between the authentic and tribute products within this video!
But then, I think IP law should be overhauled to more resemble drug patents with limited periods of exclusivity followed by the ability for others to make generic versions.
Imagine if Universal had gone in on the project and added it to a Blu-Ray remastered collection, and even hired the team to make a couple more new episodes to go with it.
@@knightwolfpro4494 gee, they might’ve gotten a few million dollars worth of free press and a groundswell of goodwill. But who would want that when you could instead just regurgitate the shriveled up corpse of a once mighty brand?
Mattel should have hired those guys instead of Kevin Smith.
I might be misremembering this, because I'm not allowed on The Org and don't have the full story, but weren't the fans planning on selling DVDs of the episode? If that's the case, I think it was more the "someone's making money off our IP" than anything else that brought about the legal action.
If I'm remembering correctly, that is . . . .
@@KasumiKenshirou Agreed one million percent.
The keldor (i got origins keldor now) exile story is realy good.
Good job on that one 👍
Thanks! Written with much love
My favorite Faker story is the Robot Chicken one where Faker shows up to a party and no one can tell the difference despite the blue skin.
Omg that is the best!
Even with the very underwhelming cartoon appearance in the 1980s Faker is a truly great phenomenon of the MOTU ranges.
And highly popular
Very cool video! Thank you!
When I was a kid, I thought Faker was a stupid idea, being blue and all. And then I saw a bunch of photo negatives -- Anyone else old enough to remember those? -- and then it clicked, and I "got" the idea behind him.
Gotta add "MYP Inner Robot Faker" to my growing list of custom projects to get around to, someday....
See this is what i curse people with. More toy ideas
It was actually a brilliant idea
Christmas 1983. My first Masters of the Universe toys: Skeletor, Faker, and Point Dread & the Talon Fighter. Faker will always have a place in my heart because of that.
Fantastic!
I love Faker. I have a number of action figures of him, including the tiny mega construct figure. I even have a Chiss in Star Wars: The Old Republic who I made look like Faker.
Faker was an early favorite of mine as a kid and I think the scarcity of info (in addition to the look) was part of the reason.
Great video wish they made season 3
Me too!!!!
For me it was having that Faker toy as a kid. He just had character and a weirdness to him. I liked him more than the he man figure. It seems like people feel similarly.
I really like the Revelation Faker. Pretty solid makeover
For a makeover, yes indeed
Good stuff👍🏽
Thank you🙏🏽
🤘🏽✌🏽
He’s the first Origins figure I ever got.
A good choice
Awesome! How I so wished we had a Robotic Faker in original training robot form for Classics!!
If only! But the tooling might have been tough
@@spectorcreative1872 yes I do understand. All new tooling. Gonna cost a bomb 😞
I really like this video :) Please do more videos like this :)
You got it! Which characters would you like me to spotlight
@@spectorcreative1872 Good question. I've always been intrested to know more about Evil lynn, Hordak, and Shadow Weaver's origins and backstories.
Lol when he first came out he was so hard to come by...I was so popular at school for awhile...
I remember I seen faker and a robot chicken skit he just went to a party and just killed skeledor
For what it's worth, I just spotted a whole packed end cap of 30% off Clearance Castle Greyskull's at my Local Target.
Not a good sign for longevity
Back in the day I was pissed the Bizarro two pack wasn't advertised to me. I tried to get my hands on that Battle Armor Faker afterwards but it wasn't either on ebay back then or for a price I just wasn't willing to pay.
I ended up paying way more than I wanted to through an online e-tailer, m'self.
@@Beedo_Sookcool Last time I checked he was 400 Euros, just him, not the two pack.
We couldn’t find a retailer to take it
@@spectorcreative1872 Mh? No, maybwe I slipped through a crack or whatever reason but I received mail notifications for every new release but never a word about those two packs.
@@bladerunner3314 Cripes!
My idea for explaining Fakers blue skin was that his blood "died" after some time as he has no Heart. Turning his skin blue-ish like a dead person. And aren't there some red/blonde people whos hair turns more red when they stay too long in the sun? Or are those just the ones whos blond dye fades in the sun?
Wow. That is horrible. What a great idea.
Now that is head cannon!
Maybe I’m remembering this wrong but I think the 87 movie figures that Classics did also make reference this plot line as an event that transpired prior to the movie.
I actually didn’t work in those Super 7 figs so I am a little in the dark
@@spectorcreative1872 Really? Wow I didn't know that. But yeah the Super 7 figures each had bios that discussed events that took place presumably before and after the film. And I'm pretty sure that the Rebel Leader He-Man figure's bio references that before Skeletor seized Castle Grayskull, he used Faker to out He-Man as a Garr with the hopes of limiting resistance against him. But yeah those bios were interesting considering some of the ideas that were discussed in them, while others were just kind of strange.
Nice nod to Lorenzo Lamas!
I like the current MOTU Origins mini comics with there being an army of Faker's for Skeletor to now use!
Yeah that is pretty cool! Army building!
Everyone loves an evil twin character
Except the other twin
Can you please do a Modulok video
I will! I am going in fig release order
Oh...dude I got a 3d printer and I love found files for tons of MOTU stuff. Swords I can make in ANY color, and tons of Trap Jaw arms, even his cartoon spatula arm lol
Nice! I wish I had that skill
We have several 'evil heman' redecos avalible, but for me at least Faker was the first, and honestly he has a soft spot for me because of that.
And the best
@@spectorcreative1872 Arguably Anti-He-Man edges him out, but I didn't learn about anti-he-man til like... the comic and 'wait this guy is from the german audio stories? Duuude why the hell didn't he get used elsewhere?! This is amazing.'
Still. the whole cyborg/doppleganger is honestly pretty great and lends itself t oa lot of story potential that never really got used.
I love the 2000x idea, but I see Faker not so much as a robot or a clone, but a hybrid version of Skeletor and He-Man, like they are merged together, from a spell or something.
Hey head cannon can be the best
I wonder if Faker would ever think about joining in the “Blue Man Group?”
Founding member
As a kid I could never ever find he-man so one day I just found faker and used him to pretend as he man and then I saw that one episode where they didn’t even make his skin blue and I just felt so bamboozled lol
I imagined you were not the only one
Was there ever a FAKER with a reptile body (arms) in the 80's? i pretty much remember seeing one boxed when I was a kid. would you know? I like this channel. my motu Siri.
At 9:54 the Man At Arms figure looks as if the sculpturer took inspiration from Sam Elliott for the facial features.
I was at Target years ago looking for the Loyal Subjects Mini Ccimic Man-E-Faces, that I eventually had to get from eBay, and I found Faker!
I’m not sure I know that toy?
Season 3 of 200x sounds like it would have been amazing
I know right!
I only wish they would have given the Origins Faker He-Man's Shield and Axe. Although I've always wanted He-Man's Harness in Faker's colors as wel.
We did do that in classics!
The makers of Ben 10 did that same mask idea for Kevin 11.
Is there a way to buy or read the collectec origins mini comics?
The first three have been reprinted by DH in their coffee table book
Here's what I don't get. If the people of Eternia turn against He-Man because they think he's Gar; Why would they embrace Skeletor/Keldor as their new king when they already KNOW he's (half) Gar?
Gréât question! And for that we will do an upcoming video about how Skeletor became king
in terms of iterations Filmation had the best Faker since he felt the most sentient
That works!
Faker is awesome 😎
One of the awesomest
Who was the green-haired girl in the purple corset at 7:18?
A fan creation
Explains why I couldn't find her. Thanks
Nice Mark Hamill voice 😎
Thanks!
Got myself an origins faker
A good fig to get!
So he's more like Man E Faces in the sense that he can take many forms, not just He-Man. Pretty cool, but I don't think that's what the new mini comic was going for.
Oh very much so!!
I was not a Fakkor fan, the color change thing does not work for my head cannon of He-man
And that works
Sorry Hefty Smurf… but he’s our favorite blue colored strong man!
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Would be nice, if we could get a MotU Origins BA Faker.
Well consider no new parts it could happen!
I can see what you mean by the hologram concept but I think to me he'll always be a terminator type.it's more fun for me.just my opinion
Oh i agrée, more fun it is. Just not how the 200x show was going to handle it!
Best thing about faker is the reel to reel on his chest
I agree!
2:40 seeing him hold his sword that way has me triggered
Oh boy
But Faker does turn robotic after he battles sorceress when his skin starts peeling off
In Revelations. That show is its own continuity
Eyyyy
Yups
I hope origins does battle armour faker with battle damaged face
Here is hoping!
The people who Faker fooled were dumber than the ones who who were fooled by Clark Kent.
That or super geniuses
"Faker isn't just an evil version or opposite version of He-Man the way Bizarro is for DC and Superman, Faker has, well, he's taken on a life of it's own"
I appreciate the enthusiasm for Faker and MOTU from your perspective as an insider and fan, but this is a little ... incorrect? ... too enthusiastic?
Nothing against Faker, but has Bizarro not only has significantly more lore and fiction than Faker, but also far more than He-Man.
Bizarro has been around off and on since 1956 as part of a comic book that has never stopped. Checking the references, he has been in 5 cartoon and 2 TV live actions shows at least if not more.
Like Faker, Bizarro may have started as an opposite evil of Superman, but even in the Superfriends cartoon we saw as kids he had more going on
It's also a bit funny that 200X/MOTUC is being treated as the definitive "He-Man" history. Like saying that Faker is really a hologram projected onto training robot, when that is only the 200X Faker. Filmation Faker was created by Skeletor's magic. The UK comics apparently also had him be a creation of Skeletor's magic. Nor was the 200X incarnation like the original toy.
@@BainesMkII I appreciate that Scott has a special perspective on the He-Man toys. For many of us they were part of our childhoods and he was able to be a part of bringing them back. But like a lot of people deep into a fan base he can get a little narrow on how he sees a thing and I wish he would step back a bit.
The issue for me is that when I see comments that are over the top for things that I'm familiar with or have enough knowledge of it makes me question the facts the person provides that I don't have enough knowledge of. I don't think content creators are trying to spread false info or know that they're wrong, I just think some creators aren't as careful as they could be.
Scott's Faker/Bizarro statement was absolutely without malice and harmless. But it was so obvious it broke my "don't tilt at windmills" sensor. The real problem is always when a big creator says something wrong that turns into something everyone assumes is true. My favorite example of a false fact is "Alone in the Dark Inspired the gameplay/theme/genre/whatever for Resident Evil". I don't know how it started. I honestly don't care about Resident Evil or Alone in the Dark, but it's factually untrue for documented reasons. Yet people feel it's true so they keep repeating it.
In no way was this a knock on Bizzaro!
@@spectorcreative1872 It's not about knocking Bizarro. I assume you worked on Bizzrro as well at some point. it's just about what you said being out of proportion the way it was said. But it's harmless. It's not like some of the videos out there that rewrite history and assume something was the most important ever. I probably wouldn't say anything if I thought you would be offended, and I hope you weren't.
So I'n other words its the HEMAN 87 movie
Well kinda!
I never really liked the whole racism plot idea because I always thought of the people of Eternia as being above such things. Not only that, but having absolutely everyone believe that He-Man was secretly a Gar the whole time made them seem kinda dumb. Now I know in recent years it has been shown that a surprising number of people will believe anything, but I hope that the people of Eternia would be smarter than that. lol As for Faker, I prefer his Filmation and Revelation origin. He just looks cool battle damaged like that. The Eterniator.
I dunno, you watch even the old Filmation cartoons, there were a lot of judgmental and intolerant people on Eternia -- from loads of species, Humans included.
It does work for good drama
@@Beedo_Sookcool Yeah, but even then most had their doubts. To think that everyone would turn on He-Man, who had saved the world and their lives countless times over, just because they thought he might have blue skin? Nah.
@@OzzieAstaroth No, they turned on him because they thought he was a Gar who'd been fooling them the whole time . . . who then used his influence to get close and kill King Randor. He DIDN'T -- it was just a smear campaign -- but that's what Faker and Skeletor made them THINK.
@@Beedo_Sookcool Yeah, but I still don't like the idea. Just doesn't make much sense to me. He-Man could just show up and fight Faker or show that he is actually Prince Adam.
love better than us
Not always
If that’s the real faker, where’s his tape deck?
You mean from revelations?
@@spectorcreative1872 I was implying that it’s not faker unless he has a reel to reel somewhere on his person, a stab at humour. unfortunately sometimes doesn’t come across properly in type😁 still a very enjoyable video to watch.
Blue skin is the new Star Trek green 😁🤓😉😗
Everyone needs a green skin girl
That origin story kind of reminds me of the Star Trek lore of the Ferengi, a primitive culture given technology way too fast with a disastrous result. Bring that up just to add some counterpoint to the whole Eternians are racist thing. ^_^
And the whole trend of holograms kind of comes and goes, like you mentioning recent movies with it. You have to admit the endoskeleton damaged look is pretty kickass. ;)
Oh gréât comparisonb
5:10 yea... No one cares abour Revelations... (Well most people, to be fair... I hate it. But if you like it power to you)
I liked it except for one huge detail. If Teela had been torn up and upset the whole time because of grief (she believed both of Adam's identities to be dead), instead of over having the secret kept from her, the whole thing would have been both more palatable and more believable. That $#!t was weak, honestly.
Lesser gripe: most of the dialogue was utterly godawful.
@@TitularHeroine Teela was disgusting and out of character. She was strong in the other series, not this bs ugly in the inside (and the outside) person
Not my favorite either
i really believe you were an fan night stalker was used
I am!
@@spectorcreative1872 you never gave an honest answer to ks he-man trash then you don't say the right name to the horse which is night stalker
He wasn’t in the new adventures
Nope
You mean, it wasn't the creation of some anti-NY Mets fans, perhaps angry about the 1986 world series, and their secret teammate in disguise, buckner? 🤭
Alas, no. But right on with the colors