The Abyss Below Castle Grayskull - what are the mysteries buried deep below He-Man's toy castle?
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2021
- Scott Toy Guru Neitlich dives deep in Masters of the Universe toy lore to explore the Abyss below Castle Grayskull. The original vision, how Filmation and Mike Young expanded on it and the secrets that are long buried... Comes wiht our highest possible recommendation!
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I always liked to imagine that Castle Grayskull is so ancient that literally nobody knows who built it, or how old it is.
And that is legit too!
Same here. No you every sparked my imagination like Greyskull
The dungeon sticker fascinated me as a kid, and I always believed that the castle was infinitely larger than it appeared. I would have loved that play mat!
The poster Axel did showing the inside is something to behold as well!
Interesting as always. As a child I liked to imagine the dungeon was a prison for inmortal beings under the castle taken there by different heroes though time, like a phantom zone.
That is a frakkin awesome idea.
That's a killer idea.
Thats what it looked like to me. I don’t get how the pit to the center of the world has like, monsters at the top.
There *is* a 3D printable dungeon piece (on Yeggi, probably) that is very well done, designed for the vintage castle. When I last looked they were selling the actual printed piece and it was a shade pricey for me at the time. I may have another look at that.
@darknightangel Now I'm imagining the paper robot/space suit in the castle is the sworn guardian of that Phantom Zone portal. This turned surprisingly even more enjoyable!
Now we need the backstory of the Robot/Spacesuit cardboard cut out piece!
Oh that does have a story! I'll add it to the list.
@@spectorcreative1872 The story start as a pretext to sell toy... end up to somthing that look like the Silmarillion..... Very intresting lore and world building, what is the story about the burrowed space ship? I know that early lore make Adams mother a astronaut, but not that some space ship become burrowed.
I'm really hoping that the Grayskull spacesuit will be the Marlena figure in Origins.
Another great video; I love exploring the mythology of Eternia and everything that makes it what it is. Thanks for sharing!
THrilled you enjoy and I am most grateful for the kind comments.
Yes I'm trying to figure out where to get more of the mythology of Eternia as well
Another AWESOME and INFORMATIVE video from the master toy guru!! I loved it! Thanks so much! 👏👏😁
So glad! Share if you can
Another incredible video 👍👍 I love all this info that in most cases have wondered about for years, in other cases never even knew I wanted to know. But in all cases I have been happy to learn it and enjoyed every second of every video. Great job, seriously keep this up👍👍👍
Thrilled you continue to enjoy! Do share these with others online, it helps the channel a ton!
@@spectorcreative1872 i don't have Facebook or anywhere to share it to, but I've passed your channel on to at least a dozen friends👍👍
That's where the Sorceress gets her freak on!👍🏻lol🤣
Yo yo yo
Wonder what her thongs look 👀 like
Another great video sir! I really enjoy how much work & care you put into these. There is just so much thought & love that was poured into these & by bringing in random/ obscure things it shows. Really makes me wish these stories could have continued.
All toys and videos made with love!
@@spectorcreative1872 You're right 2 parts plastic to 1 part love!
What an awesome video! Thank you so much, Scott!
Please do feel free to share with others online, it helps the channel a ton
@@spectorcreative1872 Sure do! Lots of people in my business class and in my custom figures page that will love your content!
Greetings all the way from Lima, Perú! Stay safe!
That image of the Horde at 9:07 is the greatest piece of Masters artwork EVER, IMHO.
Tug'O'War the Master of the Cosmic Balance?! In all my years i've never heard of this guy! I guess Zodak was sick that day? Very cool.
Thanks for another great video, Scott!
Zodak never gets sick, he just glows.
dude...my mind is blown. again. this channel is AMAZING!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!
Trilled you continue to enjoy!
This was great information to add to our knowledge an love of Motu. U always do a great job on breaking down each storyline and explaining its own origins!!!
I am so thrilled you enjoyed and thank you for the kind words Mosat grateful
It was also a very interesting video. Thank you very much for that. Procrustus is a really great figure and has been in my collection for years. By the way, I have collected 95% of all Classics products.
He is one of my favorite figures we ever did!
Great video! Thank you! Y'know, I never noticed Procrustus hanging there in space between the two hemispheres in that mini-comic. Wild! It's great going back and revisiting things you love and seeing things you never noticed before. Heck, I still see something new each time I watch "Return of the Jedi." For example, it turns out Amanaman is all over the place in Jabba's Palace if you know where to look.
Oh I am convinced Amanaman is the key to the entire SW Universe.
The Bedford-Atlantic Homeless shelter in Brooklyn is often called Castle Grayskull. I knew a woman who lived across the street from it, and even she called it that.
That is only slightly scary
It was originally an armory, so it makes a bit of sense to make it castle-like.
They may not have homes, but still have a sense of humor.
I thought the inner world of Eternia being called Subternia was never as funny as if it were called Internia.
Subternia is from the 2002 version of He-man and Masters of the Universe series.
Oh missed opportunity
Eternia’s Internia....... Genius.
I thought Internia was the unpaid college student that worked for King Randor?
What a great video! I had no idea on some of these themes. It just furthers my love for this brand. Thank you!!
Glad to be of service! Please feel free to share with others online, it helps the channel a ton!
I watched into the abyss yesterday. great context and a deep deep dive. thanks for the info as always.
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@@spectorcreative1872 I try to shout you out on my instagram account jabroni_skeletor as much as possible... is yet another polite tribute to yours (everyone's) work to be honest. thanks for everything. sincerely.
The abyss is where Teela-Na's missing socks end up.
And everyone else's.
Canon accepted.
Well ... yeah
...but mostly Teela's, let's be honest here.
Wow I literally just turned my phone on. Cool, i was hoping to hear about this. Thanks for your work!!
Same here! There's certainly a method to this man's madness, no doubt. Or vice versa.
We aim to please!
Such weird but interesting concepts, they're delicious. I've always been fascinated with this type of fantasy setting, and it mixing in with high tech science fiction makes for a wonderful mix.
Yeah the whole brand is a weird mix of it all!
I've been watching your videos for quite some time now. I'm always very entertained and informed by these. I am surprised at the depth of the story writing that has gone into the MOTU mythos. Who writes these things up? Is it some kind of creative team? Was there a specific agenda Mattel set them out to establish or did they just kind of organically come up with the on the fly? I was thinking that MOTU might be more intricate than my favorite 80s IP, G.I.Joe! Kodos to those who are dreaming this stuff up!
A lot of the mythos was created Mike Halprin and later by Dean Stephan and Ian Richter who wrote the 200X Mike Young Series. It was expanded on in the Classics line which tried to tie a lot of different stories together to sell toys
Castle Grayskull is so iconic still my favourite toy while i was a kid in the 80s
A worthy favorite!
No joke, I went to a bar jeopardy night and it had a pop culture category. We won because of He-man trivia that I was able to answer thanks to this channel
Nice! I hope you won big bucks or at least a free round. ;-)
"Of course other people recognize Camelot..."
On sight? I doubt it. Folks might know the names, but if shown only pictures of them, how many folks could really tell, say, Edinburgh Castle from Winterfell Keep?
Your initial statement remains true - by far, Grayskull remains the single most recognizable castle in pop culture.
Careful, it will haunt your dreams
The big gray skull in the front is a handy telltale.
..... Cinderella Castle in Disney world
Noooo clue what Camelot looks like😂
Retro-Matic Gamer agree , easily the most recognizable 💀
I really loved this video. Thank you.
Most welcome! Topics always welcome
I really enjoy all his videos. I especially like his stories that evolve Masters of the Universe.
Glad to hear it, more to come, and topics always welcomed
Very good video. I loving these secrets and history of videos
Only the Shadow knows... and now you do too.
There is a 3D sculpt of the dungeon sticker used on the bottom of the Imaginext Mad Scientist Lab as part of the battery cover.
And on one of their castle playsets!
See here:
ruclips.net/video/ghrPTvG7sdk/видео.html
This is fascinating because it ties so much together, in ways you'd never expect.
Was done with so much love!
Thank you. That was awesome !
So glad you liked! Please feel free to pass to others online. It helps the channel a ton!
MOTU is the definition of my childhood, thank you for the awesome video.👍
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I never thought you'd answer all my request regarding He-Man canon, let alone successfully do so in just one episode. Thank you.
I aim to please!
Another amazing video!
THrilled you continue to enjoy Rodrick
@@spectorcreative1872 Likewise that you continue to acknowledge 😇. I’m also floored that we were almost neighbors in Greensboro!
In the 1987 film, there was a bottomless pit beneath Castle Grayskull which was filled with pink liquid which Skeletor fell into in the movie's climax. In the script for the abandoned sequel, Skeletor who is swimming in the pink liquid gets sucked into a pipe and travels at high speed. In the script, the bottomless pit is revealed as a reactor tank.
Oh yes and in the script it is also shown that Eternia is founded by Astronauts from Earth! Crazy stuff.
It's really cool how you guys try to tie all the disconnected lore together. Most of the other toy franchises I follow have decades worth of irreconcilable continuities.
Thank you, it was all donw from love
I bought a t shirt last year with the dungeon grate and all its goodness on it
That is so bivy!
Please tell me where.
@@gspendlove another youtuber, star wars junkman, search for him, that should lead you to the shirt you seek
@@korydoe4813 Thank'ee, sai.
'castle grayskull after hours with spector creative' sounds like it should be a show.
Nice. Get me a producer!
Okay you made it dark helmet reference now you are truly my guru.
Have you seen this one: ruclips.net/video/PxrqfJQ4CSI/видео.html
The best sticker ever created.
Agreed!
I always thought that the Castle Grayskull playset should have had an additional trap door instead of that ridiculous dungeon sticker. Great video 😎🤘
I think that was part of the original plan, but alas cost cutting
Another Great Video with Sticker Lore it doesn't get any better then this, I bet I imagined so many stories from those stickers and sometimes having no story is the best story of all. I recently seen a RUclips video that showed a unknown Character that the person who posted it along with a lot of us had never seen before, the RUclips Channels Owner was trying to find info on it but having no luck. In today's Internet World there aren't many Toy Secrets left Undiscovered with so much info out there but this one was definitely a New One for Me and my first thought was asking you if you had any information on this Character?, you have shown us stuff that many of us never knew even existed but I don't think I have seen this Figure covered by you before (I apologise if you had covered it and I missed it I'm still watching your older videos playing catch-up). The Toy Store Promo was from the from 80's HE-MAN Toyline that appeared to be close to the End of the TOYLINES Run (I think) right before they started to show off HE-RO and the Dinosaurs 🦕🦖 and the Promo showed a Water Shooting Prototype Robot like Kobra Khan that appeared to be a bad Guy and named the "Evil Robot Prototype" any info on this Guy? Keep Up The Great Work!
I don;'t know much about the Robot beyond his image in the catalogue, but if I find any out I will certainly make a video!
@@spectorcreative1872 Cool I think right now that Robot is the most mysterious HE-MAN Figure on the web at the moment.
I imagine Procrustus holding Eternia together with 2 arms for a century til they're tired then switching to his 2 other arms 😝
A good strategy
must suck when you have an itch and you just switched arms and your 2 free arms are too tired to scratch it.
I LOVE the history that you dive into. I’ve been a MOTU fan for 35+ years and never knew the deep mythology you go over. Does anyone know if ALL the Classics mini comics were published together?
Not yet but if you want to see this ask DC comics!
More thoughts if I may: This episode was really interesting and your impromptu was *so* funny! I'm bursting at the seams for more of these, and anticipation that we get some of these characters in Origins. Love it, love it, love it. 💛💙🌈🙏
Edit: was there ever a mock-up or prototype of the abyss mat? I'd love to see a pic with the actual castle & figures on it.
There was a prototype of the mat, it was what was shown in the image, but it is not around as far as I know...Unless Mark has it!
He-Man good. Skeleton bad. That’s all I knew when I played with these characters as a kid haha.
But as I get older, the lore I’m learning about the He-Man universe on this channel just gets more and more interesting to me. Can you (or anyone else) recommend any good novels, comics etc.. that are good to read and have his much depth? Or are the mini comics and cartoons the only sources? Thanks!
There's a lot of great material out there! I'd really recommend getting "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: A Character Guide and World Compendium" and you can start with the mini comic collections, or the comic book omnibus. Those will have a ton of info and stories to read up on!
There have not been any novels. The MOTUC mini comics are a good place to start
@@KJF-ny just looked up the compendium. Wow! 500 pages?!? I think that’s a great place to start. Thanks!
@@spectorcreative1872 gonna look in to them! Thanks!
Even though I'm an "80s baby" who grew up on the OG He-Man series, IDK about "Tug-O-War" until this vid. So I guess there were still a few characters left that could've made into figures for the MOTU Classics line. The 200X series is my fav, because it seemed like they took things from the comic, undated them, & masterfully incorporated everything into an intriguing & cohesive story. I really hope that series comes back one day (updated w/ new episodes), because it's my fav MOTU media.
I would so love to see more 200X!
So cool!
Just getting warmed up
Never owned Castle Grey skull but did play on with one and that dungeon sticker always stayed with me.
That was an amazing sticker!
Thank you for this..
It is my pleasure. Glad you enjoy! Any help in sharing with others is appreciated as it assists the channel a ton!
Now I understand, the power orb and the star seed
And knowing is half the knowing
Awesome!
Truly
Never knew this so much lore in MOTU.
Oh we are just getting started! Tell your friends. ;-)
For something that started out as a mix of clashing ideas, MotU has developed some really deep lore
Quite so! Considering in the middle He-Man just had a force field generating harness and some guff.
Thank you for the video, You made me want to buy Prorustus!! classics figure.
So worth it. He rocks. No pun intended
I don't know which character I dig more, both Procrustus AND Tug O' War are right up my alley. Epic additions to the lore and franchise. I'm repainting some MotU Mega Construx mini figures and I might give ToW a go...
If only we could get a toy of him
thanks great information hope the movies do a live one on all this 😆
Me too!
I love all the maps that came out with MOTUC and they are all sitting above me in my home office so I kept looking up at the Subternia one while you were talking. I do wish they didn't have the folds in them though. It's too bad we couldn't have gotten hi res PDFs to get printed ourselves, as these would look glorious printed on Canvas. Though one question, how does Castle Grayskull actually maintain it's position with the abyss all around it? Even looking at the map it's just sort of floating there.
There is a small pinnacle or rock that it is on
I LOVE THIS VIDEO! As a relatively new fan of MOTU, finding lore, or at least consistent lore, is difficult. I'm still making my way through the Filmation series and then on to the 2002 series. Your video has really whet my appetite. Is that world map available by itself, either in print or digital?
The map was sent to subscribers for the MOTUC line in 2013
Cool wonderful information. I need a tug of war action figure!
We all do!
Great story
Much more to come!
Great stuff. I've had such a great time listening to you discuss the lore of He-Man that I ordered a copy of Volumes 1 & 2 of the mini comic collections. Volume 2 ends with "The Second Ultimate Battleground." Was that the last of them? Do you know if those two collections have everything?
There were 8 issues in total!
@@spectorcreative1872 Hmm. Looks like I'll need to hunt down 4-8. TO EBAY!
i still love the map drawings, i wish they had posters of them. if they did, i never saw any.
They were posters! They were mailed out to MOTUC subscribers each year.
In the episode that Teela fell on a edge cliff in the abyss, some energy flows in and out of it when Adam transforms into He-Man. Given the info on your video, the conclusion is that the sword directly accesses the starseed energy during the transformation.
Likely
There was the awesome scene in one of the episodes where Teela is down below Castle Greyskull during He Man's transformation and the power rises. She's like what is happening.
Yup. Even Filmation explored this a bit
The 2000x series you keep referencing was that the one that aired on Cartoon Network
Yes. Mike Young Productions..
Like the bottom of the great pyramid
A pit of mystery
This video is great, you should do more like this
Read the comics and explain them to us, lol
But seriously it’s awesome
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Hey Scott. Love the videos. I was wondering if you're going to do a video on the rumored MOTU Classics Eternos Palace Deluxe Playset? I'd love to know the history and why it didn't come out. Or is it just an internet myth?
I can confirm no work was ever done on this concept. We did work on Snake Mountain and an idea for a slime pit but that was all as far as playsets were concerned.
With a property that has such an expansive universe and mythos that spans across various mediums, how much is planned out in advance? Is there a creative meeting where outlines of all the different factions and areas of the world are established? Does it organically take shape as ideas are fleshed out over time? Does it really boil down to we're drawing a new character on page four of the minicomic, so make something up about him?
Has there been a Cousel of Eternia (like Nicea) to canonize events, timelines, character biographies and connections?
Mike Halprin wrote the original bible and different writers (including myself) have added to it over the years. Dark Horse has printed some great coffee table books trying to put it all in one place
Does this show the clip from the original t.v. show where some giant bug walks over, sits down, dies, and then its body is made into the Castle over huge long periods of time?
Ummmm no.
I like to think those guys in the dungeon are like Titans like in the Disney Hercules. Those are some bad dudes and that is the toughest place for them to be locked up in.
You are not alone in that!
Listening to this I couldn't help but notice similarities between this and the 1994 song "Starseed" by Our Lady Peace (featured on the Armageddon soundtrack). The song talks about a planet being powered by a Starseed (similar to Eternia) that is stolen but later recovered by a being (like Procrustus) and brought back beneath the equator (like the giant crack from the planet being split). It's almost earie how well the song fits.
Very similar
So much He-knowledge. Thanks.
May I ask, when super7 re-invented the original style figures, but used a different hip joint, do you think this was an oversight when MOTU figures originated or was it the technology and cost of the era?
It was just using modern technology, especially as the old rubber bands used to break
I still would have liked to have seen an "energy" Grayskull in translucent blue-ish green plastic with sparkles. Because sparkles. :)
Oh me too! It would have been so much fun!
How can I find these mini comics for classics?
They were released packed in with MOTUC figures. DC has yet to reprint them in a trade. If you want one, let them know!
There is so much mythology to MOTU, it really can have spin offs of days. I guess that's what imaginations are for.
It is exactly what they are for! That and seeing leprechauns...
I always had in mind that Greyskull was immensely vast inside, despite not being very big from outside view for a castle.
Like a phone booth for Dr Who
Have you ever done a video about that *massive* spaceship visible on the map of the inside of Eternia?
ruclips.net/video/O_UIk8ZE9u4/видео.html
Hey, great stuff as always!
But also I have a question as I'm not too well versed with MOTUC and the brand as a whole (your series is helping to educate me) but was that original prototype He-Man ever remade into an actual figure? I'm talking about the old Big Jim figure that Mattel guy took and put clay on and gave him that menacing look with the barbarian/viking look with the helmet and axe. I mean like is he his own character (like Wun-Dar) or a variant of He-Man in any way? Thanks!
The closest was the Vykron MOTUC 30th anniversary set.
@@spectorcreative1872 actually no you're 100% right because he's included with the barbarian armor AND the BulletHead armor, which was one of the other prototype figures, being just boba fett with clay and repainted, and Tank Top, the tank headed third prototype figure. I'm glad you gave me the name, I would've never found this. Thanks!
Please make a video about the other planed giants. Was the blue giant from the Geldor minicomic one of them? 😮
It was more the giants from the Buzz off Episode of 200x
Cool concept: Imagine that Eternia is like Earth in the ERB Tarzan novels: A hollow planet with a whole other world inside of it!!
Eternal daylight!! Even more strange creatures!! The possibilities are endless!!
( With MOTU, you can make it be whatever you want )
I am a big fan of edgar rice burroughs inner earth novels!
I thought Eternia was located on a nexus point that intersected other realities and dimensions thus explaining how magic and sorcery can be used there. Good to know!
Well it is in the center of it's universe.
@@spectorcreative1872 I wonder if that’s not by mistake the Star seed ended up there then.
Now I want an Eternian gumball with a "juicy center"!
Hear that Mattel? Make it happen!
I would like to ask if anyone would be kind to tell me the name of the comic book from where the story that the trollans created the sword is? I tried to search online but I can't find it.
It is Issue 5 of the MOTU Classics mini comics.
@@spectorcreative1872 Thank you very much!
I'm new to MOTU and is there anywhere I could read the classics minicomics?
DC has yet to collect them in a trade. If you want them let them know!
Always wanted to know how far that abyss would go...
On and on and on...
Was there ever plans to do the Spellstone from the Episode "The Curse of the Spellstone"?
In the Club Grayskull line
@@spectorcreative1872 did it come with any figure? Thank you in advance.
1:47: “There’s an Ark in there.”
“Where?”
Digging in the wrong place?
regarding this video's thumbnail with the arm at the lower right. An optical illusion I recently noticed - If you look at the ending of Daimar the Demon - it looks like a hand is gripping the support structure "insect leg" of the castle. Additionally next to that is a face looking to sky. Optical illusions again - but it wouldn't be outrageous for carvings to go all the way down the abyss in some continuity's version of the castle.
Fun with images!
What's the story behind the big Spaceship shown south / south-west on the Subternia map?
"Gar Shan cruiser"? Am I reading that right?
See here: ruclips.net/video/O_UIk8ZE9u4/видео.html
@@spectorcreative1872 Thank you
I love Tug-O-War. Lol But it makes me wonder, if he is the guy that keeps balance, would he be against He-Man if He-Man was getting the upper hand unjustly?
Potentially
I always assumed there was a disco under there.
Oh that is there too
Also, a bowling alley, movie theater, roller rink...
Nice daisy dukes on tug
This is the way
Wow I need more material on the inner cities of eternia so much cool stuff can anyone recommend where to start reading on this stuff???
I’d suggest the 200x animated series!
U gotta do a show man. I actually do know a very good producer I don't really know how the whole money thing works and stuff I think u guys should seriously talk
No one could decide the color of Stratos's wings. Mattel seemed to make a permanent run change to blue, which was disappointing given how he looked in the show, and knowing that the red version existed, I was always trying to find it without success, even though I had a red Stratos wing that I found on a playground that it presumably still with my other MOTU toys in storage.
Yeah one of my favorite color changes in the vintage era
I really like my interpretation of masters of the universe and I believe it would reboot the franchise and bring some much-needed explanation to why he man is the most powerful man in the universe I really enjoy the video in the backstory as we all know the show kind of made things up as it went along. But they had a great idea . If I had to redo and right is storyline free masters of the universe I wouldn’t make it to where eterna What is the planet that is directly in the center of the complete universe and was the first planet ever made. As the galaxy expanded outwards Castle Grey skull is the center of all from the abyss comes that she and spirit flow of all beings. When he man calls on the power of Grey skull he takes into his body the power and strength of every living creature in the universe that’s making him the most powerful man in the universe
We just need to get kids into the line!
@@spectorcreative1872 getting more kids to like what we did is hard to do. But there’s enough adults out there that are collectors and if they made a movie that was serious and actually show the true backstory like when he man ripped off trap jaws arm and jaw That’s why he has a Metal one now That would be one bad ass movie
@@spectorcreative1872 Also they could reach the kids they did the game in justice. The comic book carried over where he man had to kill superman because he was the last man left in the universe of the most powerful man in the universe they could’ve put him as a DLC character in the game
"What can I say. Reasons." 😂😂 That checks out. Ye gods, sir, do you ever sleep?! You're a powerhouse of productivity. I curtsey to you, for I lack a hat to tip. 😉
Making videos like I'm running out of time
Can you do a video of the various places seen in 14:00, why is there a spaceship?
ruclips.net/video/O_UIk8ZE9u4/видео.html
@@spectorcreative1872 nice! The lore is fantastic! I want more 😉
Observing
Wonderful!