My Dad and his brother didn’t get rid of their He-man figures they put them under a back porch for 30 years till I dug them out. We live in Tennessee and it rains a lot yet all of the figures are still held together
I was 14 years old when I sold my collection, 15 figures, castle greyskull, and 3 vehicles. Wish I could go back in time and stop myself. I am, however, enjoying collecting and introducing my 9 year old son to the new origins line of motu🙂
I wish I had even a Single one of my Figures. My Parents were always selling or throwing away stuff "You don't play with those anymore". Same with my old Video Games. Fortunately, I was at least able to keep my Game Boy Games, because they didnt took away much space and were easy to hide. Those are very special to me, so I can totally understand why you keep even the destroyed Figure. These small Pieces of Plastic help us to remember those carefree childhood days once more.
I had the exact same moment growing up; thinking it was time to give away my toys and grow up. The joy of collecting origins has been getting mint versions of the toys I used to have growing up. Congrats on the book release, Dan. Can't wait for it to show up!
I'm so glad I kept all my (and my brother's 😉) childhood MotU figures. I sold most of my action figures - from when I was a kid AND an adult - about 3 years ago... but I kept the vintage He-Mans! 😀
By some coincidence, today I managed to reaquire my vintage Panthor back. Just like you I achieved an age that I saw those toys an thinked that they should be loved by other kids. What a HUGE mistake! I gave my MOTU figures to a younger cousin and he just destroyed the toys, unfortunately. (He-Man, Skeletor, Battle Cat, Panthor, Ram Man, Tri-Klops and a Wind Raider) That Panthor is in pretty bad shape but I am glad that it is back with me.
I kept all my MOTU figures as much as I could, what I lost of my childhood collection was due to my family throwing stuff out. I can still remember that Mosquitor and Clamp Champ were the last figures I got for Christmas as a kid. That Mosquitor ended up being the only figure I never put away, along with the T-Rex and Bionatops.
My mom gave all my figures away - I started out with my very first ever action figure, Thunder Punch He-Man (can't WAIT for the Origins version and praying they do vac-metal) and then followed that up the following X-Mas with Battle Armor Skeletor, Rattlor, and King Randor. My only vehicle was the Land Shark, but what a great one! Later on, my brother and I picked up two 2nd hand store figures in baggies which were Trap-Jaw (not attachments) for me and Stratos for him, who did have his backpack at least, but no wings. Together they formed my small but mighty collection of MOTU and we loved taking the armor off Randor. I can't believe how expensive he is now and we had ALL their accessories of the original guys, even Randor's crown, staff and cape. I'm so bummed to this day that my originals didn't stay with me, because we did take good care of them. However, my mom went back and repurchased all of those characters before the eBay gluttony of the 2010s and I was able to have my collection back. She even got me Castle Grayskull which was so cool as we never had it. I've since gotten addicted to buying back my childhood collections on eBay and she blames herself haha. Anyhow, great to hear of your own personal collection Dan, I think we can all relate!
So glad I kept mine in storage. I recently took them out and dusted them off. I even managed to get hold of another 9 vintage figurines this year for my collection.
Everytime I have a video of yours that I decide is my favorite, you make another that takes it's place. Thanks for sharing this Dan. I remember a toy collector from when I was a kid, the first adult I'd met that collected and sold toys, (Supercar, Lone Ranger, Battlestar Galactica stuff like that), this was at a small sci fi convention. I asked if the toys were new, and he said some of what he had was, but most, especially the ones he still owned from his childhood, were covered in "Marks of Memories". I got to see a Buck Rogers tin ray gun, and all kinds of stuff, that made my fascination with toys just explode into an obsession. As I got older, my parents were the kind that didn't get rid of anything, EVERYTHING went into storage at some point, and though I only had 11 figures from MOTU, including Panthor and Snake Mountain, I still to this day, have them all. Some better or worse, depending on if they ended up in a basement, or our in a hot storage shed. I was pretty lucky on that part, and when I was in high school was the time I didn't really like my toys (too busy trying to be cool, I never was), but by the time I got to college, and I found other people that were into similar hobbies, toy collecting came to the forefront again, and now a large amount of my collection is on display in my art studio, it's my happy place. :) It's completely evident how much toys mean to you, just in the way you describe and look upon those old figures of yours. That's just so dang cool man. Thanks again for making this video!
Your videos were of the reasons I never went through that "I'm too old for toys" phase, so thank you for that. I still have all my childhood TMNT Power Sound FX figures from 2012. They were the first action figure line I ever collected, and your review on Power Sound FX Leo and Raph was the first video of yours I ever watched.
I fought hard to keep my MOTU toys. Smuggled them to the US when we moved from the Philippines and still have em today. My younger brother outgrew em but not me. 😁
You know, after checking out all your MotU videos over the past several months, now I’m not so certain I had a lot of the figures toward the end of the line. I too pretty much had almost everything growing up, and I think it wasn’t until high school that I sold my entire collection to get a Super NES. Like, I know for certain I had Gwildor, King Randor, Sorceress and all of the Meteorbs, but I can’t really recall if I even had Ninjor, Saurod or Blade. I’m almost positive I did not have Rotar and Twistoid. I never even had an “original” He-Man because when I started collecting, my parents could only find BA He-Man and after it broke they got me Thunder Punch He-Man. Their rule was I only needed one version of each character, which I can understand. And forget the Eternia playset, that was never gonna happen, lol! I do remember very clearly one Christmas morning (probably ‘86 because my sister would’ve barely been over a week old), I think my parents got me the Horde Trooper and I remember feeling like, “This is nice but I didn’t really need it.” Not that I didn’t appreciate it or anything, but I guess the excitement of playing with toys was starting to fade as I got closer to adolescence. That was the beginning of the end for me. Now of course I wish I had kept my collection because my son would have had a ton of almost pristine toys to play with in a few years! At least we’ve got Origins... 🙂
Cool. My childhood MotU are actually the bulk of my vintage collection (which is now only 4 short of every North-American figure). I kept and preserved everything except for the stuff that got lost on a beach trip once. Some of it is not in great shape, but much of it is decent. The downside is I'm missing a bunch of accessories.
That's awesome for you to share those memories with us all! I remember getting Castle Grayskull, He-Man and Battle Cat for Christmas back in 1982! I NEVER thought I'd get any of those at all but I was SO stoked! I'll never forget that! Also, I had gone over to my cousin's place on my birthday and came home to find Prince Adam! I miss the old days!
Glad you still saved your favorites. I had a decent collection too as a kid (although much more on the TMNT side), and it got handed down to my brother. After him, it went through my cousins, one by one until it ended up at some garage sale somewhere. You never realize the nostalgia you'll have for them 30 years later.
I had the whole collection when i was younger, the vehicles, the heroes, villians, and just like you i got rid of my toys once i turned 13. I wish i did keep all of them, i would go back in time and keep everything. Smh. This video definitely brought back that nostalgia for me, thank you. 🙏🏽🙏🏽
Happy belated MOTU Day Pixel Dan! Thanks for the flood of memories. Still mad my mom sold all my old MOTU figures. Thunder Punch He-Man was my favorite.
Wow that's awesome Pixel Dan! I will say I was expecting #5 to be Stinkor. I have slowly collected a few of the figures from my childhood because all of mine were probably destroyed as a kid. I didn't understand the importance of taking care of my stuff. I regret it now. I also didn't know there was a MOTU day until this video. So that is totally awesome. Your enthusiasm for the brand is fantastic. I can't wait to get my Power Con version of your book soon.
I love this franchise more then any other franchise it just means so much to me from my mom taking me to target to some how talk her into buying me a figure to my dad who now has passed reading the mini comics to me as a kid and taking me and my sister to see secret of the sword in the theater. I also still have most of my muto collection from my childhood
I still have 95% of my vintage collection that I had when I wsa a kid. There are a few figures and vehicles that i lost or were broken over time, but I kept them all. The reason being is I thought maybe when I grew up and had kids maybe they'd like to play with them. Fast forward many years they did like to play with them a bit, but didn't love them like i did. I"m still glad I kept them and if I can find figures on the cheap that I don't havve or lost I'll buy them to fill out the collection.
Great video. If I had to get rid of my whole collection, the only toy I would keep would be my 1984 Super Powers Batman, which I got for Christmas that year. He was the first fig I ever got, and remains the pride and joy of my collection to this day, scratches, scuffs, repro cape (made by my mum), and all.
As a little kid, I was extremely careful with keeping my toys in really nice condition and complete. I never owned MOTU figures because my parents thought it was a little too mature for me (I'm an '82 baby). I kept all my TMNT figures and handed them down to my son. However, I did go through that same phase in my life where I thought I was too old for some of my childhood toys and games and I ended up giving a lot of it away. My biggest regret is giving away, throwing away and selling a TON of my vintage videogames when I was in college back in 2002. I sold my boxed copy of Mega Man X3 to Funcoland for Mystical Ninja: Staring Goemon, I gave away my copy of E.V.O., I threw away all my NES, SNES, Gameboy, Virtual Boy and N64 boxes and manuals, and about 10 years ago I sold my entire, extensive SNES RPG library and my entire Virtual Boy library all for $400 because I needed the cash at the time. By my estimate, I foolishly lost around $5k worth of gaming items . I've never tried to buy it all back because I have other expenses I have to prioritize, so I'm just happy to have the NES and SNES Classics (which I've modded. Sshh...don't tell). However, I did start collecting MOTU a few years back and I'm close to completing the vintage line.
4:46 I have always loved Mosquitor's head his eye looks so evil and great. Also look at his boots! He has such an interesting design, even with no blood he's great!
I remember the day we moved from our apartment and I did one last walkthrough, and saw a pile of toys in my room that were going to stay behind, me thinking I didn't need them anymore. I wonder though, if I had kept all those toys, would I still have a nostalgic feeling toward those toys. I think part of it is losing what you once loved and needing to go through the journey of finding them again.
My Scareglow did double duty as a Captain America baddie. Recently I went through some storage and came across a tote. Scareglow, my old Mego Hulk and a number of other childhood toys were still in it intact. I had forgotten I kept them, so a pleasant surprise, indeed.
Happy Masters of the Universe Day! Am sitting at home waiting for a courier to arrive with Snake Mountain... (it's been a hassle trying to get one) My childhood figures are in a storage tub. If I had to choose just five, it would be Scareglow, Hordak, Modulock, Skeletor, and Spikor.
Such a great video with real passion behind it. I had a lot of the MOTU figures growing up but ended up selling them as well for similar reasons. I ended up getting a lot of Classics to relieve those nostalgic feelings. Oh, and I can’t wait for my copy of that book to arrive... so excited to read it and look at all the pictures :D
This really hit home. My parents were wonderful to me a Christmas time....Only thing was when I wanted to collect another toy line...I had to sell my current toy line at a garage sale (Example: I wanted to collect all of the M.A.S.K. toys....then I had to sell my MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE toys....) So that's what I did year after year...would give anything to have my original collection back. But, when you are young (especially back in the day) you never thought you'd one day want those toys back.
I sold all my motu toys to buy the Rhino truck from M.A.S.K. when I was a kid. Now as an adult I feel deeply ashamed of it. The fantasy world of motu is so much more awesome than the boring car world of M.A.S.K..
@@ia5662 whats pretty valuable now are the 1984 or 1985 Garbage Pail Kids cards. I collected them like crazyyy back then and now their Really expensive from that era. I think they were thrown out since i cant remember but they were something i never forgot buying after school just about everyday for a quarter
That story reminds me of how I sold my TMNT toys (which I now regret). My MOTU(as well as my thundercats) where stolen so I didnt have a choice on them.
Battle armor He-man and ram man were the only ones that made it for me. All beat up but I gave them to my older brother. He’s not big into figures but motu is something we both share and look fondly on.
Thank you for the awesome stories and most of all thank you for that wonderful book, that's the holy grail for us who can't collect all of the figures, we get to have all of them in one book, learn about facts and backstory of each one of them and appreciate those great photos. Thank you so much for that. Outstanding work!!!
Oh god, I relate so much to the Yard Sale woes. I sold most of my American Girl collection and all of my Lego sets for $50, because $50 was way more important than those clothes and bricks. When I started recollecting as an adult, I realized the error of my ways. Thankfully I kept the dolls themselves, but it still stings to not have that piece of my childhood anymore.
Was more of a ninja turtle kid, but I held on to one motu figure that was a handmedown from my older cousins collection. Tongue Lashor. Loved everything about that toy. Still have it, still love it.
Sir Dan, I did the same thing . I sold my vintage he-man toys. Now.....I living with the regret of selling them. If I did kept them.... I would have showed them to my 7yr old nephew who’s playing games in a smartphone.
I had kept my entire collection at my parents and now my two nieces who are fans Play with those figures,vehicles and sets at my parents to this day. I’ve also bought then a good collection of original princess of powers and now the origins. The Power continues in the youth, new comers and long time enthusiasts.
Still have three figure figures from my childhood. Battle Armour He-Man, Man-e-Faces and Prince Adam. All still have their original accessories. Also still have my original weapons pack set. The other figures were traded for video game systems in my teens.
Hi Dan from Canada, my favorite toy line , i maybe can tell i have almost the same story , but whit time i hunt thems, focus on skeletor and he-man teams, i got the 2 castles and very lucky in my quest to find all the figurines i got at a kid and those i dream to have but not able to find them. love your video & story p.s. sorry for my writhing im french
I wonder if Toy Polloi could fix you Sir Rod Dan? I never went through a phase where I thought I was too old for toys.. but I did have a mum who decided when I was too old for something.
Toy Polloi could probably fix him up a bit, I'm sure! Although there is some charm to him just kind of falling to pieces. Heh. Maybe I'll look into fixing him up a bit at some point.
My mom couldn't afford to buy me any Master of the universe when I was a child, but, when I graduated from fifth grade, my beloved Mom surprised me with non other than Fisto and to top it all off, Fisto was in the same package with his trusted mechanical steed Stridor. My aunt helped her to get that graduation gift for me. I think I was so overjoyed that day that I shed a couple of tears. Lol. I knew how hard my Mom struggled to give us a good life and to do that for me is something that I'll never forget. That's why Fisto & Stridor are dear to my heart. My queen likes Roboto so, it is very important for me as well. ❤
I have not met you yet Dan, but will someday soon at an upcoming powercon! - wanted to share with MOTU Classics, I would only open my items when your review was up, so that I could sort of enjoy that process to the well thought out overviews. I am doing the same thing with Origins! I don't open them until Dan's vid is out! With that, super proud of ya on the book, put my order in within literally 5 mins of it being available, and wanted to share vids like this are awesome bud, please keep up the good work!
The only toys of mine that got sold off back in the day were my Panache Place Voltron figures, which I rebought and my M.A.S.K. toys, which I was only able to save Scott and T-Bob. I’ve have a couple of Transformers lost or broken, but not sold. Yes, I bought that book from Amazon. It is a beast!
that spinny shield he-man is pretty snazzy, not gonna lie. as much as i appreciate simplicity of design, he-man does do pretty well with an accessory that DOES something and a shield makes enough sense for him to have. the armour also looks good. as iconic as the barechested harness is, he does wear a simple piece of shiny armour very well. it doesn't detract from who he is and gives some variety and freshness. it would be pretty cool if they made an origins version of this. i have no MOTU toys from my childhood at all. i was born in 87, so while tapes of the show were still around in the 90's i was a little late for the big craze. i do remember reading some comics and playing with one or two at a friend's place.
I went to a garage sale back in 2010 and bought castle greyskull snake mountain and 20 figures with accessories for 20 bucks. Man i eventually sold them for over 300 bucks but they were great to have on my shelf for a year
One of your coolest videos! I still have my collection - had the luck and joy my mom took care of that for me through her last years. What was your first action figure ever, Dan?
On a side note..i think many of us had things that were thrown out by our moms or sold at front yard sales not knowing much. Whats pretty valuable now are the 1984 or 1985 Garbage Pail Kids cards. I collected them like crazyyy back then and now their Really expensive from that era. I think they were thrown since i cant remember but they were something i never forgot buying after school just about everyday for a quarter
Yup, I got rid of my old toys from many lines, He-Man, TMNT, etc. when I was a young lad. However, I have just one piece of my He-Man collection from my childhood, and it's Hordak. I have no story on how or why it survived and remains in my possession, can't remember. It can hardly stand up on it's own though and lost all accessories.
For me it was exactly the opposite: I had to beg for the 5 Motu figures and 3 ehapa Masters of the Universe Comics and would never have given them up. But because of my bad school grades, my parents had thrown them away. And then my grades got even worse. So it couldn't have been because of the Masters figures.
If it had been a "These Are the Top 5 MOTU Figures of the Vintage Line", then yes, I would imagine those choices may have seemed rather random. Not so much when you look at what you went on to do years later. I don't think many familiar with your channel are scratching their heads at the choices. A lot of those features still appear to carry over to your modern collecting. Even the Ninjor choice makes sense with that background info. If you were creating characters at the time, of course you would want them in fivepointfive. Though it may have been one of those regretful situations, it's almost like taking those ones aside revealed what would continue later.
Hi, this is Markus from Germany. Its so funny to see we have nearly the same storys around the globe. I sold all my Toys at yardsale too back in the late 80s/early 90s. This time was also the beginning of collecting Barbies from the 60s, because I got some of those dolls to sale from my aunt... But all my Action Figures are still at my parents attic . I have take a picture of it and you can see it on Instagram (Fashiondollcollector). Btw. I ordered your book too and you did an AMAZING Job 👍🏻
Mean while I kept everything from My childhood. My Turtles, Transformers everything Meant more to me then anything else.I remember too Back then late around 90. I been finding g1 transformers I never had before. I got great deals on them at flea markets. Plus turtles I still bought at the time also ninjor. That was before the power rangers character ninjor in 95. Funny thing too He was only shown one season. Never mentioned again. In high school I was even getting stuff Off my classmates They were spring cleaning. One guy gave me free Grapple, Mindwipe, & the autobot tapes 4 of them. Complete free. Yes it pays to get stuff like that back in the 90's When not a lot were collecting. Prices were decent & low too. Also that last figure you mentioned? Is it the Dreaded gold plastic syndrome? That is what it is called in the transformers fandom few figures suffers from that too. I even had a Power rangers zeo monster drill master. Couple years ago he fell off top of the shelf &he shattered into Many pieces hitting the floor. I think that is what is happenening to your last guy There & it looks like the dreaded gold plastic.
The 2 brothers that lived across the street from me growing up were all about MOTU. I had maybe 6 figures. I had more GIJOE and Star Wars than them but they had everything when it came to MOTU. I mean vehicles, animals and even 3 playsets including Greyskull & Snake Mountain. Just down the road was a neighborhood convenience store I walked to probably twice a day. 1 of those times I walked by their house and saw every MOTU item in a cut down washer machine box by the road. Dismayed I knocked on their door and naively said "Hey you guys left your He-man stuff by the street". The brothers were Jonathan and Benjamin, that should foreshadow where this is going. Well Ben answered the door and told me their mom said they had to get rid of all the He-man stuff. No explanation beyond that then he shut the door. I stood by the road looking at their collection and then totally forgot to finish my walk to the little store. I came home and told my grandmother. She explained what probably happened. She also kept me from getting the toys and keeping them. I guess she thought 1) they would hate to see the collection every time they came over to play and 2) the boys parents might change their minds. The box was gone within a couple hours. Some kid in the neighborhood struck gold! Satanic Panic was real folks! Jonathan and Benjamin had a super religious mom who bought into the nonsense spewed on the TV evangelists shows. He-man became "evil", smurfs were "evil" anything with magic was the devil. Some switch had been flipped around that time because I saw less and less of the brothers and I only saw the mom outside on Wednesdays and Sundays.
Holy cowww thats a serious story! I remember seeing some old youtube video of people saying he-man is satanic...but one thing is to let kids have fun and another is to worship and pray to it at night like a statue of mary that i dont do! Unbelievable that they thew out the collection..thats a lot of money! You should have taken it...maybe like hold onto it for them for a later time. Crazy to hear that story. I even heard star wars was evil...whatever...just let the kids enjoy toys!
@@robd1329 I messaged Ben today and he told they were forced to throw out their SW stuff too but unlike the MOTU stuff all the SW stuff went in trash cans. I never saw it by the road otherwise I would have snagged it. They had the Deathstar playset and RC land speeder! Plus a 2nd Endor playset to add to my own would have been awesome.
Same story but with G.I. Joes, from the OG 13 from '82 thru all new characters til about '87-'88, including most of all the vehicles and playsets, everything for about a $100.00 dlls., something i still regret, now i tell my kids to appreciate and take care of their toys, and not to mess with mine :) ... Take care and be well, cheers! :)
My first MOTU figures were hand me downs. I bought some,same with g.I.joe etc. there are a lot of the vintage figures that I just can’t get but I try to get hasbro or super 7 or NECA etc updates. I’ve decided that save for a few :special” figures I will honor my vintage love with guidebooks to g.I.joe and your upcoming Masters of the United universe book
Yes. Once Mattel took the license back to start producing the MOTU Origins line, everything Super7 was doing was cancelled, which includes that Filmation line.
At my current age of 18 I can say that I successfully avoided the "I'm too old for toys" phase and have held on to most of my dad's He-Man figures
Same here I will never sell my figures
My Dad and his brother didn’t get rid of their He-man figures they put them under a back porch for 30 years till I dug them out. We live in Tennessee and it rains a lot yet all of the figures are still held together
What are some of the figures?
Oh wow!
Extendar Many faces stinkor beast man king randor prince Adam battle cat that’s just a few they had a lot
I was 14 years old when I sold my collection, 15 figures, castle greyskull, and 3 vehicles. Wish I could go back in time and stop myself. I am, however, enjoying collecting and introducing my 9 year old son to the new origins line of motu🙂
I wish I had even a Single one of my Figures. My Parents were always selling or throwing away stuff "You don't play with those anymore". Same with my old Video Games. Fortunately, I was at least able to keep my Game Boy Games, because they didnt took away much space and were easy to hide. Those are very special to me, so I can totally understand why you keep even the destroyed Figure. These small Pieces of Plastic help us to remember those carefree childhood days once more.
I had the exact same moment growing up; thinking it was time to give away my toys and grow up. The joy of collecting origins has been getting mint versions of the toys I used to have growing up. Congrats on the book release, Dan. Can't wait for it to show up!
I'm so glad I kept all my (and my brother's 😉) childhood MotU figures.
I sold most of my action figures - from when I was a kid AND an adult - about 3 years ago... but I kept the vintage He-Mans! 😀
By some coincidence, today I managed to reaquire my vintage Panthor back.
Just like you I achieved an age that I saw those toys an thinked that they should be loved by other kids.
What a HUGE mistake!
I gave my MOTU figures to a younger cousin and he just destroyed the toys, unfortunately. (He-Man, Skeletor, Battle Cat, Panthor, Ram Man, Tri-Klops and a Wind Raider)
That Panthor is in pretty bad shape but I am glad that it is back with me.
I kept all my MOTU figures as much as I could, what I lost of my childhood collection was due to my family throwing stuff out. I can still remember that Mosquitor and Clamp Champ were the last figures I got for Christmas as a kid. That Mosquitor ended up being the only figure I never put away, along with the T-Rex and Bionatops.
The only figure I have from the 80's is Skeletor. He was my first MOTU action figure and my all time favorite.
Congratulations on your book release.
My mom gave all my figures away - I started out with my very first ever action figure, Thunder Punch He-Man (can't WAIT for the Origins version and praying they do vac-metal) and then followed that up the following X-Mas with Battle Armor Skeletor, Rattlor, and King Randor. My only vehicle was the Land Shark, but what a great one! Later on, my brother and I picked up two 2nd hand store figures in baggies which were Trap-Jaw (not attachments) for me and Stratos for him, who did have his backpack at least, but no wings. Together they formed my small but mighty collection of MOTU and we loved taking the armor off Randor. I can't believe how expensive he is now and we had ALL their accessories of the original guys, even Randor's crown, staff and cape. I'm so bummed to this day that my originals didn't stay with me, because we did take good care of them. However, my mom went back and repurchased all of those characters before the eBay gluttony of the 2010s and I was able to have my collection back. She even got me Castle Grayskull which was so cool as we never had it. I've since gotten addicted to buying back my childhood collections on eBay and she blames herself haha. Anyhow, great to hear of your own personal collection Dan, I think we can all relate!
So glad I kept mine in storage. I recently took them out and dusted them off. I even managed to get hold of another 9 vintage figurines this year for my collection.
Very cool!
I kept all my masters toys from childhood,20-30 figures,Castle Grayskull and veichles.Childhood of 80s/90s was awesome.
Everytime I have a video of yours that I decide is my favorite, you make another that takes it's place. Thanks for sharing this Dan. I remember a toy collector from when I was a kid, the first adult I'd met that collected and sold toys, (Supercar, Lone Ranger, Battlestar Galactica stuff like that), this was at a small sci fi convention. I asked if the toys were new, and he said some of what he had was, but most, especially the ones he still owned from his childhood, were covered in "Marks of Memories". I got to see a Buck Rogers tin ray gun, and all kinds of stuff, that made my fascination with toys just explode into an obsession. As I got older, my parents were the kind that didn't get rid of anything, EVERYTHING went into storage at some point, and though I only had 11 figures from MOTU, including Panthor and Snake Mountain, I still to this day, have them all. Some better or worse, depending on if they ended up in a basement, or our in a hot storage shed. I was pretty lucky on that part, and when I was in high school was the time I didn't really like my toys (too busy trying to be cool, I never was), but by the time I got to college, and I found other people that were into similar hobbies, toy collecting came to the forefront again, and now a large amount of my collection is on display in my art studio, it's my happy place. :)
It's completely evident how much toys mean to you, just in the way you describe and look upon those old figures of yours. That's just so dang cool man. Thanks again for making this video!
Your videos were of the reasons I never went through that "I'm too old for toys" phase, so thank you for that. I still have all my childhood TMNT Power Sound FX figures from 2012. They were the first action figure line I ever collected, and your review on Power Sound FX Leo and Raph was the first video of yours I ever watched.
Shell yeah! I'm 18 and still love all my 2012 guys too :) cherishing them forever!
I fought hard to keep my MOTU toys. Smuggled them to the US when we moved from the Philippines and still have em today. My younger brother outgrew em but not me. 😁
You know, after checking out all your MotU videos over the past several months, now I’m not so certain I had a lot of the figures toward the end of the line. I too pretty much had almost everything growing up, and I think it wasn’t until high school that I sold my entire collection to get a Super NES.
Like, I know for certain I had Gwildor, King Randor, Sorceress and all of the Meteorbs, but I can’t really recall if I even had Ninjor, Saurod or Blade. I’m almost positive I did not have Rotar and Twistoid. I never even had an “original” He-Man because when I started collecting, my parents could only find BA He-Man and after it broke they got me Thunder Punch He-Man. Their rule was I only needed one version of each character, which I can understand. And forget the Eternia playset, that was never gonna happen, lol!
I do remember very clearly one Christmas morning (probably ‘86 because my sister would’ve barely been over a week old), I think my parents got me the Horde Trooper and I remember feeling like, “This is nice but I didn’t really need it.” Not that I didn’t appreciate it or anything, but I guess the excitement of playing with toys was starting to fade as I got closer to adolescence. That was the beginning of the end for me. Now of course I wish I had kept my collection because my son would have had a ton of almost pristine toys to play with in a few years! At least we’ve got Origins... 🙂
Happy master of the universe Day !!! 😃
Cool. My childhood MotU are actually the bulk of my vintage collection (which is now only 4 short of every North-American figure). I kept and preserved everything except for the stuff that got lost on a beach trip once. Some of it is not in great shape, but much of it is decent. The downside is I'm missing a bunch of accessories.
That's so awesome!
That's awesome for you to share those memories with us all! I remember getting Castle Grayskull, He-Man and Battle Cat for Christmas back in 1982! I NEVER thought I'd get any of those at all but I was SO stoked! I'll never forget that! Also, I had gone over to my cousin's place on my birthday and came home to find Prince Adam! I miss the old days!
Glad you still saved your favorites. I had a decent collection too as a kid (although much more on the TMNT side), and it got handed down to my brother. After him, it went through my cousins, one by one until it ended up at some garage sale somewhere. You never realize the nostalgia you'll have for them 30 years later.
I had the whole collection when i was younger, the vehicles, the heroes, villians, and just like you i got rid of my toys once i turned 13. I wish i did keep all of them, i would go back in time and keep everything. Smh. This video definitely brought back that nostalgia for me, thank you. 🙏🏽🙏🏽
I wish I kept my toys from childhood. So many great MOTU, TMNT and Transformers toys!
Happy belated MOTU Day Pixel Dan! Thanks for the flood of memories. Still mad my mom sold all my old MOTU figures. Thunder Punch He-Man was my favorite.
Wow that's awesome Pixel Dan! I will say I was expecting #5 to be Stinkor. I have slowly collected a few of the figures from my childhood because all of mine were probably destroyed as a kid. I didn't understand the importance of taking care of my stuff. I regret it now. I also didn't know there was a MOTU day until this video. So that is totally awesome. Your enthusiasm for the brand is fantastic. I can't wait to get my Power Con version of your book soon.
I love this franchise more then any other franchise it just means so much to me from my mom taking me to target to some how talk her into buying me a figure to my dad who now has passed reading the mini comics to me as a kid and taking me and my sister to see secret of the sword in the theater. I also still have most of my muto collection from my childhood
I still have 95% of my vintage collection that I had when I wsa a kid. There are a few figures and vehicles that i lost or were broken over time, but I kept them all. The reason being is I thought maybe when I grew up and had kids maybe they'd like to play with them. Fast forward many years they did like to play with them a bit, but didn't love them like i did. I"m still glad I kept them and if I can find figures on the cheap that I don't havve or lost I'll buy them to fill out the collection.
Congratulations on the book. Scare glow is one of the ones I have from my childhood as well. Broken arm and burned head and all.
Yoooo! This is awesome! Masters of the universe day is my birthday!!! ❤️
Great video. If I had to get rid of my whole collection, the only toy I would keep would be my 1984 Super Powers Batman, which I got for Christmas that year. He was the first fig I ever got, and remains the pride and joy of my collection to this day, scratches, scuffs, repro cape (made by my mum), and all.
As a little kid, I was extremely careful with keeping my toys in really nice condition and complete. I never owned MOTU figures because my parents thought it was a little too mature for me (I'm an '82 baby). I kept all my TMNT figures and handed them down to my son. However, I did go through that same phase in my life where I thought I was too old for some of my childhood toys and games and I ended up giving a lot of it away. My biggest regret is giving away, throwing away and selling a TON of my vintage videogames when I was in college back in 2002. I sold my boxed copy of Mega Man X3 to Funcoland for Mystical Ninja: Staring Goemon, I gave away my copy of E.V.O., I threw away all my NES, SNES, Gameboy, Virtual Boy and N64 boxes and manuals, and about 10 years ago I sold my entire, extensive SNES RPG library and my entire Virtual Boy library all for $400 because I needed the cash at the time. By my estimate, I foolishly lost around $5k worth of gaming items . I've never tried to buy it all back because I have other expenses I have to prioritize, so I'm just happy to have the NES and SNES Classics (which I've modded. Sshh...don't tell). However, I did start collecting MOTU a few years back and I'm close to completing the vintage line.
4:46 I have always loved Mosquitor's head his eye looks so evil and great. Also look at his boots! He has such an interesting design, even with no blood he's great!
I remember the day we moved from our apartment and I did one last walkthrough, and saw a pile of toys in my room that were going to stay behind, me thinking I didn't need them anymore. I wonder though, if I had kept all those toys, would I still have a nostalgic feeling toward those toys. I think part of it is losing what you once loved and needing to go through the journey of finding them again.
These motu figures bring back memories. This was my childhood. Thank you for bringing those memories.
Can’t believe I found the 2021 MOTU wave on MOTU Day!!! Good vibes from Pixel Dan assisting the hunt
Awesome, congrats!!!
My Scareglow did double duty as a Captain America baddie. Recently I went through some storage and came across a tote. Scareglow, my old Mego Hulk and a number of other childhood toys were still in it intact. I had forgotten I kept them, so a pleasant surprise, indeed.
I love the idea of Scare Glow being a Cap baddie!
I still remember going to a yard sale back in 1989. My mom got me a he-man collection including castle grey skull for $20.
Sweet deal
Great video!!
I also held on to a few of my favorite masters of the universe figures from my childhood and Mosquitor was one of them!
Very cool! Mosquitor is the best.
I can't wait to get my books, I am really looking forward to them. I still have my Ninjor with his Nun-chicks also. Cheers👍🏻🍻
Same. I got My he man and battle cat in 1982 in San Bernardino. Years later I gave them all to my cousin jr
I'm the oldest of 9 grandkids, 7 of them boys. I'd come home from School and my toys would just be gone and I'd see them later at a Cousins house lol.
Happy Masters of the Universe Day!
Am sitting at home waiting for a courier to arrive with Snake Mountain... (it's been a hassle trying to get one)
My childhood figures are in a storage tub. If I had to choose just five, it would be Scareglow, Hordak, Modulock, Skeletor, and Spikor.
Thanks Pixel Dan for sharing with us your great memories and your old figures, blessings! 🤘😎
Such a great video with real passion behind it. I had a lot of the MOTU figures growing up but ended up selling them as well for similar reasons. I ended up getting a lot of Classics to relieve those nostalgic feelings. Oh, and I can’t wait for my copy of that book to arrive... so excited to read it and look at all the pictures :D
This really hit home. My parents were wonderful to me a Christmas time....Only thing was when I wanted to collect another toy line...I had to sell my current toy line at a garage sale (Example: I wanted to collect all of the M.A.S.K. toys....then I had to sell my MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE toys....) So that's what I did year after year...would give anything to have my original collection back. But, when you are young (especially back in the day) you never thought you'd one day want those toys back.
I sold all my motu toys to buy the Rhino truck from M.A.S.K. when I was a kid. Now as an adult I feel deeply ashamed of it. The fantasy world of motu is so much more awesome than the boring car world of M.A.S.K..
Hey Dan great collection, thanks for sharing your childhood memories.
When you said you sold your collection, I felt that. Reminds me of when I sold most of my Barbies even though some of them were really cool.
I remember selling my star wars micro machines years ago..i regret it
I feel like so many of us have such a similar experience here!
@@robd1329 Star Wars was the one line I kept, and I have all my old Micro Machines thankfully! I feel ya
@@ia5662 whats pretty valuable now are the 1984 or 1985 Garbage Pail Kids cards. I collected them like crazyyy back then and now their Really expensive from that era. I think they were thrown out since i cant remember but they were something i never forgot buying after school just about everyday for a quarter
Congrats on the release of your book. I have it on pre-order and can’t wait to get my grubby mitts on it 👍
Awesome! Thank you!
I love this video. Watching it, all over again, two years after
I really liked how you showed pictures of you when you were a kid!
That story reminds me of how I sold my TMNT toys (which I now regret). My MOTU(as well as my thundercats) where stolen so I didnt have a choice on them.
You’re book is finally gonna arrive on Tuesday from Amazon. Can’t wait to read it.
How much is it??
SRP is $60 US
Battle armor He-man and ram man were the only ones that made it for me. All beat up but I gave them to my older brother. He’s not big into figures but motu is something we both share and look fondly on.
its been awhile since i have watched one of these videos and its awesome to see your still going!
Thank you for the awesome stories and most of all thank you for that wonderful book, that's the holy grail for us who can't collect all of the figures, we get to have all of them in one book, learn about facts and backstory of each one of them and appreciate those great photos. Thank you so much for that. Outstanding work!!!
Oh god, I relate so much to the Yard Sale woes. I sold most of my American Girl collection and all of my Lego sets for $50, because $50 was way more important than those clothes and bricks. When I started recollecting as an adult, I realized the error of my ways. Thankfully I kept the dolls themselves, but it still stings to not have that piece of my childhood anymore.
Was more of a ninja turtle kid, but I held on to one motu figure that was a handmedown from my older cousins collection. Tongue Lashor. Loved everything about that toy. Still have it, still love it.
Sir Dan, I did the same thing . I sold my vintage he-man toys. Now.....I living with the regret of selling them. If I did kept them.... I would have showed them to my 7yr old nephew who’s playing games in a smartphone.
Such a great video. Thank you, Dan.
Thanks Eliot!
I had kept my entire collection at my parents and now my two nieces who are fans Play with those figures,vehicles and sets at my parents to this day. I’ve also bought then a good collection of original princess of powers and now the origins. The Power continues in the youth, new comers and long time enthusiasts.
Can not WAIT to get your book next week!
Please do more of these! Love seeing the toys you held onto! :D
Still have three figure figures from my childhood. Battle Armour He-Man, Man-e-Faces and Prince Adam. All still have their original accessories. Also still have my original weapons pack set. The other figures were traded for video game systems in my teens.
Hi Dan from Canada, my favorite toy line , i maybe can tell i have almost the same story , but whit time i hunt thems, focus on skeletor and he-man teams, i got the 2 castles and very lucky in my quest to find all the figurines i got at a kid and those i dream to have but not able to find them. love your video & story p.s. sorry for my writhing im french
I wonder if Toy Polloi could fix you Sir Rod Dan? I never went through a phase where I thought I was too old for toys.. but I did have a mum who decided when I was too old for something.
Toy Polloi could probably fix him up a bit, I'm sure! Although there is some charm to him just kind of falling to pieces. Heh. Maybe I'll look into fixing him up a bit at some point.
4:05 I want to try to make a custom "Pixel Dan's Thunder punch Heman" with one of the many hemen sitting on pegs, Totally including the red mark!
My mom couldn't afford to buy me any Master of the universe when I was a child, but, when I graduated from fifth grade, my beloved Mom surprised me with non other than Fisto and to top it all off, Fisto was in the same package with his trusted mechanical steed Stridor. My aunt helped her to get that graduation gift for me. I think I was so overjoyed that day that I shed a couple of tears. Lol. I knew how hard my Mom struggled to give us a good life and to do that for me is something that I'll never forget. That's why Fisto & Stridor are dear to my heart. My queen likes Roboto so, it is very important for me as well. ❤
I didn't keep any of my original childhood action figures from any of my favorite properties...😔...wished I would've now...💯✔
I have not met you yet Dan, but will someday soon at an upcoming powercon! - wanted to share with MOTU Classics, I would only open my items when your review was up, so that I could sort of enjoy that process to the well thought out overviews. I am doing the same thing with Origins! I don't open them until Dan's vid is out! With that, super proud of ya on the book, put my order in within literally 5 mins of it being available, and wanted to share vids like this are awesome bud, please keep up the good work!
Got them all to this day and i am happy
Very cool!
The only toys of mine that got sold off back in the day were my Panache Place Voltron figures, which I rebought and my M.A.S.K. toys, which I was only able to save Scott and T-Bob. I’ve have a couple of Transformers lost or broken, but not sold. Yes, I bought that book from Amazon. It is a beast!
MOTN day, the day before my birthday? Double celebrations 🥳😁
that spinny shield he-man is pretty snazzy, not gonna lie. as much as i appreciate simplicity of design, he-man does do pretty well with an accessory that DOES something and a shield makes enough sense for him to have. the armour also looks good. as iconic as the barechested harness is, he does wear a simple piece of shiny armour very well. it doesn't detract from who he is and gives some variety and freshness. it would be pretty cool if they made an origins version of this.
i have no MOTU toys from my childhood at all. i was born in 87, so while tapes of the show were still around in the 90's i was a little late for the big craze. i do remember reading some comics and playing with one or two at a friend's place.
Beautiful video. Saurod, Scare Glow & Mosquitor are my personal favorite too. 💪
Spikor is amazing too.
@@alexandrepolska3066 one-of-a-kind, absolutely.
Feliz día de los masters of the universe saludos desde México city!
I still have my cape and the band intact, its bizarre considering how I played with toys
I went to a garage sale back in 2010 and bought castle greyskull snake mountain and 20 figures with accessories for 20 bucks. Man i eventually sold them for over 300 bucks but they were great to have on my shelf for a year
One of your coolest videos! I still have my collection - had the luck and joy my mom took care of that for me through her last years. What was your first action figure ever, Dan?
I can't remember for certain, but it has to be the original He-Man and Skeletor.
On a side note..i think many of us had things that were thrown out by our moms or sold at front yard sales not knowing much.
Whats pretty valuable now are the 1984 or 1985 Garbage Pail Kids cards. I collected them like crazyyy back then and now their Really expensive from that era. I think they were thrown since i cant remember but they were something i never forgot buying after school just about everyday for a quarter
Yup, I got rid of my old toys from many lines, He-Man, TMNT, etc. when I was a young lad. However, I have just one piece of my He-Man collection from my childhood, and it's Hordak. I have no story on how or why it survived and remains in my possession, can't remember. It can hardly stand up on it's own though and lost all accessories.
I have all the original release figures ! Lol love the half boots skeletor.
For me it was exactly the opposite: I had to beg for the 5 Motu figures and 3 ehapa Masters of the Universe Comics and would never have given them up. But because of my bad school grades, my parents had thrown them away. And then my grades got even worse. So it couldn't have been because of the Masters figures.
Did I see Pixel Dad in one of your childhood photos??😉😋😂😂 great video👍👍
You sure did!
If it had been a "These Are the Top 5 MOTU Figures of the Vintage Line", then yes, I would imagine those choices may have seemed rather random. Not so much when you look at what you went on to do years later. I don't think many familiar with your channel are scratching their heads at the choices. A lot of those features still appear to carry over to your modern collecting. Even the Ninjor choice makes sense with that background info. If you were creating characters at the time, of course you would want them in fivepointfive. Though it may have been one of those regretful situations, it's almost like taking those ones aside revealed what would continue later.
You should collab with Toy Polloi on fixing your Saurod figure. I'm sure he'd take good care of it.
That's a pretty cool idea, honestly!
Hi, this is Markus from Germany. Its so funny to see we have nearly the same storys around the globe. I sold all my Toys at yardsale too back in the late 80s/early 90s. This time was also the beginning of collecting Barbies from the 60s, because I got some of those dolls to sale from my aunt... But all my Action Figures are still at my parents attic . I have take a picture of it and you can see it on Instagram (Fashiondollcollector).
Btw. I ordered your book too and you did an AMAZING Job 👍🏻
I love this kind of vid
You had a blessed childhood. You're very lucky.
Well this is a nice throwback video.
Also happy master of the universe day,everyone.
Nicd
I have shoebox full of mine thanks for share great memories
Pixel Dan should have a masters of the universe figure made of him! Call him...Hero-Dan with a punching gimmick!
Mean while I kept everything from My childhood. My Turtles, Transformers everything Meant more to me then anything else.I remember too Back then late around 90. I been finding g1 transformers I never had before. I got great deals on them at flea markets. Plus turtles I still bought at the time also ninjor. That was before the power rangers character ninjor in 95. Funny thing too He was only shown one season. Never mentioned again. In high school I was even getting stuff Off my classmates They were spring cleaning. One guy gave me free Grapple, Mindwipe, & the autobot tapes 4 of them. Complete free. Yes it pays to get stuff like that back in the 90's When not a lot were collecting. Prices were decent & low too. Also that last figure you mentioned? Is it the Dreaded gold plastic syndrome? That is what it is called in the transformers fandom few figures suffers from that too. I even had a Power rangers zeo monster drill master. Couple years ago he fell off top of the shelf &he shattered into Many pieces hitting the floor. I think that is what is happenening to your last guy There & it looks like the dreaded gold plastic.
The 2 brothers that lived across the street from me growing up were all about MOTU. I had maybe 6 figures. I had more GIJOE and Star Wars than them but they had everything when it came to MOTU. I mean vehicles, animals and even 3 playsets including Greyskull & Snake Mountain.
Just down the road was a neighborhood convenience store I walked to probably twice a day. 1 of those times I walked by their house and saw every MOTU item in a cut down washer machine box by the road. Dismayed I knocked on their door and naively said "Hey you guys left your He-man stuff by the street". The brothers were Jonathan and Benjamin, that should foreshadow where this is going. Well Ben answered the door and told me their mom said they had to get rid of all the He-man stuff. No explanation beyond that then he shut the door. I stood by the road looking at their collection and then totally forgot to finish my walk to the little store. I came home and told my grandmother. She explained what probably happened. She also kept me from getting the toys and keeping them. I guess she thought 1) they would hate to see the collection every time they came over to play and 2) the boys parents might change their minds. The box was gone within a couple hours. Some kid in the neighborhood struck gold!
Satanic Panic was real folks! Jonathan and Benjamin had a super religious mom who bought into the nonsense spewed on the TV evangelists shows. He-man became "evil", smurfs were "evil" anything with magic was the devil. Some switch had been flipped around that time because I saw less and less of the brothers and I only saw the mom outside on Wednesdays and Sundays.
Holy cowww thats a serious story! I remember seeing some old youtube video of people saying he-man is satanic...but one thing is to let kids have fun and another is to worship and pray to it at night like a statue of mary that i dont do! Unbelievable that they thew out the collection..thats a lot of money! You should have taken it...maybe like hold onto it for them for a later time. Crazy to hear that story. I even heard star wars was evil...whatever...just let the kids enjoy toys!
@@robd1329 I messaged Ben today and he told they were forced to throw out their SW stuff too but unlike the MOTU stuff all the SW stuff went in trash cans. I never saw it by the road otherwise I would have snagged it. They had the Deathstar playset and RC land speeder! Plus a 2nd Endor playset to add to my own would have been awesome.
@@SimpleTricksNonsense wowe..thats one hell of a story so to speak! Thats insane..that star wars stuff is way more expensive today than motu!
Thank you very much for that persoanl video. I really appretiate it.
Great classic!
Ooh i luv that book..robinson book shop might have it in Australia ..I try get a copy in.
I kept all my vintage MOTUs from childhood. The problem is that the list is a simple item: Zodac, LOL.
Same story but with G.I. Joes, from the OG 13 from '82 thru all new characters til about '87-'88, including most of all the vehicles and playsets, everything for about a $100.00 dlls., something i still regret, now i tell my kids to appreciate and take care of their toys, and not to mess with mine :) ... Take care and be well, cheers! :)
My first MOTU figures were hand me downs. I bought some,same with g.I.joe etc. there are a lot of the vintage figures that I just can’t get but I try to get hasbro or super 7 or NECA etc updates. I’ve decided that save for a few :special” figures I will honor my vintage love with guidebooks to g.I.joe and your upcoming Masters of the United universe book
I hope the origins line will make a flying fists he man
with all moving-parts accessories + shiny armour.. or don't! Classics version so disappointing!!
As long as it has the vac-metal armor, I'm down!
Thank you and wish you the same Pixel Dan
Curious question to ask..but was the 2.0 fimation line cancelled?? I never heard any more figures being released
Yes. Once Mattel took the license back to start producing the MOTU Origins line, everything Super7 was doing was cancelled, which includes that Filmation line.
@@Pixel-dan wowwww..thanks for replying! Made my day man!!!