You may be an 80's child if...

I do remember that Smurfette was created by Gargamel...but I never knew about the other stuff! Thanks for the info, man!

I had everything except the Stratos action figure, but sometime in the early 90s, they all got taken to Goodwill without my knowledge

As for the movie, Frank Langella is absolutely brilliant as Skeletor.. beyond that, it's just OK.. the mistake was in bringing He-Man to Earth

They were planning a new live-action movie back in 2002 with John Woo directing and Adam Rifkin writing the script.. the script was written, but the rights have since reverted back to Mattel.. the word is that if the Transformers movie does well, this might be revived

Really? Now that would be interesting! A Woo-directed Masters of the Universe!

We used to trade He-Man figures all over my neighborhood (and Garbage Pail Kids too!). We also used to play He-Man in Kindergarden too. My best friend always got to be He-Man/Prince Adam, and because I was "the nerdy kid" I always had to be Orko... I hated being Orko.

I had about every He-Man figure ever made, but they are all gone now. I also had Snake Mountain and the Evil Horde slime pit. That was my favorite of all. I remember how excited I was when I heard A MOTU movie was coming out. Then I was so disappointed when I saw it. None of my friends liked it either. Why was it set on Earth? Why did they create new characters instead of just using the ones they already had? So many questions. It would be great if they did a new version and kept it true to the animated series. But who could play He-Man?

Oh yeah, Garbage Pail Kids were big with us little screwballs on the playground. Oh happy day whenever a new set was issued! We'd trade 'em all the time. I had quite a collection. Wish I still had 'em. I hear original Garbage Pail Kids sets can fetch a pretty penny these days.

As for He-Man, I actually liked Orko. I don't know why, but he was one of my favorite characters. I had the action figure too, that came with that plastic key thing that would make him spin around when pulled.

Let's see. The He-Man action figures I had were...

He-Man
Prince Adam
Skeletor
Battle Armor Skeletor (was that the name of it?)
Ram-Man
Man-at-Arms
Moss Man (remember he had that funky smell?)
Orko
Man-E-Faces
Zodiac
Mer-Man
Beast-Man

And probably a few more. As I said above, I had the Castle Greyskull playset, too.

I remember some of my friends telling me the movie was a disappointment. I never knew the film was set on earth or had new characters. Did they ever make any action figures based on the characters created for the movie?

they did make action figures for Blade, Karg, & Saurod.. they were new minions of Skeletor.. the only regular henchmen in the movie were Evil-Lyn and Beastman.. no Tri-Klops, Trap-Jaw, Whiplash, Merman.. or any of the ones we knew from the cartoon.. and Karg in particular was just a stupid character

there was also one new good guy, Gwildor.. sort of an Orko replacement for the movie, since they didn't have the budget for a flying character.. in fact the Director, David O'Dell (who got his start as a writer on The Muppet Show), had to spend money from his own pocket to film the final scene..

the movie was such a flop that the planned sequel, in which Skeletor was to have been a cyborg was made into a Jean-Claude Van Damme movie instead

EDIT: ok, I did some checking and Karg never actually had an action figure, but the other three new characters did

Huh. Interesting. Skeletor as a cyborg?

Why bother creating new characters when there were so many great ones to choose from?

What the heck was Karg anyway? Blade was the guy with the sword and the eye patch, Saurod was a lizard man, who was actually pretty cool, Gwildor was like a red headed troll, but what was Karg? He was like a skunk man or something.

Here are the figures they made on. They don't look nearly as good as the film versions.

http://cgi.ebay.com/GUILDOR-MOTU-Mo...ryZ18989QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.com/BLADE-MOTU-Movi...ryZ18989QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.com/SAUROD-MOTU-Mov...ryZ18989QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem

I have no idea.. he looked kinda like an old lady


EDIT:
from the guy who designed him: "Karg is one of those great little evil creatures... I saw him from the beginning as a half-human, half-bat creature with strange dental tools to do his dirty work."

you be the judge: http://www.grayskull.hpg.ig.com.br/filme/tn_filme_karg_01.jpg
(it's small, but it's the best photo I could find)

No wonder I passed these up! But the Saurod figure looks kinda cool...

Oh yeah, I had Whiplash, too.

Wasn't he like some kind of lizard creature with a long tail?

yep.. that's him!

D'oh! He does look like an old lady!

I remember being a kid, and thinking that there was no such thing as a bad movie because I loved every movie I saw, no matter how bad it was. But then that He-Man movie came out and I was like, "What a piece of crap!" That was the day I lost my childhood innocence.

We lost so many Garbage Pail Kids cards because teachers would take them away from us without a second thought. I always wondered if those teachers held onto the countless new series one GPK cards they confiscated and used them for a retirement fund.

One of my favoritre MOTU figures I had was a two headed figure that had spring loaded punching arms. One side was metal, the other wood. What was his name? The punching action was kind of silly though because they ultimately just pounded on their chest.

his name was Two-Badd

Oh thanks, anytimepally!

I forgot to say, I loved Orko, he was probably my favorite character, I just hated pretending to be him. Everyone else got to run around flailing sticks as swords and whatnot. I had to pretend to float around and wave my arms and cheer He-Man on.

Now I'm a jaded and cynical man, and it's all because of Orko.

Man-E-Faces was always my favorite character

That's funny. I don't think I know anyone who liked that movie. Even Courteney Cox couldn't save it.

I would have to say my favorite He-Man figure was Webstor. I loved his climbing mechanism. I also loved the Evil Horde, especially Grizzlor.