How was Castle Grayskull built? Who Built Castle Graysull? Masters of the Universe Castle's Origin!
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- Scott ToyGuru Neitlich reveals the secret details of how Caatle Grayskull was built! Mysteries from the Masters of the Universe Toy Line revealed. He-Man's fortress has an amazing story including power orbs, giants and skull stones. It all comes together here!
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Fabulous secret powers were revealed to me the day I watched Spector Creatives video on Castle Grayskull.
Oh man, I wish I had thought of that! ;-P
Now you're talking!
I always liked the idea that the castle was built around an actual giant skull of some ancient creature that had died millennia ago.
A little morbid, but cool!
Shades of Ender's Game!
If it is stone, it could very well a fossil. It was found then venerated. This was always what I thought. But I always wondered why the bad guy in these stories bore the likeness of the most important monument in Eternia.
@@SearchfortheMeaning Maybe a topic for a future video? I'll admit, the same had crossed my mind.
@@SearchfortheMeaning Apparently, it's no relation. ua-cam.com/video/8_I8Ocp3PNQ/v-deo.html
Thank you for continuing to entertain our childhood spirits. Keep up the great work.💚
Glad to! And any help reposting videos on social media helps the channel a ton too.
I will never forget waking up on Christmas morning and finding Castle Grayskull under the Christmas tree! My amazing father had painted the highlights on the castle🤯 to this day it still sits on my shelf with pride
Toy memories are the best!
Actually the explanation made it more mysterious!
Goal achieved!
And drew us in even more to the MOTU story.
So glad that I still have my Original MOTU figures and Castle Grayskull playset. Talk about a piece of nostalgia 😎👍 Great video
That is awesome! I wish I had more of my original stuff.
I always liked to imagine that the castle is infinitely bigger on the inside than it seems from the outside.
Sort of like a certain phone booth...
I believe the term is call box....
I love these origin stories. I hope whatever film that is flushed out will stay true to them.
I can only hope that too!
Is a movie in the works?
Yes
@@truck6859 the last I heard it's set for March 2021, but that was from a year ago.
Thank you very much for that very interesting video. I love to learn everything about my beloved Masters. Merry Christmas to you and your family!
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I had only Zodak from the vintage collection. A few years ago I started to get those 5.5" Super 7 figures, then later I found a guy that sold vintage figures in a kinda garage-sale here im Brazil.
I was fully onboard when Origins was released here, got the book with all mini-comics, some funko, and now I will get the new castle in April - it is on pre-release here. I am really happy to understand not only the toy origin that I got from the Netflix show, but also the actual story of it. Very nice, thank you.
And excited to see where the Netflix show goes
I love all the lore for my favorite childhood series that gets expanded upon with this stuff. I hear a lot of the term "play patterns" thrown around. I don't know about all of that, but when I was a little kid, my friend and I used to pretend that I was He-Man, and he was King Randor, and we'd get in the time machine (his swing set) and jump off into the past to make friends with Skeletor before he turned evil. I think we might have been inspired by episodes of the 80's series like "Evilseed" where everyone teamed up to fight a bigger threat, or something. But they were fun times. Weird how I can remember little moments like that, but I can't remember what I had for lunch today. I think I might be getting old or something...
Oh that Evilseed episode is awesome. So great to see a different bad guy!
Looks like the castle could use a visit from "Man-at-Arms pressure washing service".
That service is only available on Thursdays after 2 pm
I heard they are expanding the service with the hire of Snout Spout/Hose Nose.
This was a great origin story. It doesn't take away from the appeal of the castle, because it brings us closer to the role the castle plays in the characters' past and present lives.
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A ‘physical’ spiritual being? Love the occasional fluffs. Merry Christmas Scott 🎄🎉🎊⛄️
Always loved Castle Greyskull above all other playsets.
It really is the best playset of them all!
i remember specifically being on the school bus in 6th grade circa 1984 and a friend asked "who built castle grayskull?' and as per one of the first mini comics...."two ghostly hands built it after the last great eternian war." i still have my grayskull sitting on the shelf in my garage, no box....so no $. i recently picked up the wind-raider for about 800, after having paid about 8 bux for one about 35 years ago. although this one is already afa graded.
This was the origin story I didn't know I wanted or needed until I started watching it! Thank you for the nice Christmas present! I hope you & your family had a great Christmas!
Well thank you so much! A very Merry Christmas to you as well! Feel free to share on social media with others. It does help the channel~ !
I can't wait for the Origins Castle Grayskull!
Hopefully kids will love it!
Cool! I always wondered about that. Thanks for an interesting and visually appealing vid! I would have liked the MOTU cartoon more, if it had been a bit more 'Frazetta' style artwork.
Classics did try to go for that a bit, adding the ledge, the pawn crown and other detail &c...
While the oxidization produces the same green result, The Statue of Liberty is Copper, not Bronze.
Point taken! I was never good with alchemy.
@@spectorcreative1872 Alchemy is best left to Skeletor and Evilyn.
What a story. LOL. Love the white turning to Green, like a metal statue. Story can be created for anything. And some are more interesting than others. This was quite interesting story being told /made up
Glad you enjoyed! Many talented storytellers over the years contributed. I just put it in one place!
I never understood why Skeletor had to fight He Man for a castle with his own face on it. I mean, maybe if it was castle Red Cross it would be different.
Too funny. I'll pass a note to Mattel. ;-P
It's just a skull, it's not Skeletor's face. No one carved the front of Castle Grayskull to look like Skeletor. It's not like Mount Rushmore.
@@GraemeGunn you don't know that.
@@spectorcreative1872 You know I always did think it was slightly funny that the Skull Castle didn't belong to the Skull guy... but now on that idea given he was the rightful heir to the throne it'd be interesting if Skeletor made that connection himself.
"Eternia is mine by rights. Grayskull was built by my ancestor, and though scarred by my usurping younger brother, my visage is proof that it belongs to me as well."
Super awesome data, thanks
Glad it was enjoyed! Feel free to pass to others, and great movie ideas again!
Love it friend this is my favorite playset ever👍👍👍👍
It does have a special place in toy history.
Very well done!
Well thank you so kindly!
These back stories would make great movies.
Truly! Make it happen Sony
I would like to see a video on the queen,evil lyn, beast man and Tri-klops. Coming to eternia from earth in detail.
I’ll see what I can do!
That's some seriously cool lore
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I just remembered- - MOTU had newspaper comic strips. The compilation is available at Barnes and Noble.
And they rocked!
Great video, there were a few small bits of info that I didn't know. Plus you used my Grayskull art around 2:22 which made me super happy. Keep up the awesome work!
Well super sweet. Thanks for doing such great art and posting online.
I just got the Origins Castle Grayskull earlier this week!
Target?
@@spectorcreative1872 No, I ordered it online from Walmart.
Great video! Thank you! I think you were right the first time, though: it IS the most iconic castle playset ever made, if not one of the most iconic castle designs EVER, perhaps only surpassed by Schloß Neuschwanstein.
I've read that some in-house sculptors at Mattel tried to make Grayskull more Edwardian in design during the prototyping stages of MOTU, before Mark Taylor said "NOPE!" and sculpted the prototype we're familiar with today. Is there any record of the "Edwardian" MOTU castle, do you know, or has that been lost to history?
As far as I know, only the Mark Taylor design drawings remain, but you never know what will emerge. After all the art for the 1987 Power of Grayskull line was rediscovered only a few years ago.
"Sucked out of a sword, then stored inside an orb."
That just rolls off the tongue, doesn't it?
Kinda like Sally Sells Sea Shells to the Distribution Factory.
Lmao I read that as something dirty !
What your doing with this channel is amazing.
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@@spectorcreative1872 I am curious to hear your thoughts about the Sony movie that’s in the works I am quite cautious about live action projects Hollywood is in a very volatile state.
Loved it!
Nice,
Almost 10k! The Castle!
Lets make it happen before 2021~ !Tell your friends to repost videos on social. It does help!
@@spectorcreative1872 every video I can!
i love the maps, would like to get some copies for myself.
Some of them were reprinted in the Dark Horse Coffee Table book
Great video!
Many thanks!
Another great video, I think these lore videos are my favourites you do, would love to see a deep dive like this into both the three towers (I know you touched on it in this, but I mean more in depth, how a truce came about, why it sank, what powers are inside) and the crystal castle on etheria
Any suggestions for future topics is always appreciated and welcome!
This was awesome as usual. I just picked up an original Castle Grayskull a few months back for my collection. Great video as always!
It is a classic toy that will never go out of style. Most grateful for your comment, thank you!
@@spectorcreative1872 classic for sure!
Another great video. Thanks for posting lots of great content. Happy Holidays !
And best for a wonderful New Years to you as well!
Castle Grayskull and Snake Mountain are the two most iconic castles from the 80s ever there is no argument
Agreed!
Awesome video, thanks for sharing your knowledge on the lore and business side of the toy line. I would love to see if you would dive this deep in to other 80s properties such as Thundercats or silver hawks. Im sure there is a lot of lore that could be shared that most don't know about. Thanks again
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I loved this video
ah, if someone could make a custom version of the fortress of doom!
Not me. My ability to custom is terrible!
As someone who is primarily interested in MOTU for all the cool designs,nostalgia and not so much the mythos behind it all. I have to admit these backstories are really good.
So glad you enjoy! Thanks for taking the time to comment!
I prefer that the origins remain unknown, has more substance than a giant building a castle with an orb in it.
And that is valid too. For this experience, avoid watching this video. ;-)
I have my own Ideas for HE-MAN And the Masters. But , I use all you have said and what the original ideas for the mini comics had. Now I have to re-write (again) my MOTU history. For me the story (still) begins with the Three Towers . May be some day I will share it. I will give you (for now) this: Duncan and Fisto are older than they look. Even older Than King Grayskull... (LOL)
That is the whole point of toys! To use them as avatars for your imagination. The stories we make up are just as valid and should be celebrated!
All of this fall in line with the known archetypes myths legends and theologies of this world.
Joseph Campbell all the way. He knew what he was talking about
@@spectorcreative1872 thank you I had come across him years ago when I first began researching archetypes. Just forgot and thank you for the reminder. Absolutely wonderful and satisfying reconciliation.
I do some VO work and would love to narrate a theatrical telling of these stories from the universe’s conception to post He-Man. I just hope that however they handle the future of the franchise theatrically, that they incorporate these origins into it, even if it’s only roughly brushed upon. The lore is rich here and worth fleshing out.
I do hope Universal or Sony or whomever runs with the brand after 2023 makes it as in depth as it has been!
The cat face on the Central Tower bares a resemblence to the cat face on the shield that came with the original Catra dolls.
And the cat face on Chief Carnivus' shield....
And here I was expecting the history of the playset's production. Interesting dive into the lore regardless.
Glad you enjoyed! I was actually thinking about that with the title and wanted to try to avoid steering people in that direction. Any suggestions on retitling it to be clear is always on the table!
Movie saga ideas: 1st film the great wars, the elders, king grayskull, hero, the goddess, castle grayskull vs snakemen, and the horde,, 2nd movie the sorceress origins, king Miro story vs count matzo, 3rd movie randor, man at arms, the masters vs keldor (becomes skeletor) and his gang,taking of baby shera by hordak, 4fth movie prince Adam (becomes he-man), teela, orko, cringer vs bonehead, snakemen, 5th movie king Adam, shera vs hordak and horde prime.
Hey write to Sony! They need to make this
@@spectorcreative1872 yes, but with the diteals of your film script, what I mean is to span your film to a saga and include preternia with king grayskull in it, I'll let them know to make your movie.
Wait!! Robin Hood had a castle, I thought he lived in a forest...I'm pretty sure; he sure would.
Well sure, but he attacked castles all the time and did battle in them. Putting a Robin Hood figure in a castle playset doesn't feel out of place right?
Always believed Castle Grayskull was built on the remains of an ancient giant or god, like Knowhere in Guardians of the Galaxy. The castle has a spine in some renditions, they carved the spine out of the stone too?
Does anyone know why Grayskull changed form in Revelation when the magic in Eternia was weakened?
SORCERESS: Hmm, I think it is time for the castle to be washed and cleaned.
MICKEY MOUSE: Hotdog! Let me do the spell again unto the brooms!
I would very much like to watch this episode
I wonder how many vintage castle grayskull playset’s were made ?
Likely about 4 million
If Castle Grayskull was built to be in scale with the original toys and the Classics line how big would it had been? Also, in terms of size what real world castle (or palace,) is Castle Grayskull comparable too? What are it's dimensions? How tall are the towers? What is the width and height of the mouth entrance? How tall are the walls? And how many rooms are inside of Castle Grayskull?
Well we made it in Classics, although I don't recall the dimensions off the top of my head. In real life, gee never actually done the math on that. Anyone want to?
"It was built by unknown hands" - The Eagles nest
That was then, now we know!
I really enjoyed that, thanks bud.
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Great video Scott only wished you could have gotten to the castle grey skull rug for classics. I really wanted 1 when you had Matty collector but I understand the money wasn't able but Super7 did it but hundred Fifty dollars I have to say no way. I'm very happy at what all you did at Matty collector. I have wondered if you was still at Mattel just HOW WOULD you handle the origins line and the $75 dollar castle grey skull. I often thought you could get that rug with what you originally wanted to do for classics. It's
I would not have done Origins. I would have kept Classics going and sold cost reduced versions of the main characters at retail.
Can/do you have a video on making playsets? (IE. what goes into making them well and memorable.)
Sure. I'll add that to the list!
For masters of the universe. I think there are mysteries that do need explaining. Like how did Hordak become evil? I always saw him as a Sauron Character who believed the Universe should have order. There is also the missing memory of how Eternia's sister planet Etheria fell to Hordak. A cool thing that could be done in a new He-Man movie or show is when Hordak was banished to Despondos all the worlds he conquered were also banished there as well including Etheria making Hordak's power that terrifying. The Biggest mystery to me is who is Skeletor's mother. All we know is that she is a Gar and the Human Eternians are racist to Blue People. An Interesting way to flesh out that mystery is is to know who King Miro is as a person. From what I got from the comics is that he seems to value Randor more than his eldest son Keldor. I would also like to know what was the relationship that Miro had with his wife knowing that he had conceived a child with a different woman. My take would be the same as Lady Stark's cold shoulder to Ned. This is a cool idea that I imagined. I like to imagine that the Gar Witch Shokoti from the 80's cartoon is actually Keldor's mother. Before King Miro married his wife he met the Witch during his travels and she Seduced him. Five years later Shokoti enter's Miro's castle to present him with his firstborn Son Keldor and asked him to raise Keldor as a means for her to gain power and control of Eternia through her Son. And Keldor's knowledge about Hordak and Magic first came from his mother that he would later dive deeper into as he got older. An interesting part writers can also add in that during Eternia's Great Wars with Hordak and King Hiss. The Blue Skinned Gar were worshipers of Hordak and were on his side until his intentions were revealed to them which cause many of the Gar to reject the Dark Lord, but not enough to be redeemed in the eyes of the Human Eternians who only see the Gar as Traitors and Devil Worshipers. Something interesting in explaining in why are the Gar so distrusted with the Human Eternians.
I actually do have videos on both Hordak and the Gar in the works. Stay tuned!
I really like Battle Lion and would love to get a figure of that to display and also can you tell me some history of Battle Lion
I'll get to Battle Lion in time. I am going in release order.
@@spectorcreative1872 ok. Looking forward to it. Happy New Year
The only thing I didn't like about this video was the fact that I couldn't remember if an in depth origin story had been done for castle grayskull so I started writing my own. Nevermind lol!
Hey those are the best anyway
I actually had an audio cassette and storybook that gave an account of how Castle Grayskull was built. All I really remember is it was boring. Nowhere near the fun of the record that came with Point Dread. I really don't know who made it. I got it and another for Christmas one year. I don't even remember what the other one was about.
Yeah I loved that Point Dread record and book!
Totally off topic but I was 10 when MOTU first hit and two of the coolest characters/figures were Screech and Zoar, why have they been largely forgotten?
Honestly I don’t know. We did do them in classics
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?
Again, no.
@@spectorcreative1872 O.k. Cool. Thanks! Very sure about this happening and being shown...
He-Ro was looked lame too, could've never gotten behind that as a fan of MOTU as a kid. 😂
Well than good thing he never came out!
I know you have talked before about doing a Spirit Castle Grayskull for classics if the line had continues. Was there ever consideration of a White/Gold version to reuse the mold?
Yes, that was also discussed as a tool redeco!
I think gargamel's castle it's an iconic one too
I love Smurfs. Ahhh... metaphors for Communism on Sat morning are tight
This is awesome. What comic was this?
Some of it was from the MOTU Classics mini comics that were packed in with the figures.
The orb and star seed are different things? Are they related?
Different things. See here:
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and here:
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It is good to see those origin stories. BTW: Do you know if there ever was a plan to include Horde Prime in the line?
We did Horde Prime! His video is coming. I am going in release order.
@@spectorcreative1872 I always wondered what Horde Prime would look like. With the giant techno-organic arms, he reminded me of Stampede from Bravestarr, and I have often wondered if they're part of the same race of beings.
From 0:25-0:30, how could you forget princesses? Especially since Princess Adora has the Crystal Castle.
I never forget the princesses!
To be honest when I first heard of he man I thought that he was a secret agent with super strength and speed,I actually learned about him from Ghostbusters 2.thankfully by the power of google. I found out the true storie,stories, the first picture I saw for he man was castle grayskull
Hey he can be a secret agent too!
Not all heroes wear capes, they work at Mattel
Is Castle Grayskullman the physical incarnation of King Grayskull?
Check out the bio on his package!
I instantly shook myself seeing the title.... Saying to myself.... Duh!
Well as long as you don't hurt yourself... Glad you are enjoying the channel! ;-P
At last, thank you so.
Most welcome! Tell your friends! Share the video! It helps. ;-)
I've heard some people blame She-ra for the decline on motu during the 80's. Toy guru. I'd like to hear your thought about it. Claims of a girl knock off of He-Man got better powers. such as healing on communicating with animals. Sword to shield
Take a look at this video and let me know if more is needed! If so I'm happy to do a follow up:
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@@spectorcreative1872 Very good sir. Have you heard of the She-Ra thing I’ve mentioned?
Gold doesn't form green patina unless bronze was added
Unless, .... magic.
fist time i have seen the sketch of greyskull at 9:33 think i have found my next tattoo....
Nice! I should do a while video on He Man inspired Tats. Their are a lot of them!
@@spectorcreative1872 I have been considering a tattoo of the stylized H logo on the chest of He-Man's Battle Armor.
But what about the 1985 cartoon backstory from the production bible....why is that origin...far better imho, not discussed?
Do you mean the Mike Halprin bible? That would certainly make a good video as well!
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Why do you keep saying the Statue of Liberty is bronze when everyone knows it’s copper? :)
Well easy mistake to make, since Bronze is an alloy of Copper and Tin.....
Because I don't know my elements.
Never had Castle Grayskull, had Snake Mountain though and all my friends who had C.G. said the S.M. playset was cooler anyhow. I didn't agree then and still don't now, lol.
I still think Grayskull wins. But that is just me.
I would have called subternia Internia. Lol
Well maybe we can save that one for another planet?
@@spectorcreative1872 Maybe Internia is the space between spaces or on a microscopic level?
King Grayskull
Its good to be the King.
That’s a dumb question Mattel built it .
Well I suppose from that POV the toy factor Mattel contracted out to built it. But this video is about the lore.
Congratulations, you have just a video on a 35 year old cartoon of it's whole purpose was to sell toys.
Well yeah. After the FCC deregulation under Regan and Fowler this was totally legal. ;-P
NOTHING looked like grayskull when it first came out. With other toys, you’d see the picture but the real thing was flat and boring and disappointing. Grayskull was what it looked like more than anything else at the time.
The greatest castle still got my original , not into the 2000x history dosent apply to original all that story is new and as classics never got released it just doesn't apply
in ladybird books it realy was a base of operations
The origins castle is everything original was not meant to be which i find amusing sweets work to make it it's not meant to be symmetrical neat lines its odd grown
If you haven't seen the Classics version, check it out. It really is a piece of art!
@@spectorcreative1872 oh read it Danielle is so good just some is to complex and don't for for me
Don't like that back Story at all, i disregard it
And you have 100% the right to do that! Make up your own story, that is what toys are for.
I don't need to know the origin of Joker, Freddy's sweater, or this castle.
I need to know, great work Scott
Then Get off youtube 🤣
Freddy bought his sweater from TJ Maxx on sale with a coupon.
@@spectorcreative1872 hahahahaha.
Robin Hood hung out in a forest. Not a castle.
Well he spent a lot of time battling in castles....
@@spectorcreative1872 True. And you would think as Robin of Loxley he would probably have a keep somewhere. But the castle itself belongs to Prince John, brother of King Edward, and temporary ruler of England while he is out crusading.
Which is the entire point.
Black people built it
Like the people from Anti Eternia?
Nope, don't like it. King Grayskull doesn't exist.
I have several action figures and comic books that might argue that point. ;-P
@@spectorcreative1872 Maybe you can use Mighty Spector to go back in time and retcon it.