Who are Rokkon and Stonedar from the Masters of the Universe Collection from Mattel. Toy Secrets!
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
- Scott Toy Guru Neitlich from Spector Creative continues his director's commentary on the MOTU Classic He-Man toy line. This episode features the 2013 San Diego Comic Con figure set - the Stone Warriors! What were the challenges to bringing these figures to market, and what about Granita the other Stone Warrior?
These two along with Twistoid and Rotar were marvelously translated into MOTUC’s. Glad to have them in my collection.
Thank you. The translation was not that easy
@@spectorcreative1872 I can absolutely tell it wasn’t based on the core aesthetics of classics figures.
Wow.. I'd almost forgotten about these guys.
Love this channel.
Rock out with your....rock....out
Hey man I just want you to know this is my favorite channel for MOTU. I really appreciate your work and the sculptors and commentary. Thank you.
My favorite way to start my day! A video from SDN!!!! Thank you SDN!
Rokkon was one of three “non-He-Man” hero figures I had as a kid (the other two being Roboto and Rio Blast). I always liked how he seemed like a low-key Transformer.
I loved Rokkon. I actually never saw the other one for sale otherwise I would have had it to as a kid. I wonder if it was more rare.
Loved these guys so much as a kid. I've noticed a lot of people that don't know their names still remember and loved them. Such unique great characters.
I absolutely love the way the classics line did this set with both of the figures and the way the rocks attach! Long live the classics line!✌😁
Rokkon and Stonedar were in my top five favorite action figures growing up. Thanks for bringing back the memories, Scott!
Interesting. Never was the biggest fan of these. Never had or wanted the vintage version.
Had the vintage versions, but never liked them much. Did not seem to fit into the atmosphere of the "classical" figures from the earlier waves.
Stonedar was one of my favorites. He and He-Man had a kind of fastball special move that they would do.
Rocks must have been an eighties thing, I remember Go Bots had Rock Lords. And wait a minute, Rokkon was the younger one. I'm wondering if it was a play on words as in "ROCK ON DUDE" or something similar you'd a person might think a youth would say?
And the Four Horsemen did a great job with the money they had, it was done perfectly.
Maybe it spun off the whole "Pet Rock" fad?
Yup...dont forget how big Rock music was in the 80s
these 2 characters are my absolute favorites since I was a kid till now
They are truly well done figures and you and your team truly out did yourselves!
They’re not done well at all. They have a hard time staying posed. They are horrible looking rocks. You just praise everything scott. If he handed you a turd you’d praise that too. But good cheerleaders do that so keep at it.
I did not mind the higher price point for all those pieces and the weapons were WAY more important than the leg details for me, glad that call was made. Love the vintage figures, love these two. One of the few Super 7's I bought was Granita to complete the trio.
I agree. Rockkon was one of my Al time favorite toy when I received it as a kid. It was like if motu and transformers had a baby.
It was realistic in a sense than transformers because a real life rock could be of any size. While obviously a real life sized vehicle was big.
Loved the rock people too, glad you pushed for it
WOW!!!!!!!! I got him for one Christmas as a kid.... Him along with that "playset" with the slime coming out of the T-Rex Skull
I could only dream of origins going as deep as classics
Dreams are fun
Hey Scott, thanks for another great video! You have often mentioned the tooling budget for each MOTUC figure and how some things had to be dropped like certain weapons, was it the same budget for each basic figure? Or did certain basic figures get a higher budget depending on what was required?
Both of these guys made it into the CMON game (Battle for Eternia) coming down the pipe. Gonna be so much fun to paint!
Nice! Paint rocks
@@spectorcreative1872 For sure! Have you looked at the detail in the game? Wow, so many awesome pieces made it in, I'm gonna be a painting fool. Gotta get done before Marvel Zombie's gets here!!!
Cool video! Thank you! Really enjoyed the vintage versions as a kid, and these new ones looked amazing. If MOTUC had gone on a few more years, do you think you might've done more Rock People beyond Granita?
Good question.
Thank you for doing that video. I appretiate it a lot, because I`m a big fan of the Rock People.
I never had these guys, but I did have a bunch of the Rock Lords as a kid. Years later I saw a Robot Chicken sketch about Rock Lords, but the Rock Lord they used actually looked like one of these MOTU guys.
What can we say rock toys rock
Great video I had to rock people when I was a kid had fun with them
Well maybe if Arcee and Elita-1 and other female Transformers continue to sell well, Mattel will realize they are missing out on the lucrative female robot action figure market?
Arcee and elita 1 did sell for the new transformers line
@@robd1329 Then our odds of various transforming and/or robotic female characters in MotU has increased?
@@brettwood1351 maybe...Knowing is after battle! The line did sell well and went into the Kingdom line.
My Classics Rock People are boulders sitting on either side of the Jaw Bridge for Castle Grayskull. They look good as accent pieces and make good guardians for the castle.
They certainly do!
Great info! Now I want the other rock people!
Make it happen Mattel
Another great video, you keep covering everything your gonna run out of things to make a video about!
Keep up the Great Work!
These remind me of the "Skyscraper Transformer" in the movie Big.
Maybe the insects can eat the building!
@@spectorcreative1872 Don't get me wrong, they're great reproductions of the originals. Trouble is, the originals just turned into rocks, which have no play value, just like the Skyscraper Transformer from Big. As Tom Hanks would say, "I don't get it".
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I know these guys! They are the last of the rock Lords from gobots
From an outsider, who doesn't understand the biz, why would the rock people be released as a comic con exclusive to a very limited market rather than to a worldwide market like all the rest and reach more people, include more people. Instead of it being a benefit to either those select few who can travel to San Diego or the eBay scalpers?
Remember, Mass Market means sold to a store, who then sells it to their customers. So the stores have to agree to buy them. And they have minimum amounts of inventory they'll buy, otherwise it's just not worth carrying them. The stores end up with thousands of unsold guys that turn into rocks on their selves because there aren't that many people who want the rock guys from He-Man. And then the store becomes less likely to buy He-Man toys in general, cause they are stuck with the rock guys.
Whereas the people that go to Comic Con, definitly would want to get their Rock People from He-Man. So yes less made, and possibly less overall sales, but more definite sales, and less chance of not making the money back, as oppossed to definitly making it back.
@@brettwood1351 good point. I can see how there has to be a decision by the parties involved of - will this sell or won't it.
I felt like a failure as a kid not being able to find Granite after watching The Rock People episode, it wasn't til many years later that I felt vindicated.😆
And at least Super 7 finally did a figure of her
Huh, I just found out the origin of one of those "Mystery" toys a friend of mine had. Also does this mean Go-Bots ripped MoTU off with their Rock Lords?
Are they coming to MOTU origins. ? Hope so. ⚔️
I had the 2 OGs back in the day, Stonedar was nothing special, but Rokkon looked awesome, I actually renamed these two Kup and Hotrod because I didn't have the genuine articles at the time
You can thank the temporary return of the Pet Rocks into public conscience for the creation of the Stone Warriors. The fad came back before the release of the Stone Warriors, and was on it's way out again by the time the transformable Stone Warriors was released. I remember thinking the Stone Warriors were cool, but I could only afford a Pet Rock at the time.
I didn't buy the Pet Rock, mind you, I thought it was too silly. 🤪
There’s 3 rock people? It certainly is never ending…
Five if you found the comics
Robots made of Metal are rock people that have been highly processed and then brought alive with lightning.
Do you have any information about how the rock warriors made it into the vintage line? I understand that transforming toys were a big deal at the time, but of all the gimmicks why did Mattel decide that making TWO heroic rocks would be the move? Why not one good and one evil? Or just one figure and see how it goes?
Honestly I wish I did!!
Vanilla,... ICER up next?
Heck yeah
These guys looked such a mess with those massive rock parts. I really didn't like the designs of them in classics.
Have you ever met any celebrities that are HE-MAN Fans?
It kills me that Hasbro doesn't do their character designs with future use the way you did. I wonder how much of that is due to licensing agreements that parts can't go from brand to brand.
I find it interesting that a lot of MOTU fans love the rock people, while many Transformer/Gobot fans hate the Rocklords. Any idea why that is?
Well because transformers fans are anti rock
I found these figures to be an attempt to please everyone that ended up pleasing no one. In human form the rock pieces were way too big and hindered any movement or posing and as big as they were, you still couldn't transform them into rocks without a huge separate piece anyway. But if you remove all the rock parts in human form they look a little bare. Some smaller rock parts on the arms and legs would have looked far better. No they wouldn't be useful in turning into a rock but then neither were the larger parts without the huge separate piece anyway. At least the humanoid form would have looked better. The Trapjaw parts started to wear a bit thin by this point too which didn't help.
Granite Ah
These were your favorite figures from the original line? Admit it, you have a Rock Lords collection don't you?
So I'm going to indulge my pedanticism for a moment and say the trowel of this should be "Who *are* Rokkon and Stonedar".
As someone who has studied several foreign languages, proper verb conjugation is important to me.
Yeah, I know, get back to 👍 your videos (which I sincerely appreciate)...
Point taken!
You never told us who they are…🥺
They are he man toys!
You know how when you grab a rock woman's chest... it feels like... a bag of sand
I rember these and snake men , but moved on by then Thundercats and real Ghostbusters
That is quite common where people either had the Early or late figures
@@spectorcreative1872 remember them in the supermarket and Beaties model shop clearly while holding egon I was there in 81 and 82 og
Gott do it. Can't help it anymore. Sorry. Spoilers. Up next Icer.
A friend had those original figures,I thought they were cool looking but a little useless.
Useless! But they are rocks!
I never liked these rock figures...i guess by the time they came out in the 80s..my He-Man fever died down. I never bought these for the Classics either..i guess i had no nostalgia connected to these guys