Secrets of MOTU Classic Slushhead - (Kalamarr) going from New Adventures of He-Man to collector
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
- Scott Toy Guru Neitlich from Spector Creative continues his in depth Director's Commentary on all of the Masters of the Universe Classics action figures. Next up is Slushhead AKA Kalamarr from the Evil Mutants faction. How a fully tooled vintage figure used shared parts to make it into the Classics line.
Still one of my favorite figures! And I always go on record as being unapologetically a huge fan of New Adventures
He did come out really well
As a show, New Adventures aged a lot better than I expected it to. When it first came out, it was a bitter pill to swallow (all new supporting cast? No Battle Cat or Man-At-Arms? Skeletor has *pupils*?!), but a couple decades removed from its point of origin the show is actually kind of fun and the mutants were a large part of that.
The continuity is pretty bad ass
This figure is the one that convinced me to finally watch the New Adventures, which I enjoyed much more than I thought I would. I never even noticed the lack of arm and leg sculpt. It is a shame you didn't have the Toxic Crusader license back then, because Super 7's Toxie could almost make a classic Slush Head now.
Oh that would have been cool!
Slushead was one of the first new adventures figures I received, he came in a two pack with he man. Oh how I wish we would have gotten the whole roster of the new adventures characters. At least we got some and I'm thankful for that
He was pretty neat, from a slime creature point of view
i'm still pissed that Hoove was not produced... Him and Lizorr were the latest ones for complete them as classics. Even Quakke was done..
If only we could have kept the line going!
I really wanted Lizorr, Butthead, and Staghorn.
I started collecting way back college, because of LOTR-Two Towers, those Orcs/ Urukhai were detailed, Motuc do have some of the best villains. I see squid heads in my Calamari @ our local Mexican restaurant
Oh those Toy Biz LOTR figs were bivy
I love the MOTU Classics New Adventures Slushhead, Optikk, Quakke, and Flogg figures. Such great designs for villains. I'm glad you integrated the NA characters into Classics so well. NA He-Man is excellent too. My only complaint is not getting more NA in the Classics line. Fun characters.
Yeah fun is really the word the hits them best. They make great toys
Ahh Old Slushhead. The first and only toy I ever owned from the New Adventures of He-Man. And the only one I ever wanted besides Optikk.
And there you go!
I wish Super7 could finish off the Mutants and Galactic Guardians for Classics. Not like Mattel will ever use those characters.
Well alas Super 7 does not have the license right now
I wasn't a big fan of the "hero" designs from NA for the new characters, but I always loves the Space Mutants, they just seem to fit in better overall to the MOTU aesthetic, and Slush Head is probably my favorite of the bunch. He really does have that 30's sci fi sea creature monster feel slotted into MOTU. Ranks up there as one of my favourite MOTUC figures.
He does have a very unique look
I hope they include at least a few New Adventures for the Origins line. Would be fun!
OH boy would it. but I wouldn't hold your breath
Great figure! I love how the NA characters fit in with the rest of the MOTU Classics. That was a sore point with me with the original NA figures. I got a couple of these Slushheads -- one to try to customise a swivel joint for the head and bendable tentacles, and a spare in case I irretrievably messed up the custom. Still haven't gotten around to that custom, yet!
Right when "New Adventures" was originally released, I got three figures before giving up: Optikk (because awesome), and the He-Man / Slushhead 2-Pack. He was even labelled as Slushhead on those first releases, and it werided me out when they changed his name later.
Yup that was exactly the idea. One line to rule them all
I really appreciate the NA figures. Super7 wasn't hand-cuffed on tooling the way you were at Mattel and Quakke turned out amazing as a result.
Yeah that was pretty cool
I distinctly remember having Slushhead as child. I remember trying to break his helmet open to get the water out for some reason. I never succeeded, that thing must have been made of vibranium.
It was!
Love the New Adventure character designs. Kinda wanna start a collection of the MOTUC figures. If only it because it feels vaguely attainable.
Always attainable.
As sad as I am you never got to Hoove (which was my first NA figure as a kid), Slushhead was my favorite Space Mutant and he came out great (more than "passable") in Classics. I'm so happy to have at least some NA characters that can stand on the same shelf with other MOTU characters.
Me too
I miss these character/ figure breakdowns
Meaning this series? Still going strong I promise!
It might be too big a project for a single video but I'd be really curious what the in-house attitude was towards the "Fash Gordon-ing" of He-Man with the New Adventures. Did it originate from the folding of Filmation alone or was it something in motion before that occurred?
Such a shame NA didn't sell better as they're such great designs and the cartoon is pretty good too once you detach yourself from Filmation.
Yeah, double alas
SlushHead is a neat character, and I just realized Kalamarr probably comes from Calamari, especially given the suction cup like skin you mentioned.
Also I was reading the bios for the New Adventures toys in the old magazines were sometimes inaccurate to how the characters were actually portrayed.
Like Karatti's toy bio on the original cardback and Classics was directly taken from the prototype Crystoll's bio. As such it describes Karatti as having very hard skin and a rocky head, as well as the character being a stupid dumb brute that was also a coward.
In the comics and cartoon, Karatti was a very skilled fighter but not brutishly strong compared to others like Hoove, Butthead (heh) and Quakke. Karatti was depicted as very brave and one of the most intelligent mutants alongside Crita. Also he obviously doesn't have a rock-hard head. So it feels like directly re-using the old toy bios wasn't entirely right.
Also less obvious, but Slush-Head was depicted with a pleasant disposition in the cartoon which wasn't in the toy bio.
He does enjoy being called neat
@@spectorcreative1872 Did you write the classics Bios, BTW?
How would you rewrite Karatti's bio if you could?
Now I want calamari. Yum.
Dinner comes but once a day
I know you guys didn’t have the filmation rights, but was the case different for NA? I know it had a different production company. Given the name Slush-Head was only used on the show, was wondering how something like that works. If a character got its name from filmation, for example, would that name be off limits? As for Slush-Head, he’s one of my favorite MOTU figures - NA or otherwise - and stands proudly on my TV stand!
It was one of those things that prob just slipped by
Always liked Slushhead
WE all do, in our own way
@@spectorcreative1872 I always like characters with big hearts even when they think they are a villain!
These videos are freaking great! What if the tentacles were all rubber, and just attached to clips on his arms, rather than be rigid and, um, erect? They would be floppy but movable at least. Keep up the great work!
All possible but after Snout Spout we were avoiding this
It's a great figure! Didn't care for the tv series and wasn't interested in New Adventures at all UNTIL Classics made them actually desirable with those awesome updated designs. I skipped filling his helmet with water, though, because I didn't want the inside of the dome to get all cloudy, spotty, or slimy. There's really no way to clean it out if that happens.
And that is why NA doesn't sell well
Uh-oh looks like the next video is on the single most reviled figure in the entire line
OR the best ever....
@@spectorcreative1872 no. Love ya, but he managed to not fit into a line that had a man rabbit and a literal walking castle.
@@spectorcreative1872 even the Derpy Teela from the Talon fighter was better sorry
yeah but you cant escape the fact he was a goofball made him lovable I hope to see the customizers make him like he was in bride or that ep where he and flogg are telling a story while hydron and flipshot tell theres
Nver underestimate the power of goofballs
Love Kalimar
We all do
So even though the original name wasn't used in Classics, does Mattel still own it?
Nope. See here:ua-cam.com/video/hruWEGDAjs8/v-deo.html
Mighty Spector is next!
Oh no!
Unrelated, but calamari is usually the body of the squid not the tentacles.
Point taken
@@spectorcreative1872 Keep up the great work! Was just informing rather than nitpicking. :) I've never even collected MOTU other than one I had as a child but your videos fascinate me.
I admit, I'm not sure what it is, but most of the NA characters just don't feel as vibrant as the classic ones. Of course, there are exceptions (hiya, Optikk!), but it's a mixture of less nostalgia (many '80s MOT kids were too old for cartoons when NA aired), and designs that just don't seem to capture people as much. Great video on Slushhead, though!
Prob a big reason the NA figs were slower sellers overall
@@spectorcreative1872 Like, look at Flogg. He's a big purple alien with a whip... but somehow he's just not very memorable.
You've talked a lot about how going the extra mile has backfired, so you learned to stop doing it. What are some of the best times you went the extra mile and it paid off? Were you able to do anything exciting for the fans at your jobs after Mattel?
I'll add that to the list!
Masterverse could be a way for Mattel to finish NA characters in Classics style...
It would be cool, but considering how poorly NA sold, I am not sure they would go in this direction
I fully supported/support the idea of using part reuse on the NA figures; it helped futher connect them to the vintage (and later, the Filmation) characters and to the vintage line itself, something that they really needed after spending their whole life up to that point as figures that were so different. However I can't support this whole 'every time we tried to go the extra mile someting went wrong so we just gave up' mentality, that's just the opposite of how I think and I can't get behind it at all, especially as the events that lead up to it were avoidable just by doing things like using a different material or paying a little more attention. I know the point of these videos is more to explain than justify and job done, this video was good shit but, nah, just giving up and making a (slightly) worse product for fans? Nah.
Yeah I agree. Using the shared parts with NA figs really does Lebowski the line
half-hearted attempts are not "going an extra mile"
They are when it is "easier" to do something else