He-Man and the Masters of the Universe - RetroBlasting Panel 2018
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RetroBlasting presents the history of Filmation's He-Man and the Masters of the Universe for a live audience!
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This is the best content from He-man these days. Don't waste time on the Netflix show. All you need is in the 80's series and this panel.
Great presentation guys! I’ve recently been watching He-Man season one on Netflix with my 2 young kids and they love it. You can tell there was some genuine love put into the show.
Simply listening to you talk about MOTU transports me back to my afterschool routine of eating chips and watching He-Man and GI Joe!!! I really appreciate your work's ability to allow me to travel back in time to a simpler time!!
This is why I watch Retroblasting
Retroblasting. The best channel on youtube!!!
I love learning about this franchise. between the two documentaries on netflix (Toys That Made Us and Power Of Greyskull) and now this I'm learning so much about my favorite childhood toys and I can't get enough.
This was amazing. Like a warm nostalgia bath.
I Love He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. Loved the show
GREAT video!
And if it makes you feel any better, Michael, after I marathoned the original TMNT cartoon, I called my mom and apologized to her for having to sit through that when I was a kid.
These toys were definitely defining of my 80’s childhood. As they re-release he-man toys I still find myself buying them just for the nostalgia.
I actually think being one of the last panels for the day helps lessen the time pressure. Melinda may have sounded like she had to rush a bit but that's because you guys had a LOT to discuss in an hour. Keep up the great work, guys!
Thank God for retroblasting...I'm having a rough day and this truly is shifting my attitude from negative to positive
marc gordon same here. My grandfather fell and broke his hip. This is the first levity I’ve had today.
Nick Manzo hope he's OK.
Matt Leuty he was alright for a month, but he recently passed away. It came totally out of left field. Thanks for your concern, and I really appreciate it. He bought me many of the toys of my childhood and my first NES. He was a great man in many ways, those are but a few.
Nick Manzo so sorry to hear this brother, I hope you can carry and find strength in those memories for all the years to come.
Retroblasting and heman is the ultimate combination for me!!
I loved HE-MAN, I REMEMBER RUNNING HOME FROM SCHOOL ON THE FIRST DAY IT AIRED..ONCE I MISSED HALF OF THE SHOW, DUE TO MY YOUNGER SISTER NOT BEING ABLE TO RUN AS FAST AS ME.....
LOVED HE-MAN
And you couldn't carry her? Not very 'I have the power'.
I still love how the animation was made no matter how repetitive some scenes are but still could stand up with today's computer generated cartoons.
@@sideswipe1261 it’s kinda weird looking in the original Gulliver’s Travels, but that was literally the first instance of it being attempted. It’s still fascinating to see, particularly in something from that long ago.
It's amazing to think that the majority of the biggest 80s cartoons, and the essence of what the 80s were growing up, are all thanks to allowing advertising to children. I'm so glad that happened.
This is really cool! Right along with everything else that you do at RetroBlasting! Keep up the amazing work!
The animation is what i always loved about MOTU..and still do to this day. The animations they took their time on were amazing..AND the stories are always decent..and the good morals speech at the end is always welcomed..MOTU will go down in history as the best..
This is great I can’t wait to see the other panels 👍🏻
Awesome Show Guys! Very entertaining! Loved it!
A great presentation. That's what i love Retroblasting for.
Another awesome Retroblasting panel. I have really got to get to Dragon Con some year and see one on these things live.
Informative, humorous, nostalgic! Awesome!!
I love these Convention panel videos!
YES! Definitely a big smile whenever there's a new one.
You have the power!!! This was great guys. So entertaining and informative. It looked like you had a really good audience too especially with the MOTU cosplayers who really complimented the evening. All the best to you all.
I just purchased the new he-man for 2020. Yes the wife called me a child but I’m sorry Masters of the Universe is and always will be a part of me.
That was an amazing presentation! You are the best!
what it lacked in original animation, it made up for in backgrounds,character design, and most of all, MUSIC. that music really was edgy. love the presentation! amazing as always. dont know how you guys dont have your own netflix show. you guys were "the toys that made us" before it was cool. lol
The Rite-Aid next to my parents' restaurant had one and only one toy aisle, boys and girls toys in it, I picked up She-Ra and Catra there.
My grandmother's condo was three blocks away from the local movie theater. I saw both Masters of the Universe and Superman IV (plus a bunch of other movies) on my own, walking to the theater to see them when I was staying over at my Grandma's.
This show did reuse a lot of footage, but starting in the 1960s, so did nearly every animation studio. Hanna Barbera was notorious for looping its walking sequences, and you may notice a lot of their character templates looked alike. Animation is time consuming and expensive, so they all cut corners.
One innovation that Filmation did come up with was planning the camera across big oil painting backgrounds for some establishing shots. It added a distinct visual style and padded out some minutes of the run time.
This cartoon ages like fine wine.
Great video. Thanks guys
What a great video. I’ve enjoyed watching this and being nostalgic about my childhood. Great info. As a matter of fact you gets give a fresh look at MOTU that should have been featured in the aToys That Made Us documentary. A viewpoint of the end user. Looking forward to more He-Man videos.
I love these convention presentations, shame you can't do more of them!
Love it. My first cartoon staple.
I just like to share. Although I am not 100% on this.
Some American shows aired here in the Philippines in the 80's, seems like someone from the television stations here from the Philippines went to the states, then watched TV shows there, and recorded TV programs on Betamax. Then brought the Betamax tapes back home to the Philippines and aired it on their networks. I say this because sometimes, they accidentally air part of American commercials. Especially when they aired HE-MAN, sometimes part of toy commercials and/or breakfast cereal commercials could be seen. And no toy companies where airing any toy commercials to promote toys. Breakfast Cereals were also not available here in the 80's. Things broadcast were different in the Philippines in the 80's.
I hope I'm making sense. :D
I was just a little bit too old for He-Man toys, but I loved watching the animation series after coming home from school, nice presentation and thanks for bringing back some good memories!
"I HAVE THE POWEERR!" When we reconnect with all of the justice and magical solutions for Eternia. Stay safe and keep it up!
Fabulous discussion. We have Nico & Suri watch He-man from time to time...
Great Job, your panel discussions are getting better with each succession.
Just great, you hit it out of the park as usual. I personally liked MOTU best before the series. It was dark and it let me use my imagination more, along with the packed in comics. Man E Faces was so unique compared to any other action figure I owned.
34:44 Elmer also appears in an episode of Ghost Adventures: Stone Lion Inn
Great presentation. Really enjoyed the video.
I know they had animation limitations, but it gave it a familiar and safe feeling as it wasn't unexpected.
Awesome panel.. i remember during the weekdays on Abc waiting for reruns of bewitch to go off so Heman would come on and Dukes of Hazzard quickly followed right after.. 🤘
Love these panels
I'm 43, and I dunno if that figure with the snakes coming out of his mouth would've given me nightmares, but that Orko at 19:08 might.
If He-Man is redone as a movie please keep the setting in Eternia, don't come to Earth. Please for the love of Grayskull and the Swords of Power...keep it on Eternia.
awesome! ive been waiting patiently for the panel vids. great job!
Glad to get to watch this panel. I had planed to attend but had to leave Dragon Con around 6. I did get to catch Rambo and Films from 68 and had a wonderful time at both. I love your panels at Dragon Con and look forward to them as much as the massive panels.
Thanks so much for being there!
He always threw the same two boulders😂🤣 brilliant Michael😁
The Masters of the Universe movie was at least better than, well really any transformers movie so far.
I liked Meg Foster as Evil-lynn. She has such hypnotic eyes. Black sorceress for sure.
Melinda's intro...ditto for me. Cereal and He-man after school.
Mark Taylor, the guy who created He-Man, was interviewed in a MOTU Facebook group and confirmed that Wonderbread He-Man was created as a giveaway figure for a couple grocery store chains.
Dude Love your Chanel. Salutations From Panamá.
You guys rock🤘🤘 . love you're channel and it bring back so many memories. Television my toys, movies and my backyard where everything as a child.
I really would love to see yall do a panel at the Superman Celebration in Metropolis, Illinois one year. I think alot of the folks there would really like what yall do and it would really increase the viewership of your channel which I really enjoy.
There’s also now a new film length documentary on Netflix called ‘The Power of Grayskull’ that’s recently been released along with ‘The Toys That Made Us’ series. 👍🏼
This was a great panel, loved it, very interesting. I know about a lot of the things you talked about but there where some different angles and a few new things here and there that i did not know, so it is always worth revisiting subjects and stories and hear other peoples view and takes from it, their expressions and comparisons and so on. Thanks guys! Keep the love and passion alive.
It is a piece of Art
Never, ever, Designers built a so original and unique aesthetics… In He-Man, everything is really Alien from Architecture, vehicles to Natural life-forms and to prove the point, nothing ever made in cartoons comes close to the sinister detailed and organic design of Grayskull Castle… It is a shame that people complains about animation when we have Monet sky and unique constructions all around
7:15 No, this early concept art of Vikor (which would become He-Man) is well documented, and was some of the earliest concept art to appear on-line. Through different prototype stages until quite late into development He-Man still had a horned helmet; and it is another hold over from Mark Taylor's barbarian sketches that would initially inspire He-Man, too.
The toy version of Attack Track made one appearance in the Filmation cartoon, in the "Evilseed" epidode. It was referred to as "The Small Track."
Another great video! Oddly enough,as much as I liked He-man himself,I think the villains really made the show,at least for me. Skeletor was awesome,although I wish he was a little more threatening and less of a bumbling,whining character.
Wonderful presentation! SHe-Ra the yoko ono of motu... no no no.. she's the heart of Motu ;)
Melinda is gorgeous!
This was epic.
I’ve read though that bit about He-Man and She-Ra advising children about what to do if they are being molested did actually give a young girl the courage to tell someone she was being abused by her father.
I watched HE Man, Star Blazers, and Gi Joe
This was such a great video!!! Thanks!!
Now I can’t mock Filmation anymore as a 90s kid
I must've been really brave. I had She-Ra AND Glimmer AND Bow AND Swift Wind AND Catra and I played with them in front of god and everybody. Good times.
I was a huge Masters fan and equally loved She-Ra. I'll never forget telling my cousin I wanted a She-Ra action figure and him quickly berating me and telling me She-Ra was meant for girls. I was dumb founded as this girl kicked Hordaks butt everyday and was an awesome action show. How could this be for girls!
Pretty Cool.... Born in 79’ so you guys speak my language!!! So Thanks for being Super Dorks for us “in the closet Dorks!!”
The TV show stole the magic of the franchise. Do you remember that early animation from the first TV commercials? That is how the TV show could have envisioned the animation concept. But the regulations for cartoons were so restrictive on that time that we ended with a parody only now as adults we can notice it as such. No animated show present of past ever has captured the magic of that early animation, that barbaric He-Man and his barbaric friends was what captured my mind when I was a kid.
Loved stinkor. So potent! My entire closet smelt like him. Especially in winter. My toys had. His Oder. Pixel Dan has a funny story about him. Motu lovers; Mattel is releasing grayskull. Put your pre-orders in.
Long live Retroblasting - I just love you guys.
Happy Anniversary, He Man.
It's like you guys gave me a birthday present a day early! How'd you know? 😆
This was a wonderful, informative discussion. Wish there was more time for you to have gone over more of the villain characters. And I am bummed that the camera did not cut away to Michael's dad when he was called out so we could "meet" him. :)
12:43 Melinda, you are correct it was untapped as far as original content which He-Man was the first. However, if you recall your childhood (gonna assume you're the same age as me or close to it), Before and afterschool programming for kids was around. In the early 80s for example, our local, independent, TV station WRIP (later to be WDSI) would air Scooby-Doo (the 1969-1976 seasons), all the shows from the Cid and Marty Kroft Universe, Superfriends (1973 - 1979 seasons), and The Flintstones. Saturday Morning was only when they aired the "new, current" cartoons. This may read hyper-anal and I apologize if it does, but I'm posting this to say by the time "original-programming" came to existence, there was technically a built-in audience through old Saturday-Morning programming via syndicated packages. I know traveling to visit cousins in other towns/cities in the Knoxville and Atlanta markets (I'm from Chattanooga BTW), this a common practice for a lot of local stations that would go on to be that cities Fox or CW stations.
Thank you!
Love the He-Man cosplayers at 18:50! Great job, guys!
Awesome panel guys
13:35 The two halves of the Power Sword plot point was never utilised at all in the Filmation series (although a couple of very early promo shots of He-Man display his sword only to be a 'half'). The screen shot shot, from the episode 'Curse of the Spellstone', is the only time in the entire run that He-Man is shown to hold a He-Man like sword (although there is no indication there is a connection between the two swords). The Sorceress (also originally known as The Goddess, a name that, like the original proposed 'Lords of Power' title, was dropped over concerns about upsetting religious groups) was there from the beginning, and is introduced in the very first mini-comic, although with a different appearance and not yet as fleshed out.
Filmation might have used a limited animation and reused the hell out of walking and running cycles but they always looked great. Compare that to todays animation. Well...Computer animation is supposed to be cheaper and faster and easier. Wait...cheaper?...should be but look at the budgets of these animated films nowadays Lion King when adjusted for inflation would cost $77 million...Frozen when adjusted for inflation...$164 million in 2018 dollars. Faster? ...well Filmation did 130 He-Man episodes in 2 years while a cartoon like 2018 TMNT ( 2D animation) made 26 episodes in 1 year and 2012 TMNT (3D animation) 126 episodes in 5 years. Quality? You can't even compare 1980's animation to todays. Todays animation has literally devolved into this stylized animation that looks like it's done by a first year animation student.
Thundercats Roar is a war crime...
filmations animation is GENUINELY shit. dont give me the "oh they had less money back then" - no. they COULD get creative with the budget they had - see the amazing stuff Yoshinori Kanada did on his cheap little toy shows - they specifically chose not to. the three animation cycles they had looked amazing? er, no? most of it is basic rotoscope that anyone could do that never meshed with the rest of the "animation". there is nothing admirable about the way filmation did their shows, id even go as far as to say they hurt the animation industry with their "eh, kids'll watch anything" attitude, and every animator with any degree of creative imagination absolutely hated working on these shows.
@KOT EBANA ROT You're wrong. No.
Surely the film has made more than the five million gap since then.
I was discussing this with my brother...he and I loved the original mini comics which when the cartoon came out it did not reflect that darker mythos. Even at the time my brother wasn’t sure he was really loving the Filmation incarnation of MOTU. I’ve been rewatching the She-Ra cartoon more recently and I think it still holds up (mostly). I think this is helped by the Horde vs. Rebellion story line that runs through it, giving the 2 seasons a focus and perhaps a little more sophistication for a Saturday morning cartoon (the times they played here in Oz).
dreamlandnightmare I definitely think you can seperate the two properties out from each other, and you can see that anyone who came after tried to align the two versions, if not always successfully. I remember enjoying the cartoon, but I was much more into She-Ra and because we got on the MOTU wagon pretty early my brother and I had our own version of He-Man we had created from those original mini-comics. My bro was similar to you he progressed from MOTU to GI Joe, Mask & Turtles, and I think you perfectly captured the reasons why.
They eventually found a single letter in the mattel archives where mattel explained that the figure was a give away
A relative to a violinist that was in the He-man cartoon theme claims that the main theme was made in the 70's for a tv show back then. But the theme went unused and was later on used for He-man.
Just found this channel instant subbed
brilliant chat on motu Michael mlinda. filmation heman will always be the best.
In Australia it was on in the morning Monday to Friday i think Can not remember if it was on Saturday
I'm from germany and Masters of the Universe was a real big thing here in , but one thing was different we didn't had the 80ies He-man and She-ra cartoons here .
That's the reason that He-man was received a little more as a badass , Skeletor was for everyone a real evil guy that was not so foolish like in the cartoons and Hordak was a evil guy that was not able to transform into rockets or other stuff .
We had also the She-ra toyline here but no one ever had thought that He-man and She-ra are related with eachother not even in the wildest dreams , Hordak was just one of He-man's archenemies .
I think after I have seen the He-man and She-ra cartoons from the 80ies it was better that we did just had the audio cassettes (of Europa) and didn't had the cartoon shows .
I love seeing the prototype he Man.
I'm glad Mattel went the direction they did though.
Loved the video.. very entertaining
I saw the documentary about the dead body used as a prop in a funhouse...
The Problem with Power, the episode where He-Man gives up being He-Man because he thinks he’s killed someone, was written by Paul Dini, who later went on to create Harley Quinn in Batman the animated series.
Am I the only one who had a crush on the Sorceress?
Great video!
I think its time for a long over due live action MOTU movie.
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Oh God, that's some nasty hum! I'm a theatre technician and I want to climb through the screen to get to the mixing console or powered amp or whatever they're using and get to work fixing that.