Masters of the Universe - He Men - Mattel.

Masters of the Universe - He-Man. Toy Company - Mattel.

He Men came out at a time when Conan was big, and Star Wars Figures were losing their enjoy-ability as far as playing with. When 1981 came, He Man became the greatest action figure Craze. My first memory of getting He-man was a Christmas back in the early years of the 80's. We had just moved and our home was less than a fixer upper, we as a five-member family were living in one room to stay warm. The heat had died three days before Christmas and my Dad couldn't get a soul to fix what ever was wrong with the heaters until after Christmas. I remember My dad sticking three of us under a large Sheet and walking us excited kids into the Living room, I remember him letting us toss the sheet off and then the vision of Our tree with A Huge Castle Grey Skull set up underneath it hit us. The cold that morning was quickly forgotten about. My brothers were bestowed many of the good he-men such as He man him self, And Skelator.

I received Beast man, The castle Grey skull was quickly put to use for battle and us kids over the next few years battled hard as new He Men came out with each other or the other kids in the project, I always got the bad guys, not that I chose them but it was what was under the tree, So I never argued, We ended up getting Many of the vehicles like the wind raider and Point Dread and the Talon Fighter, (The Point Dread piece quickly became my Cobra Soldier Bunker when Joes finally hit the stores) and over the years I received a total of Four He-men in all. Sadly I was so young many of their weapons were Chewed or lost.

Yet through the Internet and the good folks at He-man.org I was able to replace the missing weapons that I needed to complete the four He Men bad guys I have. Although the Vehicles and many of the He Man Comics are long gone (He men were packaged with Small Mini Comics - I Still have the Titled 'The Obelisk' Which I believe came with Beast Man) the memories of those winter days fighting for supremacy of the Castle Gray Skull with my brothers are not. So here below are my Four He-Men. From Left to right is Beast Man - Savage Henchman - 1981, Trap Jaw - Armed For Combat – 1983 (Who still smells like Pine tree sap – Some MOTU figures did like Moss man), My Favorite Clawful - Warrior with the grip of Evil - 1984, and Leech - Evil Master of Power Suction. 1985 - Member of the Evil Horde.

All I have left of Grey Skull is the Stone Dragon thing in front of the He-Men; Also I have from years ago a maroon sword, which comes with the ever famous and Very rare Wonder Bread He-Man. A figure redeemable through Wonder bread, he looked just like he man but had brown hair, My brother got one and I got His Maroon Sword he didn't want. Now it sits with the Stone Dragon thingy.

The figs and some of the weapons are all originals from My child hood collections, Save for Beast Mans whip and Arm pieces, Clawful's Mace' Leech's crossbow and Trap jaws Machine Gun and Claw attachment. I got those from a couple guys on line from their extras! I don't think these evil Guys will Mind!
Enjoy.

Update 02/12/2007
Screech was added to my collection, I traded a Robotech Spare DVD for it. She was known as the Barbarian bird, for free (seeing the DVD I traded cost less than a buck) You cant go wrong.