Comments on: Review > Battle Armor He-Man (Masters of the Universe Classics)

By: Diego Zubrycky

Diego Zubrycky — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:09:34 +0000

I really liked BA He-man, but I miss the action feature. That figure would be perfect with an updated version of that old trick.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 06:56:30 +0000

@dayraven: Having a Robot and an Alt mode, having both forms not meding a transforming feature in Transformers…..Hasbro/ Takara did this…it didn't go well, Action Masters and SCF anyone LOL.

@PrfktTear: Totally agree except lets be honest, it would be a lot worse if back then we were playing with Alternators and Masterpieces

By: Kid Nicky

Kid Nicky — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:39:45 +0000

"My He-Man" would be Thunder Punch.

As far as Shortpacked goes,I haven't really thought it was funny the handful of times I've seen it,but this one hit the nail on the head.

I have a free Burger King Starscream toy that incorporated the same "battle damage" rotating drum feature.

By: Mysterious Stranger

Mysterious Stranger — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:22:32 +0000

I was tempted to get this He-Man to have someone to ride Battle Cat. But I'm going to just try to get one of the overpriced regular flavor He-Man figures off ebay.

I'm in the minority I'm sure but I never did like the action feature on Battle Armor He-Man. It would never stay in the undamaged side and that bugged me. So he got relegated to the toy box while topless He-Man got all the play.

By: dayraven

dayraven — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:24:33 +0000

@tornado: sorry it took a bit to get back to this tornado, but yes, all the male armors are swappable across all the male bodies. this is MOTUC after all... despite the naysayers, it does preserve most of the old play patterns. @mark: i guess i missed what's he said on transformers... what statement should i be in agreement w/?

By: PrfktTear

PrfktTear — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:38:14 +0000

If you were to look at actual play, I think Transformers are worse. Yes, half the fun of Transformers was actually changing them from robot mode to vehicle mode and back again. That said, during play in the midst of a giant battle or raid it certainly would hinder the story to have to sit there and Transform a dozen or so robots and then continue.

Shellformers are annoying, but some are a necessary evil, and when incorporated into the design, almost cool/fun.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:08:36 +0000

Willis was deffinently right about the Transformers, surely even all the Mattel/ MOTUC/ 4H fanboys could at least admit that.

By: Reilly

Reilly — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:32:40 +0000

I'M still undecided on BA He-Man. I'm kinda disappointed that they didn't use the prototype's belt colors for the final figure. And while I ain't missing the sword (he's gonna get the 200X sword anyway), I know am the not-so-proud owner of three He-Man axes, all looking exactly the same. (Yeah, I still can't get over Mattel missing the chance to pack bluish minicomic-esque accessoires with The Goddess).

I was surprised when I saw that this figure got vintage-esque 2-part armor. I guess the softer armor material (as used on Man-At-Arms and Randor) wouldn't have held the breast plates in place well enough. Or whoever designed the figure always wanted his BA He-Man to have clip-on armor in childhood.

I still totally dislike the smooth belly. It looks better on He-Man than on Hordak, but I still prefer how they executed He-Ros' and King Randor's armors.

Concerning the Shortpacked! strip, I think that Willis completely ignored that the actionfeature would've been worth nothing if the figure's design wasn't so good.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:24:30 +0000

I actually had Arctic Batman.

By: Thomas B

Thomas B — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:06:34 +0000

@Poe:
Man-E-Faces
i’d assume they will go with a tri-sided head on a regular body. the armor would go over the torso and head.

seems pretty easy to execute as far as MOTU action features go. MEF could actually have his feature intact since it is really just a point of articulation and not something that would need a tooling overhaul like a spring loaded chest.