The mother of all Masters of the Universe DVD collections is now up for pre-order at Amazon. This set includes three complete series: the complete original 1980s He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, the “top 20 Fan-Favorite Episodes” of The New Adventures of He-Man, and the complete Millennium He-Man and the Masters of the Universe — all within some really cool Castle Grayskull-style packaging.
It’s a bit of a bummer it doesn’t include the complete New Adventures…or Princess of Power. But then, I wonder whether including all of NA and POP would actually hurt sales, between the increased price and the fact that many MOTU fans aren’t really fans of NA, and many aren’t POP fans either.
Last I heard its not the complete New Adventures though, just "fan favorite" episodes or something.
Ugh, really?
I want this thing, but already having 200x complete season and it only being “20 fan favorite” episodes of NA im a little hesitant… Honestly, full NA woulda sold me on it, the gold motuc power sword is nice but not enough to warrant a purchae since i can pretty much paint my own gold sword
How the hell in 2012 is this stuff not being released in Bluray? I fudging hate these 8, 10, 16, 20, 24, 32 disc(!) sets. They act like more discs is better. I'd rather have it all on one disc, or better yet a micro-SD or something. Space is at a premium and harddrive/cloud based media is the real future, so you might as well make this stuff as convenient and high quality (read: Bluray) as possible to convince people to buy it.
How big is the Castle? If for some weird reason is as big as the 200X Castle I'm so buying this sucker to use as a backdrop…
He's right, there's no reason this shouldn't be Blu-Ray. Most is not all this material is available in cheaper sets or streaming services.
Call me a dingbat, but I think it is AWESOME that "He-Man" and "Skeletor" are listed as "actors" as opposed to, y'know, any of the actual voice actors…
seriously? i hadn't read that… that's a special kind of stupid right there.
they'd have lured me in, were not all the constituent sets available cheaper elsewhere… yes, i had to shop shop around and buy separately, but i snagged the entire myp series for 15 bucks, the NA series for 10, and couldn't be paid enough to own she-ra. i've spent 10 whole bucks on the top 20 episodes DVDs for filmation, and that's fine too, i don't need the entire series. but the point here being, they're not expensive to acquire, even in whole series format.
i also share DMW's thoughts on the blu-ray option… putting everything on a single disc would have appealed to me more than buying even more DVD's than i already have. and again, it's the future formats that should be leaned to… i'd have been fine if they had sold the whole shebang on a flash drive and spared me the marketing tricks of a the fancy box and unnecessary sword repeat.
Blu-ray is not an infinite amount of storage space on a disc. At most Blu-ray holds about 5-6 times the amount of a DVD. So yes putting this set on Blu-ray would decrease the number of discs it wouldn't fit on 1 single disc. Also Blu-ray hasn't reached the saturation point of DVD yet so putting out this set on Blu-ray would eliminate a lot of potential buyers. And honestly Blu-ray isn' t going to help these episodes look better. In fact I think they'd look worse on Blu-ray. Unless they want to put in the time and money to do a full HD conversion (which I HIGHLY doubt) Blu-ray is a waste for a set like this.
What gets me is that they aren't putting the full New Adventures series in this set. If it included all 3 MOTU series in full I'd be more likely to buy it. But as is I'll pass.
I would have liked all of NA on there instead of 200X. I have never really watched all of NA and I'd like to give it a chance. And since I own all I can possibly own with POP, I do not need POP added to it, though I do think more people should be watching it. After all, it is the best cartoon out of the bunch. I'm not biased or anything. lol
I'm almost ashamed to admit that I initially came here to scoff at the $90 price tag for DVDs instead of blurays, but then I saw that gold power sword and thought "man, I need to get one of those."
I've already got all of the New Adventures, so I'm fine there. What makes me curious is whether the included documentaries (or whatever the features are) are the same ones as from the initial DVD releases– that's my big concern, and why I passed over the subsequent DVD releases of MOTU and PoP.