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Review: WWE Ultimate Edition Asuka
Wrestling continues to be a guilty pleasure of mine. I don’t watch the shows often, but I do watch the recaps of the episodes and PLEs for both AEW and WWE. I find the Women’s division the most interesting. In the last ten years, women’s wrestling has become more than cute girls in tights (NTTAWWT),…
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Review: Masters of the Universe Masterverse New Eternia Jitsu
The story behind the Masters of the Universe lore was constantly changing in the beginning. He-Man was from a tribe of noble savages, Skeletor was a demon from a dark dimension and the Sorceress was just a green Teela with a snake headdress. Some characters switched sides, like Zodac, who was first listed as an…
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Review: Masters of the Universe Masterverse- Masters of the Universe (Movie) Evil-Lyn
The Masters of the Universe movie, by all metrics, was a cheesy 1980s movie. Released in 1987, when the Master of the Universe toy line was struggling and the tie-in cartoon had run its course (and the She-Ra spinoff was doing the same,) it did the line no favours by setting most of the action…
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Review: Masters of the Universe Masterverse New Eternia Ram Man
Masters of the Universe is known for the many different characters with on-the-nose names. You expect a man named Man-At-Arms to be a weapon master, a guy called Beast Man, to be a, well, a beast man, and a dude called Syclone to spin like a cyclone. Ran Man is another example. He rams, man.…
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Review: Masters of the Universe Masterverse: New Adventures Slush Head
The New Adventures of He-Man was the first attempt to revive the Masters of the Universe toy line. The problem was that, besides He-Man and Skeletor, none of the original characters returned, besides cameos by the Sorceress and Teela. The one good thing was that some of the new characters, like the villainous Evil Mutants,…
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Review: Masters of the Universe Masterverse: Revelation Prince Adam
Prince Adam, the secret identity of He-Man, has gone through some changes over the years. At first, He-Man had no identity, but the 1983 DC Comics mini-series gave him the Prince Adam identity, though he looked the same, though more tanned as the hero. The Filmation cartoon was made in a more foppish prince, though…
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Review: Masters of the Universe Masterverse: New Adventures- He-Man
When Masters of the Universe left toy shelves in the late 1980s, it wasn’t the end for He-Man in the toy aisles. In 1989, a new cartoon, the New Adventures of He-Man, began to air, taking He-Man and Skeletor from the familiar setting of Eternia to the future of outer space. He-Man gained new friends,…
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Review: Masters of the Universe Masterverse- New Eternia Vykron
As I mentioned in my review of the New Eternia He-Man (read it Here), the concept which became Masters of the Universe started as a boys’ line where you can make the hero into different things with interchangeable parts like Action Man or the original G.I Joe. The leader designer created mock-ups of three such concepts;…
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Review: Masters of the Universe Masterverse- Princess of Power Frosta
She Ra: Princess of Power introduced a female counterpart to He-Man masters. The mostly female group of characters formed the Great Rebellion and resisted Horde rule. Much like She Ra, they also had special powers that helped them in their fight. The ice-wielding Frosta was one such character and she is the latest Princess of…
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Review: Masters of the Universe Masterverse- Revelations Roboto
On Eternia, the setting of the Masters of the Universe series, magic and science exist simultaneously. While there are sorcerers, magic swords and dragons, there are also, ray guns, space ships and alien bounty hunters. Numerous characters are either cybernetic or full-fledged robots. Man-At Arms seems to have a hand in a few of his…
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