...tantas Saudades...!!!: M.O.T.U.s - -

Thursday, November 04, 2004

M.O.T.U.s - - - et bouche cousue... ;)

Ahh - the good old days when we believed that a bunch of freakazoids made out of plastic could veritably be deemed to be -if only for a brief instant of make-believe bogus glory- the "masters" of the whole blamed universe...!!!

Again - WHAT THE HELL WERE WE THINKING?!?
Or rather - what was Mattel thinking?
(Mattel and Marvel - an unholy alliance made in Hell!
Although it is true that Mattel had partnered up with DC first - and He-Man's first "big time" exposure had been alongside equally-stuffy big lug Superman in a DC "comic-book"...!
Ahh - the amounts of useless knowledge that I possess...! But I digress...)

I might end on this subject by voicing my theory that, at the time, Mattel must have been run by either an atheistic lunatic or a pantheist...?

But who the heck cares...?!?

One of the so-called ''masters'' here - definitely the most hirsute one!

(Beast Man was dethroned very quickly by this guy: Grizzlor, I believe?)

Though a viallinous chap, Grizz is so cuddly and all...

everybody adopted him!

And he turned ''good'' in many households!

I could never make abstraction of those similarities between

''Man-At-Arms'' and the Enforcer -

two second fiddles, both equally rough around the edges

(in the sense of less chiseled...!)

who could do the job, sure - but lacked a little something...

A little something the main hero had in spades, of course...

And this is the main hero here - of course!

What would have been the entire ''MotU'' thing

without ''He-Man'' - huh?

I got my action figure (exact as pictured here - with legs too!)

via mail... completely free of charge...

thanks to an ad that I saw in a newspaper!!!

Muito obrigado, Journal de Mourial...!!!

For once, the postal services did not completely destroy

my freebie here - He-Man fit in the mailbox!

AND he was tough and resilient enough

to endure the shoving and manhandling!

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