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We have new pictures and details for the upcoming Masterverse New Eternia Oversized Horde Trooper Action Figure that goes on sale next week exclusively through Mattel Creations! Check it out: "The latest addition to our Masterverse collection is our largest army builder to date: the New Eternia Oversized Horde Trooper. Standing tall at 8.5”, our mechanical enforcer has removable body parts including legs, arms, and hands. He also comes ready for battle with a sword, a spear with articulated wings, and a backpack to hold all his weapons. But is the Horde Trooper humanoid or robot? His removable helmet solves…
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Looks awesome! No army building on this one, but I'm excited to add a mega-sized Trooper to my display/head canon!
@lordofdestruction I think there's a bit of confusion about that. Yes, many times you'd see them exploding (I think), but in Secret of the Sword, He-Man ambushed one from behind and then went under cover in the armour - how would that have been possible if it's a robot?
So it has a smallish goblin head but, the limbs are removable? Sounds like Hordak rounded up a bunch of Goblins and created an army of super-cyborgs. Looking like an NE Hordak is right around the corner. He'll probably be able to use the removable limbs from this guy. Can't wait. NE is everything I wanted out of Masterverse.
Interesting. But risky. Am I ready to slip into the Horde action figures line?
@lordofdestruction I think there's a bit of confusion about that. Yes, many times you'd see them exploding (I think), but in Secret of the Sword, He-Man ambushed one from behind and then went under cover in the armour - how would that have been possible if it's a robot?
There's also an early episode, I think Duel at Devlin, where troopers order food at the place. I believe early on they were going to be like Star Wars Stormtroopers but then the show makers realized that if they made them robots it left the heroes free to be as violent as they wanted to them. They could "kill" the troopers all they wanted and the S&P people would look the other way since they're "just machines".
I figure the best way to canonize it both ways is that most Troopers are robots but the commanders/leaders are guys in uniforms. Keep the living people in charge. (So in that regard I guess they're more like the Separatist droid army than Imperial Stormtroopers)
So it has a smallish goblin head but, the limbs are removable? Sounds like Hordak rounded up a bunch of Goblins and created an army of super-cyborgs. Looking like an NE Hordak is right around the corner. He'll probably be able to use the removable limbs from this guy. Can't wait. NE is everything I wanted out of Masterverse.
I don't remember which issue it was but one of the DC comics explained Horde Troopers were a kind of cyborg.
@nogard I like the idea of them being the Horde's cannon fodder, as in grunts in suits instead of robots. That offers way more story potential. Filmation really messed that up by randomly changing course and suddenly pretending that they're just mindless robots without explanation. So lazy.
@lordofdestruction I think there's a bit of confusion about that. Yes, many times you'd see them exploding (I think), but in Secret of the Sword, He-Man ambushed one from behind and then went under cover in the armour - how would that have been possible if it's a robot?
There's also an early episode, I think Duel at Devlin, where troopers order food at the place. I believe early on they were going to be like Star Wars Stormtroopers but then the show makers realized that if they made them robots it left the heroes free to be as violent as they wanted to them. They could "kill" the troopers all they wanted and the S&P people would look the other way since they're "just machines".
I figure the best way to canonize it both ways is that most Troopers are robots but the commanders/leaders are guys in uniforms. Keep the living people in charge. (So in that regard I guess they're more like the Separatist droid army than Imperial Stormtroopers)
It was real easy to do. The red troopers could have been the goblins.
@nogard I like the idea of them being the Horde's cannon fodder, as in grunts in suits instead of robots. That offers way more story potential. Filmation really messed that up by randomly changing course and suddenly pretending that they're just mindless robots without explanation. So lazy.
On the contrary, it's not lazy it's a way to get around standards and practices. If the cartoon had them as living beings they would not have been allowed to show them being canon fodder. At best it would be like in GI Joe where the Cobra soldiers were always shown bailing out of the vehicles before they exploded. (plus the guns were all lasers with no actual bullets fired and they all missed anyway) You just couldn't do that in the 80s. Heck even today they don't really allow it. At best it has to be bloodless and even then it can land a TV-PG rating.