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@alteredquantum inspired this thread. This thread is not intended to offend.
Which MOTU characters did you find absolutely bonkers and too far gone to appreciate?
The characters that were too ridiculous for my liking were were characters like Snout Spout, Dragstor, Fisto, Ninjor but my absolute least favorite was Rio Blast. Robotic cowboys in Eternia? No thank you!
If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success. -James Cameron
Snout Spout is so adorable! How can anyone not like Snout Spout? 😾
@alteredquantum inspired this thread. This thread is not intended to offend.
Which MOTU characters did you find absolutely bonkers and too far gone to appreciate?
The characters that were too ridiculous for my liking were were characters like Snout Spout, Dragstor, Fisto, Ninjor but my absolute least favorite was Rio Blast. Robotic cowboys in Eternia? No thank you!
Fisto? That's cold!
Snout Spout for me is on the top of the list, but as I said in the comment to the review article in this site, especially the figure is a clash of cool features and ridiculous concepts. I find the figure cool for the aforementioned reasons: much better elbow joints and bulkier torso, in line with the '80s concept of great resistance and strength. But the concept of a elephant head helmet spouting water is beyond my limits of weirdness acceptance.
Rio Blast seems to me more an imported character from another cartoon, Bravestarr style maybe; and how the hell does he breathe if his weapons totally replace his lungs (and maybe the heart as well)? Unfortunately to me he's a total gimmick, completely unbelievable as a character.
Mantenna is on the thin limit between ludicrousness and uselessness.
At last Dragstor (designed maybe by the owner of a heavy drugs store?), with a wheel encased in his chest. There are characters from the horde that in spite of being absolutely a mad concept are quite more believable. And fun.
On the other hand, There are characters that while being pure weirdos I really love their concept and their figures:
- Ram Man, the aries man with spring legs
- Extendar, the robotic knight with weirdly extendable limbs
- King Hsss, a bunch of almost independent snakes under a human cover
- Mechanek, the human periscope
- Buzz off (yep, he's the least weird of the list, but a bee man is for me more fun than menacing)
Snout Spout is the one that popped into my head when I saw this thread. I love him - couldn't resist, he's going to be my first Masterverse figure - but he's just a ludicrous concept somehow. I don't remember his backstory, assuming he has one, but just the sheer mental gymnastics you've got to do to get to "there's a guy with a robotic elephant head who works as Eternia's firefighter" always makes me chuckle.
Frankly, Mechaneck is another that strikes me as a bit of a crazy notion. I seem to recall that it was presented in Filmation that he was a perfectly normal person (who just happens to be called Mechaneck) but then one day he hurt his neck, and Man-at-Arms took it upon himself to do an unsanctioned experiment on the poor guy, which surely must have involved ripping his head off. Definitely a character it's best not to think about too much.
As others have said, this is not to say I dislike these characters! I just think their concepts are rather odd.
Maybe ridiculous is a bit harsh but I never felt the need to purchase ... Dragstor, Extendar, Blast-Attak, Mantenna, Modulok, Mosquitor, Multi-Bot, Rio-Blast, Rotar, Snake Face, Snout Spout, Sssqueeze, Twistoid, Tyrantisaurus Rex or any of the Meteorbs.
Never really appealed to me as I found them all a bit silly.
- Buzz off (yep, he's the least weird of the list, but a bee man is for me more fun than menacing)
Apparently you didn't watch the original Star Blazers. There was a whole planet of Bee People who menaced the crew of the Argo.
The semi-recent remake show of Star Blazers is wonderful, but one minor let down is that it didn't do the Bee People story.
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- Buzz off (yep, he's the least weird of the list, but a bee man is for me more fun than menacing)
Apparently you didn't watch the original Star Blazers. There was a whole planet of Bee People who menaced the crew of the Argo.
The semi-recent remake show of Star Blazers is wonderful, but one minor let down is that it didn't do the Bee People story.
I don't remeber that show at all, probably I never watched it.
I don't remeber that show at all, probably I never watched it.
In 1979 when Space Battleship Yamato came to the US as Star Blazers it was the coolest thing ever.
It went 3 Seasons. The Quest for Iscandar, The Comet Empire, and a third season in much fewer markets that most fans didn't see until the VHS releases in the late 90s, the Bolar Wars. There were also 5 movies available at the time of the VHS releases. I think one more was made in the vintage era. The 3 season on VHS were the English dubs. The movies were in Japanese w/ Eng Subtitles.
In 2010 Toho (Godzilla) made a live action film. It took some liberties, but was really cool. This was purchasable on Prime Video, but no longer.
Starting in 2012, they started remaking the series. Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2199. These are currently available on Prime Video.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Battleship_Yamato
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Blazers
I don't remeber that show at all, probably I never watched it.
In 1979 when Space Battleship Yamato came to the US as Star Blazers it was the coolest thing ever.
It went 3 Seasons. The Quest for Iscandar, The Comet Empire, and a third season in much fewer markets that most fans didn't see until the VHS releases in the late 90s, the Bolar Wars. There were also 5 movies available at the time of the VHS releases. I think one more was made in the vintage era. The 3 season on VHS were the English dubs. The movies were in Japanese w/ Eng Subtitles.
In 2010 Toho (Godzilla) made a live action film. It took some liberties, but was really cool. This was purchasable on Prime Video, but no longer.
Starting in 2012, they started remaking the series. Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2199. These are currently available on Prime Video.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Battleship_Yamato
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Blazers
Thank you for the info, I'll check it out. Living in italy the video you posted is not visible due to copyright problems, but I'll search the internet.
The whole point of MOTU's diverse characters is their ridiculousness. I have the opposite problem - it's the ones that aren't weird or crazy that annoy me the most. Ninjor comes to mind. He an utterly generic Earth ninja, and the fact that they slapped demon feet on him in a lame attempt to "MOTU-ize" him is really just an insult. Even as a kid I was disappointed when he came out because I immediately recognized him as a sign they'd run out of ideas and were just pathetically trying to hop on the hottest trend of the time - ninjas. So lazy. MOTU had always gone its own way design-wise instead of following what others were doing.
MOTU had always gone its own way design-wise instead of following what others were doing.
Conan and Flash Gordon's Hawkmen would like to have a word...but yeah.
Dylamug looks like a trash can and doesn't quite fit the sleek Filmation Horde aesthetic.
There are far more silly MOTU characters though. Triclops doesn't really have any usefulness (what do the three eyes even do?) and don't even get me started on Rotar and Twistoid.
I like her design and the fact that she adds some diversity to Etheria, but Netossa....tosses a net? Seriously?
Multi-bot is a fun toy idea, but a silly character on screen.
Extendar...is the knight, right? What's he doing in the mix? A silver knight in MOTU??
Snout Spout is obviously the winner for being so memorably silly, but it's so earned. His look is dumb beyond reason LOL.
- Dylamug: He's kind of like MOTU's MODOK. Very unique look. I'd love to get an Origins figure of him.
- Tri-Klops: Are you serious? Did you ever read his vintage mini-comic, where he's a total badass? And the eyes have different functions/powers. I've never seen a MOTU fan until now who didn't love this character. Very strange.
- Netossa: I'll give you that one. She's pretty lame next to the other POP girls.
- Multi-Bot: He was silly on screen because...Filmation made everyone silly by default to appeal to babies. The figure is way cooler and just needs his backstory fleshed out.
- Extendar: He's not just a generic knight - he's a cyborg knight, the result of a horrific, Frankenstein-esque experiment imposed on him by Hordak. Did you not know this??
- Snout Spout: He's normally pretty silly looking, but have you seen the new Masterverse figure???
@durendal Four decades later the new Masterverse figure finally made Snout Spout legitly cool.
@disneyboy Stepping aside from nostalgic love for Tri-Klops for a bit I can concur the rotating eye piece doughnut is a bit silly mate.
If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success. -James Cameron