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Adam Dravian:
Read it here!

Rijst:
That Dragon Walker looks rubbish haha! I can only imagine you projecting your voice through the house with that Snake Mountain thing, driving your parents up the wall with maniacal laughter..

It's a good thing everyone's name consists of two syllables otherwise that drum-chant in the background wouldn't work..

Rijst:
I'll have to watch these cartoons now, I missed most of them in the eighties..

Adam Dravian:

--- Quote from: Rijst on November 27, 2014, 07:40:07 AM ---That Dragon Walker looks rubbish haha! I can only imagine you projecting your voice through the house with that Snake Mountain thing, driving your parents up the wall with maniacal laughter..
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I actually totally forgot about that microphone thing until I saw that commercial again. It didn't exactly amplify the voice as much as distort it a little.


--- Quote ---It's a good thing everyone's name consists of two syllables otherwise that drum-chant in the background wouldn't work..

--- End quote ---

Haha, I hadn't even thought of that. The marketing dude must have been super proud of that gimmick and demanded all toys follow the two-syllable rule so they could reuse it over and over...


--- Quote from: Rijst on November 27, 2014, 07:57:38 AM ---I'll have to watch these cartoons now, I missed most of them in the eighties..

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US cartoons in the early to-mid eighties tended to have some pretty terrible animation, and He-Man was one of the worst offenders. It's like they had maybe a dozen different animations of He-Man and just keep reusing them over and over.

It's weird. I loved those cartoons when I was really little. Then I re-watched some episodes as a teenager, and I hated them because of how much they sucked. Now, I watch them as an adult, and I love them specifically because of how much they suck.

Michigander1911:
While I rarely had a chance to watch He-Man I did have the Greyskull Castle.  I got that and a bunch of X-Men action figures as hand me down toys from my cousin.  The 80s and early 90s really changed advertising for kids. I rarely remember seeing a toy on tv that I didn't have to have.  Though rarely actually got.

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