Crystal Castle vs Snake Mountain?

[Ivan]

...Castle Grayskull is the centerpiece (the most iconic and essential playset) of the Eternia display (you can place both the Heroic and the Evil warriors around it)...

This is a very good point, and I agree completely. The only caveat is that Crystal Castle is hidden, so you can't really display many (actually hardly any) characters around it without creating a major shift in the canon. But still, it is more important than Snake Mountain

[Ornclown]

SNAKE MOUNTAIN without a doubt!



This version please!!! (I'm really hoping for TWO Wind Raider stands!)

[zodak74]

wow, really? maybe because I display mine as a collector now I never thought of that. To me the old playsets werent that great because htey focused around a microphone, and an elevator..... but I love that someone here liked the vintage stuff that much. I wasnt expecting a response like that at all.

Snake Mountain's classic toy has this demonic funhouse vibe to it that I absolutely loved as a horror movie loving child and even now as a grown up, I find that I still very much love the aesthetic of the whole thing. I just think it's done really well, from the use of the color purple to the sculpted little faces found inside and out, the wolf on the gate, the old bridge, the shackles on the ledge... this vs. Filmation? Or MYP? Visually, they both bore me in comparison to the toy.
As for Crystal Castle, I feel like I saw it in the stores and probably ended up owning it before I saw the cartoon version, because I recall seeing it on the show and like so much of Filmation's versions of things, I thought "That's not right!" I also like that the toy is more of Etheria's version of Castle Grayskull than the show version was. It has eyes, the mouth is a pair of doors that open outward... it has a "face" like Grayskull. I always used to think (and still do) that that was what was so cool about its appearance. I'm not saying a MOTUC Crystal Castle has to have a bed with canopy, a set of drawers, etc... but heck yeah- the throne should be an elevator that rises to the top of the castle, it should have a treasure chest, and a rack to hang She-Ra's shield and sword I also like the sculpted rocky cliff with the clouds around it... the Horsemen could sculpt it in such a way that figures could actually stand on ledges for battles and stuff. What are they going to do with Filmation's gold hood ornament version of Crystal Castle to make it interactive with 6" action figures? I acknowledge I'm in the minority here, but maybe the throne could be sculpted to resemble the Filmation castle as a nice little nod to those fans

[baronterror]

obvious answer is obvious

[Stickfa]

This is a very good point, and I agree completely. The only caveat is that Crystal Castle is hidden, so you can't really display many (actually hardly any) characters around it without creating a major shift in the canon. But still, it is more important than Snake Mountain

oooh, I think this is a VERY good point I never thought of. I love the crystal castles filmation design, it's so intricate, beautiful, and much more she-ra-esque than the toy from the 80's. BUT you couldnt display it with anyone around it ... that wouldnt make sense.

Since there seems to be a toss up between filmation design and vintage for both the crystal castle and snake mountain, it would be a hard thing to tackle ..... more so than I realized when I started this thread.... Im learning! and I love it! = )

[darksword]

Why not both? Why does it have to be one or the other? There should be a new Eternia and Horde's Lair as well!

[snakeeyes0217]

I could smell the results of this poll a mile away...

[Colder Soldier]

Filmation Snake Mountain

For practicalities' sake, we have over a dozen characters that could hang in SM. Nobody ever hung around the Crystal Castle iirc. A Whispering Woods playset would be cooler imo.

I could smell the results of this poll a mile away...

Easily.

[Vlcan]

Snake Mountain easily. For me Crystal Castle might not even crack my top ten for playsets. After Snake Mt I'd go with Fright Zone,Eternia(Viper Tower,Grayskull Tower & Central Tower) these might have to be done separately to get all them),Eternos Palace, Point Dread with Talon Fighter & The Slime Pit to name a few.

[Akai]

Snake Mountain of course! It is afterall Skeletor's stronghold. The Crystal Castle playset in the POP line was a dollhouse but in the cartoon, it was completely isolated from the rest of Etheria and the interior looked more desolate than Castle Grayskull.

[chuc98]

I'd love to see a Crystal Castle (Filmation version), however I had to vote for Snake Mountain!