20 Years Later - My Return to Eternia

Hi everyone and greetings to my fellow MOTU/POP lovers,

after having followed this site for a while I finally decided to join its community because I truly believe that is THE best place for MOTU fans to come together and share their passion and love for this franchise. I must admit that this is a huge step for me and something very special. But let´s start at the beginning.

I am 33 years old and live in Oldenburg, Germany. In many ways MOTU was always my first true love in life. It started when I was 4 or 5 years old. I can´t remember the exact details but I will always remember my first MOTU memory - It was christmas and my parents had given me my first MOTU figure. It was Skeletor (I always took more to the villains for some reason at that time), the one who has a water spitting dragon on his back. I will always remember that moment. And after that I saw the Filmation cartoons for the first time and then MOTU really was my all and everything. It became my entire childhood. I was such a huge fan that my dad even painted a huge He-Man and Battle Cat on the wall in my room (took him weeks to complete). Later I also discovered the She-Ra series and while I loved the She-Ra character (and I remember always being so excited and scared when Hordak showed up on screen) I never really took to the POP toyline (Though I did have She-ra herself). Over the years of my childhood I collected many many of the figures, had all the playsets and most of the vehicles. I watched the cartoon everytime it was on and whenever it was on my parents said that my eyes were literally sparkling. It was an incredibly special time in my life and certain images and music from these figures or the cartoons often fill me with the memory of those feelings. MOTU really was my childhood.

But childhood ended and in the end my parents sold all my MOTU stuff (though against my will at the time, even though I was allowed to keep the money). Seeing my figures taken away like that was like someone had just died for me. But eventually I moved on and as I became a teenager and adult other things became important.

However my love for MOTU did not end completely. During my teen years I discovered a MOTU audio drama series that had been exclusively produced for the german-speaking countries (the Europa tapes) and actually became a big fan of that series and collected all of the tapes. This series had a very different MOTU continuity then the cartoon and different voices but man, I really loved it. I actually still have these tapes and recently transferred them all to my computer, in case the tapes ever get damaged or something. They are after all about 30 years old.

But yeah for about 20 years I moved away from MOTU and found other passions and hobbies in life (big fan of things like Marvel, DC Comics, Star Wars etc.) but I never really forgot MOTU either. You can´t forget your childhood. Though I completely missed the new 2002 cartoon series as that one happened during my "hiatus" from MOTU.

A while ago I then discovered that DC Comics was producing a new MOTU comic series, which was meant to be a more modern reimagination geared towards an older audience and so as a big comics fan and former MOTU die hard, I was very intrigued. I missed the first two volumes and instead started with Eternity War. of course there was a lot of stuff I did not fully understand yet (What the hell happened to Teela?) and there was a lot of new mythology and canon (King Grayskull? Horokoth? Fires of Eternity?) but man I was HOOKED. It was like being back in my childhood but it was more badass and grownup and mature. I loved the hell out of it (especially the new designs).

So then I went backwards and got the other series (Masters of the Universe vol 1 and He-Man and the Masters of the Universe) as well and began to understand the new mythology and canon more and more. I loved how much they had added and gave it new depht. It almost felt like MOTU meets Game of Thrones (one of my most fav shows), especially all that King Grayskull stuff.

Then I discovered there was even a MOTU/DC Universe crossover. Are you kidding me? That was like my childhood world and my modern day world collided. Seeing characters like Batman or Wonder Woman meet Skeletor and He-Man was beyond nuts and especially to me mindshattering. I loved every second of it.

Then when I got to the new She-Ra origin story in the comics (which I loved SO SO much!) and when Adora finally transforms into She-Ra in issue 18 in this super gorgeous one page panel and then she and He-Man together cry "We have the power" while at the same time I was listening to the He-Man and She-Ra main themes from the Filmation cartoons, I swear my eyes welled up with tears. It was so powerful and emotional. And I knew I was back.

Subsequently I bought the MOTU and She-Ra DVD sets and very recently started watching these shows again (Though I chose to watch the first five She-Ra episodes first) for the first time since my childhood. Its a different experience now and I actually do prefer the more mature DC Comics version of MOTU now, which has really become my "new" MOTU (hopefully they´ll continue it beyond Eternity War) but the Filmation cartoons still have so much charme and bring back so many emotions.

So yeah after 20 years I am back and now for the first time in my life I am actually entering a MOTU fandom, where I get to share that love and passion for MOTU with fellow fans who love it as much as I do and have similar memories and childhood experiences with it. I feel like I am being part of a very special generation now and its all very new, special and exciting for me to not only return to this after so long but to be part of a whole community that is centered around this.


Though I must admit that because I had to register with gmail, I have now many restrictions as it seems, which are really frustrating. I hope there are ways to lift some of them. Most importantly I would like to use a custom avatar, a profile picture and be able to receive and write PMs. It´s really frustrating not to be able to have these basic things in a forum.

Apart from that I am very excited to be here and am looking really forward to be part of this and share my love and memories of MOTU with others.

On behalf of He-Man.org's admin, staff, and moderators, allow me to extend an official Hello and welcome to He-Man.org,
Dark Lord Skeletor!

We're glad to have you join our site and we hope you have a fun time discussing Masters of the Universe and Princess of Power here.

Please be sure to read over the rules for posting and interacting on He-Man.Org. And if you have any questions, you are welcome to send me a PM for more information.

If you want to buy and trade you will need to upgrade your account to have access to the Marketplace. Please click here and read the section entitled "What are the limitations for users with Gmail/AOL/Yahoo accounts?" for more information and details on how the upgrading system works click here.

Don´t get frustrated about the gmai registration, just look into the donation option and i´m sure you´ll find your way around pretty soon.
That your parents sold your figures but let you keep the money show that money can´t buy loyalty

Enjoy your time here and Welcome!

Welcome to the boards!!

That was a great post!! There are many similarities from my childhood and I could feel your passion for MOTU with every word!!

Welcome to the forums!

It's very cool the new DC comic helped bring you back to your love of MOTU. Very awesome!