Good evening and well met, my fellow Eternians!
Let myself introduce... myself... I'm Daniel from Germany and I recently rediscovered my love for all things MotU. I got into the Masters of the Universe figures via a picture of Kobra Khan, which just was the coolest thing I had ever seen. My actual first figures where He-Man and Skeletor in the 2-pack gift set with an audiobook, sold in Germany in 1985.
When I was about 9 or 10 I was absolutely mad about the Masters toys and I stuck around for probably longer than any of my friends back in the day, owning most of the final wave available over here. I even tried to get interested in the New Adventures but by then G.I. Joe, making my own comic book art and, yes, girls had piqued my interest more, so I kind of forgot about He-Man et al. But I never let go of my old figures, keeping them safe in a box in my basement.
Some months ago an old classmate of mine casually remarked that he remembers my having all of the action figures and I was like, no, not all - but most... and I tried to make a mental check list of those I owned and those I missed. I couldn't really do it so I took them out of the basement and I was amazed at how well they looked after all these years (only four broken bands and some minor scruffs). I set forth to catalogue them - then I tried to find those I didn't have as a kid (basically only Stratos, Teela and the hard to find variant He-Men and Skeletors) - then I started displaying them with 3D printed bases in my home office room.
Finally, I discovered a whole set of figures I had never heard from, namely the giants and the dinosaurs (as far as I know, they were never shipped to Germany - and as a kid I even had some figures only available in other European countries, like Rio Blast or Battle Armor Skeletor). I couldn't afford the original Tytus and Megator, so I designed approximations of them for 3D printing (see attachments) and thus I have an almost complete collection right now - missing are the original giants (but I have the customs), dinos, meteorbs, Laser figures (again, I have customs) and parts of Eternia (the hunt is on on that one!).
I'm really glad to be a new part of this forum and I hope I'll be able to contribute in some way to this extraordinary fandom!
Thanks for having me and best wishes,
Daniel
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Welcome to the community, great introduction!! Those customs are really awesome and if you'd like to share them in the Fan Creations section, I'm sure everyone will dig 'em!! We have the best He-Fans and She-Ravers around and as always, we have great ongoing MOTU and POP discussions, so feel free to join in the conversation!! 
