which figure do you think goes best with which vehicle?

[ravenloft]

several figures during the toy line run came packaged with a vehicle or mount, it would be hard to imagine anyone but Skeletor riding Panthor, Hordak on Mantisaur or The Fisto/Stridor or Jitsu/Night Stalker combos, but many didn't include a designated figure. What are your favorite vehicle or mount & figure combos? to play with or display?
Here are my favorites or ideas I'm working on:
Attak Trak with Zodac?
Hordak on Mantisaur
Talon Fighter with ?
Fright fighter with ?
Laser Bolt with Zodac?
Blasterhawk with?
Ram Man with Bashasaurus
Road Ripper with?
Mekaneck with Jet Sled
Whiplash with Dragon Walker
Trapjaw in Land Shark
Fisto on Stridor
Jitsu on Night Stalker
Webstor in Spydor
Man-At-Arms in Wind Raider
Battle Armor He-Man on Battle Ram
Battle Armor Skeletor in Roton
Scareglow on Purple unflocked South American variant Panthor
Faker on Big Jim/Tarzan black Panther with Panthor green saddle
Skeletor on Panthor
He-Man on Battlecat obviously
Savage He-Man (red-brown weapons) on the Big Jim Tiger with Battlecat red-brown armor no helmet
Battle bpnes with everyone?

[Lich Leech]

Some favs:

Battle Ram with Man-At-Arms or He-Man
Wind Raider with Stratos or Mer-Man or He-Man
Attak Trak with Man-E-Faces or He-Man
Talon Fighter with Zodac or He-Man/Teela
Dragon Walker with Battle Armor He-Man
Road Ripper with Battle Armor He-Man
Roton with Skeletor or Battle Armor Skeletor
Land Shark with Kobra Khan or Dragon Blaster Skeletor
Bashasaurus with Thunder Punch He-Man

[Night Stalker]

My personal combos for vehicles and playset displays:

Wind Raider/ Man at Arms

Clamp Champ/ Jetsled

Zodac/ Grayskull Throne (It was always a vehicle for Zodac in my house; it was never used to trigger a trapdoor.)

Battle Armor Skeletor or original Skeletor / Spydor, Roton, Landshark

Prince Adam / Battle Ram

Leo Skeletor/ Scubattack

Man at Arms/ Cliff Climber

Prince Adam/ Tower Tools

Fisto & Jitsu /Nightstalker & Stridor (I reverse the order. Jitsu is a thief and stole Stridor when Night Stalker malfunctioned in battle. Fisto is compassionate, and so along with Duncan, he was able to restore and reprogram the abandoned Night Stalker.)

Stinkor/ Tyrantisaurus

Sy-klone/ Laser cannon on Eternia tower

Beastman/ Prisoner on Eternia Monorail Convict Transporter

Sorceress/ Grayskull Eastern Tower

Man-E-Faces & Teela/ Talon Fighter

Blackface Grizzlor/ Peering through window in Point Dread, undetected by Teela and Man E Faces overhead

Savage He-Man/ riding Tarzan's black panther (Battle Cat predecessor)

Mosquitor/ carried into battle by Gre-Gory, the vampire bat

Loo-kee / Peering through branches of Fright Zone's haunted tree

Mer-Man and Stinkor / stuck in Monstroid's claws. (Monstroid thinks they're brothers, and that angers him for some reason)

Mek-a-Nek/ Dragon Walker

Sy-Klone/ Blaster Hawk

Stratos/ Prisoner in Fright Zone cage

I change them around ever so often, but that's basically my setup. I used to have Beastman as Slime Pit victim, but I made a Horde Zombie He-Man custom to replace him.

Some of my choices are arbitrary, mainly due to having extras of those figures as a kid and nowhere to put them. Others are remnants of ancient play session storylines I constructed as a kid. Others were based on box art or Filmation tropes.

[ravenloft]

I am happy to stick whoever in whatever for play purposes (that's what he said). However, for display purposes, I am a stickler for original packaging and/or original commercials. I could have saved myself time and left it at that, but here it goes:

Artilleray: Hordak
Attak Trak: He-Man or Man-at-Arms
Bashasaurus: Battle Armor He-Man
Battle Bones: Anyone
Battle Cat: He-Man
Battle Ram: He-Man or Man-at-Arms
Beam-Blaster: He-Man
Blaster Hawk: Battle Armor He-Man
Cliff Climber: Man-at-Arms
Dragon Walker: Battle Armor He-Man
Fright Fighter: Skeletor
Jet Sled: He-Man
Land Shark: Battle Armor Skeletor or Skeletor
Laser Bolt: Battle Armor He-Man
Mantisaur: Hordak
Megalaser: Man-at-Arms
Night Stalker: Jitsu
Panthor: Skeletor
Road Ripper: Battle Armor He-Man, He-Man or Man-at-Arms
Roton: Battle Armor Skeletor or Skeletor
Scubattack: Skeletor
Spydor: Battle Armor Skeletor or Skeletor
Stilt Stalker: He-Man or Mekaneck
Stridor: Fisto
Tower Tools: He-Man
Wind Raider: He-Man or Man-at-Arms

Man, Battle Armor He-Man was depicted in a ton of box art and commercials wasn't he? He almost owns more vehicles than Jay Leno it seems.
Do you move him around a bunch or do you have lots of Battle Armor He-Mans for each vehicle?

I usually pick figures for vehicles based on best color matches (man at Arms in Wind Raider) or similar theme (trap jaw/Land Shark or Webstor/Spydor)

I am very reluctant to break up displaying the first original 8 figures (best of the best of the toy line) on foot to put them in vehicles, although I did use Panthor and Battlecat as mounts for the big 2. Tempted to get a few duplicates to drive vehicles. Thank goodness for Battle Armor Skeletor and Battle Armor He-Man, it does help a little.

Considering just how many variants of G.I. Joe characters were released over the years I think Storm Shadow or Snake Eyes had at least half a dozen, I'm surprised other characters rather than Skeletor or He-Man such as Beastman or Man At Arms didn't get other outfits or weapons rereleased figures, just look at all the Batman figures with different outfits or gear.

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Some favs:

Battle Ram with Man-At-Arms or He-Man
Wind Raider with Stratos or Mer-Man or He-Man
Attak Trak with Man-E-Faces or He-Man
Talon Fighter with Zodac or He-Man/Teela
Dragon Walker with Battle Armor He-Man
Road Ripper with Battle Armor He-Man
Roton with Skeletor or Battle Armor Skeletor
Land Shark with Kobra Khan or Dragon Blaster Skeletor
Bashasaurus with Thunder Punch He-Man

I know that the Sky Sled portion of Battle Ram was depicted as a neutral vehicle used by good and evil troops in the cartoon, but was the Wind Raider ever shown with bad guys in it on box art or in the cartoon? I think your wind raider/Merman combo is intriguing.

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My personal combos for vehicles and playset displays:

Zodac/ Grayskull Throne (It was always a vehicle for Zodac in my house; it was never used to trigger a trapdoor.)

Sorceress/ Grayskull Eastern Tower

Savage He-Man/ riding Tarzan's black panther (Battle Cat predecessor)

Some of my choices are arbitrary, mainly due to having extras of those figures as a kid and nowhere to put them. Others are remnants of ancient play session storylines I constructed as a kid. Others were based on box art or Filmation tropes.

yup, yup, and I wish I had that option, I have a Big Jim Tiger but no Tarzan Panther (yet)
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I still need a Battlecat saddle to match his weapons color, did you use a green Panthor saddle on the Tarzan Panther or is he bareback?
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My personal combos for vehicles and playset displays:

Beastman/ Prisoner on Eternia Monorail Convict Transporter

Blackface Grizzlor/ Peering through window in Point Dread, undetected by Teela and Man E Faces overhead

Stratos/ Prisoner in Fright Zone cage

I change them around ever so often, but that's basically my setup. I used to have Beastman as Slime Pit victim, but I made a Horde Zombie He-Man custom to replace him.

Some of my choices are arbitrary, mainly due to having extras of those figures as a kid and nowhere to put them. Others are remnants of ancient play session storylines I constructed as a kid. Others were based on box art or Filmation tropes.

With the Grayskull dungeon sticker looking crowded anyway, that only leaves the prisoner chains on Snake Mountain...Who do you consider for the shackles there?
You have more toys than I have, no fair. I wish I had enough to use for the prisoner scenes you mentioned above.

[Night Stalker]

yup, yup, and I wish I had that option, I have a Big Jim Tiger but no Tarzan Panther (yet)
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I still need a Battlecat saddle to match his weapons color, did you use a green Panthor saddle on the Tarzan Panther or is he bareback?

He's bareback. I had him in a Panthor saddle at one time but it just didn't "feel" right for whatever reason, so I threw him on with no saddle. I use a tiny bit of Poster Tack on Savage HM's 'personal' area to keep him from sliding loose.

With the Grayskull dungeon sticker looking crowded anyway, that only leaves the prisoner chains on Snake Mountain...Who do you consider for the shackles there?
You have more toys than I have, no fair. I wish I had enough to use for the prisoner scenes you mentioned above.

I've got an Anti-Eternia He-Man custom I made from a spare Prince Adam shackled up on Snake Mountain. Skeletor doesn't realize that Anti He-Man could break loose at any second; he's just waiting for the real He-Man to show up, so the real fun could begin...

One I forgot was the prisoner cell in Eternia's Grayskull Tower. There's a generic 5.75" scale skeleton figure in there. I picked him up at a Dutch thrift store about 30 years ago and he's been residing there ever since. He got locked up during He-Ro and Eldor's time and forgotten about in the eons since. Skeletor is trying to figure out how to reanimate him so he can direct the angry ghost to attack He-Man.

[VZX]

Great topic.

There are some VERY obvious pairings:
Fisto on Stridor
Jitsu on Night Stalker
He-Man on Battle Cat
Skeletor on Panthor
Hordak on Mantisaur

Those cannot be argued, really.

But I like Zodac with the Talon Fighter since he was the one who introduced it to He-Man in the book. And I like Man-at-arms on the Wind Raider since the colors match and he piloted the WR in that one mini-comic.

As a kid, I had Mekanek driving Road Ripper, but it didn't make much sense.

I wish Mattel did make that unicorn for Teela. But I guess they eventually did one for She-Ra, but still. Teela should have her own unicorn charger.

[ravenloft]

Great topic.

There are some VERY obvious pairings:
Fisto on Stridor
Jitsu on Night Stalker
He-Man on Battle Cat
Skeletor on Panthor
Hordak on Mantisaur

Those cannot be argued, really.

But I like Zodac with the Talon Fighter since he was the one who introduced it to He-Man in the book. And I like Man-at-arms on the Wind Raider since the colors match and he piloted the WR in that one mini-comic.

As a kid, I had Mekanek driving Road Ripper, but it didn't make much sense.

I wish Mattel did make that unicorn for Teela. But I guess they eventually did one for She-Ra, but still. Teela should have her own unicorn charger.

if Teela gets her mini comic unicorn then Evil-lyn should get an evil steed, dark pegasus? A dire wolf?

I gave Mekanek the Jet Sled armor, looks good color and tech wise, now still deciding whether on his back or him riding the sled. Either way spy in the sky for the good guys.

That darn road ripper! Man At Arms is better in the Windraider and Battle Armor He-Man on the Battleram so who gets the ripper? I dunno, I just don't know.

Battleram is my favorite vehicle hands down. Roton is my fave for the bad guys.

[Dylamug]

Mantisaur pairs well with Mosquitor, they look like they could be siblings.
Spydor with Webstor feels thematically appropriate

[Lokus]

Let's not forget slime pit needs a victim . Teela , RamMan or Orko ?

[Asher Tye]

Let's not forget slime pit needs a victim . Teela , RamMan or Orko ?

Be kinda neat to see what it would do with Orko.