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Now he is probably more known for the gay jokes you can make about the show, when I was a kid he was the bomb!
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The story was pretty simple.
Prince Adam was living in Eternia and not many people knew he could turn into He Man by raising his sword and screaming
He could even turn his cat friend Cringer into Battlecat
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He-Man and his friends protected Eternia from the evil Skeletor and his henchmen
All had names like Beastman or Snakeman. It seemed to be important that they have man in the name.
A real life action movie came out 1987 starring Dolph Lundgren and the to this time unknown Courteney Cox.
I never saw it though and only heard a couple of times that is sucks and from what I have seen on youtube so far it really does.
He-Man was so successful that a spin-off was created. She-ra was his lost sister doing pretty much the same as her brother in a parallel universe.
I guess Mattel was aiming for girls.
I could never watch a lot of the cartoons but I remember they had an important lesson for kids at the end like sticking together and be nice etc.
Did you have the power of grayskull as a kid as well?
