I always liked to imagine that Castle Grayskull is so ancient that literally nobody knows who built it, or how old it is.

The dungeon sticker fascinated me as a kid, and I always believed that the castle was infinitely larger than it appeared. I would have loved that play mat!

Interesting as always. As a child I liked to imagine the dungeon was a prison for inmortal beings under the castle taken there by different heroes though time, like a phantom zone.

Now we need the backstory of the Robot/Spacesuit cardboard cut out piece!

Another great video; I love exploring the mythology of Eternia and everything that makes it what it is. Thanks for sharing!

That's where the Sorceress gets her freak on!👍🏻lol🤣

Another AWESOME and INFORMATIVE video from the master toy guru!! I loved it! Thanks so much! 👏👏😁

dude...my mind is blown. again. this channel is AMAZING!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!

I thought the inner world of Eternia being called Subternia was never as funny as if it were called Internia.

The abyss is where Teela-Na's missing socks end up. And everyone else's.

Castle Grayskull is so iconic still my favourite toy while i was a kid in the 80s

What an awesome video! Thank you so much, Scott!

Another great video sir! I really enjoy how much work & care you put into these. There is just so much thought & love that was poured into these & by bringing in random/ obscure things it shows. Really makes me wish these stories could have continued.

No joke, I went to a bar jeopardy night and it had a pop culture category. We won because of He-man trivia that I was able to answer thanks to this channel

That image of the Horde at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="547">9:07</a> is the greatest piece of Masters artwork EVER, IMHO. Tug'O'War the Master of the Cosmic Balance?! In all my years i've never heard of this guy! I guess Zodak was sick that day? Very cool. Thanks for another great video, Scott!

Another incredible video 👍👍 I love all this info that in most cases have wondered about for years, in other cases never even knew I wanted to know. But in all cases I have been happy to learn it and enjoyed every second of every video. Great job, seriously keep this up👍👍👍

This was great information to add to our knowledge an love of Motu. U always do a great job on breaking down each storyline and explaining its own origins!!!

Such weird but interesting concepts, they're delicious. I've always been fascinated with this type of fantasy setting, and it mixing in with high tech science fiction makes for a wonderful mix.

It was also a very interesting video. Thank you very much for that. Procrustus is a really great figure and has been in my collection for years. By the way, I have collected 95% of all Classics products.

Thank you. That was awesome !

This is fascinating because it ties so much together, in ways you'd never expect.

I really loved this video. Thank you.

What a great video! I had no idea on some of these themes. It just furthers my love for this brand. Thank you!!

Great video! Thank you! Y'know, I never noticed Procrustus hanging there in space between the two hemispheres in that mini-comic. Wild! It's great going back and revisiting things you love and seeing things you never noticed before. Heck, I still see something new each time I watch "Return of the Jedi." For example, it turns out Amanaman is all over the place in Jabba's Palace if you know where to look.

"Of course other people recognize Camelot..." On sight? I doubt it. Folks might know the names, but if shown only pictures of them, how many folks could really tell, say, Edinburgh Castle from Winterfell Keep? Your initial statement remains true - by far, Grayskull remains the single most recognizable castle in pop culture.

I watched into the abyss yesterday. great context and a deep deep dive. thanks for the info as always.

I really enjoy all his videos. I especially like his stories that evolve Masters of the Universe.

MOTU is the definition of my childhood, thank you for the awesome video.👍

The Bedford-Atlantic Homeless shelter in Brooklyn is often called Castle Grayskull. I knew a woman who lived across the street from it, and even she called it that.

Another amazing video!

I never thought you'd answer all my request regarding He-Man canon, let alone successfully do so in just one episode. Thank you.

I've been watching your videos for quite some time now. I'm always very entertained and informed by these. I am surprised at the depth of the story writing that has gone into the MOTU mythos. Who writes these things up? Is it some kind of creative team? Was there a specific agenda Mattel set them out to establish or did they just kind of organically come up with the on the fly? I was thinking that MOTU might be more intricate than my favorite 80s IP, G.I.Joe! Kodos to those who are dreaming this stuff up!

Very good video. I loving these secrets and history of videos

Wow I literally just turned my phone on. Cool, i was hoping to hear about this. Thanks for your work!!

There is a 3D sculpt of the dungeon sticker used on the bottom of the Imaginext Mad Scientist Lab as part of the battery cover.

The best sticker ever created.

'castle grayskull after hours with spector creative' sounds like it should be a show.

Thank you for this..

Okay you made it dark helmet reference now you are truly my guru.

So cool!

In the 1987 film, there was a bottomless pit beneath Castle Grayskull which was filled with pink liquid which Skeletor fell into in the movie's climax. In the script for the abandoned sequel, Skeletor who is swimming in the pink liquid gets sucked into a pipe and travels at high speed. In the script, the bottomless pit is revealed as a reactor tank.

I imagine Procrustus holding Eternia together with 2 arms for a century til they're tired then switching to his 2 other arms 😝

It's really cool how you guys try to tie all the disconnected lore together. Most of the other toy franchises I follow have decades worth of irreconcilable continuities.

Awesome!

Even though I'm an "80s baby" who grew up on the OG He-Man series, IDK about "Tug-O-War" until this vid. So I guess there were still a few characters left that could've made into figures for the MOTU Classics line. The 200X series is my fav, because it seemed like they took things from the comic, undated them, & masterfully incorporated everything into an intriguing & cohesive story. I really hope that series comes back one day (updated w/ new episodes), because it's my fav MOTU media.

For something that started out as a mix of clashing ideas, MotU has developed some really deep lore

Never owned Castle Grey skull but did play on with one and that dungeon sticker always stayed with me.

I bought a t shirt last year with the dungeon grate and all its goodness on it

I always thought that the Castle Grayskull playset should have had an additional trap door instead of that ridiculous dungeon sticker. Great video 😎🤘

I don't know which character I dig more, both Procrustus AND Tug O' War are right up my alley. Epic additions to the lore and franchise. I'm repainting some MotU Mega Construx mini figures and I might give ToW a go...

Now I understand, the power orb and the star seed

I LOVE the history that you dive into. I’ve been a MOTU fan for 35+ years and never knew the deep mythology you go over. Does anyone know if ALL the Classics mini comics were published together?

Another Great Video with Sticker Lore it doesn't get any better then this, I bet I imagined so many stories from those stickers and sometimes having no story is the best story of all. I recently seen a KZfaq video that showed a unknown Character that the person who posted it along with a lot of us had never seen before, the KZfaq Channels Owner was trying to find info on it but having no luck. In today's Internet World there aren't many Toy Secrets left Undiscovered with so much info out there but this one was definitely a New One for Me and my first thought was asking you if you had any information on this Character?, you have shown us stuff that many of us never knew even existed but I don't think I have seen this Figure covered by you before (I apologise if you had covered it and I missed it I'm still watching your older videos playing catch-up). The Toy Store Promo was from the from 80's HE-MAN Toyline that appeared to be close to the End of the TOYLINES Run (I think) right before they started to show off HE-RO and the Dinosaurs 🦕🦖 and the Promo showed a Water Shooting Prototype Robot like Kobra Khan that appeared to be a bad Guy and named the "Evil Robot Prototype" any info on this Guy? Keep Up The Great Work!

More thoughts if I may: This episode was really interesting and your impromptu was *so* funny! I'm bursting at the seams for more of these, and anticipation that we get some of these characters in Origins. Love it, love it, love it. 💛💙🌈🙏 Edit: was there ever a mock-up or prototype of the abyss mat? I'd love to see a pic with the actual castle & figures on it.

Never knew this so much lore in MOTU.

Thank you for the video, You made me want to buy Prorustus!! classics figure.

I LOVE THIS VIDEO! As a relatively new fan of MOTU, finding lore, or at least consistent lore, is difficult. I'm still making my way through the Filmation series and then on to the 2002 series. Your video has really whet my appetite. Is that world map available by itself, either in print or digital?

Great story

He-Man good. Skeleton bad. That’s all I knew when I played with these characters as a kid haha. But as I get older, the lore I’m learning about the He-Man universe on this channel just gets more and more interesting to me. Can you (or anyone else) recommend any good novels, comics etc.. that are good to read and have his much depth? Or are the mini comics and cartoons the only sources? Thanks!

I love all the maps that came out with MOTUC and they are all sitting above me in my home office so I kept looking up at the Subternia one while you were talking. I do wish they didn't have the folds in them though. It's too bad we couldn't have gotten hi res PDFs to get printed ourselves, as these would look glorious printed on Canvas. Though one question, how does Castle Grayskull actually maintain it's position with the abyss all around it? Even looking at the map it's just sort of floating there.

Cool wonderful information. I need a tug of war action figure!

thanks great information hope the movies do a live one on all this 😆

Great stuff. I've had such a great time listening to you discuss the lore of He-Man that I ordered a copy of Volumes 1 & 2 of the mini comic collections. Volume 2 ends with "The Second Ultimate Battleground." Was that the last of them? Do you know if those two collections have everything?

Hey Scott. Love the videos. I was wondering if you're going to do a video on the rumored MOTU Classics Eternos Palace Deluxe Playset? I'd love to know the history and why it didn't come out. Or is it just an internet myth?

In the episode that Teela fell on a edge cliff in the abyss, some energy flows in and out of it when Adam transforms into He-Man. Given the info on your video, the conclusion is that the sword directly accesses the starseed energy during the transformation.

Like the bottom of the great pyramid A pit of mystery This video is great, you should do more like this Read the comics and explain them to us, lol But seriously it’s awesome

How can I find these mini comics for classics?

So much He-knowledge. Thanks. May I ask, when super7 re-invented the original style figures, but used a different hip joint, do you think this was an oversight when MOTU figures originated or was it the technology and cost of the era?

There is so much mythology to MOTU, it really can have spin offs of days. I guess that's what imaginations are for.

Have you ever done a video about that *massive* spaceship visible on the map of the inside of Eternia?

I like to think those guys in the dungeon are like Titans like in the Disney Hercules. Those are some bad dudes and that is the toughest place for them to be locked up in.

There was the awesome scene in one of the episodes where Teela is down below Castle Greyskull during He Man's transformation and the power rises. She's like what is happening.

i still love the map drawings, i wish they had posters of them. if they did, i never saw any.

I always had in mind that Greyskull was immensely vast inside, despite not being very big from outside view for a castle.

Hey, great stuff as always! But also I have a question as I'm not too well versed with MOTUC and the brand as a whole (your series is helping to educate me) but was that original prototype He-Man ever remade into an actual figure? I'm talking about the old Big Jim figure that Mattel guy took and put clay on and gave him that menacing look with the barbarian/viking look with the helmet and axe. I mean like is he his own character (like Wun-Dar) or a variant of He-Man in any way? Thanks!

With a property that has such an expansive universe and mythos that spans across various mediums, how much is planned out in advance? Is there a creative meeting where outlines of all the different factions and areas of the world are established? Does it organically take shape as ideas are fleshed out over time? Does it really boil down to we're drawing a new character on page four of the minicomic, so make something up about him? Has there been a Cousel of Eternia (like Nicea) to canonize events, timelines, character biographies and connections?

Does this show the clip from the original t.v. show where some giant bug walks over, sits down, dies, and then its body is made into the Castle over huge long periods of time?

Cool concept: Imagine that Eternia is like Earth in the ERB Tarzan novels: A hollow planet with a whole other world inside of it!! Eternal daylight!! Even more strange creatures!! The possibilities are endless!! ( With MOTU, you can make it be whatever you want )

Listening to this I couldn't help but notice similarities between this and the 1994 song "Starseed" by Our Lady Peace (featured on the Armageddon soundtrack). The song talks about a planet being powered by a Starseed (similar to Eternia) that is stolen but later recovered by a being (like Procrustus) and brought back beneath the equator (like the giant crack from the planet being split). It's almost earie how well the song fits.

Observing

Please make a video about the other planed giants. Was the blue giant from the Geldor minicomic one of them? 😮

Now I want an Eternian gumball with a "juicy center"!

The 2000x series you keep referencing was that the one that aired on Cartoon Network

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="107">1:47</a>: “There’s an Ark in there.” “Where?”

I still would have liked to have seen an "energy" Grayskull in translucent blue-ish green plastic with sparkles. Because sparkles. :)

I thought Eternia was located on a nexus point that intersected other realities and dimensions thus explaining how magic and sorcery can be used there. Good to know!

I'm new to MOTU and is there anywhere I could read the classics minicomics?

I would like to ask if anyone would be kind to tell me the name of the comic book from where the story that the trollans created the sword is? I tried to search online but I can't find it.

I love Tug-O-War. Lol But it makes me wonder, if he is the guy that keeps balance, would he be against He-Man if He-Man was getting the upper hand unjustly?

Was there ever plans to do the Spellstone from the Episode "The Curse of the Spellstone"?

I really like my interpretation of masters of the universe and I believe it would reboot the franchise and bring some much-needed explanation to why he man is the most powerful man in the universe I really enjoy the video in the backstory as we all know the show kind of made things up as it went along. But they had a great idea . If I had to redo and right is storyline free masters of the universe I wouldn’t make it to where eterna What is the planet that is directly in the center of the complete universe and was the first planet ever made. As the galaxy expanded outwards Castle Grey skull is the center of all from the abyss comes that she and spirit flow of all beings. When he man calls on the power of Grey skull he takes into his body the power and strength of every living creature in the universe that’s making him the most powerful man in the universe

What's the story behind the big Spaceship shown south / south-west on the Subternia map? "Gar Shan cruiser"? Am I reading that right?

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="737">12:17</a>: The most convenient device on the planet! …and Eternia is Eternal. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="785">13:05</a>: There goes the opportunity of making another action figure. Heroic Master of Mystery and Obscurity.

Wow I need more material on the inner cities of eternia so much cool stuff can anyone recommend where to start reading on this stuff???

Always wanted to know how far that abyss would go...

Nice daisy dukes on tug

Don't let Marvel find out He-Man is really "Power Man." ;)

regarding this video's thumbnail with the arm at the lower right. An optical illusion I recently noticed - If you look at the ending of Daimar the Demon - it looks like a hand is gripping the support structure "insect leg" of the castle. Additionally next to that is a face looking to sky. Optical illusions again - but it wouldn't be outrageous for carvings to go all the way down the abyss in some continuity's version of the castle.

You should do a MOTU timeline series

I always assumed there was a disco under there.