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TAKE the CHALLENGE! A fantastic group of He-Man and She-Ra fans have taken the challenge to watch all 130 Episodes of the 1983 Filmation Cartoon Series “He-Man and the Masters of the Universe“ for 130 days straight, one episode per day. They are the RE-WATCH-A-THON-ERS! Be sure to check out the RE-WATCH-A-THON celebratory memento shirts and mugs (long sleeve shirts options are available too). Today’s Episode is: The Toy Maker PRODUCTION NUMBEREPISODE TITLEDIRECTORWRITERSPREMIERE DATERE-WATCH-A-THON DATE MU124“The Toy Maker”Lou KachivasKaren Willson,Chris WeberNovember 29 1984Mar 30Synopsis: When the Toy Maker offers his services to Skeletor, he is tasked to kidnap Man-At-Arms. In pursuit, the heroic warriors must…
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Even though the ToyMaker is a new and fairly interesting villain, this episode leans into too many story beats we’ve now seen many times, the worst of them being: Orko screws everything up yet again. Season 1 I get at times, but the back half off of the episodes Orko is a straight up liability to the point I think the heroes would be in significantly less danger if he wasn’t around.
Nice to see He-Man fight Screech, he never really interacted with him in prior appearances.
If this episode was made today I'm betting it would have a bunch of self-aware jokes about how the show and franchise in general is built off commercialism, like having He-Man and Skeletor toys be among the living toys and the characters keep saying how great they are in a not-so-subtle way, though I guess we've already have had enough stories about He-Man and Skeletor doubles.
meh episode
Unrelated note but as a life-long Toy Story fan, Filmation Hordak has always reminded me of Emperor Zurg.
3 stars. Entertaining episode. Toymaker has such an interesting design i wish they made a classics figure of him.