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Sky Shadow is correct, She-Ra ran for a pretty decent length given the larger than average amount of episodes in the 1st season and the toy line was fairly successful. There are a good amount of POP toys in the after market signifying that they sold reasonably well back in the day.
Not really. He-Man had a strong female cast. They weren't archetyped into the typical 'damsel in distress' role and treated no different to the male cast while still maintaining their femininity - Teela, The Sorceress and Evil-Lyn were all 'core' characters and in a position of power. This is probably what attracted girls to watch the cartoon as those female leads were pretty prominent.
When it came to She-Ra, the same formula was used and the cartoon was very successful with both girls and boys despite the cast leaning more to female characters. Aside from still having a lot of action/adventure elements it also had much better written episodes than He-Man which IMO stand up better to the test of time and more watchable for an adult.
I have almost finished watching the first season of She-Ra, It's massive with over 60 episodes. There is a good amount of '80s' goofiness but a lot of the stories are entertaining and smartly written enough to hold appeal. It is also no where near as repetitive as He-Man with much better animation.
Last edited by kup; 12th June 2011 at 01:55 PM.
I notice that Larry DiTillo and Bob Forward seem to do a fair bit of writing for She-Ra. Omoshiroi!
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What's up with Hordak's Arm? Sometimes it's a robo claw and others it a proper arm. Is that just and animation mistake or can he change it at will?
Also on the subject of Hordak, is he a robot or something as his morphing arm blaster doohicky seems cool, as does his ability to change into a badly flown rocket. Are his morph skills limited to certain forms?
Quite enjoying She-ra. The 80's sound effects that seemed to show up in a lot of cartoons of that era are so cool!
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Hordak is not really a robot but he does have the power to 'morph' his arm and full body into weapons and vehicles like the rocket.
Unlike the comics, toy bios and the 200X cartoon, Hordak in the She-Ra cartoon is more 'technological' than magical. Ironically enough, the cartoon Hordak seems to hate magic despite most other mediums portraying him as a bad ass evil sorcerer.
Also be prepared to cringe a little when they refer to 'Horde Prime' (stupidest concept ever).
Despite those silly things, She-Ra is still a superb 80s cartoon.
Hordak can turn his arm into various cannons and melee weapons and turn himself into a rocket, tank, four-armed spinning top, four-legged spider, etc. His second and third toys respectively had various arm attachments and a buzzsaw that came out of his chest. There was no canonical limit to his transformations except whatever suited the writers' whims.
The same went for Hordak's sidekick Imp:
http://www.he-man.org/cartoon/feature.php?id=50&fid=54
And She-Ra's Power Sword, which (somewhat ridiculously) could become a shield, lasso, rope, icemaker, helmet, parachute, telescope, pole, bola, chain, staff, racket, boomerang, blanket, glider, net, ladder, torch, harpoon, flame, smokescreen, bow, digger, magnet (and line), battering ram, grappling hook, bat, lightning rod, discus and handcuffs.
http://www.darah.com/she-ra/usrg/epi...to/swordto.asp
Would this constitute as an improvement?
Before (out of package):
After some light improvements:
The attempt was to get him closer to his proper 200X character model: