THIS IS THE WEAPONS PAK!!
19 Items to use with your MOTUC figures... Unlike the Eternia Map "full of Secrets" the Weapons Pak sadly has no Bio...
Here's WUN-DAR!!! *= Ok... you caught me, I have no Wun-Dar, but I can do a quickie review of him thanks to the weapons pak.
Wun-Dar is basically a He-Man with Brown hair, black and silver gauntlets black loin cloth and boots. He has a black power sword (and half sword), Cosmic enforcer Armor and gun (in Black) AND a loaf of bread. Why is Wun-Dar so important?
Legend has it that Mattel and Wonderbread had a cross promotion and sent a brown haired He-Man by mail to people who followed the rules of said promotion. Funny thing is that neither Wonderbread nor Mattel have any records of it. Thus a Legend was born. He-Man Review He gets the same score as He-Man, The bread is AWESOME!!
If you can't afford a Wun-Dar in the secondary Market then the Weapons pak can help you customize one yourself... (Just don't try to pass off Fake Wun-Dar as the real deal on eBay...)
The cosmic Enforcer stuff is FUSCHIA NOT PINK!! it has the cosmiC Enforcer armor and gun AND the mystiK enforcer staff. (if you're wondering the strange spelling on cosmic and mystic is a nod to Zodac and Zodak... the guys who use the armor and said weapons...) Also the gun and Armor are a nod to the vintage Weapons Pak. (There they were black, but Black CE Armor would make it easier to make fake Wun-Dars...)
Now if they had added a blue He-Harness this would be 1000 times more awesome... The blue sword looks a whole lot better than the blue shield and axe... BTW my blue shield has 2 globs of silver paint on it. DO I need to say to whom these would belong to? Also they're nods to the vintage WP.
This is the Evil Spider gun... If I get this Spider's rerelease I'm giving him this gun and the toy's original orange gun will be Duncan's...
This is the "Beast Armor" He-Man paying a homage to the Spare Beast Armor from the Weapons Pak. Mattel claims that it's "yellow" like the vintage WP Beast Armor... If that's yellow then I'm Hannah Mon... nah... too early... If that's yellow then Stephenie Meyer is the greatest writer of ALL TIME, OF ALL TIME!! Also He-Man is carrying a "White" Horde Crossbow. (Currently the Silver corssbow is on my Hordak, he now looks more like my vintage Hordak Toy...) The Red wip is a "nod" to the 1987 movie with Dolph Lundgren... (and an excuse to reuse the Beastman whip.)
Warning: the Beast Shoulder Armor is a bit of a pain in the ass to put and remove!!
The Mace is a nod to the Weapons of the Vintage Casdtle Grayskull. The MOTUC Version reuses the mossman sculpt and that's why we have a metal mace that looks woodsy... Overreuse can be a bad thing sometimes... Yes He-Man is now Gangsta' so he'll maybe remake a classic movie... Gangsta style... The gun is from MAA to use on Trpa Jaw (Pre-op days as Kronis)
In the words of buzz Lightyear: "To infinity and BEYOND!!" The Stratos Jetpack would be cooler if... I dunno had the BLUE WINGS TO PUT ON STRATOS just like my vintage toy did!!
The little Blue/Silver Sword was meant for Kronis... Me I gave it to Man-At-Arms... He can duel with dual swords... The "Golden" sword is meant for Eternia's very own Peeping Tom, Triklops... He needs to use dual swords as well...
I am perplexed as Why do we get TWO versions of the 200X He-Man Sword with a lot of the "anime Hyper detail" that supposedly "is retired" and not Skeletor's 200X Swords?
Well it looks like I'm not the Only one...
Scarglow's spear,Lochaber axe, "scythe"... Weapon in non neon green color, another homage to the Castle Grayskull Weapons...
Pimp-Man does not like his hoes to be disease ridden... the pimp slap is mighty enough to cure Evil Lyn form her jaundiced looks... If not, he'll slapp her again...
Now unto the review part: 1 = crap 5 = Teh Awesomecause!!
Articulation: wait aminute!! There is none here! These are accessories!! So there is no Accessories section... We can only use paint and sculpt here...
Ok... Paint and sculpt: While the scuplts are awesome... Hello, It's the 4 Horsemen... They're like the Wolverine of the Action figure sculpting world... So that on it's own would give them a gajillion times infinity plus one!! BUT!! The paint jobs bring them down a couple of notches...
2.0 Why? Simple some of these items are barely usable in their current color schem and others LACK paint.
My stratos Jetpack looks muddy, Blue He-Shield with silver globs of paint where it's supposed to be blue, The Mossman mace with 0 paint. The flat "toy" look that the He-man 200X sword has...Don't get me started with the weird Made In China 2009(c) Tampographed on EVERY ITEM (sometimes in the worst palce possible)
19 Accessories for $12 buck seems like a bargain, but as said before some of the Items' usefulness potential is not realized unles heavy customization is required.
Do I regret buying the weapons pak? NO! Would' I've liked a better selection of Items? YES!! Hopefully Pak #2 will include a Two Tone Silver Sword of Protection and a fully Silver Sword of Power for a certain Princess and Prince...
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