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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE card backs. 1980s.

Maybe it was just me—I was a melancholic kid—but the scenes on the backs of the He-Man toys always felt so forlorn to me. The hostile landscapes, the lonely freaks, doing their dark things, the constant battle for survival. Even alien Orko seems slightly sinister here, as if his magic comes from a darker place than his audience realizes. He’s startled people are laughing at him, and might lash out.

I was quite fascinated by Evil-Lyn, and bought the figure partly because of the alluring illustration. So mysterious and eerie.

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Spotlight on MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE character, Evil-Lyn. I owned the figure, you know. She was one of my favorites.

Sophia Loren, eh?

The figure design is by Colin Bailey; the second and third are for the 1987 movie and by Ralph McQuarrie and Claudio Mazzoli respectively. The last image shows Evil-Lyn without her helmet—I don’t think I ever saw that as a kid, I would have remembered. Heck, I still remember seeing a hatless Smurf.

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‪Models and concept art, plus one still, of The Sorceress, from MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE. I found her intriguing as a kid. In the mini-comics, she was a completely different character. She didn’t have an action figure until much later—as if she couldn’t be captured in plastic.‬

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