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The Masters of the Universe Coloring Book.

Looking at the main page, I noticed that I hadn't done a He-Man article in many months. Whoops. Making up for some lost time, here's my review of an insane Masters of the Universe Coloring Book, featuring two stories and some strange games and puzzles. The stories contain everything from Skeletor driving clouds to forcing marriage on Teela, so it seemed like something I had to show you. Review spans several pages, but it's mostly a quick read, so get readin' quick.

Posted by Matt on 03/03/2004. E-mail me!

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I swear I had, like, four of these books. And you can still find them at thrift stores, I’m sure.

Chestnuts roasted by D-d-dave-some @ 03/03/2004 3:13 PM

Damn, I reload and there’s already a comment

Chestnuts roasted by Cyanyde @ 03/03/2004 3:14 PM

Great article, Matt. The coloring book reviews are second only to NES reviews for my favorite theme on XE. And yes, every thrift store in America has these lining their shelves.

Chestnuts roasted by Justin @ 03/03/2004 3:24 PM

I had that very same coloring book. Good times.

Chestnuts roasted by BaronVonHotPants @ 03/03/2004 3:25 PM

Did this book have any "Color by Numbers" pages? I just remembered that some of those activities didn’t have actual numbers, just different amounts of DOTS to correspond to their colors. I guess it was for kids who understood, for example, the "concept" of 3, but not the "character" for 3.

Didn’t they base "Awakenings" on that disease?

Chestnuts roasted by D-d-dave-some @ 03/03/2004 3:34 PM

why is Teela riding Spirit from she-ra?

Chestnuts roasted by prowlus @ 03/03/2004 3:34 PM

D-D-D — no, but I have one of the books you’re talking about.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 03/03/2004 3:35 PM

Hey BeastMan, Get yer Gorilla-Grip off me!
Bwahahahah Yep, that’s a keeper!

Chestnuts roasted by Cyanyde @ 03/03/2004 3:41 PM

Okay, this is kind of weird. I was going to read the article, but then I realized that I didn’t have enough time because I have a psych test in about 1.5 hours that I have to study for. But the strange coloring scheme that some kid had used caught my eye. So, I scrolled back up and Matt had mentioned the coloring, plus Freud was mentioned. Freud is going to be covered extensively in my psych test today. That seemed strange to me, kind of a coincidence. Okay, must study now. I’m hoping this post makes sense.

Chestnuts roasted by Andrea @ 03/03/2004 3:57 PM

Even waay back then, I thought that some of these books were odd. But fun. That said, I had a pretty cool Batman coloring book that had a fairly decent story in it. The Joker was "cured" and opened a chain of fast food joints. then certain people began turning up dead, with grins. Laughing Boy had also studied ceramics in prison and had sculptures in each location. He was using the piezoelectric qualities of the ceramics to brainwash people into buying his food, and the dead guys were scientists and doctors who could have put his plan in the crapper before it’s implementation. Without the vibrating sculptures, the burgers tasted like crap. My nephew has an old Batman coloring book with Catwoman in a costume kinda like a evening gown. The bat gets some interesting books to color.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 03/03/2004 4:15 PM

http://tvshowsondvd.com/dic/
"Later this year UAV Entertainment Corp is planning on releasing episodes of Inspector Gadget and Super Mario Bros in the order in which they aired. Each disc will contain 5 episodes and interviews with Andy Heyward, Chairman and CEO of DIC Entertainment as bonus features.

UAV needs your help! They’ve asked us to set up this special form so fans of the series can send in questions for Andy Heyward. Andy Heyward was directly involved in the creation of Inspector Gadget, and has been the driving force behind all of DIC’s productions.

Feel free to submit questions for either series as many times as you want, assuming you’re asking a different question each time.

Note: Questions should be about the shows, not about the technical aspects of the discs, the number of episodes, release shedule or other shows they may release. These questions will be answered on the DVDs; you will not get a personal response. Questions that are not about the shows themselves will be deleted."

I will ask about the Photon show being on Club Mario and how Matt should do commentary for the DVD if Photon is ever released; or any other DIC DVD that could use Matt’s expert knowledge.
http://www.dicentertainment.com/dic_shows.html#AShows

Chestnuts roasted by ME @ 03/03/2004 4:31 PM

Quality with a capital Mer! This ranks up there with The Worst Witch article! (An astounding feat indeed!)

Chestnuts roasted by Slacker @ 03/03/2004 4:39 PM

these were my bread and butterwhen i was a kid. especially good on extended road trips.

Chestnuts roasted by Mikey @ 03/03/2004 4:51 PM

I had Go-bots and Donkey Kong activity books back in the day. It seems that, not only are these books written by people with only a passing knowledge of the subject at best, but seem to be written by people with only the slightest grasp of the English language.

Mat, you going to feature any of those "Draw what you think Teela and He-Man see" submissions?

Chestnuts roasted by Rayzak (my website has hostess sushi!) @ 03/03/2004 4:53 PM

I found an Eastah egg! I found an Eastah egg!

Chestnuts roasted by trajeal @ 03/03/2004 5:14 PM

Bahahaha! Gold! Comedic gold!

Chestnuts roasted by Evin @ 03/03/2004 5:25 PM

Phooey! I access on an iMac, and I never get to see a lot of the commercials and junk. Any suggestions?

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 03/03/2004 5:28 PM

ok,i almost pissed my pants laughing at this,and i believe i had the cloud story.i distinctivly remember the spirit of greyskull at the end.

Chestnuts roasted by meef @ 03/03/2004 5:45 PM

Man, I used to love these when I was a kid…I also had one of the Spider-Man ones, which I colored in religiously. Has anyone seen any of the recent dollar store superhero coloring books? They look like crap!

Chestnuts roasted by Nemesis @ 03/03/2004 5:53 PM

Wow! What a great read! Thanx, Matt…. BTW, most of the "odd" things in the book (i.e. Beastman being usefull, two halves of the Power Sword, Spirit of Grayskull) are there b/c these stories are from the time before the toon, if I know my MOTU… And I sure do .

Chestnuts roasted by Papa_Taz @ 03/03/2004 6:15 PM

Matt, I’ve only read "Cloudy Climbs", but I have to say it is one of the funniest things I have seen from you in some time. Iwas in tears laughing so hard. "Really hates monster feet . . " Dude! Brilliant!!

Chestnuts roasted by Dane E. Coffey @ 03/03/2004 6:45 PM

Man, this is convincing me to buy some coloring/activity books and have some fun.
Like the $2 Crash Dummies one I saw a few days ago…

The Law and Order coloring book:
http://www.brandonbird.com/lno_color.html

Chestnuts roasted by RewolfJ @ 03/03/2004 6:48 PM

Here is what I thing they saw…

http://rayzak.com/pics/heman.jpg

Chestnuts roasted by Rayzak (my website has hostess sushi!) @ 03/03/2004 7:13 PM

The Attak Trak has power that just won’t quit? That damn toy broke after like, 10 minutes of normal use. It became just another He-Man toy I would throw and pretend they were flying.

Chestnuts roasted by Rayzak (my website has hostess sushi!) @ 03/03/2004 7:22 PM

I thought "Color a Cunt" was odd, but this title takes the cake!:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0736411933/qid=1078359398/sr=1-116/ref=sr_1_116/104-5217531-8826353?v=glance&s=books

Chestnuts roasted by RewolfJ @ 03/03/2004 7:26 PM

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