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Scare Glow & Sally.

The Halloween Countdown welcomes Scare Glow, a rare Masters of the Universe action figure that arrived very late in the line, and subsequently had fans blowing gaskets because they didn't know if he was meant to be Skeletor's ghost or Skeletor's...ghost. If you were wondering who that weird dude up there in the home button graphic was all season, now you know.


Saw the 3D release of The Nightmare Before Christmas last night. I've never been a devoted lover of the movie, which isn't to say that it doesn't deserve devoted love...it's just that the film and I never really crossed paths much in the past. Still a terrific movie and worth seeing on the big screen one last time. As for the 3D upgrade...well, it works, but it's definitely on the minor side considering that the film wasn't made with 3D in mind. The few times when stuff actually felt like it was flying off the screen were incidental, and by and large, I kind of sat there thinking that I would've preferred seeing the film in its original state, because it was a lot harder to successfully dunk nachos into cheese with sunglasses on.

Then again, maybe I have to take that all back, because we sat in the worst seats possible -- like three rows from the front and all the way to the right. We started off with better seats, but there was a row of little kids behind us making a ludicrous amount of noise, and by the time they began discussing which parts of the movie would make them yell the most during the previews (seriously), we zipped down to the front. Surely the effects play out better when you're not twisting your neck up-and-left Exorcist-style to see the screen.

Sadly, the glasses given out were generic and not at all done up with NBC logos or little white pumpkin graphics. At least they let us take 'em home.

Posted by Matt on 10/22/2006. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 97 comments

Scare-Glow is pretty awesome. I don’t think I had him, but I did have Extendor. Man, I can’t believe Halloween is almost here.

In other news:

Charlie Brown’s Great Pumpkin Halloween Special is coming on this Friday Night on ABC

YES!

Chestnuts roasted by Fox @ 10/23/2006 4:12 PM

The first MOTU figures I got were the regular He-Man,Skeletor,Beast Man,and (maybe) Mer-Man,which my brother and got for Christmas,along with Castle Greyskull,in 1982. I can still remember the smell of new plastic Skeletor’s rubbery head gave off. My brother and I eventually got all the major MOTU playsets,even Eternia,over the years in the eighties.

It sucks that the recent MOTU revamp didn’t take with kids nowadays. I hope Mattel tries again in a few years,the toy aisle just isn’t the same without the techno-medievel goofy charm MOTU has.

Chestnuts roasted by Overlord @ 10/23/2006 5:09 PM

My first MOTU was some crappy gray bird-man. His name was probably “Bird Man”. It was when they first came out and I traded something to a kid at school. I didn’t really care which one I got, I just wanted to play HeMan with the other kids.

I haven’t seen a movie in the theater since “attack of the Clones” and before that it was “Something About Mary”. It’s a hassle for me and too expensive.

Chestnuts roasted by klatubaradanikto @ 10/23/2006 5:19 PM

“Crappy bird man”?

Sounds like Stratos.

Chestnuts roasted by Overlord @ 10/23/2006 5:56 PM

I got Scare Glow, Ninjor, Mosquitor, King Randor, the Sorceress, and Clamp Champ for my birthday twenty years ago this November. It was frickin awesome, because I thought this was the coolest wave of figures yet. I remeber my mom asking my dad if I was too old for He-Man toys (I turned twelve in ’86). Thinking back, that was a pretty bizarre question.

Chestnuts roasted by Bludge @ 10/23/2006 6:30 PM

I feel exactly the same way. Honestly I think part of what turned me off from the movie was all the hype.

Chestnuts roasted by lalal @ 10/23/2006 6:43 PM

wow that was one of the best articles I’ve read in a long time

Chestnuts roasted by vader time time time @ 10/23/2006 6:54 PM

Squee, I feel exactly the same way about Corpse Bride. That movie had a plot and character development, NMC3D can’t say the same thing. I agree that you mostly don’t even notice it’s a 3D movie (and we were in great seats, right in the middle), but I guess the good part is it’s paving the way for digital theaters to show movies *made* for 3D. That’ll be cool.

The first MOTU figure I had was She-Ra, and one Christmas I got her castle. I was so impressed that she had her own REAL BED with a foam mattress and pillow and everything. At the time I loved her satin sheets, but now I think maybe they make her look a little slutty.

And I was so right in the last post about kids/adults being strangely drawn to glowing things. You can buy glow-in-the-dark polymer clay if you ever want to make your own figures/jewelry… last Halloween I made black beads with GITD skulls in them, I’ll have to dig those out again. Take that, company dress code!

Chestnuts roasted by Welsh Rabbit @ 10/23/2006 7:17 PM

I remember watching the He-Man cartoon and having the original figures of He-Man, the cats, Adam, Skeletor, Evil Lynne, and Teela but that was pre She-ra. Once there was her toys and the cartoon, I had no more interest in He-man being a girl and all.

I do remember there being a glow in the dark She-ra figure that I had though. Sweet-Bee. I wonder if she was released around the same time as this Skeletor’s Ghost because of that similar feature.

Chestnuts roasted by Angelcake @ 10/23/2006 7:45 PM

Not only did I own Scare Glow, but my version came with a scythe that ALSO glowed in the dark! It is entirely possible that my brother has hime somewhere. I’ll have to dig around and see.

Chestnuts roasted by BDKMat @ 10/23/2006 7:54 PM

Halloween 2 is on! AMC.

Chestnuts roasted by Billy @ 10/23/2006 8:01 PM

As I have previously admitted: I have never seen NBC. Like a fair amount of people here, I have a friend who is hardcore about it.

I will admit that Halloweentown is my favorite world in Kingdom Hearts, though. End of the World was in the lead for about 30 seconds, and then I came to my senses :D

Oh and TOMORROW, TOMORROW, I’LL LOVE YA TOMORROW, IT’S ONLY 14 HOURS AWAAAAAAAY!!!! Obnoxious enough for ya? Good.

Chestnuts roasted by K- @ 10/23/2006 8:31 PM

Matt,

Thanks for bringing back the fond memories. I had this guy, and ot him, Ninjor, the Sorceress and I think King Randor one Christmas. Guess who immediately stood out as the best of the bunch? Well, being too young to really read, we just assumed he was Skeletor returned after his fall to death in the MOTU movie.

Chestnuts roasted by Nemesis @ 10/23/2006 8:35 PM

Skeletor’s goat headed staff thingie. The Havok Staff.

Chestnuts roasted by AoDfan @ 10/23/2006 8:37 PM

I’ve been to the movies twice this year, but both time to see flicks at a theater in Vorhees (no, not the Jason variety) that specializes in small and independant films. I really have no interest whatsoever in “Nightmare Before Christmas” (other than agreeing that Halloweentown in “Kingdom Hearts” was one of the best rounds).

Let’s see. I THINK Prince Adam was my first MOTU figure. My sisters and I had Battle Armor Skeletor and He-Man, Adam, the bird version of the Sorceress, and Skeletor’s purple panther, but we’d pretty much switched our allegiance to She-Ra by the time these figures were released. I never even heard of Scare-Glow until this article, which is a shame, because he DOES look pretty damn cool. Mom eventually gave our He-Ma figures (except for the panther) to our cousin.

Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 10/23/2006 8:55 PM

Speaking of TV showings, this saturday at 9pm, Comedy Central is showing Shaun of The Dead for the first time on network tv!

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 10/23/2006 10:48 PM

If they’re not showing it again at 1AM for the “Secret Stash”, then it’s a total rip. I don’t even want to see the movie, but who wants to see it all hacked up for time and content? Lousy Puritans.

Chestnuts roasted by Welsh Rabbit @ 10/23/2006 11:21 PM

The one great thing to come out of Shaun of the Dead showing on Comedy Central, edited as it most likely will be, is all the new people that will come to love that movie. Need proof? I’m sure Mallrats running for years on the same channel edited didn’t hurt Kevin Smith with ‘Jay and Bob’ and ‘Clerks 2′. I hope the SotD guys continue on; ‘Spaced’ was an awesome TV show and ‘Hot Fuzz’ already looks funny as hell. Imagine if they could go on and make all the different genre flicks they want to?…sorry, I ramble at times….

Chestnuts roasted by Shuanfu @ 10/23/2006 11:31 PM

One of my fave actors is in Shaun of the Dead- Dylan Moran! Check out the British series Black Books, you wont be dissapointed! (at least not if you are into British humor!)

Chestnuts roasted by Heather @ 10/24/2006 12:24 AM

I didn’t know that Comedy Central used to air Mallrats all the time. Seems like they’re always playing Dogma nowadays.
Forget about Shaun (until Saturday, anyway). The real Comedy Central news is That’s My Bush FINALLY hits DVD tomorrow.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 10/24/2006 12:27 AM

“He’s the president in residence, he’s kinda in charge,
He’s got the whole country singin’ That’s My Bush!
Life is hard, that’s the price of fame, when you’re president everyone knows your name.
Hey, what’s that thing?
It’s my Bush!
I can’t beleive he’s actually in the whitehouse,
That’s our mayyyyyyoooon!
That’s My Bush!

Chestnuts roasted by Cid @ 10/24/2006 1:23 AM

I’ve missed enough reissues in my lifetime. I never re-saw the Star Wars trilogy in theaters, and TWO local places in town have shown 40MM prints of Raiders and I wasn’t there. Regardless if the 3D is that good or not, I feel kind of obligated to somehow find a way into a theater playing NBC sometime this weekend. Besides, Knick Knack in 3D seals the deal.

Some of the mini-comics introduced more than a single character, and in Scare Glow’s case, his comic was shared with six other then-new figures — Blast-Attak, Clamp Champ, Ninjor, The Sorceress, King Randor and a revamped Faker.

Now, I know the targeted audience of boys wouldn’t have much interest in purchasing a girl character, but did they really hold off on making a Sorceress figure until 1987? Wow, she really got the shaft.

Chestnuts roasted by Mars @ 10/24/2006 2:29 AM

well if that’s true i hope comedy central starts showin harold and kumar hacked up, the world needs more harold and kumy sequels!

Chestnuts roasted by drbong @ 10/24/2006 3:35 AM

“Randor”? Sexually repressed animators strike again?

If you like NBC *and* British humour, go get your hands on Terry Pratchett’s “Hogfather”, a completely different take on the Santa-displaced-by-Death. This time, Santa – um, “hogfather” – is put out of commission by a mad assassin named Mr Teatime, at the behest of the tiny ghostly accountants who audit everything in the universe (life is messy – get rid of it so we can finish the filing!!). So Death fills in to keep the hogfather alive while Death’s ‘grandaughter’, Susan, saves the (disc)world … again.

Honestly, being the relative of an undead anthropomorphic personification is, like, so tedious.

Chestnuts roasted by arete @ 10/24/2006 4:30 AM

Sorry, link didn’t work. Try this one! ;)

Chestnuts roasted by arete @ 10/24/2006 4:34 AM

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