Toys He-Man and the Masters of the Universe Toys

If you were born in the 80’s then the chances are He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, along with Thundercats, Transformers and a few others were one of your favourite toys and cartoons.

He-Man was one of the most popular toy-lines and cartoons of the 1980’s and the show still has a cult following today. Whilst the cartoon may have had limited animation and not lasted as long as other popular shows, the toys themselves lasted for quite a long run and therefore you would see them everywhere in the late 80’s and early 90’s.

The first series of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe toys were released in 1982 and continued for six years before being cancelled in 1988. In 1989 He-Man re-branded as just ‘He-Man’ or ‘The New Adventures of He-Man‘ and had a sci-fi feel to both the toys and cartoon which was set in space rather than Eternia.

The first wave of toys actually pre-dates the cartoon by a year, the cartoon having not started until 1983.

HE-MAN SERIES 1 (1982)

Heroic Warriors, Vehicles & Playsets

He-Man Man-At-Arms Stratos Teela Battle Cat Battle Ram Wind Raider Castle Grayskull Castle Grayskull 1

Evil Warriors & Creatures

Skeletor Beast Man Mer-Man Screech

Non-Aligned

Zodac

By the time the second wave of toys were released in 1983 the cartoon was on TV screens around the world and was incredibly successful, so successful it got its own spin-off series ‘She-R: Princess of Power’.

HE-MAN SERIES 2 (1983)

Heroic Warriors, Creatures & Vehicles

Man E Faces Ram Man Zoar Attak Trak Point Dread

Evil Warriors & Creatures

Evil-Lyn Faker Trap-Jaw Tri Clops Panthor

HE-MAN SERIES 3 (1984)

Heroic Warriors, Creatures & Vehicles

Battle Armour He Man Buzz-Off Fisto Mekanek Orko Prince Adam Dragon Walker Road Ripper Stridor

Evil Warriors, Vehicles & Playsets

Battle Armour Skeletor Cawful Jitsu Kobra Khan Webstor Whiplash Roton Snake Mountain

HE-MAN SERIES 4 (1985)

The fourth wave of toys saw the Evil Horde introduced, a third faction led by Hordak.

Heroic Warriors, Vehicles & Accessories

Thunder Punch He Man Moss Man Roboto Sy-Klone Bashasaurus Battle Bones

Evil Warriors & Vehicles

Dragon Blaster Skeletor Spikor Stinkor Two Bad Land Shark Night Stalker Spydor

Evil Horde & Playset

Hordak Grizzlor Leech Mantenna Modulok Fright Zone

HE-MAN SERIES 5 (1986)

The 5th wave of toys added a fourth faction, the Snake Men were a race of evil humanoid snakes ruled by King Hiss.

Heroic Warriors, Vehicles, Accessories & Playsets

Flying Fist He-Man Extendar Rio Blast Rokkon Snout Spout Stonedar Blaster Hawk Laser Bolt Megalaser Jet Sled Stilt Stalker Eternia

Evil Warriors & Vehicle

Terror Claws Skeletor Fright Fighter

Evil Horde, Creatures, Accessories & Playset

Hurricane Hordak Dragstor Horde Trooper Multi Bot Mantisaur Monstroid Slime Pit

Snake Men

King Hiss Rattlor Tung Lashor

HE-MAN SERIES 6 (1987)

The sixth series of toys was the final major toy release and also the largest of them all with well over 30 different toys. By this point it seems like they are simply trying to cash-in on the popularity of He-Man and are releasing just about everything they can!

Heroic Warriors, Energy Zoids, Giants, Creatures, Meteorbs & Accessories

Clamp Champ Gwildor King Randor Sorceress Rotar Tytus Bionatops Turbodactyl Astrolion Comet Cat Cometorid Tuskor Ty-Grrr Beam Blaster Cliff Climber Tower Tools

Evil Warriors, Energy Zoids, Meteorbs & Accessories

Blade Blast Attack Ninjor Scare Glow Saurod Twistoid Crocobite Dinosorb Gore-Illa Orbear Rhinorb Scuba Attack

Evil Horde

Buzz Saw Hordak Mosquitor

Snake Men, Giants & Creatures

Snake Face Sssqueeze Megator Tyrantisaurus Rex

HE-MAN SERIES 7 (1988)

The final series of He-Man figures came in 1988, this was just two different items, a re-work of both He-Man and Skeletor! After so many items being released in series 5 and series 6 there probably wasn’t anywhere left for He-Man toys to go!

Laser Power He-Man Laser Light Skeletor

He-Man and the Masters of the Universe Toys

After so many toys being released, you may be forgiven for thinking that was the end of it. However, you would be very wrong! Just one year later ‘The New Adventures Of He-Man’ or simply called ‘He-Man’ was released and a whole new set of toys were released over four new waves.