tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8472627207351085411.post7895110954258346797..comments2023-11-02T07:36:10.776-04:00Comments on Parenthetical Asides: Springtime In Eternia (1)Dale Glaserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13720028364651179526noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8472627207351085411.post-32005083114399784182011-06-08T17:23:49.829-04:002011-06-08T17:23:49.829-04:00Being both a year or two older than you and also t...Being both a year or two older than you and also the younger brother rather than the older, my exposure to MOTU was very brief, right at their start, before I moved on to GI Joe, Transformers, and other cartoon-pushed toys. That said, I have a soft spot for MOTU. Because I didn't know or care about them until college.<br /><br />FISTO. I mean come the hell on. FISTO. "His super-power is a popular sex act!" Ye gods.<br /><br />RAM-MAN. Now there's a...a...yeah, there's a...guy.<br /><br />The commitment to stinky toys was schweet, with MOSS MAN and STINKO, as you mentioned. Few toys dared go in that direction. Granted, it's a stupid direction, but still.<br /><br />One MOTU holds a special place in my heart. MODULOK. Because we found one during junior year and spent several drunken nights putting his modular parts into amusing shapes and then melting him. It would have qualified as a sign of incipient psychopathology had it not been...well, maybe it was. <br /><br />Now I have the damn music from the cartoon stuck in my head. "HE-MAN! doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo! HE-MAN!" Ugh.Harvey Jerkwaterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07118848012122050416noreply@blogger.com