Mattel has since announced new plans to reboot the series, with two shows in the works with Netflix- Masters of the Universe: Revelation (for adult fans) and He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (to court the next generation), prompting a question about which version will appear next. (As the top comment on the video’s YouTube page puts it, “If this video is deleted will the internet die?”) Specifically, the popularity of a nostalgic and irreverent bootstrapped music video titled “Fabulous Secret Powers,” which redubs some of the original cartoon’s more evocative sequences to a techno version of 4 Non Blondes’ “What’s Up?” That homage went viral, with 170 million views on YouTube, and has since been clipped and shared as an endlessly joyful meme that both honors gay pride and serves as a sort of campy exclamation point for whatever adversity you might be experiencing, making it arguably a more indelible part of our culture than the show ever was. He was born out of something more modern and widespread: Internet mashup culture.
Joe, Transformers, and the original He-Man series, Laughing Prince Adam wasn’t molded from a made-for-TV action figure. How exactly that character got made, and why it’s not in the new line of He-Man toys (dubbed “Origins”) slated to hit stores this fall, however, is its own saga. Today the toy goes for close to twice the original $35 sticker price on eBay, making a compelling argument that-with plenty of He-Man reboots now in development-parent company Mattel should be producing more of him. Laughing Prince Adam was a limited edition. It’s a theory posited by culture critics like Sam Anderson at Slate (“In the ever-growing lineup of ‘outed’ classic superheroes, He-Man might be the easiest target of all”) and geek repositories like the animation-news site Cartoon Brew, which has explored “He-Man’s Five Gayest Adventures.” There are even comparative power rankings (see: Daily Beast’s “Gay Characters on Children’s TV” and Comic Book Resources’ “Queer Heroes: 15 Superheroes Who Are Gay Icons”).
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