Today, I have another double feature of two new Masters-of-the-Universe-Piece Theatre photo stories for you. Since both stories are quite short, I decided to run them as a double feature. The name “Masters-of-the-Universe-Piece Theatre” was coined by Kevin Beckett at the Whetstone Discord server.
But before we get to the stories, I also have a link to share. Because the always excellent Christopher Rowe has compiled a list of contemporary sword and sorcery series characters and where to find their adventures. My own Kurval and Thurvok are included as well.
If you want even more sword and sorcery to read for free, issue 7 of Whetstone Amateur Magazine of Sword and Sorcery has just come out, so check it out!
I had a surprise new arrival show up this week, when I received the Masters of the Universe Origins Young King Randor figure in the mail – without receiving a shipping notification first.
Masters of the Universe Origins Young King Randor
This version of King Randor is based on the 2002 cartoon, where Randor was protrayed as a somewhat younger and more active character than his Filmation counterpart. While the Filmation Randor mostly set around on his throne and occasionally gave a speech, the 2002 Randor charged into battle alongside his warriors on occasion and also seemed to do more actual governing. The 2002 cartoon also established that Randor was captain of the guard, i.e. Teela’s current, before he became king. All in all, I’d say that the 2002 cartoon features the best overall King Randor – and Randor is a difficult character, because his raison d’etre is to be the parent who does not understand or even see their child – though the Netflix CGI features the best version of Randor as a father. In case you’re wondering which version of King Randor is the worst, that would be the King Randor of Masters of the Universe Revelation, who narrowly missed winning the 2021 Darth Vader Parenthood Award.
King Randor with little Prince Adam, portrayed here by Bobby from the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon
We mostly see Randor interacting (and frequently clashing) with a teenaged or young adult Adam, but there are very few scenes that show Randor as a young father across the various iterations of Masters of the Universe. So I decided to make one. And since today is Father’s Day in the US (in Germany, Father’s Day coincides with Ascension Day, which was on May 18 this year), this is the perfect time to post it.
New Dad
Eternos Palace, the nursery:
“I don’t know if I can do this, Duncan. I’ve led armies, I’ve defeated the evil forces of Keldor and I try my best to be a good king for my people, but I don’t know if I can be a father.”
“You’ll do just fine, Sire. Trust me.”
“Easy for you to say, Duncan. You’re a natural at this father thing and I honestly don’t know how you do it, especially since you have no one to help you out.”
“It’s really not so difficult, Sire. Just trust your instincts.”
“And what if my instincts mislead me, Duncan? They’re so small and so fragile and…”
“Waaah!”
“Oh no! Now one of them is crying. What do I do?”
“Maybe you should just pick up the baby, Sire. That tends to calm them down.”
“But what if I drop it?”
“You won’t, Sire. Trust me.”
“Come on, little Adam. You are Adam, aren’t you? Cause I can’t tell them apart. Marlena colour coded the clothes, but I forget which one is supposed to be pink and which blue. There, my little one, that’s better.”
“Coo.”
“Waaaaah!”
“Oh no, now the other one is crying, too. What do I do, Duncan?”
“She’s probably just lonely. Maybe you should pick her up, Sire.”
“If you think so, Duncan. Come here, little one. Daddy has got you.”
“Coo.”
“Amazing. They stopped crying. And I think the pink one just smiled at me.”
“See, Sire? I told you you’d get the hang of this. Sniff. Though I think you’d better check their diapers. Unless it’s Teela. Sniff. No, not Teela. It’s one of the twins.”
“Diapers? You mean that smell is…”
“Exactly, Sire.”
“And… uhm… how do I change the diapers? And where are the diapers?”
“Sigh. I’ll show you, Sire.”
***
Fast forward some twenty years and Adam, Adora and Teela are all grown up and engaging in plenty of shenangigans and more adult activitiess of their own. So enjoy:
Orko Interruptus
Eternos palace, Teela’s bedroom:
“Smooch. Are you sure our parents won’t notice that we snuck away from the party?”
“Absolutely sure. My Dad and your parents are both at the reception for the High Council and your Dad is holding one of his endless speeches.”
“I’m certainly not sorry to miss that. But what about the guards?”
“I’m Captain of the guard and ordered them to patrol somewhere else. What about Cringer?”
“He’s a very discreet cat and knows when to make himself scarce.”
“So the coast is clear. And now kiss me again. Smooch.”
Puff!
“Guys, guys, do you wanna see my new magic trick?”
“ORKO!”
“Uhm, am I interrupting something?”
“YES!”
***
The next morning:
“And then he said, ‘Teela, I love you. I’ve always loved you’.”
“And then?”
“Then I said, ‘Adam, you talk to much’.”
“And then?”
“Then I kissed him.”
“Oooh!”
“And then?”
“Then Orko showed up.”
***
I got some dollhouse furniture at IKEA to use as props for my Masters-of-the-Universe-piece Theatre photo stories. The size works perfectly with both the Origins and the larger Masterverse figures. The cute dinosaur plushie came with the set, by the way. And yes, Teela would totally have a plush dinosaur.
That’s it for today, folks. I hope you enjoyed this Masters-of-the-Universe-Piece Theatre Photo Story, because there will be more.
Disclaimer: I don’t own any of these characters, I just bought some toys, took photos of them and wrote little scenes to go with those photos. All characters are copyright and trademark their respective owners.
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Hi, I can’t see any of the images in this post. They’re all showing as broken, and when I try to view them directly, I get a HTTP 415 (Unsupported media type)
That’s weird. It looks fine to me. I’ll see if I can figure out what the problem is.
Ah, don’t know if you changed anything, but it seems to be working today. I can see all the images.
All I did was delete some unnecessary files from the server, in case it was too busy. That seems to have done the trick. Glad to hear that it worked.
Awww, I love Teena’s dinosaur plush. And the new furniture goes with the overall Delft aesthetic of Eternia.
Also love the perfectly-matching background in the first photo.
Eternia loves Delftware and the Ikea store that just opened up there.
Would you believe that the matching background was a lucky accident? I opened up the figure and set him up to take a quick photo and only realised afterwards that the colours of the figure matched the tablecloth.