MOTU Classic Scareglow

Classic Scareglow from the original He-Man and the Masters of the Universe figures was one of the very last figures to hit stores in 1987 and to be honest he was one of my favorites. At the time I had a fascination with skeletons and action figures and what more could I ask for than a skeleton action figure that glowed in the dark from one of my, at the time, favorite toy lines!

I don't really remember what happened to my original Scareglow but I do know when I heard that Matty Collector  was making a Scareglow action figure for the new MOTU Classics line I was excited but also disappointed, you see the problem with Matty Collector is that it is nearly impossible to get anything from their site because it crashes and they only put out limited amounts of characters so when you want one you have to be faster then the Flash to get one, also I heard about Scareglow entirely too late when he had already been released to the public.I looked to find him on ebay but that was a lost cause on my part as he was going for almost $100 a character. I lost hope in finding him when all of a sudden I was at Emerald City Comic Convention with my friends and in one of the booths there had Scareglow on display and was selling him for just $40, knowing that was as good of a deal I was ever going to find him for I picked him up and haven't been happier since.

Scareglow has yet to disappoint me in the least in fact other than a few rare find figures Scary there is one of my holy grails. His paint apps are just what you would expect from Mattel which means it is great, or at least in my eyes it is! He still has the black paint on his glowing parts that when he starts to glow looks like a skeleton, that is one of the features that drew me to him in the first place. In the light he looks sort of dumb, but is nearly impossible to take a picture of a character in the dark trying to capture the glow.

 

The articulation on Scareglow is ball jointed head, ball and pin shoulders, swivel biceps, hinge elbow, swivel wrist, hinged torso, swivel waist, ball and pin hips, swivel thighs, hinge knees, swivel calves, hinged feet. The 4 horseman (the sculpting team of Mattel) did an amazing job on this character, they kept the crack in his forehead just like the original character had, he's also got the beady red eyes that make him look vacant and angry. His wrists have spikey fins on them and his feet are monster like feet with three toes.

 Scareglows accessories include his cape which is purple with a little bit of translucence on the bottom to actually make him look all the most ghost like. He also has his 'Scythe of Doom' which he also came with in the original but this one is more detailed in that the edge of the bladed part is cast in the same glowing material that he is made of. His final accessory is his club like it which was never part of the original character is a type of mace item that is chained to his wrist but the neat thing about this club is that inside there is a key what the key is supposed to be to I have no idea but I have read around on the interwebs that it is the key to Castle Greyskull itself, this might very well be since the top of the club is a small replica of the castle. 

Scareglow in any form is one of my favorite characters and if anyone out there that reads my blog and has the original or knows where to get one please let me know so I can have a classic and new one for my collection. As always comments, suggestions and critiques are welcome.