The Original Title Was Deemed Too Religious
Mattel
Die-hard fans know that Lords of Power was going to be the franchise’s original title and that the creators ultimately decided to change it. Packaging designer Bob Nall explained: “When the product designers developed He-Man (largely designed by Mark Taylor – who worked in the same group) I had the opportunity to look at the retail face of the brand. We looked at many names before coming up with MOTU – it was almost called Lords of Power but many thought that was too religious in nature.”
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He-Man Was One Of Dolph Lundgren’s Toughest Roles
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The actor has said in the past that it wasn’t the funnest of times for him. Lundgren was unsure whether he should essentially play a toy to begin with, given that his career was just taking off in the ‘80s. It was also challenging playing a character with so little clothes on.
“There wasn’t much of a costume. It was just two leather straps and some kind of mini leather diaper or something,” he said during a 2014 interview. “I remember I had to fly on this disk through Whittier, just south of L.A. And we did 58 nights in a row on this frickin’ disk. You know, I’m there in the middle of the winter with no clothes on. It was tough. But it was also hard for me because I was playing kind of a hero now, and I’d played the bad guy. And I felt a lot of pressure. You know, just as this young Swedish kid. Internally, I was a bit lost at that time. Because I’d gotten famous for Rocky IV.”