A Trip to Morainia

At the Royal Palace , Man-At-Arms demonstrates his latest invention to King Randor and Queen Marlena. He blindfolds himself and asks the king and queen to move around the room so he can show that his tracking disk will indicate their position to him. Randor has some fun bringing Adam, Teela, Cringer, and Orko into the room to confuse Duncan's device.

Just then, Randor receives a transmission from King Boreas of the ice kingdom of Morainia, who announces the creation of energy crystal ten times more powerful than any other on the planet. Boreas invites Randor to send a delegation to Morainia to receive the crystals.

As Adam, Orko, and Cringer take a Snow Trak to Morainia, they are observed from Snake Mountain by Skeletor, who gloats as the Trak runs straight into a crevasse. Once they reach the bottom, they find Snowmobile tracks, suggesting a path to Morainia. Before they can follow the tracks, though, they are faced with an ice monster, a giant spider. Adam transforms himself and Cringer into He-Man and Battle Cat, then carves a way out through the ice, leaving the monster boxed in behind them. Unbeknownst to the heroes, Skeletor, Beast Man, Trap Jaw, and Clawful are also on their way to Morania in the Basher.

When Adam, Orko, and Cringer arrive in the kingdom, they are greeted by Boreas and introduced to his two children, the standoffish Prince Esker and the daredevil Princess Janice. Adam is surprised to find that Janice witnessed his difficulty in the crevasse, and how he defeated the ice monster. Boreas shows Adam the energy crystals, and although Janice is quite knowledgeable about the subject, Esker dismisses her callously because she's a girl. Boreas invites Adam to try out the kingdom's ski slopes, and Janice is eager to go with him.

Later, Boreas and Esker encounter Beast Man and Trap Jaw, disguised as guards. Boreas sends Esker for help and confidently subdues the two villains with a hypnotic suggestion. However, Skeletor soon arrives and outwits the king by reflecting Boreas's spell back onto himself. Now under Skeletor's control, he is helpless to stop the villain from kidnapping him and imprisoning him in the Cave of Mirrors.

With Boreas missing, his royal advisers look to his son for leadership. But the task is too much for Prince Esker, who cannot come up with a plan and is too arrogant to listen to his aides. Suddenly Skeletor arrives to give his demands for the king's release: he expects the Morainians to give him the energy crystals and the means to make more in half an hour. Janice has a plan, but Esker is too stubborn to listen. Frustrated, Janice takes off on her Snowmobile, prompting Clawful to give chase on a War-Sled. Seeing the chase, Adam and Cringer become He-Man and Battle Cat again, and save Janice from Clawful. Janice tells He-Man about the crisis and explains that she's figured out where Boreas is being held by Skeletor, but she couldn't get her brother to listen. The heroes go with her, and He-Man wants to hear Janice's rescue plan, to her amazement.

Inside the old mines of Crystal Mountain, He-Man, Battle Cat, Orko and Janice work together to rescue Boreas from Skeletor's cell. Meanwhile, Skeletor and his lackeys return to collect the energy crystals, and the Morainian leaders are helpless to stop him. Just in time, He-Man and his friends arrive to stop Skeletor and chase him off. He-Man gives much of the credit to Janice, and Esker promises to listen to her ideas from now on.

**Teela:** "In today's adventure story, Prince Esker made an important discovery. He found out that a good idea could come from many places. Even from his sister. Know something? When you don't listen you might be cheating yourself out of a good idea. Besides, where does it say that big ideas have to come from big people? Give others a chance to share their ideas with you. I promise you'll be glad you did"

John Erwin as He-Man/Prince Adam, Beast Man and King Boreas

Alan Oppenheimer as Skeletor, Man-At-Arms and Battle Cat/Cringer

Linda Gary as Teela, Queen Marlena and Princess Janice

Lou Scheimer (credited as Erik Gunden) as Orko, King Randor, Trap Jaw, Clawful. the Morainian Chancellor and Morainian Guard

Erika Scheimer as Prince Esker

"A trap door wouldn't catch Orko"

― Princess Janice

1. Behind the scenes: Script was approved August 3, 1984 and final script revision took place on August 8, 1984. The animation models for King Boreas, Prince Esker and Princess Janice were designed by character artist Alice Hamm. The character models were finalized on October 10, 1984. This episode was storyboarded by Victoria Jenson.
2. Janice tells Adam she noticed Adam having trouble with his Snow Track and that she liked the way he boxed up the Ice Monster. Since it was He-Man who dealt with the creature, this seems to imply she witnessed Adam's transformation.
3. Continuity: The animated sequence of Beast Man kicking down the door was previously used in the episode Return of the Gryphon. The animation of He-Man using his mighty lungs to blow something away was first seen in The Once and Future Duke and will be used again in The Rarest Gift of All, Betrayal of Stratos, Just a Little Lie, The Greatest Show on Eternia and Happy Birthday Roboto.
4. Animation errors and goofs: Cringer's eyebrows are missing after he falls out of the Snow Track and asks "Can we go home now". The return when he turn his head as Adam walks in front of him. When Trap-Jaw blasts the force field controls, his cybernetic arm is on his left side rather than his right.

A diplomatic-mission script that lets the writers stage He-Man in a cold-weather setting and develop the inter-Eternian political map.

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