Man-At-Arms creates a duplicating machine, but it does not work quite as well as he had expected. It makes a copy of whatever is put under it, but the copy is smaller. Skeletor finds out about it and when Man-At-Arms leaves it for the night, intending to come back at a later time for adjustments, Skeletor steals it and makes an army of small Skeletors that he calls Skeletoids to help him take over the Royal Palace. Man-At-Arms tells viewers to resist gluttony and greed.
**Man-At-Arms:** "Today, we discovered that getting what you want isn't always a good thing. When we like something, particularly something sweet, it's easty to want more and more. But nearly every time, if you have too much of something, no matter how much you want it, you'll find that it... disagrees with you. So next time you see some candy, remember: you can have too much of a good thing." **Orko:** "Except me, of course. Right, Man-At-Arms? **Man-At-Arms:** ""We'll... talk about it later. See you next time."
John Erwin as He-Man/Prince Adam, Whiplash and He-Man clones
Alan Oppenheimer as Skeletor, Man-At-Arms, Battle Cat/Cringer and Skeletoids
Linda Gary as Queen Marlena and Jeeta
Lou Scheimer (credited as Erik Gunden) as Orko, King Randor, Attak Trak, Mekaneck, Moss Man, Sy-Klone and Jova
Erika Scheimer as Jade
- Behind the scenes: Script was approved July 10, 1984 and final script revision was done August 30, 1984. Jova, Jeeta and Jade were designed by character artists Lew Ott & Pat Wong. They were meant to resemble pandas, hence the distinct markings around their eyes. But eventually they were given all brown colors. Moss Man's animation model, based on the toy prototype by Mattel, was designed by Gerald Forton & Herbert Hazelton.
- Continuity: The footage of Man-At-Arms arguing with Orko with his arms folded was previously used in Diamond Ray of Disappearance. The shot of Skeletor's shocked expression was first used in Colossor Awakes.
- Animation errors and goofs: When the heroic warriors are looking down at Skeletor through a hole in the palace floor, the top of Mekaneck's helmet is colored silver instead of red. Modulok appears to be working with Skeletor's evil warriors, contradicting his solo appearances in which Skeletor would not let him join. During his brief appearance, Two-Bad is shown the wrong way around (flipped image). When the Skeletoids are arguing with each other outside the Royal Palace, the background layers of the palace entrance on the left side of the screen have been overlay-ed in the wrong order, making the entire wall appear to be transparent lines with the sky visible beneath the line art.
Source: heman.fandom.com (Wiki Grayskull, CC BY-SA 3.0). Catalogue and trivia compiled for heman.org.
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