Luckily, we had these official Masters of the Universe figural erasers! You see, this was a brilliant loophole for us in the whole "No Toys in School" rule since these little colorful figures were technically erasers, with which one could erase their wrong math quiz answers in order to right down the correct answer, and they didn't want us getting answers wrong, did they?! These weren't toys! These were school supplies!
SUCKERS!
We would sooner eat another kid's booger before we would sully our beloved MOTU erasers, but the loophole worked well enough to keep these little rubbery heroes and villains in our desks, ready to be whipped out in a moment's notice in case any spare play time presented itself.
Here we have He-man himself, who doesn't really look like He-man much in the face and his flesh colored boots gives him sort of a disfigured-lower-leg look, but that didn't matter back then. He's a cheap eraser, so we shouldn't epect much. In fact, you shouldn't expect too much from any of these eraser figures.
Next we have Man-at-Arms (which I always thought was a weird name, and more of a title, really). This eraser looks pretty good except for his bizarre left arm position. Is he punching the air? Is he scratching his armpit with his mace? No idea...
Here we have Teela, and I admit that this chick looks nothing like the Teela we all loved back in the day. What's with the green one piece swim suit with the '70s disco collar?
You can't have He-Man without Skeletor! This figure is actually pretty nicely done for a figural eraser. His feet are nice and big to keep him standing and his colors are pretty accurate considering. Too bad the one (which I got on eBay as a lot) has a chewed up sword. But then again, I understand the temptation.
And finally, we have the mighty Merman, complete with his Corn Sword (a term which I still claim I invented). In fact, his Corn Sword is crazy prominent in this figure! Look at the size of it compare to the size of the other figures! It's massive! Out of all of the figural erasers, meant to represent the finest warriors in the universe, it's the fish guy that's the most ready to throw down.
So those are my Masters of the Universe figural erasers. Never did they back down from a fight during free time, and never did they eradicate a mis-spelled vocabulary word, for that would have gotten them dirty.
I think I used skeletor to erase something once. I was desperate, and my desk had no actual school supplies in it. When it came down to whether to use He-Man or Skeletor, well, that's not really any choice at all, is it?
ReplyDeleteWhen it comes down to He-Man or Skeletor, I would have chosen He-Man. But I never had any Masters of the Universe erasers, so I never had to face that dilemma.
ReplyDeletenever had any of these but i did have a mum-ra rubber toy that was the same size. possibly an eraser.
ReplyDeletewhats the deal with orko? are those horns on his hat or was that some loop?
Never had these type of erasers but i did have a shoe box full of random monsters,spaceships and other oddballs. We had a blast having these in school and like you said these are "school supplies" not toys lol.
ReplyDeleteDid these things ever erase properly? I had the Skeletor one and tried to use it once but all it did was smear blue rubber gue on my paper. These things were totally more for playing with than using for your schoolwork.
ReplyDeleteI never tried to erase anything with them. And no, I don't think they were ever meant to be used in any way that they're labels implied. But it fooled our parents and teachers!
ReplyDeleteMORS - I forgot that Orko was in the first pic! He's actually what I believe to be some sort of gumball machine toy, like a plastic charm that probably came on a piece of cord. The "horns" that you see is a broken circle of plastic that the cord probably fed through. I have a Ram Man that's the same way.
Jboy- I think you're talking about those Diener erasers, which I also loved as a kid! I had a set of spaceships and robots as a kid. I'm trying to hunt some down, but they're expensive these days.
Reis its amazing that these little erasers like the ones we had as kids can be so pricey now. I think we were paying a dime or was it a quarter a piece for them at our bookstore.
ReplyDeleteReis i looked up those Diener erasers and you were right those are the ones i had as a kid! Man i wish i still had all of those.
ReplyDeleteImpressive stationary. It can stand well on it's own too! WOW!
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