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Blastback wrote:I saw maybe one or two of episodes of one of the older series as a kid when we would be staying at a hotel somewhere on vacation, but it never was broadcast where I lived until Cartoon Network aired the 2002 reboot. (Honestly, there's a lot of stuff that didn't come on where I lived with the cable package we got as a kid ) Which I honesty really enjoyed. But it was the only entry in the franchise I watched with any regularity.

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were on the verge of crossing over with the Masters of the Universe in 2020, and thanks to artist Freddie E. Williams II, behind-the-scenes design sketches for the project are viewable -- including one showing Leonardo swapping out his trademark katana for two Power Swords.



Williams posted the pencil study on Twitter, linking it to a sketchbook currently for sale on his website dubbed He-Man/TMNT: The Crossover That Almost Was. The sketchbook contains Williams' designs that were largely done in 2019 while the book was still in the planning stages. Originally intended as a joint production between DC Comics and IDW Publishing, the crossover was delayed twice before it was finally cancelled.
Williams has shared other sketches from the ill-fated project on social media in the past, including images of the TMNT striking dynamic poses alongside He-Man, Shredder and Skeletor standing side by side, and Raphael riding Battle Cat. Williams' earliest posts date back to 2021, about a year after the project was canned.

"All those decisions were made above my pay grade," Williams wrote in a 2021 Facebook comment when asked why the crossover was shelved. "I’m sure someone somewhere had good reasons; I just don’t know those reasons. It’s a shame. "While the Turtles' adventures alongside He-Man never manifested, Williams has pencilled a wide variety of other crossovers for both the TMNT and the Masters of the Universe. Starting in 2015, Williams illustrated three Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series, and in 2016, he also lent his pencils to the He-Man/Thundercats crossover. In 2018, Williams mashed up He-Man and his comrades with DC's finest once again for the Injustice vs. Masters of the Universe crossover.

Aside from his work on popular '80s properties, Williams' most recent work is Godzilla vs. Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. The 2022 series continues his proud mashup tradition, this time with the world's most famous kaiju and arguably the biggest action show of the '90s.

Deadline reports that at SDCC, Smith revealed during a panel that Keith David has been cast as the voice of Hordak in the animated Netflix series. In the previous season of the Masters of the Universe sequel series, dubbed Masters of the Universe: Revelation, Hordak was briefly shown, though the character's voice wasn't yet revealed. With his casting, David joins Meg Foster, who previously starred as Evil-Lyn in the live-action Masters of the Universe film in 1987; she voices Motherboard in the new series. Other confirmed voice cast members include Mark Hamill as Skeletor, Chris Wood as He-Man, Melissa Benoist as Teela, and William Shatner in a mystery role.

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:

This randomly popped up in my YouTube feed recently. Enjoy!