Did Mattel bring the He-Man action figures to Filmation before the series was created?
Yes they did and Filmation had to come up with the series concept. Filmation came up with Orko and many of the villains. They also developed the stories. We artists made the characters walk around and the writers made them talk with the help of the actors of course. Do you see any differences between the old & new projects of Filmation? He-Man I only watched because I had to. I was already in my 20s. We were trying to make things look like comic books. It was nothing but a miracle being able to do that & to have the wonderful experience of how Lou ran the show & the company. However the reason it was Filmations last years is because it wasnt their best stuff. He was working against time. He was dealing with companies who sent their stuff overseas. He kept himself working so that he could keep all of us working. We were all a team, a family. We were all dependent on each other. The problem was the funding of the major studios behind him. Lou had all these things going & had to have a lo
