If this doesn’t stir something magical in you, then we can no longer be friends.

A good friend of mine gave me this for Christmas a few weeks ago. I think I probably came across as being taken aback somewhat. This was not ingratitude, oh no, far from it. I was simply thrown twenty years into the past, joyously so.

Then I opened the cover.

I remembered instantly how I would sit and look at this image for hours. THIS was Eternia,it was unseen Eternia. It is such a bizarre image, so much of it is drastically out of context with anything contained in the stories or the animated show. I particularly love the dragonflies in the swamp section.

It is the bottom row of images however, that really struck a chord with me. The giant centipede creature, the rivers of molten lava and oddly enough, some deer. All of this would set my imagination running and I would conjure up stories to accompany each individual section.

It also kind of made me slightly melancholy, but that’s probably just an after effect of being transported to more colourful times, when hope and dreams assimilated in a magical formation, undashed by the jagged, vicious path that lay ahead.

Maybe I’d have been better off taking my chances in Eternia.

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zombiehamster on January 8, 2010 | Filed Under Blog, Entertainment?

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NickShearon  on January 8th, 2010

Thats pretty mystifying. I was pretty choked up. Seriously, there was almost tears.

zombiehamster  on January 8th, 2010

That’s the power of Greyskull.

LigOFE  on January 8th, 2010

that is beautiful…..

alphatroll  on January 8th, 2010

Knowing IS, of course half the battle. Truth be told, though, I think I would have been more moved by Thun-Darr & Ookla ;)

zombiehamster  on January 8th, 2010

Alphatroll: Tee Hee. Thundarr. Those figures are worth a fortune these days. ^_^

Lig: Yes, it is isn’t it?

essjayess  on January 8th, 2010

I remember! I REMEMBER!! I had the cassette of the Iron Master as well, used to listen to it in the car all the time. So many memories, that and the other He-Man book with The Valley of The Wyverns, man! Takes me back to a better time and place.

Thank you for posting this Belly. ^_____^

zombiehamster  on January 8th, 2010

I wish I still had my cassettes. I am going to have to root at home. I know I have ‘Lazerbeak’s Fury’ on Ladybird book & tape somewhere. It was that image in the cover of the Iron Master that knocked me for six. It was like a slew of images and memories all gushing ina t once and unusually, they were all good ones. I had that other He Man book as well. There were quite a few of them if I’m not mistaken, I’m sure there’s a list online somewhere. Glad this made you happy though. ^_^

essjayess  on January 8th, 2010

That back image and the one in the book (along with the tape reading of it) of the Iron Master holding the pilfered sword. Little Simon liked that.

I also had a tape and book of Zoids (the wonkey, clockwork dinosaurs, ‘member them?) which was the most bleak, haunted, sand blasted voice over of ANYTHING EVER.

zombiehamster  on January 8th, 2010

Yes, I would like to hear that please Simon. Yes please.

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