American Sci-Fi Classics Track… I HAVE THE POWER!

Fabulous powers were

revealed to me when I held aloft my mic and started running my mouth

about dork shit.

Seriously – that’s

how I got the panel gig. I’ve told the story before here on Needless Things, but after working with the fantastic American Sci-Fi Classics

crew (and publicly referring to them as “fantastic” many, many

times) last year at Dragon Con I was invited to more panels this

year. And my casual aside mentioning how much I’d like to run a toy

panel at Dragon Con was taken seriously. I basically got an e-mail a

few months ago that said, “Here’s your toy panel and a list of

others you might want to participate in. Oh, and you should probably

just run this Masters of the Universe panel, too.”

Mrs. Troublemaker has

said I’m pretty much insufferable since then.

The first thing I did was

ask if I could bring my Needless Things Podcast co-host Mr. Beau

Brown. I know Masters well enough to on for an hour (or more), but

it’s Beau’s franchise. Masters of the Universe is his

thing. I knew he would not only have all of the facts, but would

probably be thrilled to have an opportunity to talk about He-Man at

Dragon Con.

Then I got the other essage asking if we should have William Stout on the panel.

Oh, fuck.

I know people – myself included – use this term all the time; but

just got real.

Just meeting the man

behind the one thing about the 1987 Masters

of the Universe

movie that is unassailable – the production design – would have

been hugely exciting. But Beau and I were going to get to be on a

panel with him. To just chit chat about Masters. The mind boggles.

Boggle no more, because

here for your listening pleasure is Masters

of the Universe: 30 Years of the Power

LIVE from Dragon Con in its entirety.

“Procrastibate” by

LeSexoflex.com

“He-Man and the Masters

of the Universe Theme” by Shuki Levy (I think)