He-Man by Phil G
The Saturday before I left for vacation last month, I made an impulse purchase of a $5 DVD at Wal-Mart. I picked up the ten best episodes of He-Man and the Master of the Universe cartoon from back in the 80s.

My son became totally obsessed with He-Man. He watched the DVDs ten times in a row. We didn’t hear a peep out of him the entire ride home from Branson to Columbus. I contacted my Aunt to see if she had any of my old He-Man toys which were donated to her toy box when I put finally gave up playing with them almost twenty years ago for my continuing romance with video games.

But my son was adamant about playing with He-Man toys and what we got from my Aunts was a rag tag bunch of men, some with arms and legs missing, no weapons, no armor, etc So next we went to e-bay and $100 later, we had about 15 men all with their armor and weapons, battle cat, panther, and castle grayskull. I made a deal with my son that if he keeps up with his Hooked on Phonics and puts real effort in learning to read, he will get one He-Man figure a week with the castle as the big prize when completes the map (he’s in pre-school so it’s a good system for getting him up to speed with reading).

That’s all well and good until we asked him what he wanted to be for Halloween. Of course, he said He-Man. Again, we hit up e-bay and were able to score a vintage plastic He-Man costume (I had one back in ‘84) for $10 with shipping. Sounds good, right? Well, don’t forget the He-Man had a sword. Well, they had these plastic swords back in the day which were about $10 or so. Yeah, $155 on e-bay. We didn’t win that bid but we did end up shelling out $70 for new model He-Man sword which says, “I have the POWER!” when you press a button.

So, a $5 investment and a 4-year old’s obsession turned into about a $400 expense.

Kids are funny.

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