Slime Pit
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The Slime Pit is the name of two Masters of the Universe locations. The original Slime Pit was released with the original Mattel storyline, with the other coinciding with the MYP/Four Horsemen MOTU series in 2003. Both locations were made as playsets for the toylines and both playsets came with sticky green slime for play value.
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[edit] Original Horde Slime Pit
The original Slime Pit belonged to the Evil Horde, which was a dinosaur skull-shaped device and a claw which Hordak used to trap Eternian Warriors inside it. The dinosaur head would then tip forward to coat its unfortunate victim's body with slime.
In the MOTU universe, the effects of the slime transformed everyone covered by it into a lumbering, mindless slime-monster, stripped from their own free will, and instead carried out Hordak's evil bidding.
[edit] MOTU Publications
The Slime Pit playset was packaged with the customary mini-comic Escape from the Slime Pit!, in which He-Man himself was captured by Hordak and trapped inside the Slime Pit to be transformed into a slime-monster, but the Rock People managed to help He-Man regain his own free will.
Prince Adam was also captured by the Horde and slimed by Hordak in a Star Comics story; The Garden Of Evil, but this time Orko came to Prince Adam's aid by returning the Sword of Power to him.
In an MOTU Kids Stuff read-a-long audio book; Prisoner In The Slime Pit, Hordak schemed to lure He-Man into the Slime Pit again by sending two Horde troopers to steal the Great Book of Wisdom from Castle Grayskull. In the end, He-Man recovered the book and Hordak ended up taking a dip in his own Slime Pit !!
Unusually, the MOTU character most depicted being slimed on the toy's packaging was Beast-Man, indicating that Hordak not only used the Slime Pit on the Heroic Warriors, but on the Evil Warriors as well, since the Evil Warriors' leader, Skeletor, was also Hordak's adversary.
The Slime Pit was one of the many MOTU toys that was largely unused in the Filmation animated series. The Slime Pit made only a very brief on-screen appearance in an episode of He-Man's spinoff She-Ra: Princess of Power, but it bore a totally different look to the playset, the slime itself was grey, and no-one was seen being slimed in it.
[edit] Mutant Slime Pit
Another Slime pit was made in 2003 for the new Four Horsemen toyline, with the name Mutant Slime Pit. It was very similar to Skeletor's throne as it appeared in the series of that same time and included a Mutant Slime Monster figure and slime.
For story purposes, the Mutant Slime Monster was summoned from the pit by Skeletor, but He-Man hit the monster with his sword and it exploded.
In the episode Out of the Past, Skeletor uses his minion maker (the Mutant Slime Pit) to create goo-covered monsters (the Mutant Slime Monster).
In order to differentiate the minion maker from Skeletor's throne, it was slightly altered for the series.
[edit] Differences between Slime Pits
- Owner: The original Slime Pit belongs to Hordak. The Mutant Slime Pit belongs to Skeletor.
- Slime use: The original Slime Pit's slime was a used as a sort of hypnotic magic slime when it covered its victim's body. The Mutant Slime Pit's slime is used as the Mutant Slime Monster's "blood".
[edit] References in other Pop Culture
- Similarly in Ghostbusters II, the river of slime in the Manhattan subway tunnel also changed the character's behavior, but only to a lesser extent.
- The Gunge Tank was a feature of many TV light entertainment programmes, where unfortunate celebrities or members of the public would also get covered in gunge, which was usually made from starch and food colouring.
[edit] External links
- Original TV Promo for the Horde Slime Pit [1]
