MOTU Favorite second wave heroes and villains

[Battle Ram Man]

This is for the original vintage figures! Pick up to two heroes and two villains for your favorites from the second wave. Ram Man has always been a favorite for me. I liked Man-E-Face's action feature as a kid, but I never liked his colors. Tri-Klops and Trap Jaw were my favorites by far from the evil warriors side. I never had Mekaneck growing up but I love the way he looks.

[Battle Ram Man]

I do associate Mekaneck more with the third wave guys (especially Buzz-Off) but apparently he came out at the tail end of the second wave.

[Anti-Guru]

Yes, Mekaneck was a 2nd wave figure. Tri-Klops was my fav.

[GREP-A-TOR]

Even though Evil-Lyn has 0 percent - I think she came out very good and display her just fine.

[Greenskull]

Ram Man Man-E-Faces / Trap-Jaw Evil-Lyn

[Pinch]

Too easy. It's Trap Jaw for me. But I always lost those darn weapons. Man E Faces is up there as well.

[Croc-O-Bite!]

Trap Jaw. I loved the different arm attachments & I would always run a string down the length of our staircase and have Trap Jaw slide all the way down and attack the heroes using that little loop on his helmet. Good times!

[Mechanizor]

Trap-jaw and Man-E-Faces were easily my favorite figures.

[Barbecue17]

I really don't remember being that into Trap-Jaw as a kid, but I do remember getting him for Christmas one year. I never had Triklops. I did have Evil Lyn and Faker, though, and those are the two I picked. As for the good guys, I went with Man-e-Faces and Ram-Man. Never had a Ram Man as a kid but always wanted him! I now have three vintage Ram-Man figures: one on display with my Vintage collection, one in my study, and one on my desk at work!

[Matthew L. Martin]

I do associate Mekaneck more with the third wave guys (especially Buzz-Off) but apparently he came out at the tail end of the second wave.

There are several figures or sets of figures that sort of fall into the 'in-between' category. Although Mekanek appears to have been one of these, I mentally associate him with the third wave because otherwise, it introduces an imbalance into the numbering--you have only 5 Heroic Warriors in Wave 3 vs. 6 Evil Warriors. Plus, he shows up in the trademark notices on the back of the mini-comics with the rest of the third wave--although Evil-Lyn doesn't show up until then, either, and neither of those are flagged with "Coming Soon". Faker, curiously, is absent from the both the 1983 and 1984 mini-comic trademark lists.

By contrast, the other figures who fall into those 'in between' categories--Faker, Evil-Lyn, and the Comet Warriors--stand outside the regular case assortments. In addition, two of them are largely/entirely repaints without a distinguishing gimmick, and the other two may have been rushed out to capitalize on the hype surrounding Haley's Comet in late 1985/early 1986.

[Y2Greg]

Ram Man, Man-E-Faces, Trap Jaw, and Tri-Klops!

[Bodybuilding Barbarian]

Man-E-Faces, Mekaneck, Trap Jaw and Tri-Klops. Not choosing Faker was very difficult for me but I got Trap Jaw and Tri-Klops at the same time and it was a BIG DEAL. I loved the Ram Man mini comic "He-Man meets Ram Man" but I felt the figure just felt cheap and hollow and not very articulate compared to the others. I remember Ram Man being a huge disappointment for me when I got him.