I never liked He-Man. One of the main reasons was that I thought “Skeletor” was a poorly designed character.

I recently saw the docuseries “The toys that made us” where they explain the design of He-Man and who is Skeletor.

Now I understand that Skeletor isn’t sloppy but horrifying.

The choice of giving him a human body, skull face, and a hood isn’t random. He is an existing person. He is the scary man who sells the tickets for the ghost train.

I met him just a few years ago, at the “Prater” in Vienna with my girlfriend. We were buying our ticket when the seller surprised us.

He left us at the box office and wore a skeleton-masked hood. Then he jumped at the exit of the dark rail tunnel Just in time to scare two girls still sitting in the wagon.

Ghost trains usually are more kitsch than frightening. That one wasn’t an exception at all.

Anyway, at the end of the rail, we both gasped.

We were already in sight of sunlight, even if I was still trying to avoid the last fake spider web when the tickets seller whit the hood and skull face appeared.

He managed to frighten us. Even if we knew he would have done that and we should have expected it.

P.s. still not liking he-man nor Skeletor, but loved the story behind the design of them.