He-Man Eternia Playset

Written by Ralph on 8th June, 2008

The Eternia Playset was released in 1986 by Mattel, and was the largest Playset ever produced in the Masters of The Universe line. With three levels, three towns and a monorail that runs around the entire playset, it’s a toy that was lusted after by kids everywhere at the time, and is now coveted by collectors. This picture isn’t from the auction, but shows what it looks like assembled. A picture like this however, can’t really show the sheer size of this thing. It’s a monstrosity. Look at the picture in the lower left hand of the box cover, it gives an idea of what we’re talking about.

Seriously, this is one of the most impressive playsets produced ever. For any line. Aside from the size there are a ton of nifty features and accessories.

If you do think about it though, the playset doesn’t make much sense. Monorail? Um, don’t the heroes and villains both have plenty of vehicles that could fly? Even worse are the stops the monorail makes. Think about it. It goes to Eternia, it goes to Castle Grayskull, and then… Snake Mountain. Apparently they wanted to make it easy for Skeletor and his minions to attack Castle Grayskull or Eternia by providing them with a easy access to a monorail system which stops right at Snake Mountain.

Aside from that, the set it hard to find in good condition. The large size and large cost meant it had smaller runs than other playsets. Plus the size meant that it was much more likely to get beat up lying around in someone’s attic. Even worse is that fact that the monorail is notoriously fragile, know to break if you look at it the wrong way.

This isn’t a concern though if you opt to buy this brand new in box AFA graded Eternia Playset. The grade of 50 isn’t the best, but it becomes a lot better when you realize that there is only one other that’s been graded by the AFA so far.

If you’re actually interested in this, I wish you the best of luck. There’s only a few hours left, and it’s sitting at $3,000.00. I would expect a lot of last minute snipers however.

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