A couple of years ago, Mattel struck gold with Margot Robbie-led Barbie, directed by Greta Gerwig. The movie became a cultural phenomenon, competing with the likes of Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimerduring the award season and even bagged several Academy Award nominations. The overall success of the feature gave the toy company the idea to bring out one of their iconic heroes and reboot him for the newer generation.
The hero in question is 80s kids’ favorite He-Man, made popular by He-Man and the Masters of the Universe animated series, which transported fans to Eternia. With Nicholas Galitzine set as Prince Adam, aka He-Man, the Masters of the Universe live-action reboot recently debuted in theaters. Though it failed to recreate the charm of the beloved animated series, at least according to box office numbers. The feature follows Prince Adam, who recovers the legendary Sword of Power after being stranded on Earth for 15 years. He must then return to Eternia to overthrow the tyrannical Skeletor (Jared Leto) and claim his destiny.
The feature has some compelling performers, including Jared Leto as antagonist Skeletor, Camila Mendes as Teela, Idris Elba as Duncan aka Man-At-Arms, and Alison Brie as Evil-Lyn, among others. However, the campy self-aware action-adventure divided its critics and fans, who gave it a 68% and 86% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, respectively. The feature further failed to draw the crowd to theaters, grossing $112 million worldwide on an estimated $200 million budget and failing to recreate any Barbie-like hype for Mattel.
Collider Exclusive · Middle-earth Quiz Which Lord of the Rings Race Do You Belong To? Hobbit · Elf · Dwarf · Man · Orc
Middle-earth is home to many peoples — the courageous, the ancient, the stubborn, the ambitious, and the wretched. Ten questions will determine which race truly claims your soul. The answer may surprise you. Or it may confirm what you already suspected.
🌿Hobbit
🌟Elf
⚒️Dwarf
⚔️Man
💀Orc
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What does your ideal day look like? How we rest reveals as much as how we fight.
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How do you feel about the passing of time? Our relationship with mortality shapes everything we value.
03
Danger is approaching. Your first instinct is to: Fight, flight, or something in between — it’s more revealing than you’d think.
04
You stumble upon a great treasure. What do you feel? What we desire — and what we do about it — is the true test.
05
How important is community and belonging to you? No race of Middle-earth is truly alone — but some prefer it that way.
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How ambitious are you, honestly? Ambition is neither virtue nor vice — it depends entirely on what you want.
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Where do you feel most at home in the natural world? Middle-earth is vast — and every race has its place within it.
08
What kind of strength do you most respect? Every race defines strength differently — and they’re all at least a little right.
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What do you want to leave behind when you’re gone? Legacy is the story we tell ourselves about why any of this matters.
10
Be honest — what do you actually want most out of life? The truest question always comes last.
Middle-earth Has Spoken You Belong To…
The race that claimed the most of your answers is your true kin. If two tied, both are shown — you walk between worlds.
◆ A TIE — YOU WALK BETWEEN TWO RACES ◆
🌿
Your Race
The Hobbits
You are, at your core, a creature of comfort, community, and quiet joy — and there is nothing small about that. Hobbits are proof that heroism does not require ambition, that the bravest heart can beat inside the most unassuming chest. You value good food, warm hearths, close friends, and a world that stays largely untroubled by dark lords and quests. When adventure does find you — and it will — you rise to it not because you sought it, but because the people you love needed you to. That is not ordinary. That is the rarest kind of courage in all of Middle-earth.
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Your Race
The Elves
Ancient, graceful, and carrying a weight of memory most mortals cannot fathom, you are one of the Elves. You see the world in its fullness — its beauty, its impermanence, the unbearable ache of watching everything you love eventually fade. You pursue perfection not from pride, but because excellence is how you honour the time you have been given. Others may see you as remote or melancholy. They are not wrong, exactly. But they mistake depth for distance. You feel everything — which is precisely why you have learned to carry it so quietly.
⚒️
Your Race
The Dwarves
Stubborn, proud, fiercely loyal, and possessed of a work ethic that would exhaust most other races before breakfast — you are Dwarf-kind through and through. You do not ask for approval and you do not offer it cheaply. Your loyalty, once given, is given for life. Your grudges last longer. You love deeply and defend ferociously, and the things you build — with your hands, with your sweat, with generations of accumulated craft — are made to last. Not for glory. Because anything worth doing is worth doing properly, and you have never once done anything by half measures.
⚔️
Your Race
The Race of Men
Mortal, ambitious, flawed, and magnificent — you belong to the most complicated race in Middle-earth, and that complexity is your greatest strength. Men are capable of cowardice and extraordinary bravery, of cruelty and breathtaking sacrifice, sometimes within the same breath. You feel the urgency of your finite years, and it drives you. You want to matter. You want to leave something behind. You fall, and you rise, and the rising is what defines you. Tolkien called mortality the Gift of Men — not a curse, but a fire that burns bright precisely because it does not burn forever. That fire is you.
💀
Your Race
The Orcs
Brutal, survivalist, and contemptuous of anything that can’t defend itself — you answered with the instincts of an Orc, and there is a certain savage honesty in that. You do not dress up your desires in polite language or pretend you want things you don’t. You want power, survival, and to never be at the bottom of any hierarchy ever again. Orcs are not evil by nature — they were made from something that was once good, and broken into this shape by forces they did not choose. What remains is fierce, territorial, and deeply aware that the world is not kind. You’ve made your peace with that. The question is what you do with it.
‘He-Man and the Masters of The Universe’ Is Returning on Blu-Ray
Nonetheless, fans’ love for original IP knows no bounds, and keeping that in mind, Universal Pictures has announced the release ofHe-Man and the Masters of the Universe: The Complete Original Series on Blu-ray coming this August. Along with all 130 episodes of the beloved sword-and-planet sci-fi series, the box set will also include hours of bonus content. The 13-disc collection has over 40 hours of content, including bonus features like He-Man & She-Ra: The Secret of the Sword, He-Man & She-Ra: A Christmas Special, Power of Grayskull: The Definitive History of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, Saturday Morning Legacy of Filmation, and early concepts and illustration among others. And that’s not it for the fans of the Dolph Lundgren-led He-Man film: a new home media release, including 4K UHD, is on the way.
Meanwhile, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe Blu-ray debuts on August 25. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
Release Date
June 3, 2026
Runtime
141 minutes
Director
Travis Knight
Writers
Aaron Nee, Chris Butler, Dave Callaham, Adam Nee
Producers
DeVon Franklin, Jason Blumenthal, Robbie Brenner, Todd Black
