>>11384088>They have their own in-house He-man and they just let the poor bastard collect dust.Yep.
Thundarr the Barbarian aired in 1980.
I think Ariel was an influence on Teela, since she's first Sword & Sorcery character in a leotard (that I know of). Since leotards require modern textile technology, you don't see them in Conan and his imitators.