>>9603798>Are the horde just horror monster stereotypes? They even have a lair called the freight zoneBecause they were the villains for She-Ra, the Horde ended up being three different themes.
The ones who ended up in the boys' figure line for 1985 were horror monsters.
Between enemy figures for the girls' line and Filmation creating Shadow Weaver and Scorpia, you have a subgroup of women with fantasy powers (witchcraft, beast transformation, being part scorpion, prehensile hair).
And since the the Horde differed from the Evil Warriors by ruling the world instead of being a ragtag group, they needed generic troops, who turned out to be robots because of strict standards around cartoon violence. When developing the Horde Trooper toy fot 86, Mattel made all its wave-mates in the Horde robots too (Multi-Bot and Dragstor).
