Thread 11541593

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$300 Snake Lair extended to Sept 2nd.
Moss Man goes on sale TODAY

Origins/Cartoon Collection:
>Announced at SDCC: Snake Lair, Dragstor, Sting-Or, and 200X retail refresh.
>FRIGHT ZONE available for pre-order on BBTS and EE. BBTS Shipping pre-orders now.
>Bow, Shadow Weaver, and Whiplash coming.
>Sharella, Despara, Hurricane Hordak, Vultak, He-Ro, Rio Blast, Geldor and Night Stalker all STILL available on Mattel Creations.
>Sketchbook Sy-Klone is available at Target. Additional figures teased. Spikor coming soon.
>Two-Bad is confirmed sculpted but remains unrevealed.
>1 MORE Preternia character confirmed.
>CC Swift Wind/She-Ra on MC in September.

Masterverse:
>Announced at SDCC: Mantenna, Mosquitor, Dragstor, Despara, AE He-Man, Keldor.
>40th Anniversary She-Ra, Terror Claws Skeletor, Ninjor and Blade shipping.
>NE Hordak, Teela and Kobra Khan and vintage style Stratos coming soon.
>Panthor released on Mattel Creations February 11, STILL in stock.
>MV NE Moss Man goes on sale Aug 26th on MC

Crossovers:
>Skele-Shredder available on MC
>Megatron Skeletor and Bumblebee Man-At-Arms have shipped. Mini-comic shows Optimus He-Man and Evil Ghost of Starscream.
>Thundercats wave 3 is Panthor-Man, another Panthro, another Lion-O

Archive:
https://archive.palanq.win/toy/search/subject/MotU/

TQ: who else would make good oversized Masterverse figures

TQ: I mean, that's just one of the NE Beast Man bodies with some foliage parts. So how about NE Stratos as a gorilla, with big enough wings on his back to sell "this creature can fly"?
It's New Eternia, so the only limits are budget for unique parts, their imagination and a pinch of common sense like "Don't make an oversized sneaky ninja".

>>11541618
Blasphemy

>>11540334
>>11540345
>Goodness gracious, that art is so bad.
It reminds me of those low budget comics from companies that don't really care about comics. Like when they do adaptations of old Nancy Drew stories or Babysitters Club books, or even sometimes when a kid is supposed to be super into comic books in a movie but they don't want to pay the license for a real book so they hire someone to make one for the movie and the anatomy is way over-the-top and the colours are really garish.

>>11541593 (OP)
Why did mattel cut short the regular MOTU origins line? They never finished the original line

>>11541632
Because Mattel never finishes anything. They're like a bunch of ADHD spergs.
Between both Origins and Masterverse, the only subset of figures you can call complete is Rulers of the Sun

>>11541632
>Why did mattel cut short the regular MOTU origins line? They never finished the original line

They're still in the process of slowly finishing the original vintage line.
Remember that Origins has been struggling at retail since January 2022. Like for a long time after I picked up my Snout Spout and Leech at full price, a full peg minus my purchase sat at that Wal-Mart for months on end and were eventually marked down, that whole time sitting next to unsold Wave 7. Earlier this year, Target found a large supply of Dragon Blaster Skeletor and Snake Face, years after every adult in the USA who likes MotU got theirs. Nothing was selling in retail quantities, so each regular and deluxe wave had to be produced in much smaller quantities (which is why Whiplash and Digitino command a premium over most Evil Warriors and Sunners, and the whole King Hiss/Thunder Punch He-Man shortage) or simply not sell until they make their way to somewhere like Ross.
Cartoon Collection was a refresh to convince retailers this was something new, not just more Masters of the Universe Origins they'd already been burned by. And now I see Wal-Marts with ~6 unsold Fakers in front of a couple of Evil-Lyns, so it's time to give up on CC outside of Mattel Creations and fan channels.

>>11541640
>only complete collection in modern MOTU is fucking sunners

>>11541640
Sun Power!

>>11541644
Beating a dead horse at this point but I wish Club Grayskull was Mattel's way of selling these toys direct to fans that would bypass all the hassle of retail. I lost 95% of my interest in Motu collecting because the juice wasn't worth the squeeze to try and find everything.
Two years ago it would be been inconceivable that MC would have 4 exclusives that I just didn't buy. But in leafland we missed Moss Man, the ToG deluxes, and a lot of other ones I can't remember.
I would pay the $15 loonies of CG if it meant I could just buy the toys and have them shipped. No ebay, no flippers, no baloney.
>not even mentioning buying the main cast over and over and over

>>11541593 (OP)
Half-breed He-Man and the Multiculturalism of the Universe

>>11541644
Why don't toy companies just make figures timed? Like if stores don't sell product after a certain amount of time they ship it back to Mattel and Mattel can send it to other parts of the world. Here in Aus I constantly see people on /toy/ talking (even complaining) about figures choking toy aisles, even when they go on clearance, and yet toy aisles here barely get refreshed and look like picrel either left where it's empty, or right where it's just kitschy crap like those giant Ooshies and shit is trashed.
I remember trying to get the Origins Keldor two-pack was expensive as fuck to import and yet I saw people posting pictures of pallets of the fucking things.
Surely the shipping costs would cost Mattel less than what they lose by everything going on discount?

>>11541037
>im surprised nacelle or some comparable company hasnt tried to license muscle mutts just to ride those coat tails.
I'm hoping they at least license the stone protectors. If they just copy the origins formula that would be sweet. If they can afford all that articulation tooling on the Biker Mice, Sectaurs, Madballs, im sure they could do these with origins like articulation. Skipp the parts swapping and silicone web gear. Just keep the troll hair. I'd even not worry about the sparking stones.

>DESPERATION
Why back now when new backers already lost a major perk with Snake Lady? Stupid Greedy Mattel

>>11541753
>major perk
I'm a Snakefag and I wouldn't call her major. Barely a perk. I already have Lady Slither and I don't really need a half assed dead version of her. I'm passing on the lair due to international pricing making it not worth it, and the only thing I really feel like I'm missing out on is the Snorse.

>>11541640
Snake Men? Or do we need all Axel's OCs?

Hopefully, Powers of Grayskull will be soon complete. Then again, arguably you need giants for that...

Picked this guy up today. This figure actually kinda rules. I do wish the shoulders were hinge and swivel, but it's not that big a deal. I bought him mostly for the sake of just having this iteration to put in a He-Man through the years type display eventually, but he's a lot of fun to play around with.
Also while the proportions are kinda wacky, I think it does a good job of modernising the original He-Man toy mentality of having him being so much larger than the life that he stands out from the rest of all your other action figures.
They only thing I'm kinda concerned about is how the internal mechanism with hold up over time, though worst case scenario I can just glue his torso together. Has anyone cracked one open to see what the mechanism is? It feels like it's an actual metal spring.

>>11541817
>Snake Men? Or do we need all Axel's OCs?
No, we can say vintage Snakemen are complete, including the Lost 88. Even if I want Toxoid, he's not a true vintage figure that got as far in development as Terroar and Gr'asp.
>Then again, arguably you need giants for that...
PoG doesn't mean shit without dinosaurs.

>>11541814
>UHM AHKSHUALLY I wouldn't call her major
And yet many do. If only for the fact that one expects everything in the box for the price that others get too.

>>11541817
I guess if you break down vintage by faction, then ok, snakes are done

I don't really think of vintage completion that way. I see at "is all vintage done". But that's just me

>>11541833
It's not my fault people mindlessly consume to the point that they think that half assed piece of shit is a must-own.

>>11541632
Can't believe we still don't have a single fucking dinosaur

>>11541705
I hate colored folks but jesus christ work on your pun game son you're a He-man fan. We have shit like Mek a Nek.

>>11541897
>I hate colored folks
Yellow Lyn is going to have Skeletor's green babies to spite you.

>>11541937
This picture needs more black people. I feel like my wife's son won't like He-Man unless there are visible minorities in every piece of art.

>>11541961
Clamp Champ fans here.

Speaking of which, it’s kind of fucked how both Jitsu and Ninjor, the Asians men, are both in Skeletor’s side.

>>Masters of the Universe: DragonPearl of Destruction

I wonder if She-Ra as the fourth playable character will bring more modern fans to the classic 1985 version.

>>11541965
Slamurai...

>>11541961
Whenever Clamp Champ's not on screen, all the other characters should be asking, "where's Clamp Champ?"

>>11541970
Louder, angrier Clamp Champ having access to a time machine would still be better than the Mighty Spector.

>>11536854
And what do you call evil Moss Man, Ven-O-Moss?

>>11541629
I think the artist is motu fan, so that's probably how he got the job. I could swear he had youtube video somewhere talking about his work on Horde minicomic. I recall that it revealed that CC Mantenna used to have Box of Voices acessory along with stolen voice.

>>11541852
Then how many subsets do you count aside from vintage and sunners?

You could for example cont CC Filmation but that leaves question how do you count it as complete.

>>11541965
You put 3 women in toyline total, one black guy at the end, both of your asians are evil and so stereotypical they're literally named Jitsu and Ninjor and your main hero is white blonde Ubermanch with Iron Cross on his chest. And no one complained

This diversity shit was easy back in a day.

>>11541989
>This diversity shit was easy back in a day.
Because shit like Facebook and Twitter didn't exist to give the three uptight mothers who had a problem with it a public platform to screech. Parents probably didn't even know the names of half the characters it would have been all "Skull He-Man, and Green He-Man, Soldier He-Man"

>>11541995
>uptight mothers
You think they're the ones complaining about lack of diversity?

>>11541968
I hope so, Nu-Ra gets an undue amount of attention.
Honestly though I just want the damn game to go up for purchase already.

>>11542001
Well them and college know-it-alls. Nobody else gives a shit.

>>11541969
You’re absolutely right.
I forgot about Slamurai (Asian), Plasmar (black) and Strobo.

>>11541759
Despara is a horrible concept. If they needed a female Horde species, they should have given him a niece who's basically a valley girl who serves as foil for Catra and Scorpina

>>11542025
You could play her as one

>>11541868
>Want equal shit for equal price
>DAAAAAAAARRRR DAT MEANS U TINK ITS A MUST OWN!!!!
Why are you so retarded, bro?

>>11541970
"I said Nin-JA!: NIN-JAAA!!!!"

>>11541965
>the Asians men, are both in Skeletor’s side.
.....Why wouldn't they be? The toy designers had family at Pearl Harbor.

>>11541968
Really looking forward to play as her.

>>11542025
>Despara is a horrible concept. If they needed a female Horde species, they should have given him a niece who's basically a valley girl who serves as foil for Catra and Scorpina

I would love that just because we need clarity about the Horde species.
Both the gray-skinned and blue-skinned Hordak have a head that doesn't match his skin. Blue officially has a cybernetic head, while on the toy it looks like bone, with the sagittal crest many animals have but humans don't. What does a normal Horde species head look like?

>>11542025
>Despara is a horrible concept
>Is literally Adora, goes through the same basic story beats as cartoon, she just has a funny mask

PoP hater, or did you just not think that one through?

>>11542025
>Despara is a horrible concept
What is it about the concept that you don't like? Not saying you have to like it, just that a hero brainwashed/possesed into becoming a villain is a fairly common storyline.

>>11542125
im surprised you didnt choose the coexist icon for his chest emblem

>>11542045
kek

I love this alt head so much
bumped the figure from generic to memorable

>>11541593 (OP)
>>11540567
i still headcanon slamurai and osirah as a powercouple

>>11540334

>>11542181
kEK

>>11541822
kino anon, him and all his mates are real fun. they're just shouldered in against better toylines which was a really dumb move by Matty.
>>11541968
this is good, but not as good as nudist She-Ra.
>>11542009
we don't 100% know if he would have been black. The only thing we had to go off of was the card art. everything else someone like scott made up with the exception of Strobo who appeared in 1 comic which depicted him as caucasian.

>>11542211
Fuck it, I'm gonna post the Strobo comic
(It's only 6 pages)

This was from the last issue of the US Magazine

>>11542211
Danielle G. and not Scott colored the Lost 88 (minus Strobo) for Classics.

The end

>>11542216
Fun seeing Sssqueeze working alongside Evil Warriors. In the minicomics, the Skeletor basically became a member of the Snake Men. The two times we saw him with EWs instead, the ones from 85 and earlier had abandoned him and he was alone with Faker until a spell or Evil Cloud summoned new ones.

>>11542222
"That boulder covers the entrance to a secret tunnel under Castle Grayskull!"

CG and Snake Mountain connected by underground tunnels (where the Elders sunk the Three Towers) would make the ultimate D&D dungeon.

>>11541978
What's Spectors actual character like

How do you unpack your figures? Do you rip them open or are you careful with it?

>>11542238
>and he was alone with Faker until a spell or Evil Cloud summoned new ones.
>a spell or Evil Cloud

ahem. Aren't we forgetting someone?
>Gyro machine mogs the competition for new warrior generating

>>11542267
>Tear package to shreds
>Throw card, bubble and minicomic in garbage
>Zero fucks to give

>>11542243
In case you're wondering where Skeletor's man cave is...

>>11542125
He-Bro

>>11542243
how the hell are we gonna crowdfund THIS playset

>>11542267
i try to not tear the comic but otherwise its all trash

>>11542303
Too obvious. You have to be more creative or Autistic-Man will get angry.

>>11542270
>ahem. Aren't we forgetting someone?
>Gyro machine mogs the competition for new warrior generating

It does, but I was thinking of Energy Zoids of one of the mini-comics where Skeletor is a member of the Snake Men.
"King of the Snake Men" established the new status quo, then the Snake Men with Skeletor were the antagonists in "Snake Attack", "The Ultimate Battleground!", "Energy Zoids" and the PoG mini-comic.

"Only Evil Warriors are allowed to cheat!" Skeletor said in front of King Hiss.
So either all Snakes were a subset of Evil Warriors until 2002, or Skeletor just excluded his frenemy from the "allowed to cheat" club to his face.

>>11542292
Its nice he has a breakfast nook to focus on his plans and goals while enjoying a healthy breakfast each morning. What would Skeletor enjoy for beakfast though?

>>11542181
Vibgyor, the Spectrum Warrior.

>>11542223
>>11542226
>Strobo is basically a human mirror ball

On Eternia, disco's never going away!

>>11541745
I'm surprised more of these companies havent tried aping the success of Origins. Even Playmates took a good 5 years before they "got" it. Despite not being the biggest fan of the Stone Protectors myself I can see them working out in Origins/Remastered fashion.

That said, Nacelle's choice of turtle clones has been all over the place.Biker Mice and MooMesa both make sense because they were some of the biggest turtle clones of their day. Biker Mice has a huge following in Europe and Russia too. But having both feels a little redundant. Then they nabbed Barnyard Commandos from the ruins of premium dna (mostly to use as a stand in for GI Joe) and that further mucked things up. Zen would have been a better choice imo. You'd get more alien weirdos in the line AND its a turtle clone to boot.

>>11541869
>no mantisaur
>no PoG dinos
>no Gygor

it's all because they flooded the market with battle cats....

>>11541982
Moss Maniac or Moss Menace should work well enough

>>11542253
literally just deadpool. he shows up, quips about the timelime, and the goes off on new adventures.

>>11542669
>there hasn't been a vintage vehicle/steed since Night Stalker

>>11542369
>"what" don't sound like no playset I ever heard of. They got action features in "what"?

>>11542666
Playmates still didn't get it. They fucked it up.

>>11542697
they just released a 6 pack that featured the turtles with normal skin along with spinder and shredder. really for what they are they're not that bad.

>>11542666
>But having both feels a little redundant.
They probably did it because they could afford to, and releasing new figures doubles their shot as something resonating and being a hit. Imagine if they passed on Moo Mesa because they thought no-one would give a shit about cow boy cows, and then for some reason it gets a resurgence in popularity? It also means that if one brand does well it can support the other.
While I appreciate the new Biker Mice figures they released, I do wish they'd follow the Origins playbook a little closer and release updated versions of the original figures, hell even a straight re-release wouldn't be too bad, the articulation on those figures is still pretty solid by today's standards.

>>11542747
Honestly had a pin/hinge on the elbows, wrists and knees, and tweak the shoulders and hips for extra range of movement, and it's pretty set.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, making all of the Origins figures modular was the smartest move Mattel made in bringing the line back, it allowed for not just more articulation, but also way more cost-effective mould re-use, which keeps manufacturing costs down, retail costs down, and way more variety of figures to be made. I'm fairly certain that without that modularity the Thundercats figures would not have gotten made, it also means that Mattel can sink a larger up-front cost into lines like the upcoming 200X line, because those figures will be able to mixed-and-matched with other parts in future.
Nacelle doing the same with the original Biker Mice figures would be awesome.

>>11541965
>>11541970
Clamp Champ fans: Should I get the first Origins release or the TMNT release (assuming I can only get one)?

>>11542755
I'd say get the original release, but then I'm mostly someone that only wants characters in their traditional looks (with a handful of exceptions)

>>11542311
It will be a playmat with some accessory.

>>11542755
Both are good but tog clamp's only real use is to make picrel

>>11542710
The shredder in that pack is so fucking bad and the splinter still completely misses the mark despite being the best figure in the box, he doesn’t look anything like the vintage one

>>11542795
If you make this guy, how many skull-headed beings whose muscles haven't rotted away are there?
Skeletor
The Great Black Wizard
This guy
Hordak maybe (but an alien skull)

>>11542755
I asked a similar question a few threads ago. I have a lot of nostalgia for Champ because he was one of my core Motu toys as a kid.
I'm waiting for the ToG version to go on clearance because its neat to have a variant of him but its not high priority.

The Masterverse Moss Man is apparently pine scented

>>11542666
>>11542747
>>11542753
What if they were Biker Mice From ER Burroughs' Mars?

>>11542666
Year ago turtles, now 6pack with new turtles, Shredder and Splinter. I bet we'll get nothing until next year. And when we do it will be Bebop and Rocksteady but with another Shredder. This line is ridiculous.

Are Nacelle figures the Origins kind of thing or are they more like Neca or Super7?

The only other remastered/origins thing I can think of are Street Sharks.

>>11542710
Nah, the lack of ankle tilt. Splinter not looking anything remotely close to his vintage figure. Masks are twisted on some turtles. Shredders death stare. Designers at playtmates are stuck in the 80s and don't look at anything in the current market for inspiration.

Post your collections please.

>>11542872
Honestly using that as a backdoor MOTU crossover wouldn't be hard.
I'm actually bummed that this will probably never be an Origins cross-over.

>>11542904
>Are Nacelle figures the Origins kind of thing or are they more like Neca or Super7?
The latter. The Barnyard Commandos were more like Origins in slightly updated but they break easy. Roboforce has issues with joints and glue. Sectars were a mess

>>11542686
>"what" don't sound like no playset I ever heard of. They got action features in "what"?

>>11542872
That'd be badass. Frankly I think Nacelle messed up by not building up their universe around Biker Mice. It's easily their biggest and most recognizable property. Why you'd have them play second fiddle to Roboforce is beyond me.
>>11542929
Fuck that's cool. I'm already imagining all the bad guys with Barsoomian make overs.

>>11542904
Way closer to Super7 than Neca, but unoike Super7 they dont upcharge you on alternate hands and things. Instead, the figures are kind of upscaled and that's where they justify the 30 buck price point.
>>11542977
I've never heard about the Roboforce joint issue until now. Is it serious? Far as I can tell none of their figures had particularly bad QC. What's your issue with the new Sectaurs line? I own Dargon and I'm happy with him. I just wish they hadnt tossed in Stelara so early in the line, but I get their motivation in doing so. The upcoming improved bug mounts are looking good atleast.

>>11542804
I honestly dont think either are as bad as people let on. The only downside with those two are their wonky eye paint apps.

>>11542906
The closest I can think of in the same vein were those ramen toys centurions, but they lean more towards the S7/NECA approach

>>11542834
is that why he is $35?

>>11543102
He's 8 inches tall, that's why he's $45

Attempt to make Castle Grayskull with four walls and a roof, using images of the Icon Heroes statue for reference.
2x Mega sets.

>>11542681
Fisto?

>>11543111
Masterful. well done.

>>11542681
Looks like he's getting a colonoscopy.

>>11542666
>Teenage Pockmarked Ninja Turtles

>>11543106
Looks like they dropped the price to $35. Membership no longer required to purchase.

Mattel Creations launch calendar has TWO alleged MotU drops in the last week of September.

One will obviously br Swift Wind because they outright confirmed her for Sept at SDCC.
The other, take your guesses if it's even real and not an error

>>11543359
I don't think I really give a shit about swiftwind, wish it were spydor or blaster hawk.

>>11543359
>>11543364
Modulok and Multi-Bot

Who are the core cast of the He-Man franchise? I don't want to buy over sixty or more figures.

>>11543398
He-Man, Teela, Duncan, Orko, Cringer, Sorceress
Skeletor, Beast Man, Evil-lyn, Trap Jaw (maybe Mer Man and Tri-klops too)

That's all you need if you just want the MCs. Everyone else is glorified guest stars

>>11543398
Heroic:
He-Man/Prince Adam
Battle Cat/Cringer
Man-At-Arms
His daughter Teela
Her mom the Sorceress
Orko

Evil Warriors:
Skeletor
Beast Man
Mer-Man
Evil-Lyn
Trap Jaw
Tri-Klops

The Horde:
Hordak is the only one you can count on to get dialogue

Thank you.

After 40 years I’m just now realizing that Skeletor has no natural flirting his side.
Surprised Skeletor never hit a flyer for the Evil Warriors.

After 40 years I’m just now realizing Skeletor doesn’t have any fliers on side. You would think Mattel would put characters with flying abilities on the Evil Warriors side.

Otherwise Stratos and Buzz off have clear advantages.

Heroic Warriors

Tah-Rah: She can mimic any voice she hears. Rides a grey griffin.

Evil Warriors

Torr-Goh: Caretaker of Skeletor's evil lair.

>>11543487
What?

>>11543111
post more pics goddamnit this is awesome and you post one pic what the fuck

>>11543433
this was intentional. For the first few years Skeletor for all the water guys (mer-man, clawful, landshark) while he-man for all the flying ones. Don't really know why since water is arguably the source of all life but fuck it.

>>11543111
That's actually insane dude. Is there even an inside still?

Man at Arms is done with your shit

>>11543359
My money would be Eldor but seems too expensive.,,. nothing we know about fits, right? Another TF crossover?

>>11543359
One is Swift, the other will get pulled since it's two days later.

>>11543433
Draego-Man filled that niche when they made him

Is Origins Necro-Conda worth the 30 bucks?

Anyone else think sooner or later Mattel will do a MOTU x G.I.Joe crossover line?

>>11543899
>have the eternia mini designs
>never use them

I know about the old app game but still. Nobody wants cocomelon heman.
>>11543924
I keep suggesting it. After Turtles and Thundercats, Gi Joe and DC would seem like the logical follow up. Transformers has been a weird wrench in the gears.

>>11543433
Reminder Merman was supposed to be a hero and Stratos was supposed to be a villain. That's the only reason we ended up with this needless dichotomy. I'd rather see those ideas canonized over Jitsu becoming a hero.

>>11543898
As a Canadian I'd love to be able to pay that much. Saw him for 80 at some local toy shows.

>>11543924
>>11543932
Why would Joes make sense, out of curiosity. Like, He-Man in fatigues doesn't sound particularly interesting. I'd presume the guns would be laser guns. Not many melee weapons, which is a MotU staple. Not sure how it'd work.

>>11543933
On the flip side the heroic side doesn't have any swimmers while the evil side has at least Merman and Clawful. Naval vs air superiority I guess?

>>11543941
Towards the end of vintage, after the movie came and went, Mattel was fixated on finding some way to make MOTU financially viable again. Mark Taylor and the other designers all pitched various ideas, and Taylor's suggestion was to transform MOTU into a GI Joe competitor.

Beyond that there's the snake connection, the class of 84' legacy, the overlap in fanbases, and the fact that ARAH is the final frontier for 80's action figure IP.

>>11543944
Yeah that was the idea. Still I'd rather see Merman and Stratos swap factions.

>>11543941
>Why would Joes make sense

The same reason wwe made sense
It fucking doesn't, but we're doing it anyway because there's dollars to chase

>>11543941
The King Hiss and Snake Men connection to Cobra and Coba-La

>>11543648
Opposing forces. He-man's hair is yellow, like the Sun. Skeletor's face is white, like the Moon. He-man's allies are mostly human. Skeletor's is mostly beasts. Skeletor's skin is blue, like the water. Man vs nature.

>>11543941
GI Joe has ninjas who carry melee weapons. Plus we could get an extra Concept Art He-Man Mattel's never gonna do otherwise >>11543948

And the people GI Joe fights call themselves Cobra and sometimes have visible snake theming. Basically you'd have Skeletor and the Snake Men open a portal to Earth and meet them, requiring any Heroic Warriors in the crossover to go find the US military (it makes the most sense if they include Marlena, so they won't).

The snake man who clothes his whole body to pass as human is even yellow like King Hiss.

>>11543952
The Triple H they made just made me want a Mortal Kombat crossover, not WWE.

>>11543898
No, but he's on clearance for $15 on Walmart's website.

>>11543952
Wwe is less of a stretch than Joe. Both brands are major beefcake with gimmicky costumes.

>>11543924
Duke x He-Man
CC x Skeletor
Scarlett x Teela
The Baroness x Evil-Lyn
Flint x Man at Arms
Storm Shadow x Ninjor
Destro x Hordak
Cooperhead x Mer-Man

>>11543989
Yeah, GI Joe doesn't have that. It's all very grounded and down to earth

>>11543948
They should've done this! I would've eaten it up. I always pitted my Joes against MOTU anyway. I pretended that MOTU was an evil alien race from another dimension that wanted to conquer Earth, and only the Joes could stop them.

Make these, Mattel! The leaner bodies used with the Thundercats crossover would be perfect for this.

>>11543991
Giblow x motu would probably be the definitive pinnacle of muh nostalgia retardism. These franchises have nothing in common beyond the era they were released and being toy commercials.
Probably 90% of the cast of motu would be domed instantly by bullets and their vehicles are pathetic compared to even 80s military hardware. It would be fucking stupid and only lead to more snakemen figures.

>>11544011
>more snakemen figures.
sign me up.

>>11544011
>t. Voice of reason
Thank you for your service Anon. Don't let any butterhurt millennials bring you down. Just because something is from the 80s doesn't mean we need the crossover.

>>11543952
Kicking myself that I didn't go all in on this line at the start. Missed that ManeFaces BND, that faker Cena which peg warmed, and both the ring playset. Never did see Sting on pegs.

>>11544011
>>Snake theme villains

Literally right there is commonality


Another is the NASA space aspect with Joe astronauts and Queen Marlena

>>11543932
Man it would be a dream to make new figures for the eternia minis line- and I mean of the original series/toyline not of the new shows. Those were my favorite to collect. I am still missing a few.

>>11544011
Only way there going to show Manimals from G.I.Joe again.

>>11544026
The Motu Fandom is mostly sick of snakes though. And saying Queen Marlena's outta space background is the common ground between franchises is such a reach. You might as well say Snake Eyes x Mighty Specter if you are going to grasp at straws.

>mighty snake specter would be S tier trolling by Mattel tho

>>11543996
Holy fuck that is zesty. Are all GI Joes dressed like Village People?

>>11544043
Venture bros made that joke kek
https://youtu.be/Pz59tFR2KMs?si=UTI__qhuTVnsN_vx

How hard do you think Mattel is going in on the 40th for the 87 movie next year? i know MV figs have been releasing, but Origins style figs to go with these vintage figs would be also nice. There's also those concept sketches for Karg and Troopers for the vintage line. Hopefully we see something in Spring Toyfair in a few months.

>>11543971
Ever notice how in the early 80's our childhood heroes were mostly human, like Duke and He-Man, but in the late 80's it switched to animals, like Ninja Turtles and Thundercats?

In the late eighties and early 90's, Ninja Turtles became the most popular toy for boys.

Turtles are reptiles (beasts). The Ninja Turtles were surfer dudes (water). They lived in the sewers (the underground). The lead turtle, Leonardo, wears a blue bandana (water). Their leader is a rat (associated with scum and villainy). The Ninja Turtles were often shown watching TV, playing video games and eating pizza (lazy and non-productive).

>>11544066
wow kids love "extreme" sports video games and reptiles. What will you find out next, that kids love dinosaurs and Hamburgers?

>>11544062
I would kill for movie troopers in origins. Karg would also be cool alongside movie Teela, Duncan, and He-Man. Sucks they'll stick to Masterverse.

>>11543971
Skeletor's face is yellow though.

>>11544068
Out of the ruins
Out from the wreckage
Can't make the same mistake this time
We are the children
The last generation
We are the ones they left behind

>>11544062
You're a year off.
It would be funny if we got an Origins-scale Pig Boy next year because he's in the hot new movie, while waiting another year for Saurod, Blade and Gwildor to crawl towards complete vintage.

>>11544066
Thundercats was 1985

>>11544088
>You're a year off.
Oh you're right. 2025 just been that kinda year, me thinking 2 years have already passed.

>>11544127
Ah, that explains why they were still promoting a hero related to the sun and villain related to the moon and water.

Lion-O - the lion is a solar animal linked to the Sun god Ra in Egypt. A lion's mane is yellow, orange, red (Sun).

Mumm-ra has blue skin (water). He was often shown with a moon in the background, and his pyramid is linked to lunar power.

>>11544041
Give me Scarlett, Covergirl, Baroness and Lady Jaye showing some skin

>>11544154
>Uncover Girl

>>11544160
The Baron-dressed and Lady Jaye-bird

>>11544154
The best I can do is grant your wish but all those characters have been given a Nu-Ra redesign.

>>11543952
Wwe is characters, Joes are military, generally.

Ninjor versus Snake Eyes.
Panthor versus Junkyard

Tri-clops dressed as Scrap Iron
Kobra Khan in Cobra uniform

I made some new mega customs. I'm genuinely surprised we haven't gotten an official minicomic ninjor. He's depicted as all black with he-man style arms and legs. I'll eventually paint the proper boots all black for mine.
Then an OC who is a half-orc half-elf hybrid. She's a spoiled brat currently making her way as an adventurer after running away from home.

>>11544208
Your OC is brilliant.

>>11544208
Would

>>11544043
Straight Men doing normal jobs.
- for example COBRA's accountant.

>>11544216
100% no homo

>>11544216
Stratos vs Evil Accountant
It'd be a rivalry for the ages

>>11544208
>She's a spoiled brat currently making her way as an adventurer after running away from home.
With a mug like that, she will have a bright future in the porn industry.

Guys! I've figured out the figure Mattel could reveal to maximize rage-clicks.

>>11543996
bald Zardoz

>>11541822
Me again. Went and picked up the Skeletor today. Of all the updates to Skeletor's design, I genuinely think this is the best version. The hood draping over the shoulder is cool, and the skull on the chest with the ram horns going over the shoulders and wrapping around over the back is an interesting way to update the crossover straps from the original design. It also reminds me of the way the snakes wrap around the back of Thulsa Doom's armour in the Conan movie (added a picture for reference). Finally the stylised skulls and all the neon green give off Spawn vibes.
I do really enjoy the figures and the exaggerated proportions, but I would love to see this Skeletor design translated onto the Origins mould. I know some folks didn't dig on the proportions of the CG series, so putting it on the Origins body might give them a chance to enjoy all the good qualities of the design.

How powerful are the Evil Warriors?

Skeletor
Evil-Lyn is squishy by Eternian standards, but uses magic to get OP. Or Rev Scare Glow, since he's a god.
Beast Man is a big guy who can command groups of dangerous animals, which should put him significantly above other big brutes.
Who fill the bottom tier and why?

>>11544388
I assume Blade and Ninjor are the bottom tier of power.
Blade is just a swordsman, Ninjor is just a ninja, and neither are shown to have any enhanced abilities to augment that.

which one should I get?

>>11544433
Rattlor is better, but he's a snake so get Ninjor.

>>11544436
I'm new to this, I only own Cartoon Teela but I've orderen She-Ra and Vypor. Why does everyone seem to hate the Ssneks? Where they part of a badly received story arc or do the snake toys lack quality?

>>11544448
It's actually neither.
In 2023 they made "snakes" the whole theme of Origins, everything was either a snake man or a snake variant of someone with a few exceptions. And then when it was over and folks were ready for new Horde or Evil Warriors...they released five new snakes at retail instead while simultaneously pulling vintage from retail entirely and Snake Lair winning a vote held at the time for the crowd fund after Eternia. Snake fatigue kicked in, everyone bitched and now it's basically a meme to hate snakes

>>11544436
Rattlor is cool but how is he better than Ninjor in any way. Wings, sword, long neck vs extending neck and arm pieces that don't stay on well.

>>11544453
Snake fatigue is something that all men experience at some point in their lives, son. Especially as they get older.

>>11544453
Well, it's weirder than that.

The first wave with Snake Men was 11:
Kobra Khan/Rattlor/Snake Armor He-Man/Bolt Man
King Hiss came out with Thunder Punch He-Man
12: Tung Lashor/Snake Armor Skeletor/mini-comic Roboto/Hypno
13: 200X King Randor/Snake Teela/Snake Trooper/Samurai with deluxe Snake Face/Dragon Blaster Skeletor
14: Spikor/Sssqueeze/Serpent Claw Man-At-Arms/Snake infiltrating the royal guard
... and that was the end of mass retail until Cartoon Collection. Wal-Mart got a wave of 4 different Snake Men, Duplico from Rulers of the Sun and a $30 Snake Men army builder. Target got 4 RotS characters. Fan channels got a 4-pack with 3 new snakes and recolored Snake Armor He-Man.

>>11544216
The whole 1987 Cobra figures would do great in a MOTU crossover:
Battle Armor Cobra Commander, Crystal Ball, Croc Master, Raptor, Big Boa, Golobulous, Nemesis Enforcer, Royal Guard, Techno Vipers, Zanzibar.
And just throw in Pythona and Baroness for good measure.

>>11544433
Both, don't mis out on the mutants evil warriors.

>>11544433
Ninjor is massive. Rattor is better with two figures because the neck joint needs extra pieces to make it cooler. This is 4 neck pieces from 2 figures

>>11543972
>And the people GI Joe fights call themselves Cobra and sometimes have visible snake theming. Basically you'd have Skeletor and the Snake Men open a portal to Earth and meet them, requiring any Heroic Warriors in the crossover to go find the US military (it makes the most sense if they include Marlena, so they won't).

Yeah you're on the same track I was. Have Skelly and the Snake Men reverse engineer the cosmic key. Skeletor dethrones Hiss and takes his power (leading to the release of Concept Hiss) only to return with Cobra weaponry to Eternia, while aiding in an invasion of Earth alongside Cobra commander. Then the heroes find out independently of each other and establish contact before going into all out war. The Joes would get Eternian upgrades, and the Heroic Warriors would all get tacticool militaristic ones. Maybe all the bad guys end up with a thulsa doom look?

>>11544003
>>11544026
>>11544032
based

>>11544030
I really wish the Eternia Minis had done better. It really sucks that they just died off like they did. They effectively got choked out by thr deluge of other options Mattel was offering. I'm not looking forward to the2027 movie, but it sure would be nice to get a new release of MOTU MINIs somehow.

>>11544003
The only way Star Brigade will return.

Opinions on the Turtles Mossman?

>>11544724

Wish I saw him in person. Same with Merman. I swear, the distribution for that line was god awful.

>>11544724
Boring. Unless you really liked the ST Vekna which was mostly the same thing

>>11544724
I wanted one and never saw any irl. Same with the flocked exclusive.

What are the odds once Pythonus tanks, too many people will pull out and Snake Lair ends up cancelled after all?

>>11544742
>Boring
wtf? How?
>>11544931
>>11544729
can't you just order online?

>>11544088
Does anyone actually like Pig Boy and want a figure of him unironically, or is he just a meme or something?

Like, I can even see where people would see genuine appeal in other lower tier guys like Karg and Goat Man, they had toys in Classics and what have you.
But Pig Boy was a blink and you miss it movie background filler and the butt of a "scraping the bottom of the barrel" joke (I know Goat was in that joke too, but like I said, he was also in Classics and so still seems more "legit" if that makes sense)

>>11545069
I dont like having to make new accounts just to buy one or two items

>>11544567
Can you imagine if we'd gotten Minis tie-ins alongside all the big crossovers?

>>11545078
I wouldn't mind him but don't care if he gets made either.
It's good when we get new characters. I collect a lot of the knock off lines and modern stuff like Zolo, Formo and Super7 because I just like to expand the ranks of my 5.5" army.
It's kind of annoying if he were to get priority over someone like Glimmer or Marlena but I'd rather get him than another snake.

>>11545078
Hes a proper monster man minion only in fun-size. I think he that wacky appeal similar to Pig-Head or Frog Monger.

>>11545078
He's kind of fascinating. Why is there a child with the Evil Warriors? Asking "where did he come from?" seems like a more valid question than some deep cut adult henchman who doesn't have a mini-comic or episode explaining it.
I wouldn't be too upset if they made Goat Man without him, since like >>11545086 I really want characters like Marlena and Glimmer to get priority, but I do like him.

Like let's be honest with ourselves Goat Man fans, he has no personality beyond "dumb, may serve Beast Man rather than Skeletor directly" and his design is Galaxy Warriors tier, not a unique toyetic body like most characters from the later half of vintage MotU.
Give him a child apprentice like a member of the medieval warrior class and suddenly there's some characterization meat to work with.

>>11544377
Make sure you have or get a stand. You will need it for this skeletor, he is very top heavy.

I think it's hilarious how this has been proven to be a Mark Taylor sketch of Conan during the abortive time Mattel held a license from Conan Properties International, and now they get away with using it as a MotU character for free when CPI is rent-seeking parasites that sued them in hopes of taking the entire Masters of the Universe IP away.

>>11545119
I concur about Goat Man. I like the low effort KO vibe and his head is pretty striking.
I also agree about giving him the child sidekick. And this is a personal storytelling preference but I wouldn't want to know why / how they got paired up. Sometimes a mystery is better than a poor explanation. I remember watching Mad Max movies as a 10-12 and having all these questions about the world but that made it more engaging.

>>11545119
I wouldn't hold either of those against him
Dumb describes like half the Evil Warriors
And you compare him to later half of MotU, but the Golden Books he hails from only ever covered the first half of MotU, and next to guys like Jitsu, Zodac and Webstor he fits in perfectly.

>>11545152
>Dumb describes like half the Evil Warriors
>And you compare him to later half of MotU, but the Golden Books he hails from only ever covered the first half of MotU, and next to guys like Jitsu, Zodac and Webstor he fits in perfectly.
These are both valid, and I DO like Goat Man almost as much as Jitsu.

... and that's as a solo act. Have him training an "evil page" and he's a breakout character I'd be posing and taking pictures of all the time, like how I like LoP Mer-Man way more than the vintage one a relative found still on the pegs for me as a preschooler in 86.

>>11545078
He's a little guy, like Orko. They should have called him Porko. Missed opportunity.

>>11545167
OK real talk...did you like LoP Beast Man more than the regular wave 1?
>I'd like either a lot more if he wasn't wearing slippers.

>>11545114
I'll say this much for Rev...if they choose to retain the Goat Man/Pig Boy thing, I hope that going forward the Rev design for Goat Man becomes the template, because adding that under bite with tusks to him really works for me and improves the design and gives him a little extra "monstrous" flair that the book and Classics lacked, him just looking like a regular bald guy with horns

>>11545223
I like the Powercon exclusive LoP Beast Man better than wave 1, yes.
The wave 6 repaint though, no. I like Beast Man in his traditional colors

>>11545223
Yes.
For me, there's no really good Origins Beast Man, because of those damn slippers. Either retail LoP or ToG is OK for having him so my Origins EWs aren't missing him, because they're cheap and as weird variants Mattel isn't going to make them over and over again as they do with whatever counts as core characters' "normal" looks.

>>11545119
I HAVE A SUGGESTION.

What if Goatman and Pigboy are specifically underlings to Beastman, so Beastman can feel as important as Skeletor?

>>11545132
Y'know for as much as I love both IP I partially think MOTU would have been better off in CPI's hands. Maybe not during the 80's, but between 1990 and 2025? Hard yes.

>>11545167
>>11545234
y'know even with the slippers I'm leaning towards making ToG Beasty my standard version for the same reason I'm thinking of doing as much with BumbleMan at Arms. They're more visually striking and special on account of the crossover.

>>11545121
>he is very top heavy.
Mine seems fine. It's only the core figure, did you mean for the Masterverse version?

>>11545241
The shield change on ToG Beastman is why I passed on him. Probably me just being a cheapskate but at the time it was the fact he got a lamer shield and the slippers.....just didn't see the need to have my fifth Beastman knocking around.

>>11545162
Which ones will be bosses in Dragonpearl of destruction?

>>11545234
If you don't like the "slippers" and aren't a stickler for Beast Man to be bare foot, I'd recommend if you have a spare Masters of WWE Rey Mysterio putting his boots on Beast Man
That's how I have mine and it looks pretty decent , at least with proper boots there's a reason he doesn't have toes

Is Batros an evil warrior or a horde member?
Or is he independent?

>>11545311
Batros wants to join the Evil Warriors in "The Great Books Mystery" and is accepted,unless I'm misremembering. Not independent by the end, and definitely not Horde.

>>11545311
Either independent or Evil Warrior
He starts his ep with his own scheme to bring down Eternia by stealing books...but by the end of the episode he bends the knee to Skeletor and abandons his own plan to try and help Skeletor get into Grayskull. So you could view it as his "recruitment" episode
He has literally nothing to do with Horde and never did

>>11545162
Where’s Batros, Night Stalker and Blast Attack?

which would you say are the best MotU figures for a generic fantasy display?

>>11545320
Wundar and the skeletons, easy

>>11545319
I don't know why the first two were omitted, but the last one is because Scott stuck a "Snakeman" logo on BAs box because "muh minicomic". The bio even states that BAs natural state is Evil Warrior but that King Hiss brainwashed him.
But yet he still marketed Kobra Khan as an Evil Warrior. Go figure.

It aint happening snek bros. Hope axel pull his weight with mattel and bug them to release it as a MCCG exclusive at some point.

>>11545320
Eldor

>>11545344
>Everyone to Pythonus right now

>>11545344
>>11545355
A high priest is stupid unless you have regular priests to be higher than.

>>11545363
His position isn't high, just his state of mind.

>>11545344
If only Mattel had controlled themselves.
>Release the Fright Zone a month earlier
>more expensive the FZ by far
>the whole Snorse debacle
>snake shed still mogged hard by the Primal Age Batcave on price, play features, rizz

I wish this was the 80s still and some entrepreneurs from Argentina would make a bootleg of Snake shed for a fraction of the cost. And in 30 years YouTube would make videos about the rare playset

>>11545374
What play features Batcave has?

>>11545236
>Y'know for as much as I love both IP I partially think MOTU would have been better off in CPI's hands. Maybe not during the 80's, but between 1990 and 2025? Hard yes.

Mattel spent the years between 1992 (when the "MotU sized" New Adventures variants came out) and 2020 taking zero initiative to promote He-Man.
1996: 80s kids' media is trying to reinvent itself for a new generation (e.g. Transformers Beast Wars, Extreme Ghostbusters in 97) itself. Lou Scheimer notices and tries to get DIC and Mattel to bring MotU back. Mattel won't.
2002: Mattel pays for MotU toy molds and cartoon production only because the Four Horsemen took the initiative to show off their designs and ask the trademark holder's permission to proceed.
2009-2016: Mattel employees are surprised every time they learn that the DC Brand Manager they hired is selling He-Man toys online on the side.
2017: Super7 wants to pay us for permission to sell He-Men online? OK.
2018: Shocked that the huge corporation the Filmation rights found their way to would want to do anything with She-Ra.
2020: Finally push toys to retail, with cartoons to follow a year later.
The amount of slothful indifference was startling.

What are your favourite MotU toys? One from your childhood, one from right now and one playset?

>>11545400
In retrospect maybe "play features" is the wrong term. It's got a lot of props, like the awesome throne, the crystal ball, the practice dummy. It also came with some extra weapons that work well with Origins. There was this big spinal column that could be used as a ladder or a spooky background thing. There was also a working jail cell.
If you are someone into toy photos and want something with lots of potential - the Primal Batcave was great value.

It's the first playset my kids reach for.

>>11545422
>If you are someone into toy photos and want something with lots of potential - the Primal Batcave was great value.
>It's the first playset my kids reach for.
Pics please (I think I've seen some of yours before, but still).

>>11542125
He's HIM

>>11542181
Literally me

>>11544433
Get both. They are great as is but adding Ninjors legs and wings to Rattlor makes a sick beast. If there was a translucent tail in the sculpt of Reptilax it would be perfect.

>>11545514
Forgot to add you need to attach Rattlors feet to Ninjors legs to complete the look.

>>11545374
thanks for reminding me, I think I'll go buy that playset instead of the shit layer.

>>11543972
>>11544564
i'd buy these

>>11544433
Translucent limbs always have problems with popping out of socket. For that reason, I'd only buy these if I found them on deep discount. But if I could only choose one, I'd pick Ninjor for the head.

I bought two Cartoon Collection Grizzlors today. I haven't opened them yet, but now that I've examined them more closely, I've noticed that the left arm on one of them has popped out of socket at the shoulder, and the other one has separated at the waist. Is this a common problem with this figure?

>>11545628
That just happens with modular figures. They pop back in fine.

>>11545641
I've never seen a separated limb inside the package of a Origins figure before. For it to happen twice in two separate packages of the same figure is rather strange.

>>11545410
Mer-Man and battle armor He-Man from childhood

>>11545408
No need to remind me, I've been alive for most of it. Aside from 200X it's been a pretty miserable stretch of time. They're like this with alot of their boy brands too. Look no further than the likes of Mighty Max or Street Sharks for further evidence of that. The worst part of it all is watching history repeat itself again and again.

I've mentioned as much before but the CGI series really felt like it came along a decade too late. I'm seeing alot of the same hallmarks with the 2027 movie too. Why ape Guardians of the Galaxy a decade past its best by date?!

FFS it will have been 40 years, and not once will they have properly adapted the franchise for the big screen. Transformers came and went twice in the same span of time that's transpired!

>>11545410
>childhood
Mcdonalds Skeletor and He-man
>now
Wundar, Clawful, Terroar, Leech, alot of the ToG boys
>playset
I still havent bought one for myself yet but you cant go wrong with Castle Grayskull. It really is the perfect boy's playset. It's only rivalled by Kenner's Wayne Manor and the half dozen variations of the Sewer Lair Playmates released over the last 25 years.

>>11545410
Tung Lashor and Rattlor were my favs as a kid. And even as an adult those are my two fav vintage figures.
Tung because he's so eye-catching and Rattlor because it's the most fun gimmick to play with for me.
Out of the modern toys, those two lost a bit of their standing (you can guess why) so from Origins I'd probably name Mosquitor and Trap Jaw my two favs. Clawful is great too.

>>11545410
>childhood
Moss Man
>now
Classics Stinkor
>playset childhood
vintage Snake Mountain
>playset now
Classics Grayskull

>>11545719
>Tung Lashor and Rattlor were my favs as a kid. And even as an adult those are my two fav vintage figures.
>Tung because he's so eye-catching and Rattlor because it's the most fun gimmick to play with for me.
I remember Rattlor, the water squirters, Modulok/Multi-Bot and the Flying Fists being the most fun vintage gimmicks to play with. Flicking Tung Lashor's tongue was up there too.

NOW: I think I've had the most fun playing with Origins Leech.

PLAYSET: Castle Grayskull, then or now.

Now I've had the time of my life
No, I never felt like this before
Yes, I swear, it's the truth
And I owe it all to you

we're almost guaranteed to be getting a 5.5 DC line, right?

How much longevity do you think the new characters introduced in the modern era will have?
Will any of them become franchise staples going forward, or will fans and Mattel alike just forget they ever happened? And who do you have the most and least faith in?

I'm talking characters like Frog Monger, Sting-Or, Necro-Conda, Rattle Hood, Horde Revenant and the rest of the army builder 4 pack, Motherboard, Queen Osirah, Tarangela and anyone else you can think of from any toyline, cartoon or comic since 2020.

>>11545719
>>11545735
Tung Lashor and Kobra Khan for me. I liked the misty water blast feature and I think Tung Lashor was the last MotU I got as a child. I really liked the snake men alot and agree that Tung Lashor's color and design was just really interesting. And making him flip his tongue in and out was a good fidget toy.

Semi-related I picked up a King Hiss foot soldier today at Ross and can finally make full serpentine King Hiss to rule Snake Mountain. I think he's pretty cool. Debating whether it's worth buying a second one to give him a six sets of arms build because they had a loooooot of them.

>>11546156
Dude do it. You need at least two Foot Soldiers and a bigger King Hiss.

>>11546160
That is true, it would give me an extra torso for a foot soldier. As of now the extra parts are being used for OC. Like this guy who got a new skirt.

And this one that has new longer arms that color match his hands.

>>11546099
>How much longevity do you think the new characters introduced in the modern era will have?
>Will any of them become franchise staples going forward, or will fans and Mattel alike just forget they ever happened?
Has anyone become a franchise staple in the 21st century?

The 2002 cartoon tried to make every B-list Heroic and Evil Warrior from 1982-5 more prominent (no Jitsu or Spikor), and King Hiss and Rattlor got a lot of attention. But those were all 80s toys.
Oh, they created King Grayskull.

The DC comic? That was mostly Teela and the heroes in the Filmation opening sequence vs the Diamond Ray of Disappearance baddies with lots of cameos, right? King Grayskull was back for flashbacks, and King Hiss and Rattlor were the most prominent snakes again?
Once the Horde showed up, I remember Hordak, Shadow Weaver and to a lesser extent Catra and Scorpia getting like 95% of the faction's dialogue (not counting the defector Despara, and Skeletor in flashbacks). Imp got a scene of He-Man ordering his life spared while Mantenna, Entrapta and Dylamug each got one word balloon as I recall.

The Powerhouse cartoons made Scare Glow much more prominent.
If you look at the CGI cartoon, the writers felt they only had enough space in 26 episodes for 5 heroes, Adam's father, Teela's mother and foster father Man-E-Faces, the DRoD baddies (with Mer-Man independent), Tuvar/Baddra and the team Stratos assembles (with Webstor, Rule 63 Mosquitor and Gary the Living Fright Fighter).

Games are one place you might see obscure troop types get used enough that, in combination with mute cameos in cartoons/comics, you might call them franchise staples.

>>11546099
I think black Andra is here to stay, but I really wish Ram Ma'am could too. We're at a point now where they could be ported into the "g1" continuity via an origins toy and slight redesign for parts use.
The skeletons are probably in, and all the snake OCs will stay sadly. I'd like if Rattle-Hood could become the Dinobot of the Heroic Warriors.

>>11545808
Absolutely. Mattel's spending big bucks for it, warner needs the money, and MOTU is big on crossovers these days. All signs point to yes.

>>11546099
Considering how many Classics additions havent yet debuted in Origins its hard to say. Part of me has this gut feeling that mattel is itching to bury MOTU at the first opportunity it gets.

>>11546248
>The skeletons are probably in, and all the snake OCs will stay sadly.
... really?
I could see us being stuck with a bunch of them as recurring toys, to spread out the cost of the important Snake Men's steel tooling, but in cartoons, comics or games? It seems like writers can only fit in dialogue for three or so snakes.

>>11546170
>>11546173
These two knuckleheads really give off filmation vibes. They feel like villains of the week.

>>11545808
Yes, but expect them to be Mattel Creations exclusives.

>>11546173
I love this guy. He looks like he's performing a musical number.

>>11546260
>I could see us being stuck with a bunch of them as recurring toys

Right...so that would make them franchise staples that stick around. Who gives a shit if they get in cartoons or comics too?
He-Ro almost never appears in anything but he's in every main toyline since Classics

>>11545641
Well, against my better judgement, I decided to open one of the Grizzlors, and as I expected, his arms and torso separate very easily, much like the Sketchbook Grizzlor (although not quite as bad). It's something to do with the brown plastics that Mattel uses.

Also, I noticed that his figure seems to be made of a lower quality plastic, in general. It feels lighter and has a cheaper feel, like a dollar store toy, compared to Origins figures.

>>11546099
If Frog Monger is a beloved meme with the fandom, he might get written into fiction as someone villains release from Castle Grayskull when they inevitably get inside.
Sting-Or has no hope if the thinking continues to be "We're doing the Horde, so we gotta show Grizzlor, Leech and Mantenna (but they're mute goons so no need to hire voice actors)."

Me, I would strictly keep Leech and Mantenna out of Horde flashbacks so they can be characters Adora/Despara grew up with rather than up to 5,000 years older than her, which would open a potential niche for Sting-Or (pic related).

>>11546273
>Sting-Or has no hope

I can't believe I've actually had cause to post a crying Sting-Or two threads in a row

>>11546261
>>11546264
Oh thanks, I started out just giving them random extra parts I wasn't using and eventually they evolved to enjoyable characters, like this lovely lady with the power of the pachyderm.

>>11546271
Just wrap the pegs with plumber's tape

>>11546248
Ram Ma’am would make a great companion to He-Ro and Skeleteen era.

If I could fix one thing about Origins, or future MotU lines, it would be this:
Modulok is designed at the same time as He-Man and Skeletor, so having the same joints as regular figures in the same line doesn't turn into the nightmare of different adaptors that make him harder to play with than the vintage one.
Sell him as a two-pack with two of those torsos he'll share with Frog Monger if you have to.

And you don't have to autistically put the Horde logo on his package to avoid upsetting men who were alive in 1985, OK? He's just an Evil Warrior for now.

>>11545344
>release it as a MCCG exclusive at some point.
>Already priced into the Snake Lair playset
>You now have to pay again for an exclusive to actually get it
Crowdfunds are a scam

>>11546319
Heh.

>>11546300
I could piss away more money on plumber's tape, and I could drill holes in the torso and limbs and fill them with lead to add that weighty quality feel that is lacking... or I could return it to the store for a refund. Hmmm... decisions...

>>11546311
mine had a peg break off the first night i opened it while playing around so maybe a sturdier re-issue

>>11546173
Who's legs are those ? They're the perfect Baltard shade.

Reminder that Karg was a planned toy for the vintage line.
>An Origins figure would technically be both Movie and Sketchbook Series

>>11546422
Prince Adam

>>11546425
The way he was going to be engineered with his back and a huge head covering as one piece to support his hairpiece is nuts.

>>11546480
No one new getting teased in the art?

>>11546481
Looks like Teela is blonde minicomic Teela with her unicorn Charger, if that counts.
Otherwise no

OK... hear me out: He-Man & She-Ra as a doll line.
One of the first male characters we'll make is King Hiss in a hoodie, pants, boots and human mask (with swappable hands between human gloves and snake heads).

if we get a DC crossover wave I can hope that it's a short one of just the A and S-tier characters in their silver age costumes.
Imagine how fucking lame it'd be if it they tried giving us a 5.5 fagman who laughs.

>>11546495
>OK... hear me out: He-Man & She-Ra as a doll line.
Yes. And maybe it can influence the Barbie line and Ken dolls can stop looking like they just stepped out of an episode of Queer Eye. Seriously the metrosexual thing hasn't been in for almost 20 years. I know Ken is supposed to appeal to girls, but does he need to be such a soft boi?

What if Origins Skelcon, but instead of molded plastic fur tunic and hood, it's Grizzlor rooted hair overlay tunic and rooted hair on head dyed purple?

>>11546797
Yes, I'd buy some!

>>11546797
not a bad idea

>>11545430
hey sorry for the late reply but I got busy.
This weekend is the long weekend so I'll suggest they play with them and take some pics.

Noticed something interesting:
In the Filmation episode "The Time Corridor", He-Man says "The Silkon civilization vanished thousands of years ago" and they had laboratories. Then King Tamusk, who "was the last of Eternia'’s sorcerer kings. But that was thousands of years ago." gets pulled forward in time.
His palace stood at the same site as Randor's, though he says it looks different now.

This lines up pretty well with the history presented on this page of "King of the Snake Men!", our first glimpse of Preternia (before He-Ro and the dinosaurs were developed).

Though in the Powers of Grayskull minicomic, the palace of Eternia in King Hiss' time has been replaced with a village where it "will stand one day". But maybe the Snake Men destroyed King Tamusk's palace and the site wasn't reused for the same purpose for a long time?

What’s the importance of the central tower of the 3 towers?

One is an annex of Grayskull and the other is the annex of snake mountain.

What is the central tower suppose to be a part of?

>>11546887
>>11546892
>>11546899
I appreciate teh autism but this is borderline Scott level mental gymnastics.

>>11546902
The Sorceress says that Grayskull Tower was a symbol of everything good, Viper Tower a symbol of everything evil, and Central Tower was connected to them in order to draw both powers... into a vast battery of neutral?

>>11546917
Huh?
So is there suppose to be a main neutral castle somewhere on Eternia?

>>11546480
The fact that they didn't even bother to re-sculpt the left side of the castle to actually look like Mark Taylor's original design for this release tells you all you need to know about modern Mattel.

>>11546902
Balance.

Zodac proves that this is important concept in Motu mythos.

>>11546610
They wont bother with comic tie ins going forward. DCUC nearly died twice over because of that between Darkest Knight and Flashpoint. I'm calling it now, the eventual DC crossover will lean heavily on Super Powers/Super Friends nostalgia. It's the most direct means of getting evergreen renditions of everybody out at once. Hopefully they have the foresight to make grodd and reuse him for gygor.

>>11546917
>>11546922
Central Tower IS the main neutral castle.
But in practice, all it is is "Super Grayskull"

Castle Grayskull was originally just a neutral battleground for He-Man and Skeletor to fight over, but then over time, Sorceress just lives there and it was He-Man's base

And just like that, Central Tower, after it's first appearance
>Guys, only the TRUE RULER of Eternia (Randor) can enter the place safely
>If someone evil like Hordak enters, he turns good, so only good guys allowed
>In Origins they even give it its own good "Sorceress" protector.
>The good guys come and go from the tower and use it as they please and they gotta keep the bad guys out

Beat for beat, Central Tower is just used exactly like Grayskull, but I guess it's powers are more fabulous and more secret so we don't care about Grayskull no more.

>>11547197
>Hopefully they have the foresight to make grodd and reuse him for gygor.

If that's what it takes
I want him so bad bros

>>11547230
This take just makes me more satisfied that I don't own the Three Towers playset.

>>11547270
>Gygor is Beast Man's stepfather
Kek
So what would Gygor's role in the collection be? We know of two different designs for the Big Jim gorilla: the more colorful one, alignment unclear, that Scott decided was an Evil Warrior or independent villain, and the red one who would have been a heroic steed.

>>11547230
I...hate how correct this is.

>>11547433
>what would Gygor's role in the collection be?

In MY collection or do you mean "what will Origins do with him in an official capacity?"

>>11547475
Yours.
Official story in an Origins mini-comic would... probably be shit.

>>11547477
Ok, you want headcanon?
>Gygor is the ultimate champion of Skeletor's Circle of Doom arena
>Prisoners and gladiators are managed and wrangled by Lodar, because he's an Evil Warrior (picrel, they said it not me, regardless of whether Skeletor was in that comic)
>So Lodar and his Kobolds capture mooks like Garn, Fisto and Rotar, and make them fight the likes of Clawful, Jitsu and Twistoid in the arena for Skeletor, Evil-lyn and King Hiss's lulz
>But if a prisoner proves TOO tough...break out the fucking giant armored gorilla

>>11547424
>>11547459
If you want something more simple, you could always just disregard all the lore and just treat Eternia playset as the toy version of Palace Eternia that Randor rules the planet from

It's not like playsets actually looked like their toon counterparts anyway.
And if you need to explain Grayskull Tower and Viper Tower, just chalk them up to "design shorthand" for Randor having a monorail to quickly get warriors from the palace to Grayskull to defend it or to Snake Mountain to attack it

>>11543359
One of them is supposed to be Swiftwind but what bugs me is that the logos used here are both the Masterverse one

>>11546797
Nah, I'm not really feeling it, Skelcon's tunic fur isn't that long anyway.

Hi rez Grayskull art reveals the Grayskull space suit is...Faker?

And there's an orange dude in the moat. An lore, minicomic or concept art autists able to positively ID him?

>>11547567
>Faker spent years inside Grayskull next to the throne, was too dumb to find the secret powers

>>11547571
Why showcase Demo-Man? Does anyone actually like him? His only official lore is being half of Skeletor, which makes him hard to use unless you ignore it. What would be cool about him if you did?

>>11547580
They're probably showcasing him because the whole thing is Lords of Power/Mark Taylor art references.

Are your toys enemies or are they friends just acting like mortal foes?

>>11547687
my Skeletor and He-Man have playground rules typically, so the latter. But my She-Ra? She's a nudist.

Does anyone else find it odd/annoying that they chose to put He-Man in the Wind Raider for what is ostensibly a groundrace competition against Skeletor? I know they did the regular Wind Raider on its own in the regular Hot Wheels line, but wouldn't the Battle Ram, Ground Ripper, or Attak Trak be more appropriate? Or put Skeletor in the Collector, or the Roton or hell even the Talon Fighter because Skeletor has flown that before. Or hell save themselves some tooling costs and put He-Man and Skeletor on Battle Cat and Panthor respectively.

>>11548056
Dude it’s for tiny little kids. No big thought was put into this.

>>11541644
man, id be stoked to find a Fakor or Evil-Lyn at retail..

I'm in NZ and so much never even saw retail here. Maybe because of Covid?

theyre starting to come in slowly but in such small quantities over the last two weeks Ive found both Thundercats waves at retail didnt buy battlecat man or heman in thunder armor. brought the four Thundercats figures havent been able to find Mum-Ra

The Turtle waves are peg warming.. they still have earlier waves peg warming like the Sumo/Snake Teela wave.

Most of the problem with Origins is distribution ..I agree if Matel just sold online to fans people would be able to buy what they want

>reading old Star Comics
>Get to an issue where Adam goes to the future
>Duncan is dead and the new Man At Arms is named ... Andras

Was what Revelations did actually a deep cut callback?

>>11548205
Yes. Teela's friend Andra is a callback to a Star Comics OC, whose son became Man-At-Arms in the future.
The original was a blonde soldier from another city in Randor 's realm who gets promoted to Eternia, while Rev's meets Teela when she renounces her previous life to start over as a Level 1 MMO Fighter with Andra as her Artificer.

Are the Origins figures Pig Head, mini-comic Trap Jaw and Demo-Man all the same shade of neon green?

>>11548205
>>11548228
that future timeline comic is so fucking awesome. Skeletor's 1984 Nazi Germany Eternia is a great setting. And yes, Andra and her son Andras here are what inspired Revelation's Andra. She also briefly appeared in the Injustice comic.
I would like if we could get Netflix Andra as an origins figure, maybe in the comic Andra's duds.

>>11548228
>>11548290
I knew about Lt Andra as the general basis for Andra the character, but what I DIDNT know and was more commenting on was that the decision for her to become Man At Arms specifically was also pulled from the comic.

Origins has put out scores of different characters, but there are still a lot who got their only figure in Classics. Which ones would you buy if remade in the scale you collect (Origins or Masterverse)?

Marlena
Filmation Adora
Dree Elle
Lizard Man
Strongarm, Icer, Batros
Plundor, Shokoti, Lord Masque, Nepthu
Madame Razz & Broom, Sea Hawk, General Sunder, Star Sisters, Granita, Huntara
Imp, Scorpia, Octavia, Dylamug
Eldor, Plasmar, Strobo
Fearless Photog
Procrustus
Sky High, model kit pilots
Wrap Trap
Horde Wraiths, Callix
Crita, Mara, Darius
Carnivus, Dactus, Ceratus, Chooblah
Count Marzo, Evilseed
The Faceless One
Queen Veena Grayskull
Dekker
Draego-Man, Castle Grayskull Man, Cy-Chop, Unnamed One

(I'm excluding a few Classics figures like Horde Prime, Light Hope and He-Ro II, because those designs of pre-existing characters were translated to plastic so uniquely that we might see those characters again without them looking the same.)

>>11548290
I've seen fanart of that. Doesn't look too bad.

I'll just use Diana from Dungeons & Dragons as Origins Andra.
On the downside, no tech gear to reflect her character.
On the upside, she's pretty and Mattel might refuse to make Andra attractive.

This is what Mantenna thinks of your Andra!

Between, DC, Marvel, TMNT and Power Rangers, Godzilla seems to sleep in everybody's bed. Do you think it would make a decent crossover?

>>11548439
>What if popular character ... but le big lizard!
No.
It admittedly works for the turtles but holy fuck are kaiju boring.

>>11548439
Probably not.
In TMNT, the heroes are already four oversized reptiles and one rat. They also live in NYC with recognized giant landmarks for Kaiju destruction.
Propose figure designs that would prove me wrong.

>>11541593 (OP)
>$300 Snake Lair extended to Sept 2nd.
Good news, that massive push is here. An additional 60 people have backed raising it to 6,350 Backers before cancellations arrive

By faction, when would you feel like your Origins collection is "complete"?
For me, the Heroic Warriors need Marlena, Stonedar, Gwildor, Rotar, Strobo, Plasmar and Lizard Man.

Skeletor's forces need at minimum (vintage) Two Bad, Blast-Attak, Saurod, Blade, Twistoid and Goat Man. Karg, Pig Boy, Dragoon or Draego-Man and more troop builders would be gravy.
I have mixed feelings about Strongarm and Batros because they'd be CC and I'm not sure they should be taller than everyone else (Icer should, but I can just buy his Classics figure instead of a toon accurate one that wouldn't look as cool).

heads up to my beloved horde fans and fellow snake haters. dollar trees should have a skeleton unicorn for $1.50 this year. It makes a great mount for Despara.

Snakes are done, of course.
For the Horde, after Shadow Weaver and Dragstor come out we still need Multi-Bot, Scorpia, Entrapta, Octavia, Dylamug and Wrap Trap. If Mattel wanted to do a Wraith and some kind of Horde Prime, that'd be cool too.

>>11548555
checked for horde maxxing. I can't tell you how much I want horde prime.

>>11548530
>>11548535
>>11548555
Honestly, I'm at a point where I'd exclude anything non-vintage from what I consider complete because 1) there's no guarantees and id be setting myself up for the line eventually ending and still being "incomplete", ESPECIALLY where characters like Wrap Trap are concerned and 2) because of their decision with Cartoon Collection, there's not gonna be a cohesive "complete" Origins line there was with Classics. Even if you bought all of both assortments, you've got one collection of classic style figures that excludes Fang Man or Batros and then a second collection that excludes Stinkor and Scare Glow.

So, tl;dr, once Dragstor is available, I'll consider myself complete on 3 of the 4 factions anyway. I can live without Stonedar, Multi-Bot, the Zoids, the movie, the giants and the lasers.
But I can't live without my Two Bad and Blast-Attak so I'll be at my bare minimum for satisfaction then

>>11548530
>>11548535
>>11548555
I lowered my standards to vintage, Eldor, Strobo and Plasmar because by now I dont trust Mattel to fill my wishlist.

Can you say how many non-vintage figures Mattel released that were actually on your wishlist

I'd love Entrapta, Scorpia, Imp and Octavia to fill out Horde for example. But at this rate, we're not even getting Marlena. Sure, some random wished characters will get made but checklist will likely leave you disappointed.

What is this? Preview for ants?

>>11548604
>Can you say how many non-vintage figures Mattel released that were actually on your wishlist

Zero
The closest is probably Frog Monger, I was one of the guys asking for him as soon as I saw him on boxart, but he wasn't a "day one" wishlist character because I didn't even know he existed until the Wind Raider box

>>11548604
>non-vintage that were actually in your Well, Kol-Darr, Fang Man and Uncle Montork from a long Filmation wishlist, Reptilax, a Sharella to go with He-Ro and the 4 Lost 88 they've made.

>>11548552
What do you call her undead unicorn? Quick Miasma?

>>11548609
>Mattel dunking on phonefags
unfathomably based

My personal Top 5 characters who weren't vintage figures:
Marlena
Shadow Weaver
Horde Prime
He-Ro
The Faceless One
And honorable mention to Strongarm for looking like a cool toy.

>>11548626
Scare-mare is taken, but that won't stop me from using the name for this.
>>11548652
It's frustrating how much media Shadow Weaver was in yet didn't get a toy.

>>11548636
It still looks bad on computer.

Guys, wasn't Despara a "public release" figure?
Because I was just on MC and she's showing for me as a Members Only figure that I'd have to get CG to buy.
I thought only He-Ro and Sharella were supposed to be members only?

>>11548059
>it’s for tiny little kids
I get that, but firstly, the intended audience should never be an excuse for lack of effort, and secondly does that mean that we can't have a conversation about the item in question?

>>11548310
>Those V1.0 knees on Teela and Evil-Lyn.
I appreciate that Mattel fixed that pretty quickly.

>>11548552
>dollar trees
Anyone know if this would be possible to get in Aus without importing it?

>>11548759
I'd appreciate it more if I knew how to buy replacements. :(

>>11548530
Heroes - He-Man (obviously), Teela, Man-At-Arms, Battle Cat, Orko, Sorceress, Ram Man, Stratos
Skeletor's group - Skeletor (again obviously), Evil-Lyn, Beast Man, Mer-Man, Trap Jaw, Tri-Klops (also for me I prefer Tri-Klops first appearance characterisation where he was a gun for hire and not actually evil, so in my head Tri-Klops is only siding with Skeletor because he was paid for that first job and technically wasn't able to fulfil it, so that and losing the fight to He-Man is a matter of professional and personal pride).
I'm not super well versed with the She-Ra stuff yet, so I'm mainly just grabbing whatever characters appeal at the moment, but for me the She-Ra group definitely needs the core of She-Ra, Bow, Frosta, Glimmer, and Granita
Hordak's crew needs Hordak, Catra, Grizzlor, Mantenna, Entrapa, and while I like Modulok as a character I really don't like his toy. I hope they do a mini-comic version which more reflects his tiny little goblin look. Also Despara is definitely an important character for me just because, as I've said in previous threads, I really love that hero brainwashed into a villain story device.

This might be anti-thetical to the MOTU toyline itself, but it does bother me that every single character needs to be ridiculously buff, the ones that do the actual fighting make sense, but I'd prefer to see a version of Randor who is just a kindly old king and more slight of frame.

>>11548817
I think the only way is to buy the re-issued version. Honestly Mattel need to remember not to fall into the trap they did in the 80s where they kept bringing out new characters and forgetting to put He-Man and Skeletor back on the shelf. I know everyone is excited about the new hotness, but it's been long enough that Mattel should put those wave 1 character back on the shelf for a single run, or at least re-issue them online. Hell re-doing the knees and just updating the paint on some of the characters would probably be enough for people to pick up copies of characters they already own. Teela with the new knees, brighter whites and shinier gold and she'd sell easy.

>>11548696
worth it

Can someone refresh my memory on what DC Hordak's deal was? I own the omnibus and I'm still having trouble remembering.
He's millions of years old and Zodac's brother.
Millions of years after killing Zodac, he came to Eternia and fought King Grayskull. That's how he ended up both banished to Despondos and maimed, such that we see him as a cyborg attached to life support?
Thousands of years after that, he became Keldor's teacher by astrally projecting his mind from Despondos.
Keldor is changed into Skeletor and abducts Princess Adora into Despondos, raising her with Shadow Weaver.
Some years later, when Adora/Despara is old enough to be in her military uniform, Skeletor runs away to not get killed fighting Hordak, and there's time travel loop stuff? Hordak orders SW to replace Despara's memories of Skeletor's parenting with Hordak doing it.
A few years after that, the Horde invades Eternia and Hordak is able to acquire some of He-Man's blood, which he uses to replace his maimed cyborg body with a clone body (which he wants because it takes King Grayskull's DNA to use the Power Sword or Sword of Protection).
What did I miss or mangle?

>>11548879
>and Zodac's brother
All that's missing is switching babies with King Grayskull or something to complete the Darkseid xerox

>>11548769
sorry 'non. Either get an American friend to grab it and hold onto it for you for a bit or maybe look around and see if Greenbrier imports their garbage over to your beautiful spider island.

>>11548759
>>11548817
>I'd appreciate it more if I knew how to buy replacements. :(
Hopefully old school blonde variant Teela and her unicorn are in the works. As for Evil-Lyn were probably fucked. I'd be thrilled if Mattel decided to release a new variant with the corrected legs and a new head-sculpt, but since moving the vintage figures to MC they seem to have stopped with the vintage/mini-comic repaints. I'll probably never have my Magenta Faker or Orange Ram Man. :(

>>11549015
>to your beautiful spider island.
I'm surprised I've never heard it called that before. Fun fact we discovered a new spider here at the start of the year. I new type of Funnel web spider (one of if not the deadliest species of spider on the planet), it's bigger and deadlier than all the other funnel webs, so we called it the Big Boy.

>>11548837
>She-Ra group definitely needs the core of She-Ra, Bow, Frosta, Glimmer, and Granita
>Granita

That's a very odd choice.
Not knocking you, but I don't think I've ever seen anyone rank Granita so highly as to say she's a core character to their roster.

>>11548609
You can just make out that the concept art grizzly bear man is on the back

Hear me out: Masters of The Universe micro-playsets.
Not only could they possibly sell well, but the environments would allow Mattel to truly test the waters for a Mighty Max revival IE Grayskull and Snake Mountain being built similar to this.

>>11549406
I'm interested.
Would the micro-figures have any articulation?
If a figure isn't articulated, or the body+legs are one hunk of plastic, each character should have a unique body: way more 200X than vintage/Axel OCs.

>>11549406
You know what would really sell me on the idea? Throwing in MCX MOTU figures. I know it would detract from the Mighty Max angle but it'd be such a waste to just never utilize those figures again. If the playsets have to be MIMP to makemit work so be it.

>>11549406
Each time someone proposes this idea I think it's a unanimous yes, and then Mattel still doesn't make it.
I bet I could probably make one out of the mega construx stuff I got and those micro figures from the unreleased Advent calendar.

>>11549416
>>11549417
I want Mega figures back so bad.
If they won't sell as part of building brick sets, sell blind bags and playsets scaled to hold all the characters, do Dino-Riders style Preternia, something!

Any of you got any experience with retour buys of off amazon? They say it's "as good as new" or "very good" with slightly damaged packaging. Now I do not care about packaging but I'm a bit worried that someone ordered it, took a look and send it back because the painting was badly applied to the figure or some other issues like this. What are your experiences with that?

>>11549442
Just refund it again if you don't like it

>>11549406
Hands down I'd buy them all. Great idea.

>>11549406
They kinda tried. It bombed.

Hi res of the vintage CGS boxart. Close up of newer characters and dragon pet. With the horse mold on the way, I kinda hope we get a blonde Teela set with this unicorn.

>Frog Monger's minicomic says he was originally a human prince
Concept art fags, imagine you're in an elevator with the MotU brand manager. He'll make characters from your wish list, but only the ones you can pitch as fitting a famous fairy tale.

Here's all I'd be able to come up with:
Green witch is a cannibal who owns a gingerbread house at the foot of Snake Mountain as bait for children.
Red Beast considers himself Prince Adam's archenemy ever since Adam as a child committed home invasion, ate porridge and broke his son's chair.

>>11549508
Think they'll try Stratos again as LoP with the feather collar they ditched last time?

>>11549443
no, I want to avoid that.

>>11549564
I want LoP Man At Arms so bad. It's all about that pimp fur around his shoulders.

Also it needs to be said again but fuck Mattel for their laziness. If you are going to do cheap repaints like Stratos, just pay attention to details and give him the feather collar to begin with. Amateur hour over there.

>>11549559
Billy Goat Man Gruff tosses the Trollan off of the Jawbridge to get to the other side!

>>11549510
>>11549506
>>11549496

>>11549572
You can get that armor from Serpent Claw Man-At-Arms. You'll just have to paint it yourself...

>>11549559
Strobo as Magic Mirror telling people who's the fairest of them all and stuff like that?
Scorpia is saved by She-Ra only to stab her while theyre mid-air cause scorpions are like that.
Entrapta is obviously Rapunzel, just evil.

>>11549622
>tosses the Trollan off of the Jawbridge to get to the other side!

>>11549740
These are great.

my new batcave playset is out for delivery. any requests?

>>11549993
All your Horde characters inside.

Origins Flying Fist He-Man is on BBTS for $7.20 today.

>>11550008
Would FF He-Man, Terror Claws Skeletor, the Sorceress, Buzz-Off, Jitsu, naked Stratos and Sun Man be the best set of figures to let your very young child start with to see if they can avoid damaging figures?

>>11546881
>long weekend so I'll suggest they play with them and take some pics.
So were there new pics?

>>11549559
Just an aside, but you know what'sfunny? The witch isn't even my favorite sketchbook character, but I think she's still the one I want most right now because I've got a whole bunch of display and photo stories I want to do that I got my heart set on using her instead of some substitute

https://battleramblog.com/early-motu-canon-comparison/

A little something I'm sure our resident lorefags and minicomic autists will enjoy. Some interesting nuggets for you, like Skeletor being Beast Man s minion originaly

>>11550220

New thread

>>11549391
I think it's mainly the fact that she looks like Captain Planet, which appeals to me, and also that She-Ra sits in the same part of my brain as Sailor Moon, so I want the She-Ra supporting group to kinda match the same roles. At least visually and for some reason she equates in my brain to Sailor Jupiter.

>>11549406
There are already those World's Smallest Toys MOTU figures which show that the figures could work, giving them playsets would be awesome.

>>11549417
Mattel are such shit fuckers.
MEGA was a great line and the figures were so versatile..
but buying the original company and then treating it like shit and THEN licensing a lot of their stuff to fucking LEGO and playmobile is the worst. IT was a terrible business decision.