Happy She-Ra Day!

Before we get to the inevitable sound and fury, let me point out Mattel’s reveal of Whiplash’s bio and packaging on Facebook yesterday.

WHIPLASH

Real Name: Torrant Krazut

Following their father’s untimely death, Torrant grew up bitter under the rule of his older brother Ceratus. After years of brooding in Sub-Ternia, he struck a deal with a surface dweller named Keldor and helped lead his forces in a raid against Randor’s army during the Great Unrest. Although Keldor’s plan failed, Torrant was banoshed from Sub-Ternia for betraying his people. He was taken in by his former employer and quickly rose up through the ranks, staying with Keldor even after his transformation into Skeletor, serving as his chief brute squad enforcer. His thick hide and stubborn intellect have made him more than a match for the Masters of the Universe, often leaving only He-Man to defeat him. Whiplash uses his thrashing tail for doom and destruction.

I’ll discuss the bio more in my eventual review of Whiplash, but I will say that I can’t wait for the figure. After Trap Jaw and Tri-Klops, Whiplash is my favorite Evil Warrior (and one of the only figures, along with Spikor, who I managed to hold on to throughout my childhood without losing it or giving it away), and his figure is one of the best-looking of the 2010. I know it sounds crazy, but as of right now I think he’ll give both Battle Cat and Gygor a run for their money as my favorite toy of the year.

Anyway, getting back on topic, below is the link for the all-in-one order page. And as always, good luck.

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  • Mattel closed the gc.digitalriver.com url loophole for lag free ordering, it now redirects to mattycollector.com.

    I'm only after Pete today, which is good cause the GB's sell out slower, but he is the most popular I think. Also the massive amount of MOTU/DCUC stuff going up, and the closing of the lag free loophole worries me…

    GL to everyone.

  • After waiting years for JLU Lobo, I think I'm going to pass. Sucks, but the recent influx of JLU's being hard to get and price hikes… I just don't know if I can justicy $20 plus shipping on it.

  • I'm excited for Whiplash as well. Honest, NOTHING this summer (including She-Ra and Keldor) really interest me that much. I'm a MOTUC completionist, so they'll be added to my collection, but Whiplash is the oasis in a desert of "meh" until (hopefully) October. Carnivus is okay, but I don't really care about the character. Whiplash is awesome.

    Oh, I'm excited for Mo-Larr and Orko, but I kind of feel like those two "don't count." Maybe I shouldn't.

  • Always a good sign when I go to log on 12 minutes early that it is already doing the white-refreshing-screen-of-doom.

  • I'm oddly excited for She-Ra considering I never watched the show. I dunno, maybe it's the extensive new tooling.

    Keldor looks cool enough to me that I'm in for him as well.

    I agree that Whiplash is the bitchingest figure of the Summer by far. I can't wait for him (and he may be the first I order two of because of the heads).

    Passing on goopy Venkman and another Slimer.

    Really, the big thing for me today is FINALLY finishing Metallo. That's been a Holy Grail of mine since it came out.

  • @americanhyena:

    I've always wanted to finish Metallo too, but it's just not in the funds this time. Logic would dictate this sale will lower the eBay prices, but who knows with Mattel products.

  • wow. i got a white screen 30 min before everything is going on sale!! crazy… 1 min to go and i am STILL on a refresh screen…..

  • Is anyone able to get in? I was navigating the site fine at about quarter of… now its the white screen!

  • Only gotten the refresh screen since 1115. It's looking like I'll be missing out on yet another offering from MOTUC, despite really loving the line. Every mad scramble to get the newest figures sours me more and more on the whole damn thing :(

    I missed Mossman and if I miss She-ra, Keldor, and Faker today, it might be time to just quit altogether.

  • Ten straight minutes of WOD and now Kedlor is gone. Didn't even get a chance. Fuck.

  • Keldor's simply not showing up on the all-inclusive order page. That better mean he's sold out. I don't want to miss out and/or pay separate shipping because of a site error.

  • Can't wait for the rash of anti-complainers on this round. Mattel is ridiculous.

  • Wasn't this the round where they were going to 'up' the quantities?

    First time I have ever logged on before the opening and straight into the wsod, too…. not a good omen.

  • @Ares: yes, they were supposed to have increased the production numbers with She-Ra.

  • WSOD on the way to checkout. Unbelievable. Every month its the same crap with this company, no matter how many times they tell us its going to be fixed.

  • Keldor isn't even showing up on the front page! What does this even mean? I'm not finalizing Faker until I know for SURE he's the only one of the two I'll be able to get.

  • And the .org is crashed. Care to guess that isn't because of a whole number of happy fans sharing their "I got my Keldor!" stories?

  • Keldor & Faker in the bag. Took about 10 minutes, but it's a done deal. Hopefully this'll be the last cool bonus figure for a while. If I hadn't been able to get Keldor I would've been a smidge disappointed.

  • I got back into the all-in page… She-Ra and Keldor still available! Nothing has sold out… yet.

  • @misterbigbo: I went back in and got through again about three minutes ago (just out of curiosity) and Keldor was still there. Probably gone by now, though.

  • Keldor is missing from the sale page, the front page and the MOTUC page. What the hell am I supposed to do? I don't mean it's listed as sold out, the links/images are completely gone.

  • I don't know what all the hubbub is about when ordering, I got the refresh page for like 2 minutes, then was able to load two things in the shopping cart, register, fill-in my address, credit card info, and then get all the way to one step before confirming the order (they have nothing I want).

  • Success!!! If you can call 10+ minutes of headache-inducing stress over a chance to buy some over-priced toys success. [sigh] Maybe I should take up golf.

  • Got venkman order confirmation thank god. still used the gc.digitalriver site, said it wouldn't go through, but it did. we will see later on if i screwed myself i guess.

  • Finally. After white screening for the bulk of 30 minutes I finally got my order completed page. This is the worst I've had it ever.

  • Well I had She-Ra and Keldor in my cart but She-Ra was gone in true Mattel fashion.

  • Well… I got so far as getting She-Ra into my cart… AND the billing info… but then asI was going for the completion…. YANK! No dice.

    Guess I can look forward to the inevitable reissue.

  • @Poe:

    Yeah, I got the link through Google, and FINALLY got past the WSOD to try to add him to my cart (fingers crossed).

    Am I seriously the only one who had the problem? Keldor was completely missing from every avenue of the site.

  • I got to the last screen to complete my order and it toldme She=Ra is out of stock. FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!

    *cries*

    The one damn figure I wanted to actually get and NOTHING. FUCK!

  • my order has been processing for 10 min now… and the connection has timedout twice…

  • well the getting part isn't hard, but for some reason Matty doesn't like Vietnam credit cards. It wont' let me process the order

  • Keldor never showed up on my computer. I had to use my phone to see and order him.

  • Got DCUC 5! Man, how do you MOTUC folk deal with that every month? Jesus Christ! Let's see how long it takes to ship now…

  • Yeah, She-Ra showed up as in stock on the all-in-one and Sold Out on the main page when I just went back.

  • @Esbat: I was in the same situation, She-Ra was the only figure I wanted and bam sold out when I hit submit order.

  • I STILL haven't been able to check out, even after stripping the sold out figures from my order.

  • effing ridiculous. after fighting with the damn site nonstop, after finally adding all three to my cart, after sitting on 'processing order' and then timing out, after my cart being emptied multiple times …

    Keldor disappeared and can't be found anywhere

    She-ra is sold out

    i'm not going to bother getting just Faker after this (and the Mossman) fiasco, i'm really contemplating giving up the entire line. it's really not worth the hassle to me if this is how it's going to be every single time.

  • I typed in my CC security number and poof… sold out. Thats it I fuckin' hate Matty Collector. I'm getting all my MOTUC lose from Hong Kong eBayers for a third the price. No no… out of spite… HALF THE PRICE. Thats right Buy It Nows instead of auction.

    I'm am rage incarnate.

  • I'll gladly take your She-Ra, Justin. After 30 minutes trying to buy her all I got were WSOD…

  • I submitted my order, it took a long-ass time loading (admittedly possibly my own internet connection's fault), Matty WSOD'd me for a couple minutes, then put me back on the page to submit my order.

    I swear to god, Matty, if you just made me order them twice there will be hell to pay. I can't afford that.

  • Now I'm getting a page that says "No Response from Application Web Server"

    DID I SUCSEFFULY ORDER KELDOR OR NOT, MATTY? I'M ALREADY 37 MINUTES LATE FOR CLASS

  • So let me take you on the fun little trip I had this morning. Logged on at 11:30 got to the all in one screen and started refreshing oh, ever 5 min or so, then came 11:55 and I finally WSOD. It wasn't until 12:10 that I finally saw the order page again, at which point I added 1 keldor, 1 faker, and the dcuc wave 5 to my cart, WSOD. 2 min later I had sent out my request.. and it took forever to load… the WSOD. finally got to finalize my order and what happened? not the WSOD no… the page stayed processing for a good 5 min before the connection timed out and my entire cart was wiped clean and my order did not go thru. now I'm currently trying to order faker and Dcuc 5 again as keldor is now gone and its seems to be doing the same crap. This is fun ;)

  • Alright, got the front page to load, and unlike the other couple of times I tried it when it said I had two items in my cart, it now says zero. Despite never seeing a page confirming it, I assume that means I got my order in. That better be the case, because now I have to go to class.

    Wish me retroactive luck, guys!

    EDIT: And now Keldor is sold out anyway, so there's hardly a point in sweating over this for now. If it didn't go through I'll just order Faker later when the site isn't crapping out.

  • @Fengschwing: Congrats, man! You'll see it in September, probably.

    It sounds like it was indeed a "Happy She-Ra Day." I'm glad I don't collect MOTUC. I'm surprised someone hasn't found a way to hack the queue to get in early and often.

  • Does it really say "Banoshed"? 'cause if it does….woof, they need a proof reader.

  • Okay, so no new Masters or DCU for me. Think i'll stick to Amazon from now on. Sure you pay more, but I guess that extra goes towards a site that works properly.

  • Well, I ended up getting She-Ra from ebay, I had to pay a bit more but it was stress free and thats worth the extra I paid.

  • Wow, that absolutely sucked. No She-Ra or Keldor for me because I was afraid to reload after I got to the order page. Now I feel stupid. Thanks Mattel, attempting to buy your toys has made me feel sad and stupid.

  • Lost out on Keldor due to "system error- data lost" but spent nearly 50 minutes to get Faker (ordered first) and Venkman (for the girlfriend- ordered second).

    You shouldn't have to spend 50 minutes to order a toy. Period.

    It's a good thing that Faker was to be my last planned MoTUC purchase as there is no way I'm signing up for a blind subscription with this outfit. (I'm still convinced that this is why there are so many problems. Matty just wants subs.)

    LtD

  • I'm just mad there apparently was–and has been for months, if not years–a backdoor whereby, if you replaced "mattycollector.com" with "findmyorder.com" in the URL, you could get in and out lag-free. It's supposedly been closed now, but like hell I won't be trying it next time anyway.

    While I'm impressed those that were doing it kept it a secret successfully, I can't say I have one iota of sympathy for those complaining it's closed…rather, I hate them. Even you a little, Nik. Even you a little, for not sharing with your pal Poe.

  • No need to go into detail, but yep, got fucked out of Keldor by DR and Matty.

  • So these are the increased production numbers that mattel has been telling us about for months? Yet they still sell out at the same rate as the others.

  • Well…after an hour and twenty minutes (and having given up at home and driven to work) I was able to get my friend is Faker and each of us the Metallo wave (plus some more flight stands).

    It's frustrating but I can live with that result at least. I know She-Ra/Keldor will get re-released eventually (or I can hunt them down at SDCC) but missing Metallo would have ruined my day.

  • @Fengschwing: Oh yeah, had to wait 9 minutes, but I'm hoping Metallo won't be so rickety. Then I can sell off my old set…haha!

  • Got to the payment screen (after endless refreshing) entered my info, clicked submit order then got the time out problem. Called Matty "customer service" was told there was a glitch and that they had no record of my order, asked for a supervisor, he found my order but couldn't fulfill it due to She-Ra and Keldor being sold out. He gave me an "escalation ticket" and told me to expect a response in 24-72 hours.

    Long story short… got screwed by Matty and Digital River. Luckily I have friends who got through with extras so I'm covered on those two figures. Still sucks though.

    Oh well… its just toys.

  • The only backdoor I'm aware of is the one that smirky bastage Matty uses to cornhole me every month! Sweet Jesus I can't wait for the all in one sub! Got Keldor… Pete and the really, really expensive LOBO! And my arse is sore. Thanks Mattel! At least I got a reach around this time. Instead of the last time with Tytus!

  • So, apparently carts can be wiped clean? So I guess that means it's possible my order didn't go through. How long should I wait before trying eBay?

  • @Esbat:

    How about doing that to Matty at SDCC? Anyone game? I'd help put up bail money! Who's with me? ;)

  • For how much do the MOTUC figures tend to be at SDCC? I don't know if I should wait and see if I can find She-Ra there or if I should just ebay her…

    (And LOL at Esbat's last comment.)

  • @Merso:

    Can't say if it will be the same this year, but last year most were in the $25 to $35 range with the exception of Greyskull ($100+) and Faker ($50).

  • My order today went through twice,so I get two Keldors instead of one and a Faker! Damn, I really wanted Faker….

  • Got She-Ra with the sub, the wife logged in at 10 minutes till and sailed through the order process no problems. Scored me a Pete Venkman, DCUC Wave 5 box and the delicious Keldor.

    @DankOne:

    LOL @ your backdoor joke!

  • @Poe: LOL sorry! :( I thought it had been discussed here before, and assumed it was common knowledge. Otherwise I would have gladly let others in.

    Either way, i still used the gc.digitalriver.com site today, and it worked, you just have to ignore the little pop up that says "you are not on mattycollector.com and your order wont go through. It went though.

    Try it next month!

  • I feel better now, a Spawn boardie sold me his She-Ra sub for cost. I'm ever so grateful to him for offering her up. Man I bitched all over the internet today. Never thought I'd ever do that.

    And I'm seriously laughing hard that I wrote "stab the world" comment. That is funny. But wasn't at the time.

  • So…
    Matty can eat my ass.
    Ran out on my lunchbreak to use Panera's wifi, and still got boned with the refresh page. By the time it hit She-Ra's page, there was an error and it stopped refreshing…so I had to refresh my own ass back to the end of the line and all was lost.

    It was still too busy to get the Faker I was missing and I was already late getting back to work. I tried for Faker 2 hours later and there were effing server errors, lots of them.

    Finally got home, ordered Faker, which was still a pain in the ass. The shipping stings alot more on one figure than 3 would have, since several figures I've gotten from resellers have been $25-$30 anyway.

    So ends my first Matty experience. I'm honestly a bit insulted that it's such a difficult process for people who are willing to buy overpriced figures. It's not a Prada sale or zombie Beatles tickets!

  • Um, so yeah… Whiplash. I'm pretty stoked for him. He definitely looks all kinds of awesome. From the pictures I've seen I think they really nailed the look of the classic figure. I'm glad they included his 200x head/weapon, but I doubt they will be getting very much use!

    The bio didn't reveal much, but I guess Whiplash isn't really a character that would have any bearing on the overall arc. I would have thought his real name would have been more Klingon sounding, but thats just me. I like that they included Sub-Eternia. I thought that was an interesting aspect to add to the mythos. There was a good episode, "Underworld" in the millennium series that gave us a glimpse into Eternia's proverbial basement.

  • DCUC 5 is still up on the site as of 5pm. "A failure?". Oh noes111.

    "Spontaneously 1,000,000 comic nerds screamed out and then were suddenly silenced!"

  • Called Digital River and it turns out my order didn’t go through. At least there’s plenty of Keldors on eBay…

  • It was an interesting morning for my roommate and I.

    We managed to get past the White Screen about 10 in to order me a Keldor and he a She-Ra. White Screen again, but when it cleared up She-Ra was gone.

    The order for Keldor went through, but I didn't relax until my roommate got the confirmation email. He immediately went to eBay and found a She-Ra for around $35. Humorously, the seller he bought it from jacked up the Buy It Now price by $10 less than an hour later.

  • Faker & Venkman are (as of 6:42 PM EDT) still available, but they're listed as "Almost Gone."

    DCUC Wave 5 is still available as well.

    I had completely forgotten about this today, She-Ra was one of the few figs I was willing to 'wait in line' for. Oh well, I'll just have to hang on to my slightly more expensive BBTS pre-order of her then.

    Keldor for me is probably going to wait for the 3rd or 4th reissue.

    At least I got a Faker.

  • Yes… we've all been using the backdoor. And it was mightily successful. What TRULY Aggrevates me, isn't that Matty figured it out, but that they used resources to STOP it!!! Instead of using reources to correct the issue that once you put something in your cart it's there until you checkout. THATS what gets me.

  • @AnimateTed: But see, they didn't stop it. Unless my order gets cancelled somehow. I got my order umber and confirmation email. They just added a pop up saying

    "NOTE: You are not currently on the Matty Collector site, and will not be able to complete your order. Please click here to proceed to MattyCollector.com."

    After so long of waiting on the regular site, I went back to http://gc.digitalriver.com/store/matty/en_US/pd/p… and just ordered my Venkman.

    I will let you know if I somehow screwed myself and get a cancelled order, but for now I say it's just a scare tactic. Next month if your having trouble go to either the bundle or product pages and replace mattycollector.com with gc.digitalriver.com and give it a go.

    My guess as to why this month was so bad (besides 3 popular MOTU, and wave 5) was that the "pop up scare" caused more people to go to the regular site. The only reason the site has been better he past few months was because more and more people found out about the backdoor and have been using it. Just a guess.

  • Boy, I wish there was something any of us could do to make some kind of difference.

  • well there were ALOT of glitches…..

    i eventually got my 2 keldors but only barely.

    i ended up placing ANOTHER order after people were reporting them sold out so this is why there was a glitch.

  • @misterbigbo: Like a boycott? I'm just not sure enough people can get mad-as-hell-and-unable-to-take-it-anymore about toys.

    And I'm just not sure there's much we can do about the actual sellouts. Mattel has to increase the amount of product, and that's that. Boycotting the line, i.e., not buying the toys in order to pressure them to make more toys? I…don't see that working out. Definitely not with Mattel.

    If you're referring to the poor user experience with Digital River, however–there we might be able to do something. I think we have to see actual evidence of fraud in order to get the Better Business Bureau involved, but we could bring pressure, in some way, for DR/Mattel to pony up to improve the way the ordering process works (or, even better, get Mattel to ditch DR entirely). As I've mentioned before, there are systems used for things like sports and concerts tickets that make use of online waiting rooms and such that prevent this kind of mess.

    On the other hand, my parents asked me just last year to get on the Red Sox website to try to buy tickets for them at the same time they were, so sometimes you do just have to either put up with this crap or just say "Forget it, I'll wait for the re-release."

  • @Poe: Funny.

    Well, it was funny, but then you went & removed it. I guess you felt it was a tad too smartass?

  • I’m kinda surprised wave 5 hasn’t yet sold out. I guess I shouldn’t be, given the reasons already cited by others. It does make me wonder what Mattel’s response will be.

  • How could they not anticipate the traffic or number of orders better than this?

    Let's see…
    The entire wave of the most difficult to find DCUCs, each one fetching prices close to Gentleman Ghost.

    The fourth Ghostbuster, who also is the guy you'd get if you only wanted one of them.

    Lobo – pretty big deal for animated collectors

    3 Masters figures! Maybe you'd think Keldor wouldn't be a big deal since at a glance he's a Skeletor head swap, but there's one big reason that all 3 figures are pretty desireable…
    Mattel made all 3 characters a pain in the ass to get 8 years ago!!! They'd be popular enough already, and everything sells out anyway, but I think their 200x scarcity fueled even more collectors and speculators.

    Shoulda released Moss Man today too.

  • @fishsticks: i am yet another "no keldor" story… he didn't show up on my opening of the page until well after he sold out… DR must PAY!!!!

  • Haha… everybody else boycott matty! **looks forward to stress free matty days**

    Wow… so 8:43 EST, and Venkman and Faker are still around! Not to mention Wave 5. If Venkman is still around on Friday, I might just go ahead and buy him so I can “complete” my Ghostbusters and be done with them…

  • @PrfktTear: Yeah, that’s a funny scenario I’ve run through in my head:

    - Everyone agrees to boycott Matty on sale day.

    - Everyone believes the boycott will mean less traffic on sale day.

    - Everyone logs on as usual, causing the usual traffic.

    - Everyone gets pissed off. Repeat Step 1.

  • Wanted Keldor and She-ra, was unable to get either one. Oh well, they’ll probably release both of these figures in a year when I’m not buying MOTUC anymore.

  • @DR, but if you didn’t get him you didn’t pay?

    @Poe:

    “While I’m impressed those that were doing it kept it a secret successfully, I can’t say I have one iota of sympathy for those complaining it’s closed”

    I’m a little floored by that too. I’m annoyed at myself for not thinking it through too. Grr.

  • Anyone besides myself and Poe boycotting Venkman until we can get a non-jizzed version?

  • @Poe: I'm assuming you made a smartass comment at my expense? Interesting in that I never wrote anything this time about a boycott. I've long given up hope that the collecting community at large has the willpower and personal character to do something like that. And a boycott is never designed to get more of something, but better treatment of the customers. In this case increased production numbers would help, but I was thinking an improved web portal or sales model, like pre-orders.

    Seems clear to me that Mattel doesn't care how badly their vendor DR represents them if sales only increase month after month. I'll wait to see the great increase in sub sales then the glutted eBay auctions next year to cherry pick the few out of the line that I'll want, and never visit mattycollector again.

  • @misterbigbo: I still think a boycott is a method of protest that simply won’t work on Mattel–at least not for MOTUC. The way the MOTUC line is run, the second there was any sort of major sales dip like that, the execs will pull the plug and that’ll be that. Is that better than continuing to go through the mess we go through now to at least get some figures? I don’t know. This is where my innate “they’re just toys” rationalization really starts to kick in.

    I’m open to suggestions on how to get Mattel/DR to really take improving the experience seriously.

    As for whether there will be too many 2011 subscriptions, causing the bubble to burst on eBay next year…I was talking about this with Rustin Parr from OAFE and we’re wondering if the professional resellers won’t be more savvy than that. I think it’s obvious 2010 will end up being the most profitable year for resellers on this line, what with so many big non-sub items (Battle Cat, Tytus, Gygor, the 2-pack).

  • @americanhyena: Lobo sold out some time yesterday afternoon. The DCUC Wave 5 set must have gone in the night as it was available when I checked around 9 last night (pacific time) and gone this morning.

  • @Grenadier:

    It definitely said "Currently Unavailable" first thing this morning. But you're right, it's available again now.

  • I totally agree a prolonged boycott would kill teh lien, but a well-publicized one-month hit where Mattel execs know why it's happening might make some waves. Or ripples.

  • @MisterBigBo: collecting community at large has the willpower and personal character AH HAHahahahAHahahAHAh!!!! Collectors and “willpower” and “character” do not belong in the same sentence! ;-) I know I can’t speak for the entire community, but I have about as much willpower as a dog on peanut butter.

    I agree though, a boycott would be ineffective. Either they would start to DECREASE production numbers, or as Poe said, they’d just pull the plug all together. Despite all the headaches and grief we have put up with, if it came down to having MOTUC as is, or having no MOTUC at all… the choice for me is obvious.

  • @americanhyena: Mattel rep said on their forums that it said "Currently Unavailable" earlier because they were checking stock. She also said that it is selling fast and will probably be changed to almost gone soon.

  • i had already given up on matty after the evil lynn sale and had really wanted a hordak as well but no evil lynn just led to my disappointment and straying away! so the next sale came and i wasnt interested much in tytus maybe optik but i knew both would sell out fast. who was left but my beloved merman so i had to get him and update my order info which i think led to my downfall of the evil lynn sale. anyhowwwl, to make long story short iam back in the game! i got a she-ra figure 14 mins after sale time. so i guess things have been updated at DRI. i was ready to call it quits after yesterday and just blow my money on a superheroine bondage site had i not captured a she-ra! oh well i guess things happen for a reason LOL!!! awesome site poe keep up the good work!

  • @NoisyDvL5: correc,t i didn't pay for him yet… but i think digi riv should buy up all the stock on ebay and sell them again on mattycollector at base cost… give us all another chance at a fair price. of course they won't, but they SHOULD.

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