Happy Gygor Day!

Yeah, that’s right! I’m so excited for Gygor I’m not even giving Carnivus top billing!

But there is also Carnivus, and also Egon with no slime, a PKE meter and a stack of books. Looking forward to paying $30 for a lack of green paint and a tiny accessory.

The big question is, will Gygor be a quick sellout or will he linger? Many people seem to think he’ll be a tough sell, but I predict he’s gone by 1:30pm at the latest.

Anway, the all-in-one page is here.

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  • As long as I get a Gygor and a Carnivus, I'll be happy.

    I'm about as big of a Ghostbusters fan as they come, and I find it difficult to get the least bit excited about the Ghostbusters figures. I think the last one I bought was Winston.

  • i'm like you poe, i suspect he'll be gone in typical time… so will carnivus. despite all the gripes, i'm fairly certain i'll still face WSOD and barely get my toys ordered in time.

    best of luck to the other poesters.

  • I am super-excited about Gygor, largely because he not only looks awesome, but could easily fit in with my preferred 200X collection. I may buy 2-3 of him.

    BTW, Poe, I know you've been having a hard time swallowing Gygor as a villain. I was feeling the same when that was revealed. However, I've come to realize that the original prototype that was shown on the org was notthe version of the concept where Gygor was going to be a mount for He-Man, as there was clearly nowhere for him to mount Gygor.

    Given the dark, Vader-esque armor, I think the intention was more likely for Gygor to be a villain. And indeed, the ferocious look of the 4H Gygor certainly casts him that way. Even the predominantly yellow (jaundiced; cf Evil Lynn) color of Gygor seems like an evil doppleganger of BC's colors.

    I can completely see Mekanek and Man-E-Faces shitting their pants when Gygor comes knocking on Castle Grayskull's door.

  • I dunno… obviously the line is popular, & I do believe that both will sell fairly quick, but I'd say that Carnivus will be out before Gygor, just because of the Millennium fans that'll tack on to this sale. I myself have no interest in Gygor.

    As I wrote this, the UPS guy arrived with my Carnivus… pretty dope in person, I must say.

  • going for gygor, and, annoyingly, egon.. he's my favorite GB though and I want him clean and pke'd

    already WSOD

  • I will be sitting this one out folks. Good luck to y'all.

    @Barbecue17: I'm in the same boat, Winston is the same GB I bought too… I guess you could call me a fairweather fan of this line, but it hasn't really done much to keep me interested. I'll be going for Un-Slimed Venkman, but otherwise I'm going to bow out.

  • @PrfktTear: I'm planning on picking him up, too. I do want a complete set of the guys, just not all the variants.

    I would love a good Janine figure, however. I'd scoop her up in a heartbeat.

  • gonna switch to the gc.digitalriver.com site just to monitor the stock…

    everyone still in stock, yay. come one WSOD… :( at checkout

  • Got through and paid for at 12:11. That was more annoying than I expected.

    @Dead Man Walking: I may have a guest appearance on an upcoming podcast where I'll have a chance to expound more on my thoughts about Gygor. If that doesn't pan out, I'll post them in my Gygor bio discussion. I see your point, but for me it's less about whatever was originally intended in the 1980s, and more about what works for the character and the line.

  • seriously.. I just got to the bundle page.. I'm not waiting for billing… there should be a fast track at this point..

  • Still WSOD. Just waiting to pay.

    Mattel, I have this thing called money. I want to give it to you. Seriously, I work hard for it, but I think you should have it. All I'm asking for in return is a green and yellow plastic gorilla and a cat man of some sort.

    Honestly, you can do lots of things with this money. You can buy clothing and food for your families, you can buy liquor, you can even invest it in more little plastic men that I will buy from you again next month.

    Don't you want it? I want you to have it. I want a bananna monkey…..

  • and done… FINALLY… sheesh.. got my ape and nerd

    by the way.. regardless of what the package says, I have a barbarian he-man (thank you brown weapons pack beastman armor) just ready to piggyback on the thing.. so there

  • Mattel’s site sucks. I’ve said it before, but it never ceases to be true. Been stuck on the WSOD for 23 minutes now.

  • Just got through and got both Gygor and Carnivus. No worries until next month….

  • FINALLY. I just paid $31.18 and 23 minutes of time for a tiny plastic PKE meter accessory. I should be shot or committed.

  • Took 25 minutes to get my two Gygors. That’s a record time on WSOD for me by far.

  • @americanhyena:
    no worries.. it has been an irregularly frustrating matty experience today.. for everyone, I think.. and yet, everything is still in stock.. how can there be more people and less interest?

  • I’ve finally got them in my cart, I’ve been waiting twenty minutes to pay for the damn things. I’m tempted just to say forget it at this point.

  • Try using IE. I still have a Firefox order up on the WSOD, but just had an order go through using IE. And yes, I am closing that page to hopefully free up some “space” in DR’s “waiting room”. Good luck!

  • Whew. Got through and got both the lion and the monkey.

    This was after waking up twenty minutes late and lunging at the laptop by bed in panic too, lol.

    Thank goodness it wasn’t a more in-demand character.

  • @americanhyena
    I don’t think the demand is any less… I think you were lucky that we all got blasted by multiple WSOD’s today and hardly anyone got an order placed in the first 25 minutes.

    The site is still gummed up, 57 minutes in.

  • Finally got through 3 minutes ago. It was WSOD the whole way and then I got in and it was straight through until “order complete”. I’m glad I got my stuff but this website/order process is still many miles from working properly.

  • Holy shit!! It took me one hour to order Gygor. An obscure figure that I wasn’t even too keen on getting.

    Oh cruel irony. This was hands down the worst ordering experience I’ve ever had. Even worse than She-Ra/Keldor day in June.

    This does not bode well for me buying King Grayskull and Royal guards.

  • The WSOD of death was pretty bad this month, but oddly enough even after the hour and 35 minutes I spent waiting Gygor was still available. Either they really upped productions numbers or everyone was having the same problems.

    Either way I am looking forward to next year with the bad ass subscription.

  • Just under 1.5 hours to order a Carnivus. Or at least that is what the gc.digitalriver site tells me–the mattycollector site went right back to the WSOD and I could not determine whether the order went through there or not.

    I think buying my last two cars and my home were less aggravating. Combined. And I am certain buying the last car was quicker–no joke whatsoever.

  • I wanted Gygor. Even added him to my cart. I just got stuck in the queue for over 30 minutes. I just gave up and closed it all down. Screw it. My time is more valuable than that. I’ll just find the guy years from now… I hope.

  • Holy Jebus…I just checked for fun and it STILL WSOD’ing almost two hours in!

  • yeah, something weird happened this month… you could argue demand was low, but i personally was stuck on the WSOD for 52 minutes… that’s unprecedented even for these colossal screwups. so yes, carnivus and gygor lasted over an hour, infer as you will, but some folks were stuck on WSOD for a VERY long time.

  • Most stressful Matty day ever, perhaps. Had my poor mother at work even trying for me, but after an hour she goy stuck with the new WSOD that pops up before you have time to enter info.

    I like the punishment for not having state of the art tech.

    I finally ran out of work to a damned library and went online here. This place is brand new, so I got through quickly with ipod and wifi for the first time ever. I really hope that email comes. Going back to work now! This is sooooo effing ridiculous.

  • I had a Carnivus in my cart, hit checkout, and was stuck on the WSOD for 50 minutes. Ridiculous. Apparently I could have waited because the figures are still available.

  • Well, I’m glad my patience paid off. Logged in at 2:15 p.m., no white screen of death, and got my Gygor for my sister’s monkey collection without any issues whatsoever.

  • How dare Gygor not be sold out!? What is wrong with people? It’s a yellow and green war ape with an axe! Tell me how that’s not one of the greatest action figures ever made!

    Joking aside, I had a wonderful experience (which I really should write up) showing my friends’ 3 1/2-year-old my toy collection. One of his favorites, which he spotted high up on a shelf, was the Kriegaffe. KIDS LOVE WAR APES.

  • Forgot about the sale, came in 2.5 hours late, everything still in stock and no problems checking out. Wish it could be like this every time.

  • @Poe: Yeah, ummmmm…actually, not all of us geeks are heavy into the ape thing. Some of us aren’t even all that fond of zombies, pirates, or ninjas, even. And don’t get me started on Samurai…!

    ;)

  • @DA: I’m right there with ya, I’ve never had much of an affinity for ninjas, pirats, zombies, ninjas, etc, are they cool? Heck yeah, but I’ve never had it in for one over the other.

    I’ve always had a thing for Optimus Prime, He-Man, Batman, Mr. Potato Head, etc. but those are proper characters, so I kinda put that in a different category.

  • Wow, they’re BOTH still in stock.

    I almost wonder if Carnivus will go first. (Better colors, more visually interesting design, cheaper price point)

  • I actually said forget it and closed the screen earlier, then out of morbid curiosity I went back to that atrocious site, and both were still there, so I finally got them.

  • Oops. In the Forum I mentioned passing on Gygor again. I thought this guy had already came out once.

  • @Poe: Ooooooooh. That would explain the whole “not reflecting in mirrors” thing, too…this is why I just gave up a grew a beard. Well, also because it draws attention away from my cold, dead eyes…

    I will admit that the jaunty red cape does make the yellow ape far more tempting…but really, jaunty red capes can only get you so far in life.

  • Poe it’s a yellow and green gorilla. If it had been purple or all green it probably would have sold out. But the yellow color really is an eyesore. The vine jungle better have some yellow plants or something in it to justify the yellow colors on Gygor.

  • Looks like I was way off on my predictions. Both Carnivus & Gygor are bot still in stock as of 4:13 PM EDT.

    I hadn’t planned on picking either up to begin with. But since I didn’t have to deal with getting WSoDed up the wazoo, Cat-Man & the Crazy Ape are mine!

    Hopefully the remaining months, especially November, will be this smooth.

  • …now, if it was a comically undersized jaunty red cape, I’da been all over that shizzit. ;)

  • Well… 4:39pm EST and Gygor is still available, he’s not even “almost gone!”… I’m starting to re-think whether or not I want to pick him up or not.

  • @PrfktTear: *Calls soulless geek union to report possible spontaneous soul growth*

    But seriously…in light of the fact that the execs have clearly been looking for an excuse…hope Carnivus’ slow sale isn’t the final nail for all things 200X-ish…

  • @Poe: OMG, really?

    REALLY?

    O_O

    …by which I mean, yes. Yes, at least some of us have figured that out…hence the yankin’ yer chain thing. ;)

  • I saw Gygor at Comic Con in person, when a kid who had won a raffle came by to have it signed by the 4H. I too thought the color might be a bit much, but in person he looks amazing. Pick him up, you will not be sorry. Compared to the regular figures he’s also a great value at $30.

  • @Thrawn:@Poe: Haven’t you learned by now that whenever something strikes Poe’s fancy he doesn’t just “like” it or find it endearing, he takes it to an unhealthy obsession… ;-)

  • wow…i had completely forgot gygor was available today. I was horrifiied since i realized this at 1PM central time.

    to my surprise he was still available and it took me all of 1 min to order him. THIS is how it should work. Sucks to hear everyone wasted alot of time. Then again I bet he would have sold out in record time if everyone had waited.

    Guess I am a genius by being forgetful.

  • Poe wrote:

    Have you people not figured out that I’m way more into this figure than anyone would consider normal?

    What? I’m completely shocked at this news! Why was I not told of this before!

  • Gy-gor! Slow sale. But I think things well be off at least until Grizzlor in November. They probably did right going vintage for those last 2 months to cap off the holiday season. There’s a larger proportion of vintage fans out there compared to any other subgroups.

    And if a concept character like Gygor goes this slow, I’m not sure what to think we’ll get for Vikor. He’s a cool character and good design so it should appeal even to the casual collector. I’ve seen even non-Masters fans really impressed with the figure. The appeal factor could be high but having not appeared in mainstream media might count against him.

  • I just went to see if they were still up or if they sold out, and I still got the WSOD. Do they just leave that thing up all day on sale days or something? I’ve never spent as much time looking at their wretched little mascot as I did today.

  • Just picked up Gygor(not really sure why, I still think he’s an eyesore) and nothing was sold out yet. I guess I’m curious to see what the skunk-ape looks like in person. That or I’m just trying to compensate for my disappointment in this months sub figure.

  • I’m skipping Egon and Gygor and have Carnivus coming via subscription, but I’m not planning on keeping him. I’ll trade or sell him and the Marzo that I have that is still in his box.

  • Valo, I realize I may be talking out of my hind-1/4 here, but you may want to clear your browser history & get rid of any cookies you have, that might help.

    Well, it’s 6:41 PM EDT, and Carnivus & Gygor are still available, but now listed as “almost gone.”

    So it looks like Zodac’s record as the “Slowest Selling MotUC” is still safe.

  • Well, due to a decent production run and/or lower demand, lots of people got theirs today.

    Unfortunately, everyone has been trained to rush the site due to their previous sell-outs and disasters, so it was far more frustrating than necessary.

    It’s a crazy shame that some people had to give up mid-order just to get on with their lives.

    This has been my first 100% successful multi-item Matty day, but also the most nerve racking. The days when the stuff sold in 20 minutes, you could get pissed an move on that much quicker.

    Oh well, glad to have another Horsemen crafted War Ape!!!

  • I’m glad he finally sold out, I was tempted to get a second one, lol.

    I always order two of everything, one for me and one for my friend. We save on shipping, but have the agreement that since I’m the one that sits through the order and and who’s credit card it goes on, that I get to cherry pick the better paint jobs. It works great for me because I’m anal about paint and usually at least one of the two we get has noticeable slop.

    But he always opts out on the beasts, so I always wince and pray I get a good one. :-p

    (Fortuntaly, we’re both in on the Sub next year so no more of that :-)

  • Okay, I tested the waters with a debut figure purchase on MattyCollector, to see how I fared.

    To date, I’ve used a combination of subscription, and group orders (for non-sub figures) to get my MotUC fix, but decided that with Gygor, I would give it a shot myself, to experience the “horror” of a Matty sale day for myself…

    I went to the Gygor page at 11:59 (US Eastern time), and shortly thereafter was transfered to the white “do not [maunally] refresh” page.

    This page persisted for roughly 30 minutes, at which point I was able to add 1x Gygor to my basket, and check-out with excellent speed.

    Now, this is fine for purchasing a single slow-selling item, but add multiple items, and Moss-Man/Evil-Lynn sell-out times, and I can see how rediculous it would be.

    Also, I’m shocked to see Carnivus still available. O_O

    I know that there’s a heavy nostaglic bent to the MotUC collector base, but Carni’ really is an awesome looking figure, so I didn’t think that there’d be such a drastic drop in sales.

    If the figure lasts more than a day, then I could see “upper management” being less likely to give us many more 200X characters. :(

  • @RM: You want to use the all-in-one page. Poe usually posts a link to them here, and I think you can get to it from the MattyCollector home page. It saves you from having to bounce from page to page for your orders, in effect wasting valubal time.

  • @RM: Though I can see that happening easily, they’re may be a chance that they will not do characters with small rolls from any era.

  • yea, so I'm coming in late but WOWzers that was a ridiculous day. 82 minutes of WSOD. Love Carnivus… a lot. Will talk about it on the show. Hope Gygor gets here soon. I need some MONKEY LOVE. He will be in a display I will call Matty Monkeys. Know who will not be there? gleek…

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