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Ask Mattel > Answers for Mid-August
1.) Where did the bio art for Gygor come from? It came from the vintage Big Jim’s Gorilla box. We scanned it and then re-colored it.
Any questions for Mattel?
Shoot. This will be for the September 1 round.
Ask Mattel > Answers for July 15 [Roundup added]
1.) Damien asks: How committed is Mattel to providing plenty of new sculpts in the WWE line? There already seems to be a growing issue, especially in the BASICS line, with characters getting sculpts way too muscular for them. Fans are getting concerned that Mattel will continue the JAKKS trend of utilizing completely incorrect body [...]
Ask Mattel > Answers for July 1 [Updated w/ Roundup]
1.) This may have been answered before, but I’ve never seen the answer so I’d like to ask again: does Mattel have the rights to make MOTUC figures based on the DC Comics 3-issue miniseries from the early ’80s? (For example, the evil sorcerer Damon, who originated in that comic.) Yes. We also have rights [...]
Ask Mattel > June 15 Edition
1.) Dead Man Walking asks: Mattel continues to insist that it will not do a fan’s choice figure for MOTUC because of the varying levels of unique tooling that figures require. However, Mattel is in the driver seat here–why not present the fans with three choices for figures with comparable amounts of new tooling, such [...]
Ask Mattel > Answers for June 1
1.) When you get around to characters like Buzz Off who had “claws” for hands, will those claws be articulated–i.e., will they be able to open and close–or will they just have wrist swivels like the rest of the figures? It is too early to tell, sorry. 2.) RM asks: When it comes time to [...]
Ask Mattel > Mid-May Edition
1.) Nicholai asks: Regarding Mattel’s plans for DCSH figures such as Steel, Bane, Mr. Freeze and so forth: should fans attempt to get those in the secondary market, or hold out for a re-release/new sculpt? We would like to get to re-releases of these older figures in the near future, and we can confirm nothing [...]
