Mattycollector came so close to escaping this month’s sale without a major hitch.
Members of the He-Man.org boards are reporting receiving Scareglows missing either the little black key that goes inside the Grayskull reliquary, or the reliquary itself. It’s too early to tell whether this is an issue affecting a statistically significant number of Scareglows. I’ll let you know how mine turns out when I get it tomorrow.
In the meantime, that bastard Crawford beat me to the review punch. Great photos though.
barbecue17
Overall, I can't think off hand of any figures I've ever purchased with mistakes or missing accessories except one G.I. Joe boxed set and a few DCUC figures with swapped lower legs and feet. I guess I've been lucky.
Andrew Davis
@Kid Nicky: Actually, I've owned Marvel figures and Minimates with plenty of problems. DCUC and MOTUC are NOT the only with roblems. Mattel can't ALWAYS control problems in the factory.
Kid Nicky
"A few such errors are to be expected"? Well,why does Mattel need that excuse,yet noone else does? Seriously,have you ever seen a Star Wars or Wolverine or Transformers or what have you figure with swapped arms? Or limbs that came pre bent in the packaging? Or missing parts? Than why is it we all feel the need to examine a DCUC figure before buying it?
Mark
I think its unnacceptable. We put up with enough crap to support an over priced toyline and Mattel repays everyone by either botching figures with the wrong limbs (all original He-Man figures had the shoulders on the wrong way round, some Skeletors had wrong legs etc) and now they are missing their accessories….with a line like this its the accessories that are helping sell some of the figures. MOTUC is a hih priced collector orientated line and no mistakes should be made with it, if it was a big mass market line you could see by a few mistakes but come on. Really, can anyone say they have had as much problems with a mass market toys made by Hasbro, Bandai or Jakks etc etc compared to Mattel. Mattel used to be great, and the past couple of years they have got crap.
At least MOTU200X didn't have these problems.
It amazes me when I think how they will handle the WWE line LOL.
Drunken Fist
Yeah, it does suck that this has happened, but it doesn't sound like it's on the scale of the typical fiasco we've come to expect from Mattel.
Poe
Well, my Scareglow is intact and complete. So I'm not ready to say this is a major problem yet. It looks like only a few people have been missing the parts, and in a production run of tens of thousands a few such errors are to be expected (there have been plenty of doubled feet and limbs and so forth in MOTUC as well).
Barbecue17
Oh Matty, when will you ever get something right….
Newton Gimmick
@Monkey Boy: HAHAHAHA!
Mysterious Stranger
@Monkey boy: TOO SOON! lol
Replicant
Mine is complete and is in excellent condition! I love the cape! I'm so glad that he made it into the Classics line!
Monkey boy
My guess is someone will find a warehouse full of keys and reliquaries and they'll be distributed among board members at fwoosh.
Mario
Just got mine 5 minutes ago, & I'm pleased to announce that he is complete, & that the paint apps on his teeth are perfectly applied.
YES!
Magneto76
..That sucks if mine is missing the key items..no pun intended…
When I received my Faker figure I got 2 full swords and no half sword like everybody else did. So Matty is full of surprises…
Reverend Ender
Wow, mine hasn't even shipped yet! My order is still "in process." Awesome!
finkrod
Mine was in perfect working order.
George
@BBQ17:
hahah hilarious.
PrfktTear
*facepalm*
I'm curious what their solution to this will be… send in a self addressed envelop for your accessory?
Eric
Mine is okay, thank goodness.
Barbecue17
What a strange mistake.
Now Matty will tell us that the inclusion of the key and/or the reliquary accessories are in fact variations and a reward and reason for folks to buy multiple figures.
Next month, only certain MOTUC orders will actually contain figures. The variant will be King Randor package w/ figure and w/o figure.
Justin Gammon
Noooooooooo!!