Toy Aisle Trolls > Bat Manta

June 16, 2010 | Poe

Toy Aisle Trolls is a feature highlighting acts of vandalism to in-store toy items. If you find a ruined package, a stolen figure, a swapped-out figure, or any other such acts, take a photo (cell phone photos are fine if they’re not blurry) and email them to poe AT poeghostal.com. Also, please note: I’m deliberately being over-the-top with my condemnation of these people–I don’t actually wish bodily harm upon them. Just severe mental anguish.

Reader 3B sends in this gem:

Great. A crappy 2003 Mattel Batman variation. With what’s clearly a Batman, and not Aquaman, head. I’m guessing these things happen in the actual store as opposed to being returned with these ridiculous figures…but maybe I’m being naïve.

Happy She-Ra Day!

June 15, 2010 | Poe

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. (more…)

Ask Mattel > June 15 Edition

June 15, 2010 | Poe

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 as Battle Armor Skeletor, Terror Claws Skeletor, and Thunder-Punch He-Man, and allow fans to determine which will be the next bonus figure? (more…)

MOTUC Unbound

June 14, 2010 | Poe

I just wanted to highlight this. If you want to get an idea of what pretty much any character you can think of might look in the MOTUC style, check out the fan art of He-Man.org member The Raw. Here’s his Chief Carnivus, created back in January:

As you can see, he guessed correctly about a lot of the re-used parts (and I don’t think we can blame him too much for assuming Mattel would re-use more parts than they did).

He’s got tons of other characters in there, up to and including Plundor (who, sadly, is a Filmation character we won’t see unless Mattel finally buys the rights). He’s even taken a crack at some of the Meteorbs!

Some other cool ones: