Link to the all-in-one order page
For the first time since the Wind Raider, I think, I’m actually going to be attempting to order something off Mattycollector. I’ve been remiss about posting these “Happy…” Mattycollector posts since the subscription became standard and there have been few things people actually had to order, but the Great Unrest pack is probably going to be popular enough to merit it.
Here’s a review of the Weapons Pak at Fwoosh.
Power-Con is in full swing, and already some huge, huge news has been dropped: Castle Grayskull is coming. (more…)
The Doctor has a big, varied collection of toys, mostly action figures in the 6″-7″ scale, mostly licensed characters. As discussed before, part of the appeal of collecting is that I get to have all of my favorite characters in their own universe, a universe in which He-Man can fight the T-Rex from Jurassic Park with Gandalf, or Mulder and Scully can investigate aliens from the Star Wars cantina. There will always be demand for action figures of characters never before immortalized in plastic (see Poe’s desire for a Johnny 5 action figure) as well as better versions of previously made characters. (more…)
Don’t forget – or, find out for the first time – September 4 is “Bring Your Man-E-Faces To Work” Day, a tradition started by several NECA sculptors last year. They note it’s “just a fun way to celebrate our enthusiasm for the MOTU line as well as the one character we can all agree on owning. It’s all about Man-E-Faces.” Take photos of your MEF at work and post them on the Facebook page!
Inspired by He-Man.org’s Roast Gooble Dinner podcast, welcome to PGPoA’s latest MOTUC Bio Discussion!
I try to avoid participating in arguments on forums these days, but I ended up chiming in when a He-Man.org thread comparing DCUC to MOTUC veered into a discussion about action features and whether those were–and are–really as popular among kids versus something like articulation. (more…)
I came across some interesting tidbits regarding Tytus’s production, and given the controversy he seems to have inspired among collectors, I thought I’d post them here.
First, there’s this post by ToyGuru on the Mattycollector forums:
Tytus also has a 100% sculpt. But at that size (13″) if we did him fully articulated he would have been very expensive. It is not the sculpting that is expensive, we pay the same amount to “sculpt” a figure as we do a 12″ figure. It is the production that costs more when a figure is larger because a larger figure uses more plastic etc…!
Gygor is not as large as Tytus so we can afford (plastic wise) to give him more articulation. At the end of the day, Tytus was just too large to produce with full articulation and keep him under $100.00. We wanted Tytus (as a giant) to be as big as possible, which is why we used Roto casting which is less expensive to keep him at the $40.00 price point.
We do have big plans for both the Gygor (gorilla buck) and Tytus (giant buck) in the future. So both were an “investment” for Mattel for future figures. We are making a deliberate attempt to spread out the big beasts and giants so that each year will have a good selection. That is why you don’t see all the big name big beasts like Panthor, Megator, etc… all in year one. I imagine in time we will get to them! Our goal is to keep the line going for quite a few years and to do that we need to save big guns for each year.
To add ball joints we would need to make Tytus completely the same way we do a figure and this would drive his price to over $100.00. We used roto casting to keep the price down but when you use Roto Casting it prevents ball joints from being used.
Would fans be willing to buy a new Tytus for over $100.00 that would include all the articulation you see in a MOTUC figure? Let us know.
Rob Bricken of Topless Robot, a Masters of the Universe fan who’s nonetheless on the record as being disappointed in the MOTUC style here and here, issued me a challenge this weekend.
You have one week to try and convince me why I should pay $50 for a figure without a ball-jointed neck or shoulders.
He’s doing this partly because I talked to him into getting the Weapons Pak.*
First off, I have to ask: why the hell would I want to encourage any competition for what will probably be a ten-minute sellout? I should tell him–and you all–that Tytus sucks and you should avoid him like the plague. But I would be lying, since that’s not my opinion, and I’m nothing if not self-defeatingly honest. (more…)
He-Man.org poster Sallah exposes the grim truth:
Also, don’t feed Moss Man after midnight.