The Snake Lair is just giving me Fisher-Price or Imaginext vibes.  I'm just not feeling it at all for some reason.  

@depp76 it's probably because Imaginext has done a similar playset. The whole cobra hood entrance is not very creative.

@smitty-81 MEF bucket head is the shape of the cartoon design, but the size of the vintage toy helmet. This compromise might not be working.

Mostly I think helmet’s too tall, b/c they incorporated the knob as part of the helmet itself. Ideally though, they should shrink the whole head.

But I’m mostly watching those from the sidelines anyways, trying, like you, to only get one per line, tops. Which, still adds up 😅 

I am very happy for Filmation fans though, and for PoP fans.

I’m getting Remco vibes from the Snake Lair.

Or imagining little plastic knight figures around it, in a catalogue ad that only ran once.

In that sense, it does have some retro vibes 😆 

The entrance in the concepts might have looked too similar to GI Joe Cobra stuff? (Ducks) I know nothing about Joes.

@cosmic yeah it's like I said no cartoon design can be 100% accurate when made into a toy, especially someone like Man-E-Faces. I just feel like they could have done better. He almost looks like the figure they were designing on friday at 4:30 PM and the deadline was Monday at 9:30 AM.

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I’m getting Remco vibes from the Snake Lair.

Or imagining little plastic knight figures around it, in a catalogue ad that only ran once.

In that sense, it does have some retro vibes 😆 

The entrance in the concepts might have looked too similar to GI Joe Cobra stuff? (Ducks) I know nothing about Joes.

No you're right the cobra hood doorway is very G.I. Joe. And with how big the whole thing is I could see Joe fans getting it to use for their figures. And honestly I wouldn't be mad if they helped get it funded do Mattel will see this as a success and give us a Fright Zone with slime pit. 

@smitty-81 Synergy!

Would be funny and awesome if it would indeed be the Joes fans who help put it over the edge! Joes to the rescue! Or Cobra, that is 😅 

It's weirdly frustrating.

Hordak looks good, but he's not exactly a hard figure to pull off. Vultak and Mantena look good...

...but the girls. The girls do not. I really hope you guys are right and they improve them.

She-Ra - once again - is cursed with a plastic skirt that will make it weird for her to sit on Swiftwind. And a plastic cape!

Why? The WWE female figure (Chyna?) got a fabric cape...and she didn't even have a mount to ride requiring one!

As has been said, Catra's panther form looks small enough to be her pet kitty cat.

And their faces....man.

CC Teela looked terrific in the face. And her silhouette was great too. These two POP gals look boxy and have such bootleg/bland faces. Why would there be such a noticable difference??

....the POP gals always get the short end of the stick.

I am happy they aren't being completely overlooked. I am happy that POP is finally in the game.

But this...isn't the way I thought they'd come out.

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Why? The WWE female figure (Chyna?) got a fabric cape...and she didn't even have a mount to ride requiring one!

Chyna has a plastic cape...

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Why? The WWE female figure (Chyna?) got a fabric cape...and she didn't even have a mount to ride requiring one!

Chyna has a plastic cape...

She does? Whoops. ☺ Ok, I never found her in store. 

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@cosmic yeah it's like I said no cartoon design can be 100% accurate when made into a toy, especially someone like Man-E-Faces. I just feel like they could have done better. He almost looks like the figure they were designing on friday at 4:30 PM and the deadline was Monday at 9:30 AM.

Club Grayskull MEF was on point. I was really hoping the new CC would replicate that look, but it's way off. Garbage.

@durendal he had the advantage of being bigger and probably a less restrictive budget. I wouldn't call CC Manuel "garbage" he's just trying to turn a 2-D drawing into a 3-D action figure with a gimmick contained entirely in his head.

So I'm not alone in the Man-e-faces sad camp. I hope Mattel reads these threads and will fix him.

@samuel you’re not alone. I’m not really a fan of how Ram man turned out either. The rest I think looked great

@brasco @samuel I'm not a fan of Manual, at all. I always thought his cartoon designee was always goofy looking. I'm hoping he'll be in the same wave as Ram-Man, who I think looks alright. I like that he's got knees and muscular definition in his arms. The only complaint I have for Ram-Man is how flat and dull he looks, but that's normal the CC figures.

I've updated this image with the new info from SDCC. I'm sorry I can't remember who made the original.

I would have loved to see a vintage collection Blade. I had some hopes because De Longis was there.

So it was only two vintages announced, plus Demo and Geldor (Vultak has CC buck).

It’s unfortunate they’re actually *slowing down* with the VC. I still appreciate what their doing, but, yeah, is slooow…

@cosmic I wonder what Mattel's priority is for VC figures. There's not many left between 12 and 19 left depending on how you count Titus, Megator, the Lost Wave and Powers of Grayskull. So how does Mattel rank each character's importance?

Retailer leek...

https://www.tfw2005.com/boards/attachments/img_1575-png.30477333/

• Invisible Skeletor is definitely CC, I seem to recall an episode where he had something that turned him invisible.
• VC Faker was in wave 5 so I don't think he was too hard to get, but he could use some improvements or modifications so maybe an FF with an upgrade, like She-Ra.
• Tri-Klops is defiantly CC
• I wonder if they would do an FF Leech with just the suction cup parts? Although with what we've seen at SDCC a CC version seems more likely.
• Frosta is also CC.
• Buzz-Off has been on store shelves for FOUR YEARS in some places and I would hope Mattel knows this so this should be a CC figure.

@smitty-81 Faker could be CC; a Filmation  Faker would be an easy repaint, like “Invisible” Skeletor. Although I feel both are kind of a cheat.