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Mattel Packaging Errors finally catches up with them in a costly way, as consumers are directed to an adult website

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Spelling and grammatical errors on packaging is nothing new in the toy industry, nor new to Masters of the Universe fans. Masterverse collectors specifically grew very accustomed to all kinds of text errors in their packaging. Oddly, silly mistakes and grammatical errors especially in Masterverse bios felt easily avoidable with a simple proofread. Pushing what feels to be careless mistakes aside, these errors fortunately never seemed to cause any serious uproar in the Masterverse collector community. It seemed mostly chuckled at, and then moved on from. While these occurrences in packaging errors in Masterverse seemed dramatically reduced or dare we…

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Universal: This makes me very angry. Very angry indeed.

NOTE: universal owns DreamWorks

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Mommy! Daddy! I went on the website! Why are the witches kissing each other with no clothes on! 🤣


   
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Posted by: @catra

Universal: This makes me very angry. Very angry indeed.

NOTE: universal owns DreamWorks

Oh no. We need them to let Mattel use She-Ra in season 3. 

 


   
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I went on the website and it is pretty tame. It could have been a lot worse.


   
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I went on the website and it is pretty tame. It could have been a lot worse.

Its because they changed it (probably) because of the unintended attention incl. those of minors. When the news broke they still had half screen filling embedded previews looping that left nothing to the imagination.

 


   
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@lurker-man They quickly removed the He-Man parody they were selling. 

 


   
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@asterstar Kinda missed that one? I only skimmed it out of curiosity but did not went deep into there plus most links seemed to require some kind of registered sub anyway.


   
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I like industry news like this. Keep em coming.


   
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Posted by: @mighty-thanos

I went on the website and it is pretty tame. It could have been a lot worse.

Its because they changed it (probably) because of the unintended attention incl. those of minors. When the news broke they still had half screen filling embedded previews looping that left nothing to the imagination.

 

That makes sense. I wonder if sales went up for Wicked and the mistake was good for business.

 


   
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