@smitty-81 Yes - he's confirmed to just be a random generic warrior inspired by a background character in that same 1986 mini comic. Hopefully they will flesh out his design, story, and give him a name!

@zodac I agree. I get tired sometimes of all the vanilla toy tubers who don't dare utter a single swear word, or heaven forbid, any remotely controversial comment. That's where guys like Mr Home Arcade and Mad Hatter come in. Talk to me like a real adult, not a friggin' child.

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Great, another deluxe exclusive that nobody will be able to get. Awesome.

@durendal do you mean like the Krang figures that are just now hitting shelves, the Mossmen they're clearing out or the Panthors they couldn't give away?

@smitty-81 or it could be the next Duplico.

@kraken I understand the concern but Duplico is the exception and I think more of the for how he was handled goes to Mattel.

Terroar, Lord Gr'Asp...

Plus here in Canada stuff like Krang, Moss Man, and quite a few others, like the NA MV figures, never appeared at retail and couldn't even be ordered through other retailers due to their "exclusive" status... 

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Terroar, Lord Gr'Asp...

Plus here in Canada stuff like Krang, Moss Man, and quite a few others, like the NA MV figures, never appeared at retail and couldn't even be ordered through other retailers due to their "exclusive" status... 

Terroar and Lord Gr'Asp aren't out yet. But you make a good point about markets outside the US. It's just another reason ALL EXCLUSIVES SHOULD BE FAN CHANNEL AND A RETAILER. 

@brasco It's 8-10 Mossemen at 3 different Walmarts in my area. One Walmart got them early and then the others got him months later. Both Targets in my city have the cartoon collection and ToG.  I don't think the distribution thing is a Mattel only thing either, Transformers have been really inconsistently stocked at Target and Walmart.

To be clear, I fully agree with Smitty that these should be fan channel as well. Ideally they wouldn't do this shit at all, but this is what seems to be happening and there is some back end reason.

Does anyone have any information on any major changes that WM \ Target have made to their ordering? Lately it seems they are doing WAY more clearance than I ever remember them doing. I thought it would just be a post Christmas purge, but it's ongoing. My theory is that most products are so cheap and they make money on tiny margins \volume so they are just loading up, selling what they can at a big profit and then purging - still at a profit.

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@brasco It's 8-10 Mossemen at 3 different Walmarts in my area. One Walmart got them early and then the others got him months later. Both Targets in my city have the cartoon collection and ToG.  I don't think the distribution thing is a Mattel only thing either, Transformers have been really inconsistently stocked at Target and Walmart.

To be clear, I fully agree with Smitty that these should be fan channel as well. Ideally they wouldn't do this shit at all, but this is what seems to be happening and there is some back end reason.

Does anyone have any information on any major changes that WM \ Target have made to their ordering? Lately it seems they are doing WAY more clearance than I ever remember them doing. I thought it would just be a post Christmas purge, but it's ongoing. My theory is that most products are so cheap and they make money on tiny margins \volume so they are just loading up, selling what they can at a big profit and then purging - still at a profit.

 

You saw the Cartoon Collection at Target? I keep looking but no luck. There once was a link to it on their website but they pulled it over a month ago.

https://www.target.com/p/masters-of-the-universe-he-man-cartoon-collection-action-figure/-/A-89533568?

@dynamicg from what I’ve seen, retail stores are getting them very late after most of us find them online or eBay. That and one of my targets got in 6 Sun-man’s and nothing else from that wave. That’s why they sit there for months 

Pretty cool...

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I can almost hear the people at Mattel talking... "Collectors like rare, super exclusive stuff right, right?" and a thousand collectors crying out "Nooooooo". Ah well, another piece of Motu Origins I will not be able to get ^^

Keep them wanting more.

@depp76 There's nothing new in this set, so what's the point? We all have these two figures already.

NEXT.

You guys know that this is not an official Mattel release... right?

@lasastard For once this is not Mattel’s fault. It simply a fun collectible that a toy convention in Germany is doing, themselves, together with a big distributor. I assume with permission from Mattel, but I don’t think Mattel is actually producing these.

Something fun for the visitors, a celebratory keepsake, but also no new figures, of course. Not something collectors in other countries should feel bad about 🙂