Sketchy Skeletor

Even worse, these are apparently separate from the Sketch line we now know is an ongoing thing! Mattel are all over the place and thus few are pleased. It's too much all at once. It becomes maintenanc...

It's basically an upscaled Moaty, and by the look of it, not upscaled enough! We'll find out on the 6th I guess!

They're really shocking, aren't they? Like if you are going old school put out the old figures with the half painted boots and the wrist guard. Or cardback versions. Not ones with countless influences...

They're desperately trying to step on the product just as it's reputation has plummeted. One 'decent' figure per wave is nonsense but especially when it's a character you already have three or four of...

Genuinely lost count of how many individual takes are in these. The render doesn't even match the prototypes!

Plussed up retro leads by the look of it Screenshot_20250301-220518_Brave.jpg Edit - Mattel rejecting 'normal' as usual

No, you could be right!

I suspect they're pre-tooling between him and the Skeletor headsculpt.

While I really like that they've upgraded the back of the Zone the front looks kinda cheap... the creature I'd have preferred to have been a sculpted piece, his large neck sitting flat instead of him ...

@depp76 I'm assuming it's all taken from concept art, Battle Ram Blog will tell me... Edit - can't find anything that looks relevant to these!

Cartoon Collection looks good, but those Masterverse are gonna peg warm hard. Wtf are they thinking with that line? 😣

I'd have bought all of these but somehow they've made Lion-O yellow and not even consistent with his team! So far I only need He-Man for parts.

It's scummy AF, nothing but a tax for stuff that should be available on Cretins anyway. Paywall for PoG it looks like already (planned but unproduced figures previously hit retail so no excuse). Shou...

That's what I meant in product terms. But people are gonna people, any toy collecting these days requires continual online engagement. It absolutely sucks but it's your choice to participate or not.

With the chat Hasbro are considering made to order I'd settle for Mattel doing that, it would hopefully enable cartoon stuff in that scenario too.

Do we think they'll ever announce a Crystal Castle? That is one fantastic-looking playset. So long as it wasn't a crowdfund I'd buy it immediately.

@durendal Or even the mad Grayskull Guard from the Ladybird books lol  Screenshot_20250221-202710_Google.jpg

It could really be anything for each, like Hover Bots for either Skeletor or Hordak, any amount of redeco Horde Troopers, Snake Warriors, Skelcons, Skeleton Warriors, Bird People, Bee People Rock Peop...

Early to mid March from memory. There's a Cretins event on... the 6th?

*mumbles* "What?" "I want millions for this!"

It does look like P. Diddy, er, had a hand in it.

That's why I'm out, even ignoring them throwing every 'ist' and 'phobe' at genuine criticism, a multiverse means no consequences or coherence storywise. It has already failed COUNTLESS times across th...

I can only speak to the UK scenario and that's either the figures are massively overproduced or very few want them. Origins CC now goes on almost immediate clearance and that's with better distributio...

Don't forget Keldor and Kronis! Like for all it would take to adapt the existing pieces and throw on a new headsculpt... that's the real reason Origins is modular in the first place!

Mattel have nothing resembling a plan as is and it's killing me. I just want to be done with at least one of the sublines in a line. They couldn't even sort out 200X within Origins and you just know t...