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Originally Posted by TheBlueMarvel

I imagine they foresaw this eventuality when they laid off two thousand employees a few months back.

It's been in the works for a bit, was something being discussed.
Didn't realize it fully went through. Discussions came out of this because of how Mattel handled Wonder Woman, and the money they kept leaving on the table by only half doing what market demand wanted. Stuff they began to learn from Multiverse to correct, but at that point it was a little late. Hopefully we'll see some way that Multiverse will find something to do about that market or otherwise, but we'll see.

Trying to get decent material through Mattel has always been rather a bit of a crap shoot sometimes, they have some amazing enthusiastic employees, so where the hiccup is in the chain is a question, but hopefully long term this will fix that.

And it won't be "5poa garbage". The whole intent of Spin Master getting it was because of how well they did with Tron Legacy for Disney. So minimum, we'll see articulation and sculpting to roughly that standard. With much of the problems of that line remedied by the change in materials from not needing the electronics.

But full effects are unknown for now until we fully see product lineups and how it'll impact going forward.

Mattel will bounce back, but they do need to rethink how they approach the market after how well Jurassic World material did.