[thechris]

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Originally Posted by Optimus Vader

If they make a MAA with a pony tail I'll quit this line.

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Originally Posted by Tiberius

Your right, bald with a full Fu Manchu and a tattoo on his head. I like this idea.

Seriously though, what is wrong with this?

Come to think of it, would of been cool if He-Man came with the 2002 style head.

I wouldn't really care if they just included an extra head with say the Snake Man-At-Arms figure since that's a 200x figure anyway and they're definitely going ahead with that figure, so what could it hurt? I would, however, be upset if they made YET ANOTHER Man-At-Arms figure just to have the ponytail head. As you can see with my Etherian Idol poll, there's more than 30important characters from the MOTU Universe that have yet to be released. At least 50% of those characters deserve a figure before we get another variant.

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Originally Posted by cobracobra

As long as I can put his helmet on I have no problems with this one. I really enjoyed the art for the 2002 releases. I see Anime but also MOTU in general reeks of the 1980s so which one is worse?
And if they are afraid of being defined of a genre why did they even put out Mighty Spector who could be any 1990s comic book character. Jeesh.

You'll probably feel differently after forking over $40 or so for MAA only to find out 2.0 is coming out and you can't get rid of your original one. In my experience, revisions are usually like slaps in the faces to people who have been loyal to a line from the start. Examples: The ten or twenty Spider-man and Wolverine figures I have in a box. They're not worried about being defined a genre, they just don't want the figures to look too much like they're from different totally lines. Giving Teela her 200x hair is one thing but putting her 200x face on the current Teela buck would look totally gimped and creating a totally new 200x inspired buck would be out of the question. There's the 200x line for that, the proportions are just as they look in the 200x series and you can still get them for cheap.

The women of MOTUC have more muscular proportions. They aren't super slender. They're somewhat stocky and curvacious. Mighty Spector and the majority of the 30th Anniversary line is a one-off. As they said, it doesn't have much to do with the main line and they created this because they wanted to put out a few new figures without interfering with the current product. I'm sure there's a lot of support for a 200x inspired sub line in the spirit of the 30th Anniversary line, but that just isn't my thing.

In my opinion, I think that Mattel looked at it this way. 1980s He-man was ultra successful and continues to have a massive following with new and returning fans all the time. 200x, as good as I thought it was, failed. The cartoon failed, the toys failed. You know who watched 200x MOTU and bought 200x MOTU toys? Probably a small number of new fans who are very young and a small portion of fans who were already vintage MOTU fans. It had it's run, it failed. This MOTUC line is succeeding with the already large vintage fanbase. This fanbase is hardcore.

You'll be hardpressed to find a 200x fan who'll dump $600 on an OPENED figure, but the vintage fans had around 25 years to line their pockets and for some of them, $600 is a drop in the bucket for what they've spent on toys. The 200x inspired stuff is a nod to the 200x fans and it's an attempt to broaden the demographic but the 200x inspired figures have consistently done WORSE than the regular vintage figures. This can be seen with the fact that Keldor, Count Marzo, Zodak, Chief Carnivus, Faceless One and Battleground Evil Lyn despite all being cool figures, are worth the least in the series.

At the end of the day, all Mattel cares about is volume and dollar signs.

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Originally Posted by Optimus Vader

I wouldn't really quit the line, but I wouldn't buy it. What you're posting isn't a "Classic" which is what this line is. I guess it's a canon thing for me. That IS NOT He-Man or MAA, it's Japanimation bullshit.

Of course these are just my feelings, but I believe that show already had a toyline and it failed because kids don't know who He-Man is and the adults who were kids when the cartoon was on want the Classics.

This is mostly true, although I think He-man was more like Western Anime, ie: Ben 10, Martin Mystery, Totally Spies, Young Justice, Spectacular Spiderman, Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, etc.

Like I said, I don't mind little homages and nods to the 200x line, but unless you can come up with a damn good reason why and how a 200x inspired line can and should be integrated into the current MOTUC line without affecting it's current client-base, I think it should stay the way it is.

To sum it up, my feelings are that I wouldn't mind a 200x He-man head, hell, he'd look great on my King Grayskull figure who is essentially IS 200x He-man with a different head and removable cape... Same with the Man-At-Arms head with the ponytail, fine, add it. BUT, include it with a figure that's already coming out. ie: the Alfredo Alcala Skeletor head that came with Demo-Man.