[Sean C]

Mattel went this route because the major retailers wanted major characters. And Mattel wanted brick and mortar to keep buying Origins. I mean, do we think Slamurai, Snake Trooper and the Rulers of the Sun are more well known/popular than Rokkon and Extendar? No, but they got mass releases. The shift to Cartoon Collection pushed unmade characters to online only. Though, I fail to see how a case can have a reissue Zodac (a guy who is really not a major character) and not a Rokkon...but whatever.

But this again about a series partially kept popular by artificial scarcity, too. That doom case of Sorceress, Stratos, Jitsu and Buzz-Off...could've been any other case, maybe. Early on wave 1 He-Man and Skeletor were everywhere in the USA. I almost decided to skip the series because I didn't think it would amount to anything if that's all that shipped to stores.