Masters of the Universe: Masterverse

As for the “rebrand” I figure it’s just going to be like another subline for 1-2 waves like Revelations was.

Btw I often post while taking a walk… which is why my typoes are so consistently bad.
 
Just a slight tangent but the Barbie She-Ra went up on Mattel Creations today and apparently sold out in 10 minutes.

Yes I know it is Barbie and how much of a fandom that alone brings, but at least something MOTU related finally sold out quickly again on Mattel Creations this year.
 
Just a slight tangent but the Barbie She-Ra went up on Mattel Creations today and apparently sold out in 10 minutes.

Yes I know it is Barbie and how much of a fandom that alone brings, but at least something MOTU related finally sold out quickly again on Mattel Creations this year.
The only lesson they will learn from this is to make everything a Barbie.
 
Sometimes I rant and raved on Fwoosh about the She-Ra dolls that were discontinued/never made. I'm sad they "barbie-ized" She-Ra so much in this new release, the 2018 doll is my favorite doll and we almost had a whole line of females. Ignore the He-Man, he's really rough early stages, lol, but he was being worked on:


I'm so sad we never got these, the two She-Ra dolls we received had great clothes and bodies. I customized mine and you see her every time you see me post on here. Maybe there's still hope for these to be made; I'm pretty sure the Netflix series' success killed this line before it started.
 
Those dolls would have been so fun to have. They would look so cool on display. I think of all my MOTU and POP merchandise I have and having all those dolls amongst it would have been awesome.

I have been messing some with my vintage collection Faker lately, and I have to say. His armor is a bitch! I have x2 vintage collection Fakers, and both have the same problem. The strap that threads through and fastens his armor on his back near the left arm threads and fastens so easy. the strap by the right arm om his back, is almost too short to even hope to thread it through, and even if you get it in there, it doesn't ever want to go over the first notch and securely fasten.

The right strap does seem shorter. And, he has the die cast machine parts sculpted on to his chest. Which doesn't allow his armor to lay perfectly flat and flush in the front. Which also makes it just a tiny bit harder to try and fasten that strap by his right arm.

I can get his armor on and display it, so it looks like it's on. But if you are playing around with the figure at all, the right strap slips out and come undone.
 
I’m having a similar problem with vintage He-Man. The puffy torso is just a bit too big for the existing harnesses. Can’t keep it on him.
 
I'm so sad we never got these, the two She-Ra dolls we received had great clothes and bodies. I customized mine and you see her every time you see me post on here. Maybe there's still hope for these to be made; I'm pretty sure the Netflix series' success killed this line before it started.
I would have bought the one yesterday if she had been more like those. I need articulation so I can pose them.
I have been messing some with my vintage collection Faker lately, and I have to say. His armor is a bitch! I have x2 vintage collection Fakers, and both have the same problem. The strap that threads through and fastens his armor on his back near the left arm threads and fastens so easy. the strap by the right arm om his back, is almost too short to even hope to thread it through, and even if you get it in there, it doesn't ever want to go over the first notch and securely fasten.

The right strap does seem shorter. And, he has the die cast machine parts sculpted on to his chest. Which doesn't allow his armor to lay perfectly flat and flush in the front. Which also makes it just a tiny bit harder to try and fasten that strap by his right arm.

I can get his armor on and display it, so it looks like it's on. But if you are playing around with the figure at all, the right strap slips out and come undone.
I'm having the same issue. Action figure armor as a whole has always been annoying to me. Both the type like this where you feed a strap through or the type where you have to tab one side into another like some of the MOTUC have. Honestly the easiest to deal with was always the hard plastic shell type like vintage Jitsu and Clawful had.
 
I've got at least three Masterverse figures who had those feeder strap armor pieces come unhooked and I cannot get them back in. Which is hilarious to me because I had the SAME PROBLEM as a kid with the OG toys. He-Man always had one bra strap undone, for his entire life.
 
Yeah I have the Skeletor from the Stranger Things pack and he has just the worst strap on the back to keep his bra on. It's a small tube that sticks out and "fits" into a rectangular slot. It makes zero sense and falls off just by looking at it. Reminds me of the "square hole" meme.
 
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My biggest problem with all the armor is the new Origins Cartoon He-Man where they changed the .. zip-tie... straps? Whatever the fuck those pull-through ones with the retaining ridges are called. Anyway.. they changed the layout of the straps so that the ends of the straps are always sticking out and looking fucking stupid. Mattel has been famously SHIT at designing removable armor going all the way back to Classics and all the puffy armor that doesn't allow figures to put their arms down.
 
It hit me today that this New Etheria She-Ra kinda makes a great "What if She-Ra had been in the 1987 movie" (or a sequel).

I think the kind of busy design and ultra realistic face is the reason. I kind of want to get another one to paint up the golds to match He-Man's gold so they blend a bit better and display her with the movie stuff.
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