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First Watchmen, now this!

Mattel will be attending the New York Comic Con and they will be debuting their new Masters of the Universe toys!

This is from the schedule of panels for the New York Comic Con:

Saturday: 2:00-3:00 – Masters of the Universe DVD release! At long last the popular 2002 MOTU animated series is out on DVD! Come help celebrate this release with a special screening of episode 35 –The Power of Grayskull and learn the secret origin of the most Powerful Man in the Universe- HE-MAN!
PLUS- the world premier of brand new MOTU toy news- revealed here for the very first time! Q&A with Mattel toy designers to follow.

ActionFigs.com will be there to bring you the latest news and pictures!

They'd better continue or at least finish the fucking cartoon!

I got the DVD last week and was watching it, and was reminded of how incredibly fucking awesome it was.

I don't know that I would rebuy all the MOTU figures if it was a reboot. If they are close enough in scale and design to the old (new) figures, I might buy some of the secondary characters like Webstor and Jujitsu.

Either it's still 2002 or I'm having severe deja-vu.

I have no idea why, but I'm envisioning a total rescaling of these figures down to the 4" size (as a cost saving measure) - fucking EVERYONE's collections up and killing the line before it even gets started.

Mattel wouldn't do that, though.... right? I didn't buy a big bunch of these last time, and I have no intention of buying any this time.... but I'd be PISSED if they didn't stay on the same scale/detail level they were using the last time this line was available. As a matter of fact, if I was heading this line at I'd be very inclined to re-release a few of the more basic & desirable figures from last time to try and encourage people to collect them. They were pretty good figures.

Well, I got King Greyskull at SDCC, but after seeing some of the proposed figures in the line, I have decided to pass on getting these. They are $20 a pop plus shipping at mattycollector.com and Mattel isn't making any of the figures like the 2002 line and subsequent staction figure releases. If they DID go back and make the staction figures as articulated figures in this line, I would reconsider. But other than that, no dice.

Me too, though (as you know), I passed on King Greyskull. This line isn't what I was expecting.

Those Greyskulls are going for big bucks. I am considering buying a shitload of exclusives next year, and scalping them to pay for next years trip. Honestly, after seeing some dumbasses paying HUNDREDS for a Greyskull, I regret not investing the extra $70 to buy a couple more.