MISSING: HAVE YOU SEEN THE GREAT REBELLION? 4 YEARS INTO MOTUC LINE AND THE GREAT REBELLION ARE NOWHERE TO BE SEEN.
Many of my fellow Princess of Power fans over in the SHADOW WEAVERS REALM (SWR) Facebook fan group have discussed with one another the matter of scarcity of Princess of Power, as well as New Adventures characters, in the Masters of the Universe Classics toy line. Matty made a smart move by "absorbing" POP and NA into the MOTUC line, but unfortunately, the line has been very MOTU heavy since its inception. The argument from Matty is that there's simply more MOTU characters than there are POP or NA. But that argument is starting to lose weight now that there are only around 33 MOTU characters and variants remaining to get a release. POP and 200X characters have averaged 1-2 releases a year, while NA characters average 1 release a year. The rest of the year is populated with mostly MOTU characters. Now that the rights have been obtained for Filmation and Jetlag characters, competition for a monthly slot might even become more fierce...
The folks over at SWR, including myself, have speculated that the reasoning for such a MOTU-heavy distribution ratio is that MATTEL is playing it safe with characters that it knows will secure subscriptions. The developing fear is that by the time MOTUC winds down for a close, many POP and NA characters will not get a release, whilst most if not all of the core MOTU characters will have been released. I myself suspect that getting ALL the core MOTU characters released in MOTUC is the primary goal, and that the rest of the characters are considered "extra gravy" to fill the holes. Although I and my fellow Weavers intend to support the line into the indefinite future - we do hope that Matty will make some efforts to even out the distribution of characters, so that more POP and NA characters get a release in a given year.
WE WANT TO BE JUST AS VOCAL IN SUPPORTING POP CHARACTERS AS THE ANTI-POP CROWD ARE SPEAKING AGAINST THEM.
Here here! It's disgusting how few POP characters there are in the classics line so far. 4 years in and where's glimmer or frosta? let alone castaspella or angella, these are the strongest members of hte great rebellion. Why do we not have any of them, yet have G list MOTU characters like moss man?
ReplyDeleteLeaving PoP and NA to the end of the sub is a MORONIC idea. That would kill the line prematurely and flip the bird at the POP and NA Fans. They should have added more POP and NA from the beginning... (The sooner they get rid of these guys, more Vintage for the Vintage MOTU only crowd.) also the smaller POP and NA Rosters are easier to complete (especially POP's cause all of the part sharing that the ladies have.)
ReplyDeleteI find it disturbing that I have the Core evil Warriors and I'm one Ram man and Mekaneck away from completing the core Heroic Warriors while My "Great" Rebellion consist only of Adora and Bow...
This Line is supposed to be ALL ERAS Together, not Vintage Redux with a sprinkle of PoP and NA...
I gotta admit I get frustrated that I have 5 he Mans, 3 skeletors, 2 hordaks, 2 teelas, 2 evil lyns, 2 she ras etc etc and yet core characters like Glimmer, Frosta etc are not even out yet. I sincerely hope POP fans aren't going to be fobbed off for 2012 with 'you already had 3 POP characters with the Star Sisters' as most fans weren't that bothered about them in comparison to the core POP characters like Queen Angella, Mermista, Glimmer etc, it's those we really want. Really hoping to see the number of POP, NA and 200X characters stepped up now. 4 POP characters in 4 years just isn't enough.
ReplyDeleteI am dissapointed not to have Frosta, Castaspella, Peekablue, Queen Angella etc on my shelf. I love the MOTUC SO much, it's the best time EVER, and i do find it upsetting that I have virtually all the heroic masters and evil warriors and yet barely any of the Great Rebellion members, they're severely lacking. Hoping to see a step up in the number of Great Rebellion characters released from now on, we should at least have Frosta, Glimmer and Castaspella by now
ReplyDeleteI would have hoped that She-Ra and Bow would have some gorgeous and powerful female friends to help their Rebellion by this time.
ReplyDeleteWhile I don't particularly like the character, Glimmer was pretty much the third lead on the cartoon together with She-Ra and Bow, yet she still hasn't been made. I'd understand if she required a lot of new tooling like Queen Angella (with the wings), but Glimmer is a pretty basic design.
The lack of Frosta, Castaspella and Queen Angella is also disappointing. Not to mention characters like Netossa and Double Trouble. The Star Sisters may have an ... interesting "history" given they were never released as part of the original toy line, but I'm not interested in characters I'd never heard of until their announcement by Mattel. I want the characters that I know and love.
GIVE US POP WE SIGNED UP FOR AN ALL ENCOMPASSING LINE NOT JUST CORE MOTU CHARACTERS ITS NOT OUR FAULT YOU DIDNT SPACE OUT THE MOTU ONES RIGHT ITS TOO TOP HEAVY WITH CORE MOTU AND NOT ENOUGH POP, 200X and NA
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