Where is my Moss Man?
Toyguru has posted on the Moss Man's quick sellout on Mattycollector.com's forums. There was something very odd on Matty's site yesterday as the white screen of death came up far too early around 8:50PST for me.
Okay, so Moss Man sold out in seconds. That caught everyone by surprise. Who knew flocking was so popular!
Moss Man wasn't produced in any quota smaller to Adora and Trap Jaw but we did split his non subscription production between the flocked and non flocked variants. So that did mean their was less of one particular version. But it all does come out in the end.
Either way, at the end of the day the line is clearly picking up more and more fans as we go along and we are doing our best to keep up. Production will increase but it doesn't happen overnight as raw materials are purchased many months before a figure goes on sale.
We'll also continue to make improvements with Digital River and we do have a laundry list of corrections we are still implementing in the buying process.
A lot of fans are asking specifically about the 10 per order limit (which was demanded by fans after our initial 4 per person limit was rejected as being "not enough!").
Well, once again I went through every order today and once again VERY few customers are ordering 10 (in fact very few order more then 4). I know people are seeing a ton of Moss Man on the secondary market, but remember, we offered subscriptions in the summer of 2010 and customers were allowed an unlimited amount of subscriptions. It is very likely some fans bought subscriptions for the sole purpose of reselling them. And you know what, they have every right to do this.
The subscriptions were open for 3 weeks and anyone could buy as many as they needed or wanted. Their really was not a more fair way to offer an alternative to waiting each month to buy the non subscription production. If you wanted to buy figures right from Mattycollector.com and not a reseller, the chance was open for every monthly figure in 2010.
We will increase production as demand continues to go up and I'm sure Moss Man will be back in time (but I can tell you it won't be in 2010). The 2011 subscription will be available starting the Wednesday night of SDCC 2010. For those customers who want their figures guaranteed with no wait and no hassle, be sure to take advantage of this buying method!
We'll keep working to bring the best product we can to you. There is never a resting point. Long live MOTUC!
Mumm-Ra the EverLiving
Hard Hero has announced their next statue in the ThunderCat series being Mumm-Ra! I am a little surprised they did the mummy version of him instead of the "powered" up version as I think the other one would make a far more interesting figure.
G.I.Joe Toy Commercial Sgr Slaughter
Classic G.I.Joe commercial featuring one of my favorite guys from the 80s: Sgr Slaughter
She-Ra!
The Princess of Power She-Ra in package pictures are now up at MattyCollector's Facebook page. The figure looks great and I am looking forward to it even though most of the more dedicated fans of He-Man were far more excited by the Adora figure that was released early this year.
Toy Fair 1986 Catalog Scans
TFWiki has acquired some scans from the the 1986 Hasbro Toy Fair Catalog. This is a very interesting item as it contains an array of what might have been from Hasbro.
MattyCollector.com Release Schedule
Mattel has published the schedule for its upcoming MattyCollector.com products through June of this year. I am so happy we are seeing Faker and Hordak again as I missed him the first time.
March
MOTU Classics: Stratos® (re-issue)
MOTU Classics: Moss Man® – Flocked Ears
MOTU Classics: Moss Man® – Unflocked Ears
April
MOTU Classics: Wun-Dar™ & Map of Eternia®
MOTU Classics: Hordak™ (re-issue)
MOTU Classics: Evil-Lyn® (Club Eternia™ monthly figure)
MOTU Ultimate Battle Ground Weapons Pak
May
MOTC Classics: Mer-Man® (re-issue)
MOTU “Oversized”: Tytus™
MOTU Classics: Optikk™
June
MOTU Classics: Faker® (re-issue)
MOTU Classics: She-Ra™
MOTUC Wun-Dar Video Preview
Pixel Dan has posted his latest preview up and this time it is Wun-Dar.
MOTUC updates
I vanish for one week and it seems like the entire MOTUC world has gone crazy. Let us start off with some first looks at TheFwoosh.com of Moss Manfollowed by a figure that I will not be getting Wun-Dar. I did not get into the fandom till the release of Webstor which is not a fan favor but I have always liked that figure. This means I missed the subscription to the club which means no Wun-Dar for me.
A first look at Evil-Lyn was also done which I have some mixed emotions on as I am not that big on the yellow skin. Finally a review of the Weapon Pak was posted up as well. Since I do not open my figures, I will probably pass on this as well.