While I'm not feeling these at all, for me a lot will depend on how good the tv show is. If it exceeds my expectations and I adore it, I'm more likely to look to come around on the figures.
For me, I gave up on thinking the designs will be made for me. Part of the appeal for MOTU to me is being a throw-back to the Frank Frazetta/Boris Vallejo era of Sword and Sorcery I grew up with and remain a fan of, lots of muscles on both men and women, not too much clothing. As soon as Kevin Smith was announced as the showrunner, I pretty much figured out they probably won't be as beholden to that concept despite all the claim Smith made about this being the Masters we grew up with, and just accepted it as a sign of the times. It just doesn't bother me as much as it might have maybe over a decade ago.
I think you're right on the money with your observations. Smith is definitely not a guy that's going to bite the hand that feeds him and I imagine he will basically do whatever he's told, as far as concept and design goes. Hopefully there will be some redemption in the story arc(s) and the show will at least be watchable.
If you're talking about the H design replacing the Iron Cross then yes. I mentioned that every He-Man in the vintage line used the H instead of the Iron Cross after the original figure. Personally, I'm a bigger fan of the H as it gives more brand unity.
Well Laser is probably the least representative, every vintage He-Man outside of the original featured the “H”
The original Masterverse tease had more impressive looking shadows. I am hopping that’s a really soft picture they released and the official release pictures look better. This is a more substantial looking line. With some interesting looking outlines. He-Man has a big bracer you can’t see pictures.
I think the pics we got suffer from being pretty low resolution and bad angles. Particularly with He-Man and Battle Cat. You can see that he has the larger bracer on the toy... it's just hard to see all of it because of the way his arm is positioned. Honestly, in-house toy photography is never the most flattering... which is hilarious when you'd think they'd want to showcase their figures they want you to spend money on at their best, but whatever... we Transformers fans know all too well how screwed stock photography can be.
I actually think it’s kind of smart. They always release some dicked-up pictures everyone rips them, then they release better pictures and everyone is happy. Under promise, over deliver. I am also going to point out that this thread was hating on Origins when they were shown. There were comments about how stupid Origins looked, the vintage style looked cheap, how dated the articulation was and they should have released Origins back in 2000. And here we go, I’d have to say Origins is a success from a collector standpoint.
Pics in Infinity K can’t even help those. Either you like them or your don’t. Right now I’m in the latter.
Remember that some of the figures listed were He-man and Skeletor Classic. These might be their classic look and the revelation looks might be the outlines.
Nah nothing in that image is a classic outline. Skeletor has a cape = Not classic, the body-types aren’t uniform = not classic, He-Man is the only “maybe” and he has a huge bracer. I think I can name all those outlines and none are classic, Classics, or anything existing all new designs. Has to be Revelation.
