USPS only delivers mailpieces to my home, not packages. The carrier refuses to do packages. I've heard three excuses. That she's old, that she doesn't get paid enough, and that she isn't happy with my apartment's mailboxes. (The apartment replaced them. Didn't change anything.) Sometimes I get to pick up packages at the Post Office. Sometimes they get delivered by a weekend carrier, either in my mailbox or at my door. Sometimes, they just go missing and nobody knows even though I'm waiting in my car near the mail area when it says it's delivered. I'm tempted to get a PO box at a different post office but I'd much rather only take packages through FedEx or UPS or Amazon Hub. I wish resellers would use Amazon fulfillment instead of shipping directly.
I don't think it's likely at retail but it strikes me like it would be trivial through Mattel Creations since they already tooled the extra parts. I could be wrong. My hunch is that they want to use retail to get everything unique made that they can get made and then if they ever go direct-to-consumer, they'll dump all the deep cuts they have in reserve that require minimal tooling.
Those excuses are not acceptable in any shape or form. The carrier needs to do something different within the USPS, find a different job, or retire. You should let your post office know that you expect packages delivered to your home with "NO EXCUSES!" If you go the path of a PO Box, It has advantages and disadvantages.
MC is a totally different animal, I rarely take it into consideration when thinking about what we'll actually see at retail.
I'm sure Mattel knows exactly how many Nightstalkers they need to sell to turn a profit at $40. (let's say 30,000) What if they released it on MC similar to a Eternia 100% a repaint, no new sculpted parts. Open up people to put an order for them. If it reaches 30,000, it gets made, if not, no horsey. While I'd rather get it at retail, if this is how it has to get released, I'm fine with it. I'd rather get nightstalker then the other repaints since NS was in the vintage line. Windraider repaint and evil skysled are recent creations right? The release of the extra parts with the Roton are supposed to cover the model kit release.
There were evil Skysleds in the Filmation show and the Origins release has evil swappable parts that everyone seems to forget about.
I was talking about the purple one with the Beast Man figure. Don't remember that one in the old show.
One thing we'll never get is the Dragon Walker. That thing is just a solid chunk of thick plastic. Even if they didn't motorize it then the thing would still be $100+.
If they didn't motorize it, it would be maybe about 30% bigger than the Landshark and 30% smaller than Talon Fighter with Point Dread. To me, that's around $45-55. The bigger issue I see is how to make sense of its design if it isn't motorized. The video game Toy Soldiers had it as a stationary turret with movable weapons platform. Maybe have the jaw articulate to reveal missiles that fire or plug in a big flame thrower blast effect? You might want to change the name if it doesn't walk to something like the Dragon Turret.
it probably won’t work. They are a secret club and they protect each other. I just got my service fixed from having a similar problem. We went over a year without mail service having to go to the post office to get our mail and packages. My carrier is a, well, let’s just call her a pain, and decided she didn’t have to deliver the mail because our box was far enough that she had to get out of her truck. I had to eventually file a police report and threaten her and her manager personally with lawsuits because she was falsely putting my permissions and requests to have my mail not delivered to my house. Such a cluster*** of illegal bs.
So. Screwball thought but I keep seeing MOTU Little People sets (made by Fisher Price, which is a subsidiary of Mattel) and it got me thinking... What if Mattel treated MOTU Origins as a form factor, the way Little People has been doing for the last three years? 5.5" figures have certainly been used as a form factor by Funko (I think in an effort to find a Pop alternative to diversify) and by indie toy makers, who frequently make 5.5" limited articulation vinyls in MOTU style. I suggested Universal Monsters/MOTU crossover before... But what if they approached it exactly like how they approach Little People or Megabloks? Little People licenses: WWE The Beatles The Office Lord of the Rings Elf Golden Girls The Rolling Stones Ted Lasso Ru Paul's Drag Race Avatar: The Last Airbender E.T. Seinfeld Licensed Mega brands include: Halo Call of Duty Destiny Game of Thrones Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Star Trek Despicable Me Assassins Creed God of War Alien Predator Terminator Futurama Family Guy Monster High includes: Beetlejuice Gremlins Ghostbusters Elvira Universal Monsters Hot Wheels and Barbie famously license IPs left and right. So MOTU is kind of the odd one out, only doing MOTU and and WWE in the form factor. I wonder if the MOTU figures themselves would attract more collectors if Mattel was pumping out Golden Girls, The Office, and Seinfeld in Origins form factor. Regardless, there are some of these that make a ton of sense, organically. Arnold Schwarzenegger and God of War make as much sense in the form factor as WWE. And I feel like TMNT was so obvious I missed it. Every toy manufacturer I can think of except Mattel (excluding Mega Bloks) has TMNT figures. There seems to be ZERO exclusivity with the license now. Brian Flynn even confirmed that he and Randy at NECA have identical licenses and simply choose to make different product. Hasbro has (and likely will continue to) make some TMNT. Loyal Subjects makes TMNT. A lot of people want Playmates to make Origins-style figures, particularly as vintage TMNT toys were similar to MOTU in form factor and had some of the same designers. But why not Mattel? And why not as an actual extension of Origins with April O'Neil is Teela's proportions and Shredder in He-Man's? It feels like a way to grow Origins' retail footprint again.
While I wouldn't want Origins to be filled with all of these unrelated characters to MOTU, a new line under the same form factor as Origins exclusively made for these kind of figures I wouldn't be against. Maybe reuse the "Legends of the Universe" trademark that is active for this and introduce both popular and niche IPs that fit with the style of the 5.5 classic muscular body.
That's a good idea. I would love to see band mascots in this form factor, Eddy for Iron Madden and The Guy from Disturbed would be awesome. Back to MOTU news there will be an MC release on the 14th of February. Launch Calendar – Mattel Creations
