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@super7store I can’t really tell from the picture. What is Mumm-Ra’s accessory?

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The crossover event we've all been waiting for.

Mail call! Who knows what’s going on with either of these toy lines anymore. For now I’ll just keep buying what I can, as long as I can. New Etheria has a ton of potential @Mattel, please keep it going!

@TheNerdWASuit @CoraBuhlert I’d say the anniversary only FEATURED She-Ra. Origins branding was Hordak-focused; the small 40th logo wasn’t on all the merch. We got limited Rebels in CC, and literally none in vintage Origins or Masterverse. No Crystal Castle. Nothing cool or new for POP, all just Horde. Lame.

@EtheriaInto @CoraBuhlert As Cora said we didn't even have She-Ra's 40th this year. We had the 40th anniversary of the Horde STARRING She-Ra. We got a few Filmation toys and Funko Pops and...that was it. Basically what He-Man gets just about everytwo months at this point.

This is some hot garbage. I’m sick of buying the same 25 characters every 5 years with slight tweaks, while huge swaths of the brand are rotting, unrepresented. We finally get New Etheria, only to have it end before it got off the ground with the Rebels. I’m one sad fan today…

@TheNerdWASuit @CoraBuhlert Mattel didn’t do anything for She-Ra’s 25th anniversary until a fan asked about it at a con. They rushed off and came back with three MOTUC She-Ra toys spray painted silver, and called them cake toppers. They’ve never really made the brand a priority.

@EtheriaInto @CoraBuhlert Again, while Scott may say with his words he's a fan of Princess of Power, how the female characters were handled under his brand management says otherwise in certain regards...

@CoraBuhlert @TheNerdWASuit So many opportunities in Classics. I always thought they should have repainted Battle Lion to give us Clawdeen.

@TheNerdWASuit @EtheriaInto No Skeleteen, even though we got his counterpart D'are, and no Masks of Powers for which German fans have been clamouring for ages.

@TheNerdWASuit @CoraBuhlert 😄 She was another one I really wanted to see in MV, because I don’t love the Classics version. I also really wanted an Entrapta with some Dreamworks reference (likely the mask/goggles), Netossa, and Spinerella. Who am I kidding, I wanted them all!

@EtheriaInto @CoraBuhlert What I've learned is that we will never truly know great days are upon us to MotU/PoP lines until the day we see a new Perfuma has been announced.

@TheNerdWASuit @CoraBuhlert I still have flashbacks of hunting around town and only finding those damn Spin/Smash Blades. I remember some cases stores got were literally 6 He-Mans and nothing else. Who thought that was a good idea?!

@CoraBuhlert @EtheriaInto Mattel hasn't really learned too much. Remember, the reason the 200X reboot met an early end was that the toys weren't buying becaus they were clogging up shelves with endless variants of He-Man and Skeletor when people wanted to buy the rest of the cast.

@CoraBuhlert @TheNerdWASuit It feels like we’re stuck in an unending loop with these characters. We never seem to get around to new characters or deep cut stuff before Mattel packs it in and starts the cycle over with a new line. Chronicles is very exciting, but also very familiar, if that makes sense?

@EtheriaInto @TheNerdWASuit I also don't get Mattel. Fans keep yelling what they want and while they want different things, almost no one wants umpteen variations of He-Man, Skeletor, Beast-Man, Man-at-Arms and Mer-Man over and over again.

@CoraBuhlert @TheNerdWASuit I hadn’t done the Adora:Despara math, but you’re right, that’s crazy. I’m holding out hope that a CC Adora is in the works, but I’ll probably have to accept reality soon that she isn’t coming

@TheNerdWASuit @EtheriaInto So we didn't get Adora in Origins either. It's wild that we got three Desparas, but only one Adora over the years.

@CoraBuhlert @TheNerdWASuit Seeing an overflow of figures at rock bottom clearance prices is insane to watch from the outside, when those same figures are rare and expensive in your country. And don’t even get me started on what people find at Ross…

@EtheriaInto @TheNerdWASuit Slush Head was easy enough to find at Smyths, but NA He-Man and Skeletor never made it to Germany at all and I had to import them for a lot of money while seeing photos of those same figures on clearance at Target.

@CoraBuhlert @TheNerdWASuit We had this steady stream of POP and NA, and it gave me hope we were truly getting a robust MOTU line like Classics. And then…it all stopped. It felt like the direction had changed, but Mattel didn’t bother to tell the fans. I love NE, but I miss the other lines too.

@EtheriaInto @TheNerdWASuit I was really hoping we'd get a New Etheria Catra in Masterverse inspired by her toy look. Just as I thought we'd have more Princess of Power characters in Masterverse by now, since they started off strongly, but then nothing since 2023. They never even got to Bow.

@CoraBuhlert @TheNerdWASuit It’s too bad. I really liked the NA figures but they were so hard to find. Slush Head was a Toys R Us exclusive here and He-Man/Skeletor never came to Canada at all. Mattel’s distribution always gets in the way of these lines succeeding. Please, just let us give you our money!

@EtheriaInto @TheNerdWASuit New Adventures never got beyond Slush Head. Even Classics didn't finish New Adventures.

@CoraBuhlert @TheNerdWASuit Definitely not in Chronicles. And we likely won’t get a Masterverse Marlena either, so Classics will have to do

@EtheriaInto @TheNerdWASuit And with the new movie line, how much do you want to bet we'll never even get Randor and Marlena.

@TheNerdWASuit @CoraBuhlert The NE look for Adora is growing on me, but a straight 80s POP version would have been amazing!

@CoraBuhlert @EtheriaInto Keep in mind, we never even got Adora in Masterverse. Yeah we got Despara without her armor, but it was only trying to be vaguely Filmation Adora instead of full-on Filmation Adora.

@TheNerdWASuit Masterverse POP She-Ra got the Dreamworks inspired cape, Frosta got the ice punch, and Despara got Adora’s hair bump and the way she loops her belt. Dreamworks Angella’s design was great. I think they might have thrown in a reference to her if she had made it to Masterverse

@EtheriaInto It's not really possible to make an Angella hotter than her, but New Etheria could have at least tried for her!

@TheNerdWASuit @Redpyramid9 😫 hasn’t even thought of that!! So many awesome characters left on the table.

@EtheriaInto @Redpyramid9 I also just realized...no Shokoti.

@TheNerdWASuit I love what Masterverse gave us, but I was so hopeful we’d finally get a toy-based Catra in New Etheria. We’ve never had updates of the toy designs, and we were so close!

@EtheriaInto When it comes to PoP aside from She-Ra and Hordak (the most bare of bare basics) we just keep getting Frosta and Catra again and again. I guess in Masterverse the most daring we got was another Shadow Weaver.

@TheNerdWASuit @Redpyramid9 Who wants them when you could have one of the dozens of concept/new characters they pumped out into retail? They found an audience for alllllll those snakes, but screw Glimmer and KowI guess?

@EtheriaInto @Redpyramid9 I can't wait until they release another Frosta, and then don't do anymore of the elemental princesses leaving us without a Glimmer, Perfuma, Mermista Spinnerella, and Netossa once more.