Mattel MOTU Chronicles Movie Figures

Being MOTUC sized just slimmed down is just about precisely what I'd want for MOTU in domestic 1/12 anyways. I don't mind MOTUC overall, but they're usually just too damn wide to the point of looking hilarious half the time. I imagine these characters to be fairly tall compared to most normal humans and even superheroes, so it works for me. Masterverse was a bit too much of bricks to work, at least for my tastes.
 
Masterverse were just tall enough, and slim-proportioned enough, that they were 100% their own thing. I don't think they really looked good with other 7" lines, and they didn't look good with 6-6.5" lines either. And while I like MOTUC just fine aesthetically, I do think that is also very much its own thing that doesn't gel with other lines.

IF Chronicles is of a size and aesthetic to be like the first MOTU line that can fit in with other similarly-scaled toylines... that's pretty cool, in my opinion.
 
I'm actually less sure about collecting this line based on the size now, because the scale just seems weird to me - it won't fit alongside anything. Which isn't always that important to me, but I did like how DC Multiverse and Masterverse were sort of compatible size-wise. It doesn't seem like these will look good alongside DC Multiverse, NECA, or Black Series - maybe Marvel Legends, since that's a "big 1/12" scale, but I'll have to see, y'know, some actual goddamn photos next to a few Marvel Legends figures to know.
 
Poe Ghostal said:
but I'll have to see, y'know, some actual goddamn photos next to a few Marvel Legends figures to know.
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I love how, INVARIABLY, the first people to get action figures are always the literal worst people at showing them off to people. Just a parade of eight-thumbed monkeys that don't know how to use their 2002 Nokia phone camera, value-collectors that don't open their toys, or weirdos with zero concept of (or, I guess, zero interest in) what other collectors are curious about. Just various versions of bragging 'look what I got.'
 
Damien said:
I love how, INVARIABLY, the first people to get action figures are always the literal worst people at showing them off to people. Just a parade of eight-thumbed monkeys that don't know how to use their 2002 Nokia phone camera, value-collectors that don't open their toys, or weirdos with zero concept of (or, I guess, zero interest in) what other collectors are curious about. Just various versions of bragging 'look what I got.'
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I suppose it's possible these people just don't have a single Marvel Legends or DC Multiverse figure or something, but I don't know...if you're an action figure collector who's enthusiastic enough to post videos online you probably have one or two of most lines somewhere. I don't even do videos and I do.
 
The same guy has a review up of Tri Klops now. Another good-looking figure. I hate Tri Klops doesn't have a sword, but I do like this sniper rifle aspect of Tri Klops. Using his various sights from his 3 different eyes to make him Eternia's most lethal marksman. It works. But he still needs a sword.

Because


"When you can't shoot a mother f****, you pull your sword and stab him"

- Socrates 450 BCE
 
Super Camel said:
"When you can't shoot a mother f****, you pull your sword and stab him"

- Socrates 450 BCE
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As the forum history nerd, I can confirm that this is a 100% accurate quote.


Fucking kind of hate the movie Tri-Klops. I tried to give it some breathing room to settle on a fairly different take but I just really, really don't like anything about it.
 
A Punk With Toys has a review up of Scare Glow and in his comments section he said his Walmart had a bunch. So.... go get 'em, boys.

For what it's worth - Scare Glow is very clearly a lot taller than the new He-Man. He, as suspected in this thread earlier, is near-on the exact same height as the Masterverse version. But we know from a different review that the new He-Man is significantly shorter than the Masterverse He-Mans.

So.... clear as mud where this line's scale is going.
 
Poe Ghostal said:
I suppose it's possible these people just don't have a single Marvel Legends or DC Multiverse figure or something, but I don't know...if you're an action figure collector who's enthusiastic enough to post videos online you probably have one or two of most lines somewhere. I don't even do videos and I do.
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Oh, I should mention that at least Zach Oat, who wrote the review for PopHeist, was given the figures by Mattel but said he was told he couldn't take photos next to any competing product lines. So if these early reviewers got the figures gratis from Mattel, that could have been part of the deal.
 
Poe Ghostal said:
Oh, I should mention that at least Zach Oat, who wrote the review for PopHeist, was given the figures by Mattel but said he was told he couldn't take photos next to any competing product lines. So if these early reviewers got the figures gratis from Mattel, that could have been part of the deal.
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I would literally burn that bridge instantly and just do it because fuck off. What a stupid ass thing for Mattel to stipulate.
Also, it seems like most of the people that have the figures got them stolen off a truck or found them at Walmart so....
 
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