New 6" Classic toy line from Mattel!

[Daremonger]

I’m beyond stoked that this is actually happening.

[Mark_M]

@MXTHUNDERCAT

Ure looking tooooo much into it…yes a jackal is smaller than a lion, this is also a fantasy cartoon and pretty much nothing in it can be held to real life expectations and comparisons… If u dislike them so much…simply dont buy them…

They are all being built using the basic MOTUC buck bodies so asking for unique heights and sculpts for certain figures is not going to happen.

[Berserker]

I just keep staring at that group shot from the Matty’s e-mail thinking how amazing it will be to have a huge collection of T-cats. I’m really pushing for this line to continue for a while.

[adssse]

@Berserker

I just keep staring at that group shot from the Matty’s e-mail thinking how amazing it will be to have a huge collection of T-cats. I’m really pushing for this line to continue for a while.

I feel the same way. I don’t think I could be any more excited about this line. But having said that I get more giddy after each reveal.

[Mark_M]

I know these are prototypes, but I really hope they use the new MOTU Filmation He-Man body as it has better ankle and wrist articulation.

[Berserker]

@Mark M

I know these are prototypes, but I really hope they use the new MOTU Filmation He-Man body as it has better ankle and wrist articulation.

I agree but I see that the ankles are getting a lot of complaints already. The look of them aren’t the best but it’s nice to add a little more to the articulation and make for some different posing options. Something the Classics line had a serious lack of.

[MXTHUNDERCAT]

@magikz

you’d have a point if jackalman for instance had ever fluctuated in terms build, but he hasn’t so you don’t.

Jackalman looks amazing…anyone that’s going to start comparing real life jackals to lions is just plain silly…

@magikz

you’d have a point if jackalman for instance had ever fluctuated in terms build, but he hasn’t so you don’t.

I’m afraid ure the one without a point since I mentioned nothing Jackalman fluctuating in musculature…I was explicitly referring to ur real jackal and real lion comparison which has no application in a pure fantasy cartoon…either way…figures look amazing!

[luketommo2]

Any idea how many subscriptions matty collector need to keep the line going into 2017 and beyond

[sandrockgundam0]

I dont think anything like that has been revealed. There is no subscription-meter like in years past with MOTUC. Obviously there is a $ amount in mind for them where this is/isn’t worth their effort/time, but who knows what that is.

[Mark_M]

@Berserker

I agree but I see that the ankles are getting a lot of complaints already. The look of them aren’t the best but it’s nice to add a little more to the articulation and make for some different posing options. Something the Classics line had a serious lack of.

I would prefer better articulation an posing options. The ankles are like some of the older Marvel Legends figures. Hasbro’s new ankle rocker joint they use on their Marvel Legends is really nice.

[Mark_M]

@luketommo2

Any idea how many subscriptions matty collector need to keep the line going into 2017 and beyond

@sandrockgundam0

I dont think anything like that has been revealed. There is no subscription-meter like in years past with MOTUC. Obviously there is a $ amount in mind for them where this is/isn’t worth their effort/time, but who knows what that is.

Toyguru said there is not meter. Also with Thundercats being a licenced product they will make them for as long as they hold the licence.

[Nelson]

@Mark M

Toyguru said there is not meter. Also with Thundercats being a licenced product they will make them for as long as they hold the licence.

Well the Ghostbusters were also a license and the Ecto-1 had a meter. So you never know. I personally doubt that Club Third Earth won’t go through, tho.

[temple]

This year’s CTE is pretty much guaranteed to go through from the sounds of it. I think the future makeup of the line will depend on how this year does.

Like, if they sell x thousand, they might decide to just offer the Cats, mutants, Mumm-Ra and a couple of supporting characters before finishing. Maybe they only offer a six-month sub for 2017.

If they sell 2x thousand subs, they might also offer the Lunataks and all the major supporting cast, perhaps the Thundertank. They might offer a full 12-month sub for 2017.

If they sell 3x thousand subs, they might do the other vehicles, more obscure characters, maybe even a playset. The 2017 sub might be a full year plus quarterly items and bonus offerings.

(None of these are actual things btw - I just believe they will have different roadmaps for the line depending on how successful the sub is)

The day of sales will also be important to the line’s continued existence, but crucially Mattel will not have any idea what those will be by the time they have to decide on the form of the 2017 sub.

[MXTHUNDERCAT]

@magikz

i didn’t compare them to real life jackals or lions are you daft son? i simply mentioned the fact that the reason they were drawn initially with the build types they have in the series, is because one is based on the animal jackal and the other on the animal lion. that’s it.

and then simply concluded that it makes no sense what so ever for 4hm to claim that the goal is to base it on the animation style (by refrencing the approach they took to filmation he-man) and then use that buck for jackalman (other then cost which is what it comes down to), but then when they show a panthro with that much new sculpted parts, it again makes no sense what so ever for them to put jackalman in that buck. especially when there already are ‘‘thinner’’ lankier examples they could have used from the motu classics line that would have made alot more sense.

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and for anyone hoping for a 12 month line next year, that all comes down to wether or not they do anything with motu i’d say. as they are hoping for carryover from the motu collectors, so if they run a motu sub alongside t-cats it would become very costly overall for any completionists to tag along on thundercats aswell.

its just a cartoon… SON!..lol…figures look amazing!..dont like them dont buy them

[Mindless-Focus]

@Mark M

I would prefer better articulation an posing options. The ankles are like some of the older Marvel Legends figures. Hasbro’s new ankle rocker joint they use on their Marvel Legends is really nice.

In the latest Roast Gooble podcast, it was stated that these would all get the new articulated ankles and wrists.

[Mark_M]

@magikz

yeah, i figured it would take two posts tops before you’d been reduced to you trying to pull oneliners out of your ass and ‘‘lolz’’ it’s irrelevant if it’s a ‘cartoon’ or not, the creators of the sculpts have themselves set the peramiters for where they’ve drawn inspiration and what source media they’ve used to created said sculpts. this means it’s completly resonable for the customerbase to expect them to follow and stay true to this. especially if you can see them doing it in another characters already (like i said look at the amount of newly sculpted parts for panthro)

and i’m far from the only one that thinks jackalman is off in terms of build.

Even various MOTUC are off in terms of builds. Just look at all the New Adventures characters.
I wish T4H had put more effort into tooling a new chest and shoulders to allow the figures to grip the weapons properly with both hands.
Also they really need to use a real chain on Panthro’s nunchucks. When they could give Conan…I mean Vikor real chains on his gauntlets/shackles they can give Panthro some.

[Booshman]

Have you lot seen the release version of the Filmation He-Man? Bit of a step down from the prototype version. I’m not much of a He-Man fan but I was going to get this and Skeletor. I think I’ll pass now. Hopefully the Thundercats line
doesn’t suffer from this much of a drop off from proto to release version.

http://www.sideshowcollectors.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=242479&d=1454396413
http://www.sideshowcollectors.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=242478&d=1454396399

[Mark_M]

@Booshman

Have you lot seen the release version of the Filmation He-Man? Bit of a step down from the prototype version. I’m not much of a He-Man fan but I was going to get this and Skeletor. I think I’ll pass now. Hopefully the Thundercats line
doesn’t suffer from this much of a drop off from proto to release version.

http://www.sideshowcollectors.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=242479&d=1454396413
http://www.sideshowcollectors.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=242478&d=1454396399

Hopefully. I still think the Filmation He-Man looks really nice.

[system]

@magikz

yeah, but those are based on the toys, not the character likeness per se from the animation. these and heamotu however are based on the animation, as such you can expect (resonably) them to stay true to this, and as such jackalman should have been in a slimmer buck. i mean they’d be forced to do it for vulture man 100%, if they try to give him a roided out version aswell people aren’t gonna be happy at all (eventhough he had that one episode where he drank some potion thing and became a hulked out version)

panthro’s chain apparently is real btw.

The New Adventures of He-Man toys all had slimmer builds as well.

[Mark_M]

@magikz

yeah, but ‘‘na’’ was just an off-shoot included in motu classics, where as with the original na line they were a completly separate toyline all together. it’s not even in the same ballpark as heamotu or thundercats, in fact it’s barely the same sport.

The same could also be said for Bow from She-Ra whose toy also had a much slimmer build.
Regardless of how they looked in the cartoon and toys, most will just be fitted on the standard MOTUC buck.