34 thoughts on “Ask Mattel August 1st
& Link Round-Up *Updated*”

1. Great questions. Just got mine up Noisy. 🙂

   1. Gotcha!

2. Whiplash. Uh, so that means rocky shoulders?

   1. Yes.

3. i’m kind of surprised that cy-chop can’t pack in a pair of hands, just re-pack the horde prime hands! how costly can that be?

   1. EXTREMELY costly, DR. First of all, they’d have to send a couple of interns down to the basement at Mattel HQ and have them carry up bag-fulls of spare hands. And that takes time. And in the 18 months it takes to build an action figure, if no one speaks up and says “Hey, howzabout some hands?” then there’s just no way Matty can roll with it and throw some damn hands in the mailer. So it’s a whole “thing” as you can see.

      1. LOL

         I think it was just a conception issue, I don’t think it occured to them.

         1. this why mattel needs to hire me… i got conception down a science baby! :O

            1. HEY! That’s my job!

               Altho I suspect there’s a good, honest answer why they can’t add Horde Prime hands, the tool that has those probably has other parts on the sprue that they can’t figure out a way to re-purpose at the same time.

               Of course if that IS the case then they’re really screwing up the reason for using a buck system, hands should be their own tool for just such cases.

               1. It’s not just tooling that costs though – they might end up just two little lumps of plastic, but the cost and effort of setting up a machine run for those extra parts could have been too much for their budget.

                  Or yeah – most likely it just didn’t occur to anyone before the Q&A. Shame really, it would have been a nice feature.

                  1. I just don’t think they thought about it. The weight and dimensions of the chops probably required a sturdier connection than the wrist peg would allow for and the swappable limbs prevented them from needing to make all new for arms. The swapping is bonus.

4. Is Saint Walker always in a state of Dull Surprise?

   Moot point, since the dub is dead-dead-dead.

   1. Dull surprise.

   2. It’s a better head sculpt than the DCD at least…

5. Umm…. I could be wrong here but didn’t Barry (original release) have rocker ankles? And if he does, how does it cost more to tool it if the tools already exist?

   1. If I understand correctl, the rocker ankles were insert molded (the inner piece is made first then placed in the foot mold). When Mattel sought to cut costs in late 2010, they were able to skip the insert molding process and mold the two parts as one, removing the rocker articulation. All of the repainted flash figures – the All-Star, Blue, & White Flash have already featured the solid ankles.

6. I do like the idea that I can stick those huge pincers of Cy-Chop on Roboto!

7. I do like the idea that I can stick those huge pincers of Cy-Chop’s on Roboto!

   1. That’ll be cool!

8. I noticed in one of the questions on AFI they brought up the Ebay flooding of Gleeks. I purchased one for under $20 with free shipping, he looks perfect and has no signs of a bootleg. This Gleek even has a code stamped on his foot like all other DC figs do. The person in the Q&A said that the bootleg gleeks have a 1 piece arm movement, mine has independantly moving arms. What’s the real deal here? As I didn’t go to sdcc to get my Gleek I am unaware of the arm issue until now. Anybody have any info they care to share ? Thanks in advance for any help.

   1. I don’t have the exact link, but there’s a thread at the Fwoosh (DC section, obv) that goes into more depth about the bootleg Gleeks.

9. I smell another Weapons Pack, with pearly bird perch & armour, and dull gunmetal Roboto hands for Cy-Chop. Anyone else want to weigh in with what else said Pak might / should contain? Things like . . .

   Purple “He-Shield” for Skeletor
   Stinkor weapons with metallic blue highlights
   Black Roboto right hand for Trap-Jaw
   Clip-on “Standard” She-Ra tiara (as opposed to “Bubble Power” colours)
   Man-E-Faces blaster (any colour)
   Remaining Wepaons Rack items in Grayskull armoury colour scheme
   Hordak crossbow in white

   . . . for example?

   1. Spector Whip probably.

   2. -a replacement crotch piece for the Goddess
      -Nekron’s scythe (since the sub is now basically doornail and all)

      and, lastly, in the event of the sub failing, the last item to add into this hypothetical weapons pack should be: Ram Man!

   3. i would love a faker orange mecha-sword, or a silver paint op randor sword.

      1. Agreed!

      2. Orange mecha-sword would be aces, and should definitely be the next fan campaign.

         Well, once we’re done with all the please-don’t-cancel-the-line campaigning, anyway.

   4. I do still want that purple He-shield. Actually I still want the full compliment in Prince Adam’s bright purple too.

   5. All those sound sweet! Perhaps I can add the “Cross-Sell” Faker armoury in off-red? Would anyone else go for that, or is it just me?

10. Wow some suprisingly clear answers from Mattel this month!
    I have been trying to get in ask Mattel for months now…TG responded to one of my emails right as PG died and since then I have never heard back…he did say the first time my email was in his spam folder so who knows…hoping to get in on this someday ha ha

    1. I’m not sure how many sites are even doing them right now. I know there’s a few sites like Rumorbuster, DCCollector, etc that do them occasionally and other sites that just did them for a little while, but it seems to have narrowed and I haven’t seen any new ones added for awhile. I’m not sure what’s up.

       1. IIRC it’s a bit of a pain in the ass to GET in now…

          I hope that CGM Weapons DO get a repaint on a Weapons pack…

11. … the rest of Netossa’s headdress. :^)

    1. Ha!

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