{"id":21848,"date":"2012-11-12T01:03:16","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T07:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?p=21848"},"modified":"2012-11-12T01:10:34","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T07:10:34","slug":"motuclassics-com-castlegrayskull-weapons-rack-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?p=21848","title":{"rendered":"MOTUClassics.Com: Castle
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<\/a> As some of you may have heard, Castle Grayskull Week went a little askew after I found myself in the middle of a five-car pile-up on Wednesday. I\u2019m doing just fine, but the site kinda trailed off last week. My bad. So Grayskull Week gets one more day and it\u2019s kind of an important one. <\/p>\n

Before I dive in, just a quick shout out & thank you to all the well wishes I received here, via e-mail, on Facebook, and on Twitter! They were all greatly appreciated. I just run a silly toy blog, but you guys rock my world. Thank you! <\/em><\/p>\n

So, today’s kind of an important day for MOTU Classics. Not to get too overdramatic here, but, barring an extension, it’s either the day that Classics gets an iconic (& once-thought-impossible) playset to cement itself in the annals of awesome toylines… or it’s the day where all that hope & excitement takes a swift kick to the balls. The line will go on, presumably for awhile, but not getting the Castle would really hurt. <\/p>\n

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Going into the weekend, the thermometer was at about 81-82%<\/a>. Ideally, we’ll get an update on the thermometer early today. If we’re lucky, the weekend sales have already done the hard work or at least most of it and today won’t be too stressful going into the closing hours. With no charges being made to the credit card used to pre-order, I don’t know why folks would wait until the last minute, but we’re a weird lot. I’m hoping for that weird lot to come through. <\/p>\n

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So, I’m already past the second picture and I’m not even talking about the subject of the review. Great! If you’ve looked over the proposed Castle’s blueprints<\/a>, you would’ve noticed that a very important piece of the original toy was missing: the Weapons Rack. If you’ve followed the line, you also know why. We done already got it way back in April 2011. <\/p>\n

For whatever reason, I never got around to the Weapons Rack review back then (and not a week goes by that I don’t get an e-mail about it. Or the first He-Man for that matter, I’ve never reviewed him either), but with the looming possibility of a Castle to put this Weapons Rack in, I thought today would be a good day. <\/p>\n

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The Weapons Rack more or less served as the 2011 Weapons Pak. It included an all-new sculpted stand and nine repainted weapons. The stand itself is a great sculpt and can actually hold quite a bit more than the set included, but I’ve honestly never gotten much use out of it. It does look great hanging out with the figures as a diorama piece and I have used it in the review backdrops a time or two, but it really needed to be nestled in its home in the Castle. I’m honestly much more excited about this piece now that the Castle is very close to becoming a reality. Continue to Page 2…<\/a><\/p>\n

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Included with the stand are Scareglow’s halberd, Whiplash’s spear, Webstor’s rifle, the small pistol & sword that came with Man-At-Arms, Buzz-Off’s axe, and the shield, long axe, & non-viney mace that came with the Eternian Palace Guards. <\/p>\n

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When the stand initially debuted, the nine weapons were a matching set of silver with a slight tint of rust from lack of use. It looked awesome in the one image we saw before Mattel changed it, making five of the weapons in metallic red. This had a purpose – a Classics reiteration of what’s colloquially referred to as “Man-E-Weapons”, a Man-E-Faces figure that was packaged with five additional weapons. Honestly, I love having them in metallic red. They look cool, but I do lament not having the full set in that slightly rusted deco. I wouldn’t be opposed to them showing up in future weapons paks. <\/p>\n

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Overall, the Weapons Rack is a really well crafted piece, but, when it was released back in 2011, it ended up having one of the slowest sellout times of anything that year. In fact, it’s one of only a handful of items to take longer than a week to sell-out. It could just be that Mattel made a ton of them, but it seems this piece didn’t light the fire under collector\u2019s feet as much as Mattel had hoped. Of course, that might be a different story today. If the Castle is on its way, I can’t think of too many people who would want it and not want the weapons rack to put inside it. I may not have thought much of it when it was released, but it could just be the line’s sleeper item in just a few hours. <\/p>\n

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For the latest updates on Castle Grayskull check out
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For more MOTU reviews, check out our
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As some of you may have heard, Castle Grayskull Week went a little askew after I found myself in the middle of a five-car pile-up on Wednesday. I\u2019m doing just fine, but the site kinda trailed off last week. My bad. So Grayskull Week gets one more day and it\u2019s kind of an important one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[7,34,10],"tags":[1725,78,20,16,2558,742],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pObc6-5Go","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26296,"url":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?p=26296","url_meta":{"origin":21848,"position":0},"title":"MOTU Classics: Castle Grayskull Review (36 Pics!)","date":"December 25, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"In "MOTUClassics"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":21543,"url":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?p=21543","url_meta":{"origin":21848,"position":1},"title":"Spotlight: CastleGrayskull.info","date":"October 18, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"As if I didn\u2019t already have enough to do, I\u2019ve opened up a new blog! CastleGrayskull.info will act as an info dump for all news & updates regarding Mattel\u2019s proposed MOTU Classics Castle Grayskull. Hopefully, it will serve as a useful resource for any interested in or who has questions\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "MOTUClassics"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2462,"url":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?p=2462","url_meta":{"origin":21848,"position":2},"title":"Most Requested Figures: MOTU Classics ‘That Guy in the Wind Raider’","date":"November 6, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"In "MOTUClassics"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5113,"url":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?p=5113","url_meta":{"origin":21848,"position":3},"title":"MOTUClassics.Com: Weapons Pak Review","date":"April 28, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"The MOTU Weapons Pak. I never had one as a kid. A black marker and the sacrifice of Zodac's gear was the closest I ever got. When MOTU Classics took off, I hoped Mattel would resurrect the idea of a weapons pak. One of the main reasons was because I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "MOTUClassics"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":25429,"url":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?p=25429","url_meta":{"origin":21848,"position":4},"title":"MOTUC Castle Grayskull “Manhole Cover” Review","date":"October 30, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"In "MOTUClassics"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6725,"url":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?p=6725","url_meta":{"origin":21848,"position":5},"title":"8 Things… Mattel should do for MOTU Classics","date":"June 25, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Every month Mattel unleashes another MOTU Classics figure and every month it sells out within minutes. Collectors seems to love this line. It\u2019s hard not to - classically styled versions of the inhabitants of Eternia rendered by the Four Horsemen. These figures are the perfect mix of nostalgia and modern\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "8 Things..."","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21848"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21848"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21859,"href":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21848\/revisions\/21859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}