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You wouldn\u2019t believe how busy it\u2019s been around here this year, particularly since Toy Fair! As I\u2019m still trying to play catch up on Checklist Updates (you should see how many e-mails I get every day asking for a 2014 page on DC Classics… that line’s dead, right?), I\u2019ve also not been getting all the news out in a timely fashion. One such example would be talking about Mattel\u2019s latest subscription, Club Etheria. <\/p>\n
If I\u2019m going to talk at all about the subscription though, today is the day, as the cutoff window for ordering is tonight (March 10th) at 11:59 PST<\/a>. <\/p>\n That\u2019s 2am for me and 3am for those slightly more easterly folks. Shockingly, there hasn\u2019t been a lot to talk about with Club Etheria. I should probably knock on whispering wood as I say this, but it\u2019s been relatively drama free<\/em>. The mini-subscription was offered, most of it was lined out, and folks knew what to do. Toy Guru has been his usual legally-bound vague self, but the subscription sign-ups have gone pretty well judging from his few remarks. There were a few days where things were hairy, but at last update the subscription was at 78% heading into the final weekend. We should just need the usual, big last day push (which include yours truly, I almost always sign up on the last day.*) and this little POP sub should be a reality this Summer & Fall. <\/p>\n * – Vault knows I always wait, but he\u2019s texted me every day the last few days about it. He must really want that Light Hope.<\/em><\/p>\n If you haven\u2019t been keeping up with the Club Etheria news, here\u2019s what we know. Like Club Filmation last year, this sub will kick off in July and feature a second monthly helping of MOTUC for the remainder of the year. We know the first half of the figures already. July: Double Trouble<\/strong> (called Double Mischief for TM reasons), August: Madame Razz & Broom<\/strong>, and September: Entrapta<\/strong>. We also know that one of the remaining three will most likely be Sweet Bee<\/strong> as her helmet was revealed as a tease (though a proper tease would have her helmet come with someone else). And, finally, if you signed up already, or sign up today, you will pay $25 for the Club Exclusive figure, Light Hope<\/strong>. Light Hope is basically an all-new design that gives the former light-entity physical form. I hate to be that guy and say I\u2019m excited for the one dude in the midst of a women subscription, but he\u2019s pretty snazzy. <\/p>\n Finally, there are a couple other important points not related to character selection. Subscriptions can be combined provided you have the same address and payment method selected for both on your Mattycollector My Subscription page. One of the six figures will be $30 instead of $25 and one of the six will essentially be a second club exclusive with no \u201cday of\u201d stock. I have a suspicion the no \u201cDay of\u201d and the $30 figure will be one and the same, but I\u2019m totally just guessing. <\/p>\n So I think that covers it. As for IAT, we\u2019ll be signing up today. I\u2019ve mentioned several times that while I don\u2019t love every figure, I do absolutely love toy subscriptions. The only reservations I had for Club Etheria was that I still feel like we\u2019re waiting for Mattel & the Horsemen to hit a home run on a POP figure (Bow & Light Hope don\u2019t count!). I like my POP shelf quite a bit and I\u2019m sure Mattel\u2019s keystone cop approach to the female buck has not helped, but I haven\u2019t been bowled-over-OMG-this-is-amazing<\/em> by a POP figure yet and I\u2019m pretty easy to please (seriously, Faker & Scareglow are my favorite characters, I also basically swoon over low-tooling repaints. Have you seen my Batros review?). <\/p>\n I just want a POP figure to force her way into my Top Ten. That\u2019s all I\u2019m asking. While we\u2019ve gotten some good figs, none have come close to doing that yet \u2013 and I refuse to blame anything inherent in the designs or concepts. I\u2019m just not feeling the TLC the way I do on Fisto, Vikor, or Bow and I really want to. <\/p>\n Anyway, I\u2019m giving Mattel six (well, five already, Double Trouble\u2019s thumb head! ugh!) more chances with this POP sub. I\u2019ll be one of the last 20% to push this over today. If you want to be too, you\u2019ve only got about a day left to get in on it, so let’s go! Rah! Rah! <\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.itsalltrue.net\/newsimages\/2014\/mattel\/ehteriapromo.jpg?w=640\")
If you\u2019re keeping count that leaves just two figures unrevealed. I think that\u2019s the best reveal percentage for a Matty sub yet. As for those two? Well, we know that the vintage POP short list is really short: Angella, Mermista, Peakablue, Perfuma, & Spinnerella. And we know that Mermista will not be offered in Club Etheria from Toy Guru himself. But don\u2019t think that makes it easy to guess at the identity of the other two \u2013 Toy Guru has revealed that while the other two figures will be ladies, they\u2019re not necessarily based on vintage-POP figures. In other words, who the hell knows?<\/p>\n
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