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<blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 9146976" data-attributes="member: 4534"><p>The Masters of the Universe line had all sorts of weird and wonderful <s>dolls</s> action figures boys absolutely loved. It was weird and goofy as hell, but they didn't have pizza and maybe that's the key ingredient here. Skeletor has a friggin skull for a head, Beastman was some sort of mutant, Trap Jaw was some sort of mutant cyborg, Moss Man was made of moss, Stinkor was made of stink, and it just never got old. Until it did. I'm not entirely sure why Masters of the Universe went from making $400,000,000 in sales revenue one year to $7,000,000 the next, but I suspect one of the reasons was Mattell dropped the ball when it came to marketing. I don't mean the horrible movie, but the fact that if you wanted to buy the titular He-Man in stores he was not available nor was Skeletor. A kid who turned 6 in 1986 and started watching those He-Man cartoons couldn't buy the figure when he went to Toys R Us he had to settle for other figures he may or may not have seen in the cartoon yet. </p><p></p><p>GI Joe suffered a problem with parents, or at least Habro was worried about how parents would feel about their toy. When the 3.75 inch action figure was released in 1982, the Joes were, well I hesitate to say more realistic, but they were closer in line to the real life American military. Scarlett was in military intelligence, Snake Eyes was infantry, Stalker was infantry with secondary training as a medic, and each one of them had a rank (both enlisted and officer, and a short biography. But as we had more terrorist acitivites during the 1980s the line switched to a more fanciful science fiction enemy and the Joes themselves became eco warriors or something in the 1990s. </p><p></p><p>I don't really know if the kids are more able to relate to the turtles. I think those handling the turtles franchise have done a better job of making them relevant to new generations of kids. Which is something both MotU and GI Joe failed to do.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MGibster, post: 9146976, member: 4534"] The Masters of the Universe line had all sorts of weird and wonderful [S]dolls[/S] action figures boys absolutely loved. It was weird and goofy as hell, but they didn't have pizza and maybe that's the key ingredient here. Skeletor has a friggin skull for a head, Beastman was some sort of mutant, Trap Jaw was some sort of mutant cyborg, Moss Man was made of moss, Stinkor was made of stink, and it just never got old. Until it did. I'm not entirely sure why Masters of the Universe went from making $400,000,000 in sales revenue one year to $7,000,000 the next, but I suspect one of the reasons was Mattell dropped the ball when it came to marketing. I don't mean the horrible movie, but the fact that if you wanted to buy the titular He-Man in stores he was not available nor was Skeletor. A kid who turned 6 in 1986 and started watching those He-Man cartoons couldn't buy the figure when he went to Toys R Us he had to settle for other figures he may or may not have seen in the cartoon yet. GI Joe suffered a problem with parents, or at least Habro was worried about how parents would feel about their toy. When the 3.75 inch action figure was released in 1982, the Joes were, well I hesitate to say more realistic, but they were closer in line to the real life American military. Scarlett was in military intelligence, Snake Eyes was infantry, Stalker was infantry with secondary training as a medic, and each one of them had a rank (both enlisted and officer, and a short biography. But as we had more terrorist acitivites during the 1980s the line switched to a more fanciful science fiction enemy and the Joes themselves became eco warriors or something in the 1990s. I don't really know if the kids are more able to relate to the turtles. I think those handling the turtles franchise have done a better job of making them relevant to new generations of kids. Which is something both MotU and GI Joe failed to do. [/QUOTE]
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