While it is exciting to see designs for other characters, it is hard to believe they will become a reality with how long the first two are taking to come to fruition.
I was super stoked when I saw the proto's for these at SDCC, but that was a year or two ago. They looked amazing, especially Skeletor's modern head sculpt. Looked badass. None of my seamless bodies can hold any sort of pose for any length of time or the silicon starts ripping. I am ok with the seams on these and even though I am all about rooted hair, I am ok with sculpted on these, as long as they look good and give the classic He-Man vibe. The two heads is an awesome way to go.
I still remember the huge tantrum I threw in K-Mart when these first hit the shelves. My Mom was adamant that I should not start a new figure line as I was heavily invested in Star Wars and Gi_joe and she even used the argument that they "were not in scale with any of my other figures".... which is one I use on myself to this very day to avoid indulging in another thing that catches my eye. I won that day (my little brother I think actually deserves the credit) and started my collection with just these two figures.
Those old figures are long gone though, so yeah, I am super excited about this line as it allows me to not break my 1/6th only rule and relive one of my favorite toy lines of my childhood. I just re-watched the entire series on Netflix and it was weird, interesting, and a bit awesome. It is odd to re-experience the writing/directing changes that the show went through over the course of its run. I was oblivious to the fact that other people were guiding my heroes when I watched it after school, but I could tell when things were weirder than "Eternian Normal" even back then.
I was in a library recently and stumbled upon a hardcover book that collects all of the mini-comics that came with the original figures. I didn't have time to check it out then but it made me really want to seek this out and re-experience that as the vibe was totally different and really cool.
