Should there be a revival?
>>11597919I think there's a market for it. Polly Pocket got a big push recently, with licensed collector's sets for shit like Stranger Things, The Office, Friends, etc. Mighty Max could do the horror/action equivalent. I'd buy a Terrifier or Nightmare on Elm Street or Robocop themed Mighty Max playset in a heartbeat.
>>11600038Mattel has Mighty Max-styles sets for the Jurassic World stuff recently.
>>11597919Just reissue them. Playmates seems to be successful with just straight reissues of TMNT figs. They'd have to be smart about it and do some research though. Like which original set sold well and focus on those, and not make a shit ton to flood the market. they could also collab with MOTU origins, Norman, Skullmaster and the original Mighty One can be easily made reusing parts from the CC line.
>>11597919I dont want those teeny tiny compact toys. I want real action figures
I would settle on them just rereleasing the old toys, if they still have the molds. I think this would be way too expensive of a toyline today for most collectors to be happy with it.
>>11597919Should there be a revival? No. You cant do that like 1994 with less competition for the kids attention.Can you do that? Sure, but it needs several adjustments in my eyes.
>>11597919Depends. The whole appeal of the original was how edgy and detailed the playsets were and how surprisingly fucked up the cartoon was.I do expect 20$ Doom Zones though.
>>11601886We just has a little /co/ MM thread. >>>/co/150878036
If Mattel really wants to test the waters for a MM revival they should release Masters of The Universe micro-playsets (Including Skull Mountain-esque Castle Grayskull and Snake Mountain sets) so they can testrun things like features, details minifigre articulation, etc.And given how the Stranger Things Polly Pocket set shows they're willing to do collabs with more action-oriented IPs do stuff like Transformers, Power Rangers (With nods to the Bandai sets), etc.
>>11601954I know. I was the OP for both.
>>11597919I hope they re release the old ones, the new weird bootleg ones are underwhelming.
>>11597919Mattel is very aware and at conventions/trade shows it comes up. They dodge the question pretty regularly. The big problem with Mighty Max is that it is horror. And horror is not in. In the early 90's horror was big for kids. Tons of TV shows, cartoons and things that were spooky all year round. It's dropped off significantly. Lego knows this. They commonly do horror related sets, but they don't sell as well. Mighty Max tried to pivot away from horror when it was around, but then it just becomes generic sci-fi/fantasy micro sets. I think they're stuck. What do you do? Aliens, robots, mythical monsters or zombies, cyborgs and gothic monsters. Do you do a griffin or you do dracula? There's a big difference when it comes to marketing.
>>11603649Horror cycles in and out with kids depending on the generation. Once these weak gen alphas age out, the new generation will hopefully have balls
>>11601886>The whole appeal of the original was how edgy and detailed the playsets were and how surprisingly fucked up the cartoon was.And we all know both of those things are not going to return in this day and age so I'm fine without a revival. Not everything needs to be dug out of its grave as a decayed zombie so it can prey on nostalgia.
>>11603447Ok, thats why it felt similar.
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Nah, it has limited appeal, if it ever does happen it'll be some quick revival on mattel creations as a one time thing since it won't gather enough interest to do more.Any real revival would be heavily limited, very different from what we used to love, only include one or two figures, the playset would be almost empty and it'd have shitty redesigns. The dream is long dead.As a hardcore MM fan, I would always get excited anytime Mattel acknowledged the franchise with some cheap exclusive merch they've done from time to time or whenever they started making playsets for other brands and it has never come to anything. But yeah, I know deep in my heart even if it did it'd be shitty.
>>11603678And yet, nothing you mentioned is a major toy brand. We're talking about toys, not video games. How about something that has a successful TV show to go with it? Also nearly everything you mentioned is niche and not what is "in" you old man. >>11603693It is coming back in movies, and if it stays it is likely to trickle back down to kid brands. It has never been at it's peak popularity like it was in the 90's when you had competing horror brand. Are You Afraid of The Dark, Goosebumps, Choose Your Own Nightmare, Addams Family, Beetlejuice, Casper, Aaahh!! Real Monsters, Creepy Crawlers, Monster in my Pocket. My god, I could keep going cause there are actual examples from the 90's unlike today.
>>11603904> if it ever does happen it'll be some quick revival on mattel creations as a one time thing since it won't gather enough interest to do more.This is the truth sadly. Cost of everything has gone up and toy production processes have changed. New MM sets would cost so much more for the same offering as older ones and what little fans are left would balk at the price. I think there are also some issues with the rights or something. >>11601366>Just reissue them.Do you seriously think the tooling from many decades ago is just laying around waiting to be used again? LOL They would need to re-tool everything from scratch if they ever wanted to 're-release' anything. That's just as costly as making any thing totally new. The costs of making the same sets at the same quality with the same level of paint would be so expensive today. It would not sell well at all.
>>11603906Kids are into Wednesday nowadays.
>>11603972No, costs for all due to rising labor and production costs in China, dumbass. Hence why many companies are moving production to other countries where the cost of labor is still cheaper.
>>11603963She got a polly pocket set
>>11604029Everything can be produced with teeny tiny profit margins when you aren't shackled by being a multi billion dollar corporation, dumbass. All the Hasbros and Mattels are forced to meet specific margins to keep shareholders happy.
my favorite series of toys ever, I would buy rereleased originals if they looked 1:1 exact, paints n shit, I wouldn't care they weren't the originals I just don't want to pay the insane markup from grognard toy merchants I have almost all of them still but I'm missing parts here or there like was going to happen being a kid. Thankfully my parents taught me to keep them all in one place, I used to keep em in a koolaid bursts box. Also they pared very well with micro machines and my super van city
jannies getting titled in here over nothing, good lord. If they bring MM back, I don't want it half assed. Do the glorious art, do the horror, do everything.
>>11604062If you tweak that a big it "kinda" has a MM feel especially the flytrap.
>>11605478I agree. The only Polly Pocket give away is the form.
>>11605496The Stranger Things set also has a gimmick that could work for new MM sets if done right.Same thing if Mattel decides to test the waters for a MOTU micro-playset line as a test-run.
