Vehicles and playsets

[Motufan80]

Now that big play-school set is of the table, how about we let Mattel know what we would like instead?

I would love to see the back-end of battleram, one that can connect to the sky sled we already have.

Where is that dragon-walker? laser-bolt? Mantisaur? (seriously, the horde is incomplete, have no vehicles or playsets but we're getting all these snakes? why mattel???)
Where are the weapon packs? power gear? What about spydor? The fright-figter?

Skipping the dino's untill the powers of grayskull line i get but many of these vehicles and (smaller) playsets should have been out already.

Why is @Mattel Creations  focussing on overpriced and over sized playsets but what about the middle ground? Affordable vehicles and playsets for less than a 100 bucks?
Spare armor, weapons and alternative heads? Vehicles? Diorama products? (aka enviromental background stuff to interact with)

I'm afraid this line will go the same way as the Mega construx motu line, leaving us with many empty spots on the list. Sure mattel claimed they would produce most of the figures (besides the giants, twistoid, rotor, the meteorbs, etc) but what about the vehicles @Mattel?


What are your thoughts?
We got the castle, Snake Mountain, Eternia but still no battleram. Should mattel focus on affordable stuff instead of another Eternia sized hunk of plastic?


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[Stu Cazz]

I have no problem with crowdfunds on Creations. I f you don't like it, don't back it, problem solved. But I agree with you on some of your stated points. Some vehicles would be cool to see for the origins line, but looking at the shelves in stores here in Spain I don't think those would be a smart business decision. Stridors ,Landsharks and other piling to the top and collecting dust. Got my Landshark for 15€, same price for Stridor etc. Don't get me wrong Spydor and especially Mantisaur (more Horde please), would be a must have for me, but space is running out quickly. I just hope to get the missing figures of the OG line, and some special goodies like Demo-Man. The vehicles as made to order items on Mattel Creations would be nice maybe on fan channel online retailers. Creations should just offer more inventory on their page like Ha..o Pulse, I for one would have get much more figures from them just for the US packaging with Text in the minicomics. Also as long time WWE fan I'm very disappointed that I can't get me a WWE Superstars Razor, and Cactus Jack and many more directly from their Homepage. Noooo, I have to buy it from a UK based shop and pay extra because some blokes decided it would be funny to make a Brexit. Oh 30€ per figure and then some import taxes. No way Jose! Oh and my pre-ordered Necro-Conda? Still no sign of him. See, I like Snakes too, but this guys seem to have a bit of a fetish.

[Delugeonal]

Oh yeah, there are so many vehicles we're missing in the line.  Would love a crowdfund that starts with a few vehicles; back-half of Battleram, Attak-Trak, and Mantisaur.  From there have accessories like the Weapons Pak, Jet Sled, Megalaset, Stilt Stalkers, Beam-Blaster and Artilleray, Tower Tools, and Cliff Climber each on a tier that unlocks.

[Motufan80]

31 minutes ago, Stu Cazz said:

I have no problem with crowdfunds on Creations. I f you don't like it, don't back it, problem solved. But I agree with you on some of your stated points. Some vehicles would be cool to see for the origins line, but looking at the shelves in stores here in Spain I don't think those would be a smart business decision. Stridors ,Landsharks and other piling to the top and collecting dust. Got my Landshark for 15€, same price for Stridor etc. Don't get me wrong Spydor and especially Mantisaur (more Horde please), would be a must have for me, but space is running out quickly. I just hope to get the missing figures of the OG line, and some special goodies like Demo-Man. The vehicles as made to order items on Mattel Creations would be nice maybe on fan channel online retailers. Creations should just offer more inventory on their page like Ha..o Pulse, I for one would have get much more figures from them just for the US packaging with Text in the minicomics. Also as long time WWE fan I'm very disappointed that I can't get me a WWE Superstars Razor, and Cactus Jack and many more directly from their Homepage. Noooo, I have to buy it from a UK based shop and pay extra because some blokes decided it would be funny to make a Brexit. Oh 30€ per figure and then some import taxes. No way Jose! Oh and my pre-ordered Necro-Conda? Still no sign of him. See, I like Snakes too, but this guys seem to have a bit of a fetish.

Agreed, collecting motu in Europe is a mess.
Since we never know in advance wich figures make across the ocean, causing Fomo (fear of missing out)
Lots of die hard European fans bought their motu products directly from BBTS or dedicated import stores, it might explain why your local retail might still have motu vehicles.
Cassual Dutch motu fans are now discovering motu origins in my country* and are scrambling to pick up the line.
*A local chain of chemist shops seems to be selling unsold stock of earlier waves so suddenly lots of cassual fans found out motu origins is a thing.

In the Netherlands, motu origins is only caried by 1 retail chain that has 3 shops dotted across the country called Smythtoys. They mostly sell all their motu origins figures, except for sun-man figures, they don't sell even at a heavy discount.😅 They do sell most of their vehicles.


As for brexit? yeah i tend to avoid british shops for that reason.

Back on track though, yeah, mattel could produce these vehicles and sets through mattel creations and BBTS for example. Just as long as it is a store that sells internationally, unlike walmart and target. (though there are ways around it)

[Spurs_JC]

The first origins item was the sky sled with Adam (if I remember correctly). Would be extremely disappointing if we never get Battle Ram when it seems it was teased so early. The vintage Battle Ram was my first MOTU toy and the box art instantly had me hooked. Need to finish promise.