To MOTUC Collectors across the globe, I wish you a Happy Adora Day! Or is it a Happy Battle Armor He-Man Day? Not to knock the Princess, as I’m happy to get her, but this is the “Sellout Race” I’ve been most curious about since SDCC and, right now, my money is on Battle Armor He-Man. He’s the He-Man of choice for many of the younger fans and all those great vintage oils have convinced us that he belongs atop Battle Cat. The next few days (hours? eek!) will tell the tale. But those two heavyweights aren’t the only thing on-sale today. Here’s the full list:
- MOTUC Adora (Club Eternia Figure)
- MOTUC Battle Armor He-Man (Bonus/Insurance Figure)
- MOTUC Beast Man (Reissue, no known alterations)
- The Dark Knight Harvey Dent Movie Master
- 1:24 Scale Pixar Cars Doc
Via e-mail, Mattel has provided a January Bundle Page for easy ordering. I hope to see you all back here with stories of success and ease after the figures go live here in a few hours. Good luck out there!
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The first button though, is our newest on-site feature, the Green Room. We had planned to launch a message board with the opening of the blog, but we left the forum out of sight because we weren’t sure where we wanted to go with it. Did we want to heavily promote it as part of the blog? Did we want to funnel comments into the forums instead of at the end of the articles? Did the internet really need another toy forum when we already have so many fantastic ones? We couldn’t decide. So we kept it running in the background. Mostly for IAT personnel, a few regular commenters, and the occasional person who happened to stumble across it. We used the last few months as a sort of test drive. Now that we’ve ironed out the kinks and gotten a handle on how it works* we’ve decided we’re ready to open the Green Room to all our readers. Our plan is to keep it simple, just one small forum for our readers to kick back and enjoy.
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There more hours… I hate the wait!
I still haven’t decided on if I’m ordering Harvey or not. He’s going to be at TRU, but can I trust that? Can I find it? Ugh. I just know I’m going to pay extra shipping just to have it now.
That’s not always a bad thing. I ordered that DCUC wave from Matty and I can say it definitely saved me a lot of frustrated hunting time.
I don’t know if I’d get frustrated by not finding him. LOL
I might not notice.
LOL. I ordered one accidentally (I really don’t know what I did – I put in 2 for the 2 MOTU figures and when I was done checking out I had five things).
Must be Mattel’s plan to get him to sell out.
See you at the Forums!
Yay! See you there!
10 minutes!!
This is the part I can’t stand. Will it go early? Will it be late? When will the RSOD start?
I spoke too soon. Already getting it.
Okay. Whew. A fluke. Good luck to anyone ohe thinks they’ll need it.
Red Screen. Red Screen.
It’s like the shining.
That was one creepy kid.
THE RSOD will be moving back to 12:30, Jay Leno will let us know the site is overloading for the first 30 minutes. 😀
It’s always fun on Matty Day. I’ve got them in the cart… almost to the payment page!
I can’t get the bundle page to load. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Got through to the credit card page and then RSOD again.
Lucky dog. I haven’t budged.
Still nothing. 🙁
I’m out! Any luck, Vic?
I’m done, I’m done. Wow, bad RSOD today.
Yay!
In and out! 2 minutes!
RSOD!!! Staring at it for the past 10mins! Oh, damn! Just made it to order page, but now stuck waiting for my login…
Okay, got ’em! That was torturous, but not as bad as last month. Thanks, Matty!
Sweet! This wasn’t too bad. But it sures seems like it at the time.
well.. it wasn’t murder, though the firefox on the laptop I was using refused to let the RSOD reload itself (thus negating it’s purpose, I had to sit there clicking “allow” over and over… but I got the MOTU figures…
and lucky thing too.. Adora was gone in a half hour…
and I just registered for your board.. so see you there!
Thanks, Jedi! Good to have you.
Crazy day in the MOTUworld (but when isn’t it?)!
Hope everybody snagged an Adora and gets BA He-Man before he sells out (Matty warns that it’s close).