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All information below was gathered from Mattel press releases or statements made by Mattel employees. It is reprinted below for easy access and is subject to change at any time. Older news may already be out-of-date.

7/16/09 - The SDCC Mattel panel will be on Friday, July 25th at 1pm in Room 2 at the San Diego Convention Center.

7/16/09 - He-Ro with SDCC stamp will be $20 at the Con and limited to 6 per person per trip in line. A set amount of He-Ro figures will be sold each day and additional units were produced for sales on Mattycollector.com Limited quantities of He-Man, Beast Man, and Skeletor will be available at a limit of 1 per person.

7/09/09 - The classics line will include figures from POP, NA, and 200x He-Man, but the basic body style will not be changed to reflect specifics from those toylines. For example, a 200x figure would be made, it would be made using the same classics body as the other figures and would not feature the "edgy feel" of 200x.

7/02/09 - Granymyr can legally be included in the MOTU Classics line, but his unique tooling rules him out any time soon. Conversely, Fearless Photog is no longer available to Mattel.

7/01/09 - Battle Cat will be on display at SDCC 2009 on preview night and released in early 2010.

6/30/09 - Mattel is interested in more direct international distribution, but international fans are too widely spread out to make an international distribution center viable.

6/25/09 - Mattel created the first 50 bios before He-Man shipped and the bios follow a larger story woven throughout them.

06/24/09 - Battle Cat will be on display at SDCC 2009 on preview night and released in early 2010.

6/23/09 - Mattel's ability to produce figures only extends to characters used in Mattel's original toy lines, the 2002 series, the mini comics, the concept art, and any other Mattel published material. Other versions like the 1987 film and the original Filmation versions of characters are currently off-limits.

6/22/09 - Quote from Toy Guru on production errors: "...let me add, a personal apology for all of these errors. I'm a collector too and this stuff sucks. Especially for a 20.00 figure you can't see before you buy. We are going to make every effort to ensure paint ops improve. Thanks again for all the images and for everyone's support of the line. If you do get a bad figure please call 1 877 GO MATTY to review options for replacements. We do set a small amount aside for replacements on every Mattycollector.com item.

6/13/09 - Between rereleases, repaints, and bonus figures, nearly each month in 2010 will have at least two MOTU items for sale.

6/12/09 - He-Ro will be available at SDCC, then at MattyCollector.com after the show. Both the SDCC version and the MattyCollector.com version will have three different Spell Stone variants, randomly packed. The stones come packed in a closed Spell Staff can not be seen unless opened. The three stones are the Spell of Protection (Green), the Spell of Defense (Red), and the Spell of Healing (Purple). He-Ro's purchased at SDCC will have the SDCC logo on his chest under the armor.

6/08/09 - He-Ro's translucent black sword was an error on the prototype. Some figures sent out for review still had the black sword, but it has been corrected and all future versions will be blue.

06/02/09 - The secret accessory packaged with Tri-Klops is a recreation of his original bonus accessory, the Ring of Grayskull. As before, it features a hidden compartment.

5/29/09 - The secret accessory packaged with Man-At-Arms is new sculpt of the 200x power sword. In the Classics continuity, this sword was created by Man-At-Arms.

5/22/09 - The 2009 Subscription (Sep-Dec) are revealed. It will be available for purchase on Mattycollector.com from May 18th-25th. Subscribers will receive the figure-of-the-month at the current price for the specified months (Sep-Dec). Multiple subscriptions can be purchased, but no subscriptions can be cancelled. Subscribers will be able to update their credit card information during the subscription period. Figures will ship monthly, but an option to have them shipped together on Dec 15th will be available. Additional figures can not be added to subscribed orders, if you need to purchase a non-MOTU release, it will have to be shipped separately. The subscription will not include convention figures or other special figures. Subscriptions for 2010 will be sold in August 2009.

5/21/09 - Due to the quick sellout of Mer-Man, Mattel will increase production a second time.. Hordak and Zodac will still be sold at the same production numbers of Mer-Man. The second increase will begin with Tri-Klops.

4/13/09 - The knives on Tri-Klops' armor are not removable.

1/30/09 - The original Classics He-Man was produced with backwards shoulders. All future versions will have this corrected along with less red around the eyes.

1/16/09 - The name Demo-Man is an original pre-production name for Skeletor. His inclusion in Skeletor's bio was a nod to the earlier name.

1/11/09 - A POP figure was planned for 2009, but the delay of the He-Man and Mer-Man figures has pushed that POP figure back to early 2010.

11/20/08 - Some bios, such as Faker's, include continuity from the unproduced third season of the 2002 series.

11/3/08 - Faker was not originally slated to be the March figure. It was only when Mer-Man was delayed that Faker was placed in March to keep releases on schedule.

9/11/08 - The inclusion of action features is largely based on the complexity of the feature itself. Per Toy Guru, "Tri-Klops will have a spinning visor, Man-E-Faces will have a spinning head and Rio Blast would have pop out guns (pending we can get to all of those great characters). Where you won't see action features is on mechanical features - ie: Snout Spout will likely not spit water, Sy-Klone will likely not have a spinning mechanism, Stinkor will likely not smell and Ram-Man would likely not have a pop out body. But Extendar would extend, the Rock people would fold up and Scare Glow might even have glow in the dark paint if it works out. "

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