>>7164282Its a dying franchise, and the fans don't help. Old fans like to push away anything too new or different and are content to just be pandered to with nostalgia rather than run the risk of new iterations changing too much. 2k3 got a lot of hate and attempts to homage it in the Classics line got mixed reception; there's people who did support it but a lot who didn't and it didn't get support enough to stand on its own outside of a few releases like the He-Man vs King Hiss pack. She-ra's remake will get an even icier reception, though it might be justified, at least its something new in the franchise.
As someone who grew up with MOTU hand-me-downs and loves the designs, it upsets me that we probably have seen the last complete MOTU toyline. The franchise will linger onward in some form, but the next step will be things like 1/12 figures and expensive Sideshow statues; as the target audience has gotten older and older and they've finished updating pretty much the entire classic line with few exceptions. Now what's left is marketing higher end figures and statues to people, and due to cost you're never going to see the variety of characters in stuff like this. Its why I've decided to start buying up MOTUC figures. Even if Mattel decides to do a reboot for retail shelves, retail level Mattel usually sucks and the designs would probably be really different and I doubt they'd cover all the characters.
