THE FUTURE OF MASTERVERSE & CARTOON COLLECTION: Mattel says “we still want to do some things” with Masterverse and “more to come” with CC Filmation & 200X action figure lines

This San Diego Comic-Con, many Masters of the Universe action figure collectors felt a glaring hole in Mattel’s booth (and in their hearts) when new Masterverse figures and Origins: Cartoon Collection figures were notably absent.

While we know that a Masterverse Vintage Collection Wundar and Evil-Lyn is on the way… (and what we also heard, a Cartoon Collection Filmmation Sorceress figure as well)… we wondered what did the future hold for both fan cherished action figure lines.

Well now we know that neither line is dead, per Mattel’s Damon Nee, Senior Director of Action Figure Design at Mattel (via an interview with Pixel Dan). This what Damon had to say.

PIXEL DAN: — at New York Toy Fair, the question being asked a lot was about Masterverse and if like Chronicles was kind of like the new Masterverse and like I think we were told at the time that Masterverse was on pause. Is that kind of like, is Chronicles just kind of the future now of the 7-in collector scale for Masters?

MATTEL (DAMON): Chronicles is our new modern collectible action figure line, yes. Masterverse, we are, we still want to do some things there, but no active plans that we could talk about, just yet. 

But it’s a form factor that we love, right? We had a nice run with it, and we don’t think it necessarily needs to end just yet.  But it might be you know we’ll see how and where we can get more figures out within that line.

PIXEL DAN: –I want to touch on a few questions I’ve seen a lot of people asking online first. Specifically, there’s been a lot of people wondering what the status of the Cartoon Collection is, both the Filmmation and the 200X and if we can maybe anticipate seeing more for those collections.

MATTEL (DAMON) Yeah. So, more to come there. We don’t want to abandon, you know, fans who’ve been collecting the Filmmation and 200X lines. It’s just a matter of… again… similar to… you know, more to come. I don’t want to, I don’t want to, you know, mislead anyone by any means, but there’s definitely activity on Cartoon Collection, but more to come.

So there you have it. Both the Masterverse and Origins: Cartoon Collection action figure lines have more life to live, per Damon Nee at Mattel. How much more life to live? It is really too early to tell.

Here’s hoping there are many more years of figures to come for both.

We’ll see you next time.