I'm a diehard too (I own two of each retail playset) but I've drawn the line at the crowdfunds because Mattel are taking the absolute piss. Like you I'd have 'found the space' but there's simply no ju...

@onlyoneskeletor Fright Zone was always my favorite playset, because it’s a diorama. Loved it as a kid, even though I couldn’t have it. It inspired a lot of imagination. The old one rocked, the new on...

@slycooperastroboy51 I'm cool with the discourse and I backed the Snake Lair. I like the design. It's cool. But the price and the way Mattel went about this one still irritates the hell of me. Unhapp...

Ah, but they had to throw in the (potentially rider-less) snorse just to get things moving! Lol. I'm at the point where nothing that company does surprises me.

@sketchyskeletor 20% off selected items is a shitty way to go about it when they offered the same dead stock for 50% off b4.

I think it'll fund but only barely in crowdfund terms. I fully understand people want it (hell I want it) but overall I'd love to see it fail and hope Mattel learns it's lesson about gouging. It's bee...

@abaddon Its a lot of noise, don't bother getting caught up in it. I had a big write-up about this topic I was going to post on the weekend, but I ended up not going ahead with it. Every time I try to...

Anyway, right now, my only aspiration is to obtain the additional information we need to evaluate the accessibility of this brand new Motu line-up. Not to mention the issues related to space, or any n...

Yeah, there were only 400 backers at the time, and it supposedly jumped an insane amount for (God save us) Lady Slither, but Mattel aren't funding all of that. I still think the numbers are dodgy as f...

Travis Knight knows what he is doing. The tone will be perfect. This movie will be perfect.

God.... I HATE Kristen Wig. She's not funny at all and her voice is incredibly grating. Even if they don't gender swap Roboto (which would be a massive disservice to the character and the relationship...

You don't come off very well here.

That anything that even sniffs of DEI gets immediately called out now because Hollywood handled all that like a wrecking ball previously. In this movie's case you've got dodgy AF Jared Leto as Skelet...

TRUST IN TRAVIS KNIGHT!

Whatever you think of it this movie needs another red flag about as much as China does... the mere perception of 'woke' is screen poison now, pretending otherwise is foolish.

Things you absolutely shouldn't do in 2025 when bringing a franchise back... 'But it's only a robot!'. Then if it isn't important at all why piss off fans? He's also a character who develops, robot o...

They put too much into it, with that Snake Lair, paint apps and features etc. I guess they felt, if we’re gonna crowdfund, we gotta go big! Just like that other company. Perhaps it’s not worth it for ...

@banthafett I have one ordered with a UK seller too and it's listed for 21st of August so we'll see how that plays out too!

My take... Realistically they took a retail set and added cheap for them features and paint apps then charged a few hundred more. And that was after they literally went big with the predecessor. Peopl...

@cosmic Honestly they're getting worse! Lol. @Durendal I'm no conspiracy theorist but the insane backing of both the Lair and Snowcat out of nowhere after so many questioning their ability to actually...

@cosmic I'm not impressed - it just tells me that you guys will buy absolutely anything MOTU. Origins will just putter along like a zombie for decades.

This is it, from the most half-assed poll anyone's ever seen to a massive, fully functional prototype in no time at all. Then one of the voting options goes to retail. Oh, and even the Mattel staff vo...

Imagine having a livestream to hype a crowdfund (it went up the whole 1 percent it's been going up every day now anyway) and telling backers it wasn't what the people making it wanted! Fake whoever sh...

Got my fright zone a few days ago and unboxed it today. The box art and set itself seemed to invoke a similar reaction in my boys (8 and 10) as the original one did for me. Overall a fun set and nost...

So you get a holographic poster, strong packaging and no news on a payment plan as many in the chat asked for. Calling the Lair a 'limited edition' and muttering about paint and how it has four levels...