Is The #MOTUC Snake Mountain Playset Dead?

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There have been a lot of rumors swirling around online this month about the future of Masters of the Universe Classics, Thundercats and the future of MattyCollector.com in 2017.   There hasn’t been any communication from Andrew Sparks, who took over MattyCollector.com when Kim, aka Skeletor’s Love Child left Mattel since his appearance at Toy fair in February, and apart from a few monthly sale updates and news of some shipping delays no news or communication from any of the Matty and/or Mattel teams.

 

Now it appears there may be one more nail in the coffin.   One of my local collector friends wrote last week to Mattel corporate on their official Facebook page about the future of the MOTUC Snake Mountain playset that debuted at SDCC last year.  Below is the response he received this morning:

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Here’s a brief history of the playset:

Snake Mountain was originally supposed to debut at Toy Fair 2015, but was not shown or discussed until SDCC 2015.   At that time Mattel said they were still working on it and it may change and/or be reduced in size up to 30%.

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The Snake Mountain prototype appeared on more time, this time at an event at an event at a movie theater in Los Angeles for an anniversary screening of the 1980’s Masters of the Universe feature film.

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The prototype was not shown at Toy Fair 2016, nor was it mentioned at the event.

Does the corporate account have the inside scoop?   Is there still a chance it could be saved?  Will Mattel really scrap this much preproduction work on this massive item?

We will attempt to get further clarification on this from Mattel.

 

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