Mattel Masters Of The Universe Cartoon Collection Webstor Figure
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00:00It's probably a good thing that Miss Muffet wasn't a Masters.
00:04Here's your look at the Mattel He-Man and the Master Universe cartoon collection Webster
00:08Evil Master of Escape.
00:24It's an exciting time to be a Master Universe fan.
00:26For longtime fans and a new generation of kids who love the action adventure, it's time
00:30to experience the thrilling action adventure of He-Man, Skeletor, the secrets at Castle
00:34Greyskull, and much more.
00:36The figures in this collection stand 5.5 inches tall and have 16 movable joints, so they're
00:41highly poseable for imaginative and action-oriented fun.
00:45I think of all his minions, Skeletor prefers Webster the most because he's never out of
00:50line.
00:51Just before we get a closer look, waiting for the applause, one's not going to be coming.
00:55Using the tape measure, of course, and having a look at the figure.
00:56The figure's body, by the way, is going to be using the same stock body as all the cartoon
01:00collection figures we've looked at so far of the male variety.
01:03Webster because of that is still going to be standing at 6 inches in height, or the
01:07figure's going to stand at 15 centimeters tall.
01:09As for happy bosses, here's what Webster looks like with his.
01:12Here's what the figure looks like with the earlier looked at cartoon collection Skeletor.
01:16Normally, I would have said the exact same bodies.
01:18The thing about the cartoon collection Skeletor is that he doesn't have monster feet.
01:23Webster does, and he also isn't the only figure that's done this so far in the cartoon
01:26line.
01:27If you look at actually Merman, Merman is probably like the closest thing to resembling
01:31the exact same body as what we're getting with Webster, right down to his monster feet.
01:36Merman also serves as to be a good example when you're comparing the figures.
01:39Webster has one other thing that no other figure has had so far.
01:42I know that almost sounds like riddles.
01:44If you look at the front of his belt, he's got a little circular stone shape that's sculpted
01:49onto his belt.
01:51Skeletor never had it.
01:52Merman certainly doesn't have it either as well.
01:53If you look at their belt, they're completely smooth.
01:55So he is, even though he's probably the closest thing to resembling Merman's body, he is though
02:00a little bit different because of the way they've designed his belt.
02:02Here's what the figure as well looks like with the cartoon collection Beastman as well,
02:07Trap Jaw.
02:08And the most recent one, obviously, if you guys have been following along this channel,
02:11here's what the figure looks like also with Evil Lin.
02:14Of course, I did have to also bring in the Origins version of Webster, which unfortunately
02:18though with the time that I've had this figure, because he also has this backpack on the back
02:21that holds his cable line, it has now developed looseness in his knees.
02:25He seems to still stand, but he's the loosest Origins figure I have so far in my collection.
02:30What you're seeing right now is a mini comic.
02:31What you're also seeing is an episode specific accessory, the Grimalkin statue.
02:36What you're not seeing though is the included sheet that tells you you can pop and swap
02:39the parts out with other Masters figures if you want to customize them.
02:42I didn't want to eat up your time.
02:43I certainly didn't want to eat up my time talking about it.
02:46What's funny though about it, the amount of time I probably could have just showed
02:49you guys what that would have looked like, popping off the limb, popping off the head,
02:52swapping out the legs, I probably have just eaten up just as much time yammering away
02:56about it.
02:57So I'm not going to yammer anymore about it.
02:59What I will though talk about is the mini comic that comes included with Webster, that
03:02being the Shape of Vengeance.
03:04It so happens to be shared with the exact same comic that we got with the Evil Lin.
03:09Both of these characters are part of the very villain heavy oriented wave.
03:13The other half of this wave, which we haven't gotten so far, is Clawful and Spikor.
03:17And I would imagine if looking at the history of looking at these cartoon collection figures,
03:22the first half of the wave usually comes with the same comic.
03:25And then the second half, so I would imagine Clawful and Spikor are going to come with
03:28comics that have nothing to do at all with Webster and Evil Lin.
03:31Speaking of Webster and Evil Lin, not only are the two featured on the front that are
03:35also advertised as part of this wave, but the characters were also shown in the cartoon
03:39episode Journey to Stone City, in which Webster and Evil Lin teamed up, or again, went on
03:44a mission.
03:45You can see there's Skeletor featured on the front.
03:47If we flip though through the comics, I know we've already spent a little bit of time talking
03:50about the shaping staff there.
03:52Also as well, you can see there's Skeletor, he gets turned into a moth.
03:55It looks very much like the Silence of the Lambs.
03:58And then on back, of course, you've got yourself advertisements of Webster, Evil Lin, Clawful
04:02and Spikor.
04:03Looking forward to these.
04:05Let's move that off to the side.
04:08The character first of all comes in clue, I guess not first of all, second of all, the
04:11figure comes in clue with the Grimalkin statue, which is taken from the episode The Cat and
04:14the Spider.
04:15It doesn't have any articulation at all, even though looking at the head sculpt, you would
04:19swear for a second, try not to swear if you can, it looks like you would be able to rotate
04:23the head, yet you can't.
04:25It's molded decently.
04:26I mean, honestly though, I can't see myself ever really feeling a need to display these
04:29along with the figures.
04:30The tail, by the way, is a very soft back bit of plastic, but all in all, while I do
04:35appreciate some of these, some of them, I feel like the episode accessories, I think
04:39are ones I would display.
04:40Like the one that came in clue with Beastman, I think was a pretty cool one.
04:43And also the one that came in clue with Duncan or Man at Arms.
04:45Things like these though, just because again, they only pop up in one episode.
04:48Do I ever see the need to ever want to display this?
04:50I feel like, and I know it kind of divides really the fandom.
04:54Some fandoms actually, the fans love the idea that they include things that you could look
04:57at an episode, for example, like The Cat and Spider and say, hey, that's the statue from
05:02that.
05:03And I'm glad to see that they included it.
05:05But a lot of fans, I perhaps maybe lean to this side, think that the plastic probably
05:08could have been used for something else.
05:09I don't know, maybe like a weapon for Webster to wield.
05:12Technically, he already wields a weapon, not another riddle.
05:15On the back of the figure's body though, he does actually have his cable line.
05:18It's very much a different cable line than the original Origins version, which let's
05:22just put him down for a second.
05:23Let's bring back in the Origins version of Webster.
05:26Webster's one of my favorite figures, probably makes like the top five, just from a design
05:29standpoint.
05:30I love the colorings of Webster, but one of the biggest things that always plagued this
05:33figure was the fact that he had to be like the original Origins, the original vintage
05:36version of Webster, in that he had a line.
05:39The line starts at the top of the hook, which would basically hook onto something that you
05:42want to have the character zip line up to.
05:45And then he would have the other end of this line.
05:47Now, in between zipping this guy across rooms, you can actually just kind of wrap everything
05:51up and there's little hooks on the side, so you can take the little extra little bit of
05:55lanyard and just kind of have it dangling off to the side, so it just kind of stays
05:58a little bit more cleaner.
05:59You just don't have this thing hanging off the back.
06:03If I did want to unravel this, though, I'm just going to take it off the hook.
06:06I'm just going to unravel it here.
06:08And again, I'm glad to see that they at least include the hooks so that you didn't have
06:12all this excess just hanging.
06:14What you do, though, is basically you just take this.
06:16I know we've kind of covered this off in his own review.
06:17This would just hook onto a wall, say a castle, a grayscale, and just to kind of mimic this
06:21as best I can, you would just take the other end of the line and you would just pull it.
06:25Now I'm not doing any trickery here.
06:27If you pull from the one line, he does okay in a job of, I mean, gravity kind of works
06:32a little bit better in his favor, but you basically pull one line and he zips along
06:35the cross.
06:36He zips basically across that way.
06:37It just meant, though, like he had all this extra cord to worry about.
06:41It never really stayed in place, so I'm glad, again, like you just had a little area that
06:44you could wrap this around.
06:46Just wrap it off.
06:47Get it out of the way.
06:48Get it out of the way.
06:49There we go.
06:50When we look, though, at Webster's, let's move that out of the way.
06:52That looked a little inappropriate.
06:54When you move that out of the way and get Webster's stand, you can kind of already see
06:57like he's got really loose ankles, really loose ankles, really loose knees.
07:01If we look at the one from the cartoon collection, they have really cleaned this up a whole lot
07:05more.
07:06First of all, his hook on the back is now orange instead of the purple it was before,
07:11but what they've done instead is they've got a little dial that you rotate.
07:15You just rotate it.
07:16You don't have to worry about now wrapping everything up.
07:18So what you do basically is you just pull the line that you need and you hook it onto
07:22something.
07:23What about that long of a length?
07:25So that's, I don't know, what, three of him long?
07:29And you just hook it onto whatever you need to hook it to.
07:31And then you would just, there's even an error right here too.
07:34So it shows you exactly which direction you need to pull.
07:36And then you just, you know, just wind it back up until eventually Webster gets to the
07:41top of wherever he is.
07:43Hopefully he has enough cable to get to the top of Castle Grayskull and he's not just
07:46kind of stuck about three quarters of the way saying, anybody, anybody, somebody help
07:50me?
07:51But basically I just rival, just rolls back up.
07:54So you just get it like that.
07:56There really isn't no place that you can actually hook this onto, um, not that necessarily needs
08:00it.
08:01At least you can kind of just dangle it off to the side, but it's, it's a much cleaner
08:04approach to having to worry about like having the wrap this up.
08:07But again, like this is supposed to look like the original vintage toys so I can understand
08:10why they did it.
08:12Let's move this guy out of the way for a second.
08:14Let's get a closer look though at Webster.
08:16Webster's got the colors pretty much similar to the original vintage toy and very much
08:19similar to the origins line, which now I'm just ultimately bringing him back.
08:23He's a little bit more cartoonier.
08:25So you can see like he's got pupils on this in the middles of his eyes.
08:28The original Webster wouldn't, wouldn't have had that.
08:30And he's also got the larger fangs.
08:32Is that a Nausicaan?
08:33It looks like a Nausicaan from Star Trek, the next generation.
08:37This one again is a little bit more cartoonier.
08:39You can see his armor is very similar, but there are a few notable things that are changed
08:42between the vintage and the origins and what we're now getting with the cartoon collection.
08:46His little star formation that he has on the front of his armor is, well, first of all,
08:49the original would have had two of them.
08:51The cartoon collection now actually has only this in one.
08:54The belt is also matching that color of the orange, whereas this one would have had the
08:57belt in red and it isn't quite the same color.
09:00I guess the coloring of the belt kind of matches the inside star.
09:04So there's a few little color changes there.
09:06Notably too, he's not as dark of a blue as the vintage or the origins version of Webster.
09:11So there are a few little changes there.
09:12They definitely have softened up the colors of the blue and definitely made the purples
09:16a little bit more brighter as well.
09:18Both of them also do feature monster feet, get that line out of the way.
09:21Both of them have monster feet.
09:23Webster just happens though to have a more lighter purple and again, that matches the
09:26coloring that he has for his armor.
09:29Now what you could do it too, if you want, is that you can actually detach the armor.
09:32There's little snap tabs here on the side and you just detach them on both sides and
09:37then you would just basically be able to take the armor completely off.
09:39If you took off the armor and the zip line, you're kind of really defeating the one thing
09:43that the character is known for having, but you kind of see already like that's basically
09:47what his body would have looked like underneath.
09:49So once again, if you're putting this back onto his body, just fit that over top of his
09:52head and then on the back, there's a rectangular peg that sticks up.
09:57You're basically just going to take the snap and fit that over top and then you'll do the
10:00exact same thing on this side.
10:02Yeah, very good on this side as well.
10:04So for the most part, it stays in place.
10:06I probably wouldn't recommend doing this all that much just because eventually you're going
10:10to start to stretch the plastic and there's always like this one side for me at least
10:13that doesn't stay completely in place.
10:15Some would have said just leave it alone.
10:17You're probably right.
10:18But all in all, the colors for the character look really good.
10:21He's one of those strange instances, if not for the fact that Clawful and Spike are also
10:25part of this wave, I would have said like, I feel like Webster could probably have waited.
10:30Maybe given us some characters more like Triclops, but probably what they're doing is with planning
10:35this out in future waves, I don't think this is going to be a similar fall to what Super
10:39Seven was doing with like the Simpsons line.
10:41They're probably like saying to themselves, okay, we got to put in like the main, we got
10:44to put in a main character.
10:45So Evil Lin sort of is filling in that slot and then we're going to kind of put in B list
10:49characters, C list characters that probably would have only popped up in one or two episodes.
10:53And Webster just happens to fall within that category along with Clawful and Spike.
10:57Will we get ourselves a Triclops?
10:58I'm sure we will.
10:59Obviously we're going to probably be getting him in a probably a next wave, I would imagine,
11:03but it just seems a little out of place.
11:05It seems just strange to me that we were getting Webster so early into this, but I guess because
11:10again, like they're planning this out for future waves, either way though, the articulation
11:13here for Webster, head sculpt is going to be on a ball joint, so it rotates, yes, all
11:16the way around.
11:17The head looks down, the head looks up and it also can rock back and forth.
11:20He has bearing some resemblance, I feel, to Too Bad, which is a figure we'll be looking
11:24at an upcoming review from the San Diego Comic-Con exclusive release.
11:28Arms rotate all the way around.
11:29You can also hinge the arms out at about 90 degrees.
11:32There is a swivel here in the elbow, not in the bicep, in the elbow.
11:36There's also a hinge there as well.
11:37Hands rotate all the way around.
11:38There's a hinge back and forth there too, swiveling back and forth only on the waist.
11:42Legs split out on ball joints.
11:43You can take the legs and move forward.
11:44You can move them back.
11:45They always seem to be really tight, aren't they, when you're trying to move them forward.
11:49There's a swivel there slightly on the top of the thigh.
11:51Single hinge on the knee.
11:52I wanted to also say too with my Webster, he seems to be a little loose in the knees.
11:57I mean, I don't think he's going to be as loose perhaps as the Origins figure, but he's already
12:01starting to develop looseness, and I don't know if that's probably with using the mold
12:04again and again and again.
12:06Boots rotate back and forth.
12:07There's a hinge up and down, and you can also rock them as well.
12:09And the figure, of course, does have toe articulation.
12:11It does also have foot pegs on the palms of his feet.
12:15You know, again, like looking at the figure, if you were to compare him, he is probably,
12:17again, the most resembling Merman, just simply from the fact that, I guess even really with
12:22the gloves too.
12:23I mean, even though Merman really did have like this part of the cuff that was sculpted
12:26onto his form, the hands themselves are also a little bit different too, so I guess it's
12:31really more so just the torso, the lower legs, and of course the monster feet.
12:35The thing that's also interesting, as mentioned already, and I don't want to keep drawing
12:38out the same information again and again, is that also, as you can see, Webster does
12:42have that little circular stone on the front of his belt.
12:46So far has not made any other appearances when we look at the male figures.
12:50You know, again, we'll just kind of bring in all the other ones that we've already looked
12:52at so far.
12:53I guess we're kind of looking at the numbers really too.
12:55We're really outnumbering the good guys by quite a lot, considering that already we have
13:00what, five figures?
13:01Well, I guess technically, if you look at Evil Lin, Evil Lin now got six baddies from
13:06the Filmation cartoon series.
13:08And then of course, on top of that, the second half of this wave, having already Clawful
13:13and Spike are added to it, I think there's definitely going to be more masters that need
13:16to be released in future waves.
13:18From a standpoint of getting Webster, I don't think we necessarily need to get him right
13:21away, but considering that Webster sits pretty high on my list for all-time favorite designs
13:25of Master Universe characters, he's a well-welcomed addition to my collection.
13:29If I didn't know any better, I'd swear that somebody had their dirty mitts all over the
13:33Grimalkin statue, with plans to heist it.
13:36That's a term I'm going to use very loosely, because the character, to be all honest, has
13:39the hardest time to even hold the statue.
13:41If it wasn't for the fact that I knew Webster came included with it, and you just put this
13:45in front of me, I would have honestly suspected that the statue came from a completely different
13:49toy line altogether.
13:51Fine and good it is to include these things that are specific to the episodes, but again,
13:55to have them along with some of these characters, some of them have been good, some of them
13:59have been bad.
14:01And I feel like in the case of the Grimalkin, I feel like it almost goes more into the category
14:05of bad.
14:06I appreciate, I suppose, and probably maybe more individuals that were familiar with the
14:10episodes more than I am, probably would appreciate the fact that Mattel would take the time to
14:14throw in something like this that would have only popped up in one episode.
14:18I kind of look at this and just think, it's a waste of plastic.
14:21Maybe.
14:22Don't throw any of the turnips at me.
14:23I'm just saying, I think it's a bit of a waste of plastic to dedicate this to a statue that's
14:28only in one episode, when realistically they probably could have included something that's
14:32maybe seen a little more often.
14:34Could have maybe been, I don't know, like energy effects or maybe even just a weapon
14:38for him to wield.
14:39I would have probably been more interested to display the figure with that rather than
14:43a statue of this.
14:44Either way though, I like the look of Webster.
14:47He's definitely cleaner when it comes to his cable line on the back of his body.
14:50You don't have to worry about wrapping everything up like you had to do with the original vintage
14:54or the origins.
14:55It's a cleaner and a more polished look to the character.
14:58Just whether he needed to belong in such a recent wave of cartoon collection figures,
15:02that's a debatable topic.
15:04As much as I love Webster and I like the look of this character, I feel like I could have
15:07been fine just to wait for Webster in exchange for a character that would have probably had
15:11more attachment to.
15:12Either way though, what do you guys think of Webster?
15:14Let me know down below in the comments section.
15:16Are you glad that we got him as part of this wave?
15:18What do you feel when it comes to episode specific accessories, let's just say that
15:22are only in one episode?
15:23Do you feel like Mattel should continue to include that with all the figures that they're
15:26doing for the cartoon collection?
15:28Or nay that, and rather just have the figures come included with weapons instead?
15:32Let me know what you think down below.
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