Mattel is most definitely clueless.

 Virgil Abloh, Fashion Designer, friend of former Kardashian Kanye West has a "MOTU COLLECTION" that will be sold on Mattel Creations this Friday.

Figures molded in beige plastic... or dark brown in He-Man's case... at twice the retail price, of course, because they're honoring a dead fashion designer. Seriously, what the actual fuck!? This shit is a smidge better than Madsaki's garbage, but at the same time it's overpriced garbage... single colored redecos of existing figures is the laziest attempt at "art". 

If these were figures whose outfits had been designed by Virgil Abloh before his passing, they would be justified. Which brings me to the point of this rant: 

Mattel NEEDS TO STOP MAKING THESE lazy cashgrab "collectibles". These aren't for fans, these are for pseudo fans who deem these important due to the name attached and not because of MOTU.

I am going to suggest a far better solution:

Yes, it's a shameless copy of Neitlich's MOTU Anniversary wave in MOTUC, but slightly different:

Masterverse 2 packs where a guest artist or celebrity gets to Redesign a classic MOTU Character AND they get to create a new one. The only caveats are, no repeat characters and that they have to choose from wave 4 and beyond. (Just to avoid everyone doing He-Man, Skeletor, Evil-Lyn, Teela, MAA, Beastman)

Let's say: Kevin Smith, since Masterverse is closely tied to Revelation...

Kevin Smith gets to redesign any MOTU Character and add a new one.

Let's pretend that Smith picked Snout Spout, so he has a new take on Snout Spout and the new character is based on his daughter. For copyright reasons she can't be called Harley Quinn, 

Stjepan Šejić could also be an option that would kick so much ass. Then just like Smith, Stjepan Šejić, picks, say King Hsss,  and makes a new Snakeman...

Then the final creator, say, uh, Ed Boon, makes a redesign for Ninjor, the Ninja Warrior and creates a new character.

3 people with different degrees of connection with MOTU:

Kevin Smith made a MOTU Cartoon

Stjepan Šejić: has made official MOTU art and has loads of MOTU Fanart

Ed Boon: has been trying to get Mattel to let him make a MOTU fighting game (and snuck in parts to make He-Man and Skeletor in MK:Armageddon)

So we have 6 characters AND a story can be told. Using New Eternia as a Template here's a possible story:

K.S's new character has in her possession an ancient relic that can revive the Ancient Ruler of the Snakemen, King Hsss.

Skeletor is looking to enhance the power of the Scimitar of Chaos with the ancient relic. In order to obtain the relic, he hires Ninjor to steal it for him. Unbeknownst to Ninjor, KS's character is friends with the deformed Gladiator known as Snout Spout. A warrior cursed by a technowizard that made him look like a monster. Now he fights in the arena of Choloh as a gladiator to earn his keep, as no one trusts him outside the arena due to his appearance. 

He-Man had gone to the Arena of Choloh because, he had heard rumors of mighty warriors fighting at the arena and hoped to find allies in his battle to stop Skeletor. At the Arena, he meets the wandering Weapons Master. MAN-AT-ARMS, who is studying Snout Spout's  technorganic body. A creature of Clawful's race (design inspired by the coconut crab), mind controlled by Skeletor attacks He-Man and Snout Spout. This was a distraction, so Ninjor could steal the relic. Unable to retrieve it, Ninjor kidnaps KS's character and takes her to a nearby Necropolis. 

He-Man, Snout Spout and Man-at-Arms give chase until they're stopped by EB's character, who is the last of the guardians who kept people away from the Necropolis, dubbed The Fright Zone, by locals. The Necropolis used to be a city controlled by the servants of the ancient demon, Hordak, who used technowizards that had mastered the links between tech and magic.

The guardian recognizes Snout Spout as a being imbued with Hordak's technorganic curse and attacks first, which Ninjor uses to his advantage.

Ninjor, after figuring out what the relic was, decided to betray Skeletor and use the relic's power to revive the Red Dragons, the original members of Ninjor's clan, who were Wereconids (humanoid dragons that could take human shape... most of them were obliterated by Hordak's acolytes at The Fright Zone alongside many Snakemen.)

He-Man convinced EB's character to stop fighting and to help them rescue KS's character. They head to the Fright Zone, closely followed by Skeletor, who sensed the possibility of betrayal. Once He-Man reaches Ninjor, Skeletor kills the ninja warrior, just to discover that it was a puppet imbued with the life Energy of the real Ninjor, who was safely hidden, miles away.

In the struggle, the relic activates and revives a couple of Generic Snakemen and SŠ's character, who wants to use the relic to revive King Hsss, whose serpentine body was reduced to a throne for Hordak's general that ruled this Fright Zone.

He-Man, Snout Spout, MAA, EB's character, and KS's character are forced to fight Skeletor, The not Clawful dude, the generic Snakemen, and SŠ's character. KS's character cheapshots Skeletor, forcing him to escape and leaving the Crabman to die. The Snakemen fall to their doom after Snout Spout finds some water to cut the floor beneath them

 Man-at-Arms figures out some of the Hordetech and uses it to destroy the relic. With it destroyed, SŠ's character becomes petrified once more. The heroes return home and unbeknownst to them the stone form of King Hsss begins to crack and the serpentine green I can be seen. The End.

The story to tie in the new characters should be told in 3 mini comics. One with each 2 pack.

In my example, I tied everything to Kevin Smith 's theoretical characters for the first act. On the Second act, I used Ed Boon's then for the Third act, I used Stjepan Šejić's to wrap up the story and set a cliffhanger for future characters.

The only reason not to follow this train of thought (having guests redesign characters and design new ones, then tell a story with those characters and existing ones) is quite simple: it requires too much work. It's easier to  take Teela release her in  white plastic with random flesh colored flecks of plastic and say it's an artistic collaboration, than this shit is a lazy cashgrab... because that is a load of bullshit...

But the MOTU Community loves to get fucked by Mattel... y'all want to get scalped by Mattel and buy any overpriced crap they throw at you... you already failed us all by supporting the overpriced Eternia. Y'all are 86 playsets short of getting the moat monster. Find 86 more suckers and whine in a few months when they screw y'all over.