A Huge Personal Setback.

You may have noticed that there has been a slight slowdown here at the House of Rants. Sadly, my personal life has hit a rather huge setback between work, dealing with my mom's issue and this has reduced my ranting time. It's not easy, I am hoping for the best, but during the time being I will be ranting a little bit less frequently. Not by choice, but out of necessity. The first section that will take a hit will be the It Came From the Toy Chest reviews. For reasons outside my control, my Toy Budget will be redirected to other things higher in the Totem Pole of Priorities. I will finish the 2015 sub, but most likely not buy the Out of Sub Items, meaning Thong Hssss and Point Dread. This will stop my Black Friday shopping and will have to see what I'll do for 2016.

I had to cancel my preorders for the MOTU Halloween Swords and the Mini comic Anthology book.

I'm not posting this to get people to feel bad or for pity. I am simply pointing out why my Activity here has decreased a bit and why it will decrease for a little while longer.

Transparency and the Neitlich-less goof ups!

We still don't know how much Point Dread will cost... We still don't know when or how much the Filmation Sub Line will cost. We still don't know how much Euro Vacation Hssss will cost. Mattel pretty much deleted all complaints about Point Dread and Teela from their forums.

Transparency... Now means complete silence. Arm Wrestling with Megabeast seems easier than prying info from Mattel. Thing is we're not even trying to get some top secret info. We want to know how much will Point Dread (coming in October or November... I think November, but some rumors are pointing to an Earlier October Release) cost. People want to GIVE MONEY TO MATTEL for an item that was announced to come and the fwoosh! even has a review sample of it!

Why the Secrecy!? We know the item is coming either in a few weeks or a month. They surely have a price point but decided to keep it secret for reasons unknown...

Maybe it has to do with the backlash they received? Now I wonder, why wasn't Teela shown at SDCC? They had Point Dread there...

Probably because they messed up and did not want to tell us about it especially after the whole Attack on Neitlich slideshow...

Products are not Cheap/Sub-Par/Compromised... Point Dread and Teela beg to differ.
But that's not the only goof they have done so far... Rotar and Twistoid were NOT in Early Access

yet, Mattel claimed that SDCC Items were not meant to be EA Candidates...

 Just leaving that pic there... for no reason at all. Ignore the Highlighted text that promoted the 200X sub with the reward of being able to buy SDCC items via Early Access if you subscribed.

Add the Major case of Derpeye on the female figures to the mix and you see a rather unfortunate record of boners in 9 months... Made Worse with the 3 months of boners ever since SDCC and their Attack the Neitlch slideshow. Now there are rumors of International Fans not being able to get the upcoming Laser 2 pack. The hits keep piling up and this may damage the chances for Future subs...
What if the Actual He-Man and the Masters of the Universe end up looking as bad as PD Teela, but people find out AFTER they have subbed? 2017 will not look good...