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This week, in celebration of the fortieth anniversary of the Masters of the Universe (MOTU) franchise, the toy manufacturing firm Mattel introduced the launch of the official MOTU digital toy assortment. The brand new assortment, dropping on November 9, will characteristic basic MOTU characters like He-Man, Battle Cat, Tri-Klops, and Evil-Lyn.
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On Wednesday, Mattel, Inc. (Nasdaq: MAT) and the brand new non-fungible token (NFT) platform Cryptoys revealed plans to launch a digital collectible assortment primarily based on the Masters of the Universe (MOTU) sword and planet-themed media franchise. In line with the announcement, the restricted version assortment was unveiled this week in unison with MOTU’s fortieth anniversary.
MOTU is well-known for the characters He-Man and She-Ra, as the favored 5.5-inch action-figure toy line was launched in 1981. The MOTU or He-Man cartoon movie sequence adopted two years later in 1983. Mattel’s MOTU franchise remains to be a popular culture basic after 40 years, with He-Man and Skeletor featured in memes and newly created toy strains. For the brand new MOTU NFT assortment, Mattel teamed up with Cryptoys, an NFT firm that mixes toys, gaming, and leisure.
Cryptoys leverages the Stream community, a blockchain venture utilized by the Dapper Labs- crafted NFT collections NBA Prime Shot and NFL All Day. The MOTU NFT assortment will launch in three waves and the primary launch will characteristic He-Man/Prince Adam, Tri-Klops, Battle Cat/Cringer, and Evil-Lyn. The waves will run from November 2022 to January 2023 and different characters like Orko, Man-At-Arms, Skeletor, and Beast-Man will probably be launched.
“With a singular capacity to stay on the forefront of popular culture for 40 years, Mattel’s Masters of the Universe IP has an especially excessive client consciousness stage and robust collectability worth,” Mattel’s world head of digital gaming, Mike DeLaet, mentioned in a press release. DeLaet added that the toy manufacturing firm regarded ahead to “offering followers of all ages a brand new strategy to expertise He-Man and Masters of the Universe.”
In line with Cryptoys, every MOTU drop will include 10,000 toys per character and each could have completely different skins throughout seven distinctive rarity ranges. Cryptoys says that the shortage of every pores and skin will make the collectible much more “highly effective.” The brand new MOTU NFT assortment just isn’t Mattel’s first time coping with blockchain know-how as the corporate issued the Mattel Sizzling Wheels NFT Storage line with the Wax blockchain workforce final yr.
In newer occasions, Mattel has labored with the Veefriends NFT venture and the 2 corporations launched a restricted version UNO deck that includes the Veefriends characters. The NFT agency Cryptoys raised $23 million on the finish of June and Mattel was an investor within the spherical. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Sound Ventures, Dapper Labs, Animoca Manufacturers, Acrew Capital, and Draper & Associates additionally participated. Along with Mattel, different toy and collectible opponents like Funko and Hasbro have additionally issued blockchain-backed NFTs.
