Vintage Mattel · year by year

Masters of the Universe, 1983

The first expansion, and the year the Filmation cartoon arrives to sell it. Sales more than double to 80 million dollars. Action features begin moving into the sculpts rather than the accessories.

Figures catalogued
10
Lines running
2
Year source-checked
10 of 10

Mattel's vintage Masters of the Universe line only. Princess of Power ran alongside it from 1985 as a separate line and is catalogued on its own shelf.

Release years are checked item by item against actionfigure411's original-series checklist and he-man.org's wave listings. 10 of these 10 are confirmed by at least one of them; the rest carry our own catalogue's year and are marked above.

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