Vintage Mattel · year by year

Masters of the Universe, 1984

Twelve new figures and the year the armour-damage gimmick arrives with Battle Armor He-Man and Skeletor, establishing the template for reselling a character collectors already own. Sales reach 111 million dollars.

Figures catalogued
14
Lines running
2
Year source-checked
13 of 14

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. 13 of these 14 are confirmed by at least one of them; the rest carry our own catalogue's year and are marked above.

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