Vintage Mattel · year by year

Masters of the Universe, 1987

The collapse. Sales fall from 400 million dollars to 7 million in a single year, and this final full wave shipped in shrinking numbers, which is exactly why these are the figures collectors chase hardest today.

Figures catalogued
12
Lines running
4
Year source-checked
12 of 12

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. 12 of these 12 are confirmed by at least one of them; the rest carry our own catalogue's year and are marked above.

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