Secrets of Webstor - MOTUC How Toys are made for adult collectors

Scott Toyguru Neitlich talks about the behind the scenes secrets of how toys are made and the Webstor MOTUC figure from Mattel

[@Maugrim76]

I don't know how to Express how entertaining and interesting these videos are. Great job again. Had the vintage Webstor but he succumbed to his injuries after doing battle with a neighbours dog. 😱😁

[@spectorcreative1872]

Oh no! Figure death by neighbors dog!

[@theflash77q60]

Greetings from Serbia / I am big fan of the MOTUC line. We are so grateful to you for what you did for the MOTUC line….

[@spectorcreative1872]

And I am so glad you are enjoying these videos!

[@nicholasdickens2801]

Welcome to the great MOTU family.

[@GartheKnightReturns]

With a name like Webstor sounds like he would’ve fit in well during the dot-com boom of 99/early 2000s. Really enjoying these MOTU videos. It’s like rediscovering an old friend and new ones.

[@chrisashford3379]

Ahh, way to tease us with Lizorr there. One of my few gripes on the MOTUC line was not getting New Adventures finished. Oh well.

[@spectorcreative1872]

Yeah, it was a bridge too far

[@kenis77]

Bro he was one of my fave toys to play with as a kid. Such a cool concept!

[@spectorcreative1872]

That he was! You could hang him from things!

[@darkMpunzalan]

Today, February 9, 2024, Friday I'm watching this playlist in shuffle to celebrate Spector Creative channel's return!

[@aussiecoastie72]

Well done Scott 👏 I love your videos about this great toy line ... to hear directly from the product brand manager is fantastic .

[@spectorcreative1872]

Glad you like it. More to come and topics always welcomed

[@GrayskullWarrior]

That's my photo at the <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="480">8:00</a> mark! :)

[@spectorcreative1872]

Nice! Thanks so much for posting it.

[@Bernhard2024]

Webstor has never been a favorite figure of mine, but the Classics-one is just adorable. I loved taking pictures with him. He is very photogenic. I used to take pictures of my figures in the woods or other great places.

[@spectorcreative1872]

He is a favorite. I have him hanging in my toy closet.

[@Bernhard2024]

@@spectorcreative1872 You are a great guy!

[@AntiDecepticonCampaign]

Webstor was my first bad guy in the line back in the day. Absolute 10 on that redesign. Nailed that

[@spectorcreative1872]

I love what the Horsemen did. They rock

[@andrewgrant2990]

I loved the great mix of fact & humor in this 1- thanks!

[@spectorcreative1872]

Well thanks. aiming for that.

[@RetroRook]

Webstor is one of my favorite figures from MOTU. I just always thought he looked so cool. Plus I loved his action feature from the vintage line. 😎

[@spectorcreative1872]

I have him hanging in my toy closet right now! He keeps going strong as far as coolness

[@reload54]

My neighbor had Webstor back in the early 80s and we loved him but broke the mechanism pretty early on. Glad It's not exactly how we remember because we never got it to work right.

[@spectorcreative1872]

Point taken!

[@CaptainStarlight]

I appreciate the spider warning this time around, haha.

[@spectorcreative1872]

Properly warned be you says I

[@wilhelmrifflord]

Made my Origins Webstor climb up Castle Grayskull on my Instagram stories. It was extra funny because I put the Pink Panthor theme to it.

[@Beedo_Sookcool]

Great video! Thank you! He's not my favourite character, but I really appreciate the figure. I'd like to hang him from a shelf to display him, but I think I'd better replace his plastic hook with a metal one, first.

[@spectorcreative1872]

He does get to hang around a lot huh?

[@superveryman]

That's actually the McDonald's Happy Meal Beast-Man, one of few MOTU figures I owned before classics.

[@spectorcreative1872]

Ah McDonald's toys! That is a whole realm into itself! Good eye.

[@front2423]

Best figure ever

[@spectorcreative1872]

Ha! Very close I will agree.

[@AntiDecepticonCampaign]

Im sure the spider warning was immensely appreciated. I've seen someone with genuine arachnophobia react to the image of a big ones face. I felt so bad for them, it was like it stayed with them through out the day, tone of voice changed and they were visibly shaken. I was taken back by it so I try at least to consider that spiders are a different kind of scary for some. It is burned in my mind. I bet it detours sales a lot.

[@AntiDecepticonCampaign]

I think arachnos are incredibly interesting creatures. I think it has to do with the orientation of eyes or how they move. Like a deep psychological response Found to be a similar reaction to other things with multiple eyes. Freaky instincts.

[@spectorcreative1872]

I'm still scared of spiders. And robots. So Robot Spiders are the worst

[@AntiDecepticonCampaign]

@@spectorcreative1872 I secretly agree. Yikes. But same time strangely drawn to manifest figurative means to dispatch the bastards! I hunted down the giant spider vehicle at a flea market, it freaked me out as a kid but I had to have it, long gone now tho. Scary toys can help face fears or at least identify them. All the same, yikes!

[@danield1262]

I see you used one of my comparison pics :) feel free to use any pic of my filmation customs you can see em all on my facebook page Eternal Customs :)

[@spectorcreative1872]

Thanks! Appreciate that. Makes the videos cooler.

[@GarbenTheBerserker]

Is it me or does Webstor resemble Tuvar a bit in the original toyline. I read in the UK Comics, Webstor was portrayed as having a firm sense of honor, which is rare to see in giant humanoid arachnids in fiction!

[@spectorcreative1872]

From a certain point of view

[@falleneldor]

Webstor as a character never excited me all that much even as a kid. My backpack broke early on and even though my dad took it apart and fixed it, the superglue NEVER held and was always falling apart. I do think you guys could have fit the spools into the backpack if it was just a little larger, or if the extra legs popped on like buzz off's extra legs. It was not a complex mechanism at all. It just two spools threaded in different directions. But compromise is part of life so I get it. I think the thicker thread used on Classics would have prevented the issues that plauge many a vintage webstor. The thread was WAY to thin and too long and easily gets tangled up when a kid tugs too hard too often. I loved his bio. Just wish you had squeezed in a line about his BFF Kahn. I loved the addition of a snake men Araknian war in preternia.

[@spectorcreative1872]

It would have needed to be huge!

[@falleneldor]

@@spectorcreative1872 did it ever get past conversation though? I imagine it would be be about the same size as the original. (Not that it really matters though all these years later)

[@steverino6954]

I would've called him "Spy-Dor, evil spy for Skeletor."

[@xeppozanfilms]

I hate spiders, but I love Webstor and Spidor

[@spectorcreative1872]

I"m a Peter Parket guy myself

[@xeppozanfilms]

@@spectorcreative1872 Forgot him, the obvious answers can be the most overlooked

[@ghostbusterguy20011]

When I was a kid I used to play with my Webster action figure while watching Webster sometimes pretending Webster was adopted by skeletor

[@spectorcreative1872]

That is cool. Skeletor needs more kids

[@ghostbusterguy20011]

@@spectorcreative1872 lol😂

[@GrayskullWarrior]

Also, here is a video showing the workings and how to fix a vintage Webstor backpack: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bKHCkI2CjLWiq8k

[@spectorcreative1872]

Nice!

[@falleneldor]

The 4HM did have a spikor design. Iirc, it was just a final concept drawing.

[@spectorcreative1872]

That is true.

[@vaders28]

Thing i don't understand is WHY doesn't the place that make the tooling for figures give Mattel a discount? I mean back then with the line Mattel would be a returning customer for making the classics tooling. I can understand some parts being expensive. Just if Mattel was a customer with alot of work for making tooling,... shouldn't they get some type of discount to save money on Mattel side. I dunno just wondering since i know as you said tooling is expensive.

[@spectorcreative1872]

Oh Mattel does get deep discounts from its vendors. It still doesn't take away from the fact that no matter what tooling is incredibly expensive.

[@vaders28]

@@spectorcreative1872 Yes it must be. I can understand Mattel gets some advantage but like you said its very expensive. I really enjoy what your doing with this kind of content. It's very different than anything on KZbin. Actually I think it makes a person really think what really went into getting that figure from cartoon/comic whatever to where you can see it and hold it. I really appreciate here on MOTU content. Well besides my transformers I'm doing MOTU origins. As I just got in today from Amazon nearly the wave 1 already complete. Just lacking Man E Faces,Orko,Evil Lyne waiting on currently.

[@ryverchoy1370]

With so many many characters & vehicles why did motuc line came to an end?

[@Beedo_Sookcool]

I think it was largely because the subscription numbers kept dropping towards the end. If I remember correctly, in 2015, the last full year, they barely surpassed the minimum needed to continue. And a lot of that was due to the "Vintage Only And Out" crowd, who only wanted to get updated versions of the vintage figures, and kicked up a huge stink every time some nifty new character or variant showed up to "waste" another slot. Frankly, I loved the entire line, and wish it was still going. Best danged MOTU line ever, certainly for the action figures.

[@spectorcreative1872]

Because it was never an official job. I was doing it in addition to my day job (managing DC brands at retail) and when I left no one wanted to pick up the extra unpaid work

[@ryverchoy1370]

@@spectorcreative1872 man that’s true passion & dedication right there, especially unpaid projects. You’ll go down in the motu history as a legend of motu classics. I’ll look forward to that day when motuc continues 😊

[@benflay6038]

Love this video just repaired my vintage webster shame this didnt have the pully he was awkward as figure .subscribed bell rung .question did you wprk at Mattel that has the lawn in the logo

[@spectorcreative1872]

I worked across the street from that building in the design center

[@user-do2ev2hr7h]

One thing I'm unclear on as far as the "no action feature" rule: While I absolutely get that it was a money saving thing, wouldn't the extra parts many figures included to "simulate" the vintage action feature close that savings gap?

[@spectorcreative1872]

Not really because action features require (often) mechanisms. Extra parts are just like more arms and legs.

[@user-do2ev2hr7h]

@@spectorcreative1872 Ah. I just asked because you've often said that heads etc. can cost as much in deco and tooling as a figure.

[@trapjaw7253]

Did the she ra figures do that well , excluding the hord figures of course ?

[@spectorcreative1872]

In Classics, She-Ra did okay. The best figures were those who were in the Filmation He-Man cartoon by far

[@trapjaw7253]

Is there any specific characters you and the team regret doing looking back on it , with this I mean the more obscure characters?

[@curbydinobot8633]

No one ever did a spider figure again....along comes Tarantulas and Blackarachnia

[@spectorcreative1872]

Good point

[@Abhothra]

This videa was really....Entangling. I'll see myself out now.

[@spectorcreative1872]

A man who would pun would pick your pocket

[@Rootsradical808]

Cool stuff, unfortunately I already collect a lot and just discovered 4 horsemen like a year ago and been buying there he-man inspired guys

[@spectorcreative1872]

The Horsemen are amazing and we are so blessed to have had them as design partners

[@Phantasia_Workshop]

Ah, Spydor-Man

[@spectorcreative1872]

The best man

[@TheRustyBox]

What you talkin bout Scott Neitlich!?

[@spectorcreative1872]

Hey i ain't no sitcom star

[@oliverl.5834]

Raknus? Inspired by DOCTOR WHO somewhat? The Racnoss.

[@spectorcreative1872]

Perhaps

[@oliverl.5834]

@@spectorcreative1872 Wouldn't be the worst place for inspirations. ;)