In the early 80's Mattel took the job (from CPI) of producing Conan figures for the movie. One year has past and Mattel comes out dropping the job with the justification that it was a family friendly company and did not want to be associated with violence.
1 month after the statement the masters of the universe line makes its debut with a sword and sorcery theme and a heroic barbarian character looking like conan, except that he was blonde and was known as He-Man.
CPI filed a lawsuit against Mattel who ended up winning it because CPI dropped the charge. This is odd but can be explained by a non-disclosure agreement, both parties agree on some terms outside the public domain. *
Fitting wonder bread he-man into the story:
For a full year Mattel worked on the Conan theme, concepts and prototypes must had been made and a final figure must had been presented to CPI (wonder bread he-man). Mattel wasn't going forward with the line and had to ditch any material the factories had. This explains why so many were found around the California area (Mattel HQ), why the figure has the Mattel trademark and why it has no packaging.
Another mystery arises, how was it sold? Possibly in dollars stores dissociated with the MOTU brand, possibly even pre-dating the line ence why no one remembers where it came from.
* sort of what happened in the facebook vs the twins, they drop the charge and facebook pays some amount to make them go away.
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