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Invasion of the M.U.S.C.L.E. Things

Posted by Chad Perry in Advertising & Promotion, UofM News on November 20, 2009

For many collectors the M.U.S.C.L.E. commercials created incredible interest and excitement. However, the choices made about the direction of the M.U.S.C.L.E. commercials are especially interesting – but also seem to highlight the confusion that Mattel and their advertising agency had regarding the product.

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Auction Watch #22

Posted by Chad Perry in Art, Auction Watch, UofM News on November 18, 2009

It appears that the monopoly held on custom M.U.S.C.L.E. figures by Marty Hansen (TheGodbeast) could be challenged by a currently unknown seller outside of the M.U.S.C.L.E. community. The seller, Alteriormotive, has several custom creations for sale on eBay currently. It is his color changing #153 figure that is currently the most interesting and unique for M.U.S.C.L.E. collectors.

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28-Pack Poster Offer – UPDATE

Posted by Chad Perry in Advertising & Promotion, Research, UofM News on November 17, 2009

The 28-Pack Poster Offer looked into the minutia of the poster-offer. Syosset, New York was one of the main topics of interest. John Delin, from A Syosset Scrapbook, attempted to help research further into the Syosset-M.U.S.C.L.E. connection.

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Sociology 300 – Joseph Dunnigan

Posted by Chad Perry in Sociology, UofM News on November 13, 2009

Joseph Dunnigan, known as Galacticboy on LRG.com, has volunteered to be the next collector spotlighted for Sociology 300. Joseph is not only an interesting collector, but provides stunning pictures of both his past and current collections.

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4-Pack Update

Posted by Chad Perry in History, UofM News on November 12, 2009

A new 4-pack color combination has been added to the 4-Pack section of History 100 courtesy of Joseph Dunnigan.

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Advertising & Promotion 300 – Updated

Posted by Chad Perry in Advertising & Promotion, UofM News on November 11, 2009

Advertising & Promotion 300 – Corporate and education connections has been updated. The poster numbers have been added to all of the figure pictures and they have been arranged numerically.

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Uniao Festas Figures

Posted by Chad Perry in Art, UofM News on November 9, 2009

As stated in an earlier post, Rafael from LRG.com found some counterfeit M.U.S.C.L.E. figures at a store in Brazil. He was kind enough to provide the University of M.U.S.C.L.E. with the entire stock from the original store, plus pictures of the store.

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Sociology 300 – Matthew G.

Posted by Chad Perry in Sociology, UofM News on November 8, 2009

Matthew G., known as Nyarlathotep on LittleRubberGuys.com, was willing to be a Sociology 300 participant. He is an interesting participant because he has only recently started collecting M.U.S.C.L.E. figures. Matthew is able to provide a truly novice perspective on modern M.U.S.C.L.E. collecting.

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The M.U.S.C.L.E. Mega-Match Game

Posted by Chad Perry in History, UofM News on November 5, 2009

The Mega-Match board game is effectively absent from any Mattel and M.U.S.C.L.E.-related documents of the eighties. This does not make the game an accidental oddity that reached the marketplace. The board game is actually very common and, to some degree, regarded as the least exciting aspect of the M.U.S.C.L.E. brand by many collectors. This does not mean there aren’t a few interesting aspects of the board game.

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Fashion 200 Completed

Posted by Chad Perry in Fashion, UofM News on October 27, 2009

In 2008 a company called Mishka NYC created M.U.S.C.L.E. inspired t-shirts and sweatshirts. The t-shirt design was simple, but the sweatshirt design was the complete opposite.

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