As others have mentioned, this wasn't an actual commercial. It was a sort of promotional item shown at, say, Toy Fair, to gauge interest from toystore/dept buyers. There must not have been enough interest in this or the other playset they prototyoed for WW, as neither was produced. Note the sample versions of the dolls. Painted bottoms on WW, round glasses on Diana, missing armor on Nubia, etc. These are the same dolls used in the Mego catalog showing this play set...
Also note the use of the tv theme and odd voiceover. They never ended up using the theme ( probably too expensive to use) Plus Hippolyte has a different face sculpt
They were wrong labeling Nubia as her arch enemy. Nubia actually was her black twin sister they did fight once, but never enemies. Cheetah always been her arch enemy.
i love that she has a place to hide her comb and brush in her throne. it's like they couldn't decide if she was a fashion doll or an action figure, so they made her both.
Covering all bases here, weren't they? 'It's Wonder Woman! You can brush her hair! You can dress her up! You can make her DESTROY EVERYTHING, MWAHAHAHA!' I mean, honestly it probably would be cool to have a playlet you could enact apocalyptic scenarios with. It's just funny that the selling point is Wonder Woman herself doing it, rather than it getting knocked down in battle with the bad guys.
I have this playset my friends aunt back in the day work for mego.So she had alot of toys that were never sold.She pass away last year RNP so my friend gave me toys that mego made.The ones she had i have alot of ones that were never sold.This is one but it does not look anything like commercial.Its more gray and blue and back gound diff to.Chair is blue not sure way everything diff but i love it.So glad i have it and i have box to.Well thats all bye.
What have we learned here? 1. "Queen Hippolyta" is now officially "Queen Hippo Lighty" 2. If a throne has to have a secret compartment, instead of a weapon for protection, it should have a brush and comb so when someone overthrows you, you can at least look your best when it happens. 3. Wonder Woman was home schooled--and really wants to get out into the world--because she destroys the walls and knocks down the palace. 4. Boys CAN play with dolls too. 5. Arch-rivals no longer wear the black hats like in Westerns, but now it's racism-lite... because Nubia is the enemy, but hey, at least she's beautiful right? 6. If you want to advertise a doll that doesn't have totally flexible arms and you want the doll to cross it's wrists, rip the arms off and pretend she is crossing her wrists anyway, despite how obvious and creepy it looks in the commercial. =M=
I remember the talk of the playset but yeah you're right,it never got produced. Maybe they were afraid linda Carter would go into toy stores and knock down the displays like she does in this commercial lol
@@claudettejohnson7182 I'm pretty sure it was both. The palace certainly wasn't and I very much doubt the commercial was, even despite the fact the Wonder Woman theme music is playing in the background. Perhaps you didn't notice it, but the Wonder Woman doll featured in this commercial is the prototype version and not actually the finalized released version.
I remember this set as a kid, but why would Wonder Woman knock down the palace? She on her period? And boy did they fucking ruin the queens name pronunciation lol
