#spop merch

[n7punk]

I have no idea what this is from: collection

Y'all know I've been compiling all the She-ra merch in existence for the last... wow I think it has been a full year. Anyway, certain things have come up over time that I just can't trace an origin for, some included in my masterpost and some not, so I want to talk about it.

Best guess: Staff Swag/Recruitment

Sticker with Dreamworks careers social media branding on the back, also sold with a solely Dreamworks-branded pin.

I'm guessing this was given out to interns or prospective employees, likely at onboarding or recruitment events. I don't think it (at least this specific one) was ever in the hands of the Crew-ra mostly due to the person selling if stating they haven't even seen the show. I'm really leaning towards recruitment swag for this, but since those events are usually outside of the public eye and I'm too scwawed to message the seller for context, this sticker and any other SPOP swag given out to employees will continue to remain ambiguous (well, aside from the crew hoodies we know about, see below).

Best guess: Event Staff

T-shirt with the BFS on the front, She-ra logo on the back, Dreamworks logo on one sleeve, and Netflix logo on the other.

The shop that was selling this mostly sells crew, staff, and stunt memorabilia from various movies. To my knowledge, the crew clothes for She-ra only consisted of hoodies - there are multiple posts from crew referencing the hoodies, including Grey Chen talking about their puppy getting ahold of one and ripping it up, to which another crew member replied they might still have a few in the office. Never any reference to "well at least I have the shirt". There are photos of the crew at events wearing other She-ra shirts available to the general public or that even seem to be fanmade, but I haven't spotted this shirt yet. I think most likely this was worn by staff at a con or similar event. Haven't been able to track anything down, though, I just know this is too much effort with the extra logos to be for the general public. If anyone has photos of the staff organizing the crew meet and greets hit me up...

Best guess: I have no fucking idea PT I & II

Mostly blank white shirt with She-ra, Swift Wind, and the show logo on the front, nothing on the back.

This not from the same company (Port & Company) that distributes the Amazon POD clothing, and while it looks close to one of the POD designs, it is unique and I can't find any record of it being sold online. My best guess is this was at a con booth (perhaps the Scholastic one) or maybe given out after a panel (we know they did that with posters, but this is quite the leap in production cost for a freebie like that). I'm assuming this was done officially because Jerzees is a wholesale distributor, but maybe an Etsy ordered a ton or something. It would be very weird for them to include the logo in that case, though. This one really stumps me.

... Do you see what I'm dealing with. This is basically the same shirt as the last, except it isn't, and I have no idea where it's from, because I've never heard of the brand "M & M" before! The graphic is so much bigger I thought it was a youth size at first but the seller claims it's regular medium. The only idea contender I have is once again Scholastic (I have no reasons to think Scholastic had shirts, I told you that I'm stumped on these, okay). Maybe reviewer/influencer swag?

[clarenecessities]

if you like shaky pictures of she-ra merchandise then boy do i have the post for you!

was fortunate enough to get it in the original packaging! something very..... something about 'not intended for children' here, especially since they sent them out to like, a bunch of mommy bloggers, but that's fine. that's whatever.

This little card insert came included, along with some contact information that I've redacted because god only knows what one could do with that.

The statuette is in three pieces, the base, the figure, and her arm+sword.

the pose is pretty obviously just a recreation of the illustration on the box--you can see where the translation to three dimensions fell flat (heheheh) in the hair and cape. The cape came out with more volume than the illustration, while the hair is sort of... squashed, I guess?

also. and this may be a me problem. but her limbs are skinnier than in the illustration, and I feel personally attacked by that.

The figure attaches to the base with a basic peg-in-hole situation in her left foot--it's a good fit. I had to wiggle it a little to get it loose & I didn't care for that but I expect most people aren't going to be keeping theirs in the packaging.

please ignore the kitten hair it's kind of impossible to stage anything in this house atm without it

initially I thought they'd left out the details in her crown-wing-things, but no, they're there--the lines are just very shallow. I'd say it would have benefit from some touch-ups in black but...

the details aren't great. like not terrible by any means--the sculpt is flawless, if we accept that She-Ra isn't shredded & her hair is deflating from one of its magic flares. but there's some overspill on the paint--the gold seems to have been plated on over a flesh-colored base, which left the gaps between her fingers untouched but spilled over on the top of her middle and index fingers. The runestone, too, colored outside the lines a bit, but since the etching is so shallow it's only noticeable if you really look.

is it perfect? no. but it's leagues better than the other merch imo :/ huge thank you to @n7punk for accidentally alerting me of this thing's existence in time to buy it! nobody needs to do the math on how much i spent just don't even worry about it

[turtle-ly]

LOOK AT MY FRIEND'S GRADUATION GIFT TO ME!!!!!! look at my girl.... you see that fluffiness?? those hair tuffs???? the shiny effect on that pin??????? IM GOING INSANE

[grey-viridian]

GUYS GUYS GUYS LOOK MY FIRST MERCH

[tippenfunkaport]

It will never not piss me off that 80s She-Ra toys were action figures but when they went to make toys for 2018 She-Ra, they would only give us fashion dolls.

How did they learn nothing from the popularity of their own toyline?

Literally, three decades passed and somehow sexism in toys got WORSE.

[emileedoodles]

This is my new pin project!

Each pin will be 25mm and will be sold in Catradora, Glimbow or Magical companion sets 🫶

If you're interested, please vote below so I know how many to order!

Thanks 🧡

The Adora wing pin will be 3D gold and the Swiftwind and Melog pin will be glitter enamel

[imnotamarysue]

Shop update! ✨

I've just restocked and added new products to my little shop!

There are not many units of some of the charms and pins, so if you are interested don't doubt it and grab them!

[scortrapta]

Fly me to the moon

And let me play among the stars

[killerprotector]

Hey guys where has anyone found dreamworks shera merch specifically for kids? Like tshirts, coloring books, etc? I’m looking for stuff to get my lil sister for Christmas and everything is either stickers, fanart, or tshirts for adults… links would be appreciated!

[n7punk]

Design details for the 2019 She-ra dolls from toy designer Annalise Lao's portfolio!

[aure-magik-art]

Everytime someone order on my Etsy, I draw something for them ��️✨ It's my way to thank ppl for their support !! Here are the two I did tonight

[aprillikesthings]

can I finish this before I gotta get ready and leave for the Maundy Thursday service let's find out lol

(Edit: Nope.)

THREE MORE EPISODES LEFT

*cries*

s5 ep11 Failsafe

someone hold me

I have to actively suppress the urge to read the synopses of the episodes at this point

oh also lol this is just funny to me, I saw a post Elsewhere Online where someone watched all of spop the first time and they HATED the dumb names everyone has, and I think they mentioned Castaspella specifically.

And like FIFTY PEOPLE responded with "dude they had to use the original names from the 1980's series" and I was the only one there old enough to have watched the original series and I had to point out: the original series was made to sell toys. The vast majority of cartoons in 1985 were only made to sell toys. They gave everyone those dumbass names because it was easy for kids to remember and beg for the toys."

That's also why all the female characters in the original series have the exact same body type. Yeah the body shape itself was due to 1980's-era sexism, but also? It was so much cheaper to animate the show AND make the toys that way!

But also, it's hella ironic to me that the 2018 show has so little official merch!

And now, back to crying over cartoon lesbians:

good question

ugh I hate her

Shadow Weaver: "While you were traipsing around in space,"

OH MY GOD they were saving a few people's LIVES and it was kind of IMPORTANT but WHATEVER

"--some of us have been working to stop the Heart of Etheria from falling into Prime's hands. And we discovered the same thing you did. Rumors of a Failsafe that will break the restraints the First Ones built and set the stolen magic free." Glimmer: "Are you kidding? After everything that happened last time, you're still going after the Heart of Etheria? And you're helping her?" Castaspella: "We're trying to free the magic for all of Etheria so we can be strong enough to fight Prime. I'm doing this for your father and for you. Shadow Weaver is the lesser of two evils."

I love that she says this right in front of Shadow Weaver. Like "girl I hate her too"

nice

okay ngl I have mixed feelings about this one because unfortunately she's not entirely wrong here but also, shut the fuck up

(something something people are responsible for their own actions but also she wouldn't have done all that godawful shit if Shadow Weaver hadn't been such a shitty parent)

but yeah Catra gets up like she's about to fucking throw some hands and Adora's like It's okay bb

;_;

but also they do need the information Shadow Weaver and Castaspella have

so it turns out Mystacor was built on top of a First Ones' citadel? huh

Castaspella: "Beneath Mystacor, there are many secret tunnels and rooms, forgotten and sealed off. No one has been able to access them in centuries, but there are whispers of what they contain." Shadow Weaver: "An artifact known as the Crystal of Arxia, hidden there by a group of traitorous First Ones." Castaspella: "You said I could do it!"

lol they bicker like old marrieds

Adora: "If you figured it out on your own, why come back here? Why do you need us at all?" Shadow Weaver: "Because Mystacor is controlled by Micah, who, you may recall, is controlled by Horde Prime."

they've been TRYING

"If he seizes the Heart, it will all be over."

Stop toUCHING HER

oh god Adora turns around to ask Catra to help out--and she's gone

YOU'RE THE REASON SHE'S FUCKING "SULKING" and you fucking know it, why are abusers always so god damned surprised to find out their kids don't want to be anywhere near them

(I mean I know why, they think they should be able to control you forever)

aaahahaha Adora's just like Nah I'mma go look for her tho

anyway roll intro!

omg look at Netossa and Spinny on the bottom left awwwww

she looks so sad

well okay sad and angry

their conversation here is so good, because Catra's fully aware of why Adora's doing this, but is really struggling to push past how much she (justifiably!) hates Shadow Weaver and hates being around her

I actually do kinda wish I'd kept a list of all the times Adora does the self-sacrificial thing, separated into "someone asked her to do it" vs "nobody asked her to do it" lol

BUT ADORA EXPRESSES A NEED oh nice that's progress

Adora: "Hey, she can't do anything to us anymore. Please, come. We--I-could really use your help."

two things I really love about this: One, she doesn't say that she doesn't like Adora, just that it's not the reason she's going. Two, I feel like Adora knows damn well Catra's not being 100% honest here.

Like, to some extent Catra's saying this as a way of attempting to protect herself a little. She's taking baby steps towards vulnerability, and it's terrifying! And I think Adora can see that and is fine with it--not JUST because she's like "any crumbs are better than nothing" but ALSO because she doesn't want to push Catra.

Because yeah, if there was any actual doubt that Catra does like Adora--

WELL.

Entrapta was able to get Spinerella's chip out but says it had started fusing with her nervous system and they're running out of time to safely un-chip everyone.

But she's been digging around the network that connects all the chips to Prime, hoping to figure out how to disconnect everyone at once, and Bow gives her a little encouragement, it's really sweet.

OKAY so everyone who can, teleports to Mystacor with Melog making them invisible. (Apparently Catra doesn't get motion sick from it anymore which is nice lol)

I love the way they animated them being invisible

oh GOD okay

Catra turns around and says "looks like there's no sorcerers here" while, unfortunately, a sorcerer walks into the room. Shadow Weaver grabs Catra and puts her hand over her mouth to keep her quiet, and Catra (understandably!! but unfortunately!!) jerks away in fury and yells

And her fury causes Melog to drop the invisibility

And now the chipped sorcerer knows they're all there

they manage to duck the attack but Adora goes to transform into She-Ra--and can't do it

she had this issue last episode aaaugh it's not from being near Shadow Weaver she wasn't there

okay but also Adora runs behind a pillar to hide from an attack with Catra and it's cute

girl help why is this giving me so many emotions

y'know it's funny how often I've bumped into posts of people who are confused as to why Adora starts trusting Catra again so quickly, and I frequently wonder if they forget all the childhood flashback scenes of these two. To varying extents they both spent their entire childhoods seeing the other as their only consistent source of comfort and (something resembling) safety, and with some notable exceptions Adora's spent the last four seasons (which was like three or four years) visibly holding out hope that one day she could trust Catra again. This despite the fact that she now has other sources of safety and comfort and love!!! Being with Glimmer and Bow and everyone else was healing, sure; but it never erased her grief over losing Catra. She always, always held out the tiniest flame of hope that Catra would change sides.

And Catra basically tried lighting her own grief on fire (metaphorically and kinda literally) over and over and it just didn't go away, and I feel like when she saved Glimmer and apologized to Adora she had sort of come to terms with the fact that her grief over losing Adora couldn't be burned away, but of course by then she figured she'd fucked up so bad Adora would never forgive her or trust her again. And rather than take it out on other people or suffer any longer she was willing to just die, instead. She really did think that sending Glimmer to Adora was going to be her last act, and she wanted Adora to know she was sorry before she fucking DIED. And I don't think her saving Glimmer was consciously meant to be proof that she meant her apology, but it was. And that's part of why Adora trusts her again.

The fact is, even after everything that happened, both of them had a hole in their hearts shaped like the other. ;_;

And that's why Adora runs and hides behind the same pillar as Catra. (I mean yes, it was also closer, but that's not tHE POINT)

Anyway, this is all why, as I previously noted, Adora's not being pushy. That failed on her, spectacularly; the couple of times she tried it. Asking Catra to come along on this mission is the closest she's come. And even then, it wasn't "you're a good person deep down and you should change sides because I think I know you better than you know yourself," It was "please do this for me, because I need your help." And Catra is fully aware of how hard that is for Adora.

And these two still have a lot to work out post-canon (like, Catra has still got to deal with her need to not just be seen as Adora's sidekick/shadow, and lbh right now some of the rebellion is like "we're only putting up with you for Adora's sake" as if Catra was Yoko Ono) but that's part of why I'm writing a fic lolol

I have so many feelingssss on a related note I spent like fifteen solid minutes last night in bed having taken an edible and listening to my playlist and staring at this gifset lolol

ANYWAY Castaspella knocks out the chipped dude and they run for it

AAAND lol I gotta get ready to go to church. There's still 17:30 left on this episode. Pfft.

BACK FROM CHURCH I washed someone's feet, they washed mine, they stripped the altar, I go back at one or two in the morning for the overnight vigil

In the meantime: gonna finish this episode

(what is my life sometimes)

Entrapta plans to find a bunch of clones so she can figure out how their signals to Horde Prime work. Swift Wind is like Ugh, fine, I'll go with you, someone's gotta save your ass

Entrapta: "Thanks, bird horse!"

lol how many times have they had that convo

A family can be a sorcerer and her evil ex, a girl and a boy, two traumatized lesbians, and a cat

But also it looks like something out of an episode of Scooby Doo

Shadow Weaver opens a magic door

ngl that's PRETTY. like it's obviously about the Heart of Etheria but wow!

(and there's a dinosaur???)

Adora notices how stressed out Catra is and says "It'll be okay...Trust me." ;_;

Shadow Weaver: "There's no time to waste!"

"...disturbance."

The disturbance was your fault, dumbass. I am reminded of all the times my dad got angry at us for being afraid of him. And would hit us. For being. Afraid of him. Because y'know. That's how you stop a kid from being afraid of you. By hitting them.

In any case Shadow Weaver is still trying to get between them and separate them and I just really need this bitch to stop.

(Yes yes I remember she dies later)

Castaspella: "We're on the right path. The Crystal of Arxia was rumored to be the key to reaching deep magic within Etheria."

"But those who hungered for more power have long sought other ways to obtain the deep magic...with disastrous results."

HIT THE IMAGE LIMIT lemme reblog

[adorawasright]

i've talked about this show on my main blog and how it always bugged me the way they romanticized abuse because it was a girl doing to a boy...

and that one show is pucca. yeah. pucca. (putting this under the cut if you don't want to read me ranting about a show no one really thinks about nowadays lmao)

i was the biggest pucca fan as a kid, i still have some merch with me. like i have some good childhood memories. i loved the shorts when they aired on jetix, and i was very enthusiastic for the full series they made in 2007/08. like i still love most of the characters to this day, like garu (i had a little crush on him lol), tobe and his ninja goons, abyo... they were all so funny and memorable.

but the main character, pucca? i just can't like her anymore. YES, i'm very aware she's a kid. she's like 10. i get it. i don't want horrible things happening to her or anything.

but honestly, even when i was a kid, younger than pucca even, it always bothered me how garu was the punchbag in most episodes. and the worst part is, he was always pucca's victim. at least the 2007/08 pucca cartoon romanticized stalking. pucca does the absolute worst things to get garu's attention, usually by kissing him without his consent or even outright kidnapping him, even though garu in this series never showed that he liked pucca back. EVER. if that ever happened, it was never the real garu, or he would be under some magical effect. all garu wanted was to be a ninja and go fishing or whatever. once he even preferred GOING TO JAIL than to be with pucca.

still, the show tries to shove down your throat that pucca and garu were meant to be and all the other characters encourage pucca to keep pursuing garu. none of the adults, not even pucca's uncles/guardians, try to tell her that like. kissing your crush without their consent is wrong. they just think it's cute. because she's a little girl.

to this day, when i see ppl talking about this show, they still romanticize pucca and garu's relationship. and it's really fucked up. like i know i saw through it when i was younger, but it concerns me that other kids probably didn't have the same realization, and the new fans won't either. i very rarely find people calling out the issues with pucca, and when they do, they will always be harassed by a legion of fans saying "it's just a kids show". one person even assumed i hated kids for some goddamn reason.

i know it might seem random mentioning pucca here, since it's very different from spop (pucca is definitely not on catra's level), but the fans always use the same arguments, that it's a kids show and we don't understand "true love". also because the abuser here is a girl, and to many people, women can never be abusers. (unless you're Evil and "ugly" like shadow weaver tho)

no yeah, i think pucca is in a very similar state as spop. no one thinks there's anything wrong with the main pairings. even though pucca is like, a decade older than spop, i find the fandoms very similar. they simply gloss over abuse because both pucca and spop do not take the abuse seriously. garu and adora are treated like jokes, or prizes to be earned by pucca and catra.

it's pretty disgusting.

[tippenfunkaport]

this came up elsewhere but apparently people don't realize there is a ton of official SPOP merch on Amazon, it's just suppressed from search results.

the official store is here:

But most items are hidden so you gotta circumvent Amazon trickery by searching specifically for items made by the Dreamworks She-Ra brand (which I have helpfully done for you here.)

Amazon suppresses many items out of search (I'm surprised how many people don't realize they do this with everything, not just SPOP stuff!) so you need to trick the site into showing the rest. Search only shows 1-2 items but by paging through here*, you can see them all

*= you literally have to manually page through to see everything, if you try to use search it will go right back to hiding items

(Note that this is a US link so you may need to tweak for international sites.)

There are pop sockets, tote bags, MANY shirts, sweatshirts, etc in some cute designs and more and these are all Dreamworks official items so purchasing shows there is still interest in the show and encourages them to make more for it. You're going to be furious when you see how much stuff Amazon has been hiding from you.

The official merch is done via print on demand so they always have the rarer sizes (including plus!!) and they are very high quality (my daughter's She-Ra shirt has been worn continuously since 2018 through all sorts of kid chaos and is still like new)

oh and don't let the colors of the shirts fool you, you can pick the color when you order and almost every design comes on every style top (the beauty of POD!)

[emileedoodles]

I'll be adding some prints and restocking my Catradora future pins this Saturday and, to celebrate the SPoP anniversary, there'll be 20% off all Shera merch May 15th-16th (BST) 🌈

[bloodsportified]

WHEN will they release a she-ra bluray collection with all 5 seasons???