Quote Originally Posted by griffin View Post
That's why the She-Ra toys failed, because they were aimed at the Barbie demographic, but the cartoon was still too 'boyish' with its similarities to HeMan.
Mattel sold $53,000,000 of Princess Of Power toys in 1985, more than He-Man made in its first year. And that doesn't even count the sales of Horde toys, which were also supported by the She-Ra cartoon. There were a lot of girls watching He-Man, which was the rationale for the spin-off.

Quote Originally Posted by griffin View Post
It was all such a mess, and cost Mattel a fair bit promoting the wrong sort of toys to the wrong demographics, at the expense of the HeMan cartoon (which looks to have been suspended in favour of the SheRa cartoon), and after a season and a half, both cartoons were axed.
The DVDs talk about this a bit if I recall... the resulting failure of the SheRa cartoon killed off the HeMan cartoon.
She-Ra and He-Man ran concurrently for a good sixty episodes in 1985 and then in 1986 She-Ra ran for an extra half-a-season after He-Man was axed.

Quote Originally Posted by Tetsuwan Convoy View Post
Oh, I see. So She-ra was the death of He-man.
No, she/it wasn't.