I find it strange she chose to bring in the He-Man revamp. It wasn't, to my knowledge, a particularly long lasting success (one of her criteria of successful to

I find it strange she chose to bring in the He-Man revamp. It wasn't, to my knowledge, a particularly long lasting success (one of her criteria of successful toys) or having cross cultural appeal despite its update (another factor to the successfulness criteria of a toy). The toy lines doing worse than both of the series - though having a somewhat simultaneous launch of a more mature cartoon and a children's cartoon with accompanying toy lines did muddy the waters. The more mature cartoon's controversy eclipsing it's praises and the entirety of the children's programming and their toy lines was poor planning on the media campaign's part entirely, with Smith doing himself no favors by leaning into it. It was an OK cartoon and didn't need the apparent controversy to stir up ratings. People of a certain age would have taken the nostalgia bait they were promised in the commercials and been happy.