Granita has always been one of my favorite deep-dive MOTU/POP characters. She only appeared in two episodes of She-Ra the Princess of Power as a member of the Rock People, but her otherworldly appearance and wonderful color scheme made a lasting impression on me. As a former art student, I was obsessed with Complimentary Colors and the way certain color pairings would "pop." But my least favorite was always red and green. I couldn't see the pair without thinking it was something related to Christmas. But I eventually realized that pastel versions of those same colors had the same effect without the connotations. So Granita with her two-hued green and two-hued pink opened up a whole new world of color theory for me. When I have a toy of her in a MOTU/POP lineup, eyes my instantly go to her. It's interesting that she was included in this Altaya figurine line (of 77 pieces) over more popular characters like Frosta or Castaspella, but I'll take her gladly. Let's checkout Granita below!
These figurines are made of a lightweight plastic. Their stands are even hollow.
They each come in a bubble-card on (pretty flimsy) cardboard. The cardback is essentially featureless.
The figure comes in a large polybag with a comic-sized magazine.
These figurines were originally released in Spain, with a second release in France roughly six months behind. The release numbers are fairly consistent, but 8 of the 77 characters (Orko, Hordak, Ram-Man, Trap Jaw, Whiplash, Stratos, Evil Lyn, and Randor) have different numbers depending of the Country of release.
And here is a montage I made of all the POP ladies in this series. I resized all the images using the fact that their bases are the same size (not a perfect method so the scales might be slightly off). But then the bases were so wide that I photoshopped them away to space them closer together. I'll make a similar one with the eight MOTU ladies soon and add it to all these posts as reference.
From Left to Right: Huntara, Madame Razz, Kowl, She-Ra, Glimmer, Granita, Scorpia, Shadow Weaver, and Catra.
Cheers!
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