I never saw them advertised anywhere at any time. I have noticed that YTV rarely shows toy commercials for any toy, though. Normally toys tend to get advertised on the network showing the series, right? Well, not on YTV...
And maybe it's also cause the first series of toys looked, well, bad. Cheesy. I saw those S1 Dot and Enzo toys "live" for the first time while shopping with you and, as a Reboot fan, I was disappointed. You know I walked out of that store empty-handed. (Although
you didn't...I guess that means you're a bigger fan ^_~.)
And the Gargoyles toys looked pretty bad too. I thought about getting myself a Lexington a long time ago, but they all looked so unlike they did on TV that I just didn't want to spend the money. And what was up with giving them weapons as toys? They
never used weapons!
As for the characters' stories...He-Man fights evil but he sure isn't the deepest guy you've ever seen. My favourite character was always Man-at-Arms ^_^. And speaking of He-Man, I watch that new series to hear my favourite voice actors again. Man-at-Arms is done by Gary Chalk (Turbo/Optimus Primal), which pleases me no end (LOVE that voice), while others such as Matrix and Dot are regulars. Half that cast are ReBoot/BW people.
LOL, and just while I'm on the subject of voice actors, I went looking for Gary Chalk's credits. Go here:
http://www.voicechasers.org/Actors/G_Chalk.html , scroll down to "ReBoot", and note that he played "Slack" at some point. Hey, Slack! Who knew ^_~?
So Liz...He-Man and Barbie, huh? Where does that leave Jem ^_~? (pokes your subconscious with that name and runs away laughing)
--Tripathy