Mattel Announces Masterverse Vykron, Origins Fang-Or, and Origins Lady Slither!

[AdultCollector]

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***BREAKING NEWS! MATTEL ANNOUNCES MASTERVERSE VYKRON, ORIGINS FANG-OR, and ORIGINS LADY SLITHER!***

You heard it here first! Mattel has shared some amazing news with me to share with you! The MOTU team at Mattel has been hard at work to bring us even more exciting new Origins and Masterverse figures. No photos yet, but Mattel has provided lots of info about them! Happy Friday!

* Origins Fang-Or
* Origins Lady Slither
* Masterverse Vykron

These figures are set to be released this summer / early fall, with Vykron being the first to launch! By producing the Vykron figure, the team’s aim was to pay homage to He-Man's original prototype, which we think you’ll appreciate. On the other hand, both Lady Slither and Fang-Or are original designs created by Axel Gimenez during the Classics era. Ever since they were first revealed, they have been two of the most requested characters, so the Mattel Creations team is excited to make these epic Origins figures!

The figures will be announced and available for pre-sale on:

Masterverse Vykron
Announcement, 5/30
Pre-sale date, 6/6
Origins Fang-or
Announcement, August
Pre-sale, August
Origins Lady Slither
Announcement, September
Launching, September

***NEW ETERNIA VYKRON***
Availability: Mattel Creations Exclusive
Page Go-Live Date: 5/31/23
Pre-Sale Date: 6/6/23

This Masterverse™ New Eternia Vykron™ is a deluxe action figure at 7-inch scale with 30 points of articulation and classic design details MOTU™ fans and collectors will love. Bringing the legendary gladiator home, this Vykron™ figure comes with three separate armor and weapons looks for storytelling – the Barbarian, the Eagle Tank and the Spaceman. The New Eternia champion, Vykron, is a collector must-have, with 3 different armor and weaponry looks with metallic details.

This master of combat can strike virtually any pose for action play or display. The Barbarian look includes a detachable fur-style softgoods cape, an armored chest harness, removable head with spiked helmet and removable leg armor. His axe accessory is ready for action poses. The Spaceman look features a space helmet head and chest and belt armor piece. A flexible, removable air hose connects them.

Swappable wrist armor, orange blaster and rocket-tipped winged jetpack complete the look. The third look features a unique tank-style helmet with posable turrets that fits over the Barbarian Vykron™ head. This Eagle Tank look for Vykron™ comes with chest, wrist and leg armor pieces and a battle ram accessory.

Notes from the Team: Before the original He-Man toy was fully realized, he started as a figure concept where you could change his outfit and turn him into different characters. The original prototype model called the ‘He-Man Trio’ had 3 outfits; a barbarian, a spaceman, and a tank-headed soldier. In the end, we know the barbarian won out and became He-man.

By producing this Vykron figure, our aim was to pay homage to this early concept. We have reinterpreted the 3 outfits of the “He-Man Trio” and have made the armor and accessories removable and interchangeable so you have the power to decide what your figure looks like. Careful attention was paid on the sculpt and deco details as we do on all our Masterverse figures. We hope you are as excited as we are on the release of this Deluxe Masterverse Vykron who celebrates an important part of MOTU history!

***ORIGINS FANG-OR***
Availability: Mattel Creations
Page Go-Live Date: August
Pre-Sale Date: August
Product Copy: To be provided later.

Notes from the Team: Both Lady Slither and Fang-Or are original designs created by Axel Gimenez during the Classics era. Ever since they were first revealed, they have been two of the most requested characters, so for us to make them into Origins figures feels epic! As a fan, it is a “checkbox” moment for me that I get to bring these two characters to life through directing the artwork and designing their packaging. When it’s revealed, you will see a direct connection to Preternia. We’ll focus on a lush swamp background, and in the middle of it you’ll be able to see Lady Slither’s Snake Lair.

Fang-Or will come inside our collector-friendly packaging. The blister bubble is easily removable it can slide off and on, and he will also come with an exclusive mini comic. The artwork teases potential upcoming figure reveals and a very cool easter-egg I had to include in the cardback artwork. Fans will notice that the Snake Lair is surrounded by a moat and a creature. The moat pays homage to The Castle Moat playmat that Mark Taylor originally envisioned, and the sea creature is one of the creatures illustrated in The Castle Moat.

***ORIGINS LADY SLITHER***
Availability: Mattel Creations
Page Go-Live Date: September
Pre-Sale Date: September
Product Copy: To be provided later.

Notes from the Team: Lady Slither will have an elegant slipcover wrapped in snake scales with a bronze patina finished medallion of Lady Slither’s face (our nod to Medusa’s head on Athena’s shield). On the top of the slipcover, we have a bronze crest of the Snake Men logo. The back has a character writeup of Lady Slither inside a bronzed serpent frame. The front of the box features Lady Slither commanding her troops Fang-Or, Vypor, Stretch Neck and Raptilax (from the vintage mini comics) into battle. On the cardback we have Lady Slither in her human form (featuring her interchangeable human legs) sitting on her throne inside her Snake Lair. To the left of Lady Slither is High Priest Pythonus, a character also designed by Axel, and to the right of Lady Slither is the red Snake Man fans will recognize from Kol-Darr’s cardback art.

[dedset13]

Fang-Or and Lady Slither are going to be awesome additions to the Origins line! Here's hoping we see Lady Slither in Masterverse as well!

[Bear]

Now this is the kind of reveal we were hoping for!

I'm a bit itching for more details. Vykron's description is so detailed, couldn't they mention more about Origins toys (aside from implying that Slither had swappable legs) Though I guess we have a pretty good idea how Fang-Or looks like or what are his accessories.

They don't mention if Lady Slither will have a minicomic. On one hand, I can easily see her in Fang-Or's comic making her own comic unnecessary. On the other, MC usually announces 2 figures each with its comic and it's not like Origins was stingy with comics lately.

[anytimepally]

I love all of these announcements. Can't wait to see what New Eternia does for Vykron - it's my favorite segment of Masterverse.

Very excited to see Lady Slither!

[Grayskull Guardsman]

I hope Vykron has the 40th Anniversary buck…

[Darkkosis]

I'm very excited for Lady Slither and Fang-Or, and let's just hope the rest of the Powers of Grayskull lineup makes it through as well.

Thanks for sharing.

[Ultimate Sorceress]

Thanks for sharing this awesome news! I'm really impressed that Mattel Creations is listening to the fans. I really want these two figures. I hope Lord Grasssp and Terroar are released later this year.

[Glasstor]

Great news! I hope the teases on Lady Slither’s art come to fruition too!

[zodak74]

Amazing reveals (and we don't even have photos yet!). Excited for every one of 'em!

[MCX-Eternia]

Darkossis: Lady Slither and Fang-Or were never part of the Powers of Grayskull lineup.

[Darkkosis]

Darkossis: Lady Slither and Fang-Or were never part of the Powers of Grayskull lineup.

Well at least according to Camo Khan's card art they were!.. Probably Mattel is staring a new canon!?

For me, most of the Snake Men (if not all of them) came from that era or before it, and according to 200X/MYP's cartoon; Adam thought they were only a myth and not real creatures!

[ProteinNerd]

So Fang-Or and Lady Slither "two of the most requested characters" will be a limited release on Mattel Creations, sell out in 1-2 minutes and appear on eBay on the same day at 5 times the price?

Really looking forward to that...

[Cosmic]

Very interesting and exciting announcement, finally something shows something besides Filmation and Turtles. That’s what I needed. Now I’m feeling more at ease.

So we’re dipping heavily into the Classics works for these next exclusives, no vintages at all… but I’m ok with that. Things are continuing, and these should be very cool figures!

New Eternia has produced sone stellar results, so even though I’m not a die hard Vykron fan, this could be potentially a phenomenal figure / set.

Lady Slither also sounds like some high end packaging. All of these will be definitely a bit upscale pricing, … but shouldn’t be too crazy. Can’t wait for the first visuals!

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Well at least according to Camo Khan's card art they were!.. Probably Mattel is starting a new canon!?
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Didn’t Axel or Fetch post an image with a Super7 He-Ro figure on their desk, hinting at something they are working on? I bet he’ll make an appearance in someone’s card art, maybe even on these very ones.

[Darkkosis]

Didn’t Axel or Fetch post an image with a Super7 He-Ro figure on their desk, hinting at something they are working on? I bet he’ll make an appearance in someone’s card art, maybe even on these very ones.

Yes I believe so… All those Preternia characters could show up in art (card/box/comics) so long as Mattel keeps producing them in a steady manner.

I have a good feeling that SDCC 23 could be a blast with the new upcoming reveals.

[Ultimate Sorceress]

So Fang-Or and Lady Slither "two of the most requested characters" will be a limited release on Mattel Creations, sell out in 1-2 minutes and appear on eBay on the same day at 5 times the price?

Really looking forward to that...

Hopefully there will be a 3 figure limit, and I'll get a third in case anyone doesn't manage to get one (if I'm lucky enough).

[Bear]

I wonder how they'll handle the tail. Articulated? Unomoving and straight? Coiled up? Will card have to bigger for it to fit?

[ehenyo]

Awesome news. I imagine sales would be even better if Lady Slither was offered at the Masterverse scale. After all, she was in demand during and because of Classics - not during the vintage era - and the Classics community would have jumped on this right away.

[AdultCollector]

There were three versions of the MOTU Classics Vykron set. Each one had a different costume featured in the middle. Will we get three versions with the new Masterverse Vykron set? If so, will the Mattel Creations site offer a limit of 3, and if so, will buying 3 ensure that you're given all three versions or will you get a random mix of them?

[Durendal]

I'm half tempted to get 3 Vykron's in order to display all 3 versions at the same time, since I believe it's canon that they're actually 3 separate characters and not just one dude with more costume changes than Lady Gaga.

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Awesome news. I imagine sales would be even better if Lady Slither was offered at the Masterverse scale. After all, she was in demand during and because of Classics - not during the vintage era - and the Classics community would have jumped on this right away.

Well it doesn't mean that she won't show up in MV eventually, though I do agree with you that it's a bit of an odd decision. You'd think it would be a no-brainer for Mattel to put characters who never had a figure before in MV first to take advantage of those lingering Classics gaps...

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I wonder how they'll handle the tail. Articulated? Unomoving and straight? Coiled up? Will card have to bigger for it to fit?

Probably something like NE Whiplash, whose tail is bendy with a wire in it so that it can be posed in different positions.

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Axel must be on cloud 9 right now. Not only does he get to create the artwork for 99% of the Origins line, seen and enjoyed on thousands of packages around the world, but now Mattel is starting to even make figures of characters that he created himself! I'd be having a perpetual nerdgasm if I were him.

[Bear]

Origins has Rise of Snake Men, not Masterverse.

Hell, they haven't released a single Snake Man. Lady Slither would be a weird start.

I'm guessing from how they described it that Vykron will be exactly like Classics - box with one dude and 3 suits.

[He-bro]

I too hope they make Lady Slither in Masterverse, but I don't think there are any snake men yet in Masterverse.

[hadley]

I'm half tempted to get 3 Vykron's in order to display all 3 versions at the same time, since I believe it's canon that they're actually 3 separate characters and not just one dude with more costume changes than Lady Gaga.

Four, I think. Space guy, army guy, the guy who wore the costumes in the arena, and the actual historical Vykron (which my phone hilariously wants to autocorrect to Vuitton).

[Glasstor]

Four, I think. Space guy, army guy, the guy who wore the costumes in the arena, and the actual historical Vykron (which my phone hilariously wants to autocorrect to Vuitton).

So…Louis Vykron?

I couldn’t resist

[Amazingspidey]

I am in for three of these. I have all three on display from the Classics line and plan to do the same with the Masterverse version. Based on Mattel’s solicitation, the Masterverse version seems a bit more true to the concept art than the Classics version. Can’t wait for these!

[abaddon]

Fang-Or and Lady Slither are going to be awesome additions to the Origins line! Here's hoping we see Lady Slither in Masterverse as well!

Lady Slither in Masterverse would be a step in the right direction for me.

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I'd be super excited if Mattel used Masterverse to fill-in some Classics-sized gaps!