This week a mysterious new
Masters of the Universe figure pre-order listing has popped up online for what is simply being titled
Masters of the Universe Masterverse Deluxe Skeletor. Both
Amazon and our sponsor
BigBadToyStore.com have had it listed and the price of it is around $33.
Other than the generic title which suggests its part of the
Masterverse line and will be based on some version of
Skeletor, we know very little about what this figure might be.
I will tell you that I did some digging to see if I could find out more about it and at one time it seemed the figure was coded as a
"Deluxe Movie Skeletor". The word movie of course brings to mind maybe a figure based on the
Frank Langella Skeletor from the 80s live-action movie. Now before we go off jumping to conclusions of that being what this figure will be, I should note the "Movie" portion of the title for the figure seems to have been dropped and there is nothing specific at this time other than that vague early code name to suggest this will be a live-action movie Skeletor figure.
Another possibility is that it could be a retail version of the
40th Anniversary Skeletor we saw initially released in this years
SDCC exclusive set. We know the
He-Man figure is getting a general release, and I will tell you I did see indications earlier this year that Mattel was floating the idea of also doing a regular retail version for
Skeletor. The thing to note however is that this
Skeletor listing is more expensive than the price of the
40th Anniversary He-Man. If this
Skeletor listing was for a
40th Anniversary version, I am not sure why it would cost so much more than the
40th Anniversary He-Man.
Whatever this Skeletor listing is actually for, the release date is listed as October/November 2022, so I assume
Mattel won't keep us in the dark about it for to much longer.