There has been a lot of confusion in regards to what recently revealed Masters of the Universe figures for both Origins and Masterverse are exclusives and which are regular released. That's because Mattel failed to actually provide much in the way of actual info about these when they dumped images for 31 new figures.
So I have been doing some digging to try and sort things out. Most of the 31 figures we saw yesterday, many of which went up for pre-order today are general releases. A few of the items are
"Specialty Releases", which I think is
Mattel's version of a fan-channel exclusive or only sold at select online etailers like our sponsors
BigBadToyStore.com and
Entertainment Earth. So the items that fall under that category include the following:
Origins Snakemen 4-Pack, Skeleton Warrior 2-Pack and S
creech With Skeletor 2-Pack, all of which are available for pre-order now.
Next we have the
"Timed Release Exclusive". These aren't really exclusive but when Mattel allows one particular retailer to open pre-orders or sell it before anyone else. Eventually everyone will offer it but it shows up at one retailer first. So today we saw the
Origins Mini-Comic Man-E-Faces figure only go up for pre-order at
Amazon. That figure will eventually be available everywhere that sells Origins figures, but for now only Amazon has it.
Another one of these "Timed Exclusives" will be the
Masterverse Oversized New Eternia Whiplash. That has yet to go up anywhere but will eventually be available everywhere. I don't know for sure which retailer will be the first one to offer it, but my best guess is it will be
Target. Perhaps it will be made available at the same time
Target finally makes the
Masterverse Revelation Man-at-Arms Deluxe Action Figure available for purchase. That is another
"Timed Exclusive" that has been listed on the
Target website for months now but not been actually available for purchase.
Finally we have the
"Actual Retail Exclusives" that will only be available at one particular retailer. So the first figure we know to be a retail exclusive is that
Origins Deluxe Flocked Moss Man figure which is exclusive to
Walmart. It's actually been listed on the
Walmart website for awhile now but not available for purchase currently.
The
Masterverse New Adventures Skeletor and
New Adventures Deluxe Slush-Head figures from what I can tell are also going to be retail exclusives. I don't know specifically for what store, but since the
New Adventures He-Man figures was a
Target exclusive, I am gonna guess these two will end up at
Target as well.
There is also the
MOTU Origins Rulers Of The Sun 3-Pack with Zap-Man, Kikto and
Micro-Laser that I forgot to check on, but I think that will probably end up being a
Target exclusive just like the
first Rulers of the Sun 3-Pack was. Again I have not confirmed that one is an exclusive, but since it didn't go up for pre-order anywhere today, that seems the most logical conclusion.
So there you have it. When
Walmart and
Target get around to making their stuff available is anyone's guess but hopefully it will be soon.