MOTU Origins Horde Invasion Stop Motion Video Teases Slime Pit
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Today, the Masters of the Universe Instagram page posted this very cool stop motion video that features the Horde Invasion, theme for the 40th anniversay She-Ra Cartoon Collection figures. In that video you will see a clear tease for the Slime Pit! With the official announcement of the Fright Zone at New York Toy Fair 2025, the Slime Pit can’t be far behind. According to Masters of the Universe Instagram page “The Horde Invasion has arrived. Can She-Ra defeat Hordak and save Etheria from evil? #MOTUesday.” Also, this was posted on a Tuesday so does that mean that MOTuesdays back? Will we get more news next Tuesday? Only time will tell. So, in the meantime, let’s check out this MOTU Origins Horde Invasion stop motion Video Slime Pit tease!
You can watch the entire 1 min video here, and we will discuss what we found on the other side!
In the video you see She-Ra go up against Hordak!
But as you will see He-Man and Tri-Klops both get slimed by none other than the Slime Pit! You can clearly see it in the background of the video, although it looks 3D animated and not an actual produced playset. This is a direct tease for the Slime Pit. We know that the Fright Zone is coming as it was revealed during New York Toy Fair 2025. So it stands to reason that the Slime Pit can’t be too far behind!
The Slime Pit:
The Slime pit itself has already been teased to us on the spectacular artwork that housed the amazing 2021 Power-Con Horde 4 pack, as we covered in our article What MOTU Vehicles and Playsets are Next in the Origins Line? If Slime Pit He-man is being Teased in this mini comic, and we have already seen the Slime Pit in a major piece of packaging artwork, you start to put the pieces together and it looks like a forgone conclusion right? Tracking all of the tease
According to the Wiki Grayskull
The Slime Pit is the name of two different Masters of the Universe locations. The original Slime Pit was released with the original Mattel storyline, with the other coinciding with the MYP/Four Horsemen MOTU series in 2003. Both locations were made as playsets for the toylines and both playsets came with sticky green slime for play value. The original Slime Pit belongs to the Evil Horde, it is a dinosaur skull-shaped device and a claw, which Hordak uses to trap Eternian Warriors inside it. The dinosaur head then tips forward to coat its unfortunate victim with slime. In the In the MOTU universe, the effect of the slime transforms everyone covered by it into a lumbering, mindless slime-monster, stripped of their own free will, and instead carrying out Hordak’s evil bidding.
Slime Pit | Wiki Grayskull | Fandom
The Slime Pit playset was released in 1986 and jumped on that 1980’s slime craze band wagon, like so many other toys back then! It was the Lair of the Evil Horde to torture their unsuspecting victims.
It was a fairly simple playset; a dinosaur claw would come out of a pit and hold your figure in place to lay wait for the oncoming slime that fed from a dinosaur skull above.
in use
Source: Men At Customs
Mattel had also sold separate containers of Horde branded slime, so that you could constantly keep your slime pit well stocked.
Source: The Toys of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
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