Duplico MOTU Origins Possible Walmart Collector Con 2023 Release

Could the MOTU Origins Duplico go up for preorder for Walmart Collector Con 2023? We have a large clue pointing to yes so cross your fingers!

We know that the MOTU Origins Duplico has been on collectors radars for a very long time and it’s been hit and miss (mostly miss) trying to find him at the Walmart store. Today, Walmart put up a select bunch of figures for Walmart Collector Con July 2023 preview day, which included 3 brand new GI Joe Classified Series figures. We discovered a small clue that leads us to believe that Duplico will be going up for preorder on Walmart Collector Con 2023.

MOTU Origins Duplico

Walmart has added a new callout on their Collector Con previews that states, “Shop all Collector Con new releases, 7/18 and 7/19, 7am PST.” Yesterday, Duplico did not have this callout and he is not listed as a preview figure but this clue leads us to believe that he will be going up for preorder either on 7/18 or 7/19. If you look at other non-Collector Con toys, they do not have this callout so it’s highly likely that MOTU Origins Duplico will be going up for sale during Walmart Collector Con.

Here is the Duplico Walmart product page without the Walmart Collector Con callout!

Where to Buy

The Duplico Saga

We’ve been tracking all of the Duplico updates and hopefully Walmart will be putting him up for preorder but you can check out in hand images and the various places he’s shown up below!

June 13, 2023 UPDATE: Duplico Now on Amazon

Duplico is now showing up on Amazon and we suspect this is 3rd party seller only but since most collectors are having trouble pinning the Cody Rhodes lookalike down, we thought we do you a solid and link to him!

UPDATE:04/04/2023 Duplico showing up at Retail in Mexico

Thanks to our incredible friend of the channel Mega Jay Retro for alerting us that It looks like Duplico showed up on Amazon Mexico yesterday, and is now showing up on major retail shelves at Jugetibici in Mexico as well for retail price! Motumex posted this video, and you can see that there a bunch on the shelf! It looks like he is selling for retail price and showed up yesterday on Amazon Mexico for $18.75

You can watch all of Mega Jay’s video below and see the Motumex reel down below as well:

Here is Motumex reel down below and you can see multiple packages of Duplico on the shelf as he looks like he is a plenty! I hope this means that we are going to be seeing him soon in the states! We can see Duplico placed on multiple shelves and from the video it was several figures deep!

UPDATE: 03/24/2023 Duplico found in store at Walmart!

Collector Santos M Carrillo found a MOTU Origins Duplico in store at a Walmart outside of San Antonio! Folks, Duplico is getting close, as typical with Walmart they start to show up I stores and then eventually make it online! We did find Duplico’s Walmart listing so be sure to bookmark it and check it often!

Below is a photo that Collector Santos M Carrillo who found a MOTU Origins Duplico in store at a Walmart outside of San Antonio!

You can find Wave 12 at these retailers:

March 2, 2023 UPDATE: Duplico Official Digital Card Art

Today, manuel_eduardo_caritas revealed the digital card art for Duplico!

The usual suspects for Origins:
Art Direction & Graphic Design @manuel_eduardo_caritas
Artwork @axel.gimenez@fetch.franciscoetchart
Toy Design @katanarama333
Story @joshuaskywriter
Copywriter @yesreallyrob

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February 22, 2023 UPDATE: Duplico to be a Walmart Exclusive

Don’t shoot the messenger but we have heard from our sources that Duplico, the MOTU Origins sleeper Rulers of the Sun figure, will be a Walmart Exclusive. We know this is bad news for many mint in card collectors out there as Walmart has a tendency to stuff perfectly good figures into boxes half their size or stuff them in bubble mailers. We’ve seen the Duplico craze start when Paulmart got a shipment of them at his physical location at Frank & Sons in Southern, California but it does not stop there! Duplico has been going bonkers on the secondary market on eBay, getting upwards of nearly $500 for this figure. There is one seller that sold this a “reasonable” price but recent ended listings tell the story of how wildly popular this figure is. In actuality, aside from these nutty prices of $400+, most sellers are getting between $50 and $60 for but DON’T FRET!

Although we are the bearer of bad news, there is a sliver lining in all of this. We don’t know the exact release date that Walmart has for this figure yet but we are speculating that this figure will be widely available, like the other MOTU Origins figures. We discovered the listing for Duplico on Walmart’s website back in late January and now, when you put two and two together, it makes sense that he would be a Walmart exclusive given our inside information on the figure. Be sure to check back to see when Duplico comes in stock:

February 15, 2022: Duplico Official Images

Duplico looks spectacular packaged on the Rise of the Snake Men card back with the Rulers of the Sun faction sticker on the front of the blister bubble! This newest addition to the line brings in another human character that helps to round out the Rulers of the Sun gang, and they are now filling out nicely!

There official images of Duplico look spectacular! Some say he looks like Laser, the American Gladiator, LOL!! I just think he is freakin’ cool and still bummed out about missing on the pre-order today! But we have all the retailers you can look for him below! He comes with a very cool looking laser pistol that is connected by a cord and holsers to his back!

Thanks to ¡Yo tengo el Poder! on Instagram, for posting the official card art for Duplico! They also posted the 200X King Randor figure for Wave 13, be sure to check out our article on that one him: 200x King Randor Leaked on MOTU Origins Wave 13 Card Art – (toyhabits.com). Well, they are delighting us with yet another leak. They posted a leaked MOTU Origins card art showing an illustration of Duplico is an unproduced Rulers of the Sun character, going up against Snake Armor Skeletor and Pig Head! It’s a new year and new rumors are starting to swirl around about the next coming waves of MOTU Origins. As you know, Wave 12 was recently announced, which included Hypno from the Rulers of the Sun line, Tung Lashor, Snake Armor Skeletor, and Mini Comic Roboto. Also, MOTU Origins Wave 12 in hand images are surfacing in Malaysia! This new image provides more evidence that Duplico is also next in line for Wave 13.

Where to Buy

Duplico went up for preorder on Mattel Creations today, but quickly sold out. But don’t fret as we have located the Walmart Link to him! Be sure to save this to your list and check back often to see if comes up for preorder or in stock! We will be sure to update you as well when he does! You might be able to also find him randomly at Paulmartstore.com.

Here the following retailers that have had him thus far:

• Mattel Creations
• Paulmartstore.com
• Duplico on Walmart

You can find the listing for Duplico on Walmart:

We also have Duplico’s UPC Bar code which you can scan an several retailer’s apps like Amazon and Target! So keep this handy as well!

This is how Duplico appeared in the original vintage Rulers of the Sun line, but he was never produced. You can see him here in a promo image below. He was supposed to be part of a Series 2 release, which included Hypno, Kikto, and Zap-Man.

In Hand Photos

It wasn’t but a week or so that we even saw that Duplico was coming to the Origins line, and low and behold, he is already produced and being sold at the Paulmartstore at Southern California’s Frank & Sons! Thanks to collector Matt Le, we now get to see actual IN HAND images of Duplico that he picked up at the Paulmartstore inside Frank & Sons. Duplico looks very similar but slightly different face sculpt as the new Adventures He-Man that was released in the 40th Anniversary Origins 4 Pack. We did an incredible review on this 40th Anniversary He-Man 4 pack, if you missed it, you can read it HERE: MOTU Origins He-Man 40th Anniversary 4-Pack Review (toyhabits.com). We also wanted to thank Playtimereturns for posting their in hand images as well!

Below you can see a photo of Duplico at the Paulmartstore in Frank & Sons Collectibles in Southern California.

Matt was also kind enough to post photos of the card back so we can see the production card art and cross sell of the rest of Wave, which includes Tung Lashor, Snake Armor Skeletor and Mini Comic Roboto. The strange thing is that Wave 12 consists of Hypno, Tung Lashor, Snake Armor Skeletor and Mini Comic Roboto, as you can see from the cross sell on the back of Hypno’s card. So was Duplico supposed to be in place of Hypno? What wave was Duplico supposed to be a part of?

Matt was also kind enough to post photos of the Comic book that comes with Duplico as well! The mini comic is titled ” Legend of Duplico”