Hurricane Hordak MOTU Orgins Box Art Teases Despara and Dragstor

With the reveal of the back of the box of the Mattel Creations exclusive Hurrican Hordak deluxe figure, we get to see the art on the back of the box and it is chockablock full of teases! We can see a cool scene that features Hurricane Hordak front and center with his bola and Despara, Dragstor, and the new characters that were featured on Modulok’s box art! We believe the green character could be Bug Eye, a deep cut concept from the Masters of the Universe Classics era created by the amazing and talented Axel Gimenez, but he confirmed that is not is this Instagram post! We can’t wait to see and hear what the new character’s name will be once he (hopefully) makes it into plastic form. According to an unverified list of Mattel Creations 2025 exclusives, Dragstor is slotted to be released this year so it’s exciting to him teased again on box art! Let’s dive in and see the amazing Hurricane Hordak MOTU Origins Teases featured on his box art!

Here are the official images of Hurricane Hordak’s box art, showing the teases in context.

Dragstor

Dragstor, the Transforming Evil Warrior Vehicle, is a MOTU Origins figures that has yet to be released or revealed for that matter. Dragstor’s a member of the Evil Horde who has a giant wheel built into his stomach cavity where he can down on his stomach and take off like a car using a rip stick. The vintage Dragstor was was released as part of the fifth series in 1986 and Mattel has a history of leaving out action features. Remember what happened to the Ground Ripper (Road Ripper)? Dragstor was featured in this commercial where it demonstrates his action feature and it is so coo! To show off what a MOTU Origins Dragstor concept could look like, we are featuring the amazing work of the Masterversal Toyhunter, sir Eldor (sub his YouTube Channel and follow him on Instagram), below!

According to an anonymous source, we are happy to report that the MOTU Origins Dragstor will be made with his action feature and we have reports that his tooling is complete. There are a few possibilities for his action feature. He (1) could come with a rip stick like his vintage figure (2) be built in a way that could use friction to send him on his way (think of a car that you rev), or (3) he could simply be built with a wheel that spins (think of the Ground Ripper).

Dragstor Tease

With the Extendar Mattel Creations Exclusive card back, we can see a cool scene with Extendar fighting off the Evil Horde! Dragstor is finally teased as well as the Fright Zone so we can’t wait for more MOTU!

Dragstor Concept by Masterversal Toyhunter

In crafting his custom figure, Masterversal Toyhunter embarked on a detailed journey that integrated various parts and sculpting techniques, seamlessly combining them into a cohesive masterpiece of a creation of what we hope to expect the Mattel Creation versions to turn out like. To understand how this figure came together, Masterversal Toyhunter provided all of the details so let’s take a look and see how this figure was made! The parts used to create this custom figure are as follows: Vintage Dragstor’s thigh grills, upper torso frame, backpack, and boots, of course! Origins Webstor’s arms, upper body, legs, and boot plugin sockets, along with Pig Head’s hands and Sun-Man’s forearm glove cuffs, were also utilized. Additionally, a ToG Hordak’s arm band and crotch part were included. The head base was crafted from a Masterverse Spikor and Stinkor’s face mask, with a sculpt of Dragstor’s detail layered over the top. Milliput epoxy putty served as the sculpting medium.

He began with the head, using a Masterverse Spikor as the base. Once a spare Vintage Dragstor was obtained, the customizer removed the arms and legs by cutting them off, mainly due to the mushroom peg joints. After removal, he was able to use those points to score around the molding seam and split the main body in half. Using a spare Vintage Dragstor, he removed the arms and legs by cutting them off, mainly due to the mushroom peg joints. After removal, he were able to use those points to score around the molding seam and split the main body in half.

He also cut away the boots and thigh grills from the Vintage Dragstor legs for use with the Origins Webstor leg parts. He cut into the legs to create extra plastic for gluing those parts in place, as they did not want to simply surface glue those details. For added pop-and-swap functionality, he whittled down the Webstor boots to the ankle to utilize the plug-in socket pop system in the Vintage Dragstor boots. After preparing that, he hollowed out the Dragstor boots to glue in Webstor’s boot peg sockets. Dragstor has glove cuffs that go over his forearm. For that detail, he took the arms of a spare Origins Sun-Man and cut off his forearm glove cuffs, hollowing them out like with the Vintage Dragstor boots while carefully keeping the peg sockets for the hands. He whittled down Webstor’s arms and cut away much of the wrist to pop and glue on the Sun-Man glove cuffs with Araldite epoxy glue. Notably, Sun-Man’s glove cuffs had an embossed star detail, which was easily sliced off and smoothed with a blunted edge of something hard.

For the main body frame and backpack, he used a Dremel rotary tool to remove the sides of the body down to the wheel frame belt and backpack. He also removed the molded-in crotch/cod section and found it necessary to remove material from the neck hole area to fit the front body frame to Webstor’s upper torso and provide clearance for the head sculpt to move back far enough to avoid dragging along the ground. The lower back of the head sculpt dipped into that area to prevent it from hitting the top of the backpack and restricting movement. Much of Webstor’s upper torso had a section removed from the middle for clearance for the action feature wheel. He also cut away the waist pop-and-swap peg area but wanted to maintain the use of the Origins neck peg and arm sockets. He cut a small bit of material out of the back of the neck and inside the back of the head sculpt to allow the neck peg joint to rock further back for vehicle mode. Once the back and front parts were fitted over what remained of the Webstor torso, he glued those on using Milliput to fill in the upper areas that did not touch the torso, locking the wheel axle on either side, as a 3-4mm gap was created between the front and back belt sections. He then made a rough shape of the belt to sand to shape later after the epoxy putty set hard, and he also used putty to fill in gaps created around the outer sides of the belt, being careful not to hinder the wheel mechanism. He also reconstructed the sides of the body using Milliput but opted for the Origins muscle features rather than sculpting the vintage body muscle form.

Additionally, he had to re-sculpt the shoulder pipes, which chipped off when splitting the Vintage Dragstor in half. The Crotch section, in which he used the crotch off the Turtles of Grayskull Hordak, he popped off the Legs from the Webstor’s Crotch / Cod piece after heating that area up in hot water – and placed those onto the Hordak Cod section. Although he initially wanted a waist pop-and-swap, the need for clearance for the wheel made that impossible. After considering multiple options for achieving a waist pop-and-swap, he decided against it as he would not have enough clearance for the wheel. Being careful not to Dremel out any major connecting pins and sockets holding the leg connector ball joint rod, he made sure to keep some of the top of the Crotch surface area in order to glue and plug that part under the upper torso assembly. In addition, he also sculpted on Milliput around the sides, front and back to widen the cod section to give more gluing surface. And after all that was glued in place, he just had to sculpt in the front Crotch detail just below the wheel housing frame. He then slipped on the TOG Hordak’s Evil Horde Arm Band on to complete the look of the vintage design.

Here is a photo of Masterversal Toyhunter’s concept next to the Vintage figure and we must say that he did an outstanding job and we will all be lucky if we get something even close to what he designed!

Vintage Dragstor

According to the Wiki Grayskull, Dragstor was Etherian peasant who was captured by Hordak and transformed into an evil cyborg. Due to Hordak’s modifications, he became one of the fastest beings on Etheria, with a wheel embedded into his chest and an engine on his back. Dragstor later displayed a rebellious attitude, exposed in his rivalry with the newest Horde warrior, Mosquitor. When He-Man asked him “Who’s your new friend?”, Dragstor replied “Mosquitor… and he’s no friend of mine!”

Despara MOTU Revolution Concept Unmasked

It appears that Mattel has figured out a way to bring the Princess of Power back on screen but in a very different form. Despara, according, is the evil alter ego of She-Ra and, in the final scene of the Masters of the Universe Revolution part 1 Netflix series, we see the arrival of She-Ra, a character once thought to bhat we thought would never see the light of day on screen in a MOTU cartoon. The Princess of Power, otherwise known as, Adora, is the twin sister of He-Man and an amazing warrior. Kenzo’s Creations, the talented customizer who brought us our first look at the Cosmic Enforcer-Lyn MOTU Revolution concept, is back at it again with his latest Despara concept in MOTU Origins form. Paying homage to the end scene in the Masters of the Universe Revolution series, Kenzo gives his vision as to what Despara looks like under her mask. Before you read any further, be sure to subscribe to Kenzo’s YouTube Channel and follow him on Instagram. Kenzo knocked it out of the park with his Despara concept from the Masters of the Universe Revolution Netflix series! Although we did not see the alter ego of She-Ra’s face in the series, Kenzo drew inspiration from the comics and the MOTU Classics line!

Leaning into the concepts, Despara features a soft look on the face with black markings under her eyes. The armor has a layered look on the shoulders, which gives the figure depth and dimension.

Here is a behind the scenes look at the 3D printed upper torso Kenzo used to create this figure.

Despara MOTU Revolution Concept Masked

As we saw in the MOTU Revolution Netflix series, the last few scenes featured Despara with her Hordak inspired helmet. The helmet is painted in a way that brings out the horned details that are on her helmet.

The details on the two swords are outstanding! The crossguards feature a horde symbol with sculpted details. The paint app is made of reds, blacks, and a bone white for the helmet color.

Using the legs from the Masters of the WWE Universe Chyna, Kenzo did an amazing job recreating her lower half of her uniform. Using black paint, Kennzo also added the markings for her uniform.

Here is Kenzo sculpting and painting the lower torso of Chyna, which will mate with the upper torso.

She also features a hard plastic red cape and you can see details on the shoulder armor from the back of the figure too.

The Making of Despara

You can watch the entire creation process as Kenzo invites you to his workbench to get a behind the scenes look at the making of Despara!

New MOTU Origins Chacters

It looks like we might be getting some new characters joining the Horde!

We think the new character on the cliff in this part of the scene could be one of Axel Gimenez’s MOTU Classics concepts called Bug-Eye, which uses parts from Modulok. As Axel confirmed in this Instagram post, it is not Bug-Eye but a yet to be named new character.

Bug Eye MOTU Classics Concept

Here is the illustration of Bug Eye done by the great Axel Gimenez!