Masterverse New Eternia Whiplash Deluxe Target Exclusive Preorder
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Summer Geek Out is on and target has some awesome Masters of the Universe preorders out to kick things off! As we suspected, New Eternia Whiplash Deluxe Masterverse figure is a Target exclusive and is up for preorder on the site. Also be sure to check out our other Kikto, Holographo, & Zap-Man MOTU Origins ROS Preorder and Slush Head Deluxe Masterverse Target Exclusive Preorder articles for all the details on the other two Masters of the Universe Summer Geek Out drops from today! Target will have new Summer Geek out exclusive releases every Friday for the next 6 weeks for 6/16b thru 7/21, so be sure to check back to Toy Habits.com for more exciting exclusive news!
Here is the preorder page on Target. Click the image below or this link to preorder Masterverse New Eternia Whiplash
New Eternia Whiplash
Whiplash comes with a gaggle of accessories so you can create his classic or his New Eternia look! His New Eternia Helmet looks great on him, includes some nice details. He even includes new chest and waist armor. If the classic Whiplash is what you prefer, Mattel did an amazing job capturing his vintage look in Masterverse scale. Speaking of scales, he’s got a ton of them and they look fantastic all over his body. His tail does come apart and it looks awesome! It is slightly posable so you can manipulate it somewhat. He also has some great sculpting on this back and upper shoulders, which gives him his reptilian look. Whiplash also looks amazing with all of your Masterverse figures!
New Eternia Whiplash
Straight from German Toy Fair, thanks to updates by way of Jay from Geek Dad Life we now know that New Eternia Whiplash is coming to the Masterverse line! We want to thank our friend Jay from Geek Dad Life for going above and beyond to capture verbal details of the upcoming MOTU Origins and Masterverse figures from Toy Fair Germany, so we are in his debt and super grateful for the opportunity to share this information with you (with Jay’s permission of course). If you have not subscribed to the Geek Dad Life YouTube Channel, Jay and John are amazing, so please do so! New Eternia Whiplash was one of the new Masterverse figures to be displayed at this year’s German Toy Fair. Given that no photographs were allowed to be taken at the German Toy Fair, Jay at Geek Dad Life did an amazing job describing this figure to us in his Live Stream. Some of the incredible details he was able to give us is that Whiplash was indeed a New Eternia Version. He comes with additional armor that was inspired by original concept art. The armor is said to look very angular and aggressive…less court jestery. He also includes purple armor , and two heads. One head with a helmet. Jay said that Whiplash came packaged in the same box as New Eternia Beast Man.
The Evolution of Whiplash
During early production work of the Filmation cartoon series , Mattel sent Filmation concept artwork by Colin Bailey called “lizard man” but he didn’t look like the Whiplash we know today. He was green with purple armor and yellow legs. He was known as “lizard man” in this concept art. He was also name checked in to the Masters of the Universe bible by Michael Halperin. Filmation however wanted to work him into the series.
The vintage whiplash figure came with the mini comic “Clash of Arms” but he was colored differently then the action figure. His mini comic color way resembled that first early sketch that Mattel had send Filmation early on with the green torso, purple armor and yellow legs. That character rendition almost made it to “She Demon of Phantos” but alast we didn’t get Whiplash into the cartoon until much later.
The colors and design Mattel supplied to Filmation were a bit garish and so Filmation redesigned him into the cute and friendly Lizard Man we all know that appeared in the series. Lizard man appeared in
“She Demon of Phantos” and appeared another 2 “song of Celice” times one of which in a different color scheme. In “the rarest gift of all”
And of course the green version with the dark green torso and blue boots is the version of Whiplash that eventually made into the cartoon series and resembled the vintage figure much more closely.
Finally, Whiplash was totally transformed into a new style in the 200x Mike Young Productions Masters of the Universe animated series. He was a huge wide character that was brought into the modern age and the edgy style of this new series.
Be Sure to check out our other Summer Geek Out Target Exclusives!
Kikto, Holographo, and Zap-Man MOTU Origins Rulers of the Sun Preorder
Slush Head Deluxe Masterverse Target Exclusive Preorder
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