MOTU Origins Snake Mountain Official Price and Description Revealed

An update deep in the heart of the latest edition of Toy Book online reveals the official price of the MOTU Origins Snake Mountain!

Since the Masters of the Universe 40th Anniversary Press and Influencer event from back in October 2022, the information on Snake Mountain has been sparse and few and far between. Back in December of 2022, we broke the news that Snake Mountain was available for preorder on Deep Discount but the price was listed at $81.71. Now, thanks our friend Mega Jay Retro and the heads up from from charlie_5.5, an amazing friend who also admins the MOTU Origins and WWE Superstars FB Group, we now know the official price for Snake Mountain, it’s anticpated release date, and a description of the most anticipated MOTU Origins Playset. This image and information comes from toybook.com, volume 39, No. 1., February 2023 edition.

Description

Masters of the Universe Origins Snake Mountain Playset | Ages: 6+
MSRP: $79.99 | Available: Fall 2023

“The dark side of Eternia returns to the action aisle with this playset, inspired by the vintage Snake Mountain from the ‘80s. Kids and kidults can create epic scenes for their 5.5-inch Masters of the Universe Origins action figures. The set includes a bridge, a trap door, a dungeon, Skeletor’s throne, an “acid pool,” and an escape tunnel.”

Official Pricing and Release Date

It is set to be released Fall of 2023 and with a MSRP of $79.99. This new MOTU Origins playset is approximately priced as it is the same price as the 2020 Castle Grayskull playset but it does not look like it includes a a figure pack in based on the description but anything could change between now and when it’s released. It still looks like like they are using the a mid prototype test shot of the Snake Mountain because, as we saw from the Mattel German Toy Fair video, the colors look more natural to the vintage set but the snake in this shot looks to be the same color.

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Snake Mountain Image from Toy Fair Germany

Special thanks to the one and only Mega Jay Retro and My Buddy’s Customs for alerting us that the Mattel EMEA posted a short video on their LinkedIn page from Toy Fair Germany in Nuremberg and deep within this video was a teaser for the new updated MOTU Origins Snake Mountain and you can see a glimpse of the Talon Fighter! We can clearly see the updated MOTU Origins Snake Mountain and it looks amazing!!! The colors, like Jay from Geek Dad Life pointed out, are corrected and it looks more like the vintage version. The Snake is also a better color and looks to be in the correct place. Between Castle Grayskull and the Snake Mountain you can also see see the front end of the Talon Fighter and part of the cockpit!

Snake Mountain Reveal

Again, another long-awaited fan favorite was revealed today as well! After all this time, we are finally getting a Snake Mountain in the MOTU Origins line! Pictured here was a prototype of Snake Mountain, but so far it looks to be really cool and loaded with brand new play features! There needs to be some more tweaking to the snake design and coloring of the mountain in the front, but what they unveiled today looks so exciting! Let’s take a look at all the goodies it has to offer. At first glance, we can see that they have added the mountain peak to the design so that it resembles the Snake Mountain from the Filmation cartoon a little more closely, but the design still retains those signature features from the vintage playset we all know and love! The classic monster face is still sculpted into the front of the mountain and includes a working jaw. We still have that fun suspension bridge, but this time it looks to have widened so that it can be walkable for your figures! It leads to steps that go up to the gate of Snake Mountain which has that classic wolfs head on the gate. And inside is a ladder similar to that one of Castle Grayskull The cave is also still present near the bottom as well.

On the inside we have the wolf speaker but does not include electronics associated with it and instead we got added play features on the inside. We have for the first time in Origins, Skeletor’s bone throne! We also get an all-new weapons rack as well. And next to the rotatable wolf and bone throne is a trap door that leads to a jail cell., so no more safety net to fall into. The coolest part of this new Snake Mountain in my opinion is the new “Acid Lake”. which has 3D removable creatures into that attach to pegs. It turns out that these pegs work in the peg holes of the torso of the Origins figures, so you can detach you figures at the torso and place them on the lake, so it looks like they are sinking inside! How fun is that??? Snake Mountain is set to be released in the Fall of 2023. You can view more photos that Planet Eternia posted in their detailed article.

Snake Mountain Vintage Set

Home to Skeletor and his bumbling henchman, Snake Mountain is the pinnacle of the Evil Warriors home when it comes to the world of Masters of the Universe. The famous Snake wrapped mountain with it’s glistening eye, as seen on the Filmation cartoon is the main location where Skeletor cooks up all evil plans to get He-Man once and for all.

Skeletor seen here with Evil Lyn and Beastman spent most of his time ordering his evil warriors around from the comfort of his Bone Throne.

Kids used to come home after school every day and looked forward to watching He-Man battle it out with Skeletor. I’m sure that Castle Grayskull was on the top of every kids wish list in 1982. Well after watching the cartoons, everykid wanted a place for Skelly and his friends to hang out in, so they were all expecting the Snake Mountain we all knew and loved from the Filmation cartoon. Well when Mattel’s Snake mountain debuted in 1984, it was nothing like that cartoon. Rather than designing Snake Mountain to resemble the Filmation cartoon, Mattel opted to use a design they had for an unreleased jungle playset instead.

Mattel tried to make the best of the design by adding a snake face to the mountain and a green snake that popped out from the side, but it wasn’t the Filmation pointy mountain peak, lava waterfall, snake structure we all knew; I’ll tell you that much! Yes, it had a ladder, hand cuffs, a suspension bridge, and even some stairs that were too narrow for your figure to climb up; but it was the Snake Mountain that we got, and we all learned to love it over time.

Where Castle Grayskull had a whole world going on in the inside, Snake Mountain had little to be desired; a sticker, a ladder and a net…. not much going on in there. I mean, Snake Mountain on the cartoon never had a wolf’s head, so where they got the idea for a wolf’s head for the scarry voice microphone, I will never know?! All in all, we MOTU fans still hold the vintage Mattel Snake Mountain near and dear our hearts. With that being said, I know we are all super excited that Mattel is finally going to produce one for Origins!

Snake Mountain Vintage Set

Home to Skeletor and his bumbling henchman, Snake Mountain is the pinnacle of the Evil Warriors home when it comes to the world of Masters of the Universe. The famous Snake wrapped mountain with it’s glistening eye, as seen on the Filmation cartoon is the main location where Skeletor cooks up all evil plans to get He-Man once and for all.

Skeletor seen here with Evil Lyn and Beastman spent most of his time ordering his evil warriors around from the comfort of his Bone Throne.

Kids used to come home after school every day and looked forward to watching He-Man battle it out with Skeletor. I’m sure that Castle Grayskull was on the top of every kids wish list in 1982. Well after watching the cartoons, everykid wanted a place for Skelly and his friends to hang out in, so they were all expecting the Snake Mountain we all knew and loved from the Filmation cartoon. Well when Mattel’s Snake mountain debuted in 1984, it was nothing like that cartoon. Rather than designing Snake Mountain to resemble the Filmation cartoon, Mattel opted to use a design they had for an unreleased jungle playset instead.

Mattel tried to make the best of the design by adding a snake face to the mountain and a green snake that popped out from the side, but it wasn’t the Filmation pointy mountain peak, lava waterfall, snake structure we all knew; I’ll tell you that much! Yes, it had a ladder, hand cuffs, a suspension bridge, and even some stairs that were too narrow for your figure to climb up; but it was the Snake Mountain that we got, and we all learned to love it over time.

Where Castle Grayskull had a whole world going on in the inside, Snake Mountain had little to be desired; a sticker, a ladder and a net…. not much going on in there. I mean, Snake Mountain on the cartoon never had a wolf’s head, so where they got the idea for a wolf’s head for the scarry voice microphone, I will never know?! All in all, we MOTU fans still hold the vintage Mattel Snake Mountain near and dear our hearts. With that being said, I know we are all super excited that Mattel is finally going to produce one for Origins!

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