Mattel Masters of the Universe Origins Terroar Figure
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00:00Here's a guy that takes various forms and molds.
00:04Here's a look at the brand new Mattel Master Universe Origins Terror,
00:07shapeshifter with a sinister streak.
00:09The
00:27Snakeman's alien ally renders his enemy helpless with a deafening sonic roar.
00:33The irony isn't lost on me that a character like Terror who's known for changing his parts
00:36borrows so many from others.
00:39Just before of course we get a closer look at the Master Universe Origins Terror, first
00:42the tape measure is going to tell us that the figure in fact stands 6 inches in height,
00:47whereas roughly 15 centimeters tall.
00:49I know what you're thinking, Mattel's being lazy.
00:51They're reusing old parts as an excuse to create a brand new character.
00:56Well half of that is correct.
00:57Mattel really was still using old parts and they had the plan to still get the most mileage
01:01out of those molds to create a brand new character, but this was also something that they were
01:04doing in the 80s as well.
01:07For some that may not know this, Terror was originally a concept character that was part
01:11of several figures that were never going to see the light of day near the end of the Master
01:14Universe line.
01:16The line really got cancelled long before Terror got released.
01:19The closest thing in fact we did get ourselves to Terror was part of a PowerCon 3 pack released
01:25as part of the Master Universe Classics line, where in fact Terror, Plasmar, which I don't
01:29think we still have gotten ourselves a Plasmar, and Lord Grass were part of that 3 pack.
01:34That's the only other instance that I can think of that actually have we've gotten a Terror.
01:38So now we are actually getting a Terror, so in some sense we're getting a concept character
01:44and I think it's pretty cool.
01:45Yes, it is technically using the same parts as old Master Universe Origins figures, so
01:49like the majority of his body, I shouldn't say that really, like the top half of his
01:52body is clearly being used by Rattlar, you can see basically from his belt up.
01:57His arms are also something that's going to be sharing the same as long along with Rattlar.
02:01His head sculpt is going to be that of Whiplash.
02:04So right there we've got the recipe of the top half of his body, right, we've got the
02:07head sculpt there for Whiplash, then of course we've got the arm here for Trapjaw, and along
02:12with that too he's going to have the same matching swapped out parts that Trapjaw also
02:17had as well, but you can probably also recognize those boots as coming from another character
02:21that just happened to be Mosquitoor.
02:23So while it may not have taken a village, it did take though 4 figures to build the
02:26body of Terror, one of the other things that he also borrows as well is the same mini comic
02:30Leviathan's War.
02:32This came with Reptilax, which is one of the characters we've already had a look at here
02:35on this channel, another concept character, more pulled from the pages of the mini comics.
02:39You can also see as well there's Snake Armor Skeletor, advertised on the back is Lord Grass,
02:44so he would have been part of that 3-pack Power Com release, and there's also Vipor.
02:49Definitely want to get my hands on Vipor.
02:51But if we though flip through the comics, I know we've already seen this comic already,
02:54heavily really goes with the idea of the Snake Men being the big baddies this time around.
02:59There's Reptilax right there, and Snake Armor Skeletor.
03:03The comics are shorter obviously in read, I mean there's only about 4 pages to have
03:06to flip through, nice little mini comic.
03:09I already have the other one from Reptilax, I'm just going to simply put that, I don't
03:12know why I have such a hard time saying Reptilax, let's put that off to the side.
03:16For the accessories though that come with Terror, if you are familiar of course with
03:20all the things that came with Armwise with Trapjaw, you'll recognize these right away.
03:26Part of me would have loved, honestly, if they included different arm accessories that
03:29weren't already packed along with Trapjaw, just so that if you did already have Trapjaw,
03:34you could have maybe a little nudge in the direction of wanting to get yourself Terror,
03:37because then you could say, well hey, he has things with him that weren't already included
03:42with Trapjaw, little extra bonus easter eggs.
03:45So he gives himself, for example, a little claw tool, the claw doesn't actually open
03:48and close, it's molded here in black plastic.
03:50Also molded in black plastic is a hook, and also as well you can see he has the laser
03:55blaster.
03:56All of these can be attached onto the figure's arms, the only unfortunate thing though is
04:00that you'll see anywhere on Terror, there's no place to hook on the extra pieces.
04:04If it was Trapjaw, for example, let's bring him back in, Trapjaw had these little of course
04:09hook pieces on the back, so you simply could just take any part that you wanted to use,
04:12but speaking of which though, I already have the blaster attached onto the end of Trapjaw,
04:16you can see it's exactly the same.
04:18Yeah, there's no place, there's no little loops or anything on the side, he's literally
04:22also just using the same belt as Rattlor also, so they haven't molded anything new.
04:27Nice if they could have added a little bit of loops to the side, so at least there would
04:30have been a place to hook on the extra arm attachments, but I know there's really so
04:33much going on already.
04:34He's quite busy with things going on, but if you wanted to, you simply just take the
04:38arm attachment, just plug it in place, so he's got the blaster, he has the hook tool,
04:45and he also has himself the little pincer, grabby grabby grabby.
04:50I think for me at least, I'd like to probably display this guy with the blaster, although
04:54I know that's probably going to make things very much same-sies to what I already got
04:57with Trapjaw, I should really change things up, but right now we're going to go with
05:00the blaster, looks pretty cool.
05:02One of the other things that had to be installed with the figure when you take him out of the
05:05packaging is his tail.
05:06The tail is the same rubbery plastic as Rattlor, so I'm just going to bring back in Rattlor,
05:11it's missing though a little bit of the extra paint down below, Rattlor got what, afforded
05:15some extra yellow, this basically Terror just molds it all here in purple.
05:19One thing you have to do though is that you have to attach it onto the back of his body,
05:22and you have to get it around the shoulder piece.
05:24All you really have to do is lift this just enough that you tuck this underneath and then
05:29snap this in place, and you got yourself a little soft plastic tail.
05:32I feel like the plastic on the tail, maybe it's a little bit more pliable than what
05:36we got with Rattlor, I mean it's really kind of hard to say, I mean looking at the
05:39two you would swear that they're being used of the same material, but I feel like this
05:43is maybe just a little bit softer.
05:46The other thing as well he doesn't have, he doesn't have Rattlor's rattle.
05:51He does also have of course the neck attachment, that is also something that came with Rattlor,
05:55so if you wanted to have the longer neck for Terror, simply just detach the head that he
05:58has right now, then you just add the neck piece like that, and then you just add the
06:04neck, the head on top of that.
06:06The only thing I would say is probably the thing that you're seeing right now, why is
06:08not the color matching in the neck?
06:10I mean you could probably say like his neck doesn't have to be the exact same color, but
06:14I think if you're honestly though, I mean even like looking at the packaging here, the
06:18packaging does have really does have Terror featured though with the red in his neck.
06:23I mean it's supposed to I suppose look like that, but it seems so a little jarring and
06:27out of place.
06:28The only thing I could kind of buy behind is maybe the idea if he's using a sonic roar,
06:33maybe that's why his neck is glowing like this.
06:35I'm suspending some disbelief here as to why his chest has to be a dark black and yet this
06:40area has to be red.
06:41Again, it glows just before he goes,
06:45Taking the head off though, I'm not really going to be displaying I think Terror with
06:49the extended neck piece that just snaps back in place.
06:53Now okay, so if we kind of look at the recipe here, it's very much like Taco Bell.
06:57Taco Bell can always really say that they're coming out with a new specialty menu item,
07:00but it's literally just always the same five ingredients.
07:03The five ingredients we've already kind of dissected here, so of course you've got yourself
07:06a Whiplash's head sculpt, so we're going to bring back and maybe we'll do this a little
07:10bit at a time.
07:11Get the same head sculpt going here for Whiplash, obviously here it's molded just in purple
07:15instead of the green.
07:17He doesn't have as much of these sleepy eyes as Whiplash.
07:20You can see they basically molded the head all in purple with adding these bushy caterpillars
07:24just above that all in black.
07:26I like the use of the red eyes, even though I mean with the head sculpt being so close
07:30like this, molding this in purple and adding those little different touches like the red
07:34make one a little bit different than the other.
07:37The body, as we've already kind of looked at, does again, it's Rattler's.
07:41So like the arms, well this arm at least will be exactly the same.
07:44The chest piece and the belt will also be shared as well as the loin cloth.
07:50The trap jaw, obviously arm, we're going to bring back in exactly the same, so nothing
07:54really different there.
07:55And of course the lower half of his legs, one of my all-time favorite figures is Mosquitoor.
08:00The only thing that they haven't done though is they haven't painted the little red triangles
08:03on the front.
08:04Mosquitoor had it, Terror doesn't unfortunately have that.
08:08His silver, I can't help but notice also, is a little bit more shinier, but that's basically
08:13all the same figure.
08:14I like the colors though, even though this is a reuse, this probably would be the worst
08:18example of just reusing the most of the molds.
08:21There's nothing really at all that's unique to Terror that hasn't already been released
08:24in a previous figure before.
08:26Of course with that, the figure is going to have the exact same articulation.
08:29The head's going to be in a ball joint, whether you want to use this head sculpt or not.
08:33I could also help but notice, you may have also noticed this too when I did this earlier,
08:37the neck piece doesn't really want to stay in place.
08:39When I think that I have it on there, the neck seems to want to pop off very, very easily.
08:44I don't know if it's maybe just a case that's not fitting properly into the socketed hole,
08:48it just doesn't want to stay in there.
08:50Now again, if you want to have the neck like this, it does make things, I suppose, a little
08:53bit different.
08:54I mean, obviously if him going to be using the same molds, I haven't done this at all.
08:58Rattlor tends to sit on the shelf just with the neck like this, well, with just a regular
09:01head like this.
09:02I don't ever tend to use the extended neck, so really, also what I could do is change
09:07of course the blaster to something a little bit different, adding then the neck piece.
09:10This guy may look a little bit then different than the other characters we already have.
09:14Just taking off the neck.
09:15So again, like the head's going to be on a ball joint, it rotates all the way around.
09:18The head can look up only so far, it can look down and you can also move it back and forth
09:23just a little bit.
09:24Of course, you got your waist swivel, nothing changes there.
09:27The one thing that is going to change though is a little bit of the posability.
09:30The arm, this being a regular arm on the one side, I say regular arm, he's got a big hairy
09:34scaly arm.
09:35The arm moves out this way, of course you can rotate all the way around.
09:38Just a single hinge though in the elbow, but it allows at least the forearm to rotate and
09:42the hands to rotate all the way around.
09:44He has only a relaxed hand on one side, he doesn't have a gripping hand, obviously he's
09:47not going to do much of gripping over here.
09:50Now this arm, because of course it's Trap Jaws, does have a ball joint, so it does move
09:53out.
09:54You can also rotate it all the way around.
09:56He has a swivel there, he doesn't have a swivel at the top here, where like when you're looking
10:00at it, you would swear that something could swivel to the top, but it doesn't.
10:03It swivels here though.
10:04He has a single hinge in the elbow, what would be his elbow, and technically where this attaches,
10:10there could be some swivelage happening there as well.
10:13The legs split out, you can bring them forward, you can bring them back.
10:17Swivel at the top of the thigh, single hinge in the knee, rotation in the lower leg, chunky
10:20clunky boots move up and down, it's a hinge joint right there, and he calls for rocking
10:24back and forth.
10:26The figure of Terror does also have peggles in the bottoms of his feet.
10:28I know it's somewhat redundant to say that, because all Master Universe Origins figures
10:31have the same thing, the same rule apply.
10:34All in all though, it's a nice looking figure.
10:36Some may just pass on this guy altogether, like literally looking at this guy and thinking,
10:40it's like Taco Bell.
10:43You can come out and call it Cheesy Gordita Crunch, but I know it's just all the same ingredients
10:47that I keep constantly buying at Taco Bell.
10:49You simply have just found a new way to kind of change around the order.
10:53And while again, like the order of this guy simply is just a reuse of parts, the fact
10:57that once you do the history on this guy and you kind of look back to see where his origins
11:02actually came from, yes, it is a reuse of parts, but at least those reuse of parts were
11:08reused in parts back in the 80s as well, when originally Terror was going to see the light
11:12of day.
11:13Unfortunately though, he never did, but we get the chance at least to experience this
11:17guy now as a Master Universe Origins.
11:19If you had the chance to already get the Master Universe Classics line, then you already
11:23know that Terror was part of that.
11:25But other than that, that's the only time this character's ever been seen the light
11:28of day.
11:29It's kind of neat to be able to see what would have been the case back in the 80s.
11:32Now in the 2000s instead.
11:35While it would seem I didn't put nearly enough pressure against the neck of Terror, with
11:38a little bit of extra pressure and persistence, it snaps securely in place.
11:42Still not sure I like the look of the neck having the red like that.
11:45I like it in the fact that it does bring some extra color to what would be an all pretty
11:48much purple and black character, but I wish that some of that red could have also found
11:53its way into the torso.
11:54To be fair though, this may have been the original design that they had in mind for
11:57Terror way back in the 80s, and simply now Mattel in the 2000s is replicating that look
12:02again.
12:03From the look of its parts, I mean literally, he is the sum of many parts.
12:06The character I could see why people would look at this and say, you know, I don't have
12:10really much interest in what clearly is just many characters all sort of slapped together.
12:14It's literally the Taco Bell new menu item.
12:17And yet though, there's something charming about Terror.
12:20Maybe it's the fact that there are things about the character that I really like.
12:23I like the boots, the clunky spaceman boots that came with Mosquitoer.
12:27He's got those.
12:28I like the arm of Trap Jaw, like that as well.
12:30The back of the tail has always sort of been a persistent thing when it came to Rattler,
12:34and yet it works pretty good with Terror.
12:36I mean, for what he has being the sum of many parts, at least all those parts from different
12:41characters are the things I like the most, except really Rattler's tail.
12:45What do you guys think of Terror?
12:46Let me know down below in the comment section.
12:47Do you think that this is worth the pickup?
12:49Or do you just literally think that, I don't know, it's just, again, a Taco Bell menu item?
12:54Am I the only one that really thinks that?
12:55I mean, every time Taco Bell comes up with something new, sure, they can introduce a
12:59brand new sauce, but we know it's literally just the same five menu items again.
13:03They just changed the order of it.
13:05We're going to put cheese on the outside.
13:07We're going to maybe grill this this time.
13:09It's literally just the same menu item every single time.
13:11If you guys did enjoy this video, though, why were we still talking so much about Taco
13:15Bell?
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13:20I hope so.
13:21Actually, though, if I can let everybody know who is in the Master Universe, we are going
13:26to be looking at a couple more Masters reviews coming up this week.
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13:31And as always, thanks for watching.
13:33See you guys next time.