The true genius of the Snake Men Infiltrator is that it is actually the proper colorway of vintage Man-At-Arms. I swapped no mustache MAA head and MAA Armor onto that Snake Man Infiltrator and, boom, it is classic 1982 Man-At-Arms!
Yup. The Snake Infiltrator was just parts as far as I was concerned. Don't even know what I did with the head. I had a spare MOTU Classics Man-At-Arms head set aside for it long before it shipped. Even without other mods, that combo is way better than the initial Origins Release.
I don’t want the origins line to end, especially living in the uk it’s very very difficult (for me) to get the Mattel exclusives. All that aside, Great video 👏🏻been waiting for this video for ages 😂😂 congrats and good luck on the baby ❤🎉
Red Hoarde Trooper problem is easily solved by making him a general or high ranking officer. That eliminates the need for having more than one unless you get really carried away with building huge armies like some of those amazing trooper armies in Star Wars circles.
Awesome list! Thoroughly enjoyed it. Here's my Top 10: 1. Fang-Or 2. Scareglow 3. Keldor 4. Trap Jaw 5. Moss Man 6. Kamo Khan 7. Mosquitor 8. Billy Blanks Sunman 9. Webstor 10. Stinkor And I agree, Naked Stratos is by far the worst figure in the line!
Awesome!! Been waiting for an updated version with all the figures lol. The last one you made is my sons favourite. Love this line. As frustrating as it is to collect now a days, still my favourite line to collect. Hope to see Mattel do a deeper dive into the 200X figures and let’s hope they fix the distribution and have less Wallmart exclusives which are near impossible to get in Canada. All the best with the baby. Best part of your life is about to begin.
Too me Wun-Dar will probably always be my #1 as someone born after even the 200X show finished airing my connection to these characters has always been how they look and smth about the brown hair and black armor tickled my brain the right way to get me into the line and MotU as a whole!
Epic. I failed to collect them all. I started out very strong then as the late stage Walmart and MC exclusives rolled out; I was unable to score. Very disappointing. Still love this line. Just makes me a little ill when I see the collection holes.
I really enjoyed this in-depth ranking! I was going strong collecting every origins figure up until they started selling more of them online rather than at retail. Origins is such a great line. Masterverse started out rough, making me disinterested, but they look a lot better now, and I mostly collect them. I kinda want to do a ranking video now 🤣
Poor guy was guilty by association like I said in the video he’s actually great, but in my mind he got lumped in with that mini comics stratos wave that tanked the line at retail.
I don't blame naked Stratos for the fall. It's all these crazy Snake men variants, instead of great figures like, Two-Bad, Syklone, Modulok. I would have liked more She-Ra figs too.
I guess all the Americans are sick of seeing naked Stratos hanging on the pegs in the stores. He was fairly rare in the UK, and I think he looks a lot better than regular grey Stratos, would have easily been in my Top 50 😂
LOL snake men infiltrator is one if my favoutite figures! 😅 It was my only option to buy a palace guard replacement due to lack in stores regular palace guards so I bought multiple "snake men guards" instead.
Another miss of a mile is a green Goddes, It is also one of my favourite figures! I also like the first release Skeletor the most! It is funny how different taste two people who are into same franchise could have. 😅
I love your passionate defenses of the figures you enjoy! It would be awesome to see your own ranking some day! I really appreciate you taking the time to share your opinions bro! God bless and take care my friend
Cheers to Origins 🍻. I've had many criticisms but overall it's been been fun. Can't say I really have much of a Ranking Order. But if there is a "Top Spot", it goes to the Modularity. I've had a blast messing around with mods. Not only MOTU Origins with MOTU Origins, but MOTWWEU, ROS, MOTU Classics, Vintage MOTU, Galaxy Warriors, Combo, Masterverse and so on. As connected as I am to MOTU(a bad iteration could not "kill the brand" for me or "ruin my childhood"😂), in the end this is all Extra. I'm glad it happened.
Thanks for this list man, and for the heavy emphasis on MOTU on this channel in general, and a massive congratulations on having a baby on the way! I find myself in the same position and with a similar sized collection and an incoming Eternia, I was starting to look at my figures with regret. I have been considering selling off my Masters figures to make space, but this video has reignited my passion and truly made me feel grateful for what I have. Just think of all the fun we can have, playing with our kids with this stuff for years to come! 😁
I was lucky enough to buy a job lot about 2 years ago, Castle greyskull, loads of figures and vehicles for 150 quid. Bargain, i have since added to this with mint in package figures and vehicles and bought snake mountain, not easy living uk. All i need now is to find a way to display it all
I never see MOTU origins on pegs anyways sadly. The wave with jitsu is so dusty from sitting on the peg at my local Walmart so long it’s not funny. All the new MOTU figs I’ve gotten have been from discount stores. I found a snake face and snake armor skeletor yesterday at Ross with unpunched cards, so that just shows it never actually ended up at any store. I really don’t order stuff online, so I don’t really want them to go online from now on. I’d rather them just fix distribution to physical stores.
Scareglow would be my number one, I really like tri klops and trapjaw as well as keldor and re release skeletor with the new closed mouth head! Awesome video 🔥 I just ordered the skelton warriors 2 pack and I’m super excited to get them.
Why don’t they just bring back the MOTU 200X series collection already?! I mean they practically have so much more to offer if they add more to their castle Grey Skull like they did with the vintage line people would go crazy.
Yes. Makes sense that he'd be at the top. One of those figures that showed what Origins could have been. It's interesting because even next to his own faction, he could pass for something from a different line; like the same IP in a separate iteration. It's beyond where he made his first appearance. Color Pallette goes a long way - it was a good call to not overly brighten him up for an Origins translation.
"Scalper prices" on Ebay are closer to the real value than short sellers, because they are more based on supply and demand and actually give monetary value to things we like.
Disagree with a lot of your rankings but gotta agree on naked Stratos being dead last. A figure i asked myself "why did i buy this?" the moment i took him out of the package.
Stratos has a kinda odd status in MotU Fandom. He's popular, but I think in any line, you want one, and that one is the well known gray/red/blue colors. Unlike a Trap Jaw that you will get Kronus, Mini Comic Trap Jaw, and classic with no complaints.
They missed the mark on the Battle Armor variants for sure compared to vintage. The chest armor isn’t contoured appropriately to look like it’s torso armor. The same applies to Thunder Punch.
I think if they had given regular Stratos the blue jet pack and red wings, it would have made mini comics Stratos a bit different, and you would have had both variants with the accessories.
Great ranking video about the figures you dont have is missing two the skeletor art of engineering and the 35th anniversary she-ra. 113 owned + 15 missing (2019 - 2023) origins total only figures = 128
Hey buddy, great video. I collect vintage and customise but don't really collect Origins except on occasion. How come Thunder Punch He Man is so expensive. Is it a US store exclusive (In UK)? Thanks
Hey thanks! Is it super expensive in the UK you mean? I don’t think it was ever exclusive or anything over here. I know that it’s a tough situation over there for a lot of the figures!
@fanboysforever that's exactly what I meant. Sorry it wasn't clear. I was falling asleep lol. Yeh it's going for £50 - £100 routinely and usually the higher end. Its probably the main reason I don't collect the whole line. The mark ups and difficulty on exclusives are crazy. Cheers
@@fanboysforever Well not all of them, but many of them lol I grew up with the MOTU figures, I'm 50. So yeah MOTU, Star Wars, Transformers were pretty big back in my day. BTW subscribed, awesome video. I'll check some of the other vids out soon.
All of the time & money Mattel is wasting on the Cartoon Collection & Turtles Of Lameskull could have finished up the Vintage Collection including ALL of the Princess Of Power cast. I don't know about you but I'm extremely pissed off over the whole situation. And think back to all the time they wasted on Rulers Of the Sun. 10 figures that could have been Vintage MOTU characters. Rulers Of The Sun should have been the Mattel Creations exclusives. They gave us all this *SHIT* like Digitino & naked Stratos but we still don't have Two-Bad or Sy-Klone. And when the fuck is Mattel Creations going to start selling the figures they revealed at SDCC (Rokkon, Sy-Klone, Extendar & Night Stalker)??? I checked their January release schedule & there ain't nothin for MOTU. It's all Barbie & Hot Wheels garbage. And can somebody please explain to me why Mattel Creations is constantly SOLD OUT? Doesn't Mattel own that site? Why can't they at the very least keep that 1 website fully stocked??? That should be our go-to site for MOTU. But they never have any of the good shit IN STOCK. And figures like Kol-Darr, Camo Khan, Fang-Or & Lady Slither are "EXCLUSIVE". That is not the same as "LIMITED EDITION". Exclusive means they are only sold on that site and when you sell out *YOU CAN MAKE MORE!* They don't need to be a limited 1-off like a convention exclusive. "Exclusive" means that they are only sold on Mattel Creations. All those figures sold out within an hour and there is no reason why they simply can't produce more. I don't understand this thing in the toy industry where "EXCLUSIVE" and "LIMITED" mean the same exact thing. They are 2 completely different words for a reason. Just like "MAN" and "WOMAN" are not the same thing. If your shit sells out within 30 minutes that means you didn't make enough. *JUST MAKE MORE GODDAMIT!* Why is that so fuckin difficult? Don't you want to make money? What the hell is your problem Mattel? Seriously! *WHAT THE FUCK???* All you ever fuckin do is keep the scalpers in business while fucking over all the actual MOTU fans. That's a very stupid business strategy & you are losing millions of dollars every year. All the profit the scalpers are raking in could be yours. *STUPID-ASS MATTEL!*
Begining of the list and I am already so disagree... 😅 Kronis is really cool because You can enrich Your Ethernia by another representant of other race or specie of a blue skin men aswell as Keldor. The same with the comic book Stratos. I have multiple of them to create an army of Avians with grey Stratos as a lider. By the way He man is also a half naked guy abd nobody boders. ;)
Weird. That 2nd SunnMan 3pk is available in ample quantities at every Target Ive been to. We have 8 of them. Pig Man is on pegs right now at a few places. Origins isnt dead at retail. Filmation is still Origins. Were still getting the rest of the original line in Origins and Eternia and the Snake Men lair are coming along with Bashosaurus vehicle and the Powers of Grayskull characters. Lots of life left in the line. I just realzed I have two naked Stratos. The other is the Reaction version. I think there are 3 or 4 versions in that line. The mini comics figs arent for non-fans. Only fans are buying this line to begin with.
As a friend of the channel feel free to grab one of those sun man packs and simply mail it to me. I’m sure you’ll be thrilled to help me complete my collection! Lol thanks for the insights!
26:05 look dude I often agree with you on a lot of things and can usually let critizicisms slide, but I'm BEGGING YOU, please read Masters of the Multiverse (preferably the trade as it comes with character art that'll further my point), Keldor's face does look EXACTLY like that as He-Man! The only difference would be the harness should have new sculpting to make the cross the bones, also some white paint on the hair. Seriously not hating and I'm not saying you gotta change your ranking for him, but what you're saying needs to be changed with him is very much not the real issue with him.
@@fanboysforever yeah sorry to bother you with this and thanks for considering it. And again sorry for being annoying about it, I just think a lot of people are sleeping on that comic series & as a result many fans don't know what to make of him, when in my opinion he's one of the best characters in the franchise and Mattel did him dirty by releasing him like that. If you do manage to get around to it I hope you enjoy it! Oh and also Revolutions now that it's less than 2 weeks away from releasing!
The Figure is cool. But not the feet. I hate these regular sock-feet of Beast-Man, Stratos and Moss-Man. That messes up the whole look of every one of these figures. If there was modelling clay that one can "self-colorate" then I would buy some and practice until I get some decent feet done. I don´t want something painted because every paint-coat rubs off some day.
Not sure how you include figures with swapped out parts, seems pretty redundant. Also lowering the listing based on availability is kind of biased on your part. And not to mention your unoriginal ideas for enhancing certain figures like Fisto for example “diecast on the fist” I wonder where that idea came from?
Oh please, I clearly explained this list was my own opinion so yeah it’s biased. Nothing objective about it. And I stole an idea for wanting die cast for Fisto? lol what?? RU-vid comments truly never get old.
As soon as you said that Rattlor needed a vest/armor from the 200x show it gave me no choice but to stop watching the remainder of the video and disregard what I had watched . That sir is blasphemy .
