The new cage feature is absolute genius! I wish that the classics version had this feature! And the torsos gimmick being able to snap onto the swamp water is again genius! I'm tempted to purchase it even though I no longer collect Origins . Thanks for yet another amazing video!
It’s a beautiful playset, very happy I decided to pick one up. Also the snake can swivel at the connection point, which allows for it to reach in front of the door.
That's been the great thing about Dan's reviews over the years. When something about a toy is off, he will note it and discuss it without going into the wild rage histrionics so many others lean on.
Dan, awesome content as always. I love this set. One thing to mention: (I’m not sure if someone already called this out) The Snake DOES swivel at the base as well - only it’s VERY stiff. I felt like I was going to break mine but it did finally loosen up.
I’ll definitely have to wait quite a while before I’m able to pick this up, Castle Grayskull is still in its box sitting at the top of the closet on our guest room…and money is extremely tight. The removable cage and the pit are definitely the best features about this play set! Saw some other reviews online and I don’t remember them mentioning that about the spider on the bottom of the snake head and what its intended use was. That’s a bit unfortunate. The quality of the plastic they’re using for many of the current toys really isn’t quite the same as it used to be 30-40 years ago. Just the way it is, I guess…
The stickers definitely looked a rushed afterthought, more than anything. Spying Nordor in the background, Dan. What do you think are the odds of a modern update for Nordor (or Starship Eternia), Crowd funding or otherwise?
I managed to find this playset just recently at a Target and opened it with my son earlier today! The instructions point out where to put the bridge inside when closing it up - Put the throne in the prison cell and put the bridge on the second floor, upside down. It's takes a bit of positioning to get it just right, but it's doable. Also, the Snake has one more articulation point! At the base where it connects, it's rather tight, I assume to support the weight of the whole snake, but it *can* bite dudes who are at the Wolf Gate. In fact, not sure if this was intentional or not, but the spacing between it's fangs is the same width as your average figures' neck! Excellent video as always!
About the snake, you can also position it rotating it from the connector point all the way clockwise (looking at it from the inside of the set,) and up from the middle articulation, to kinda make it look like it's wrapped around the mountain peak, like in the cartoon.
Someone else may have mentioned this by now, but there is one more peg for the spider on the inside of the mountain peak over the trapdoor. Thanks for the review! I am pleased with the new features added for the most part.
Just opened our Snake mountain and got it set up. We love it so far. The stickers feel nice but, yeah, the art on them isn’t great. Looks okay from a distance. The giant snake was a bit of a disappointment until we got the joints loosened up. Super tight and scary to move. Now we have it wrapped around the peak so it looks great on display. Our spider doesn’t turn the wolf head but that’s okay. We love all of the little areas we can plug it and the acid pool minions onto. The trap door, cage, throne, tendril vines on the secret entrance and the other accessories are cool. We’re also having trouble storing the weapons like the shield. Other than that it’s been a huge success. My one addition I wish I could add would be to add a slime feature to the wolf head so that it can ooze onto the chained victims on the outside. Slime makes everything better!
It took multiple generations of release to get a cage to be able to be located directly under the trap door in a playset. If they had incorporated that into the re-release of Grayskull for the the throne room trap door that would have been fantastic. I still have my childhood Snake Mountain, but even if I was wanting to purchase this new release, I'd be looking for repro stickers to place over the ones stuck on this new release. Otherwise, it's pretty cool.
Man ole man do I love this toy! I had the vintage Snake Mountain as a kid and it was one of my first toys I can remember playing with and loving so much, so this is a huge nostalgia hit for me. But when I was little Mumm-Ra lived there, Skeletor would just visit from time to time, hahaha! I put the spider above the doorway/entrance, there's a peg for it there and I think it looks cool in that spot as a "guard" for the door
Some things could've been made with a bit more care, but all in all it's a upgrade to the vintage one. If not at least because...Skeletor has got a Throne.
Great review! Mattel did a great job. Mattel should hire you for feedback during development as many of your nitpicks were important yet easily fixable. My biggest complaint is the microphone. A modern voice modulator would have been so cool!
There IS ARTICULATION FROM THE BASE OF THE SNAKE! It’s a swivel but it’s just really stiff and I was scared it may crack the square connection point, but it’s pretty sturdy due to the heft of the snake itself plus that middle swivel articulation point and the head and jaw Re spider there’s at least one or two other pegs for him , and I guess wolf head turns the spider but usually the lever should be smaller than the bigger action, so I agree somewhat
There is more articulation in the Snake, at the base joint. It's just pretty stiff at first and you worry you'll break it. The instructions actually show it too, you're supposed to be able to move it so the Snake can eat a figure standing at the top gate.
Great review, Dan! I’m hoping Toyhax comes through with some upgraded stickers for these playsets. As for the nitpicks, they’re all valid. I know the people designing these are big fans of the property. It’s just sad to see these things get through to the finished product.
A lava-cascade, like the classics version, would have been the cherry on the cake and pushed this over the top as a toy. Just a translucent plastic piece that could clip on between the two halves.
19:51 Wow holy crap- the original sticker has actual individual teeth on the skull and I didn't realize that was a view screen of planets in outer space along the bottom. 😮 I think some people sell reproduction vintage Snake Mountain stickers, if they are out there I'm totally getting some to cover these up.
@@Rocket1377 poor quality scan or photo blown up with an "AI" filter. Photoshop has such filters since at least 15 years, but of course that's what you get when you don't have a decent file to work from. This should never have gone through QC.
Great review! Sadly the new stickers look way washed out and stylized in adobe illustrator compared to the originals, and the new Grayskull stickers. I suppose you could get reproduction original stickers to cover it.
I’m loving these two Origins playsets. I hope they do more at retail like for the Turtles mashup they’re doing. Did you do an Origins Wind Raider review? I see it in this video but not in the MOTU Origins reviews.
Hi Dan, I've been watching your videos for a few years now and I have some helpful advice. I noticed your videos aren't white-balanced correctly, I've worked in media for 20 years so thought It might be helpful to let you know. That's why you kind of look pink in this video and sometimes the white background looks yellow. It's easy to fix, you can either set your white-balance preset on your camera for the lighting you're in, for example indoor lighting, or you can manually scroll through the "kelvin" (unit of measurement for white-balance) on your camera and hold up a white sheet of paper until the white looks correct. I hope that's helpful.
Personally, I prefer the look of the vintage one to the new one. But the new looks kinda cool. That skull inside made me have flasbacks of the original Snake Mountain.
One of the pool pegs could've been the female size. The ledge not being wide enough is flaw that they even mentioned in the reveal video last year and didn't do much about. Seems like the wolf's head could've been a periscope. No other reviewer I've seen mentioned the spider was supposed to turn the head. Seems like the weapons could've been different than the ones from the Skeleton Warriors set.
Awesome Review as always dude. 👍 So glad I have mine on pre order which is due the end of the month. This was a must have for me. The price point is very fair and super generous by mattel considering all the extras included. So happy to see skeletor throne added. The pit feature is very nice aswell. Love all the extra well thought out extra detailings. I plan to just buy the original electronic spooky voicebox wolf seperate with its battery pack and all wired etc. So can use that with it. So almost like super upgraded snake mountain by the time I'm finished with it. Maybe an idea for everyone who plans to get this. Due to wolf head having been downgraded with no sound. 👍 😉 Really loving what mattel did with it overall tho. 😊
Hey, Loved meeting you at Retropalooza... I came home after meeting you and built my Snake Mountain. I am having an issue with trapdoor getting stuck on cage. Have you had this problem?
the stickers look like they've had the colours autocorrected and then the photoshop oil paint filter was used to smooth them- but the levels were too high so it ate the detail.
Great review as always! For me, this will be my first snake mountain, and from what I’ve seen I am super excited. I did have an original Castle grey skull. The only thing I wish they had kept from the proto type was the opening above the cage on the bone throne side. Wish they could of kept that or even put a grate above the cage on that side. I like the idea of skelator mocking his prisoners from the throne.
They should have added the microphone and speaker box on this MOTU Origins one like they had on the original Snake Mountain. It's a huge disappointment, and it makes the original SM so much better.
I kept the box for grayskull and snake mountain. Never had them as a kid but I have them in display in my office next to my Real Ghostbusters Firehouse. If I can find a Filmations Ghostbusters Ghost Command I’ll be real happy. This line is fantastic, just hard to find the newer waves.
Great vid but you said castle greyskull instead of snake mountain on one part lol! Also I have something in common with the original snake mountain, I too am empty inside :(
Wow very nice playset got a few figs and got greyskull last year for cheap hopefully this set will be available here in Canada at a reasonable price looks very interesting. Great review
I guess there is different rules for a playset for kids today than in the 80s, probably why the stickers has changed. If not this style is more in tune with modern style of art, not so gritty as in the 80s.
I like the old one better with the microphone and the movable snake and mouth. This one looks cheap. I like the monsters in the pit though thats a nice touch.
I hope Amazon brings it to Brazil. Right now, only a small toy store is getting MOTU Origins from Mattel. I asked the guy that is doing that (great chap) to ask for the Snake Montain, but let's see.
Maybe you can help me, i remember having a prince adam figure with his white shirt but what i did not know untill i fell over and dropped him was that the white shirt was clipped on in 2 parts, the front and the back where 2 sepwrate pieces and revealed his muscley torso. Everyone i mention this figure to never inows what im talking about and say it didnt exist but i know it did, do you have that figure by any chance?
Great review, as always! Thank you! I'd like to get this at some point, but mostly just to augment the Super7 Snake Mountain with the extra unique stuff, so it's not high on my priorities list at the moment. Wow, those new stickers, and that "computer" sticker in particular, look terrible compared to the originals!
Hi Pixel Dan and thank you very much for this review, the SM is excellent but I agree with you regarding the stickeys, they are of very poor quality and never compare to the vintage, but it's a great playset and I hope Mattel make the Fright Zone, rock on and blessings 🤘
I bought one from Target 6 days ago for $79.99. It's not in the toy aisle with the MOTU figures. It's on a shelf near the big toys like the toddler cars. Unfortunately, they only had one. The store associate said they just put that one on the shelf that day. I was just lucky I guess. Also, there's a purple 'C' clip that fell out of the box. I couldn't figure out where to put it on the playset. It's not in the instruction or picture. Any idea where it goes? Maybe it's just there to keep the playset sturdy in the box?
You might’ve figured it out by now but just in case. It plugs in above the wood flooring next to the throne. It’s where the wolf head clips into when it’s assembled
I think the original version suffered from having the electronics. It priced it out of having additional play features. Now that they dropped the electronics, you can see how much more features they added.
Yeah the stickers look like they scanned the original and printed off of that. Oh well I am sure repro sellers will make a mint on replacement OG SM stickers. Great review.
An still the ever elusive holes along the walk path are going to elude us for eternity. Pixel Dan I was hoping you would be able to shed light on the holes along the walk path as to what they’re for. Follow the walk path and you will see empty holes on the wall following the walk path. You been challenged to find out what they’re for.
I thought you were meant to turn the wolf head to wiggle the spider; not the other way around. Isn't there a peg for the spider above the entrance gate? A shame they got amazing art on the box, yet didn't bother with the actual toy's stickers.
I ordered Snake Mountain from Amazon last month and originally they said delivery would be between 21st dec 2023 - march 14th 2024, then last week they said october 20th - 21st will be the delivery date, but no, now they wrote an email yesterday that they already send it to me and it should arrive monday. So i checked the ordering part in my account and what should i say? It seems like it could be here friday already. So i hope this will be true.
Will you buy this despite the stickers. Really. Lol. That’s the least relevant feature on the play set. I’ll take an upper level , skeletors throne, dungeon, better snake, better bridge, over some damn stickers. I actually grew up in the 80’s. The vintage snake mountain was basically a shell on the inside. The origins is definitely an upgrade.
Dang, yeah. Those stickers are kind of disappointing. It wouldn't have taken too much effort if they could have scanned in or took some photos of those older stickers to remaster for this new playset
I think the next playset should be a new Evil Horde Fright Zone. Also made much bigger and better than the original. Mattel needs to make this happen. The Horde needs their stronghold too. I'm very happy with my origins Snake Mountain. And I'm actually adding my own custom paint details to the snake to really bring it to life. And as always, I really enjoy your reviews.
Origins Fright Zone should be a combination of the toy Fright Zone and the Doom Tower (i.e. Filmation Fright Zone) that Mattel proposed in their recent poll. And it should also include the Slime Pit. That would be a truly amazing playset
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Will you buy this, despite the stickers?
Yeah, I've got mine waiting in my BBTS pile of loot.
Awesome!
Just ordered it. Thanks for the heads-up.
I bought 2, one from bug bad, one from Amazon. My nephew is getting the 2nd one!
I ordered it already. The stickers are disappointing, though
The new cage feature is absolute genius! I wish that the classics version had this feature! And the torsos gimmick being able to snap onto the swamp water is again genius! I'm tempted to purchase it even though I no longer collect Origins . Thanks for yet another amazing video!
It’s a beautiful playset, very happy I decided to pick one up. Also the snake can swivel at the connection point, which allows for it to reach in front of the door.
Thanks for letting me know!
A thorough, honest review. To show that it is OK to like something but also dislike many aspects
Thank you and thank you for watching all the way through!
That's been the great thing about Dan's reviews over the years. When something about a toy is off, he will note it and discuss it without going into the wild rage histrionics so many others lean on.
Dan, awesome content as always. I love this set. One thing to mention: (I’m not sure if someone already called this out) The Snake DOES swivel at the base as well - only it’s VERY stiff. I felt like I was going to break mine but it did finally loosen up.
Thank you for this, after installing I carefully tried to move it and it moved; you're right, it's VERY tight at first.
I’ll definitely have to wait quite a while before I’m able to pick this up, Castle Grayskull is still in its box sitting at the top of the closet on our guest room…and money is extremely tight. The removable cage and the pit are definitely the best features about this play set! Saw some other reviews online and I don’t remember them mentioning that about the spider on the bottom of the snake head and what its intended use was. That’s a bit unfortunate. The quality of the plastic they’re using for many of the current toys really isn’t quite the same as it used to be 30-40 years ago. Just the way it is, I guess…
The stickers definitely looked a rushed afterthought, more than anything. Spying Nordor in the background, Dan. What do you think are the odds of a modern update for Nordor (or Starship Eternia), Crowd funding or otherwise?
I managed to find this playset just recently at a Target and opened it with my son earlier today!
The instructions point out where to put the bridge inside when closing it up - Put the throne in the prison cell and put the bridge on the second floor, upside down. It's takes a bit of positioning to get it just right, but it's doable.
Also, the Snake has one more articulation point! At the base where it connects, it's rather tight, I assume to support the weight of the whole snake, but it *can* bite dudes who are at the Wolf Gate. In fact, not sure if this was intentional or not, but the spacing between it's fangs is the same width as your average figures' neck!
Excellent video as always!
About the snake, you can also position it rotating it from the connector point all the way clockwise (looking at it from the inside of the set,) and up from the middle articulation, to kinda make it look like it's wrapped around the mountain peak, like in the cartoon.
Someone else may have mentioned this by now, but there is one more peg for the spider on the inside of the mountain peak over the trapdoor. Thanks for the review! I am pleased with the new features added for the most part.
There is also a third one, on the left side bottom level right under the floor piece of the second level.
Just opened our Snake mountain and got it set up. We love it so far. The stickers feel nice but, yeah, the art on them isn’t great. Looks okay from a distance. The giant snake was a bit of a disappointment until we got the joints loosened up. Super tight and scary to move. Now we have it wrapped around the peak so it looks great on display. Our spider doesn’t turn the wolf head but that’s okay. We love all of the little areas we can plug it and the acid pool minions onto. The trap door, cage, throne, tendril vines on the secret entrance and the other accessories are cool. We’re also having trouble storing the weapons like the shield. Other than that it’s been a huge success. My one addition I wish I could add would be to add a slime feature to the wolf head so that it can ooze onto the chained victims on the outside. Slime makes everything better!
It took multiple generations of release to get a cage to be able to be located directly under the trap door in a playset. If they had incorporated that into the re-release of Grayskull for the the throne room trap door that would have been fantastic. I still have my childhood Snake Mountain, but even if I was wanting to purchase this new release, I'd be looking for repro stickers to place over the ones stuck on this new release. Otherwise, it's pretty cool.
Man ole man do I love this toy! I had the vintage Snake Mountain as a kid and it was one of my first toys I can remember playing with and loving so much, so this is a huge nostalgia hit for me. But when I was little Mumm-Ra lived there, Skeletor would just visit from time to time, hahaha! I put the spider above the doorway/entrance, there's a peg for it there and I think it looks cool in that spot as a "guard" for the door
Awesome!
Some things could've been made with a bit more care, but all in all it's a upgrade to the vintage one. If not at least because...Skeletor has got a Throne.
Something I would like to see was the lava effect that the Mega Snake Mountain has added to the origins one.
The Classics playset had that too.
Great review! Mattel did a great job. Mattel should hire you for feedback during development as many of your nitpicks were important yet easily fixable. My biggest complaint is the microphone. A modern voice modulator would have been so cool!
The box artwork is amazing but I like the vintage more, great video and review Dan.
Thanks for watching!
There IS ARTICULATION FROM THE BASE OF THE SNAKE!
It’s a swivel but it’s just really stiff and I was scared it may crack the square connection point, but it’s pretty sturdy due to the heft of the snake itself
plus that middle swivel articulation point and the head and jaw
Re spider there’s at least one or two other pegs for him ,
and I guess wolf head turns the spider but usually the lever should be smaller than the bigger action, so I agree somewhat
It's at Target in the oversized holiday aisles btw
There is more articulation in the Snake, at the base joint. It's just pretty stiff at first and you worry you'll break it. The instructions actually show it too, you're supposed to be able to move it so the Snake can eat a figure standing at the top gate.
Great review, Dan! I’m hoping Toyhax comes through with some upgraded stickers for these playsets. As for the nitpicks, they’re all valid. I know the people designing these are big fans of the property. It’s just sad to see these things get through to the finished product.
Praying for a Crystal castle play set too🏰 !
It Looks fantastic. I love the Throne. I always wanted that!!
A lava-cascade, like the classics version, would have been the cherry on the cake and pushed this over the top as a toy. Just a translucent plastic piece that could clip on between the two halves.
19:51 Wow holy crap- the original sticker has actual individual teeth on the skull and I didn't realize that was a view screen of planets in outer space along the bottom. 😮
I think some people sell reproduction vintage Snake Mountain stickers, if they are out there I'm totally getting some to cover these up.
Yeah, the MOTU Origins stickers are awful, especially this one. It looks like a poor quality scan of the original. I recommend Toyhax stickers.
@@Rocket1377 poor quality scan or photo blown up with an "AI" filter. Photoshop has such filters since at least 15 years, but of course that's what you get when you don't have a decent file to work from. This should never have gone through QC.
Pixel Dan I have a question if the dungeon fit some how to the grayskull. Great video ❤
Holy Smokes! That's what I call a Huge Spectacular MOTU Snake Mountain Playset! Very Interesting and Informative. Thanks Pixel Dan for sharing!
if you use scare glows boots on that skeletor it looks really cool
Great review! Sadly the new stickers look way washed out and stylized in adobe illustrator compared to the originals, and the new Grayskull stickers. I suppose you could get reproduction original stickers to cover it.
An art book would be amazing. I don’t collect Masters, but I get it!
The side-shimmie over the bridge makes it feel more like cheating-out like in a stage production, you see the figures better if they do that
Snake and wolf are both flame throwers or spit acid, or both , IMAGINATION 😂🎉
I’m loving these two Origins playsets. I hope they do more at retail like for the Turtles mashup they’re doing.
Did you do an Origins Wind Raider review? I see it in this video but not in the MOTU Origins reviews.
haha i was waiting for the "im the voice of snake mountain" line!
Hi Dan, I've been watching your videos for a few years now and I have some helpful advice. I noticed your videos aren't white-balanced correctly, I've worked in media for 20 years so thought It might be helpful to let you know. That's why you kind of look pink in this video and sometimes the white background looks yellow. It's easy to fix, you can either set your white-balance preset on your camera for the lighting you're in, for example indoor lighting, or you can manually scroll through the "kelvin" (unit of measurement for white-balance) on your camera and hold up a white sheet of paper until the white looks correct. I hope that's helpful.
Personally, I prefer the look of the vintage one to the new one. But the new looks kinda cool. That skull inside made me have flasbacks of the original Snake Mountain.
One of the pool pegs could've been the female size.
The ledge not being wide enough is flaw that they even mentioned in the reveal video last year and didn't do much about.
Seems like the wolf's head could've been a periscope.
No other reviewer I've seen mentioned the spider was supposed to turn the head.
Seems like the weapons could've been different than the ones from the Skeleton Warriors set.
Happy 2024 ok love Dwight Jr 🎄
Awesome Review as always dude. 👍 So glad I have mine on pre order which is due the end of the month. This was a must have for me. The price point is very fair and super generous by mattel considering all the extras included. So happy to see skeletor throne added.
The pit feature is very nice aswell. Love all the extra well thought out extra detailings.
I plan to just buy the original electronic spooky voicebox wolf seperate with its battery pack and all wired etc. So can use that with it. So almost like super upgraded snake mountain by the time I'm finished with it. Maybe an idea for everyone who plans to get this. Due to wolf head having been downgraded with no sound. 👍 😉
Really loving what mattel did with it overall tho. 😊
Hey,
Loved meeting you at Retropalooza... I came home after meeting you and built my Snake Mountain. I am having an issue with trapdoor getting stuck on cage. Have you had this problem?
the stickers look like they've had the colours autocorrected and then the photoshop oil paint filter was used to smooth them- but the levels were too high so it ate the detail.
Got mine last week from BBTS and I love it! Looks so good and it's so much fun!
I positioned the spider on the inside at the top of the peak. So it can drop down and scare/attack intruders.
Great review Dan!! The snake does swivel!! It is just too tight on the base!!
The snake has one more point of articulation at the base. Allowing it to attack the intruders at the gate
Great review as always! For me, this will be my first snake mountain, and from what I’ve seen I am super excited. I did have an original Castle grey skull. The only thing I wish they had kept from the proto type was the opening above the cage on the bone throne side. Wish they could of kept that or even put a grate above the cage on that side. I like the idea of skelator mocking his prisoners from the throne.
They should have added the microphone and speaker box on this MOTU Origins one like they had on the original Snake Mountain. It's a huge disappointment, and it makes the original SM so much better.
Thanks Dan for the review. Appreciate your efforts.
I had the original one! And you were able to move (turn) the snake around.
Sweet! Ive been looking forward to this review!
Hope you enjoy it!
have this sitting in my closet in the shipping box waiting for my kid's christmas. its killing me not to rip it out and set it up.
I believe there's another peg over the door for the spider.
The spider isn’t suppose to turn the wolf head. And the snake has more articulation and works great.
I kept the box for grayskull and snake mountain. Never had them as a kid but I have them in display in my office next to my Real Ghostbusters Firehouse. If I can find a Filmations Ghostbusters Ghost Command I’ll be real happy. This line is fantastic, just hard to find the newer waves.
Great vid but you said castle greyskull instead of snake mountain on one part lol!
Also I have something in common with the original snake mountain, I too am empty inside :(
I finally got my hands on one, I love it!
So I'm with ya on the nit picks. But for toy modders can't wait to see what they do with this another of potential in mods before assembly.
I always thought Snake Mountain’s slime pit was where Hordak got the idea for his slime pit.
Mattel should do an add on pack with lava waterfall and black table with red orb
I just wish we got a little bit of deco on the snake. We just need The Fright Zone and slime pit to complete the Eternia battlefield!
This but with rgb LED eyes, and a fog machine would be an epic display.
Oh yes!
Wow very nice playset got a few figs and got greyskull last year for cheap hopefully this set will be available here in Canada at a reasonable price looks very interesting.
Great review
I guess there is different rules for a playset for kids today than in the 80s, probably why the stickers has changed. If not this style is more in tune with modern style of art, not so gritty as in the 80s.
Best news about this set....the stickers are already on it 🎉🎉🎉
But are they good
@@Pixel-dan No. 😔
I like the old one better with the microphone and the movable snake and mouth.
This one looks cheap.
I like the monsters in the pit though thats a nice touch.
I kinda prefer the stickers, they look more painterly. Almost like the box illustrations.
Oh. That's an interesting take!
No way. Look how randomly melted and the buttons are. This is an AI job. It's taking away from a real artist being paid.
I hope Amazon brings it to Brazil. Right now, only a small toy store is getting MOTU Origins from Mattel. I asked the guy that is doing that (great chap) to ask for the Snake Montain, but let's see.
The mountain peak really does it for me. Idk why. It just does.
I love snake mountain that is my favorite castle in the he man line
Yea? Like this one?
@@Pixel-dan Yes I love this snake mountain better than the 80s the origins has Skeletor throne 😍
Sadly, they decided to remove the best feature SM had: the microphone.
Would repro stickers of the original fit on the new Snake Mt?
I don’t think so
Maybe you can help me, i remember having a prince adam figure with his white shirt but what i did not know untill i fell over and dropped him was that the white shirt was clipped on in 2 parts, the front and the back where 2 sepwrate pieces and revealed his muscley torso. Everyone i mention this figure to never inows what im talking about and say it didnt exist but i know it did, do you have that figure by any chance?
Great review, as always! Thank you!
I'd like to get this at some point, but mostly just to augment the Super7 Snake Mountain with the extra unique stuff, so it's not high on my priorities list at the moment.
Wow, those new stickers, and that "computer" sticker in particular, look terrible compared to the originals!
Wow, how incredible 💙💚😍👍 I hope there will be Casstle Grayskull as huge like this snake mountin soon 💙🙏
I hope so too!
I'd buy posters for a lot of these art peaces on the box
Yes!
There is articulation at the base of the snake. It's just very stiff but it does move.
Hi Pixel Dan and thank you very much for this review, the SM is excellent but I agree with you regarding the stickeys, they are of very poor quality and never compare to the vintage, but it's a great playset and I hope Mattel make the Fright Zone, rock on and blessings 🤘
I was bummed that they left out the mic.
It is kind of a bummer
4 sure, but like you said there are some great features! Can't wait to unbox mine! Great review as always!@@Pixel-dan
I bought one from Target 6 days ago for $79.99. It's not in the toy aisle with the MOTU figures. It's on a shelf near the big toys like the toddler cars. Unfortunately, they only had one. The store associate said they just put that one on the shelf that day. I was just lucky I guess. Also, there's a purple 'C' clip that fell out of the box. I couldn't figure out where to put it on the playset. It's not in the instruction or picture. Any idea where it goes? Maybe it's just there to keep the playset sturdy in the box?
You might’ve figured it out by now but just in case. It plugs in above the wood flooring next to the throne. It’s where the wolf head clips into when it’s assembled
Random question- why didn’t they give Stinkor a Skunk tail?
Eternal customs has the third snake from the sticker available as a 3d print
yes i will buy it , and the new skeletor cartoon mattel creations
Ill combine my huge classic with this one.
I think the original version suffered from having the electronics. It priced it out of having additional play features. Now that they dropped the electronics, you can see how much more features they added.
The microphone gimmick is what made the original unique and more fun.
@Robert-nu4vc Plus, the microphone had reverb to make it more spooky.
I had the original one, sold some years ago for 60 euro in really good condition...big mistake... Now i ll buy this one for my son. 😅 Or for me? 😂
Yeah the stickers look like they scanned the original and printed off of that. Oh well I am sure repro sellers will make a mint on replacement OG SM stickers. Great review.
Could be
I wish the snake can rotate to wrap around the peak.
An still the ever elusive holes along the walk path are going to elude us for eternity. Pixel Dan I was hoping you would be able to shed light on the holes along the walk path as to what they’re for. Follow the walk path and you will see empty holes on the wall following the walk path. You been challenged to find out what they’re for.
The snake does rotate at the base.
I wouldn't call it nitpicking, features need to work.
That snake looks more like a crocodile or Harry Potter’s basilisk
Oh, yeah! Newer is better!
Snake Mountain bridges never seem to be up to OSHA standards. But I want to know how the little floor monsters look on Origin figure legs.
What's round the snake neck ? And it don't move like original
Awesome Review
I thought you were meant to turn the wolf head to wiggle the spider; not the other way around.
Isn't there a peg for the spider above the entrance gate?
A shame they got amazing art on the box, yet didn't bother with the actual toy's stickers.
I ordered Snake Mountain from Amazon last month and originally they said delivery would be between 21st dec 2023 - march 14th 2024, then last week they said october 20th - 21st will be the delivery date, but no, now they wrote an email yesterday that they already send it to me and it should arrive monday. So i checked the ordering part in my account and what should i say? It seems like it could be here friday already. So i hope this will be true.
Will you buy this despite the stickers. Really. Lol. That’s the least relevant feature on the play set. I’ll take an upper level , skeletors throne, dungeon, better snake, better bridge, over some damn stickers. I actually grew up in the 80’s. The vintage snake mountain was basically a shell on the inside. The origins is definitely an upgrade.
It is so much bigger than Castle grayskul.
Cool toys collection ❤😊
Dang, yeah. Those stickers are kind of disappointing. It wouldn't have taken too much effort if they could have scanned in or took some photos of those older stickers to remaster for this new playset
I think the next playset should be a new Evil Horde Fright Zone. Also made much bigger and better than the original. Mattel needs to make this happen. The Horde needs their stronghold too. I'm very happy with my origins Snake Mountain. And I'm actually adding my own custom paint details to the snake to really bring it to life. And as always, I really enjoy your reviews.
Origins Fright Zone should be a combination of the toy Fright Zone and the Doom Tower (i.e. Filmation Fright Zone) that Mattel proposed in their recent poll. And it should also include the Slime Pit. That would be a truly amazing playset