Hey everyone! To continue in the Halloween spirit, for my latest custom I bring you Eye-Lash! The cycloptic femme fatale, the evil mistress of torture for the Evil Horde! This idea was brought to me by Masters of the Universe fan Joe Martin. He had entered this into the 2012 Masters of the Universe Classics Create-A-Character contest. Sadly it didn’t win, so he sought me out to realize his idea in custom figure form. And let me say, I’m glad he did, because this was a fun one. The Evil Horde is easily my favorite faction of MOTU lore, due to the fact that most of the members are based on classic movie and literary monsters. Eye-Lash here is no different. She’s a cyclops for crying out loud! She’s covered in creepy eyes all over her outfit, she’s got a crazy looking “cat eye nine tails” whip, and she’s plenty evil to boot. She definitely fits in with the Evil Horde. Be sure to click the photo below to check out the full photo set and description for my custom Eye-Lash. You can also read a full character bio written up by her creator, Mr. Joe Martin himself.
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EYE-LASH
Mistress of Torture for the Evil Horde!
REAL NAME:Iruss of Retinali
Down in the lower parts of the Fright Zone is a prison for captured rebels. There, the prisoners are tortured for information or sometimes just for cruel enjoyment. Keeper of this place of pain is the one eyed femme fatale known as Eye-Lash. A former dungeon keeper on her homeworld of Retinali, she joined Hordak with the promise of being able to interrogate prisoners as she saw fit. Her weapon of choice is her “Cat Eye Nine Tails”, a multi-strapped whip with ball bearings on each end that look like eyeballs. While she is often busy in her dungeon, Eye-Lash is also a skilled hand-to-hand combatant trained in a martial art native to her home planet and is often sent out with her fellow Horde members on missions. If her main eye is somehow blinded, the eyes on her hands take over to allow her to see. She is so well known for her cruel ways that when other Horde members want to scare each other, they tell stories of her many torture sessions. Ever ready to do what Hordak asks, Eye-Lash uses her whip to torture prisoners in the name of the Evil Horde!
The design and concept for Eye-Lash was created completely by Joe Martin. He had entered it into the 2012 Masters of the Universe Classics Create-A-Character Contest. Sadly it did not win, so he came to me to realize his creation in action figure form. I used a Masters of the Universe Classics Catra as the base. I had to resculpt the head, giving her the giant single eyeball and sculpting her hair and fusing it with hair from a movie Invisible Woman figure. For the actual eyelashes, I actually used a pair of fake eyelashes carefully glued into place and trimmed to fit. The hands are Catra’s hands combined with the fingers from a NECA Aliens Xenomorph. Each finger also has a bendable wire so they’re fully poseable! The eyeballs all over her body are made from small beads. Her choker, and the emblems on her gauntlets and boots are made from styrene. The whip is made from the handle of an axe in my fodder bin, and all 9 of the whips are thick fabric thread knotted at the end with beads attached to each painted to look like eyeballs. Everything was painted using Mr. Martin’s design as my guide, and that’s it! Eye-Lash is ready to fight for the Evil Horde, and a very fond Masters of the Universe fan is made happy.
Mattycollector just revealed on their Facebook page the packaging shots and bio for the upcoming Masters of the Universe Classics Octavia figure. She’s going to be on sale on June 17th on Mattycollector.com.
Wow, ok, so I totally jumped the gun with that last post revealing Mantenna. Turns out that a LOT of Mattel Toy Fair reveals have leaked on the internet. It’s crazy how much stuff got leaked. MOTUC, DC Signature Collection, Watchmen, even the Castle Grayskull playset prototype! Wow! The guys over at Mattel must be upset right now, but suffice it to say that the fans are pleased! Here’s a full list of the reveals:
Over on the Masters of the Universe Classics Facebook page, a picture has been posted of what looks like a Masters of the Universe Classics Mantenna figure. According to the post, it was found after snooping around on the Mattycollector/Digital River website. This likely wasn’t supposed to be seen until after Toy Fair this weekend, but hey we all know how the internet works. Nobody at Mattel has confirmed its validity yet, but it does have the Mattel watermark on the picture. At any rate, it looks pretty awesome.
Mosquitor has always been one of the more interesting Masters of the Universe characters, at least to me. It’s also definitely been anticipated by a certain well known MOTUC figure reviewer. As someone who has absolutely loved monsters, even as a kid, I always thought the Horde was really cool. So many of them had obvious homages to the classic Universal Monsters, so that appealed to me. I always thought of Hordak as sort of the Count Dracula of the Horde, but I think it’s safe to say that Mosquitor is definitely closer related to vampires, considering he actually drinks blood. And not only does he drink it, he forces his victims to watch as their own blood fills him up via that clear chest plate of his. It’s something that’s kind of gruesome for a kid’s toy line, and certainly something you wouldn’t see in any kids toy lines today.
With the addition of Mosquitor in the Masters of the Universe Classics toy line, it helps bolster the ranks of The Evil Horde, so I was excited to get him from Mattycollector. Join me as I take a closer look at Mosquitor and see if he lives up to the expectations.
MOSQUITOR
Evil Energy-Draining Insectoid™
REAL NAME:Bliddeon Black
A Kribleen insectoid vampire from the Gluubux Galaxy, Mosquitor™ joined The Evil Horde™ on his own accord, preferring the Empire to life in a mud hole on his home world. Looking like a normal insectoid, Mosquitor™ moves in on his prey, then stings them hard and sucks them dry. He is extremely vicious though not particularly brainy. You can’t get blood from a rock, but Mosquitor™ has tried in his day. Mosquitor™ drains his enemies of their energy while his bionic stinger and chest oozes red with power. Even Hordak® keeps his distance from The Evil Horde™ vampire!
Wow, ok, so I totally jumped the gun with that last post revealing Mantenna. Turns out that a LOT of Mattel Toy Fair reveals have leaked on the internet. It’s crazy how much stuff got leaked. MOTUC, DC Signature Collection, Watchmen, even the Castle Grayskull playset prototype! Wow! The guys over at Mattel must be upset right now, but suffice it to say that the fans are pleased! Here’s a full list of the reveals:
Over on the Masters of the Universe Classics Facebook page, a picture has been posted of what looks like a Masters of the Universe Classics Mantenna figure. According to the post, it was found after snooping around on the Mattycollector/Digital River website. This likely wasn’t supposed to be seen until after Toy Fair this weekend, but hey we all know how the internet works. Nobody at Mattel has confirmed its validity yet, but it does have the Mattel watermark on the picture. At any rate, it looks pretty awesome.