THE EVIL GIANT
A green-skinned villain with rooted hair and a spring in his leg, Tytus's enemy, released in Europe as the original line wound down.
Megator is the evil giant of Mattel's Powers of Grayskull subline, a kicking villain with rooted hair whose figure was released only in Europe, in 1988.
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EUROPE, 1988
Megator was the evil half of Mattel's matchup of giants, planned for The Powers of Grayskull in 1987, the subline set in Preternia, a prehistoric Eternia of dinosaurs and giants. Masters of the Universe sales collapsed in the United States that year, the giants never reached American stores, and Megator came out in Europe in 1988, in small numbers. Battle Ram's Adam McCombs calls him the coda of the original vintage line.[1]
Mattel sold him on a single feature. The catalog promised that "Kids can make the spring-action leg on Megator deliver a powerful kick! And his ball and chain weapon can knock down warriors!" The figure is about seventeen inches tall, molded in dark green with brown armor, a skull on the chest and long black rooted hair, a treatment he shared with Tytus and one the line rarely used. The kick is the reason for his skimpy loincloth, and the spiked ball on its chain is held in his hand. The sculpt is careful everywhere but the shins and ankles, which look unfinished.[2]
THE DESIGN
His roots go back to Mark Taylor, who designed He-Man, Skeletor and Castle Grayskull and worked on the line until about 1982: Battle Ram traces Megator to Taylor's art for an unrelated toy line about giants, with a ragged loincloth, spikes, a cloth wrap and manacles on chains. After Taylor left, Mark Jones traced that drawing and reworked it into an ogre, crediting Taylor's original in the corner, and Alan Tyler gave the giant a costume of his own, with a spiked ball chained to the wrist and a scimitar that was later cut. A near-final concept has a snake headband and a snake on the chest, both gone by the time the skull went on the toy.[3]
Ted Mayer was drawing along the same lines: his ogre concept dates from 1984, and his Big Foot concept had a spring-loaded leg like the one Megator ended up with. William George painted the front of the box, and an unknown artist painted the back; both show Megator fighting He-Ro, the young hero of the Preternia story. Errol McCarthy drew the same fight for a He-Ro cardback that never shipped, and Super7 finally printed it in 2019 with its replica He-Ro.
[3] ^ A Powers of Grayskull concept painting shows stampeding giants with bluish skin, close to Tyler's drawing; the green came later. Gigantisaur, a dinosaur planned for the same subline, got as far as a prototype.
IN PRINT
The one story known to feature Megator is Italian. La Creatura Infernale, written and drawn by Giuliano Piccininno for Magic Boy Magazine in 1988, has Skeletor and Evil-Lyn create the giant and turn him loose on He-Man and his friends. He also turned up beside Tytus in a few Italian print ads.
COLLECTOR EDITIONS
The modern Megator is a collector piece made long after the 1988 toy, and whatever its packaging says about him is newer writing. Masters of the Universe Classics sold him through MattyCollector in August 2011, in a window box with a green stone pattern. Figure Fan Zero paid $40 for a figure much bigger than the line's earlier Shadow Beast, with a soft harness carrying a skull, a spiked ball nearly half the height of a regular Classics figure and a second head, more hideous than the first and with rooted hair, tucked into the box.[4]
Mattel also went back to his box for a new character. Sharella, an Origins figure made for Club Grayskull members, was designed, in Mattel's words, "to be true to her appearance on Megator's packaging." Megator himself has not been made in Origins, and he is missing from the checklist Mattel posted on October 12, 2026, when it called its Origins vintage line complete.
[4] ^ Figure Fan Zero's review of the Classics figure is dated August 30, 2011.
IN BRIEF
Mattel's US catalog shows him with Tytus, though America never gets either giant.
The figure goes on sale in small numbers, and Magic Boy Magazine gives him his only known story.
A Classics Megator with a spare rooted-hair head, sold through MattyCollector.
Mattel builds an Origins heroine from the art on his box.
Questions
The evil giant of The Powers of Grayskull, Mattel's planned story set in Preternia, Eternia's prehistoric past.
In 1988, only in Europe. He was in Mattel's 1987 US catalog but never went on sale in America.
A spring-loaded leg that kicks. He also carries a spiked ball on a chain.
He started with Mark Taylor's giant art, was reworked by Mark Jones and Alan Tyler, and William George painted the box.
Tytus, the peaceful giant, and He-Ro, the hero of the Preternia story.
La Creatura Infernale by Giuliano Piccininno, in Italy's Magic Boy Magazine in 1988, where Skeletor and Evil-Lyn create him.
No. No He-Man or She-Ra series ever animated him, and he is in neither the 1987 film nor the 2026 one.
Masters of the Universe Classics made one in 2011. He has not been made in Origins.
Not new. The vintage giant and the Classics figure are long gone from stores.
Compiled by the heman.org desk from Battle Ram's history of the vintage figure (Adam McCombs, April 3, 2023), Mattel's 1987 catalog and the Megator box as reproduced on Battle Ram, Figure Fan Zero's review of the Classics figure (August 30, 2011), Mattel's product copy for Origins Sharella and Mattel's October 12, 2026 Origins checklist.
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