Mattel makes these figures the way a small press prints a book: once, to order, in a dated window, and then never again.
Blast-Attak is what that gets you. He is an evil android Mattel first released in 1987, his own product copy still calls him Program Robot Serial Number 1710 [1], and he came and went through a Club Grayskull window in January. Fourteen figures of that kind went up for pre-order at BigBadToyStore yesterday, and for four of them it is the only listing we could find still taking an order.
The gimmicks still work
Origins builds the action feature in, and the feature has to work in the hand rather than be sculpted on. Blast-Attak splits in half when you hit the pump trigger on his detonator, the same way he did in 1987, and then goes back together. Dragstor has a wheel in his stomach and a ripcord, and he still races across a table when you pull it. Stonedar carries eleven attached rock plates that fold him into a comet, and the light blazer blaster in his hand plugs into a hex port in his chest to become the radar antenna for that form. Expand-Or’s neck and torso telescope, and the four limb extenders in the box go on one limb each or stack into a single ridiculous super-limb! [2]
These are 2026 tools, sixteen points of articulation and a collector-friendly box, running tricks the eighties figures ran on a spring and a hinge. Hurricane Hordak is the clearest one: golden VUM armor off the 1986 figure, three spinning accessories for the cannon arm, and a second head sculpted from Filmation concept art, so one figure covers the toy and the cartoon.
Hurricane Hordak, in the golden VUM armor off the 1986 figure. The box also carries a second head sculpted from Filmation concept art. Product photography: Mattel.
The deep cuts
Mattel calls Sting-Or the first male scorpion character in the MOTU lineup, and he arrives with five points of articulation in the tail alone, on top of the usual sixteen. Vultak is Hordak’s cowardly zookeeper, with detachable wings and a taloned pair of feet, and his Zootron prison-guard robot is in the box with him. Despara is Adora in Horde armor, with an interchangeable Adora face and a Hordak-style mask and a cape molded to hold both her swords, put out by Mattel for the fortieth anniversary of She-Ra: Princess of Power in 2025 [3].
The one to look at hardest is Gray. He is the son of King Grayskull and Queen Veena, he is the boy who grows up to be He-Ro, and he has never had an Origins figure until now: a tunic, a Preternian spear, a removable soft plastic Spirit of Grayskull that sits on his shoulders, and a He-Ro staff that the story has no use for yet and that is in the box anyway.
Then there are the three that are not five and a half inches tall. Tauraton is eight inches of Preternian monster with four arms and a battering ram that clips onto any of them; Moss Man arrives at 8.25 inches and thirty two points for the first time, with a detachable hand that swaps for a three pronged root; and Chronicles King Grayskull is a six inch premium figure with thirty points, a soft goods cape, and an axe, shield and Power Sword all engraved.
Laser Power He-Man stays at five and a half, and he is a tribute to a figure Mattel says only ever appeared in Europe on a very limited distribution. His sword lights up.
What they cost, and where
Nine of the fourteen are priced under the number on Mattel’s own page. King Grayskull, Tauraton and the Deluxe Laser Power He-Man are $27.99 against Mattel’s $33.00, Deluxe Beast Man is $21.99 against $25.00, and Gray and Expand-Or are $19.99 against $22.00. All fourteen show a live add to cart and a fourth quarter 2026 arrival, except Vultak, estimated for the third [4].
Four have gone from creations.mattel.com altogether, so Dragstor at $27.99, Blast-Attak and Stonedar at $21.99 and Sting-Or at $27.99 are the only listings we could find that will take an order for those figures at all. Three of those four sit a penny under the price Mattel had on them. Sting-Or does not. He is $27.99 against the $22.00 on Mattel’s page, the only one of the fourteen where the closed window has moved the price up.
On four of them Mattel is cheaper today, because Mattel has marked them down itself. Moss Man is $17.50 on Creations against $19.99 at BigBadToyStore, Hurricane Hordak is $12.50 against $14.99, and Despara and Vultak are $10.00 each against $11.99 [5].
What the window means
A Creations figure is made to order inside a dated window, and when the window closes the product page stays up with the price still printed on it and the buy control switched off. We found Orko’s page in that condition a week ago, and the Chronicles King Hiss window opened on September 2. What is new is that a distributor allocation now arrives on the other side of a closed window, at a listed price. Today it is the only route to a Sting-Or.
Dragstor’s ripcord has worked since 1986. It is nice that somebody is still shipping it.
Sources
- Toy Habits, “Masters of the Universe Mattel Creations exclusives on BBTS”, September 8, 2026
- Mattel Creations product pages for all fourteen figures, read September 9, 2026. Every specification, accessory list and character note above is Mattel’s own copy.
- BigBadToyStore product pages 196863 through 196892, all fourteen read September 9, 2026.
- Product photography: Mattel.
[1] The rest of Mattel’s line on him: built to self-destruct after a set time, take out whatever is in front of him, and then reassemble himself. Quite a lot of backstory for a figure that splits at the waist.
[2] Most of these ship with a mini comic and two of them are named on the packaging. Stonedar’s is “Destroyer of Worlds” and Expand-Or’s is “Black Paladin”, the latter setting him against Extendar, whose gimmick he is a mirror of.
[3] Despara is Adora before She-Ra, so a shelf that already carries both is buying its third version of the same person. A feature of the property rather than a complaint.
[4] Every one of the fourteen also shows a SOLD OUT against the Substandard package grade. Substandard is BigBadToyStore’s second package grade and not the stock state of the figure; the Mint listing is the one carrying the add to cart. BigBadToyStore also states that its price includes a tariff surcharge set at the rate known when the listing went up, that the final figure can move either way, and that it will give notice and a cancellation window before charging.
[5] Prices on both stores were read in US dollars. Mattel Creations redirects to a local storefront and quotes Canadian dollars there, so a figure that reads $49.00 on a Canadian session is the $33.00 one.
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