Mattel has named its November drop: Eldor, at $22, with Club Grayskull first in line

Before there was He-Ro, there was Eldor. Mattel wrote that line itself, at the top of the product page it put up on 5 November. Masters of the Universe Origins Eldor is item JHK26, and he costs $22.00. Mattel’s member window opened on 11 November at 9:00am Pacific, and he is orderable now.¹ For the first twenty-four hours only Club Grayskull members can buy him.²

The listing settles a question the trade press has been answering on its own since late October. Toy Habits called this drop for Eldor on 29 October. It read two teaser macros, a brown and gold book and a blue and white crystal ball on a gold base, against the figure printed on the back of the Origins Snake Lair card. We declined to run it twice, on 29 October and again on 1 November, because Mattel had said nothing and a trade site reasoning from packaging art is not the maker naming a product. The guess was right, and both objects are in the box. Mattel still had not said it then, and did not until the fifth.

What Mattel is selling

He is 5.5 inches with sixteen points of articulation. The accessory list runs to a removable hood, belt and jacket, a wooden staff, the crystal ball, and the Book of Living Spells with a detailed interior. The product photography shows what that detail amounts to: the book opens, and the visible spread carries rows of runes around small inset icons, one of them a sword. The hood is a separate piece rather than a sculpted part of the head, so he photographs both ways: cowled in the hero shot, bare-headed in the accessory shot with the brown hood lying beside the staff.

The packaging puts him under The Powers of GraySkull, the vintage-styled sub-line banner. The nameplate under his logo reads Heroic Guardian of the Book of Living Spells! Mattel’s own description gives him Preternia, a wise and mysterious wizard capable of wielding great power. There is no more biography than that. The pack-in is a mini comic titled Gauntlet of the Dead, and its cover has Eldor hooded with both hands raised and a grey-skinned figure in white robes at his shoulder.

The twelfth is the first day anyone outside the club can buy him

Eldor has been made once before, and almost nobody could buy that one either. Our catalogue entry for the 2014 Classics figure records that he went out through the MattyCollector subscription rather than at retail, a Four Horsemen sculpt in the 7 inch collector scale, long out of production and only available secondhand. The restriction runs from 9:00am Pacific on the eleventh to 8:59am Pacific on the twelfth. Nothing in Mattel’s wording closes the sale when it lapses.² If he is still there on the morning of the twelfth, that is the first time anyone has been able to walk up and buy an Eldor.

The fine print says the member window runs while supplies last. Club Grayskull is the same $9.99 a year it was in September, but its own listing copy says that membership does not provide a guarantee to purchase. We watched the same structure in October, on Laser Light Skeletor: the window opened, nothing sold out, and the figure was still there for everyone the next day, carrying a back-order date into 2027. Club Grayskull members go first on the eleventh. Unless he sells out that day, going first is all it gets them.

Updated 11 November: Eldor is orderable

The order control was live when we read the page at 10:20 Pacific, at the same $22.00 and the same item number the listing carried on 5 November. The store’s own product data now returns the single JHK26 variant as available and tags it as back-ordered, where six days earlier the same variant came back unavailable.³

The back-order tag comes from Mattel’s store data rather than its own copy. Mattel is taking orders it has not said it can fill, and the listing reports no inventory figure either way. Laser Light Skeletor had the same shape in October: a back-order date running into 2027, and the page still open to everyone the next morning.

Club Grayskull members went first this morning, and he was still orderable an hour and twenty minutes into their window. The other figure Mattel names in that first sentence has been a shelf buy all along. Origins He-Ro was the Club Grayskull membership figure, in the same 5.5 inch scale with the same sixteen points and the same mini comic. The 7 inch Masterverse He-Ro is in stock at BigBadToyStore at $23.99, read again on the afternoon of the eleventh.

Sources

• Masters of the Universe Origins Eldor Action Figure, Mattel Creations, read 5 November 2026 for the name, item number, price, launch time, member window, accessory list, scale and description, and re-read 11 November 2026 for the live order state. The packaging copy, the open book spread and the mini comic title were read off the eight product photographs at full resolution.
• New MOTU Figure Drop Coming to Mattel Creations November 2026, Toy Habits, 29 October 2026, for the original teaser and its own statement that the teaser did not identify the figure.
• MOTU Origins Eldor Coming to Mattel Creations November 2026, Toy Habits, 29 October 2026, for the Snake Lair card-back identification and the member window dates as that outlet worded them.
• Masters of the Universe Masterverse He-Ro, BigBadToyStore, price and stock state read 5 November 2026 and re-read 11 November 2026.

Product photography: Mattel.

Footnotes

1. Read off Mattel’s own store data, not off the clock. At 13:20 Eastern on 11 November (10:20 Pacific), an hour and twenty minutes into the member window, the single variant returned available. We did not watch the control change state. ↩

2. Mattel’s fine print restricts the sale to Club Grayskull members from 9:00am Pacific on 11 November through 8:59am Pacific on 12 November, while supplies last. It restricts who may buy inside that window; it does not say the sale ends when the window does. Mattel used the same wording on King Hiss in September and on Laser Light Skeletor in October. On both of those the public could buy the following morning, so that is the reading carried above. ↩ ↩²

3. Read off the Mattel Creations product data twice. On the afternoon of 5 November the single variant carried sku JHK26 at $22.00 and returned unavailable, because the window had not opened. On the afternoon of 11 November the same variant returned available at the same $22.00, tagged as back-ordered, and the page’s structured data gives availability as PreOrder. ↩