MOTUFest opened this morning at the Northern Kentucky Convention Center, and the figure the show has been carrying since August is sitting on a table there. Last night, hours before the doors opened, Mondo put twenty seven product photographs of Disco Skeletor on his listing. Until then he had been a price and a paragraph, described in Mondo’s own copy and in ours, with nothing to look at beyond a prototype held up on a stream in August.
The armour is gold over a purple torso and black limbs, the hands and feet are a pale translucent blue, the chest harness is the bone and orb design in bright orange, and the skull under the hood is orange with a green wash across the crown. Mondo’s copy points at the paint rather than at the character, calling this “one of the most unforgettable Skeletor colorways” [1].
On the Friday the listing had no button on it! Where the add to cart would be, the page read “This item has not been released for sale yet”, with a Notify Me control underneath, and the price sat above that at $110. Attendees can buy him on the floor today and tomorrow, a sale nobody at home can reach; everyone else waits until Tuesday 15 September at noon Eastern, when the window opens at MondoShop.
What the parts list says, and what the picture shows
Mondo counts four interchangeable portraits and names them: a neutral red-eye, a classic neutral, a classic worried and a classic raised eyebrow. But the layout photograph on the same page shows six skull heads beside two separate hood pieces, and two of those heads have their jaws open [2]. We are not going to settle that from a photograph, and both the list and the picture are Mondo’s.
The rest of the box is settled, though. Three pairs of hands, the Havoc Staff, a Double Blade Sword and a figure stand, moulded in PVC and ABS. Emiliano Santalucia has the concept design and the packaging art, Tommy Hodges sculpted it, Hilary Arce painted it, Tim Hanson did the cut and sew, Jordan Christianson designed the packaging and Hector Arce art directed [5]. Santalucia drew the Image Comics Masters of the Universe series in 2002, alongside the cartoon this line takes its look from.
Mondo has sold this colourway before, at 1/6 scale
Mondo has sold this colourway before. It released him as a 1/6 scale deluxe figure limited to a thousand pieces, listed at $235 and long gone from its own store, and that listing opened with “Inspired by the legendary repaint”. The 1/12 version is a smaller figure with a shorter accessory list, and it joins the two 200X figures Mondo already sells in that scale; the 1/6 release had no line around it. Anyone who passed on the big one gets a second look at a lower price.
The other 1/12 release this weekend went quickly. Ice Armor He-Man and Fire Armor Skeletor went up as one $225 set yesterday at noon, with a limit of two per order and an October ship window. That page now reads Sold Out with a Notify Me When Restocked control on it, a little over a day after it opened [3].
Mondo’s own store still lists the two base 200X figures, He-Man and Skeletor, at $95 each with the buttons live, while at BigBadToyStore both of those read sold out with a waitlist when we looked this afternoon, so the maker has stock the retailer does not. If you want the three of them standing together, the two base figures are the part of that you can still order today.
Disco Skeletor has had a price and no photographs since 22 August. As of last night he is a figure you can look at before you decide whether to be at MondoShop on Tuesday at noon.
Updated 15 September: the window opened and he is still there
The MondoShop window opened at noon Eastern. The page that had carried a price and a Notify Me control since August now carries an Add to Cart button under the $110, and a stated ship window of seven to ten business days sits beneath it [4]. The August announcement gave a price and a date to turn up, and the photographs posted on the eve of MOTUFest gave us the paint and the parts, but neither carried a ship date. This is the first one Mondo has published for him.
Ice Armor He-Man and Fire Armor Skeletor went Sold Out about a day after their own noon window on Friday. An hour into this one the Disco Skeletor button is still live, and the page carries no edition size and none of the two per order limit the $225 set was sold under! The set cost $225 for two figures and this one costs $110 for one, so it was always the easier yes. But the word exclusive sits in the product page slug, and on that reading the button should have gone the way the Friday set went. It has not.
What the twenty seven photographs show
All twenty seven frames are on this page now, at the foot of the article. Fifteen are shot on white and twelve against dark, lava lit sets, and the white ones are where the figure can actually be read. Three things come out of them that Mondo’s product copy does not mention.
One frame shows the figure undressed. No pauldrons, no chest harness, no skirt plates: a purple torso, black limbs, the gold greaves still on, and a black fur loincloth of the sort the vintage figure wore. Mondo has not said whether the armour is meant to come off in your hands or whether this is the figure photographed before it was dressed, and we are not going to decide that from a picture. What the box does say is that somebody was credited for cut and sew, which covers real fabric rather than moulded plastic. The fur is one candidate for it and the two hoods are another.
The weapons photograph shows four sword pieces. Mondo’s copy names a Double Blade Sword, singular. Two of the four are orange and two are purple, and in each colour one carries a single blade while the other carries two parallel blades on a forked hilt. The Double Blade Sword is there. So are a second forked one and two single blades.
The head count is still unresolved, and now it is Mondo against Mondo. On Friday we said the parts list names four portraits while the photograph shows six, and left it there. With the whole set up, the two frames disagree with each other as well. The layout shot has four loose skulls beside a figure that is already wearing a fifth; the portrait detail shot has six skulls and two hoods, two of them with red pupils and two with the jaw dropped open. Whatever the box actually holds, one of those two frames is not showing all of it.
The back of the box, which we had wrong
The credit block on the rear panel reads: concept design Emiliano Santalucia, sculpt Tommy Hodges, paint Hilary Arce, cut and sew Tim Hanson, packaging art Emiliano Santalucia, packaging design Jordan Christianson, art direction Hector Arce. Our Friday piece gave the packaging art to Santalucia and Christianson jointly. It is Santalucia’s alone, and Christianson’s credit is the packaging design. That is now corrected above, and Tim Hanson and Hector Arce were missing from it entirely.
The same panel carries the bio, under the heading Skeletor, Overlord of Evil:
With a deathblow from his Havoc Staff, Lord Skeletor shattered the Mystic Wall, unleashing the forces of Evil from the Dark Hemisphere.
Now the Lord of Destruction marches on Castle Grayskull, leading his Evil Warriors against He-Man and the Masters of the Universe… a battle for all Eternia!
The spine reads DISCO SKELETOR, Deluxe Figure, and the small print at the foot calls it a collector’s model and not a toy, rated 14 and up.
[1] The slug on Mondo’s page reads powercon-exclusive rather than motufest. MOTUFest is run by Power-Con, so that is one show under two names. Mondo does not say what the word exclusive covers once the general sale opens on Tuesday, and the page carries no edition size.
[2] Six heads, two hoods, in one flat lay, against a parts list that names four. Counting hood and head as one assembled portrait does not close the gap either, because that still leaves six. Mondo has not explained it and we are not going to write an explanation into its parts list.
[3] Sold Out on a Mondo page can mean a sell through or a closed window, and Mondo does not distinguish the two. What is checkable is that the button was live yesterday and is not today.
[4] Mondo’s own wording, sitting directly under the Add to Cart: “Expected to ship in 7-10 business days”, followed by a note that an order ships once every item in it is in hand, pre-orders included. So a cart with a later item in it moves this figure to that item’s date.
[5] Read off the rear panel in Mondo’s own packaging photograph at full resolution. The same panel gives the age rating and the collector’s model line.
Sources
- Masters of the Universe 200X Disco Skeletor 1/12 Scale Figure - Mondo product page, read 12 September 2026 for the parts list, the artist credits and the twenty seven product photographs, and re-read 15 September 2026 at 13:15 Eastern for the live Add to Cart, the $110, the ship window and the absence of an edition size or an order limit.
- Masters of the Universe 200X Ice Armor He-Man and Fire Armor Skeletor 1/12 Scale Figure Set - Mondo product page, read 12 September 2026, for the Sold Out state.
- MOTUFest 2026 - Power-Con, for the 12 and 13 September dates and the venue.
- BigBadToyStore product pages for the Mondo 200X He-Man and Skeletor, read 12 September 2026.
- Mondo product photography, all twenty seven frames, downloaded 15 September 2026 and rehosted on heman.org. Prototype shown, final figure may vary.
- Product photography: Mondo.
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