Walmart has posted Wave 2's copy, and Skeletor's Power Sword is not in it

The vintage cross-sell illustration of Skeletor has him holding the Havoc Staff in one hand, with a notched half-sword planted point-down in the ground beside him: his half of the Power Sword, the one that pairs with He-Man’s. Toy Habits reads the Masters of the Universe Origins Build-A-Figure line as drawing on those illustrations rather than on the toys they advertised. Mattel has not said so in as many words, and the Walmart copy says only that the figures are inspired by the vintage MOTU toy line. Walmart has now started loading the listings for the second wave, and its Skeletor page names the Havoc Staff and stops there.

What the listings say

Skeletor is Mattel product number JPM08: five and a half inch scale, sixteen points of articulation, removable body parts, and one piece of a seven inch Shadow Beast. Mer-Man is JPM09, described as the Ocean Warlord and carrying his Coral Sword. Man-E-Faces is JPM10, with a blaster and the head knob that turns between human, robot and monster. [1]

When Wave 1 went up for pre-order at the start of the month, He-Man, Beast Man and Battle Armor Man-At-Arms each came with a piece of a seven inch Shadow Beast, and nothing in those listings said how many pieces there were in total. Walmart’s Skeletor copy does: “Fans can collect all 6 parts to complete the oversized figure.” Toy Habits puts it the same way, calling Mer-Man part of “the second half of the six-figure Shadow Beast assortment”. Waves 1 and 2 are halves of one six-figure run with a single build-a-figure across both.

Each box carries a comic-strip panel on the back and a standing illustration of its figure on the side. Walmart’s copy says the six back panels form one continuous strip and the six side panels form one battle scene. You are being sold the box as well as the toy.

The sword that is not on the list

Walmart’s accessory line for Skeletor reads “his signature Havoc Staff accessory”. Mattel showed the figure at San Diego Comic-Con this summer with the staff and the sword both. That is what prompted Toy Habits to ask the question, and it stopped short of answering it: “the description isn’t proof that the sword has been removed.” [2]

A retailer description is not a packout list. But it has happened on this line already. Wave 1’s He-Man was shown at San Diego with an axe that did not survive into his product details. Battle Armor Man-At-Arms was shown with a clear shield that is not in his accessory list either. Outside Origins, the Chronicles Skeletor had a chalice at Toy Fair 2026 that did not ship with him and turned up later with the second version. [3]

Skeletor and the half-sword are a pair. Each half is one piece of one sword, and the vintage painting puts the staff and the sword in the same frame. A Skeletor sold on the cross-sell painting should come with what is in the cross-sell painting.

Six more numbers, and what they are not

This part is not confirmed. Mattel has not announced Waves 5 and 6 or said which figures are in them, and Toy Habits reports that it has no official figure images and no confirmed release dates for any of the six. What follows is six verified product numbers and a reading of the order they sit in, and it may be wrong.

Toy Habits has now matched Mattel product numbers to six more characters: Fisto at JPM17, Orko at JPM18 and Hordak at JPM19, then Prince Adam at JPM20, Evil-Lyn at JPM21 and Battle Armor Skeletor at JPM22. Wave 1 ran JPM05 to JPM07 and Wave 2 runs JPM08 to JPM10, so three figures in each of the four waves Mattel announced at San Diego accounts for every number up to JPM16, and JPM17 picks up immediately after. That is a reading of the numbering rather than a fact, and the author says so himself: “Mattel hasn’t officially confirmed the Wave 5 and 6 assignments, but the product numbers suggest the following groupings.” The build-a-figure for those two waves has not been identified either.

Evil-Lyn’s cross-sell illustration gives her yellow skin and blue across the headpiece, armour, boots, arm pieces and staff, and an expression Toy Habits’ Michael calls much more serious than the smirk he has disliked on her previous Origins versions. Orko’s keeps the oversized orange hat, the hidden black face and the yellow eyes. Prince Adam is the test, because the vintage 1980s figure wore a cloth shirt and Michael’s stated hope for this release is that Mattel gives him one again. A painting can be followed a long way before anybody has to put fabric in a box.

Where to buy

The half of the Shadow Beast you can order today is Wave 1, and BigBadToyStore has all three at $22.99 on pre-order: He-Man, Beast Man and Battle Armor Man-At-Arms, each with a live cart control. [4] Entertainment Earth carried the same three at $23.99 with an estimated December 2026 arrival when we read the listings on 1 November. No Wave 2 pre-order has appeared at either retailer. The rest of the range is on our MOTU Origins shelf.

The sword should be in the box.

Notes

1. Walmart’s product copy for the three figures is reproduced at length in the Toy Habits report linked below, read 13 November 2026. Walmart’s own search and product pages refuse automated reads from here, so the copy is quoted from that reproduction rather than from a page this desk loaded itself.
2. The San Diego display is Toy Habits’ own account of what Mattel showed there, not a Mattel statement.
3. All three precedents are Toy Habits’, offered in the same piece as its reason for asking.
4. Read first hand on 13 November 2026: BigBadToyStore products 201151, 201150 and 201149, each returning $22.99 on the base BBTS Mint Packaging tier with availability PreOrder and an active cart control. The $25.99 shown on each page is the Mint Pro packaging tier and is not the product price. No arrival estimate was captured on this read; the December 2026 figure above is from the 1 November Entertainment Earth listings.

Sources

• MOTU Origins Build-A-Figure Wave 2 Official Details: Does Skeletor Come With His Power Sword?, Toy Habits, 13 November 2026.
• MOTU Origins 2027 Walmart Listings Reveal Build-A-Figure Waves 5 and 6, Toy Habits, 12 November 2026.

Cross-sell illustrations: vintage Mattel artwork, heman.org archive.