Masters of the Universe Wave 6 – 1987

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The Masters of the Universe toy line came to an unofficial end in 1987 due to declining sales and rising competition. The sixth and final wave introduced 13 new figures, several accessories, and new creatures. Mattel also released the Meteorbs (transformer-like creatures) and Energy Zoids (with spinning features). A new sub-line, “The Powers of Grayskull,” was planned for 1988 but was cancelled before launch. However, three dinosaur creatures and two giant figures, originally intended for that line, were released as part of the final MOTU wave.

For more information about Mattel’s Masters of the Universe line from 1987, see bottom of the page for a complete summary.

Blade

Market Value:
Carded $300 – $400
Loose $60 – $85

Blade: Evil Warriors
Accessories: Swords x 2, Chainmail Waist Cloth, Mini-Comic
Years Released: 1987
Difficulty to Find: Moderate Difficulty – Takes patience and appears less often
Notes: Blade is a nefarious pirate from the Kylax system who was summoned to Eternia by Skeletor as a mercenary to the highest bidder. The Blade figure comes from the 1987 MOTU movie, and comes with a removable chainmail piece and two signature swords. His key action feature is a spring-loaded slashing action, activated by twisting the waist.

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Blast Attack

Market Value:
Carded $275 – $375
Loose $60 – $85

Blast Attack: Evil Warriors
Accessories: Poleax, Trigger Cord, Mini-Comic
Years Released: 1987
Difficulty to Find: Uncommon – Appears often but some hunting needed
Notes: Blast-Attak is a robotic warrior with a short fuse, who was originally created by Skeletor but later reprogrammed by the Snake Men to serve as a walking time bomb. His primary power is the ability to detonate himself in an explosive attack and then reassemble again. He came with a distinctive red poleax and a “trigger cord” which is used to activate his explosive attack.

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Buzz-Saw Hordak

Market Value:
Carded $400 – $500
Loose $90 – $120

Buzz-Saw Hordak: Evil Horde
Accessories: Buzz-Saw, Crossbow, Cape, Mini-Comic
Years Released: 1987
Difficulty to Find: Moderate Difficulty – Takes patience and appears less often
Notes: Buzz-Saw Hordak is the third variant of the ruthless leader of the Evil Horde. The action figure came with a white crossbow, cape and removable chest plate. The toy’s action feature is a spring-loaded saw blade that spins when the trigger button on his back is pressed. The chest plate pops open and the saw blade is propelled forward.

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Clamp Champ

Market Value:
Carded $290 – $370
Loose $75 – $100

Clamp Champ: Heroic Warriors
Accessories: Techno Clamp, Chest Armor, Mini-Comic
Years Released: 1987
Difficulty to Find: Common – Easily found on the secondary market
Notes: Clamp Champ is a formidable Heroic Warrior who serves as King Randor’s personal bodyguard. A master of hand-to-hand combat, he earned his nickname from his signature weapon, a powerful techno-clamp. The action figure came with his signature “Techno Clamp” weapon and a removable chest armor. Its action feature was the Techno Clamp’s pincers were opened by a lever and then snapped shut with a trigger.

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Gwildor

Market Value:
Carded $175 – $250
Loose $45 – $65

Gwildor: Heroic Warriors
Accessories: Cosmic Key, Mini-Comic
Years Released: 1987
Difficulty to Find: Common – Easily found on the secondary market
Notes: Gwildor is a wise inventor from the Masters of the Universe movie in 1987 and serves as the creator of the Cosmic Key. The figure’s primary accessory is his iconic Cosmic Key, which has a spinning feature on top. Unlike most figures, Gwildor lacks the standard twist-waist action feature, but his design is very detailed with an expressive face that captures the likeness of actor, Billy Barty.

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King Randor

Market Value:
Carded $400 – $500
Loose $110 – $160

King Randor: Heroic Warriors
Accessories: Staff, Cape, Crown, Chest Armor, Mini-Comic
Years Released: 1987
Difficulty to Find: Uncommon – Appears often but some hunting needed
Notes: King Randor is the wise and noble ruler of Eternia, and father of Prince Adam. The action figure for King Randor came with a removable crown, a red fabric cape, and his royal staff. Like most of the heroic warriors from the vintage line, his action feature is the “Power Punch” twist-waist. By twisting his waist to the side and letting it spring back, the figure can deliver a powerful, swinging attack. This was a great character for all those fantastic playsets, and it’s a shame it took so long to finally be released.

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Mosquitor

Market Value:
Carded $375 – $475
Loose $80 – $110

Mosquitor: Evil Horde
Accessories: Laser Rifle, Mini-Comic
Years Released: 1987
Difficulty to Find: Uncommon – Appears often but some hunting needed
Notes: Mosquitor is an “Evil Energy-Draining Insectoid,” and member of the Evil Horde. This robotic vampire drains the life energy from his opponents with a stinger in his face. The action figure came with a purple laser rifle. His memorable action feature is the “blood-pumping” mechanism. By pressing a button on his back, a red liquid would circulate through his transparent chest, simulating the draining of “blood” or energy from his victims.

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Ninjor

Market Value:
Carded $400 – $500
Loose $110 – $160

Ninjor: Evil Warriors
Accessories: Sword, Nun-Chucks, Bow, Mask, Shirt, Mini-Comic
Years Released: 1987
Difficulty to Find: Moderate Difficulty – Takes patience and appears less often
Notes: Ninjor is an “Evil Ninja Warrior” and a mercenary in Skeletor’s army. He is known for his deadly martial arts skills and mysterious nature. The action figure for Ninjor comes with a removable hood and tunic, as well as three accessories: a sword, nunchucks, and a long bow. In addition to the standard twist-waist “Power Punch” action feature, Ninjor also has a spring-loaded right arm that can perform a chopping motion, previously seen on characters like Jitsu and Fisto.

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Saurod

Market Value:
Carded $275 – $375
Loose $80 – $110

Saurod: Evil Warriors
Accessories: Laser Pistol , Mini-Comic
Years Released: 1987
Difficulty to Find: Moderate Difficulty – Takes patience and appears less often
Notes: Saurod is an “Evil Spark-Shooting Reptile” and bounty hunter who serves Skeletor. He appeared as one of his henchmen in the live-action Masters of the Universe movie. This lizard-like warrior is known for his signature ability to shoot sparks from his mouth, and came with a black laser pistol. Its unique “sparking mouth” feature is activated by a lever on his back.

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Scare Glow

Market Value:
Carded $1,500 – $2,000
Loose $300 – $400

Scare Glow: Evil Warriors
Accessories: Cape, Halberd, Mini-Comic
Years Released: 1987
Difficulty to Find: Moderate Difficulty – Takes patience and appears less often
Notes: This was a great looking character for anyone who loves Halloween. Scare Glow is a fearsome and spectral being, known as the “Evil Ghost of Skeletor.” The action figure comes with a green scythe and a purple fabric cape. The figure’s primary action feature is its glow-in-the-dark plastic, which makes its skeleton body and skull head glow ominously in the dark. Like many of the other MOTU figures, he also has the standard twist-waist “Power Punch” feature.

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Snake Face

Market Value:
Carded $325 – $425
Loose $80 – $110

Snake Face: Snake Men
Accessories: Shield, Staff, Mini-Comic
Years Released: 1987
Difficulty to Find: Uncommon – Appears often but some hunting needed
Notes: Snake Face is a member of the Snake Men, with the power to petrify his enemies by turning his face into a slithering mass of snakes. He comes with a shield and a snake-themed staff. Its memorable action feature, which is activated by a lever on his back, causes snakes to spring out from his face, neck, and chest, recreating his petrifying ability.

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Sorceress

Market Value:
Carded $400 – $500
Loose $100 – $130

Sorceress: Heroic Warriors
Accessories: Staff, Feather Cape, Mini-Comic
Years Released: 1987
Difficulty to Find: Uncommon – Appears often but some hunting needed
Notes: It’s about time! Mattel finally gives us a figure for one of the main characters from the MOTU world. The Sorceress is the powerful guardian of Castle Grayskull and a key ally to He-Man. She comes with a Staff and removable plastic feather cape.

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Sssqueeze

Market Value:
Carded $275 – $375
Loose $50 – $75

Sssqueeze: Snake Men
Accessories: Snake Weapon, Mini-Comic
Years Released: 1987
Difficulty to Find: Uncommon – Appears often but some hunting needed
Notes: Sssqueeze, the “Evil Long-Armed Viper,” is a member of the villainous Snake Men, and uses his unnaturally long, coiling arms to crush and constrict his enemies. The toy’s action feature is the defining characteristic of the character: his long, extendable arms. By pulling the rubber arms, they can be stretched to wrap around other figures, simulating his crushing grip and allowing him to “squeeze” his opponents just as he does in the mini-comics and cartoon. He also came with a snake weapon accessory.

Masters of the Universe – Wave 6 (1987): Accessories

Mattel released four new accessories for the final 6th wave of the MOTU line in 1987, and all four can be difficult to find on the secondary market due to the low production numbers. Included were the Beam Blaster and Artilleray, Cliff Climber, Scuba Attack and Tower Tools Pack

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Masters of the Universe – Wave 6 (1987): Creatures

Three dinosaur like creature figures were released for the 1987 wave that were originally going to be a part of the brand new “Powers of Grayskull” MOTU series to be released the following year, but the line never happened. The two giant figures, Tytus and Megator, were also to be part of that line, but were only released in foreign markets and never made it to North America.

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Masters of the Universe – Wave 6 (1987): Energy Zoids

The Energy Zoids were among the last new products released for the MOTU line in 1987. Included were Rotar and Twistoid, who were basically glorified top spinners.

Masters of the Universe – Wave 6 (1987): Meteorbs

Mattel created a new series of mini-creatures for the 6th wave called Meteorbs. These small figures were an attempt to capitalize on the Transformer craze by having small round meteors change into various animals.

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Masters of the Universe – Wave 6 (1987): Playsets & Vehicles

After already releasing some truly iconic playsets and vehicles during its toy run, the MOTU saw none of either released for their final Wave in 1987.

If 1986 was the beginning of the end for the MOTU line, then 1987 would be considered the end of the end. Sales for the MOTU toy line had been in steady decline ever since the animated MOTU went off the air, and stopped producing new episodes. Promoting the toy line was proving to be more challenging than Mattel ever thought it would be. To make matters worse, Marvel Comics had stopped producing its MOTU comic as well, so for the first time, the line was left without a mass media outlet to promote and highlight their characters. To even further complicate matters, Hasbro was dominating the toy world with their GI Joe and Transformer toy lines, and Kenner’s new Real Ghostbusters line was also doing extremely well. With decreasing sales and public interest at an all-time low, Mattel pulled the plug on the MOTU toy line towards the end of 1987, but still managed to release some quality products before they closed up shop. A new “Powers of Grayskull” line was in the works for 1988 and beyond, but it never materialized due to fading interest in the brand. Some products from that planned “Powers of Grayskull” line still made it out to the public in remote and foreign markets, making them very rare to say the least. Since this was the last year that Mattel released Masters of the Universe toys in North America, they decided to go out with a bang, and we got some great new figures and accessories in 1987.

The sixth, and last large scale, wave of the MOTU line, gave us 13 brand new figures in 1987, including some truly iconic characters that we had never seen before. Mattel also released 3 new figures based on the new live action Masters of the Universe movie, starring Dolph Lundgren. The Heroic Warriors got four new additions with Clamp Champ, King Randor, Sorceress and Gwildor from the MOTU move. King Randor and Sorceress had been long time characters in the MOTU world but never had been made into figure form until now. The Evil Warriors got Blast Attack, Ninjor, Scare Glow, along with Saurod and Blade from the MOTU movie. The Evil Horde continued to build their team with Mosquitor and a new Buzz-Saw version of Hordak. The Snake Men got Snake Face and Sssqueeze. Mattel did not produce any vehicles or playsets for this last line of MOTU but did give us a new transformer-like series of Meteorbs to go along with the spinning Energy Zoids. Three dinosaur creatures and two giants were produced for the new Powers of Grayskull line, but were released with this wave, since that new line never got off the ground.

Once again, the packaging for the newest wave of the Masters of the Universe line remained virtually identical to the previous waves of the years before. The packaging for the Masters of the Universe line focused on bright eye catching colors that grabbed your attention and launched your imagination. The Masters of the Universe logo sat at the top of the blister pack card, just above a red rock starburst explosion that seemed to jump out at you. The name of the character was positioned just above the bubble in big letters. The exceptions were the Evil Horde and Snake Men packaging, who had their own logos and design on the card fronts. As far as the card backs go, all wave six figures included additional figures on the back and a beautifully illustrated action scene at the top of the card featuring the appropriate character.