If like me you love the mysteries of toy box art then you may like this blog by one John Coats that I've found, also done on blogger no less. As equally enthusiastic about its subject matter as we are at Moonbase Central, he covers an action figure line called the Galaxy Warriors, a sort of cheaper Masters of the Universe, made by Sungold in 1983.
I first came across Galaxy Warriors in a field guide on loose action figures back in the late Nineties, which I used to identify figures I found at car boot sales. Amongst the hundreds of Masters of the Universe [MOTU] figures I did manage to find a few Galaxy Warriors. Like Star Wars six years earlier, MOTU sparked an unprecedented avalanche of clones and knockoffs in the early 1980's, making it a smorgasbord for Sword and Sorcery figure collectors.
Anyways, its the connection with the great American fantasy artist Frank Frazetta, one of my teenage heroes, that had me hooked when I read the Galaxy Warriors blog. Have a read here. Great toy blog but sadly not updated since July 2103.
Thank you very much for the link.
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