One of a number of old toys I treated myself to whilst on holiday was the little loose silver Thundercats Thundertank you can see in this shot I've borrowed from Worthpoint.
Since getting it it has been a mystery as to what it was. Superficially looking like a plastic Hot Wheels with mag tyres its date of 1985 made me look deep into the Thundercats toy world.
Turns out its part of the above set which was released by Rainbow toys in 1985 as part of their pocket money toys line of cheap Thundercats rack toys.
The set was called Power Booster and here's an example carded as featured on the excellent Thundercats Org website, without which I would never have ID'd this elusive toy.
Have you got any Thundercats toys readers?
Neither Thundercats or any of its peers, such as Masters of the Universe ever appealed to me, probably because I had outgrown cartoons by then, but mostly due to my general dislike of anthropomorphised animals. I find it an easy way out when attempting to create an otherworldly vision of life. Lets not create a complete alien or fantasy lifeform from the ground up, lets have a talking animal! Job done!
ReplyDeleteI really like Thundercats as a figure line, largely because they were so accessible for a collector like me in the 90's browsing car boot sales. I got used to seeing loose Thundercats and He-Man figures every Sunday.
DeleteDon't have any of the toys, but I used to letter some of the strips in the Marvel UK weekly back in the late '80s.
ReplyDeleteHay fab Kid. I had a stack of those comics on my old toy stall back in the day. You may have been the letterer of those!
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