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Collectors Guides

Fan-published reference books that document the toy lines piece by piece. The kind of cataloguing that takes years and a small mountain of photography.

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Hall of Omens: Thunder-Verse!

The Unofficial Ultimate Collector’s Guide to ThunderCats, SilverHawks, and TigerSharks

Sean "Buddha" McKeone · thundercats.org community member, co-host of the Beyond Thundera podcast

  • 850+ pages
  • 4,500+ photos
  • 3 toy lines

The deepest single-volume reference to all three Rankin/Bass-era toy lines. Every vintage figure documented, US and international variants, rare prototypes with reference photography, global merchandise from the US, UK, Europe and South America, and exclusive interviews with Larry Kenney, Maggie Wheeler and Pete Cannarozzi.

First printing sold out. Second printing pre-orders open now (Standard cover and exclusive Kyle Lambert variant cover, $70 USD each).

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Hear the Roar!

The Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to the Hit 1980s Series ThunderCats

David Crichton · Telos Publishing, 2011. First single-volume production history of the series.

  • 500+ pages
  • 80+ interviews
  • 10 chapters

David Crichton tracked down the people who actually made ThunderCats and interviewed them on the record. The result is the first in-depth production history of the show: 500 pages across ten chapters covering the writers, animators, voice cast, composer Bernard Hoffer, the LJN toy line, the SilverHawks sister series, and a complete 130-episode story guide with scriptwriter commentary on every entry.

2011 first edition out of print. Telos reissued the book as a 6 by 9 paperback in October 2020 (ISBN 978-1-84583-164-6) and currently offers a collector’s special edition alongside it. An e-book is available from selected online retailers.

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