The ThunderCats.org Membership

What is actually in the script archive

The archive holds 44 script records from the 1985 series, spanning seasons one and two. 32 of those are complete scripts, front page to final fade. The remaining 12 are excerpt sets: partial scans where only some pages survived, still worth reading for the scene directions and the dialogue that never made the final cut.

32 are studio copies, the mimeographed pages that went out to the production floor. 12 are earlier writer’s drafts, which is where the archive earns its keep: you can read a scene as the writer first set it down, then watch what the studio changed before it reached Pacific Animation Studio. Across the excerpt and page-scan entries there are 186 individually scanned pages, and 30 of the entries are served as a single downloadable PDF.

Most of this exists because of other people’s work. The bulk of the collection was curated by Purrsia Kat at ThunderCatsFans.org, an archive that has been online since 2001, with further scans from the legacy thundercats.org and thundercatslair.org cartoon guide. We mirror the files on our own storage so a dead host never takes them offline, and every row keeps a link back to where it came from. Browse the full catalogue, or start with the 1985 episode guide and follow the script link on any episode that has one.

There is no equivalent archive for the 2011 reboot. Warner Bros. retains those production materials and no writers’ drafts have surfaced publicly, so that section of the archive is a placeholder rather than a gap we can fill.

The 2007 screenplay, and why it never got made

Warner Bros. and Spring Creek Productions announced a CGI ThunderCats feature in June 2007. Jerry O’Flaherty was attached to direct, Aurelio Jaro produced, and Paul Sopocy wrote the script. The film was aimed at a summer 2010 release. It was never greenlit, and outside a handful of concept pieces and one leaked test-footage clip, the screenplay is the only substantial record of what that film would have been.

We host Sopocy’s first draft in full: 116 pages, 3.6 MB, with the old ThunderCatsLair.org diagonal watermark and the PDF-editor trial stamps removed from each page so it reads clean. The original scanned 1985 screenplay bitmap, binder holes and all, is left intact. The 2007 movie page sets out the full production history alongside Charlie Wen’s Lion-O concept art and the test footage, and it stays open to everyone. Only the screenplay file itself sits behind the member gate.

How the sold-price archive works

Animation art is priced by asking price almost everywhere you look, which tells you what a seller hopes for rather than what a piece is worth. We record the realised hammer price instead, every time a piece of ThunderCats or SilverHawks production art crosses a public auction block. 31 pieces carry a recorded sale today, drawn from public Heritage Auctions results, and the set grows with every sale we log.

The provenance stays public for everyone: the sale house, the date, and a link to the original lot are on the piece’s page whether you have an account or not. The figure it sold for is the member perk. That split is deliberate, and it is enforced in the code rather than left to editorial discipline, so a price cannot leak into a card, a search result, or a preview by accident. Browse the animation art archive to see how a priced entry reads.