The ThunderCats toyline by LJN was promoted via a number of means, not least of all by catalogues featuring exciting photography of the toyline, and also the box art for the line’s vehicles. This section showcases some of the best examples of ThunderCats catalogues and artwork produced by LJN!
Produced by LJN to inform dealers of upcoming products in their toylines, the ThunderCats pages from the catalogues featured in this area include looks at prototypes that never made it to retail!
Many of the ThunderCats toys released by LJN in the 1980s included special mini-catalogues advertising the other products in the toyline. This illustrated article explains more about them, and allows you to take a look inside each one!
Exciting artwork intended as ThunderCats box art and more, but which remained unreleased and unseen until now!
The rest of the guide
The original LJN reference section ran to ten pages. These are the rest of them, restored from the site’s own 2014 archive with their original bylines intact.
The two mail-away promotions run during the toyline: the free Mummy Mumm-Ra figure with its proof-of-purchase token values and per-country expiry dates, and the UK-only Thunder Warrior Club.
How the American LJN cards differ from the UK Rainbow Toys releases, card back by card back.
The companies that licensed and sold LJN and Telepictures product around the world, from Rainbow Toys in Oldham to Otto Simon, Grand Toys and Playful.
AFA and the Benefits of Grading Your Figure
A collector’s-eye view of what sending a figure to the Action Figure Authority actually gets you.
The instruction sheets that came packed with the vehicles and playsets.
How a packaged figure is dated to its series or production run from the back of its card.
The paint and production variations that turn up across the run.
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