News · 2026-06-16
The Signal Is Back!
Ho, friends! After a few years lost in the Forest of Silence, ThunderCats.org is loose again. From new toys and comics to podcasts and publications, so much exciting stuff is happening right now in the world of ThunderCats, we couldn't possibly sit it all out. The site and forums are back up and running, and over the coming weeks you can look for fresh news items and new ways to engage with fellow fans.
What happened?
"Routine maintenance is the basis of an efficient operation."
Panthro, Day of the Eclipse
But we’re a small team without a technologist among us, so as the Org aged, things started to break faster than we knew how to fix them. The site went down first, and then the forums, wiping out years of content and leaving us with nothing but social media.
But in 2026, technological woes can be solved by technology! AI-based tools are helping us diagnose and patch systemic issues, modernize the site, and monitor its infrastructure for vulnerabilities. Plus nothing was actually lost. Beep boop, thanks, NEPTUNE! Please don’t suck us into a singularity.
Who are we?
ThunderCats.org has always been a collaborative effort, with many team members coming and going over the years. A full list of current and former contributors is available on our legacy contact page. At the moment, there are four of us steering the ship.
Mark's love for ThunderCats started in childhood, racing around the house with his brother, singing the theme song and playing hard with the toys. As an adult, he returned to ThunderCats through animation art, production material, collecting, and eventually rare LJN prototypes and test shots. He joined ThunderCats.org in 2005, helping build a home for fan discussion, episode guides and archive material. After years of collecting, collaborating and connecting with people tied to the property, the goal now is simple: preserve what the community built, modernize what needs updating, and bring the site back.
Some of Zack's earliest memories involve dutifully recording ThunderCats on VHS, and boy are those tapes worn! His obsession lasted into adulthood, as he contributed a handful of episode reviews to ThunderCatsFans.org and consulted on the U.S. DVD release's trivia game. After many years as an active member on the Org forums, Zack joined the team in 2014 as a writer and moderator, penning and editing episode reviews and other pages here and there. In the intervening years, he's been a frequent guest host on Radical Retro Rewind?!'s ThunderCats Reviews podcast.
Despite having a black and white TV when the ThunderCats pilot first aired, Egmond magically remembers it in full color! When Mattel canceled their ThunderCats Classics line in 2016, Egmond spearheaded the We Want More ThunderCats campaign, capturing fan and industry attention ahead of Super7 acquiring the license. He joined the team in 2019 to manage our social media accounts and publish frequent interviews with Brian Flynn about the growing toyline. Since then, Egmond's tireless coverage has expanded from written reviews and interviews to video ones, and from toys to new comics and beyond.
By Christmastime 1989, when Nick was diligently watching Season Two of ThunderCats (and renting the Season One VHS tapes over and over), toy shelves were bare. But Santa's magic brought him a near complete set (secondhand via a friend of his grandmother), which jumpstarted his toy collection. An educator, Nick received permission from Warner Bros. in 2014 to teach a college class about the history of ThunderCats and its industry and cultural significance. He's also the maker of the custom Black Widow Shark figures featured in Hall of Omens: Thunder-Verse!. He joined the team in 2026 to grow our encyclopedia.
Catch the spirit of teamwork
If the past few years have shown us anything, it's that fandom requires nurturing. If you're interested in contributing to the site as we revitalize it, we'd love to hear from you. We have lots of content to refresh and plenty of new things to create. The biggest help we could use right now is photographs of toys, taken from four angles in a lightbox. The fewer contributors with the biggest collections the better, so that we can have uniformity across the archive.
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