Something I have always wondered about (Kit & Kat Companions)

Ever since I started collecting Thundercats way back in the day, I have never understood why LJN didn’t produce Wilykit & Kat with the blue and red hover boards?

Its always struck me as funny that even though the actual card back shows the red and blue boards, you get the shovel looking one with the figure.
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I remember when I was younger I took a small piece of flat wood, sanded it down, shaped it as best I could and painted it red, then another in blue, as to try and reproduce what is on the card.

Of all the things LJN showed off in adds and catalog’s, I think this is the one that really irks me that they didn’t follow through with. The blue and red boards really give the two figures that extra “oomph” when displayed.

Can’t agree more Alex :slight_smile: I always preferred the prototype space boards and it’s a real shame they were not the ones released with the actual figures! :frowning:

Fingers crossed the prototypes appear as I’d love to see them!

I’ve wondered the same thing when the toys came out…
Would’ve preferred the prototype boards too…

I’ve always figured they swapped them with thicker, molded versions to have the same ‘plastic worth’ as the other companions… Y’know… The other companions took more plastic to produce, so I figured they gave Kit and Kat heavier plastic boards to compensate…

Looking back on my theory now, almost twenty years later, it seems rather silly…
Still, I can’t come up with a better explanation :wink: