I just got scans of the toy pages from the 1986 Argos Autumn/Winter catalogue! It features the very first Thundercats toys that were sold in the UK and this confirms my thought that we got just Lion-o and Mumm-Ra are their own first.
Notice they have Mumm-Ra riding the Skycutter and the Nosediver! lol
Visit the following links below for the scans. The 2nd scan/page is for Mask toys, but it contains the description for item 10 (from previous page), which is the Lion-o figure.
Didn’t want to post this on the main forum, because I thought it would make a very cool page for the toy section of the site
Now I’d really love to track down copies of the 1987 and 1988 Argos Autumn/Winter catalogues because they should contain series 2 and 3 toys for sale! :eyepopping: Especially the 1987 catalogue, because I want to see if the Cats Lair playset was listed in it!
That’s an excellent and highly informative article, Neil, I love the way you’ve put that together - I had no idea about ?Stretcher, I agree with your assessment that those are a scalper’s dream! Someone could earn a good few months’ wages by buying 20 figures for ?40 and then selling them for ?2000! :yikes:
That’s an excellent and highly informative article, Neil, I love the way you’ve put that together - I had no idea about ?Stretcher, I agree with your assessment that those are a scalper’s dream! Someone could earn a good few months’ wages by buying 20 figures for ?40 and then selling them for ?2000! :yikes:
Take care…
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Thanks Chris. Yep those prices for a Bengali and Jaga would have been a dream come true. Unfortunately back then, I didn’t have a ?Stretcher near me so I had no idea either about them selling Thundercats figures
Andrew Kitchen supplied us with these tidbits just recently. He runs www.toydreams.co.uk
