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Just to answer a couple of the questions. Centurions was on in 1986. Kenner did the line. They were on around the same time as The Inhumanoids was, which is another line I've started looking for which was done by Hasbro.
They were both a little more violent than your typical cartoons were with more vicious bad guys. Something I think the MOTU cartoons started, though Skeletor was still almost laughable at the ways he failed sometimes, he looked the vicious part. T-Cats was similar in the perspective too.
There were only 7 figures. The three Centurions, Jake, Ace, and Max. The two cybernetic villains Doc Terror and Hacker, and two robotic evil attack vehicles Dooms Drone Strafer and Traumitizer. Traumitizer is the rarer of the 7. Doc Terror's attachments are also fairly elusive especially the black claws.
There were 12 battle suits for the Centurions. 3 for Ace, 5 for Jake, and 4 for Max. Max's Sea Bat seems to be the least common, though his Depth Charger is also a difficult one to complete, especially the canopy. Each figure came with the smallest battle suit he had. Jake's usually have the most accessories and are by far the coolest. He has a motorcycle, a helicopter, a tank, a mammoth gun, and the one that comes with the figure while the smallest of the three fires a mammoth 4" rocket. The larger suits came by themselves without a figure included.
Took me about a year though I really don't put the effort into these the way I do Mego stuff. Just don't have a lot of other Mego figures that aren't huge dollars to get so I looked for other things I remembered. These were on a few years after my toy playing days but the edgier style was appealing to an older audience. Perhaps the reason both these lines had rather short lives for something that has some popularity today. They may have not been what parents wanted their kids watching. They would probably be more popular in today's cartoon, video game, animated to live action world. A Centurions video game could be an awesome thing.
This site has some decent pics of the individual suits, as well as the unproduced second line that had two new Centurions, two more cyber robots, and 7 new suits for the 5 Good Guys. It is rumored that prototypes do exist, and I would love to get my hands on either of the unproduced figures if I could.
http://www.dukenostalgia.com/Centurions/Cent_toys.html
It is rumored that prototypes do exist, and I would love to get my hands on either of the unproduced figures if I could. I've also considered doing these in Mego format though I would cast the original heads in Mego format to stay accurate. Though Virdon, Will Scarlet, and Earp could slide in fairly well if you hold the originals to them side by side.
They were both a little more violent than your typical cartoons were with more vicious bad guys. Something I think the MOTU cartoons started, though Skeletor was still almost laughable at the ways he failed sometimes, he looked the vicious part. T-Cats was similar in the perspective too.
There were only 7 figures. The three Centurions, Jake, Ace, and Max. The two cybernetic villains Doc Terror and Hacker, and two robotic evil attack vehicles Dooms Drone Strafer and Traumitizer. Traumitizer is the rarer of the 7. Doc Terror's attachments are also fairly elusive especially the black claws.
There were 12 battle suits for the Centurions. 3 for Ace, 5 for Jake, and 4 for Max. Max's Sea Bat seems to be the least common, though his Depth Charger is also a difficult one to complete, especially the canopy. Each figure came with the smallest battle suit he had. Jake's usually have the most accessories and are by far the coolest. He has a motorcycle, a helicopter, a tank, a mammoth gun, and the one that comes with the figure while the smallest of the three fires a mammoth 4" rocket. The larger suits came by themselves without a figure included.
Took me about a year though I really don't put the effort into these the way I do Mego stuff. Just don't have a lot of other Mego figures that aren't huge dollars to get so I looked for other things I remembered. These were on a few years after my toy playing days but the edgier style was appealing to an older audience. Perhaps the reason both these lines had rather short lives for something that has some popularity today. They may have not been what parents wanted their kids watching. They would probably be more popular in today's cartoon, video game, animated to live action world. A Centurions video game could be an awesome thing.
This site has some decent pics of the individual suits, as well as the unproduced second line that had two new Centurions, two more cyber robots, and 7 new suits for the 5 Good Guys. It is rumored that prototypes do exist, and I would love to get my hands on either of the unproduced figures if I could.
http://www.dukenostalgia.com/Centurions/Cent_toys.html
It is rumored that prototypes do exist, and I would love to get my hands on either of the unproduced figures if I could. I've also considered doing these in Mego format though I would cast the original heads in Mego format to stay accurate. Though Virdon, Will Scarlet, and Earp could slide in fairly well if you hold the originals to them side by side.
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