Looks like the Thundercats didn't make it...

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Just got back from Toys R Us and all the Thundercat items were put on clearance. I guess this is going to go the way of the Heman reboot from the early 00's. Too bad cause in both cases the cartoons were really well done.

[BlackKnight]

It's because the Figures were good.
But in no Way Great .
Face the Facts here ....
If Hasbro Woulda Made the Cats 3&3/4 inches ...
or if Mattel woulda Made the Cats DCU or MOTU Scale ...
They would still be here , with inflation on the 2ndary Market too.


I personally don't care for the new toon, direction and look of the characters at all.

[samurainoir]

I'm feeling like the constant gamble with multiple size formats for a property really dilutes your potential consumer rather than expands it (I think the recent Star Trek movie made the same mistake).

[MIB41]

I think when you do retro, you have to stick strictly to what the retro figures were. Once you start deviating and doing what a handful of people deem "improvements" you lose the nostalgia aspect and the target market with them.

[Earth 2 Chris]

I'm feeling like the constant gamble with multiple size formats for a property really dilutes your potential consumer rather than expands it (I think the recent Star Trek movie made the same mistake).

I agree. If it's a strong, proven brand like Spider-Man, you can do it. Thundercats has been out of circulation for 25 years or more. They should have stuck to the 3 3/4" size, or a 6" scale. One or the other.

Chris

[toys2cool]

yea they were cool but not much more then that...I did however like the really big Lion-o.. that was pretty sweet

[enyawd72]

They ruined the original character designs IMO. Why today's cartoons all have to have an anime look is beyond me. I really hope Mezco keeps the mega scale rotocast figures coming though. They are incredible.

[Toy Talk]

I tried watching the first few episodes of the Thundercats and just could not get into the relaunch. As for the toys I agree, too many variations in size.

[jwyblejr]

Cartoon Network not picking it up doesn't help either.

[4NDR01D]

Haven't see the new cartoon, but I did see the figures at my local TRU. I thought they looked OK, but the $19.99 price tag ( for the 8" figures) really blew my mind. Didn't se the 4" figures, and don't know the price point on those.

[Werewolf]

The demand for classic Thundercats is still very strong so hopefully another company well pick up the license. I'd love Hasbro to do classic Thundercats in 3 3/4 inch scale.

I, personally, think the new show deviated far too much from the source material. The show started fairly strong but quickly became just another generic anime with the characters barely resembling the originals in looks or personality. Even in the spikey haired, Skeletor hopping around like a hyper jack rabbit, anime heavy influenced 2002 MOTU reboot the characters personalities were at least more or less the same.

[AcroRay]

I enjoyed the new show, but couldn't easily find more than a couple of episodes. The toys were nice, but not in my collecting interests. The giant 'lion armor' thing made me think of Biotron for Thundercats... if it was a more interesting color than just gold.

Maybe I'll buy a couple of things on clearance.

[Werewolf]

I just hope the people behind the new Thundercats cartoon never gets a chance to reboot Masters of the Univerese. I can just hear their ideas in my head...

"I know! Let's change Prince Adam and Man-at-Arms to half brothers and let's make Duncan a petty, insecure dick. Eternia is now only the name of the capital and not the name of planet. Oh! and no Castle Grayskull. They are now just going to wander around aimlessly fugitive style for the entire series and rarely run into Skeletor. The main villian they come in contact with the most will be Merman."

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When I said I thought the cartoon was well done, I should have mentioned I caught a total of one episode. (The one where they flashed back to Ruin? & Panthro as friends long ago and became enemies later on) The MOTU cartoon from 2002 was an awesome reboot that I was really disappointed to see get canceled. Great back stories to the characters and the past, making Prince Adam a ******, having Cringer not talk, Mek-A_Neck struggling wiht having a lame power were all welcome changes to the Filmation run. I do also love the Filmation cartoon though but I'm just saying it was nice to see MOTU have a coherent story instead of just random episodes.

With the Thundercats line, I agree that the conflicting size hurt sales and the way they were priced didn't help either. If you remember when they first came out, there was an 8" version of them figures too which later got dropped for the 6". I wish they had one a retro line of these guys that looked like the figures did back in the day. BTW the "clearance" prices weren't exactly a deal either. The $19.99 figures were reduced to $14.99 Give it a few months and they'll probably end up at Five Below, where toy lines go to die.

It be cool if Matty Collectibles started producing the Thundercats figures to coincide with the Classic MOTU figures they sell. I think having both in the same scale has been on the wish list for a lot of collectors for the longest time now.

[Figuremod73]

Kinda sadden by it if the toys are cancelled.
The smaller scale Lion-O and especally Mum-Ra are pretty darn cool.
These days smaller scale is definately the way to go when doing retail.