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Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Thundarr the Barbarian Action Figures
award-winning creator of the web series Abnormal Fixation (2024), the audio drama Enter the House Between (2023) and author of 35 books including Horror Films FAQ (2013), Horror Films of the 1990s (2011), Horror Films of the 1980s (2007), TV Year (2007), The Rock and Roll Film Encyclopedia (2007), Mercy in Her Eyes: The Films of Mira Nair (2006),, Best in Show: The Films of Christopher Guest and Company (2004), The Unseen Force: The Films of Sam Raimi (2004), An Askew View: The Films of Kevin Smith (2002), The Encyclopedia of Superheroes on Film & Television (2004), Exploring Space:1999 (1997), An Analytical Guide to TV's Battlestar Galactica (1998), Terror Television (2001), Space:1999 - The Forsaken (2003) and Horror Films of the 1970s (2002).
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Wow, I do not know how as a boy in '80 that I missed all of this Thundarr merchandising.
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These figures were released, I think, maybe 10 years ago or so. I actually bought all three at the time, despite being an adult by then, because "Thundarr" had been a favorite TV show of mine as a kid, and I had longed for (nonexistent) "Thundarr" action figures as a 10 year old back in 1981.
ReplyDeleteNot being a toy collector myself, I pulled them all out of their packaging. My non-expert opinion was that the Ookla and Ariel figures captured the characters almost perfectly, but that the Thundarr figure didn't quite capture his likeness as well. The toy version of his sun sword was a disappointment, too.