AFi #THUNDERWEEK for Bandai’s #THUNDERCATS ‘The Lost Year’ – Day 5

We are coming to the end of our Thunderweek reveals of Bandai’s “lost year” of ThunderCats product. I know this posting is a little late. I’m actually going to split this last post into two posts so that I can get this half posted today. Today we are going to look at the vehicles that were proposed for the second year of the the line and tomorrow we will look at what would have been the next/last wave of basic 4″ figures.

If you are just joining us, former Bandai line manager, and old friend of AFi, Amanda W was gracious enough to pass along the proposed 2012 line of Bandai’s ThunderCats action figure line. If you missed any of the previous installments you can go back and check out the Day 0 Preview, the Day 1 reveals the Day 2 reveals, the Day 3 reveals and the Day 4 reveals. This will also help you get caught up with the story of what happened and why the line was canceled.

Vehicle with Addictus Figure – I’m not sure what the name of this vehicle was going to be, but the figure is Addictus, one of Mumm-Ra’s generals. As you can see this vehicle comes with several projectiles that can be loaded into those rear tubes. Attached to the rear wheels are a pair of arms that can reach back, catch a ball and fling it. Addictus was a larger character on the show and this looks to be a big figure which would lead us to believe this would have been a pretty good sized vehicle in the line.



THUNDERRACERS with FIGURES – The ThunderRacers were one-man two wheeled vehicles that were sort of like the Light Cycles in TRON. Each one of the ThunderRacers came with an exclusive variant 4″ action figure and an action feature. The Red Racer came with a firing drill projectile and an exclusive Lion-0 figure with red, translucent hair, arms and feet.

There were some blue versions of the ThunderRacers that were included with the 2011 ThunderTank, but they were smaller, solid and didn’t have opening cockpits that could hold figures.

The Orange Racer had a flashlight/light-up action feature and an exclusve 4″ Tygra figure with translucent orange arms and feet.

The other interesting feature that both the ThunderRacers had were that they would both attach to the sides of an all NEW, larger, battle-damaged ThunderTank!

BATTLE DAMAGED THUNDERTANK with exclusive Panthro figure – The new battle-damaged ThunderTank is an all new sculpt from the year one vehicle. Looking at the pictures the damage is more than just a paint deco, it’s got some serious sculpted damage! It looks like some of the features from the original are stripped out of this version, but it does have a pop open canopy and would have had some kind of ThunderLynx magnetically activated feature..

The 2011 ThunderTank came with a Snarf figure, this newer version would have come with a translucent purple Panthro action figure.

Here’s what it looks like with the ThunderRacers attached:

The other cool thing about this new ThunderTank vehicle is that it was designed to fit together with the SaberTank playset we reveled earlier to make one massive vehicle!

There was one more vehicle in the works that we don’t have imagery for, but we were told Bandai also had a working model of an RC thunder tank for the new show that they showed some of the retailers before the line was halted.

Come back tomorrow for our final instalmet of AFi’s THUNDERWEEK!