About This Figure
The 1986 LJN mini catalogue contains a group image of all 8 Companion figures together. However the image displayed shows Berbil Bert painted a different colour to that released. In the 1986 Mini catalogue picture he is painted a light brown colour that makes him look like Berbil Bob from the Thundercats Ho! episodes. I can only assume that the figure got confused with Berbil Bob or LJN hadn't made their mind up which Berbil from the cartoon would get a release at the point when the catalogues images were made. The figure was later changed to the blue coloured Berbil Bert figure to match his actual colour from the cartoon. This light brown coloured version of Berbil Bert was never released, which is a shame as it could have easily been renamed as Berbil Bob and we would have gotten a 4th Berbil figure from the toy line.
What the record shows
Assortment number 3544 · Case pack 36 · Assortment title Good Companion
Evidenced by the 1986 LJN mini catalogue, Companions page.
Berbil Bert (Light Brown Body) in the 1986 LJN mini catalogue, Companions page. Scan from the thundercats.org archive.
Sourcing
The assortment number and case pack above are transcribed from the LJN catalogue scans held in the thundercats.org archive. With one exception, assortment 3526 for the Berserkers, these numbers are not published anywhere else on the open web, so treat them as our reading of our own documents rather than settled collector fact.
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