About This Figure
The 1987 (series 3) mini catalogues and 22-back card backs contain a group picture of all the regular good Thundercat figures together. However all the series 3 figures apart from Captain Cracker and Jaga have different accessories to those actually released with the figures. In this instance Lynx-O is pictured holding a shield that appears to resemble a dustbin lid. In the inner part of the shield is a black circular piece (it is uncertain whether this is painted or an actual piece of plastic), then inside is what looks like the Eye of Thundera symbol. The shield released resembles the cartoon shield much more than the version pictured here. It is thought that this was a very early prototype piece to photograph with the figure. It was later changed to the light shield with a much flatter base and the red pieces on the inner part of the shield. Like many other weapons that were originally shown, this shield was never released with the Lynx-O figure.
What the record shows
Assortment number 3500 · Case pack 24 · Assortment title Good Thundercat
Evidenced by the 1987 series 3 mini catalogues and the 22-back card backs.
Lynx-O (Prototype Shield) in the 1987 series 3 mini catalogues and the 22-back card backs. 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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