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LJN Toys

Tongue-A-Saurus (With Arms)

Prototype variant

STATUS
Unreleased
Never released

About This Figure

This monster-like toy actually "eats" evil figures by lashing out its tongue around the figure and pulling it back into its mouth. Child controls tongue and the claws through the movement of the tail.

What the record shows

Assortment number 3561 · Case pack 6 · Assortment title Playset

Evidenced by the 1987 LJN dealer catalogue.

Tongue-A-Saurus (With Arms), as it appears in the 1987 LJN dealer catalogue

Tongue-A-Saurus (With Arms) in the 1987 LJN dealer catalogue. Scan from the thundercats.org archive.

Worth knowing

Important distinction: the Tongue-A-Saurus itself WAS produced and sold. What was never made is this configuration, with two clawed arms at its sides and a darker green body. One loose production example sold at online auction for 4,050 US dollars in August 2021.

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.

See also the figure that actually shipped: /toys/ljn-tongue-a-sauras/

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