The ThunderCats you never got.
LJN advertised toys before they existed. Catalogues went to dealers with photographs of prototypes, and by the time the tooling was finished the weapons had changed colour, the accessories had changed shape, and some of the toys had quietly disappeared altogether. 34 of them are documented here, 9 of which were never made at all.
Every entry is built from the LJN dealer catalogues, mini fold-out catalogues and card backs held in the thundercats.org archive. Assortment numbers and case packs are transcribed from those scans. With the single exception of assortment 3526, they are not published anywhere else, so we present them as our reading of our own documents rather than as settled collector fact.
Toys LJN put in a dealer or mini catalogue, assigned an assortment number, and then never made. This is the whole of what the record shows: no retail release, no retail price, and for all but one of them no photographed physical example.
Physical pieces that exist, photographed from a collector who has held them. Both come from the collection of Andrew McCabe by way of the thundercats.org archive.
Figures that did reach the shelf, but not in the form LJN first photographed. Different accessories, different paint, different colours. These are the pictures on the back of a card that never matched what was inside it.
How to read this section
A prototype here means one of three things, and the difference matters. A never produced entry is a toy that exists only as catalogue artwork. A pre-production sample is a real object somebody owns. A prototype configuration is a figure you can still buy today, photographed before it looked the way it finally looked.
33 of the 34 entries carry original catalogue or packaging scans. Where a source disagrees with itself, or with the wider collector record, the entry says so rather than picking the tidier answer.