S is for Stamping Thundercats

Licensed from Telepix by HG Toys (the same Harett-Gilmar who made that series of TV/movie related play-sets in the 1980's), I don't know how many were in the set but hope this is all of them - two good guys and a pair of baddies, bought together from an aged shop-stock box in an older corner-shop around ten years ago?

Good guys (fluffy-cats?) are the outer pair (red bases); Thundercats which I could look up but can't be bothered to, one's a lion/man the other a panther/person . . . I think! The bad guys (blue bases, smelly-cats!) seem to be based on a simian of some kind and an explosion of purple crazy-string!

Seven years in a storage facility's shipping container has somewhat dried-out the blue inc-pads - found in the cap - but the two red ones are still going strong (good always triumphs over evil!) and they produce 20mm paper flats . . . sort of!

As you can see - from the risks our 'Berserker' takes on your behalf - they are 65mm if you remove the stamp and stamp/ink-cap. And it won't have escaped your notice that their role as handles leaves them a bit statue'y - Oscars for kids!

It's funny - of all the stuff I missed gallivanting around as an adolescent farmer, soldier, ski-instructor and festival-goer (box ticking!), these were probably the one's I know least about, I caught the odd episode of He-Man, watched the rise of the execrable Scrappy-Doo, joined some late-night stuff sobering-up with a microwaved pasty occasionally (Serenity, Terrahawk re-runs), saw PC'd TMHT quickly revert to TMNT in the early nineties after I returned to UK, but never really had much awareness of the Thundercats (or the various giant robot ones!), yet I have managed to accrue quite a bit of it in the last few years, even the last few months - I scored a bunch at a charity shop back in September, in two scales.