View Full Version : Why Thundercats will have a hard time making
a comeback  08-24-2002, 05:05 AM It's long been discussed among
forums such as these that MOTU shouldn't be the only '80s action
figure line to return from the dead in the 21st century, and one
of the top lines that always seems to come up is Thundercats.
I've long speculated that Thundercats would have a hard time
coming back because the company that held the license and made
the toys, LJN, went out of business a decade ago and the license
may have gotten bought or lost in legal mumbo jumbo.  Well, it
turns out I was wrong and Thundercats will have a very hard time
making a comeback because LJN wasn't the license-holder, they
INVENTED the license to ride the popularity of MOTU! This is
super-bad news because LJN went under hard and was torn asunder
in bankruptcy issues, so for another company to bring
Thundercats back to market, they'd have to track down ALL the
creators and owners of the concept and get them to sign off
allowing someone else t