Super7’s ThunderCats Ultimates Cats’ Lair crowdfunding campaign has reached its first goal! The 36″ tall playset is getting made!
There are still two more tiers that can be unlocked, but unless you really want a lab set and translucent Lion-O, what’s the point? Potential backers will have until September 17th to join in. The Cats’ Lair is expected to ship by October 2024.
As we reported last month, the campaign needed 3,000 backers at $650 a pop to get this massive playset off the ground. I’m actually surprised that it met the first goal, because it feels like demand for the ThunderCats Ultimates line has died down significantly over the past few years.
Regardless, I’m glad it is being made because I’m all for highly detailed playsets and action figures. I’d love to see Super7 get the Star Wars, Star Trek, and Ghostbusters licenses someday. If for no other reason than to shake things up in the collectors’ toy market.
“Bring Third Earth into your home with this epic crowdfund! In collaboration with our friends the Berbils, our crack design team has created a monumental ThunderCats™ ULTIMATES! Cats’ Lair playset! At over 36″ tall, 33.5″ deep when open, and 53″ wide when open, this mighty fortress is sized to accommodate your 7″ scale ULTIMATES! Figures. It’s chock-full of hidden defense weapons, has special lighting effects, and unfolds to reveal a command center, removable control pods, the ThunderTank maintenance hangar, a hidden weapons room, and so much more! You’d have to travel to Third Earth to find anything close to rivaling this mighty ThunderCats fortress- save the time and expense of interstellar travel by funding this playset and all the extras, and bring the ThunderCats home!”
Pixel Dan checked out the playset at SDCC this year. Check out the video below:
If you’re like me and weren’t super into LJN’s ThunderCats toys in the 1980s, you may have missed out on the original Cats’ Lair playset. It was massive in its own right and had some play features that were present in only a few other toylines, like Captain Power.
Laura Legends’s video on the original 1986 Cats’ Lair is something you should check out:
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