The Cats are ready, though and are fend off the villains long enough for Tygra to put the finishing touches on the antidote needed to restore the Thundercats to their normal size.
Utilizing his new protection and through the teamwork of the Cats, they are able to destroy the Wolfrat just as Vultureman, Monkian, Ssslithe and Jackalman arrive at Cat’s Lair. Tygra’s working on the antidote while Panthro builds Snarf an armor to combat the Wolfrat since Snarf wasn’t home when the potion came through the vents and is the only one of normal size. He uses the vents to get there and the Sword shows him of the impending attack headed their way. He tells everybody to keep working while he gets to the sword chamber. The Thundercats have locked themselves in Tygra’s lab in the meantime, trying to concoct the antidote, but Lion-O gets a warning from the Sword of Omens. Meanwhile, Mumm-Ra sends Vultureman and the rest of the mutants to set forth an attack on the Thundercats while they’re vulnerable. Lion-O and Tygra are able to distract the Wolfrat long enough to allow for an escape, but things are in a bad way for our heroes. Unfortunately for them, though, time is not a luxury they have as the Wolfrat drills into the control center and begins an attack on our tiny Thundercats. They quickly deduce that Mumm-Ra is behind this and stress how imperative it is to find an antidote quickly.
The Wolfrat easily drills itself into Cat’s Lair and sprays Mumm-Ra’s potion into a ventilation shaft that immediately shrinks the Cats into tiny versions of themselves. Mumm-Ra give Vultureman a miniturizing potion to have the Wolfrat bring into Cat’s Lair that will turn the Thundercats into tiny Thunderkitten. It’s a robotic rat with pretty good AI that should aid in their quest to rid themselves of the Thundercats. Vultureman says it is the latest in mutant technology and can easily penetrate Cat’s Lair. We open with Mumm-Ra questioning Vultureman about his latest invention: The Wolfrat. Easily one of the most beloved cartoons of the 80s about a group of immigrant cats chased away from their homeland after it becomes inhabitable and their struggle to live peacefully in a new land amongst folks who don’t want them there. When the remake was released on Cartoon Network about five years ago, a Nintendo DS game was released, but c’mon, I’m not playing no Nintendo DS. There was a side-scroller computer game for Commodore 64 and other like devices of the era, but no console game ever made it out despite reports that there was an NES version in the works. You all know how much I love licensed video games, but for whatever reason, Thundercats didn’t have one. Probably won’t be for most people, but this is why this is my blog. This is totally one of my favorite playsets ever. The gargoyle-type statues that framed the sarcophagus were fucking scary as shit. Besides just the feature, the sculpting on it was hella cool. I used to have Mumm-Ra transform his decaying corpse into Mumm-Ra the ever-living like 600 times a day. The commercial doesn’t do it justice since it’s focusing on figures instead of the actual playset, but let me tell you something, pal, this shit was Bananatown. Of course, Cat’s Lair, the Thundercats’ headquarters was great, but my favorite was Mumm-Ra’s Tomb Fortress! The figures were great, but the real gems in the line to me were the playsets. The coloring and early use of anime-like animation sequences made it attractive and exciting to kids of all ages and having a fucking kick-ass theme song just cemented the whole deal.īy now, you all now how much I love toys and games and this property was one of my favorites as a kid.
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