Here is the 1987 Mattel Toys Dealer Catalog. Intended for retailers, Mattel’s dealer catalogs showcased all the latest and greatest releases, along with existing products within its various current (at the time) toy lines. New releases included:
- King Randor
- Sorceress
- Clamp Champ
- Scare Glow
- Blast Attak
- Snake Face
- Ninjor
- Sssqueeze
- Buzz Saw Hordak
- Mosquitor
- Blade
- Saurod
- Gwildor
- Rotar
- Twistoid
- Beam-Blaster & Artilleray
- Tower Tools
- Cliff Climber
- Scubattack
- Megator (delayed until 1988)
- Tytus (delayed until 1988)
- Tyrantisaurus Rex
- Bionatops
- Turbodactyl
Announced but unreleased items included:
- Cosmic Key
- Gyrattacker
- Eldor
- He-Ro
- Gigantisaur
Conventional wisdom about the 1987 lineup says that Mattel was putting out a lot of reused parts in the new figures (like Scare Glow, King Randor, Clamp Champ). But really parts reuse existed in every year of the line. Taken altogether, there was quite a lot of new tooling in 1987, and a lot of new ideas to expand the line in new directions. It’s a pity that the line fizzled out before these ideas could be fully explored.
Source: Nathalie NHT
Don’t know why I just noticed… but the catalogue doesn’t just show the Blade Prototype.. it shows the prototype NEXT to the a more production final version…. I think that’s a bit odd.. normally prototypes are shown when finals aren’t ready.. but to show both like that? mm.
Yeah, I have no idea why they’d show both. Unless the person putting it together somehow didn’t notice…