Written by Adam McCombs
Okay, leaving off from my three part series on US gift sets, it’s time to move on to the Canadian and European gift sets. As a reminder, a gift set is any set of two or more toys sold together in the same packaging. Many US Mattel gift sets were, of course, sold outside of the US in packaging that included non-English text. For this article, I’m only including gift sets that were exclusive to Canada and Europe.
It’s entirely possible that there were other sets released in these countries that I’m not aware of. If you know of any that I didn’t cover, please let me know! Most of the pictures in this series come from Grayskull Museum and are old/low res pictures. If you have better images to share, please let me know!
Canadian Gift Sets
Battle Armor Skeletor, Orko and Battle Armor He-Man
Battle Armor Skeletor, Stinkor and Webstor
Roboto, Hordak and Sy-Klone
Thunder Punch He-Man and Orko
Thunder Punch He-Man and Roboto
Ram Man and Zoar (Consumers Distributing)
Trap Jaw and Screeech (Consumers Distributing)
Battle Armor He-Man and Dragon Walker (Consumers Distributing)
This one appeared in the old Grayskull Museum site, labeled as a Canadian gift set. I would be a bit skeptical of this one, though. There is apparently no mention of Battle Armor He-Man on the packaging, and it would have been easy enough for someone to put the figure in there through the broken cellophane window. In fact, He-Man looks a bit too tall for the packaging.
European Gift Sets
Battle Armour He-Man and Battle Armour Skeletor (UK)
There was supposedly a US version of this set – it was advertised but I don’t know if it was released. In the picture below, the spelling on “Battle Armour” and the absence of French text indicate that it was probably released in the UK.
Grizzlor and Spikor (Austria)
Moss Man and Two Bad (Austria)
Stinkor and Moss Man (Austria)
He-Man and Skeletor with audio cassette
Check out the full series of Gift Sets articles!
- Gift Sets of MOTU
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