It's hard to believe that toy makers thought the next merchandising blitz would come from a David Lynch film but that's exactly what happened in 1984. Dune got the full treatment with colouring books, bed sheets and of course a selection of action figures produced by LJN. The movie wasn't particularly kid (or for that matter general public) friendly and as a result the spice warriors of Dune resided in the clearance aisle.
What's perplexing to me is most of this stuff got made, yet the gigantically more kid friendly "Last Starfighter" toy line never saw the light of day. Aggghhh!
Check out the 1984 LJN Dune Catalog here.
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a die-cast Starfighter ship would have been awesome!
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Based on this, someone should make a line of Twin Peaks action figgas!
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a kid, I had this little Dune movie storybook that my mom had apparently found at a thrift shop, and it had an ad for these toys in the back pages.
ReplyDeleteWith a little paint, you could have repurposed your Gurney Halleck as Captain Picard.
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