Tomland

Here are my favorites! The cheap, "5 and 10 store" quality of these plastic creatures, marked with the famous Tomland bunny logo. They had limited movement, wore spandex and plastic clothing and came in an 8 inch, 3&3/4" line, and a 2 inch line. Several of the figures were packaged on different cards with a different series. They had a glow in the dark series of the Star Raiders line and a very rare monster line. Recently, I had the benefit of learning about an Italian carded series of Star Raiders. Read on, enjoy!

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8 inch Star Raiders
Bico	Dagon	Grand	Dral	Tago	Yog	Zing	Rot

Oov	Zhor	Wik	Yick	Ridal	Coth	Flash	Ah

Star Raiders are the biggest line and probably the most well-known series. The name was ripped off from Star Wars and the characters are ripped off from several Star Wars figures: Grand - Darth Vader, Flash - Chewbacca, Coth - Greedo, Zing - C3PO, Wik - Tusken Raider (Sandpeople). Dral is a direct rip off of Mattel's Pulsar figure. In a Montgomery Ward catalog they were marketed as "Cantina Creatures" from Star Wars line (Kenner's Star Wars line at the time were only 3&3/4"). Tomland tried to capitalize on the popularity of both Star Wars and Mego. The figures only came carded. The back of the cards had illustrations of each of the heads and their name underneath (all in black & white). One cool note is that only Dagon and Dral had boots. Oov has shoes and the rest had bare feet. Weapons were molded to the hands if they had any.

Italian - GUERRIERI GALATTICI
Tago	Dagon	Dral	Oov
catalog	Italian distributor logo		card (back)

If you look carefully at the Italian version of the Star Raiders (Guerrieri Galattici) card, it is marked "NEWGIOCO ROMA" - Which is an English/Italian combination of "NEW" and "TOY" and probably based in Rome, Italy. There is even a symbol with a "GC" in the bottom left hand corner. Very cool!

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8 inch Star Raiders - Glow in the Dark
Bico	Dagon	Grand	Dral	Tago	Yog	Zing	Rot

Oov	Zhor	Wik	Yick	Ridal	Coth	Flash	Ah

packaging

card (back)

This is really the same line as the 8" Star Raiders (above) with a slightly modified card to reflect the Glow in the Dark feature. Hands, feet, heads and weapons were the glow parts.

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8 inch Star Command
Dagon	Bico	Flash	Grand	Ridal				Special Offer

The Star Command series were Star Raiders repackaged on a more attractive card in my opinion. I believe that they had the same 16 figures as in the original Star Raiders series. They did have a special offer on the card to become a member of the Star Commander Club which included a certificate, poster, gold wings, membership card and patch. All for $2.98 plus $0.75 shipping and handling... What a deal!

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8 inch Creatures from Other Worlds
Dagon	Zhor	Yog	Zoth

There were only four characters in this series. An interesting note is that "Zoth" is "Coth" from the Star Raiders series and the only one with a modified name.

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8 inch Famous Monsters of Legend
Abominable Snowman	Cyclops	The Fly	Morlock	Frankenstein	Mummy	Wolfman

Ok, here is the cream of the crop! These are the most highly sought after carded figures in the series. The card art is way cool and the characters are pretty unique. The Frankenstein, Wolfman and Mummy figures are EXTREMELY rare and hard to find. There are most likely a Dracula in this series, but I have yet to prove that. BIG REWARDS WILL COME YOUR WAY IF YOU HAVE ONE FOR SALE OR INFORMATION LEADING TO ONE! Be sure to check out the remake of the Fly with some additional redesigning by Cast-A-Way Toys.

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Bionic Man & Woman
1	2	3	4	5	6

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2 inch figures
Dracula	Frankenstein	Mummy	Wolfman	Yeti	Skeleton

These were only 2 inches tall and were rubber bendys of sorts. They seem to be very hard to find and I have yet to see a packaged example yet. Apparently sold in news agents/ candy shops in the UK,The fact that there is a Dracula in addition to the Mummy, Wolfman and Frankenstein lends me to have hope that he was made in the 8 inch FMOL line as well.