1983 Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Melf Action Figure Packaged
Take a look at what was waiting for me when I got home on Saturday! That’s right, gang, that’s one of the LJN Advanced Dungeons & Dragons action figures and he’s just waiting to have a blast with some of the other toys from the series. The bubble is loose so the figure and accessories can be pulled out and stuck back in whenever I feel like it, which makes it a toy I’m not actually opening for the first time, but it is one I can open again and again as I wish.
That cardback artwork is fantastic! Yeah, someone out there needs to create that book about this line because there’s no way I could ever collect the entire line. Some of the toys are just way too expensive!
The packaging on those figures was really out-of-this-world incredible. I sorta’ wish I still had the cardbacks.
Love it! Painted/fully illustrated cardbacks are my favourite kind. It’s a shame more companies don’t do this these days, but I suspect it has a lot to do with cost.
Can’t find a good verifiable source, but I keep running into the name of former TSR staff artist Tim Truman as the guy who did those cardbacks: http://www.trumanstudio.citymax.com
…he’d make for an excellent cover artist if one was to make a book about the toys.
/justsayin’