What is this Panthro?

Hi,
Can anyone point me to the official info on this miniature PVC Panthro? I couldn't find a listing for it on this site, in the wiki, nor on any collectibles site. I've come across it several times but with either no info or unverifiable info (for example, I've seen it listed as a Kid Works miniature but when I look up the reference, I see a different figurine). At this point, I figure it's a bootleg out of China (see sticker on bottom), which if true is fine, I just want to know for sure.

This Panthro miniature was made in France by a company called Butterfly. It was meant to be a cake topper, if I'm not mistaken. There were a total of 8 figures made (I think). Lion-O, Panthro, Tygra, Cheetara, Mumm-Ra, Slithe, Jackalman, and Monkian.

Thank you for the reply, that gave me a couple clues that led me down a new path. Here's what I found!

So, these are figures that were indeed created by kid works in France. Mini-figurines, not cake toppers (cake toppers are usually made of different material and back then always came with a peg at the bottom to push into the icing and cake so it wouldn't fall over. Grandmom was a baker/chef and I stole enough cake toppers to play with that this was a constant source of annoyance).

But this is absolutely from France and it was a series of 8 figures! I kept searching for Thundercats but of course in France, they were known as Cosmocats (anyone know why? I assume legal reasons?) and turned up that it was KidWorks who distributed them there. Here is the 8-figure blister package:



And here is a card back from one of the individual figure blister packs showing them with a transport belt (Good lord the licensing for this property was on steroids).


Mystery solved! Thank you!

Ah yes, I remember a bit more now. They were sold as Cosmocats miniatures. The reason I thought of them as being cake toppers was because the first time that I ever saw these figures was on the toyarchive website and on it they are listed as "Cake toppers". :)
Here is the link: http://www.toyarchive.com/Thundercats/Novelty/Novelty.html
They are the fourth item from the top.

"Wilycub, post: 125901, member: 25043" said:

Ah yes, I remember a bit more now. They were sold as Cosmocats miniatures. The reason I thought of them as being cake toppers was because the first time that I ever saw these figures was on the toyarchive website and on it they are listed as "Cake toppers". :)

lol the sculpt certainly would support that idea! I now wonder if anyone (maybe the person that made that entry) used them in that manner! I wouldn't have complained at all to get a cake with those figures on top!

"tone, post: 125902, member: 27040" said:

lol the sculpt certainly would support that idea! I now wonder if anyone (maybe the person that made that entry) used them in that manner! I wouldn't have complained at all to get a cake with those figures on top!

Neither would have I either.

I have them all in my Thunderjunk collection thread.
http://thundercats.org/forums/index.php?threads/roars-thunderjunk.2746/page-3

The Butterfly figurines that sold here in America were never carded, they sold individually out of an open box. There was a plastic insert in the bottom of the box that held the feet of the figurines, and the box top opened, folded back, and tucked in to make a countertop display. I do not know what they sold for apiece, unfortunately, but it couldn't have been for more than a couple of dollars being back then.

Mumm-Ra's dagger is incredibly small on the Butterfly figure, even smaller than the weapons that come with the Kid-Works figurines, I can't imagine those accessories stayed with the figures long.

It was interesting to see the Butterfly "cake toppers" sealed on a card but with Kid-Works UK on them. I guess like LJN did with Toy Concepts, and PlayFul, if they didn't have remaindered figures from American sales, they allowed other companies in the countries where the toys were popular manufacture them to expedite toy sales?

All I know is that I sure wish I had bought more.