Zython Archives - PS https://plaidstallions.com/reboot/tag/zython/ Reboot Sun, 08 Sep 2019 18:58:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 207447804 Toy-Ventures: The Zython from Mattel’s Space:1999 line https://plaidstallions.com/reboot/toy-ventures-zython-from-mattels/ https://plaidstallions.com/reboot/toy-ventures-zython-from-mattels/#respond Mon, 24 Jun 2019 12:03:00 +0000 http://plaidstallions.com/reboot/index.php/2019/06/24/toy-ventures-zython-from-mattels/ This week we talk about one of the rarest action figures I’ve ever come across, the highly elusive Zython from the Mattel Space:1999 action figure collection. I don’t own this incredibly rare carded example but thankfully, I do know someone that has one and I examine it and give it’s interesting back story. Please subscribe […]

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This week we talk about one of the rarest action figures I’ve ever come across, the highly elusive Zython from the Mattel Space:1999 action figure collection.

I don’t own this incredibly rare carded example but thankfully, I do know someone that has one and I examine it and give it’s interesting back story.

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]]> https://plaidstallions.com/reboot/toy-ventures-zython-from-mattels/feed/ 0 5983 The Zython from Mattel’s Space:1999 line. https://plaidstallions.com/reboot/the-zython-from-mattels-space1999-line/ https://plaidstallions.com/reboot/the-zython-from-mattels-space1999-line/#comments Tue, 12 Feb 2019 13:04:00 +0000 http://plaidstallions.com/reboot/index.php/2019/02/12/the-zython-from-mattels-space1999-line/ The Zython was offered in the 1977 Mattel Catalog as an alien character to go alongside with Mattel’s Space:1999 action figure line. It never appeared in the series but was a rather welcome addition to the line which desperately needed more flair. However, sales on Space:1999 merch weren’t strong enough to warrant a wide release and […]

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The Zython was offered in the 1977 Mattel Catalog as an alien character to go alongside with Mattel’s Space:1999 action figure line. It never appeared in the series but was a rather welcome addition to the line which desperately needed more flair.

However, sales on Space:1999 merch weren’t strong enough to warrant a wide release and the Zython seems to have only been offered via this contest for a German comic book above (Thanks Eddy for the scan). It’s speculated that less than 300 of these were made, we’ll probably never know for sure but a few have trickled out of Deutschland over the years.

But of course, this is Mattel we’re talking about here, they’d never let a good toy mold go unused, so Zython would later appear in the amazing Mexican version of Big Jim (known as Kid Acero), which was produced under license by a company called CIPSA, who would dub him Nocton an alien enemy of Kid Acero.



So, while I’ll probably never own a Zython (the last one went for just under a grand), I was able to buy a Nocton in the 1990s and still have him to this day. One day I hope to track down his scepter. 










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