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I’d also like to point out that toys were made based on TV shows, even in the 1980s when shows based on toys were finally allowed. The reason kids wanted a Star Trek or Six Million Dollar Man toy was because they really liked the show and wanted to play those adventures, long before there ever was an adult collector market for such things. Meanwhile shows like ThunderCats and The Centurions were show first and the toys were intended to help fund the show. So the only way those shows would sell toys is if the show was so good kids wanted to play further adventures with or as those characters or in that world. If anything a quality show should be more important to those shows than if they weren’t “toy commercials”. It’s why we remember MASK and not Vor-Tech.
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