Comments on: Red Falcon Clones

By: Jeff Hartz

Jeff Hartz — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:32:00 +0000

Okay. I assumed back then he was with DC because he was in the same toy line and Warlord and Hercules. Both of them were the DC character versions, and they were all listed on the back of the card.

By: geotroid

geotroid — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 17:48:55 +0000

Just a correction, there. Turok is not a “DC character.” His likeness is owned by Western Publishing and he appeared in Dell/Gold Key comics during the Golden/Silver Age era and was resurrected in the 90′s under the Valiant & Acclaim banners.

By: Rick "The BEM"

Rick "The BEM" — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:38:35 +0000

I’d forgotten about Eric’s site. Glad it is still up!

Turok was awesome. Great games too. Would love to see the crusaders character toys!

By: Jeff Hartz

Jeff Hartz — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:40:43 +0000

I think I remember seeing these many moons ago, in my teen years. I’m from a small town called Utica, NY and one of it’s claims to fame was home to the very first Woolworth’s store. We had one downtown for years, and I remember many trips to the toy department there, and seeing toys you wouldn’t see anywhere else. This was one of them i think. I also remember in the 80s seeing a Turok figure based on the DC character, later a famed video game character. They also had the Warlord and Hercules figures in the same line. Also, some super heroes I had never heard of in a line called The Crusaders. They ended up years later getting bought up by DC. There were figures based on The Shield, and The Fly.
I never bought them. I figure who would want to play with guys you never heard of, and they were kind of cheap looking. Hindsight is a wonderful gif, huh?

By: geotroid

geotroid — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 05:24:46 +0000

For a good synopsis of the Red Falcon Clone phenomena, please read Erik Larsen’s page here:

http://www.micro-outpost.com/pictures/magno/rfalcon/clones.html

As an addendum to Erik’s info, Howie Abrams (of the Abrams/Mego clan) worked for DSI when the Red Falcon clones hit Big Lot shelves. There’s a very real possibility that Howie had the original Red Falcon tooling and used them with slight modifications for DSI, who were most likely unaware that these magno designs and likenesses were copyrighted properties.

Sun Lin toys continued to market these worldwide, at least until 2006 or so, but NOT in the USA. . .

FYI. this info was not researched by me. It came form a few Micro super sleuths that have thrown me a bone over the years

Yes, there’s a black one. I only have two boxed RF clone samples (a red and a yellow), but I’ve amassed a large collection of eBay photos of the other variations.