If I've said it once I've said it a thousand times, the LJN Advanced Dungeons and Dragons line from the early 1980's is one of the best toy lines ever produced!! I've written about Warduke enough:
Now we have his nemesis: Strongheart the Good Paladin!!! I love how they qualify the Paladin as "Good".....isn't being Lawful Good an automatic qualification?!?! well maybe not in the 4th edition.
Anyway here he is:
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This is the non Battle-Matic version that came out in the first series (a switch on his back would move his arm up and down in the second series) and the cape he originally came with is long gone but......this is one heck of a great figure! The detail on him is wonderful, as it is with the entire line! I have to say I always thought he should have came with a shield but that doesn't detract from the figure at all.
I would have had a picture of Strongheart fighting Warduke but in my previous posts (in the link above) The Dragonriders of the Styx Black Knight keeps Warduke pretty busy.......
Loved Paladin back in the day! Leading the others on a quest through the dungeon...
ReplyDeleteI bet just about everybody used as the hard charging hero!!
DeleteAh, Strongheart. The goody-two-shoes of my childhood action figure adventures. I always used him as the guy who was all like, "Wait! We shouldn't kill them while they are defenseless! Set them free. They've had their punishment," and stuff like that.
ReplyDeleteI was lucky enough to score a caped version a while back. Damn, I loved this line.
Same with me until I got Bowmarc, then Strongheart became more of a Fighter and Bowmarc became the pious Galahad type. Except he would show the Evil doers NO MERCY!!! I gotta snag a cape of Ebay so he's complete, this line is possibly the best action figure line ever made!
DeleteI had him. He fought until the end. I think the dog got him. Either that or he burnt to death. Hee hee
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I like!! Burn The Paladin!! Let him come back and destroy the evil that killed him!!
DeleteI had this one but was always mad that he didn't come with his "Magic Hammer" like he had on his one appearance on the D+D cartoon lol.
ReplyDeletewow. I cannot remember that at all!! I'll be searching youtube for that:)
DeleteFor the life of me, I can't remember if I had this guy. I can clearly remember all the others I had except this one.
ReplyDeleteHe was the most common of the common so odds are you had him.....I dont have his cape so that might throw you off a bit.
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