Flashback Friday – Clawtron

Every Friday, I'll post a little look into my childhood. Maybe together we can figure out why I'm so messed up.

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If one of my childhood toys could be ranked as "most played with," it would be Clawtron. He didn't come with a detailed back story. He had no cartoon or comic book. His origins had to be surmised from the package art. Maybe that's why I liked him so much. Over the years, he was a Shogun Warrior pilot, a top-secret commando, and even a villain… but he eventually was granted cosmic power and became the leader of the Star Blazers (yeah, I know) in their battle against X-Ray Man and the Manticore. Clawtron's headquarters (where he parked his Shogun Warrior) was in a black hole (which was a darkened hallway in my house lit by a red night light). Clawtron was part of the Adventure People line of toys. They were great action figures and imagination builders that I only really came to appreciate years later.