Rare Trendmasters Cardcaptors Prototypes from the Toy Fair 2001
Wanted to post these low quality photos and have them archived somewhere. A toy fair for the 2001 season had Trendmasters come out and promote their new line of Cardcaptors toys including the famous fashion dolls, sealing wand, talking Kero plushie, and the clow cards. Among the prototypes that Trendmasters showed off that were never released were different battle and school outfits for Sakura, a school winter uniform doll of Li, a Madison (Tomoyo) doll also wearing the winter uniform, mini collectibles, several plushies of Sakura and Kero, and most interestingly, an interactive Sakura doll (3rd photo) that would have interacted with certain items and react to a users touch.
These photos are from one of the old fansites that have unfortunately been lost to time (Michael's Cardcaptors hosted by Geocities, I believe) and most photos were never properly archived on the wayback machine. If anyone else is a professional internet sleuth and can find those photos, Michael's Cardcaptors had one of the best, if not the best, comprehensive list of Cardcaptor Sakura and Cardcaptors merch from the 90's/early 2000's. Apparently these photos were taken by a Bobbi Boyd and were on an Action Figure Collecting page on about.com
I wanted to make sure these photos were still around on the internet in some way after having downloaded them when they were still up. Very interesting to see how much Cardcaptors line of toys could have grown if the show's merchandise had sold well. If you have any information about this toy fair or prototypes, or just fun memories with the Cardcaptors line of toys, please share!