Filmation and Mattel worked hand-in-hand with He-Man.  One of the fruits of this was that Mattel made figures of a cartoon Filmation developed - BraveStarr.  I'm not going to mention too much about the cartoon, but there are screen shots below showing the characters that never got made into toys.

Judge JB and her hammer of justice and the Shaman who gives Bravestarr his powers are both shown above.

Cactus Head, some more villains flying and Stampede, the force that created Tex Hex, fight on the side of the bandits and outlaws.  Stampede is a hologram gone wrong apparently - well, that's not a reassuring thing.

So, I guess someone at Filmation probaby had a sunstroke in Texas or something to come up with these ideas.  The cartoons were average, the toys were mediocre and expensive and demand for this line well... just wasn't there.

The hero in this case was BraveStarr, someone with native American roots who's also the sherrif.  His talking steed, Thirty Thirty can transform from a 4 legged beast of burden to a 2 legged walking cowboy.

He was assisted by the Shaman, Deputy Fuzz and Handle Bar.  Handle Bar was the bartender in New Texas, the town where BraveStarr and all the good guys were based.

The main antagonist was Tex Hex, a weird old man empowered by Stampede, and somehow aged to a bag of skin and bones.

He had a crew of bad guys including his right hand man, Sandstorm, who could blow gale force winds with his mout to create dust-storms and spray sleeping mists as well.

BraveStarr had 30/30, Tex Hex had Skull Walker - a two legged vehicle that can "walk" on the ground or transform into a jet.

There were other toys as well in the first series, including Deputy Fuzz and Outlaw Scuzz.

The toys came with "Newspapers" with little stories and if you got all 4 of them, you can put the centerfolds together to create a huge poster.

BraveStarr was owned by Filmation and the toys was made by Mattel.  A good fan site to visiit is Bravestarr.net.

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