Ringlerun Archives - Vintage RPG https://www.vintagerpg.com/tag/ringlerun/ The Art & History of Tabletop RPGs Fri, 23 Aug 2024 21:44:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.vintagerpg.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/cropped-Icon-1-90x90.jpg Ringlerun Archives - Vintage RPG https://www.vintagerpg.com/tag/ringlerun/ 32 32 Ringlerun (1984) https://www.vintagerpg.com/2021/12/ringlerun-1984/ https://www.vintagerpg.com/2021/12/ringlerun-1984/#respond Thu, 23 Dec 2021 05:00:53 +0000 https://www.vintagerpg.com/2021/12/ok-so-this-is-kind-of-interesting-for-my-ljn-dd/ Love that these were branded as Matchbox products for some reason?

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]]> OK, so, this is kind of interesting for my LJN D&D toy nerds out there. In addition to the regular action figure line, the bendy monster line and the PVC monster line, there was also a line of PVC miniatures. I’ve seen a box set of PVC miniatures of the kids from the cartoon that was apparently released in the test market in Spain in small numbers. I’ve also seen a box set that contains miniatures versions of some of the regular action figures — Kelek, Warduke, Strongheart, Elkhorn, Zarak and Ringlerun. What I didn’t know, until I found a couple, was that some of the miniatures were sold in individual blister packs, like this one of Ringlerun.

Apparently it was some sort of co-branding with Matchbox? Like most every other part of the LJN D&D Toy story, I love them, but I don’t understand them at all. They’re too big to be used as D&D miniatures!

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]]> https://www.vintagerpg.com/2021/12/ringlerun-1984/feed/ 0 Ringlerun (1983) https://www.vintagerpg.com/2020/12/ringlerun-1983/ https://www.vintagerpg.com/2020/12/ringlerun-1983/#respond Thu, 24 Dec 2020 10:00:00 +0000 https://www.vintagerpg.com/2020/12/this-is-ringlerun-the-good-wizard-from-the-1983/ The closest thing to D&D Santa that I've got.

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]]> This is Ringlerun, the good wizard, from the 1983 LJN Dungeons & Dragons toy line and the closest thing I’ve got to a Santa Claus toy. He’s the second bald, bearded action figure in the line, along with the evil sorcerer Kelek.

Ringlerun is one of the handful of LJN toys with cloth clothing. He’s also one of the few that appear regularly in other merchandise like story books and those play-and-read records I posted a while back. And, you might be surprised to learn (I was certainly surprised when I realized) that he’s a pretty famous cover boy, fronting the 1983 orange spine Players Handbook in a painting by Jeff Easley.

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