Soon Forget: Earthworm Jim vehicles

This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of blog posts memorializing cancelled toys. Our subjects today are Playmates' Earthworm Jim Crazed Cycle and Worm Thrower vehicles.

Part of the planned Series 2 (shown off at Toy Fair 1996), the Crazed Cycle was seen in the cartoon, and would have included a missile-firing feature that launched the eyes out of the face on the front. It's possible it also would have included the Driver Jim figure?

The "Worm Thrower" was just an excuse to reuse the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' Pizza Thrower molds, as evidence at a glance:

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