Retro-view: Soaron Sky Sentry

We all remember the "big" 1980s toylines, like Masters of the Universe or GI Joe, but there were dozens (if not hundreds) of other, smaller, lines that filled our toyboxes. Things that are more obscure today, things that perhaps you'd recognize if you saw one in the wild, but couldn't quite place. I want to honor some of the more random toys I loved as a child - things like the character "Weed Killer" from the short-lived Swamp Thing cartoon, which I promise to review some day.

Today's "Retro-view" is a fellow that has a special place in what I call "the Shrine": Soaron Sky Sentry, the pterodactyl-like robot-man from Mattel's 1987 Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future line.

From his original packaging:

Mentor File - Confidential
SOARON SKY SENTRY Date: 8.31.2172

FULL NAME: Soaron 71852 - Sky Sentry (Prototype).
CLASSIFICATION: Warlord - Class 1A/Aerial Unit
PROGRAM: Primary Function: Execute orders of Lord Dread without fail. 2nd Function: Provide Air Surveillance for Volcania and the Empire.
CHARACTERISTICS: Highly intelligent... Merciless... Moves with lightning speed and is unstoppable when airborn.
KNOWN WEAKNESS: Underestimates human strategy and endurance capacity... Subject is weaker when grounded. Lure to ground whenever possible.
SPECIAL TACTICAL WEAPON: Digitizer Staff.
MILITARY INSIGNIA: Sky Sentry Symbol.
CURRENT STATUS: The first "Warlord" Bio Dread... self-replication enables it to replace/repair any damaged parts in battle... A one-of-a-kind unit.
WARNING: Capable of destroying small cities... engage in battle only when unavoidable... artificially intelligent - can "think" during battle.

Now, none of that means anything to me, but I thought I'd throw it up there for those of you for whom it does. The packaging also states that Soaron is the "Bio Dread Sky Assault Warlord," which sounds like the title of an animé to me.

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6 Responses to Retro-view: Soaron Sky Sentry

  1. Vincent says:

    Captain Power ruled and Soaron was my favorite character.

  2. Esbat says:

    I have one or two sealed tapes of the show. Plus I not only owned, 2 Captain Powers (i had to replace the one I broke), I had the light gun ship, AND some kinda super 3 in 1 rifle.

    • Esbat says:

      I STILL have a tape of the show… i had to double check my VHS/DVD box.

    • Poe Ghostal says:

      That’s cool. I have to say, my opinion of light gun technology was forever tainted by Gumshoe, a difficult game which required constant pulling of the trigger and really made no sense as a gun game at all. Man, I hated that game. No amount of Duck Hunt could wash away its memory.

  3. Vincent says:

    As long as we are sharing, my Captain Power toys:

    2 of the black bad guy ships
    1 captain power ship (that saw a lot of duty as a joe vehicle)
    1 captain power
    1 flying guy
    1 soaron
    1 Blastar or whatever the other evil robot guy was that wasn’t soaron
    1 captain power station (you put power on it and when it lit up his chest kind of glowed)
    2 animated captain power videos
    1 tape of the show

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