So, this is embarrassing, but bear with us. We excitedly wrote an entire page for Kabor, the Darkling Lord, on the assumption that his name was a blatant clue to his totem form. You should have seen all the information and jokes about cabers we had crammed in here. And no dirty jokes about 'tossing the Kabor'. No, clean, inoffensive yet hilarious jokes.
Then we got hold of higher res scans of the Toy Fair Catalogue which contains the only photograph of Kabor and released to our dismay that his totem isn't a Scottish caber. So we had to start from scratch. We should have realised that a caber wasn't much of a magical totem. We just figured that was why Kabor didn't get a retail release.
Toys[]
- Kabor (1988 - cancelled)
- Accessories: Helmet, warhammer and power shield
- The first thing you'll likely notice about Kabor is his magnificent helmet, which looks like the head of a rhino that's been hollowed out and worn on the side. Unfortunately, on closer inspection, it's not really a rhino's head, so why it has two spikes sticking out on the side, we couldn't tell you. The black and white armour is very fetching however, far more asymmetrical that many others in the line. It has the vague sense of a more formal armour design on his right that is being corrupted and mutated by the odd textures and shapes coming in from his left including the barnacle-like growths on the left of the torso.
- Kabor's power shield has an odd little growth on the top as well. Some kind of bug perhaps? Who knows. His weapon is a an impressive double-headed warhammer, possibly. The power shield's hologram has a skeleton creature apparently juggling what we can only assume are brains. Depicted on the chest hologram is a large-headed monster pointing ominously at the viewer.
Notes[]
- Yep, another cancelled figure, another set of holograms that could represent anything. The totem one is especially bizarre.
Chest holo concept art.
- Kabor's working name was "cliff dweller".
- Early, low-res pictures of the 1988 Toy Fare catalogue really did give the impression of Kabor's helmet being a rhino's head side-on, with the double horns. But going by the card art, they're not in line with each other as a rhino's horns are, and have more of the appearance of horns on the side of the head of some kind of fantasy creature. The bulbous distortions to the left-hand side of Kabor's helmet suggest a symmetrical design - with horns on both sides - that has been deformed or corrupted somehow, the missing horns perhaps going in the process. Maybe.
- Kabor's card art depicts him with a gun, the prototype of which is labelled as a "winch", but his catalogue appearance shows him with a warhammer.
Wait, they both have beards; which one is the evil one?!
- Kabor's head is quite similar to Braxe's but they are subtly different. Given how many figures in this wave have black hair, it's odd that Hasbro would give two such similar moustaches and goatees.