Skeleton Warriors figures, comics, books, DVD and Skeleton Fighter knock offs.
Skeleton Warriors sadly never gained a foothold in the toy market of the 90s but it's influence can still be seen today in the toy industry. Todd McFarlane saw the Skeleton Warriors line at it's initial reveal during a toy fair and was very impressed with the sculpting detail. Other toy companies and designers had been telling him such detail was impossible at the small scale of 4-6 inch action figures. Motivated by what he had seen from Playmates Skeleton Warriors line, Todd went on to insist on such detail in his companies action figures, leading to Movie maniacs which spawned the horror and movie action figure collectors market we see today from the likes of NECA. Hasbro and Mattel also took note of the success of McFarlanes toys and started to put more effort into the detailing of their Marvel and DC toylines Marvel Legends and DC Universe Classics as well as Mattels Master of the Universe 200X series of figures.
If not for Skeleton Warriors and it's influence on Todd McFarlane, we may not have the many highly detailed collectible action figure lines we do today.
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