Trendmasters was an American toy company based in St. Louis, Missouri, notable for its figures based on the Godzilla series, including figures based on the 1998 film of the same name. Trendmasters closed in 2002, and its intellectual property assets were acquired by Jakks Pacific.[1]
Following the success of its initial Godzilla toys in 1994, Trendmasters expanded its product range to include toys based on various licenses. These included the series Voltron: The Third Dimension, as well as films and television programs such as Nova's Ark, Battlefield Earth, Gamera, Forbidden Planet, Independence Day, Mars Attacks!, Extreme Ghostbusters, Lost in Space, Gumby, Cardcaptors, The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper, Dexter's Laboratory, and The Powerpuff Girls.[2]
In 1999, the company released a line of animated watches called C-watches. These watches allowed the user to set alarms for Mon-Fri, alerted the user to mealtimes, and had many other uses and animations. Special editions of these watches included the