[quote="Marizzle"]Does anyone know if there will be any The Lion Guard merchandise in stores, when it comes out? [/quote]
Disney has said that there will be toys and other merchandise based on the series, in fact I think that the official concept art that we have seen for the other members of The Lion Guard are from books that will come out.
[quote="gothprincesskiara"]I don't think they resemble previous lion guards because there was nothing about a lion guard in any of the movies, this lion guard thing is something new in the TLK world.[/quote]
Actually the premiss of of the series says that (and I am paraphrasing here):
Kion defies tradition when instead of recruiting a team of young lions to serve in his Lion Guard he gathers a team of different animals that he thinks can do the best job.
That kind of implies that there were other Lion Guards before Kion's team, after all you can not defy a tradition if no such establishment existed previously?
Now granted there was no Lion Guard active during Mufasa or Scar's reign (and from what we know it is likely that there was no Lion Guard during Ahadi or Mohatu's Reign). However we don't know how long Simba's ancestors have ruled The Pride Lands for. There could have been a Lion Guard serving under any King of The Pride Lands before Mohatu.