TYGRA

 

And the long wait is reaching its end, finally Super 7 is delivering all those Thundercats we pre-order before the pandemic, the curse over the Thundercats was lifted??? Maybe...in part, because Mumm-Ra The Ever-Living was really worth the wait, the jewel of the crown. But wath about the rest?? Tygra will answear that question since he has always being my favorite Thundercat and he took two years to arrive to his destiny.

Soo, aside of the super pretty box he comes in, Tygra is a little bit taller than Lion-O wich is totally fine since he is much older, soo theres no scale complaign. He can stand on his own perfectly and has no base and is articulated on the neck, shouldrs, biceps, elbows, wrists, torso, waist, legs, knes and ankles.

The articulations are TERRIBLE....yes thats odd, is really weird how fully articulated he is and still how he is much more an statue than even Mumm-Ra. The super ugly and intrusive torso joint have a big range ov movement as well as the waist can rotate freely as well as the wrists but thats it....The shoulders barelly move since the hard plastic on his neck and chest restrict the joits pretty badlly and the same happend in the legs, he can make a split but he cant join his legs for some reason and the hip piece restrict them a lot.

Elbows, knes and ankles only move 30°....only 30°, soo they have the range of movement of a 90s toy or a Hot Toys figures with clothes. I am really dissapointed to see how a combination of hard material and structure pretty much makes almost all his articulations useless. Oh yhea and the head, it can rotate but it cant move up and down at all either thanks to his hair.

I dont get how Lion-O or Mumm-Ra are not this limited. Those two were original made by Mattel many years ago and Tygra is one of the first Super 7 exclusive figures, soo this are the limits of Super 7??

The sculpt is Ok i guess, the muscle anatomy is really good as well as his claws and bare feet. The head is a little too big i think but the face sculpt is ok...i think...i am not very sure, why? Because the sculpt is blocked by ugly paint.

The paint job is HORRIBLE!!! Most of the figure is cast on color plastic soo the paint is keep at minimum but is extremelly poor....they changed his outfit from dark blue to aqua blue to match it more with the original 80s toys and i am fine with that but the plastic is soo cheap...really really cheap...and shines a lot. All other figures have a mate color palette except Tygra, he is neon orange and yellow.

Why si he yellow??? The sections on his face, feet and claws have no hair and his skin is....Sipson yellow!!! His eyes looks soo clumsy painted and the line betwene the yellow and orange is soo fuzzy...actually a lot of the blue of his outfit is invading his orange chest and viceversa, same on the feet, the yellow is invading a lot of his outfit.....

They forgott to paint his mouth or even give him the dark shades and lights on the hair like Lion-o´s. He is also missing an elbow pad....missing a peice of his outfit entirelly......the toys from the 80s have the elbow pad, even the Bnadai toys from 10 years ago have the pad as well....

Accesorys are not better. He have an extra head with a fierce expressionbut while you can see Lion-o´s every single teeth, here the mouth is just a white sploch and his eyes are looking at two different directions....

He have two pairs of extra hands to hold items. TWO PAIRS!!! I mean, for twath reason i need two pairs of exactly the same sculpted hands?? Where is the closed fist????

Heads and hands can be exchanged pretty easy tough and his other accesory is his bolas weapon in closed stance: a golden rod with 3 red balls on top. This looks more like a candy than a weapon but the sculpt and paint are good soo nothing to complaing in here.

He also have the bolas open and looking like a whip flowing around with the 3 red balls in the end. This version is made with hard plastic soo it can keep in balance and helps a lot to give to the display all the dinamism the figure itself dosnt have.

And then he have a third version of his bolas weapon, this time with a blue lace conecting the golden rod with the 3 head end. The way the lace is tied with each end looks really bad and i first hated this accesory tough in photos dosnt looks that bad and helps to give to the weapon a relaxed stance and is easy to use. Also is helpfull when Tygra wraps it around his body to turn invisible.

And thats it...i was expecting a bolas weapon with a wire inside to give it the shape i wanted, i mean this is an "Ultimate" figure, but there wasnt anything more, no props from the serires either like the Omen book of Lion-O of Mumm-Ra´s gyroscope either.

Is this a bad looking figure? Is not, it looks nice and is easy to see who this character is, but he stands out a lot in a bad way when the other Thundercats are around. Also this is not a 55$ figure.....very little accesorys, useless articulations, an OK sculpt and really poor paint aplication, this is a Hasbro or Mattel mass market figure, something wirth 20$ at best.

This gives me a lot to think about it tough...i was excited to get the rest of the cats as well as the Silverhawks but after seen this dramatic quality fall i am not sure if i will forget all about Super 7 now. They figures are extremelly expensive, we have to demand a quality worth of that amount og money.

Then again, this a take it or leave it kind of deal...no other company will pruduce Thundercats figures soo this could be the last chance we see this characters at all. Pay for the characters themselves and expect any kind of quality? Or demand the best quality or nothing? Because theres nothing "Ultimate" in this unfortunetly figure.

MUMM-RA THE EVER-LIVING

 Once upon a time, many years ago, Super 7 launched theyr Ultimate Thundercats line with the re-release of old Hasbro figures: Lion-O, Panthro, Mumm-Ra snd JackalMan with the release date of serires 2 - the true brand new figures never released by Hasbro - a month later. That month went by, then a new year started, many new action figures serires from Super 7 went by as well, a pandemic later and in a totally different world than that of the original release, Super 7 FINALLY delivered serires 2 of the Ultimate Thundercats. Many of those who pre-ordered the figures didnt survive to have them in theyr hands...

Its no secret who had me hyped for soo many years from this serires tough: Mumm-Ra The Ever-Living soo of course he was the very first one i got with no hestitation. The Mumm-Ra from the first serires was beyond perfect, was trully spectacular despite its small frame soo it was evident wath to expect from his super powered version, that came in a really huge box, the biggest box of the entire series.

The Ever-Living is of course the biggest figures of the entire collection soo he towers over the rest of the characters and most action figures from NECA and other brands, tough he is still not as big as a lay Arts Kai. He can stand on his own perfectly despite his size tough i really wish Super 7 gives him a base to levitate.

He is articulated on the neck, shoulders, biceps, elbows, wrists, chest, waist, legs, knes and ankles, most of them are ball joints tough the few cut joints have a very good range of movement. I specially like the articulation on his feet since they cna move to the sides and help him balance perfectly, tough his legs articulations are kinda lose, and his shoulders ball joints are really stiff. Also, his head dress dosnt let him tilt his head up and down but thats to be expected.

All articulations are well hideen except the chest ones thats is incrediblly ugly and evident, just like Lion-o´s. This really puzzle me...this ugly gap on the half of his torso is tehre in propuse? To make him like "vintage"? I dont know, its almost like Super 7 try to make this figure looks similar to the Master of the Universe toys. Tough the range of movement is pretty high soo i cant complaing there.

Given this guy is almost nude, theres nothing that blocks his articualtions, since the wrapings and the skirt are made with very soft plastic, the only thing in the way os his head dress.

The sculpt is made by The Four Horsemen, soo is pretty spot on, with all the wrinkled and almost repitilian details on the skin on his face, huge eyes and inhuman shaped face since i dont remember no one saying Mumm-Ra was ever a human being. The hald smile looks very animalistic and the details on the snakes on his head dress is awesome, tough one of the snake horns is twisted since they are made with soft plastic.

His body have less details limiting the textire to his knes and elbows but the musculature and anatomy are perfect. Like i said, the bandages are made with a very soft plastic tugh they are a little too thick and dosnt have the aged texture the first Mumm-Ra had soo they looks kind aplastiquish....tough they are interconected with each other and with certain parts of Mumm-Ra soo they are fixed in theyr place.

Paint job is really good too, specially on the red tatto on his chest and the metalic paint on his leg armor and and nose piece. The eyebrows are painted in grey and the red eyes have a black line around them as well as around his lips, giving him a pretty refined and cool look tough aside of that there is no shadows or washes at all, his entire body is electric blue.

This is kind of simplistic, but given this is based on a cartoon, the clean look is understandable on his body and the red and black bandages on his head, but i wish they give some dark wash to the rest of the bandages on his body to makes them look a little more old and natural.

His wings/cape is made with real fabric and the material is of very high quality, with a black inside and red in the outide tough the stitches are pertty evident on the red side, they even aded some cuts here and there to make the cape looks ancient. With to holes on the sides and a big hole at the top center, the cap hangs from a big and ugly nail looking piece on Mumm-Ra´s neck (hidden under the head dress back side) and from the spikes on his wristsbands.

The cape is kinda anoying when posing and moving his arms tough thats to be expected, and it can be removed pretty easy. Also theres a whire in the sides and 3 inside wires soo the cape can be posed as well to flow with his movements. While the fabric is thick, this wire makes a big difference and gives a lot of dinamism to the figure.

As accesoryes he includes two sets of extra hands; one to hold his items and another one in claw shape and they can be changed pretty easy. He also have an extra head with an open roaring mouth and the effcet is really spectacular. This open moith head is my favorite and the sculpted fangs are terrific looking!!

He also have the sword of Plunn-Dar, a handle with two interwinded snakes and a huge blade coming out from both sides. This weapon is HUGE, even bigger than Mumm-Ra and is really epic looking, tough the paint is kinda boring since the snakes are not painted on metalic paint but just in yellow, and the blades are just....grey plastic, just like the sword of omen from Lion-O, why they didnt use metalic paint here???

There is also the Mighty Gyroscope Regulator an item that appeare in one of the last episodes and part of the Gyrosope that keeps Thundera toegether. Mumm-Ra wants to stole this piece tough i dont remember if he even touch it on the cartoon, soo this item is such an specific prop from an specific scene i am not sure it fits Mumm-Ra at all...is like they wanted to add something extra for the two years wait.

The Mighty Gyroscope regulator have a nice sculpy and a basic painting, looks good but is the less important part of the package.

Now the best part of the accesorys, an extra action figure: Ma-Mutt. This is the nicest detail of the pack, give Mumm-Ra his pet and he is even articulated on the four legs and head soo he is an action figure, tough he have cut joints,  and theres not much point on moving him at all.

Ma-Mutt sculpt is really good with his Yautja looking jaw and the spiked collar, the paint, this time, add a lot of shadows and washes to give to his body a lot of volume and highlight the wrinkles on his face. I specially love the big contrast with his tiny red eyes, looks really eveil but kinda cute too...and makes me wonder how Mumm-Ra is the most evil entity of the Third Planet and yet he can give love and care to a dog...

Overall, this is a beautifull and deffinetly the most amazing Mumm-Ra articulated figure, the soft fabric cape with wire, the Ma-Mutt, the scale, the screaming head, everthing here is stellar and this is most deffinetly the best piece of the whole Thundercats line since no other hero or villian can match this.

And still, despite how good this is, a two years delay and the astronomic pirce Super 7 ask for this makes me really question if hes worth it. The huge gap between serires 1 and 2 really hurt my hype for this serires to the point i am notr sure if i will gte more figures of this line. I mean this is the jewel of the crown after all and while i am very happy with this guy, i am not specially happy with Super 7.