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.