In addition, Cheetara is made from a soft plastic that combines with her missing ankle joints making it hard to achieve even a stable standing pose for her. And as a character famed for her running abilities, it’s too bad that she cannot hold a running pose of any kind due to the lack of ankle joints. With no neck articulation, Cheetara can only stare straight forward. Cheetara is missing a couple of vital articulation points, specifically neck, ankles and wrists. While Cheetara has quite a bit more articulation than the twins (who only had 3 points each), unfortunately that articulation isn’t necessarily in the most useful places. The scale doesn’t seem quite perfect to me with Star Wars, but I’m not sure exactly how large the Thundercats are supposed to be opposed to a person, so that’s a personal judgement you’ll have to make. Cheetara looks just the right size standing next to Wilykat & Wilykit, and fits in well with the Marvel Universe line of figures. Wilykit & Wilykat are perfectly scaled to go toe-to-toe with Red Lantern Dex-Starr!!īandai did a fantastic job with the scaling in this line. Given a choice between the statuesque, poorly-painted $9.99 Young Justice figures and the vastly better $6.99 Thundercats, I’d take the Thundercats every time. At just $6.99 each, this is a particularly outstanding value in a market overflowing with similarly-sized figures retailing at $7.99 to $10.99. I neglected to mention in my review of Wilykat and Wilykit another positive feature of this 4″ line of Thundercats figures: the low price-point. Cheetara has 10 points of articulation: ball-jointed shoulders, swivel elbows, v-cut legs, swivel thighs, and knees. Unlike the twins, Cheetara has ample articulation (though not necessarily all the articulation you want–more on that later). There was no paint slop or stray lines that I could find on Cheetara, and her sculpt and paint both appear to be show-accurate and nicely-executed. With both Cheetara and Wilykit in the first set, the initial team of Thundercats is already complete.Īs far as the sculpting and paintwork go, like the twins, Cheetara is pretty great. I’m really pleased that Bandai got the rights to Thundercats, as I fear if Mattel got the license the line would be female-less as their Avatar: The Last Airbender figure line was. The primary ‘Right’ is of course that we’re getting Cheetara at all as part of Series 1. This is currently the only Cheetara figure scheduled for release by Bandai in any size or series (including the Classics line), and luckily, it’s mostly decent. I really enjoy this new portrayal of Cheetara, which makes her appear to be one of the stronger females in American cartoons today (and maybe any day). In the new series on Cartoon Network, Cheetara is the last survivor of Jaga’s powerful team of cleric warriors. So I’m back tonight with a review of the last of the new 4″ Bandai Thundercats figures I picked up from Series 1: Cheetara. After reviewing Wilykit and Wilykat over the weekend, I received a lot of requests for more Thundercats reviews.
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