{"id":14553,"date":"2011-09-22T02:45:07","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T07:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?p=14553"},"modified":"2011-09-22T02:47:04","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T07:47:04","slug":"thundercats-classics-tygra-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?p=14553","title":{"rendered":"Thundercats Classics
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<\/a>Yes, I\u2019m back with another non-Thundercats fan Thundercats Classics review! While I ordered SDCC Lion-O first, Tygra was technically my first figure as I bought him while the other was in transit. That meant it was really Tygra who had the job of selling me on this line. Luckily, he did. <\/p>\n

If you read my Lion-O review<\/a> (you did, didn’t you?) then you already know that I know next to nothing about Thundercats. Normally, that prevents me from buying a toy. I mean, I do buy some cool toys for the sake of coolness, but not that often. Usually, I’m content with little plastic totems of my favorite things…<\/p>\n

Anyway, as I said last week, I wasn’t terribly interested when Thundercats was announced. When the figures were shown, I wasn’t terribly impressed. Then, after some cajoling from you guys via emails, messages, and tweets, I started to wonder too – what did I think about Thundercats Classics? So – purely for work purposes – I picked up the Thundercats Classics that were available much to my wife’s chagrin. “I thought you didn’t like Thundercats…” Well…<\/em><\/p>\n

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I didn’t know anything about Tygra, so it’s probably folly for me to speak too much about the character, but I did learn a few interesting facts. He’s essentially the second-in-command after Lion-O, he’s a builder or tinkerer in the vein of Man-At-Arms (though he tends to build buildings instead of weapons\/vehicles), and he has the ability to turn invisible (anybody up for a clear variant? I don’t about you, but I can never have enough clear figures…)<\/p>\n

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Once you free Tygra from his box (and some annoying plastic restraints), the size will still be the first thing that gets ya. These guys are massive – bigger than DST’s Trek line, think Mezco’s Hellboy line. If you have a healthy 6″ collection and deal with MOTU figures being a little bigger (Mattel is funny – they insist Ghostbusters, DCUC, & MOTUC are all in the same scale), you might not mind the Thundercats being bigger. I subscribe to the notion that they were bigger when we were kids, they’re bigger now – so they must just be big dudes, a race of 8ft tall cat-people palling around with my normal-sized figures. <\/p>\n

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Like Lion-O, we’ve got a relatively simple sculpt – basic musculature and a handful of layered clothing details, but Tygra does pack a little more detail on his head. Yep, the line actually ended up with some sculpted fur. Tygra’s head is easily my favorite part of the figure. The sculpted fur is still relatively clean and simple, but I appreciate the added detail and like it alot more than Lion-O’s hair. From the neck down, Tygra does share a lot of Lion-O parts: the neck, shoulders, biceps, hands, and the legs froms the hips to the upper calves. That said, there’s plenty new too, like the open-toed boots, the forearms, the left shoulder pad, and the main torso. Some have said that the Tygra torso makes him look fat, but he looks fine to me. He is missing the ab crunch that I was hoping would be standard for the line and I think that, more than anything, helps to give him a little bit of a portly appearance. <\/p>\n

On the shoulder pad, I’m not sure if I caused it to stick out from the body like that or if he came that way. The piece is connected to the torso by a small tab. I’m not sure how much wear and tear that piece is supposed to have, but I’m going to try and keep Tygra’s left arm down more often that not.<\/p>\n

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Paint is the one area where I wish the line was a little better, particularly Tygra. I’m actually okay with most of the colors being molded and the paint apps being few and far between, but the exposed skin on the torso might be a problem for the line. It worked well enough on Lion-O (though some of the blue plastic is visible around the articulation_. On Tygra, the paint on his neck is just too thin and it doesn\u2019t cover the area. It’s odd because the same effect is used on the arms and it works there, so I’m not sure why the paint app on the neck area is so weak. Continue to Page 2…<\/a><\/p>\n

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Since I’ve already mentioned the missing ab crunch, I’ll go ahead and lament a bit more about it. Tygra has all the same articulation as Lion-O, but for some reason Bandai skipped out on his ab-crunch. The ball-jointed waist still retains some of the movement, but Lion-O’s figure benefits greatly from that extra joint and I’m in favor of it being included for all future Classics figures. Here’s the full complement: a ball-jointed upper neck joint and a hinged lower neck, ball-jointed shoulders, swivel biceps, hinged elbows, swivel\/ball\/swivel wrists, a ball-jointed waist, ball-jointed hips, swivels at the thighs and calves, double hinged knees, and rocker ankles. It sounds like a lot and it is. Tygra’s capable of getting into some great poses. <\/p>\n

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Tygra includes a couple accessories, including an extra hand (he shares Lion-O’s same three, non-Claw hands) and two versions of his classic accessory, the bolo-whip. I’m not going to beat around the bush here, the bolo-whip looks flat out wrong in its retracted form (also, it strangely pops into two pieces). The extended version of the bolo-whip is pretty cool though – it’s ironically not as flexible as regular Lion-O’s Sword of Omens<\/a>, but it’s a decent size thanks to being split up into two pieces in the package. Despite the articulation, I had some trouble getting good whipping poses out of him. It could just be me though, maybe I need to bone up my posing skills for whip-wielding characters.<\/p>\n

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Overall, like Lion-O, Tygra ended up being a pretty fun figure. Yeah, there’s a few flaws like the missing ab-crunch and the wrongly-colored insert-molded joints (seriously, Bandai, fix that), but the clean sculpt, great articulation, and sturdy construction make up for any points lost. I still haven’t learned much about Thundercats (though I have enjoyed Tygra in what little bits I’ve seen to prepare for these reviews), but I’m getting a kick out of the toy line so far. I’ve got a regular Lion-O now and he’s taken over the SDCC accessories so he can Tygra can hang out together on my shelf. I haven’t heard when\/if anything is coming next in Thundercats Classics, but I’m excited for it already. <\/p>\n

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Yes, I\u2019m back with another non-Thundercats fan Thundercats Classics review! While I ordered SDCC Lion-O first, Tygra was technically my first figure as I bought him while the other was in transit. That meant it was really Tygra who had the job of selling me on this line. 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