This is the last of the 6inch figures that were made available in Ireland. A friend found it in a random shop, bought it and gave it to me as a birthday gift, which was pretty awesome of him. It's been awhile since I actually posted up a review, so I have decided to start finishing off some old reviews that I started many years ago. Cheetara is the dependable, loyal friend of the Thundercats group and in this installment of the franchise is also Lion-o's trainer, since Jaga is killed off in the beginning of the show.
This figure is a great redesign of the classic 80’s female character. She is much younger though then the 80’s version of the character. This was done by the artists of the show to maybe appeal to a younger audience base. They did the same with all of the characters such as Lion-o, which I also obtained and have reviewed previously. I really like the redesigns. Particularly Cheetara’s because of the muted colours as opposed to the orange and yellow vibrate tones of the 80’s. It uses lots of brown and caramel shades with gold used to add extra detail to different parts of her costume. Her face colouring is quite simple, using light orange to emphasize the eyes and lips.
Like all the other Thundercat figures, she has 16 points of articulation. It’s a pretty good figure that has no loose joints, which sometimes can cause posing problems. The two main problems that I came across with the figure though is her head isn't verily articulated. This is because of her large hair piece. It is a single piece and although beautifully molded can cause posing issues. She also has the other problem that all the figures from this line have. You can see all of her pins and they made it so noticeable that they coloured her arm joints in a dark brown so they stand out even more. While this would normally be a huge issue it has grown on me and I have found that it kinda works well on this figure but again it is not great and should have been avoided.
These figures were great fun to collect and I would have loved to have collected them all, sadly though they were short lived because the show got cancelled before any more could be released over here. I believe if they had concentrated on just one or two toy lines and not tried to put out lots of figures out all at the same time and saturated the market the figures would have done better. It’s a really big shame that both the toy line and the animated TV show was cancelled as I would have loved to have seen more of both the show and the toy line.
