Thundercats 15cm Cheetara figure

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.

Batman: The Animated Series "Bruce Wayne"(with Snap-on Batman Armour)

This figure I have fond memories of finding him in Roches Store in The Square Tallaght. I remember it well, cause the packaging was damaged and a piece of his armour was missing so it was discounted. The toys based on the Batman animated series are some of my favourite figures that I got as a kid growing up. This one came with a Bruce Wayne in his civilian clothes. It also has the pieces to put over him that make up his armour, with mine these include his cape with the cowl connected to this, chest and body piece, two arm covers and only one leg piece. You also got a bat shaped gun with him. Each of these parts of the armour clips on over the Bruce Wayne figure really well without showing too much underneath it.

The downside of these figures is that they come with very limited articulation. The arms and legs move up and down. The head moves from left to right but this is harder to move when you have the cape and cowl on. But even with this limited articulation, they are still some of my favourite figures to play with when I was growing up.

The figure looks like the Bruce Timm version of Bruce Wayne, he's got the classic chiseled chin and dark hair. His clothes that he is wearing as a civilian are really basic, it looks like a red jump suit with no details. It doesn't look anything like what he wore in the show but this doesn't really affect the playability of it. If you are a Batman fan or you liked the Batman: The Animated Series this should be the in your collection, just for the fun of being able to have Bruce Wayne and then to put on your bat armour when its time to fight crime in Gotham.

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