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Mattel Masters Of The Universe X ThunderCats Origins Tygra Figure Review
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00:00While now these finally materialize, we can move forward with this review.
00:04Here's your looking to tell Matthew Universe Thundercats, Tigra, Heroic Thundarian Scientist.
00:22The noble scientist Tigra discovers that Third Eternity is home to many wonders, both good and evil.
00:28My hope in the beginning of this review is to keep Tigra long enough away from Silky and the Garden of Delights,
00:33so we can get the tape measure going and seeing how tall the figure stands.
00:37No hypnotic fruits this time around, Tigra.
00:39The tape measure is going to tell us that Tigra stands at 6 1⁄4 inches in height,
00:44working out to be a figure that's 16 centimeters tall.
00:48No, you're not seeing things.
00:49Tigra, in fact, is standing next to a giant Catman standing on his hind legs wearing red armor.
00:54Battle Catman, in fact, is one of the figures that we've gotten from the Master Universe and Thundercats line so far.
00:58Not really attached necessarily to Thundercats, more so attached to Motu.
01:02We've also, of course, had a look at Skellra, who also had the alter ego of Mumra.
01:06That's how I currently have him displayed.
01:08Here's what the figure also looks like with slightly smaller Chitar,
01:11and, of course, the leader of the Thundercats, Lord Lion-O himself.
01:14Up, dress him down. The choice is yours.
01:16The choice is also yours whether you decide to keep the paper pamphlet or you choose to discard it.
01:20I will be going with the latter.
01:22I'll be going with that after I point out the fact that on one side, this side here,
01:26you can have Tigra dressed down the way he is from the original 80s cartoon.
01:30If you, though, prefer to have him with the Motu armor,
01:33you basically just leave him the way that he is, other than just adding on the helmet.
01:39The mini-comic, though, that comes in clue with Tigra
01:41does, from a second, look like the one we got from Lion-O, until you realize that it's not.
01:46This one's entitled The Power Sword of Omens.
01:48The original one was entitled Third Eternia.
01:51If we look, though, through the mini-comic, and actually just on the back,
01:53advertised as He-Man, we had to wait, in fact, till Wave 2 to get ourselves a He-Man.
01:58Tigra and also Panther joined the team as well for Wave 2.
02:01If we flip through the comics, we get a nice image, though, of both Lion-O and Tigra.
02:06Lion-O looks like he's had maybe some of that hypo fruit.
02:09There's also a really nice image of He-Man.
02:11If we flip through the comics, I'm not going to kind of tell you this story.
02:13I want to leave it for those that want to pick up the figure,
02:16don't want the spoilers, want to be able to read this from start to finish.
02:20There's also, again, some really nice illustrations.
02:22I like the way they've designed here the Sword of Omens,
02:25and, of course, there's the Bolo whip that comes in clue with Tigra.
02:28Put that off to the side.
02:30Now I've got myself at least two of them,
02:32and, again, whatever other figures we're going to be eventually getting from Mattel,
02:35we'll have those mini-comics, too.
02:37So, Tigra, yes, does come with armor.
02:39The armor is currently on the figure's body.
02:41I don't really know how I feel about the armor
02:43in the fact that they went with kind of more of a translucent, greenish plastic.
02:48The one thing, though, a figure does have is a helmet.
02:51The helmet is weird in the sense that it has these tusks down below.
02:54It looks less like a cat.
02:55It looks more like a woolly mammoth.
02:57This helmet just basically fits over top of his existing face.
03:00The one thing, though, it does hide, though, is Tigra's face.
03:03It looks more like he needs to be welding something.
03:06This, I feel, belongs better with Panthro and less with Tigra.
03:09But, again, it's consistent with the color scheme and the translucency of the armor.
03:14I don't generally like the look of the armor,
03:17especially considering, though, that Chitara has had that kind of metallic blue armor,
03:21and Lino had the same.
03:22When we get to Tigra here, like, Tigra's going with kind of more completely different kind of plastic.
03:27It almost even really looks like the armor is belonging to a different figure line altogether.
03:31I understand this guy has the ability to transform and, well, basically turn himself invisible.
03:35He uses the bowl of whip.
03:36And he turns invisible.
03:38Maybe that's kind of what they were trying to do here with the armor to give him, like, that sort of invisibility.
03:43But then it doesn't do anything else for the rest of his body.
03:45I think it fails, at least, with the color.
03:47I just would have really stuck with that purplish-blue metallic coloring for the plastic they've already done.
03:52But, you know, c'est la vie.
03:53There's some spikes there on the shoulders.
03:55You can see that they've sculpted in there a chain as well.
03:58And he's also got plates on his legs.
03:59It doesn't cover at all anything down below here.
04:02So he hopes, if anything, people are going to be hitting only his thighs.
04:05Does anybody really just target thighs on people?
04:07I mean, first of all, I hope to think that you're not going to be fighting anybody, that people deliberately are going and whacking at your thighs.
04:13But if they do, Tigra's protected the tops of his legs.
04:17At least it does have the cat symbol down below here.
04:19That's the one appearance it does actually make.
04:21It's also there on his regular OG armor as well, or the outfit that he wears as well.
04:26Let's take off the mask.
04:28And the mask basically just clips here, and it clips right over here.
04:31Can I just draw your attention, though, to Tigra's face?
04:33Somebody said this in another review, that he looks a lot like Tim Curry.
04:36And that's all I see now.
04:38In fact, it looks like Tim Curry was hired on to the original 80s casting of the theatrical play, Musical Cats.
04:45One thing, though, as a kid, well, I always really wanted to see the movie Cats, or see the theatrical play of Cats.
04:51And as an adult, though, as my birthday wish, I got the chance to see the Musical Cats.
04:55It was everything I'd hoped, and then some.
04:57But it does look, though, like Tigra has been one of the lead singers of the theatrical musical Cats.
05:03I can't stop looking at that.
05:04The face is pretty good, though, but it does have very much a Tim Curry kind of face to it.
05:09The rest of his body does have, underneath all this, if you can, again, strip everything off,
05:14would have, in realistic approach, it does have a Tigra body underneath.
05:18But it does involve you having to take a lot of this armor off in order to get to that.
05:21I've got to say, I don't like the look of the armor, not at least enough to keep it on the figure.
05:26I'm going to just only be taking it off anyways.
05:28When you do take it off, though, the options are available, but the figure does have swappable boots.
05:32So you basically would just take off the furry, well, I'll show you guys in a second,
05:35and then you'll have to, unfortunately, have the task of taking off the feet,
05:38and those plug onto the bomb like that.
05:40The figure does also come included, again, with his outfit, I guess the top,
05:46I guess it's not even so much a tank top, because the whole bare shoulder is exposed.
05:50It does have a cuff piece that goes over the top of the other shoulder,
05:52and it's made of a very soft plastic.
05:54There's, again, the cat symbol there on the front,
05:56some nice painted yellow there on the shoulder as well.
05:59And then lastly, the figure does come included with his bowl of whip.
06:02In the comics and in the cartoon, he would just whip this around his body,
06:05whip, whip, whip, whip, and then he just turned invisible.
06:09I don't know if that would be the sound of turning invisible.
06:11Somebody, I'm sure, could probably do a better job.
06:13Anyways, though, this does fit into his hands.
06:15He does have a translucent yellow plastic handle.
06:18I don't really know why.
06:19I think I would have just preferred if they kept the colors opaque.
06:22But again, if you want to attach that onto his hand, you just do it like that.
06:26For his armor, it also consists of some bracers there.
06:28He's also got his wrist.
06:29You can take those easily off.
06:31And again, we're going to probably just do a dismantling, mostly, of this figure.
06:35The legs themselves, these basically would just slide down his legs.
06:39This would just attach on the back, so you don't have to worry about really taking everything apart.
06:42Speaking of taking things apart, though, for Tigra,
06:44one thing I couldn't help but notice, though, is that the body never seems to stay together.
06:49This isn't my own doing.
06:50This is me getting this out of the packaging.
06:52And with the time that I've had with Tigra, I never can keep the torso on him.
06:56It always seems like it always comes off way too easily.
06:59I don't think it has anything really to do with the armor.
07:01I don't think it has anything at all to do with the loincloth, which can also be removable.
07:05There's just something, though, about this peg that can't properly peg to the top of his body.
07:12For the figure's articulation, I guess we'll kind of run through all of that when we eventually take off his armor.
07:16So to take off the armor, what are we going to do?
07:19Well, first things first, we're going to take off the head.
07:22From the back, then, we're going to detach the back like that, fit it over top of his body,
07:26and then we'll just detach his armor like that.
07:29So we'll just slide this off completely.
07:31Now, to get this piece on there, I find the easiest thing to do, says the guy that struggled with battle camp, man,
07:36is just take off his hand, take off his arm, and then fit this around his body.
07:40Did I have it going the right way?
07:42I don't think, after all that, I took the wrong arm off.
07:46The arm, by the way, though, does also have an elbow pad.
07:48We can take that off, too.
07:50But let's peg in.
07:51Let's plug this back properly in place.
07:53There we go.
07:54We'll take the right arm off, and we'll basically just slide this over top of his body.
07:59Now, I don't think, though, says this guy, I don't think there's an easier way to attach this over top of his body.
08:04You've just fit this over around his torso like that.
08:07Then take his arm and pop it back properly in place.
08:12Make sure everything's in line.
08:14Always one thing that throws me off when it's reattaching Massive Universe figures is that it's not just a peg that plugs in like this.
08:20You'll see that the hole actually is on more of an angle.
08:24So make sure everything is on there properly.
08:26We can take, where's Tigra's head?
08:28Right over here.
08:29And we'll just attach that back onto the peg.
08:31Let's remove the hands now.
08:32And we'll just twist, twist, twist.
08:36And we'll remove the bracers.
08:38We don't need those.
08:39Actually, while we're also at it, do we want to take off the elbow pads?
08:42Some say yes.
08:43Others have said no.
08:45I lean more to the idea of taking them off.
08:47I don't really like them being on there.
08:48So I'm going to take it off on one side.
08:50Take it off.
08:51Take it off.
08:51Stop it, you perverts.
08:53And we'll do it on this side as well.
08:54So we'll just wiggle, again, the hand off.
08:57Take that off.
08:58The one downside of doing what I'm doing right now is that I have now all these extra parts.
09:02What am I going to do with all these extra parts?
09:03Well, I guess if you customize your He-Man figures, you could probably use the elbow pads.
09:09Elbor.
09:09That's terrible.
09:11And I'm sure you could probably use the bracers for something else.
09:14Just attach that back in place.
09:16And now we have, short of just having the arm properly attached, we have ourselves at least a fully designed, fully attached Tigra.
09:25There we go.
09:26As for the lower legs, what we're going to do is we'll take the loincloth off.
09:29We don't need that anymore.
09:31I guess also it probably makes things easier too.
09:33We'll take off the boots.
09:34Take off the boots.
09:35And we'll slide these.
09:36These are the easiest things to slide off.
09:38They're super loose.
09:39Thin, soft, soft, myable plastic.
09:42And we'll slide it off the other side as well.
09:44Here comes the hardest part, as I seem to have struggled with everything else.
09:48It's getting these blasted boots on.
09:51I made mention of this one.
09:52We also did this with Lion-O.
09:54I'm sure we're also going to be doing this with Panthro.
09:56Chitarra was the hardest one just because the peg was so small.
09:59These ones aren't as difficult, but you will have to put a fair bit of pressure to make sure they're all the way on there.
10:05We're going to detach the feet.
10:08And when you detach the feet, don't feel the need to pull them down.
10:12You kind of have to pull them like these unslippering slippers.
10:15Unslippering slippers.
10:16Just attach them like that.
10:18Take them in your feet.
10:20Make sure, of course, you've got the right side going here.
10:23And you'll slide them.
10:24So when you slide them in, you don't pop them down this way.
10:26You'll pop them forward.
10:27Again, like he's putting on slippers.
10:29The plastic, at least, is forgiving enough.
10:32If this was more a brittle plastic, I would be treading cautiously.
10:36But because it's more kind of a rubbery plastic, you're not going to have as many of a tougher...
10:40You won't have as much of a tough time doing this.
10:43I think we're good.
10:44I think we're good.
10:45There we go.
10:46Let's take the rest of Tigra and attach them back in place.
10:50There we go.
10:52I knew the arm was still going to give me a problem, so I'm going to just attach that properly as best as I can.
10:58I'll have to fix up everything before we jump to the turntable.
11:01Is it on there?
11:02I hope it's on there.
11:03And then we have Tigra.
11:05Everything's back together the way that we should...
11:07I would have said the way that we left it, but we didn't leave it that way.
11:09The figure looks okay.
11:12I don't think there's anything at all I would have changed.
11:13For all the effort of keeping the torso on the bottom of his body, it seems to stay a little more securely.
11:21Although, unfortunately, it leaves this very cut line, obviously, where the top of the torso isn't the same as the bottom.
11:26But there's no real way around that.
11:27In order to do what he's doing right now, he has to have a cut right there.
11:32Tigra does look good, again, like we get ourselves the bolo whip.
11:35Where's the bolo whip?
11:37Bolo whip I just dropped onto the floor.
11:39And he does also have a grip hand on both sides.
11:43So if you want to have the whip on this side, you can do that.
11:45You can also flip it around and have it on the other side as well.
11:48The one thing I would only point out, though, when it comes to paint problems,
11:51is the fact, at least on mine, I've got a few little smudges of the yellow here.
11:57My guess is it's probably carried over from painting the neck.
12:00And unfortunately, a little bit of that found its way on the front of his body.
12:03That's just on mine.
12:04I can't imagine it's probably going to be on everybody's.
12:07Let's just get his feet.
12:08The feet was, the foot was properly in there.
12:12But I just want to make sure that the ankle pivot is still going to work for me.
12:15Speaking of the figure's articulation,
12:17Tigra's head's going to be on a ball joint.
12:19So like with all the others, the head rotates all the way around.
12:21It looks up, looks up, looks down, back and forth as well.
12:25Waist swivels that way too.
12:27Now the arms do rotate all the way around.
12:30You can also hinge them out as well.
12:32And there's a bend right here in the elbow, like you didn't already see that.
12:35Bends the elbow at only just a single hinge.
12:38Hands rotate all the way around.
12:40The forearm also rotates all the way around.
12:42The legs do split out.
12:44There's ball joints there working behind the scenes.
12:46Legs go forward.
12:47Legs go back.
12:48Want to just make sure though that we've twisted the knee around so it's facing the right way.
12:52We'll also make sure too that this is facing the right way, that we get the ankle bent.
12:57The ankles I've noticed though with these figures are extremely tight.
13:00So not only do you have the worry of popping the feet in properly,
13:03but then when you do that though, that these also bend.
13:06When you bend them, just to loosen them up just a little bit,
13:09you'll find sometimes though the feet pop back off.
13:12Again, you just pop them back in place.
13:14Peggels on the bottoms of the feet.
13:15It does have the knee bend.
13:16Again, the lower rotation.
13:18Lower rotation down below here because again, we had to swap this out.
13:21Ankle does move back and forth this way.
13:23And you can again rock it back and forth as well.
13:27Tigra certainly does look the part.
13:28Consistence.
13:30Consistence is what I've noticed here with all the Thundercats figures.
13:33In fact, if you can overlook just one other thing I would say about Tigra is he has a really large head.
13:39Bringing back in Lord Lino here and also bringing back in Chittar.
13:42Do we really need to bring back in Battle Cat Man?
13:45Sure.
13:45Even though he's really not.
13:46Would he be part of the team?
13:47I don't know.
13:48Maybe in your story he can be.
13:49And then lurking in the background, looming, waiting for the downfall of the Thundercats is Mumra,
13:55the ever-living.
13:56We are also going to be looking at, tipping my hat too early I'm sure,
13:59we're also going to be looking at Panthro in an upcoming review.
14:01Panthro does seem to be using a much bigger body.
14:04Looking forward to also looking at him as well.
14:06Tigra I think looks great.
14:08I don't think there's anything at all I really would have changed the figure.
14:10I mean, speaking though of changing, the one thing I would have changed,
14:13and I did do in the review, is taking off this blasted armor.
14:16I don't think really the armor works at all with Tigra.
14:19I get the only real reason probably that they went with more of the translucent yellow or teal plastic color
14:24that they went with here was kind of, again, to evoke the idea that it's translucent.
14:28It's becoming invisible, like Tigra himself.
14:30But I think just with the fact that Chitara and Lino both have armors that are similar enough to one another,
14:37Tigra then, his armor, stands out like a sore thumb.
14:40I don't have any desire to have this on the figures.
14:42In fact, I just really want to have them look like Thundercats on the shelves.
14:45And if you do what I did in this review, as long as it may have taken me to do it,
14:48I think what you do get is pretty believable enough Thundercats that are poseable fairly inexpensive.
14:53I mean, if you compare it with what we got with Super 7 and their Thundercats lines,
14:57these are more affordable, I say more available, says the Canadian collector I have next to.
15:02An impossible time to find these. I actually had to order them online.
15:06But if you can find them in the stores, fairly inexpensive, readily available,
15:10and at least at the price, if you're already collecting Master Universe figures,
15:14they fit well, obviously, in scale because they're using very similar bodies.
15:17The way the tiger's wrapping his whip around his body,
15:19I would think that this Meowgician is about to do his disappearing act.
15:21And don't throw anything at me for calling this guy a Meowgician.
15:25I know, that was just terrible.
15:26One thing that hasn't, though, been terrible is getting these figures out of their packaging,
15:29they've just been okay.
15:31But they can certainly get better than just okay when you eventually take off all their armor.
15:36I mean, I'm sure there are probably collectors of the Thundercats line that enjoy having the armor on them.
15:40You might be a little bit more disappointed that with Tigra,
15:43Mattel chose to give them translucent teal plastic for his.
15:46So, while Chitar and Lino have somewhat stayed the same with their armor,
15:51Tigra's looks considerably different,
15:52almost to the point where I feel like the armor looks like it's from a completely different toy line.
15:56But again, with a little bit of popping off the arms here and there,
15:59I mean, just removing the armor, removing the torso, I should say,
16:02which is probably the easiest thing,
16:03never stayed properly onto his body until I eventually changed back into his Tigra outfit.
16:08Then the waist seemed to be a harder thing to keep properly attached.
16:11But, like, when you revert everything back to the way he looked from the classic cartoon,
16:15he very much does look more like Tigra.
16:17He does also have quite a bearing resemblance to Tim Curry, the actor,
16:21like he's about to step on to do a solo in an 80s musical of a cat's.
16:25I don't know why I had such a fascination of loving Cats the musical as a kid.
16:29Oh, I know why.
16:30There was an episode of Reading Rainbow where LeVar Burton stopped by the cast of the Cats musical,
16:36and he actually got the chance to sit down with the actress that was putting on the makeup
16:38to play Grizabella, the glamour cat.
16:41She was the one that sings Memories.
16:43Does anybody really remember a musical of Cats?
16:45Does anybody really even care?
16:46I know I cared because one of my birthday things I really wanted to do
16:49was check out a musical of the 80s Cats.
16:51I mean, obviously, it wasn't a lot more than just the 80s,
16:54probably about 10 years ago.
16:55And I will say it didn't live quite up to the hype of what I was expecting.
16:58It was a little bit smaller of a venue.
16:59We sat in wooden chairs.
17:01It was a smaller, downsized version of the musical,
17:04but at least I could say I got the chance to check out Cats.
17:07It's for his accessories, though,
17:08if you want to just get rid of the armour altogether.
17:10I mean, now I've just got a big bag of armour
17:12that doesn't really belong to anybody.
17:14With at least, though, using a Masked Universe body for the most part,
17:17you could then, in theory, use this armour for another figure
17:20if you just overlook the fact that clearly there's a cat symbol down below
17:23at the base of the armour.
17:25But again, what do you guys think of Tigra?
17:26Do you think it also looks a lot like Tim Curry?
17:29Maybe? Yes? No? Maybe so?
17:30Let me know down below.
17:32If you guys have also been collecting any of the Masked Universe and Thundercats line,
17:35let me know, too. Are you one that likes to display your figures,
17:37your cats, with the armour on?
17:39Or do you prefer just to have them displayed the way that I have them right now?
17:42If you guys did enjoy this video, do it a song, throw it a like.
17:45You guys want to stick around for more so?
17:46I hope so.
17:47Let me know also down below what's your favourite song from the musical of the cats.
17:51I like Jellicle Cats myself,
17:53but maybe I might be the only one that does.
17:55If you don't even care about cats, you can let me know down below.
17:59I would like to think at least, if you don't like the musical,
18:01you at least like cats.
18:02Everybody's got to love cats, right?
18:04Speaking of cats, though,
18:05while we are wrapping up things right now with a wrapped-up Tigra,
18:09we're also going to be looking at Panthro.
18:10Panthro's going to be coming up this week as well for reviews.
18:13So I hope you guys are going to be coming back.
18:15As always, thanks for watching.
18:16See you guys next time.
18:18Panthro's going to be coming.