![]() ![]() Pumyra is the first figure in this line that I feel isn’t a home run. And yet, I know many of the First Season stories by heart. I have a feeling it’s there to mock me for not knowing my Season 2 ThunderCats stories better. It’s like a big amulet on a stand or a wand of some kind. She also has a right fist and a left hand with her fingers reaching out.Īnd then you get this thing. To handle these weapons, Pumyra comes with a total of four hands, one pair of which is designed to hold the weapons in either hand. She also comes with a throwing star, which is a pretty basic piece and not terribly remarkable. ![]() This is a pretty cool weapon with some sculpted and painted projectiles in loaded up and ready to launch. In any event, I’m going with that and removing the belt when I display her with the whipcord readied. As usual, the skirt impedes the range of motion in the hips.įor accessories, Pumyra comes with her projectile-tossing whipcord, which again… I think it’s supposed to be her belt. She has a swivel in the waist and her neck is ball jointed. The knees are hinged, and the ankles feature both hinges and rockers. The legs are ball jointed at the hips with swivels set right up at the hip joint. The arms feature rotating hinges in the shoulders and wrists, hinges in the elbows, and swivels in the biceps. The articulation here doesn’t hold any surprises. I’m not prepared to write this portrait off as a total miss, but to me it’s just not nearly as good as the Lion-O or Jackalman. Also distinctive is Pumyra’s coif, which is pretty well sculpted, albeit with the white paint application being rather heavy handed. It’s very distinctive and the paintwork is pretty clean. I do, however, like the way they painted her eyes. It’s possibly too elongated and the contours are exaggerated. There’s something about it, and it’s hard to put my finger on exactly what that is. The portrait here is where my admiration for this figure begins to waver. The ensemble is rounded out by a pair of boots and a ribbed shoulder pad… ribbed for her pleasure… and protection… of her shoulder. Also, I’m pretty sure the belt is supposed to also be her weapon, buy I’ll come back to that. She also has a sculpted pouch on the right side of her skirt and a belt that can be removed by un-tabbing it where the tails hang down. They did a particularly nice job with the ThunderCat emblem on her chest. This feels a little cheaper than what Mattel often did with the female MOTUC characters, but in the end it looks fine. The dress is sculpted directly onto the buck, instead of layered onto it. It’s funny how I distinctly remember that seeming really risque for a kid’s cartoon back then, meanwhile Cheetara’s cat-boobs were practically busting out all the time. Her outfit consists of that same slinky brown dress with the sides cut out. Overall, she’s a pretty solid recreation of her counterpart on the Classic cartoon. Pumyra looks less like a ThunderCat and more like something Buffy would poke with a wooden stake.įortunately, the figure fares somewhat better than the box art. In fact my only gripe here is that the character art on the back is pretty bad. It’s gorgeous, it’s collector friendly, it feels premium, and it sickens me that I won’t have dozens of these lined up on my shelf. I’ve said my piece about this packaging, but it stands repeating. The packaging comes in a black mailer box with some minimalist artwork, serving as only a teaser of what lies within. So let’s check out Pumyra, also known as NOT-EFFING-CHEETARA! This is the sort of sick and twisted canon I have to come up with in my head to justify why certain characters are missing from my ThunderCats team, because Matty screwed us all over. The humanity! But after a long period of mourning, Pymyra stepped up to take Cheetara’s place. You could smell the burning cat hair all the way to the Berbil Village. Cheetara is dead! She was killed alongside Tygra when the two ‘Cats stole a Sky Cutter to escape Mutant custody and it was shot down causing them to burn to death in the wreckage. ![]()
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