Hi All
My brother and I were discussing the likenesses of the ThunderCats figures, and I was just curious to see how people ranked them here. To me, I’d say the top figures that look most like their cartoon counterparts would be below (probably in that order):
What do you all think?
I agree with your choices. Hammerhand, The Driller and Captain Cracker were not too bad for cartoon likeness either.
I’d add Pumyra as well.
I thought Slithe was done really well and I liked how the lever on his back was sculpted to look like one of his spines.
I’d agree with just about everyone listed, but also I think Snowman from Hook Mountain was pretty dead on.
That fig was HEAVY too. I think he was by far the heaviest of any of the standard heroes or villains.
I think S-S-Slithe was too wide (yeah he was well built in the cartoon, but the proportions are off on the figure) The figure needed to be a little taller and slightly thinner. Same with Jackalman, as the figure was too muscley, compared to his scrawny appearance in the cartoon. The episode Tight Squeeze is a good example of this 
I was about to argue your inclusion of Hammerhand in the list of toys that carry heavy likeness to their cartoon counterpart, but then I realized that they redesigned him and his crew after dubbing them the Berzerkers. Fortunately my brain started working before I posted.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_-YxeSa2ZP-4/TUwqRwbXBgI/AAAAAAAACuk/OOXtv9ntHy4/s288/Hammerhand%20cartoon.jpg https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_-YxeSa2ZP-4/TUwqSNgkX6I/AAAAAAAACuo/uur-t4bxUvo/s288/hammerhand%20toy.jpg https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_-YxeSa2ZP-4/TUwsnpr6g5I/AAAAAAAACus/u-M89KBBx3k/s288/hammerhand%20cartoon%202.jpg
I would bet he is so accurate because the Berzerkers characters were designed by the toy sculptors at LJN and then introduced into the artists on the show. (Though that is just my guess, and not at all based on fact so don’t quote me.)
Whoa! I didn’t even remember that they completely changed HammerHand in the show! But yes, the second one looks dead on.
Pumyra I’m on the fence about actually…I always thought there was something weird about the figure that I couldn’t really put my finger on. I almost had S-S-Slithe on my original list (also love the spike lever), but then I remembered in the figure he’s missing his headpiece, which kind of throws the whole thing off for me.
