In my effort to get through all of Super7’s Silverhawks, I purposely set their ThunderCats and GI JOE lines on the side burner. But now that I’m caught up with them, I’m going to spend a lot more time with the other Ultimates lines. I already started digging back into the JOE Ultimates and now it’s time for the ThunderCats! And while I’m anxious to get to the recently arrived wave of ThunderCats, before I do, I thought I’d double back and take a look at Super7’s trio of Evil Reptilian Mutant troop builders!

Yeah, how cool is it that Super7 took the took the Ssslithe body and created some army builders off of it! Of course, Ssslithe alone represented the Reptilian Mutants in the bulk of the cartoon, but the race as a whole made appearances in several episodes. Not to mention we got to see the ThunderCats demolishing a whole army of mutants in the intro before every episode. Super7 represents these nameless Reptilian from Plun-Darr as The Warrior, The Guard, and The Brute. These figures were released as their own wave and came in the same style packaging that we’ve been seeing all along, so basically window boxes with sleeves that lift off the top. There’s some original character art on the backs along with a little blurb about each one. Let’s unleash these raunchy reptiles onto Third Earth, and start with The Guard!

As already mentioned, each of these figures are repaints of the Ssslithe body, but accessorized with different outfits and heads. This body was great the first time around and it still holds up incredibly well. There’s sculpted scales over every inch of his skin and I just love his stocky build and hunched stature, as well as how the head just juts from the center of that hump. The crest of fins running from his head down his back is really cool too. The Guard features a dark olive colored skin with blueish white paint on his chest, palms, and the undercarriage of his tail. He wears a yellow tunic that’s actually made of softgoods and hangs off his left shoulder and is tied around his waist with a crude rope. It’s not the first time we’ve seen cloth in this line, as it was used on Jaga’s cape and on Pumm-Ra’s cloak, but it’s cool to see it again here, especially on a lowly army builder. He has mismatched cuffs on his ankles and a bracer on his left arm.

Super7 completely re-sculpted Ssslithe’s head three times to offer different expressions and these new noggins are spread out with two different heads included with each of these figures. Gone is their leader’s head piece and instead of the fin-like ears, we get simpler pointed ears. The Guard has one head with the mouth closed and the one with it opened up all the way and the eyes a little wider, and both look really nice. The head’s deco matches the two colors used for the body, and you get some bright yellow paint and sharp black irises for the eyes, and some bright red for the exposed tongue.

Each of these figures comes with one weapon and two sets of hands. The hands offer tight grips and looser grips, although the looser ones are kind of like grasping hands as well. The Guard comes with a gray club that looks like it’s meant to be fashioned out of bone, and it fits really well into the tighter gripping hands.

Next up is The Warrior and he’s been repainted in a sort of hunter green with a blue belly, palms and under-tail. He has a sculpted furry diaper with a gold belt and a shoulder strap holding a piece of armor on his left side This whole rig is sculpted as one piece and fitted onto the figure. He also has mis-matched cuffs on his wrists and ankles, all of which are different from what we saw on The Guard. The shoulder armor does have a habit of sliding down his arm, so I will likely pop a bit of blue tack under it to hold it in place a little better.

The Warrior has a repaint of the closed mouth head we saw with The Guard, but he also introduces a second head with the mouth only slightly open and wide eyes. He looks surprised, like he’s about to get a beatdown from one of the ThunderCats. Once again, you get the same deco on the head as on the body and this fellow’s eyes are painted a lighter shade of yellow.

The Warrior comes with a spiked flail with the ball connecting to the handle by a piece of bendable wire. Chain would have looked better, but the wire does allow for a bit more dynamic posing as it will support the weight of the ball at certain angles.

The Brute has a dark green, almost grey skin with gray for his chest, palms, and undertail. He’s wearing a sculpted furry diaper similar to The Warrior’s, but with a shoulder strap going over the right shoulder and no shoulder armor. He’s got the same arm bracer as The Guard, but now on both forearms, and he has recolors of the mismatched ankle cuffs that we saw on The Warrior. I think I like the coloring on this one the best, but I also think his outfit is probably the least interesting of the three.

Here we get a closed mouth head and a one with the mouth slightly agape and the eyes just a smidge wider. I really love the slight spectrum of expressions on the three heads provided for this wave. They all have some wonderful personality for a bunch of nameless goons.

The Brute comes with a spiked club, which is fine and all, but I would have preferred an axe or something else since we already got a club with The Guard. I suppose I could always give him one of Ssslithe’s extra weapons if I want to.

These three reptiles were a nice surprise for me when they were revealed and for what they are I think Super7 did a really nice job with them. Sure, they’re really milking the sales out of that body for all it’s worth, but I like that we got new heads and outfits with them all, rather than just straight repaints with a few minor tweaks. The only downside of these guys is, like Ssslithe, they take up a lot of shelf space and my ThunderCats display is getting pretty congested as it is. I’m interested to see if they do something similar with Monkian and Jackalmen, but I guess that will depend on how well these guys sell. Either way, it’s great to bolster the Evil Mutant forces a bit, because I’ll need plenty of them to attack the giant Cat’s Lair when it eventually arrives!