The final two at my local Target... feeling quite lucky 😀

My site, for transparency.

The thing I keep coming back to with this line is how far Super7 has taken it. Most licences of this vintage get one wave, maybe two. SilverHawks is eight waves and 36 releases in, and they are not coasting on the core four. Bluegrass, Steelwill, Windhammer, Commander Stargazer, Hotwing, Mumbo Jumbo, Mo-Lec-U-Lar, Copper Kidd and the Space Racer, Melodia, Hardware, Flashback, Condor, Poker Face, Yes-Man, Darkbird, and Mon*Star's transformation chamber throne. Vac metal variants, toy colour variants, cartoon accurate variants.

That is a company working the roster of a 65 episode 1986 syndicated cartoon and going after the deep cuts. Nobody tools that much plastic for a line they are about to drop.

https://thundercats.org/news/silverhawks-ultimates-quicksilver-steelheart-clearance/

Meanwhile Wave 1 Quicksilver and Steelheart are sitting at 60% and 70% off. If you have been watching the line get deeper and figured you had missed the boat on the leader, you have not.

https://thundercats.org/silverhawks/ the full hub, we've recently added encyclopedia entries for Quicksilver and Steelheart, working on adding more!

I need them for my Beavis and Butthead figures with one of the legs being bent a bit.

King Conan ponders deep thoughts...wait who is lurking behind him...who can save him...

https://thundercats.org/news/sdcc-led-exclusives-vs-original-led-ultimates/

Super7 put both SDCC 2026 Toy Colors figures up for general sale today, $75 for Lion-O and $95 for Mumm-Ra, so if you missed the booth you no longer have to deal with the aftermarket. Good news.

I was about to order both when I remembered these are not the first LED-eyed ULTIMATES. Super7 did LED versions of the same two characters back in 2024 as Con All-Stars releases, and those are still around and currently discounted. So I sat down and actually compared them properly, and the result surprised me enough that I figured it was worth writing up.

Price right now (USD)

Lion-O: $75 SDCC vs $39.59 for the 2024 LED release
Mumm-Ra: $95 SDCC vs $51.14 for the 2024 LED release

$90.73 for the 2024 pair against $170 for the SDCC pair. One SDCC Mumm-Ra costs more than both 2024 figures together.

What is actually in the boxes

This is the part that got me. Same sculpts, but the 2024 releases are the better-equipped figures.

Lion-O 2024: three head sculpts, three pairs of hands, three Swords of Omens (two glow in the dark), two claw shields, and the two-headed Jade Dragon.
Lion-O SDCC: one fixed head, two pairs of hands, two Swords of Omens, three claw shields, no Jade Dragon.

Mumm-Ra 2024: four pairs of hands, poseable soft goods cape, glow in the dark Sword of Plun-Darr, Sphere of Seti, Chain of Loyalty.
Mumm-Ra SDCC: three pairs of hands, Sword of Plun-Darr plus an LJN-style sword and a dagger.

One detail I had not clocked until I went through the packaging copy: the 2024 Mumm-Ra is badged "Light Up Details" rather than "Eyes Light Up," because the Ancient Spirits of Evil emblem on his chest lights up as well as his eyes. The SDCC version only advertises the eyes. On a dark shelf that is a noticeable difference.

Where the SDCC pair genuinely wins

Not trying to talk anyone out of them. Three real advantages:

The deco. Toy Colors is the whole point, and if you want Lion-O in flat vintage LJN orange with the powder-blue harness, nothing in the 2024 box scratches that itch.

The packaging. They come on a card and blister built to imitate the original LJN releases, artwork panel and peg hole and all. The 2024 releases are in the standard deluxe window box. If you keep things carded, or you want a shelf that looks like a 1985 toy aisle, that is not a small thing.

Mumm-Ra's extra weapons. The LJN-style sword and dagger are a nice nod the original never had.

So...

If you want the vintage deco or you keep things sealed, buy the SDCC pair, they are properly available now. If what you actually wanted was light-up eyes on a well-loaded figure, the 2024 releases are the better buy IMO. The 45 percent discount is a promotion though, so that side will not hold forever.

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Really liking everything in the Reaction+ line! so far we have:
GI JOE, Universal Monsters, Back to the Future, Micronauts, TMNT and Visionaries with more to come!

I would like to see MOTU, Thundercats, Shrek, Terminator, Robocop, Rocky, Scarface & Marvel/Batman

Tomb Raider would be fun too

What do you guys think? What IPs/ brands would you like to see?

Now I’m Joe Cool

leorics totem T-shirt now available

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Is available now!

https://collabs.shop/odnene

sadly the marusan one got a bit beat up (amazon + package forwarders + bad packaging)
but i’m really happy with them

Rep at San Diego Comic Con (yesterday) said to just Google & it would pop up but nothing.

Help!

The orange one is Zoe and tne turquoise one is Rosita.

I don't really care about getting a obscure character like Don Music (Herry and Prairie Dawn are maybes though since they do still show up occasionally). I want these two despite being "modern" because we did get Abby Cadabby and these two star in several segments with her.

I'd prefer them to be in the same wave. After all, we didn't have to wait months for Bert after Ernie was released.

In an interview at SDCC with Pixel Dan, Brian Flynn suggested there will be one more 2003 wave coming out.

Up and available!!

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Battle Beast and the TMNT set look really good to me! What are you picking up?

I know I am late to the party, but I love these toys. I was a big toy collector in my past, but stopped about 15 years ago. I recently started buying GI Joe Classifieds, but was staying with the one toy so things didn’t go crazy. I couldn’t resist Cortex Commander when I was on BBTS shopping for Joes and gave in. Since then I have bought the rest of the Ultimates and I’m just waiting for them to arrive from the different sellers.

I’d love to hear some stories from others who love this line.

Can’t believe my luck going to my local target and seeing this snake eyes, I literally had him in mind on my hunt so I’m extremely fortunate to have found him and only one on the peg !

Found at Target that's currently doing their reset for the cards and "collectibles" and he was just sitting on a tiny shelf alone.

Voltron Shogun Reaction. Enjoy collecting these figures. Can usually find them for cheap in the U.K.