Four ULTIMATES! at the Ultimate Price

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Every so often Big Bad Toy Store runs a clearance that makes us sit up, and this is one of those weeks. Right now four Super7 ThunderCats ULTIMATES! figures are sitting in the BBTS sale bin at 55 to 60 percent off, all four in stock and ready to ship: Mumm-Ra (Dream Master) at $30, Captain Hammerhand at $22, and Snowman of Hook Mountain and Captain Cracker at $20.25 apiece.

That pricing deserves a moment of context. These are retired figures from Super7’s made-to-order era. They were produced once, in the quantities ordered, and they are not coming back. All four carried original price tags between $55 and $75, and at the time of writing we cannot find any of them cheaper at any other retailer. The whole quartet lands at $92.50, less than what two of these figures cost new.

None of the four is a core ThunderCat, and that is exactly why this group is worth a serious look. These are the deep-cut episode villains and allies that make a display shelf feel like Third Earth rather than just a team lineup. Each one traces back to a specific corner of the 1985 series, so we have pulled the receipts from our episode guide and encyclopedia below, along with what our own reviews said when these figures first passed through our hands.

Mumm-Ra (Dream Master), $30 (60 percent off)

The marquee deal of the four. Mumm-Ra (Dream Master) shipped in Wave 10 at $75, and at $30 he is the steepest discount in this sale in raw dollars. The figure is built from translucent material with paint layered over it, a clever way of selling the idea that this form of Mumm-Ra is not entirely of the waking world. He comes with interchangeable heads and hands, a soft goods cape, and the golden dream urns that drive his whole scheme.

Those urns are the reason this figure exists. The Dream Master form appears in exactly one episode, “Dream Master” from December 1985, and it is one of the great weird Mumm-Ra showcases of the first season. Mumm-Ra puts the ThunderCats to sleep, summons their dream selves out of their bodies, defeats each one in a nightmare battle of wills, and seals them in golden urns bound for the Whirlpool of Infinity. It takes the Sword of Omens growling a warning to Snarf and Lion-O to unravel the plot.

For a character who has been sculpted and re-sculpted across every era of ThunderCats collecting, a one-episode variant this specific is exactly the kind of figure that never gets a second production run. If you have been waiting on him, this is the price to wait for.

Buy Mumm-Ra (Dream Master) for $30 at BBTS

Captain Hammerhand, $22 (60 percent off)

When Wave 5 was announced, our preorder coverage let Super7’s own pitch do the talking: “Hammerhand is an evil half-human, half-robot pirate who has a huge cybernetic arm and eats unicorns! Does it get any more metal than that?” Four years on, that remains the correct read on the character.

Hammerhand is the cyborg pirate who leads the Berserkers, the fourth great evil force of Third Earth after Mumm-Ra, the Mutants and the Lunataks. He introduced himself by hunting unicorns in “The Terror of Hammerhand”, one of the strangest and most visually distinctive episodes of the early first season, returned as a ghost in “Spitting Image,” and came back with a rebuilt crew for the ThunderCats Ho! five-parter. The ULTIMATES! figure covers the essentials: interchangeable heads and hands, his net gun, and that oversized metal fist, which the encyclopedia dutifully notes is both his greatest strength and, when it throws him off balance, his weakness.

Buy Captain Hammerhand for $22 at BBTS

Snowman of Hook Mountain, $20.25 (55 percent off)

The best pound-for-pound value here. Snowman is one of the bulkiest single releases in the whole ULTIMATES! line, and he is now the price of a lunch out. When the figure first arrived we sat down with reviewer Toy Bro for a first look, and he put Snowman in heavyweight company: “I’ve really come to enjoy a lot of these larger, bulkier Ultimates. Bebop, Rocksteady and Muckman really set the tone for what a ‘big’ Ultimates figure can be, and Snowman is right up there with them. He’s just as big and slightly bulkier than all of them.”

The ice weaponry got singled out too: “I really like the way they did the frosted look for the ice weapons, the shield in particular, because it’s covered in a bunch of craggy, faceted detail.” You get a full rack of it, spear, lance, mace and shield, plus a second helmeted head.

On screen, Snowman rules the Kingdom of the Snowmen atop Hook Mountain with his loyal snowcat Snowmeow. He made his debut jousting Lion-O in “Lord of the Snows” before becoming one of the ThunderCats’ staunchest allies, riding to their aid in episodes like “Secret of the Ice King” and the ThunderCats Ho! finale.

Buy Snowman of Hook Mountain for $20.25 at BBTS

Captain Cracker, $20.25 (55 percent off)

The oldest figure in this sale, from Wave 3, and the one with the deepest cut of vintage credibility: Cracker had an LJN figure back in 1987, which is more than most of the line’s obscure picks can claim. When the ULTIMATES! version landed we ran a full first look with Toy Bro, who summed him up neatly: “he fits very much in line with what this ULTIMATES line is all about. A lot of cartoon aesthetic here with a very familiar articulation scheme, so I’m enjoying this little guy.”

He also praised how the paint handles a character who is literally made of metal: “He’s got varying levels of ‘metallic’, and I assume that’s how they’re translating the various colors of ‘metal’ on his body in the animation into what would be shiny in the real world.” The figure includes his cutlass, pistol, hook hand, alternate heads and hands, and two versions of Polly, his robotic parrot.

Captain Cracker is the space pirate of the ThunderCats universe, a robotic renegade sailing the stars in his ship the Jolly Rogers. Writer William Overgard introduced him in “Mandora and the Pirates” and liked him enough to bring him back twice, in “Exile Isle” and “Cracker’s Revenge”, making him one of the few one-off villains who actually earned a recurring role.

Buy Captain Cracker for $20.25 at BBTS

The math

Four retired ULTIMATES! figures, $92.50 all in. At their original prices this group would have cost about $240. Every one of them is a character with a real episode pedigree, the kind of shelf-filler that turns a row of ThunderCats into a scene from Third Earth: a dream-stealing devil priest, a unicorn-eating pirate king, the lord of Hook Mountain and the scourge of the spaceways.

Made-to-order means what it says. Super7 produced these once, the line has long since moved on to Wave 16 territory, and clearance stock is the last stop before eBay pricing takes over. If any of these four has been sitting on your want list, this is the week to clear it.

And once they are on your shelf, show them off. The ThunderCats.org member Toy Shelf lets you upload photos of your own collection, or pull straight from our toy catalogue, and display it alongside the collections of other community members.

Figure quotes come from our earlier coverage with reviewer Toy Bro (Jared Elswick) and our team contributor Egmond, whose ULTIMATES! reviews continue over at We Want More ThunderCats. Prices checked at time of writing; BBTS sale pricing can end without notice.

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