Super 7 Silverhawks Ultimates Wave 3 Mon*Star review
Mon*Star had a pretty terrifying powered-down look, but that didn’t stop him from getting an even more powered up look in battling the Silverhawks. Super 7 has provided the most comprehensive modern collection of Silverhawks, but it wasn’t going to mean much without the enhanced version of the big bad.
After getting 3/5 of the Silverhawks and a pair of the Limbo Mob, my collection needed the mega boost with Mon*Star. He’s an impressive looking figure and while Super 7’s Silverhawks lack on the articulation front they are still pretty cool to have on the shelf.
Let’s see if the moonlight shines brightly on this guy or if I need to keep him hidden way towards the back of the display.
Packaging: Super 7 does a great job on the presentation. The Silverhawks Limbo Mob have their respective colors of a blue and red foil outer box. While it’s cool, fingerprints show up very quickly on it. Sliding that off reveals the main package with a large plastic window showing off the figure for any MOC collectors.
Unlike every other character so far in the line, the red on red doesn’t make for a great contrast. Over on the back he’s got a very well-done bio. Super 7 actually gives Mattel’s WWE and Masters of the Universe lines some competition for thoughtful bios.
Likeness: When powered up by the Moon star, Mon*Star went from a formidable looking dude with great hair to a massive, armored beast.
His head sculpt is super intimidating with the stalactite-like teeth and the 10 spikes around his head. Then there’s the intimidating armor plating that added even more bulk and mass to him.
Super 7 is typically dead-on with the source material going so far as to sculpt the lines on his knee pads and the exact pattern of his ab muscles/plating. His armor isn’t that intricate, so it’s appreciated that Super 7 captured it so precisely.
Scale: Mon*Star was a screen-filling presence. Super 7 didn’t shortchange him on his height and mass making him by the far the largest and tallest figure in the line. Posing him next to the fairly impressive Buzz-Saw that’s saying a lot.
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Paint: Mon*Star’s paint job is slightly off from the cartoon. Besides a few accent points, Mon*Star should be painted in the bright red orange of his chest armor and trunks. Super 7 mixed it up more giving his arms, forearms and legs a brick red shade. And his kneepads should be that same red orange as well instead of being more of an orange.
His head did seem to be darker so that is colored properly.
I guess Super 7 gave Mon*Star and Buzz-Saw such diverse colors in order to break up the largely monochrome setup? The paint apps are very clean at least.
Articulation: Super7’s articulation scheme is a few decades old compared to some other lines. It’s hard to collect these figures and imagine what if Super 7 incorporated modern articulation standards to them.
Mon*Star’s articulation is OK. He can get a solid range to his ball-jointed shoulders and his elbows and knees have decent movement. The one thing that has become noteworthy with these figures is the joints start to loosen up quickly. Not to the point that they start getting so loose they can’t stand or hold a pose, but it does become an issue.
Mon*Star has:
- neck
- shoulders
- sawblades
- elbows
- wrist
- torso
- waist (swivel)
- knees
- ankles
- feet
Accessories: Super7’s calling card is an extensive array of accessories for their figures. Mon*Star comes with a slew of useful accessories for all of his various looks in this form.
He also has a flying companion in Sky-Shadow to battle Tally-Hawk.
Sky-Shadow has his bat-like appearance with crab-claws. The grooves and paneling along his body are cartoon accurate. Ditto for the colors with the proper placement of the dark brick red and red-orange areas.
Mon*Star has two wide translucent yellow energy bursts and slender translucent red bursts for his elbow propulsion blasts. That’s a cool addition.
He’s got four additional set of swappable hands — a gun gripping, throttling, pointing and grabbing hands.
His biggest weapon is his Light-Star, which he shoots from his left eye.
That piece is a translucent orange and plugs into another welcome addition — a separate head with a hole in the left eye socket for the Light-Star.
I really dig them thinking of all the little things to make the figures so fun to display.
Finally, he has his laser lance for distance battles with red, grey and black paint apps.
Worth It? I was able to get Mon*Star for a very reasonable price point of $40, which is much better than the starting price at $85. Amazon has him now for a decent $65.99 price.
Rating: 9,5 out of 10
The big bad leader of The Limbo Mob gets a pretty solid figure. He’s nice and brawny to definitely make for an intimidating main villain of the Silverhawks collection.
Where to Get It: You can still get Mon*Star from Amazon.
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