#Thundercats slithe professional
Eric is the consummate professional when it comes to his craft, but you can always tell when he has a love for a character because everything is amped up to beyond perfection.
#Thundercats slithe license
Like, back when Mattel first got the license we talked about Slithe for a couple of hours on the floor at SDCC. It is 100% a sculpt by Eric Treadaway from the Four Horsemen, and even if I did not know this or could not tell just by looking at it, I would bet that it was simply because he and I have talked at length about Slithe. I love that they have retained the character bios on the back, and they have also integrated Jason Edmiston’s art on the back as well. The packaging is about 1.5 times as deep as a standard Super7 ThunderCats box, and he most certainly needs it. He is (appropriately) not tall, but he is most certainly wide across the chest, and thick from front to back, mostly due to his neck and tail. Obviously, Slithe is a thicc boi, and that is mostly due to his width and depth. His design has always spoken to me, and much like my tendencies in MOTU due to Mer-Man, Slithe definitely made me more of a fan of the bad guys than the good guys in the ThunderCats property. The vintage Slithe figure is a top five toy from my youth and his cartoon design (which is the basis for this figure) holds a special place in my heart due to the shared Rankin/Bass studio affiliation making Slithe look like a distant cousin of the Middle-Earth orcs and goblins. I have been in love with this ugly chonk for pretty much my entire life. Okay, we can talk about the overall future of the line until we are blue in the face – trust me, I would love to – but it’s time to focus on the mutant, the legend: Slithe! Yesss, YESSSSSS. Everything from factory schedule challenges, to an ongoing global pandemic, to the need to take more time to work out the kinks, but I want to feel like we are finally getting on course, but I am not going to jinx it just yet.
There have been too many storms to count at this point, but we have weathered a lot. So I understand that it might still take a bit of time and the getting of a few more figures before that collective sigh of relief is breathed, but Slithe is like waking up from those cold sweats. This property has had such challenges when it comes to modern action figure lines, I think everyone is still a little anxious, and most certainly feeling that collector PTSD. Yes, it has been a journey, but Slithe is like a (very handsome) release valve we have needed for some time, and man, it feels like such a relief. More so, he is the first NEW ThunderCats character to be added to the ULTIMATES/Classics line in five years. Yes, we can add Slithe to our collections, and if he is a harbinger of the quality and overall results that are to come throughout, we are going to be in good shape. And celebrate we shall! Now, I have made it crystal clear over the years that Slithe is my favorite (and the best) ThunderCats character, so getting this figure is huge deal to me personally, but there are also some other factors at play here with this release. Longer than the trip from the doomed Thundera to Third Earth it seems, but after all this time, we finally have new ThunderCats ULTIMATES! figures to celebrate.
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