Super7 He-Ro and Eldor

*Art by Emiliano Santalucia, available at MadDuckPosters.com

The Powers of Grayskull wave from Super 7 was a super jump in quality over the Filmation Wave 2. I had previously commented on the brittle plastic but this wave fixes that pretty well. Everything is nice and rubbery. Not as rubbery as the vintage and Three Terrors figures, but much closers than they have been. And the legs joints are even better.

Such a juxtaposition of personalities.

Don't let his Ken doll face fool you, this is a great toy. The Vacmetal is shiny and the cloth cape is great.

His magic staff doesn't really have the action feature that it is supposed to have because it does not stay closed like it should. A minor negative unless that was a selling point for you.

"The past returns!" - Donatello

"Everything is meaningless" - Solomon

Hands have a 360 swivel which should be useful but it isn't. More on that later.

Giant book of Living Spells

Book to Eldor size comparison

Stickers for inside the book - Techno Organic Dinosaurs and He-Man. He is undisguised for some reason.

Portraits of He-Ro and Eldor. Eldor is apparently old man Thor.

The Book of Living Spells is WAY too big for Eldor to hold at all. If you have extra pieces to your Castle Grayskull, this is where they come in handy.

So for this wave, the sculpts are wonderful and the joints are great. The accessories aren't too well thought out but that might be because they were just going off what was left to them from the original prototypes. Who knows but it is something to keep in mind.

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