SilverHawks Ultimates - STEELHEART!

SilverHawks Ultimates - Wave 4 – Steelheart (Toy Version) - Super7 2024

Every so often I get my hands on an action figure that reminds me exactly why I'm in this glorious hobby. To me, there's a seemingly simple recipe of nostalgia and aesthetics that makes for a perfect toy. Yet for some reason, the balance is usually off. But this Steelheart toy color variant figure fills me with so much joy. Right off, the purple chrome finish is beautiful. The vintage toy was more of a dark violet metallic, while this is more medium lavender, but I like the new color better. I thought the face sculpts and paint of the first (animated) release was perfection, but this version has slightly more simplified and stark facepaint, and it's even better. I was nervous about her metallic paint chipping or scratching so I was pretty gentle with posing and swapping her parts, but I had zero issues. She has me excited for potential new figures to add to my Ladies of the 80s collection. Fingers crossed for Octavia from Tigersharks, Nightshade from C.O.P.S., and Shaya from Power Lords. Let's checkout Steelheart below!

Steelheart comes with three heads, three sets of hands, two sets of arms (one with wings extended, one without), and a Rayzor figure in the flat blue vintage toy deco (note that the Wave 1 Steelheart figure came with two versions of Rayzor as well as two blast effects). Not pictured is a Super7-branded polishing cloth to eliminate fingerprints and smudges on her super shiny surfaces. I thought that was a nice touch.

Here are the three heads: Regular face, Angry face, and Masked.

Time for some Group and Comparison Pics!

Here she is alongside her Wave 1 Ultimates figure (animation style) from last year.

And here is Steelheart with her 1986 figure from Kenner.

And here she is alongside two other recent modern toy homages: Cheetara and Stellara.

Here are my three toy-deco Silverhawks Ultimates figures so far: Steelheart, Quicksilver, and Mon-Star (there is also a Buzz-Saw figure in a toy deco that I did not get).

Cheers!