Retro Cheetah Review: The Good, the Bad, and What the Heck Were They Thinking?

[Timothy2251]

Love, love, love the Mattel retro female bodies, and I really wish Doc Mego would release his redesigned female body as it seems to follow what Mattel did.

Apart from Wonder Woman, Cheetah and Janine from the retro Ghostbusters series, has this body turned up in any other Mattel line?

[thunderbolt]

I think parts of it are reused in Monster High and probably in the DC Girls line coming out.

[PNGwynne]

^But those are 12" lines, with distinctive slimmer sculpting.

[PNGwynne]

I cannot deal with the thighs on these figures, but that shouldn't surprise anyone here who knows me.

And to be fair, the waist/legs in the male figures are poorly proportioned, too. Big Jim was a well-designed figure. Max Steel was pretty nice, too. RetroAction, fraught with problems.

[JediJaida]

Too bad they didn't adapt Doc's original male bodies to be completely bandless back then. That would have solved 90% of the figures problems.

[thunderbolt]

^But those are 12" lines, with distinctive slimmer sculpting.

with the head taking up 2-3 inches of that 12.

[Timothy2251]

I've seen the larger Mattel lines, and yeah, some parts of the Retro female bodies might be mixed in, but the scale seems a bit bigger. Drat!

[Monstar]

I dunno, but the Cheetah body sure makes Harley Quinn a lot curvier.

I'm in the middle of body swapping Cheetah for Harley now. What did you do to keep the Harley head on the body?

[thunderbolt]

nothing, it fits right on it.

[Bronxboykev]

I'm in the middle of body swapping Cheetah for Harley now. What did you do to keep the Harley head on the body?

on the ones where they may be a little too loose you can stuff them

[Teemu]

nothing, it fits right on it.

not true....Jayna's didn't

the cheetah peg is small and needs thickened which is an easy fix

[thunderbolt]

not true....Jayna's didn't

the cheetah peg is small and needs thickened which is an easy fix

Harley popped right on with no problems.

[pmwasson]

I wonder if doc could mass produce the Cheetah body? Probably not due to Mattel owning the design, but it is a big improvement over the Mego female.

[daz71]

I wonder if doc could mass produce the Cheetah body? Probably not due to Mattel owning the design, but it is a big improvement over the Mego female.

agreed that would be fantastic.

[Monstar]

Harley popped right on with no problems.

Not for me. I tried a Cheetah body and WW body. Same thing - the Harley head would go on but was not secure and would just flop around.

I ended up cutting a long piece of duct tape and wrapping it around the cheetah peg. The Harley head stays on relatively ok now.

BTW - Does anyone else have some funky adhesive seeping through the back of Harley's head? How are you keeping the headpiece on her head?