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Quicksilver is the leader of the Silverhawks, and he
reports directly to Stargazer. He is the human partner of the cyborg bird Tally-Hawk. A human law enforcement officer modified into a cyborg to withstand the effects of hyper travel through space. This grants him enhanced physical abilities, such as strength, agility, and speed. He has a hawk-like face plate that he can lower to cover his face while flying or fighting, as well as built-in wings for atmospheric and space flying/gliding. He has a built-in laser in his arm, located in the blue band, for combat, and retractable talons in his feet for attacking while flying.
If you're noticing these bios seem very repetitive, that's because Super7 appears to have just copied the text from the Thundercats Wiki, which is no more legal for them than it was when McFarlane Toys did similar. We've been The Internet's Only Toy Review Source® for 20 years now, and have been offering copyediting/writing services in exchange for nothing more than free toys that entire time, and yet companies still pull halfassed crap like this.
As is befitting the character in the "leader" role on any 1980s cartoon team, Quicksilver is the defaultest Silverhawk to ever default: he's not as skinny as Bluegrass, he's not as big
as Steelwill, he's not as old as Stargazer, he's not as young as Copper Kid, he's not as girl as Steelheart... he's the average everybody gets compared to. His right forearm is bare, below the elbow, and his Hawk suit has a distinct belt buckle (despite not having a belt). On his left wrist, he wears a yellow wristwatch-like band that allows him to communicate with his bird sidekick, Tally-Hawk, over great distances. It's a separate piece for whatever reason, and was facing the wrong way right out of the box; remember, the big red button goes on the outside of the body, the two white buttons go toward the body.
Being the leader has its pressures. Why, Quicksilver doesn't even have time for changing his expression! At least, I assume that's the reason why this figure only comes with one unmasked head instead of multiples, like the other figures we're looked at so far. It's a neutral expression, as you'd expect, and his hair-helmet comes to a little point in the back.
His one alternate head has his faceplate down, to keep him safe when he's flying in space. It's a cool look, a smooth silver plate coming to a point by the chin. The eye slit is a bright blue, with a black slit going down vertically from beneath the center of that. It's nice how the "hair" sticks up from the head generally, but then the mask is right on level with it - neatly avoids the "Iron Man nose" problem.
Quicksilver has swivel/hinge ankles, swivel/hinge knees, swivel thighs, swivel/hinge hips, a swivel waist, swivel/hinge wrists, swivel/hinge elbows, swivel biceps, swivel/hinge shoulders, and a barbell jointed
neck. There's also a chest joint, which you would expect to be a balljoint, but only seems to have the range of a swivel. That may be intentional, as a way of dealing with the wings, but it's still pretty crappy.
(Instead of cloth wings and spring-loaded arms, like the '80s toys had, these have swappable arms without elbow joints, and molded wings that are shaped to line up right against the sides of the body. It looks terrific when it's in place and all lined up, but sacrificing torso articulation for it,
if that's what happened, is the wrong choice. We know how not to move a joint, guys.)
The Silverhawks' weapon of choice are laser blasts, not only because it's an '80s cartoon, but also because it's a series set in space. But because they have to hold their arms out to fly, the lasers shoot out of the front of their shoulders, rather than anything more traditional. Thus, the alternate arms have small holes in the shoulder ball where the translucent blue beams can be plugged in. Quicksilver doesn't include any other weapons, just various hands: fists, holding, spread, or flat.
Tally-Hawk was the first Silverhawk sidekick, and the inspiration for all the rest. He didn't originally belong to Quicksilver, but Stargazer - the bird was living at the HawkHaven base before Mon*Star broke out of prison and the Silverhawks were even recruited. Tally-Hawk is, like his teammates, partly metal and partly real: rather than being a robot built from scratch, he's a cyborg. It's mainly his chest and throat that remain organic, with the rest of him being mechanical.
This set includes two versions of Tally-Hawk,
because the technology to make a bird toy look both like it's perching and like it's flying has been lost since it was last used so long ago in *checks notes* 2022. Who can possibly be expected to remember something from that long ago! Both versions do have articulation in the neck, hips, and knees (technically knees and ankles, but this isn't a bird anatomy lesson).
Quicksilver is a lovely shade of gray, with darker airbrushing to accentuate the sculpt; they could have used a silvery paint for him, but this is meant to ape the animation more than anything else. Unfortunately, Super7 just announced "toy color" versions at SDCC, which fully chrome the toys, just like in the '80s. They look like tacky garbage, so of course some fans are salivating at the prospect, proving that some people have no sense and no taste. Way to go, dummies. At least we got this version looking good before that happened.
-- 08/06/23
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