Super7 Announces Beastie Boys Sabotage ULTIMATES! Figures

Two years ago, we wrote about the San Francisco-based design house/toy manufacturer, Super7 releasing a trio of Beastie Boys figures. Part of their 3.75″ scale ReAction figure line, these toys followed in a growing list of officially licensed hip-hop collaborations that have included Grandmaster Flash, Notorious B.I.G., Run The Jewels, Ol ‘Dirty Bastard, Czarface, and, more recently, MF DOOM. The Beasties figures were themed around the iconic 1994 Spike Jonze-directed music video for their song “Sabotage.” Starring the rap trio in full character, the video parodied a high-action intro to a stereotypical 1970s police drama, complete with undercover cops, stakeouts, and footchases through the city. The great part about the Super7 figures is that they were modeled after the fictional characters that each of the respective members portrayed.

Based on the company’s history of revisiting different ReAction figure collaborations to release additional styles and/or colorways — Slick Rick, RTJ, and Czarface are all artists who have received such treatment — it was expected from the start that the Sabotage figures would likely be only the first wave from Super7 and that other Beastie Boys-related releases would eventually follow. At an average price of $20 a piece, the ReAction line is admittedly a bit spendy for what is, essentially, just modern pop-culture-oriented takes on the original minimally-articulated Star Wars line that Kenner launched in the late 1970s. That doesn’t stop me from buying them, though. These may not have been the first Beastie Boys action figures ever produced, but they are still the first ones that were easily attainable.

I break this down further in the following excerpt from my original article about the release:

“These are a welcome addition that is substantially cheaper and more accessible than the elusive Beastie Boys x Bathing Ape Hello Nasty-era figures packaged in the sardine can back in 2011. A major grail for hip-hop toy collectors, those fully-articulated 11.5-inch dolls were reproductions of the ones used in the Jonze-directed video for “I Don’t Play No Games That I Can’t Win” (featuring Santigold) and came with a change of clothing consisting of the hard hat and safety equipment getups from the “Intergalactic” video. While it’s commendable that 97% of the proceeds were split between a pair of charities dedicated to fighting childhood cancer, the whopping $750 on those original figures made them unattainable for most of us upon release, let alone a decade later on the secondary market. This ReAction figure line is finally offering an opportunity for a lot of us to obtain a set of Beastie figures for the first time and, if history is any indicator, there’s a pretty good chance that additional versions — perhaps, even an “Intergalactic” set — may very well appear in the future.“

My speculation wasn’t entirely off, as Super7 would later follow up with an Intergalactic themed set. Unfortunately, it was only a 2-pack featuring the tentacled kaiju and robot that appeared in the video and not the Beasties themselves. The company would later repackage the individual Sabotage figures into a 3-pack with no discernible difference other than the inclusion of a fold-out poster. For a group with so many different eras that have reinvented themselves so many times and explored so many visual elements over the years, the failure to tap into any of that has remained a disappointment up to this point.

Today, Super7 announces their latest Beasties Boys collab and it’s clear that we aren’t finished with the Sabotage theme quite yet. What’s cool about this new drop is that Ad-Rock, Mike D, and MCA are finally getting the ULTIMATES! treatment. ULTIMATES! is the toy manufacturer’s deluxe line with intricate sculpts and “premium paint detailing.” Specifics can fluctuate based on the particular subject being modeled, but ULTIMATES! are typically highly articulated and generally feature interchangeable heads and/or hands. The upcoming Beastie Boys figures measure in at the standard 7-inch scale but with multiple heads and hands and a respectable assortment of accessories.

The same 3 characters are available as with the ReAction line. More specifically, this means that you can purchase Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz as actor Vic Colfari playing Bobby, “The Rookie;” Michael “Mike D” Diamond as The Chief (as played by Alasondro Alegré); and the late Adam “MCA” Yauch as Nathan Wind as Cochese.

You can ch-check out the detailed product shots below, along with rotating 360-degree video and brief descriptions of each character.

“He may ride in the back seat, but new guy Bobby, “The Rookie” (played by Vic Colfari) makes up for his lack of experience by having the speed and determination to chase down any perp!“

Included accessories: a briefcase of money, a coffee cup, a donut, and a walkie talkie.

“For any good cop/bad cop routine you need a really BAD cop, and Cochese (as played by Nathan Wind) will never be mistaken for the good cop.”

Included accessories: a CB radio, a pair of handcuffs, a bomb, and a nightstick.

“He may have been around the block a time or two, but The Chief (as played by Alasondro Alegré) isn’t too old to take it to the streets and lead by example!”

Included accessories: a cop car light, a walkie talkie, a pair of binoculars, a megaphone, and an axe.

Each figure will run $55 and is available for pre-order on Super7.com through April 14th, 2024. You can purchase them individually or as a complete set of 3. While no discount in price is offered when ordering the entire set, there is mention of an “Exclusive Super Pack.”

Underneath the description on the product page for the full set, it mentions the “Super Pack” and vaguely refers to it as “an assortment of additional accessories based on the “Sabotage” music video!” It then specifies that it is, “available only with the purchase of the full wave of Super7 ULTIMATES! figures from Super7.” Oddly enough, the product pages for the individual figures elaborate on what “additional accessories” would be received by purchasing the full set, mentioning “a “Sabotage” VHS tape, “Sabotage” 45 RPM single record with sleeve, and “Ill Communication” LP record with sleeve!” Adding, “Please note that all Super Pack accessories are to scale with the action figures; they are not full-size or functioning media material.”

If I’m being honest, these bonus “accessories” sound kind of bunk to me, but I do expect to see more offers like this in the future. The free bonus packs are exclusive to the Super7 website and there’s good reason they are actively attempting to entice people to continue preordering from them. Although they claim that these ULTIMATES! figures are “made-to-order,” it’s fairly obvious that the company produces far more than the number of orders placed during the provided pre-order window. This is not a situation where, if you don’t immediately hop on these through Super7, you’re going to be out of luck in the future. Not only do other retailers like Big Bad Toy Store offer these same pre-orders, but there always seems to be extra stock available through any number of outlets once the products eventually start shipping out. The Czarface ULTIMATES! only recently began showing up to those of us who placed pre-orders nearly 2 FULL YEARS AGO! I ordered mine in May 2022, waited through all of the manufacturing delays, and can readily find it for sale right now without mark-up or issue. There isn’t much incentive to fork over that sort of cash in advance when there’s no guaranteed release date and history shows that you can just buy these items later on. Super7 is hoping that this “super pack” offer is enough to make it worth it for customers to continue preordering from them and, for some, it might be. My suggestion is to beef up those bonuses in the future.

One more thing of note is that these Beastie Boys ULTIMATES! are being referred to as Wave 1 again. If there’s a particular era of the hip hop pioneers that you’d like to see depicted in highly articulated plastic, what would it be? I hope that, whatever they choose, they take their time with it. These things look amazing, but they can also get way too damn expensive when they’re dropping 3 at a time. Plus, we’re going to need that MF DOOM ULTIMATES! next, before anything.