SNAKE ALIEN

In 1992 Kenner released the first series of Alien action figures based on a non existant cartoon, a series that had a lot of cononial marines, behicles and aircrafts and Alien creatures mixed with animals.When i was a kid this was one of my favorite toys and i still own most of them except the humans, but in the last couple of years NECA has been responsable to give a much needed life and detail to this same figures by releasing the same characters but with modern quality.

The first series had the Gorila Alien, Queen Face Hugger and Mantis Alien and the second series had the Scorpion Alien and Snake Alien and this last one was the main dish of the series. Scorpion is very cool looking Xenomorph variant, but the Snake is a totally different beast that was also one of the most memorable creatures from the Kenner 90s series.

And just like the original version, this one is huge since his head is even bigger than the Scorpion´s or Mantis and his tail is really long too tough in my opinion, i wish his tail was longer. His entire tail is made with bendy and flexyble plastic soo you can shape it like a ring and balance its main body to make him stand. Depending on the ring size it can be a challengue or not: the bigger the ring, the easyer he stand tough he looks shorter in size, the smaller the ring, he tends to fall a lot tough he can looks extremelly tall, bigger than the Scorpion.

The details on him are astonishing, even with the difference of material - body and tail - everything looks seamless and the details are really gross and disturbing. His main body looks like some kind of rib cage made with bones, actually his tail looks bony as well and from the back he actually looks like a giant Facehugger.

His head have the same shape the Kenner figure had, tough with more extreme shapes and as an added bonus, while the first figure had this kind of "fingers" around his body, this new version has spider like legs with hairs and long claws, wich makes him looks much more menacing.

His jaw is another story since its pretty much the most complex jaw they ever did on an Alien figure. He have this giant fangs on the side and one he open his jaw (with long fangs too), the inner jaw can be projected outside his mouth but there is ANOTHER inner jaw inside that inner jaw!!! As a result he looks like a puzzle of long fangs battling around to come out.

The old figure had an action feature in wich you push a spike on his head and the inner jaw comes out and the fangs move, this one figure disnt have such feature but the two giant fangs have a ball joint, soo they can move on any direction like fingers and the primary jaw is articulated. Move around his mouth is confusing at first but is very fun since everything moves really smoothly.

He is also articulated on the neck and where his tail starts and also all the little fingers around his body have ball joint and can be moved freely. Thanks to this he looks like a cobra ready to strike, with the claws open or they cna be closed around his body as well. This are a lot of articulations tough he dosnt have too many pose choices for obvious reasons.

The paint is really good as well, with golden on his back and top of his head and dark green on the chesr and tail and lower part of the head. Some tones of neon green on his ribs and tendones on the jaw gives it a very "swamp" look (the weet texture also helps a lot) and finally, the purple on the claws stand out really nicelly.

He has no accesory at all, only the reprint of the mini comic he had back in the 90s. I already mentioned how much i love this comics? They are soo silly but fit the figures soo good.

Overall, this is one of my favorite versions of the Xenomorph, a version that keeps the gross and elegance of the original design but in a totally different twist and i think NECA did an amazing job updating this design to make it even much more frightning (i doubted that was possible).