GOLIATH

 I was questioning the existance of Beetlejuice a few weeks ago but he isnt the only big interrogant around, that medal goes to Gargoyles. Gargoyles has been completelly ignored for 24 years to the point Disney even refused to release it on Blueray or DVD or even recognize its existance at all. Now we got Funko Pops, board games, statues, plushies and action figures....i got the feeling something is gonna happen and i may not like it, but unti then i will submerge in the blisfullnes of this unexplained Gargoyles fever.

When NECA continued the work McFarlane Toys leave inconcluded with the horror movies figures, fans were pretty existed. When they feed Kenner´s by relaunching the old figures of the 90s with brand new sculpt and features, many people sayd NECA was doing the work of god. Now NECA is releasing Gargoyles action figures, an unfullfilled dream that has existed for 25 years, because, i LOVE Kenner, but honestly, when i was 10 and played with the Gargoyles action figures it was the very firs time i feelt like the toys didnt live up to the characters. They are pretty "90s", with all the ups and downs of that time period.

Unexpectedly, NECA is starting the action figures serires with now days standar quaity and they did something unbelivable. The first of the serires is of course Goliath and he is a little bit taller than your average NECA figures soo he is on a considerable size and quiet heavy as well thanks to his huge frame. Now take the wings in consideration and you got a HUGE and extremelly HEAVY action figure since his wing span is as long as 7 figures in a row!!!

Goliath can....and cannot stand on his own, is complicated. I mean, he ave huge feet and can stand perfectly tough the wings are soo heavy he needs the tail to help him balance. He is articulated on the head, shoulders, biceps, elbows, wrists, chest, waist, legs, knes, ankles, half feet, tail and both wings. All this articulation works great since they all ball joints and moves up and down but at the sides too with a few exceptions: while Goliaths skimpy clothing is made with pretty soft plastic and gives his legs totall freedoms, his chest area barelly moves. Also his shoulders are limited thanks to his big chest muscles being of hard plastic and his hair, while made with soft plastic, get sin the way of his wings as well.

His wings are a totally different beast tough, since they have this internal cogs system that deminds a lot of brute force to move them. This is because they articulations needs to be strong to keep with the weigth, but i fear they may be too delicate and the pegs could broke and they dosnt have too much range of movement at all.

The tail, the wonderfull tail is made in woft pastic and have a wire inside soo its totally bendy and a total blessing to keep Goliath standing since, thanks to the weight, his ankles articulations got very lose pretty quick keeping him falling over and over again. I fixed this with a little glue to strong the ball joint, but still this is a temporary measure, its better to give him a base soo the  legs dosnt sopport all his masive weigth.

Aside of articulations getting lose and risk of being delicate (maybe i am being over protective) the entire figure is brillant and perfect. Its not a cartoon Goliath tough but a NECA interpretation of how would he looks if he was real. I saw many of this "realistic"intepretations over the years and i hated all of them, i tough Goliath only worked in 2D but i am glad i was wrong since NECA manage to sculpt and totally realistc creature while keeping enough stylisation to make him easy to recognize.

The big eyes, shape of his jaw, the hair cut, the head size and body structure, even the huge claws on his legs, everything follows Disney¨s original design while adding instead toons of details, like the inside of his long hears or giving him a pretty realistic muscle structure. You can learn anatomy perfectly with this figure even with the monster sections since you can even see the veins on his arms. Unlike the cartoon, the wings are not plain blue but instead have a "scale" texture, like the wings of a dragon, even with veins as well.

The paint work is excelent, with the figure cast in purple plastic of the same color used on the cartoon, but with plenty of dark purples washing to give vlume to hos body and face features in a pretty natural way. His hair is black but in the back side it have pretty silverish blue tones and his wings as well are not entirelly black, but they have luminiscent blue tones to makes them looks lamots like the wings of an insect.

The texture on his loincloth as well as the bwon color and golden on his belt are perfect. The only section with no detailec olor or texture is his tail, but i dont think it needed it at all.

Aside of the closed fist hands, he have an extra set of hands with his claws open as well as an extra left hand to pick items. The gesture of the hands is soo perfect is hard to belove, it reminds me Goliath too much and i love how the nails have a stronger purple color to make them stand out (same for the claws on his feet, they are soo cute) and they can be exchanged pretty easy.

His other accesory is an extra head with a roaring expression and white eyes and can be exchanged pretty easy (and carefully thanks to the wings). This is my favorite head sculpt, since his original calm expression fits him good, this fierce one is beyond perfect and quiet frighing. The scupt of his fangs is amazing as well as the sculpt and paint on the thongue inside and the big eye bags framing those white eyes is just striking!!!

His other accesory is a beautifully done book, and i say beautyfull because it is stuning. The leather texture on the cover, the yellow pages, even the writing on the pages, its soo  amazinglly done it can be sold as a separate item and fits Goliath contemplative character perfectly since he spend entire nigths at the library of the police station.

His last accesory is a pepper, a green and tiny pepper that fits on his hands as a joke in episode 32 "Protection"  when he suffers by eating a pepper. A cute little detail but pretty forgetable compared to the book and thats it, thats all the accesoryes he got since theres not a whole lot of stuff for hiem to use on the cartoon anyway, even Kenner had to take artistic lisence and give to his Gargoyles figures pretty silly accesorys like tridents, swords, rocket launchers....is obvious NECA would never do such a thing.

Honestly, this was my most expected figure of the entire years, i was eager to reach Christmas point just for this and was a torture wait an entire year for it, and even soo, getting him was quiet a feat since the place i pre-order it never got him and other places had him 3 or 4 times more expensive. I ended up paying twice the base price but even with that, this figure was really worth the price.

NECA somehows managed to erase the gap between prototype and mass produced product, since this guy looks exactly like he does on the photos and almost ALMOST reach perfection: a base would have been a wise movement and also the wings, while i love the wings, its odd to have wings open all the time, i wish they hive him closed wings as well, this is a vital detail for display and posing.

I am very happy with this. I am very hyped for Demona last year and the rest of the characters. I am loving NECA more than i never did before and next year i am going to be poorer thans to them as well. Its in moments like this that i am very happy for being a toy collector.