BROADWAY

 For the Universal Monsters there was a release distance between the Wolfman and Dracula of an entire year, and it took NECA six months to release Brooklyn after Hudson, soo for NECA to release two Gargoyles at once is a first in a life time!! I dont know if this will happen ever again but i apreciate the feeling of gettin an entire serires of figures instead of getting just one every few months or a year, tough my wallet is drowning on suffering.

While i dont find Broadway as atractive as Brooklyn, he is not bad at all either, this is a character that was imposible not to love back in the 90s and while he had the comedy character going on at the same time he was as worth fear and respect character just like the rest of the clan, Broadway was actually the focus of one of the most intense chapters of the series that was even banned by Disney itself.

Broadway matches perfectly the heigh of Demona and Brooklyn, soo he is smaller than Goliath, a teen Gargoyle of course. I seen people complaigning tough they expected him to be bigger, but size can be tricky and bulk dosnt neccesary mean tall. His feet are larger than Brooklyn´s but not only that, his tail is really really thick, almost like his entire leg, soo he can stand perfecly by his own and keep his balance pretty easy like a mountain!

He is articulated on the neck, chest, waist, shoulders, biceps, elbows, wrists, legs, knes, ankles, half feet, tail and in both wings. All articulations works really good tough his torso only move left and rigth and cant tilt up or down, and of course his pecs limit his arm articulation a little bit, but thats happens with all other figures.

Tough, unlike Goliath, Hudson, Brooklyn or Demona, Broadway is bald...no long mane in the back of his head, soo his head have total freedom as well as his wings! Thats very nice and his wings aslso are....softer, they dont make that scary noise when moved but they just stay in place perfectly, and they cna be removed pretty fast and easy. Thats also a first for this series.

Broadway is really damn cute. He is the most cartoony of the figures soo far with those big and round eyes, tiny nose and promintent jaw and yet, he dosnt looks out of proportions compared to the rest, he have the perfect amount of realism without losing the charm of the 2D design, pretty much the opposite of - as an example - the last live action of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I also love how "gargoylesque" his design is, i mean with the jaw, the spikes on his head and the fins at the sides, he is pretty much the perfect representation of a gargoyle for me. But then again, soo is Brooklyn or Goliath or even Bronx, a testament Greg Guller magnificent character design.

I love his build, the musced sculpt are really good looking but that big belly is really spectacular, pretty soft to the touch as well and makes him very different looking to the rest of the cast. The wings looks really good like always, tough they shape is the same as Goliath´s and Hudsun´s and are much more smaller than Brooklyn´s and easyer to handle as well.

I love the color as well, that aqua blue is soo soft to the eyes, soo exotic and vibrant and the consistency of the coloring is really good. The dark washes are applied with measure and looks really natural and do a good job giving bolume to the muscles. This is specially evident on the chest area and belly, opposite to wath we could expect, that belly looks like rock solid muscle.

The eyes are clean and they have this black ouline around, same for the mouth and that gives him a little of a cell shading look. I also love love the wings color, the venomus green of the membrane looks amazing with the aqua blue of the rest of the body and makes him stand out a lot, tough from the back the wings are just plain black.

The loincloth have also a nice leather texture as well with clear and dark blues that gives it a pretty interesting "2D Cel shading" effect that fits perfectly to his 3D shape. I dunno, its hard to explain but both the sculpt and colors and shadows are soo easy and pleasant for the eye.

He comes with two extra sets of hands, just like Brooklyn. Aside of closed fist he comes with open palms and hands to hold accesorys and the swap perfectly fine and easy. He also comes with the classic extra head with a roaring expression. Its easy to swap and both the sculpt and paint work are terrific. The expression of the eyes and sculpted teeth are really shocking, but the paint work is hard to belive: every teet is perfectly painted as well as the tongue, but every section have a black outline that makes it looks like a a drawing coming to life.

He also comes with some pop corn from the chapter Deadly Force, when Broadway infiltrates a teather to watch Shodown - a western movie - and falls into a big bag of pop corn and takes one. The bag is pink with a big yellow star in the middle. The pop corns in top is nicelly sculpted and have a very natural soft yellow color. The big fats into Broadway hand perfectly since it have his fingers shape sculpted around it.

There is also a drumstick. This culd have come from any episode tough i am considering this is from chapter one, when Broadway figth vikings using a drumstick in the middle ages. The drumstick have a big chunk of meat missing and you can see the bone inside but also is missing some of its crispy skin as well. I am surprised NECA detailed this thing soo much since each section have a different color: dark pink for the inside meat, soft brown for the outside meat and dark brown on the crispy skin, a fantastic sculpt and colors.

Another accesory is a weird green thing...i wasnt sure if it was the leg of an animal, a reptile or a brocoli or wath was it, but it turns out its moss....in chapter one, Goliath send the young Gargoyles to the rockery as punishment for fighing humans and save theyr lifes without nowing. Inside Broadway take some kind of ooze thats dripping from the walls and much to Lexington disgust he eats it. This green piece of plastic is that moss and it actually glows in the dark!!!

I hasnt seen any review mentionin git soo far....the box dosnt say it, but this moss thingy glows green pretty stronlly in the dark, just like in the animated series. But even knowing wath it is is a weird little item to have.

And finally, in a pure 90s fashion, Broadway have the weapon they give him in the Kenner 1994 toy line: a weird mix if an axe and a morning star. The Kenner figure launched this silly thing a couple of inches like a catapult, a totally useless action feature, but NECA bring back this item with a much better sculpt and painting.

The morning star spikes are really pointy, but my favorite is the axe since it have a a pretty cool design on the blade. The metalic paint on both is really good loking and this time around, but weapons can be separate and used as two individual weapons instead of a lance like unit. This is a very cool and hardcore weapon, but is really out of character for Broadway.

Like i already say, i find Broadway less atractive than Brooklyn but at the same time, as a figure, this is superior since it fixes a lot of issues the rest fo the figures have, like the lack of balance, head articulation and better working wings. Plus this character mixed 2D and 3D design soo nicelly, he looks fantastic on any shelf.

Now i only need Lexington to complete the whole Manhatan Clan but sadly, it seems NECA has pushed him to end of the year and Angela will come first.