STEEL CLAN ROBOT

 I admit its kind of exciting to expect NECA´s new releases with the fast pace they been having this year...releasing only one or two figures a year and this 2023 it seems they will complete a lot of theyr series releasing multiple figures at the same time. Exciting but not very kind to the wallet tough i am still happy they dont reach Super 7 overprice range.

Just a month ago they release Brooklyn and Broadway together (two figures with release date of 2022) and just now they release Steel Clan Robot. Why this guy is out before Lexington is an mistery that will never be solved, but i am just glad they are not releasing one of two figures anymore and i am starting to feel the hype for Gargoyles again while the collection grows.

This is a big boy actually, based on Goliath, this guy is a little bit taller than Goliath, plus th wings this is the tallest figure of the collection soo far and he is quiet heavy as well!! Gladlly, since he have the build of Goliath, with the huge feet and thick and strong legs and masive tail, he can stand on his own perfectly with no risk to fall over, he stands like a mountain!

This mecha-Goliath is articulated on the ehad, but on the neck as well, the shoulders, biceps, elbows, wrists, chest, waist, legs, knes, half feet and claws section, as well as on his tail, wings and half wings, a grand total of 25 points of articulation plus two extras: the shoulder pads are also articulated and move upwards soo the arms can point up. This shoulder pads are actually made of very soft rubber material tough i got the feeling the point of movement is a little bit fragile and needs to be handled with care.

The rest of the articulations are ball joints except the cut joints from the biceps that only moves in one direction. The fore arms armor can be rotated soo it dosnt block on the double articulation on the elbows and the feet articulation works specially well to adjust the standing pose all the time.

The tail is bendy of course, and for the first time in this series the wings are articulated and open and close!! Of course, this are not normal wings, but they are delta wings like those of a plane soo they just open to the sides with an articulation on the point of each wings. This articulations are a little bit lsoe tough and the wings keeps ratling each time i am manipulating the figure. Anoying, but i dont think theres risk to brake them.

All articulations works really awesome except the head of course, just because....like the rest of the character, this Steel Clan member have hair?  A metalic mullet on the back on his head that is always in between the wings and dont let the head move too much. Is weird how obssesed was Xanatos to Goliath to even reproduce his hair on his toys even if it dosnt give it any tactical advantage.

The sculpt is fantastic, much more closer to the original design of the cartoon rather than the Kenner version, tough it also incorporate a lot of details of the Kenner version as well. The overall shape is correct as well as the color scheme, with black chest followed by a blue section and grey stomach, everythign is correct tough each piece is engraved with details not present on the caroton, like the bolts and different divisions on the legs and biceps or the engravings on the chest.

The spring design of the arms of the Kenner version is present here on the inside sections of the elbows as well as the abs design. The wings also seems more reminsecent to the old toy than the actual cartoon with the round shape they have since in the cartoon, once open the wings looks a lot like bat wings but in here they keep the rounded shape. I guess it was imposible to have both shapes in the same structure and they chose to recreate the closed wings more closelly.

Super 7 just released the Silverhawks, painted them entirelly in baby blue because is not posible to make them looks metalic thanks to the articulations...and and here is the Steel Clan Robot covered entirelly in metalic paint with 27 articulations. The paint is clean, very clean and totally metalic like i already say soo this figure shines...like A LOT.

I love how the wings refelect everything on them like a mirror, but with a close source of direct ligth the wings are like a lamp, only because they are the bigger structure here, because every section of the figure is reflective, even the bendy tail have metalic paint on it.

That dosnt meant the paint is plane, each crevice and bolt are painted in black soo they dont get lost on all the metalic silver, plus the black on the legs, hip, chest and shoulders is ligth enough to let all the sculpt been seen with no problem. The blue sections looks nice and i love the intense red eyes.

Since this machine is not expresive at all theres no extra heads, but theres four different pairs of hands: closed fist, hands to hold items, open claws and claws in sword shape and all of them can be exchanged pretty easy. The hands are my favorite part of the figure along the feet since i love those claws!! They are soo incrediblly sharp and the metalic paint only enhance the effect and the closed fist make the finger structure to also have shrap poits on the knuckles for some mortal and bloody punches.

I didnt take pictures of the hands that hold items because...he dosnt have anything to hold. I am surprised NECA added such extra hands. Maybe to grab Gargoyles tails??

He have his gauntlet blasters, one for each arm. The plate on his arm armor can be removed since it made with soft plastic and leave a small hole in the arm. The peg of the blasters fits perfectly and can be adjusted moving the entire armor piece.

Lastly he have 3 thruster blast effects, made with transluscent orange plastic with some red tones, the biggest blast effect attaches to the thruster on his back and the smaller ones on the base of his feet. They fit perfectly and attach pretty easy for an extremelly cool fliying effect.

Sadly, theres no base in here and find a base capable to hold this guy is a feat, given how big and heavy he is and also the tail, thruster and wings on his back keep all normal base out of cuestion. I really strugled to take this pictures and i even used my strongest bases but i am sure after a few hours they could snap under the heavy weigth of this guy.

I love this blast effects but i cant see how use them without a custome made base.

This guy is such a classic concept from the 80s and 90s cartoons, an army of robots based on the protagonist is such a cliche from back then but this robot is just way too cool looking to be ignored. Of course he is the less important character in the end and the strongest point of him is being displayed with a bunch of other Steel Clan Robots in roder to build...well, an actual Clan. All for hismelf looks kinda odd.

Its a shame he is the same price as the rest of the characters tough maybe at some point i try to buy another one to bodyguard Xanatos but space is also a problem, this guys are not small. But anyway, i am really glad to have aanother villian of Gargoyles along side Demona and Thailog but NECA is really taking a risk by not releasing Xanatos along side his Steel Clan Robots.