LEXINGTON

 NECA is deffinetly on a crazy race latelly, completing all the series that promised two years ago in just a few months!! Elisa and Xanatos just came a few week ago and here is Lexington already, closing the Manhattan clan at last. I still find it hard to belive that the Steel Clan Robot came out before Lexington or even Thailog but, while the wait was pretty weird, here he is at last!!!

And i was actually extremelly interested in this figure to see wath kind of design and enginering NECA would use on him, since for years they only show pretty limited photos online and all of them didnt reveal too much. This is a figure that deminds a lot of creativity that even Kenner didnt manage to handle back in the 90s.

Lexington is tiny, like...really tiny, much more than Elisa and Xanatos and almost as small as Bronx but deffinetly much more thin and ligth weigth. But of course, he is the same price as the rest of the figures.....but anyway, this small size makes him easy to handle and pretty easy to display him fliying around, this is the most fun figure of the entire collection to play with.

He is articulated on the head, torso, waist, shoulders, biceps, elbows, wrists, legs, knees, ankles, half feet, tail and wings. The tail is pretty small and bendy like always, but is more than enough to handle the weigth of the figure and helps perfectly to make him stand. All other articulations are ball joints and have the impresive freedom of movement as always and since he have no hair, his head can move a lot, more soo than any other figures in the collection.

Now here is the thing; the wings. Lexington wings are very different to the rest of the clan, they conect from his legs to his arms and all around his torso like a fliying squirrel. Kenner could not handle this and did his wings separate to his arms to not sacrifice arms articulation, but NECA managed to stay true to the original design and conect the wings from thigs to a "long finger" conected to his back and then it reconects again to his foreamrs.

The wings are made of a pretty thin and soft plastic, a first for the collection and it folds and curls around once the arms and legs are moved tough not entirelly. I mean, the legs conection dosnt block the movement, but the forearms conection make his arms movement kind of troublesome once the elbows are bent. Also moving up his arms is very tircky since the wings make a resistance since is not elastic at all. 

Also the wings keep pulling his forearms and twists his elbows articulation in a pretty alarming way. I hope this articulations are strong enough to not broke eventually but i got the feeling the elbows are a point to be carefull with. But in the end, i cant see how to make a figure of Lexington without this kind of issues, this is the best any company could do with such a design.

The sculpt is fantastic. This is the most cartoony design and the character with the biggest eyes soo far but while they keep this features, he fits perfectly fine with the look of the rest of the series. His face features are pretty sharp, specially on the section on top of his eyes and the ears and this guy deffinetly is the one that looks more like a vampire

The body have a pretty impresive musculature build, despite the small body frame, he is ripped and that makes him looks as menacing as the bigger gargoyles. The arms are much longer than usual but i guess this is natural since they are his wings after all. The veins on his arms, the wrinkles on his feet, aged texture on his loincloth, this are all the details that looks even more impresive with the small scale of this guy and the wings, despite the difference of material, share the same scaly/leather texture the other wings have with some veins inclided and on both sides.

The paint is great. Every peice is cast in green plastic soo the skin color looks natural and match each other, but theres is also a dark green wash and airbrush to high ligth every muscle and give it volume. The shadowing on his face looks really good as well tough, the little fangs are not that well painted and some of the eyes paint is kinda sloppy, wich is weird given how big the eyes are.

The blue on the loincloth includes a ligther grey wash that gives it the looks of a pretty old and ancient piece of clothing, looks dusty and dirty and the holes on it helps a lot to make it looks natyral. The wings have a pretty ligth brown color in the internal side with some darker shadows soo the veins and scale texture dont get lost and in the external side it have a darker brown paint mixed with a little bit of metalic finish soo the skin shines with a soft supernatural iridesence. This kind of details are wath make this figures soo amazing.

Aside of the closed fist hands he comes with two extra pairs of hands, one claw shaped and another one to hold accesorys. Sculpt and paint is consistent and they are pretty easy to exchange despite the peg being extremelly thin and looks fragile.

The extra head have Lexington in attack mode with his open mouth and eyes with no pupils. Of course without the cartoony pupils, those huge eyes are really menacing and the sculpt with the open jaw shows up the muscular structure of his skull pretty nicelly. I love the tiny piranha fangs as well as the small tongue inside but while the red paint on the tongue is perfect, the small fangs are pretty messy looking.

He also comes with a headset. Is pretty simple looking and painted only in grey and black but it fits his head perfectly. The earbuds enter into his hears and the speaker is just in the rigth place for his mouth, also they are pretty easy to fit but they dont fall from his ehad since the earbud inters pretty deep into his ears.

He have a remote controler as well with a big antena and two sticks, one for up and down movement and another one for left and rigth movement and a red button on the center. Looks cartoony but fits on his hand perfectly and i am not sure from where this is remote....is his toy car remote i think? Is pretty sad they didnt include his actual toy here tough.

And this is all about usefull items, now the useless acesorys: Kenner gives him a silly looking crossbow back in 1995 and NECA is repeating it recreating that same crossvow despite this thing never been on the actualy show. The design is extremelly cool looking and medieval, with a wooden center part and metalic sections with spikes and a chain as shooting mechanism. The chain is a real metal chain and the wood section looks pretty realistic and almost makes me wish they included this weapon on the show.

It fits nicelly on his hand as is smaller than the Kenne rversion making it less silly deffinetly. Very out of character but a pretty damn cool accesory for some other figure. Also it comes with four arrows that, unlike the crossbow, dont have anything special despite eing extremelly small and delicate. The arrows fit inside the crossbow but they goes all the way inside the weapon and they are pretty difficult to take out. For such a beastly and big crossvow, the arrows dont fit it at all.

And thats it. Not too many usefull accesorys aside of the extra head but thr worst is the msised oportunity to add Hudson, Brooklyn, Angela or Thailog closed wings since Lexington is much smaller than Bronx, Xanatos or Elisa, closed wings could fit here perfectly and they would justify the high price as well.

Aside of the missing chance for the wings, i cant seem to find anything to complaing in here. This figure is really really good looking, works great and is a lot of fun to display specially fliying around. I huge improvement over the Kenner original and much more exciting than Elisa and Xanatos, but more important, its very exciting to have the Manhattan clana togetehr at last.

It was a logn wait, a really long wait, but they are finally together and display them interacting with each other, specially the younger ones, is really really special. Armored Xanatos is coming pretty son and next year we will get Macbeth, Gabriel and Coldstone but as nice as those characters are, they are side characters. For me, the final piece of the puzzle is Lexington. Now he is here and everything feels allrigth and complete.