WEREWOLF

 The werewolf horror genre is one of the worst ever....theres not many werewolf movies out there and even soo only a handfull of them are worth watching. I can count with the fingers of one hand the really good werewolf movies out there and thats really dissapointing but those very rare few good movies are soo damn good!!! And despite the years, they still hold as some of the best in the horror genere.

Thats why is not a surprise theres not much werewolf figures out there, while we have like 400 different Chuckys, Leatherface or Michael Mayers, theres not much in the toy department dedicated to werewolf movies aside of the Wolfman movie from Universal. It take theyr time but gladlly, NECA gives a first stemp and finally give is a Werewolf Ultimate figure from The Howling, one of those very rare brillant wolf movies.

This was one of my most hyped figures of last year and one that fits perfectly along the An Americna Werewolf in Lodon and the Dog Soldier wolfs (and i REALLY HOPE NECA do the Dog Soldier wolf someday too). In perfect scale with everything NECA does, this good boy is shoulders and a head taller than all other figures of the brand, just like a werewolf must be and theres no way he can stand on his own with such long legs and tiny feet soo he comes with a special base but i will take about that later.

This lycan is articulated on the head and neck base, shoulders, biceps, elbows, wrists, chest, legs, knees, half calf, ankles and ....feet? Or are the paws? Soo theres no way to complaing about articulations here since he is nude and nothing block them. Biceps rotate and elbows and shoulders have a very good range of movement while the neck is really long and have ball joints on both side; one conects with the body while other conects with the head and theres two different hair rings made of soft plastic that covers thins long neck section, soo the head have a huge range of movement to the sides, up and down (perfect to pose him howling to the moon).

Chest have a really good range of movement to the front and back while legs, somehow feel a little bit limited but i cant point exactly why. Knees bends very good, just the same as the kalf articulation and "ankles" while the feet can rotate. All this articulations are ratchet soo they are pretty sturdy and hard to bend but i am glad they are since this figure really does needs strong legs to survive....not like that McFarlane Manbat...

Sculpt is reaaaaaallly good, each strand of hair on his body follow the flow of his muculature structure on his back, arms and legs and the the way the hair flows and joint on the center of his chest and belly is just soo natural....like a real dog with long hair. Also the hair on his forearms and thigh hangs behind soo nicelly and his tiny tail is soo adorable. The small feet dont look human at all but dont looks like dog ar all and the hands have such amazing long and thin spidery fingers.

Theres a lot of hair hnaging from the sides of his face (this actually looks like....a long haired cat once in close look) and the size of the snout is perfect along side the tiny eyes and huge fox like ears that gives him a kind of demonic look since they looks like horns. Really the ears are giant but each part of the silhouette mathes perfectly that of the on screen animatornic and costume in the movie.

The tiny eyes are yellow and they have a mini small black pupil and i am surprised how perfectly are painted given the small size. The yellow fangs and red gums looks perfect along side the black lips and nise. The claws are yellow like the fangs and the hairless skin on the paws and hands are actually blue, pretty much everything else here is brown.

Like....a lot of brown and a toon of different browns. The color in the hair is very rich since it have an awful lot of darker and lighter browns perfectly combined in an extremelly natural way. I mean you dont see the different colors until you take a good look at them and i counted 6 different browns soo far along side the grey area in the chest. Everything mix soo perfect and each piece fits soo perfectly, this is one of the best pieces i ever seen on the history of NECA.

Accesorys theres not much but that is understandable. He comes with tree pairs of hands: one is completelly relaxed, one is claw shaped to attack and theres another one in the middle of this two. Sometimes is very hard to see the difference bewteen this hands but they are different and the paint job and sculpt is perfect on all of them and they swap very easy.

Then theres tree different heads: the standar head with the jaw closed (togh his lips are open to show his fangs), another ehad with the moith fully open and a third one with articulated jaw. While the sculpt and paint on the inside of the mouth of the open jaw head is fantastic, the articulated jaw head pretty much negates the other two. Really, why produce two heads with different face expression and a third head with both expression at the same time?

I am guessing this was done only to justufy the price because, aside of this theres nothing more to give to this Werewolf an accesory. Maybe bloody extra limbs?? But wathever the reason, i guess is better to have more heads than missing them. Plus this articulated jaw head dripping blood and looks soo damn good!! This is deffinetly the only head i need for display tough all of them can be swaped very easy.

And lastly is the base. Now theres no way this character cna stand with those werid shaped and small feet soo i am very happy NECA added a base, and not any base....this is a base that actually does work!!! The base consist on a circular transluscent plastic piece with a rod on the center and a clamp in the end. The clamp holds onto the Werewolf hip piece in the base and between his legs .... it holds him from the balls, literally.

I never seen a base like this from NECA before but it works and keeps the Werewolf standing no matter the legs position. But this feels so damn delicate....i mean, one mist be carefull soo the legs are posed to reach the ground soo the rod dont need to hold the entire weigth of the figure, but i am afraid to broke the rod or the clamp that holds the balls soo the addition or emoval of the base must be handle with extreme care and is really tricky and even with that i am not sure how much time this base will hold.

Soo this figure cant stand but thats to be expected thanks to his design and i am happy NECA made a working base just for him i just hope is not that delicate as it looks....aside of that, this figure is complete perfection, even with the lack of accesorys, articulation, sculpt and paint is just spectacular from every angle and makes me wish they give us a Dog Soldier wolf as well someday.

I think is not necesary to say how good this looks on display on any horro collection and how necesary it was for me to get this beautifull beast in my hands.