It’s also a rigid plastic that is somewhat light, but it’s still a lot for the figure to handle. It’s very well painted and looks fantastic. It’s there the cannister can be reattached to complete the illusion of the gun firing. When the cloud ends there’s just a long cylinder with another smoke trail wrapping around it before it ends in another blast. There’s a sculpted plume of smoke at the barrel with some sharp blasts behind it. ![]() It’s pretty big stretching to nearly ten inches and pegs into the barrel of the gun. The cannister at the end actually pegs in and can be removed and replaced with a blast effect. It’s simple, but it looks fine, and NECA has a little something up its sleeve with it. I assume it’s from the show, but I haven’t seen the episode featuring Thailog in awhile. It’s a smallish handgun, but it fires a cannister or missile. It’s disappointing that this couldn’t be addressed following the release of Goliath. The hair either needs to have room for the wing joint sculpted into it, or it needs a hinge. Turn his head too far and you’ll probably knock a wing out of the socket. His head is tilted down a bit and he can’t just look straight ahead, which is kind of annoying. The other drawback to these wings is they peg in under Thailog’s hair which restricts the movement of the head. My assumption is they looked at articulated wings during the development stage and either ruled them out for aesthetic reasons or cost ones, but it’s something that should be considered, at least. At least a more casual, standing, pose for the wings. I don’t know what the solution is, NECA is planning on including caped wings for Goliath with Bronx, but we need some more options. Standing on a shelf is not really what they’re made to do, but NECA doesn’t include a flight stand so you’ll have to buy your own or try to hang these suckers from the ceiling. Either way, it’s a lot, and it’s a position that really only works for gliding poses. ![]() Either they take up a ton of real estate going out to the side, or you can angle them back and distribute some of that behind the figure. They’re huge and they’re a hard plastic so there’s not much that can be done with them. The biggest criticism that has arisen from this line definitely concerns the wings. The good news, all of the good details Goliath embodied are captured here, but that also means the not-so-good aspects of Goliath are also still present. Either way, Demona is still coming (along with a bunch of others) and right now we have two figures released that look pretty similar to each other. That’s what I think happened, but I have no inside information, it’s just a theory that makes sense. ![]() That’s not an issue as why should NECA do anything different with the sculpt for a character that is a literal duplicate of another? It’s just that most companies don’t like to dip into repaints right away with a new line, but if the factory was running behind, it may have made sense to go right from Goliath to Thailog since the same molds are in use, nothing needs to be tested, and the machines don’t need to be refitted with the molds of another. Being a Goliath clone, Thailog is essentially the same figure as Goliath with only minor differences. I don’t know what NECA’s original slot for Thailog was in the grand scheme, but I don’t think he was supposed to be the line’s second release. Instead, he leap-frogged her, sneaking out to some stores in December with a wider release following in 2022. It was later in the year that NECA would show off Thailog, the villainous Goliath clone, which seemed to suggest he would follow Demona. NECA had indicated they had multiple figures sculpted and ready to go, and a teaser video following the Goliath announcement depicted the nefarious Demona. It being 2021 though, collectors were forced to be patient as delays seemed to impact the roll out of product. It had been decades since Gargoyles figures occupied real estate at the toy and hobby shops of America and fans of the series were eager to see what NECA had cooking. One of last year’s biggest announcements in the world of action figures was NECA’s acquisition of the Gargoyles license.
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