The mirror shades balance rather than slot on his face, and fall off easily, but they look good when they stay in place. His faux-leather hat has a real metal chain on it, and it fits his head nicely. Pretty basic accessories, yet they let him look like a real mischief maker. He also gets a mallet, previously released in the line, that feels like it’s real wood. The green one includes a towel with bendy wires inside, so it can wrap around him any number of ways.

The large splayed-out toes do wonders for the figure’s balance. Both come in the package with open claw hands, but include additional to hold their accessories. Aside from that, we’re talking ball-jointed neck, shoulders, elbows, wrists, ankles, severely restricted hips, and hinge knees. Neither Gremlin has a jaw hinge, though the green one has ball jointed ears. The oddest thing about the articulation is the lack of a waist or mid-torso joint, though in this case that would interfere with the WB tattoo. RELATED: Toy Review: Transformers The Fallen and Transmetal II Megatron Yet here we are still buying the merchandise, decades later. Joe Dante only made the sequel on the condition of complete creative freedom, and the whole thing is a big satire of corporate sequels. And that’s without even mentioning the large corporate logo tattoo on the green one’s chest. Their paint jobs make them stand out, however, with the green one marked like a frog, and the brownish one more of a desert lizard scheme. The two Gremlin figures here are the same basic figures as the Demolition two-pack, with the same body as the Brain Gremlin. For the sequel-based figures, like these Tattoo Gremlins, they do use the same base body, but the paint and deco gets pretty wildly different. For figures based on the first Gremlins film, they mostly looked all the same save Stripe, with his distinctive hair. Seriously, it’s amusing to think that these are essentially dress-up dolls - but monsters.

Especially when it comes to figures from Gremlins 2: The New Batch, there are a lot of color patterns to choose from, as well as dress-up accessories. NECA‘s Gremlins are a bit like Malibu Stacy for creature fans, though they tend to include a lot more than a new hat.

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