Clawful

SUMMARY:
Clawful, the "warrior with the grip of evil!", was produced in Hong Kong, Mexico (Aurimat), Argentina, Venezuela, France, Spain, and India. Clawful comes with a sprint-loaded claw that can grab and hold, as well as a removable breastplate, power punch waist, and mace weapon.

The Aurimat Clawful is characterized by its intense blue tones in the belt/boots, soft head, opaque red armor with bold, dark brown armor strokes, and a light skin tone that tends to color-shift to a gray-brown. 

This figure was released in the third year of the Los Amos del Universo production (1986). It was released with 2 different torso variants. A torso marked © MATTEL. INC. 1981 and a torso marked © MATTEL. INC. 1981 MALAYSIA. This is very curious, as Clawful was never made in Malaysia. The armor is simply marked with numbers (no COO markings) and a matching batch number 3 or 4. The mace can be marked with a batch number 1,2,3 or 4.

The mace comes in two versions. One is a standard, green mace, and the second is a much rarer salmon-colored variant. Both have the same semi-rigid consistency, and both tend to develop a virus in the plastic. 

The armor has bold strokes that vary from brown to very dark brown.

DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS:
1. Brown skin tones that decolor to grayish browns
2. Intense dark blue belt and boots
3. Opaque red armor with bold brown strokes

VARIATIONS:
1.  © MATTEL. INC. 1981 marked.
2.  © MATTEL. INC. 1981 MALAYSIA marked.

WEAPON VARIATIONS:
1. Green Mace
2. Salmon Mace

FIGURE MARKED: © MATTEL. INC. 1981 or © MATTEL. INC. 1981 MALAYSIA
MACE MARKED: Batch number 1,2,3 or 4.
ARMOR MARKED: 7016-2049 / 7016-2059 - Batch numbers 3 or 4 (usually in pairs)