SUMMARY:
The Mabamex Leech appears to be a figure that initially was developed with a huge amount of paint detail / complexity, but for some reason (cost-cutting measures maybe?) only applied certain paint masks to certain figures.
Lets start with the Torso. All variations are molded in a dark green, and have a red bat in the torso, as well as a brown belt. From here, you find that some leeches had an extra paint mask for the belt buckle, others had a light green mid torso paint (front), others had a light green mid-torso (back), and others still had an extra paint mask for the bottom half of the back button.
If we look at the head, all variations share the same mouth paint, but some have a mold for the nostrils and for the red at the end of the mouth.
If we look at the legs, all have black ankles painted, but some also have the bats painted red.
Lastly, if we review the left arm, some paint the shoulder pauldron orange (extremely rare) and add the red bat mask to the black arm band.
Only one variation appears to use the full complexity of paint applications, while all others used a portion of them.
FIGURE MARKED: © MATTEL. INC. 1984. MEXICO
WEAPON MARKED: USA
Due to the large variation of Leeches, I'm separating them between the black belt buckle variants and the non-black belt variants.
BLACK BELT (BUCKLE) VARIANTS:
1. 2-tone front torso, 2-tone back button, painted bats in boots, fully painted mouth and nostrils.
2. 2-tone front torso, 2-tone back button, unpainted bats in boots, fully painted mouth and nostrils.
3. 2-tone front torso, 2-tone back button, painted bats in boots.
4. 2-tone front torso, 2-tone back button, unpainted bats in boots.
5. 2-tone front torso, Unpainted bats in boots.
6. 2-tone front torso, Painted bats in boots.
7. 2-tone BACK torso, Painted bats in boots.
8. Orange Pauldron, red bat on black armband, 2-tone BACK torso, painted bats in boots, fully painted mouth and nostrils, 2-tone back button, 2-tone back side paint.
NON-BLACK BELT (BUCKLE) VARIANTS:
1. Painted bats in boots
2. Unpainted Bats in Boots
3. 2-tone back button with painted boots
4. 2-tone back button with unpainted boots
5. 2-tone back torso
If you have a Mabamex Leech variant not mentioned, please reach out to me here.
