002 Lenny

Lenny is a punk rocker.

He is one of four G1 punks.  The others are Reginald, Syd, and Eddie.

Lenny's visual cue is always a spiked mohawk, a pierced right nostril, and a pierced lower lip.

He has many variants in G1.  He is also one of very few characters to have both an oversized G1 figure (from the RC boards) and a micro-figure (from the keychains).

His G2 figure is the G1 figure, now with static arms. He is positioned in a way that makes me think that he is swinging his arms back and forth.  It is as if he is moshing in a "circle pit" typical of hardcore punk shows.

There is a second G2 Lenny.  This guy has a helmet that is part of his sculpt (rather than being a separate accessory).  This figure is exclusive to the Downhill Dude playset, which also came with a version of Sumo San. 

Lenny's primary G3 figure seems a bit skinnier, and he is shirtless. Of course, he now has the bendable arms which are definitive of the G3 era.  He also has this odd hole in his mohawk.  I don't know why it is there, but it seems like maybe there were plans to stick some weird accessory through it.  At any rate, now you can hang Lenny from a necklace, or a backpack, or a ceiling fan, or a rear-view mirror (if you are weird like us). 

A second G3 Lenny sculpt came out in the Special-Ops series. Here Lenny takes on some kind of commando role.  I can't emphasize enough how ridiculous this series is.  First of all, there are these magnetic accessories that are so convoluted, ugly, and prone to becoming lost.  Second, they took the defining features of the characters and put them on the outside of characters' helmets. It makes no sense, but this is the gimmick.  When you remove Frank's helmet, you take off his defining neck-bolts.  When you take off Brad's helmet, you remove his Godzilla-like spikes.  However, Lenny is the sole exception to this gimmick.  They made him the way they should have designed the other figures. He has a helmet with a hole in it that slides over his mohawk.  He is the only one that they made the right way.  I still hate the concept of the series, but at least Lenny gets to keep his mohawk.