Name: Tor-QenTM
Subtitle: blade-whirling warrior
Line: KR|Enmity
Item type: action figure - Nº 12 in the line.
Character details
Name: Tor-Qen
Real name: Eq-Tor
Classification: mutant human
Sex: male
Home: Tahron
Era: 20 years before Foundation
Affiliation: Dark Legion
Rank: ensign.
Background
First appearance: KR|Enmity #1 - Flares of enmity
Brief bio: an outlier and labourer who showed the mutating effects of the chemical weapons deployed during the Reptonoid domination of O-Kin, Eq-Tor was upgraded to a violent gladiator by Wordron, using vicious bionic body parts of his creation. Renamed Tor-Qen by his friend Labramar, he carried a gigantic chainsaw with shooting toothed wheels, and a spinning drill bit, with which he enjoyed nothing more than fighting in his master's arena and slaying his foes like a fury. Tor-Qen was killed by Tir-Hing during one of such hand-to-hand fights and, eventually, his whirling technology was transferred to the Flail-FlingTM, a devastating vehicle that became a key tool of the Dark Legion in their fight against the Therioms.
Articulation
Standard, except that the wrists are ball jointed.
Description
Head: he wears a light-green oxidised bronze helmet with a half mask, a number of curved golden spikes bordering the flat skull-cap and a neck guard composed of multiple overlapping bronze lames. A gullwing-shaped glossy purple visor covers the eyes, while the mouth is wide open to form a rectangle (exposing the teeth as a sign of combativeness) and is surrounded by reddish skin
Body: reddish skin, exposed arms and legs
Wearables: a bronze armour with light-green details, two segmented (i.e., made of overlapping bronze plates) bracelets, two segmented bronze boots with diamond-shaped knee guards, a spiked bronze belt and a segmented loincloth made of overlapping light-green oxidised bronze plates (reused from Strictriss). The armour's armholes are edged with curved golden spikes (which are more prominent over the shoulders), while each bracelet displays a round golden cooling vent at the side and each knee guard carries three projecting prongs.
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| Tor-Qen's stylised armour. |
Action feature
By default, instead of hands Tor-Qen sports two giant bronze "motorised" weapons: a long geared chainsaw on the right and a rotating drill bit on the left (of course the positions can be exchanged to one's liking). I love the insanity that is sometimes injected into Key Raiders, and Tor-Qen’s butchering extremities may be the craziest I've seen so far. The nasty looking, kidney-shaped chainsaw can be disassembled by removing the three spinning gears from one side of the guide bar (onto which the golden cutting chain is sculpted), so they can be used as shooting saw blades. The drill bit is conical and has a blade-like tapered golden screw thread.
Weapons and accessories
Since the guys at PoliganToys thought that Tor-Qen wouldn't look menacing enough, they decided to include an alternative toothed wheel that features a dual hatchet-whipper. This is meant to replace the furthest away chainsaw gear, in order to add an extra element of viciousness in the form of two swinging axes attached to two diametrically opposite points of the bronze wheel; each hatchet is composed of a curved light-green chain (sculpted, not real) and a golden cleaver blade with a serrated cutting edge. This really looks great and completely ridiculous in an amazing way!
Additionally, Tor-Qen comes with a pair of swappable bronze cybernetic hands, which are, I imagine, much more practical in most situations. Update: a pair of swappable milling cutter-hands will also be included.
Final thoughts
Character value: ♦♦♦ I usually like most of PoliganToys’ decisions when it comes to secondary characters, and with Tor-Qen it's no exception. I think they made a good choice in including this figure in the line
Articulation: ♥♥♥ This is what you’d expect from a standard KR figure
Sculpt and paint: ♣♣♣♣ He is a completely bizarre action figure. The interesting combination of man and machine gives him a very unique look on the shelf
Accessories: ♠♠♠ His prosthetic weapons still seem a little too big for my liking and even though that is his primary selling point, I might go ahead and give him the extra set of hands. Too bad the milling cutter-hands briefly shown in the comics were not included
Playability: ♪♪♪♪ He actually looks pretty terrific displayed alongside the other Dark Legion members, something I wasn’t expecting, and I’ve had a lot of fun playing with him
Overall: ☺☺☺ Tor-Qen is not the best in the KR|Enmity line, but he’s well above the average. The idea is not new, but it's still interesting, and the folks at PoliganToys did a fantastic job of making it part of the line.
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