Name: Veq-SorTM
Subtitle: enemy-snatching warrior
Line: KR|Enmity
Item type: action figure - Nº 17 in the line.
Character details
Name: Veq-Sor
Real name: Al-Veq
Classification: mutant human
Sex: male
Relationships: cousin of Tor-Qen
Home: Tahron
Era: 20 years before Foundation
Affiliation: Dark Legion
Rank: sergeant.
Background
First appearance: KR|Enmity #1 - Flares of enmity
Brief bio: an outlier who showed the mutating effects of the chemical weapons deployed during the Reptonoid domination of O-Kin, Al-Veq served as a labourer for several years, while he also became a freelance thief willing to steal anything for the right price. Eventually gaining the moniker Veq-Sor, he enhanced himself by providing his arms with stolen robotic tools and preserving his deformed head in a cyborg helmet. When Wordron, following his self-proclamation as ruler, formed his own army, Veq-Sor joined his cousin Tor-Qen in bolstering the Dark Legion's lethality against the Therioms. Using his electromechanical scissor blades and pincer jaws, he relished striding into battle and fighting to defeat his enemies at any cost.
Articulation
Standard, except that the wrists are ball jointed and there are several hinged parts, i.e., a mouth guard, two hand-pincer jaws and two hand-shear blades.
Description
Head: he wears a tall metallic purple helmet with a full mask, cheek and nape protectors, and a forward-bent peak, which slightly recalls the Phrygian style. The helmet seems to be made of two pieces of sheet metal that are somehow connected in the middle (leaving a visible gap), while two serrated leaf-like upward steel riveted plates reinforce the crown on the sides. A vertical translucent blue visor (ending with a silver nose guard) covers a single eye-slit at the centre of the face mask, while a serrated leaf-like copper mouth guard can be moved up and down, to provide different looks by either hiding or showing the mouth, which is surrounded by grey, mildly bearded skin. He also has a "light-pipe" feature in the back of his crowned helmet, which makes his visor glow eerily
Body: his torso and the few exposed parts of his limbs show a grey, mildly hairy skin and several copper wires running from the various armour components into his flesh
Wearables: a copper armour with purple details, two copper shoulder guards (each with a spike sticking out of the side), two copper bracelets (with elbow guards), two copper boots (kinda claw-shaped and with knee/thigh guards) and purple shorts. All the metal coverings show lots of cyber details; in particular, the armour, together with the "toothed" shorts, slightly resembles a robotic skull, while each shoulder guard is connected to the corresponding elbow/wrist guard by a sort of silver exoskeletal device comprising cables and pistons.
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| Veq-Sor's stylised armour. |
Action feature
By default, instead of hands Veq-Sor sports two giant steel weapons: a pair of pincers on the right and a pair of shears on the left (of course the positions can be exchanged to one's liking). Both weapons have a lot of sculpted copper tech-mech details, such as wires and gears, and are articulated with a hinge joint on each jaw/blade.
Additionally, Veq-Sor has the ability to store up immense amounts of energy in his pincers, then burst out in an electrocuting action, knocking down his trapped foes. So, the figure comes with two translucent blue lightning effects that can be attached to the gripping parts.
Weapons and accessories
Apart from the lightning effects, Veq-Sor comes with a few more accessories. First up is the disc launcher that in the comics he uses to fling bladed discs towards the enemy. This weapon is meant to replace the pair of pincers, from which it fictionally originates, and is accompanied by two metallic purple discs with sharp silver edges. The cool thing is that the launcher really fires the discs! This is achieved by simply sliding one disc inside the mount and squeezing the levers on the back. Also, there is a purple wrist clip to transform a disc into a shield.
Additionally, Veq-Sor includes a pair of swappable copper cybernetic hands and a sort of metallic purple roll cage that connects to the front and the back of his armour, presumably to further protect his head from being injured during battle. Update: a pair of swappable lifting fork-hands will also be included.
Finally, the figure comes with a large copper removable belt that is decorated with silver rivets, a Dark Legion symbol (i.e., a diamond-shaped black gemstone, which, when looking deeply into it, shows a subtle discolouration resembling a demonic face) at the centre, two round purple, silver-edged plates hanging from the front (another one is on the back) and resembling the launchable discs, and two loops on the sides, which can hold two extra interchangeable pieces, i.e., shears, pincers or disc launcher, when not used.
Final thoughts
Character value: ♦♦♦ Veq-Sor is a fun and cool-looking character and, in my opinion, a fine addition to the KR|Enmity series
Articulation: ♥♥♥♥ Since his weapons are articulated with a hinge joint on each moving part, you can definitely get some very wide and menacing poses from them
Sculpt and paint: ♣♣♣♣ I really love certain parts of him. His cyborg helmet is great and the robotic armour parts work surprisingly well
Accessories: ♠♠ Like with Tor-Qen, where they failed, I think, was in not adding the construction hand-tools (lifting forks in Veq-Sor's case), to let people change the character to his pre-Dark Legion form
Playability: ♪♪♪ Opening and playing with him has made me like him as a toy more than I did when all I had to go on were a couple of panels in a comic
Overall: ☺☺☺ I think Veq-Sor will be one of those figures that make somebody sceptical at first, but after a while he’ll start to become a toy that fans of the line enjoy.
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