Toy prototype details
Name: HerrionTM
(Horizon Edition)
Subtitle: heroic counsellor
Line: KR|Horizon
Item type: action figure - Nº 8 in the line.
Character details
Name: Herrion
Family name: AmhalgaardTM
Family name: AmhalgaardTM
Classification: human-primivod hybrid (but he looks completely human)
Sex: male
Relationships: non-identical twin brother of Desion (Masq-Lor), older
brother of Rhadiel (Fai-Rha), cousin of Nemhetra
Home: Tahron
Era: 15 years after Foundation
Affiliation: Theriom
Rank: Senior Advisor.
Background
First appearance: KR|Horizon #1 - The Destructomorph legacy
Brief bio: during his childhood, Herrion was abducted, together with
his twin brother and younger sister, by his uncle Ir-Ash and sent through a
mystic vortex created by Demo-Rha into the body of the future Destructomorph
leader. Many years later, Masq-Lor succeeded in separating his brother from
the defeated Deptilion, to whom Herrion had given much of his vital force
unbeknown to everybody. Once rescued from his long-lasting segregation, he
received the third prodigious helmet from Elykta, in order to channel the
same ancient power that Masq-Lor and Fai-Rha had been using to acquire
incredible abilities. After an arduous initial struggle due to a remainder
of Deptilion's wickedness left in his inner-self, Herrion swore to defend
the free people of Tahron alongside his siblings and ultimately helped
vanquish the Destructomorphs. Eventually, while serving in the role of
Senior Advisor, the threat of the Therioms' old enemy once more brought
Herrion and his siblings to one final conflict with the evil Nemhetra and
her army of dreadful creatures. By wielding their halberds and recovering an
ancient power hidden in their magical helmets, the three courageous warriors
could at last return to their mission in a glorious new form.
Articulation
Description
In the Horizon comics, it is revealed that each prodigious helmet holds a
sample of liquid alloy, which was hidden by Galamars after forging the
enchanted artefacts. When the liquid metal is combined with a tiny amount of
the helmet wearer's blood, a small
cyan
ball lightning
arises and creates a statue (called totem and made of the same
material as the helmets and halberds) of an animal, behind which there is a
sort of chair. When the helmet wearer introduces their halberd into a slot on the side of the totem, and sits in the chair with their hands and
feet positioned on apposite rests, a connector automatically inserts into
the helmet's socket, i.e., the hollow left after extracting the liquid alloy
vial. The wearer appears to lose consciousness, when in fact their
consciousness is relayed into a robotic avatar (called robatar) that
forms from the totem moments later. Herrion's totem is a sitting
lynx
and his robatar, which is the figure included in this pack, can be described
as follows:
Head: similar to the
White Ranger's helmet, characterised by a silver outer shell with a pair of cat ears
and a sharp-toothed mouth guard, a
golden-yellow
face shield with
cheetah-like blotchy black spots, and a glossy black visor surrounded by a cyan
glowing edge that is connected to two fierce feline eyes on the forehead
Body: protected by a vac-metal gold
cuirass
with black details, vac-metal gold gauntlets, boots (with knee guards) and
belt, and a black crotch shell. Besides these basic components, there are
various golden-yellow pieces of armour with cheetah-like blotchy black spots
to protect the rest of the body, such as shoulder guards,
rerebraces
and thigh guards. There is an impressive amount of intricate decorative
features all around the numerous components of this protective covering; I
especially like the small Theriom emblems engraved on the wrist and knee
guards, and the little gaps here and there that reveal steel tech-mech
details beneath the armour.
Both the helmet (with vac-metal gold frontal crests) and the cuirass (with
added Theriom emblem, i.e., a seven-pointed star with the two side points
elongated) display a few decorative details that recall
Foundation Herrion's outfit.
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| Herrion's robatar's stylised cuirass; the oval on the chest plate represents the Theriom symbol. |
Action feature
To simulate the retractile laser-like claws seen in the comics, a pair of
long cyan glowing blades (kind of reminiscent of
ULTRAMAN's specium blades) can snap into each forearm armour. Additionally, two
articulated flaps at the back of the armour on the calves can reveal a pair
of leg boosters with cyan glowing propulsion effects.
Weapons and accessories
Herrion's robatar comes with a set of accessories that are meant to update
Foundation Herrion, for representing his older version in the role of Senior
Advisor. The set includes three heads, a piece of armour with attached shirt
and cape, and two weapons. The first head, apart from having features that
make him resemble Masq-Lor, is characterised by cream white skin, thick
dark-brown hair and goatee with a touch of grey, green eyes and a thin gold
headband (I'm glad they took the approach that they did with the
minimal-yet-ornate circlet design). The other two portraits are identical,
except that they wear the silver magic helmet, one in its inactive form and
one that displays the bobcat visor activated.
The armour/harness is painted in shiny gold with black details (including a
gold-studded leather strap) and incorporates some permanently attached items
such as a
burgundy
shirt with glossy black buttons, and a burgundy cape with an elaborate
golden ornament that works as a loop to store one of his weapons at the
back.
The weapons include a halberd, which is one of the four components of the
Key (the one with the
blade curved outward) and the same halberd that belongs to Bi-Harr in the Foundation series,
except from being painted with some reddish-brown copper details here and
there rather than plain silver. The other weapon is Herrion's signature
battleaxe with a black haft and a broad silver blade; the blade's chipped
cutting edge is parallel to the handle and its tarnished appearance has been
rendered using black speckle added to the silver colour.
Finally, the figure comes with some great additional accessories: a
cyber-flying steed, an extra cyber-head and two pairs of interchangeable
hands that serve as the second instalment of the Build-a-Figure plan in the
KR|Horizon series. As explained previously, some of the action
figures in the line will come with a number of components needed to build an
even larger figure, specifically a heroic super-robatar that is shown at the
end of the KR|Horizon comic book series. The included creature
is a robotic version of
Zor-Kan, which in the comics also forms from the totem together with the robatar.
This figure features joints all over the place: hinged beak, ball jointed
upper neck, hinged lower neck, ball-hinged wings and hips, hinged knee,
ankle and tail, and swivel-hinged talons. It is, of course, an all-new
sculpt that resembles a mix between the Therioms' four-winged fighting bird
and
Jeeg's Big Shooter, and has a detailed metallic-red&silver body, a crest projecting from
its head, translucent orange feathers/anti-shock bodies
embellishing the two pairs of wings and the tail, and two overwing nacelles
that encase a pair of
podded jet engines
on the back and a pair of cannons with two separate missiles on the front.
The extra head (which is supposed to form from the robatar's body when
Herrion's bobcat visor is activated, and to become the left wrist of the
super-robatar) looks like a large scale,
Voltron-like robot lynx head, while the four hands (two fisted, one weapon
gripping and one splayed open) are painted in black with golden knuckles. It's worth noting that the two thruster panels on the back of the cyber-bird can flip down and the four hands can be stowed away for later use... or you can pretend to launch them for a devastating rear attack! As
promised, once I get all the necessary parts, I'll go into detail about this
super-robatar formation.
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| Senior Advisor Herrion's stylised helmet with frontal crests. |
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| Senior Advisor Herrion's stylised armour (worn over a shirt); the circle on the chest plate represents the Theriom symbol. |
Final thoughts
Character value: ♦♦♦♦ I make no bones about Herrion being my
favourite of the three siblings, and one of my favourite KR characters
overall. I love his characterization, and the fact that he rides a 4-winged
bird in the comics and in my action figure adventures makes him the tops for
me
Articulation: ♥♥♥♥ Herrion's robatar's articulation matches
Masq-Lor's one. The joints also work extremely well, allowing for a ton of
poses
Sculpt and paint: ♣♣♣ This is the same figure that was originally
designed to be Masq-Lor's robatar. Keeping that in mind, there is a lot here
that definitely feels like Horizon Masq-Lor and yet the figure has a very
unique look to it. All around, the vac-metallizing on the figure looks
fantastic, but there does seem to be a weird area where coverage is lacking
on the top of the left boot. Hopefully this doesn't lead to any flaking over
time
Accessories: ♠♠♠♠ The figure comes with what I would consider to be
all of his required accessories. I like the little chips out of the axe
blade - it adds a lot of character to the accessory
Playability: ♪♪♪ While there might be some issues with the paint for
me, the decent articulation and great accessories make for an exceptional
action figure with plenty of play potential
Overall: ☺☺☺☺ Herrion's Horizon edition is certainly good enough to
stand on his own, but I really hope that, given the current pandemic
situation, things will turn out right in the end and that Fai-Rha's robatar
will join her brothers' prototypes soon, so all of the Key protectors will
finally be together on the battlefield.
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