November was a crazy month when it came to feeding my MOTUC Addiction. When all was said and done I wound up with four figures and an oversized beast and that doesn’t even count what I just spent on the Early Access Cyber Monday stuff. That left no monies for the Battle Ram, which is probably for the best since I would have had nowhere to display it. Anyway, today I’m going to kick things off with a look at the Club Eternia subscription figure, Tung Lashor.

Tung Lashor arrives in the usual Greyskull-decoed card. I can’t say I was all that excited to get this figure, but MOTUC’s offerings have a way of winning me over once I get them in hand. I’ve only recently started collecting the Snake Men from this line, but I’ve been buying the ones I missed whenever I see them at a good price.

In fact, flipping the card over and seeing the Snake Men themed collection of figures on the back, I’m actually doing pretty well. Tung Lashor and Snake Face are the only figures pictured that I didn’t already own and both of those arrived in this shipment. I even have a duplicate King Hsss sitting packaged on my shelf. I think I bought him by accident. The bio on the card doesn’t tell me much about Tung Lashor that isn’t already obvious. He has a tongue and he’s not afraid to use it, making him both a fearsome enemy and rather popular with the ladies. Let’s open him up and check him out!

Lashor is 100% day-glo colored badass! I can wrap my head around this guy’s proportions, but somehow he manages to be lean and a hulking at the same time. The body definitely doesn’t feel like the traditional MOTUC buck and works really well for the Snake Men aesthetic. Rather than go with a newly sculpted vest over the existing buck, Matty sculpted right onto the torso, and I think that’s a big part of what gives him his unique proportions. He has a snake emblem sculpted into his chest, along with his ripped six-pack and nipples… Snake Men have nipples!?! The hands and feet on this guy are also really cool. I like the three spindly newt fingers and the clawed toes that point in each cardinal direction. For some reason I remembered the original Lashor having a tail, but after some quick research I see that my memory is wrong. I like my Snake Men to have tails, but I’ll try not to hold it against him. Oh yeah, he also has a removable Horde armband.

The portrait features a pair of creepy yellow eyes on the sides of his head with a mohawk crest running between them. He’s got a number of fangs protruding up and down from his closed lips and… hey… where’s his tongue??? Oh yeay, Matty went with two different portraits for this guy. One with the mouth closed and…

One with tongue lashing action! Clearly this was the best way to go on the figure, although I’m not sure whether I’ll ever bother to use the regular head. Tongue Lasher needs to be displayed with his signature gimmick on display and that means using the head that has his tongue hanging out. Why does his tongue have a set of barbs in the middle? Who knows… why does the f’cking gardener have a robot elephant head? Because, Eternia.

And now we’ve come to my favorite part of any MOTUC feature, where I recount the same articulation that I’ve been doing for the last forty or so figures. The arms have rotating hinges at the shoulders, hinges at the elbows, and swivels in the biceps and wrists. The legs are ball jointed at the hips, hinged at the knees and ankles, and have swivels at the hips. The torso can swivel at the waist, has an ab crunch hinge, and the had is held on by a ball joint. The only thing I’m bummed about here is the lack of rockers in the ankles. Sometimes we get them, sometimes we don’t, but with Lashor’s huge flat feet, we definitely could have used some lateral rockers here.

In addition to the extra head, Tung Lashor comes with his crossbow and snake staff. The crossbow is patterned after a dragonfly and features rich metallic blue paint. The wings are really soft and rubbery and mine is pretty warped, but I still think it’s a cool weapon.

The snake staff is one that we’ve seen before. It looks black or dark blue and while I generally like the sculpt on it, the coloring doesn’t do much for me. It doesn’t feel like something that suits the figure, but rather something that Matty just tossed in to beef up his accessories. Either way, an extra staff is never a bad thing, eh?

I have virtually no affinity for the Snake Men as characters, but I have certainly been enjoying the figures a lot. Tung Lashor doesn’t blow me away like some of Club Eternia’s other recent offerings, but he’s certainly a solid effort and a worthy addition to my growing clutch of evil reptile men. He’s as unique looking a figure as you can get among the cast of weirdos that populate Eternia and Etheria and that alone makes him worthy of note. Would I have bought him if he wasn’t already part of my Sub? Probably. I find myself getting to be more of a completist as the line is coming to a close, a fact that has already cost me a fair amount of money during Matty’s Black Friday sale.

[Sorry, I couldn’t include a group shot with some of my other Snake Men, but as construction rages around my home, my MOTUC collection is inaccessible at the moment. Once I can get at those figures again, I’ll update with some more snaps.]