![]() ![]() The colors are distinct, bring out all the details of the sculpt, and help him stand out on the shelf while still clearly belonging with the Snake Men. His arms and torso are gray-or-lavender, with a mild green wash. Mattel has apparently learned from another company’s mistakes, because Snake Face’s Face Snakes are soft rubber, and can even survive getting stomped on by a very naughty kitty! I give Mattel a hard time when they screw up (which is often), but this time they really hit it out of the park.Īs far as his paint goes, Snake face is mostly cool grays, greens, and shades of purple, with some yellow and red for his eyes and the face snakes. Mine has snapped three times, because they’re brittle plastic. Seriously, NECA usually outdoes Mattel on everything, but they had the Tracker Predator, whose mask-tusks broke more often than not, and rarely lasted longer than that. His Snaked-out face expands on the vintage figure’s action feature – instead of tiny red pegs, these are huge snakes streaming out of his face, ready to bite! They are made of flexible rubber, which causes me to say: THANK YOU, MATTEL. The details are cood, and it sits nicely over his shoulders. As it is, it’s standard for MOTUC armor – not bad, but just a little thick, and he can’t hold his arms down flat against his sides…’course, neither can Draego-Man, or Fang-Man, or Stinkor, or Horde Prime, or just about anybody else with a full breastplate. male D&D Medusae are bald), and has a nice little detail of its own – his little green “ponytail” is actually the tails of the green snakes woven into his helmet! Little touches like this are what make these toys better than mere ’80s homages.Īpparently they had some trouble keep Snake Face’s armor thin and sleek enough to work, but thick enough to fit his action feature. Snake Face’s big helmet hides whatever snake hair he has (maybe he’s bald. His face is detailed and expressive, brimming with creepy malice in forms. I personally would have preferred if they used WHiplash’s thighs, which have ridges like Snake face’s shoulders, but this way is closer to the vintage figure. He has new arms with scales, fins, and snakes wrapped around his wrists, a new, scaly loincloth (chain mail?), and of course a new head. Snake Face actually doesn’t have much reuse – just Skeletor’s legs and feet, and Whiplash’s scaly torso. Sculpt & Paint: It’s amazing how well MOTUC figures recycle old parts and make original characters from them. There’s enough clearance between the snakes and the bubble that they shouldn’t be damaged, though. Seriously, they’ve got peg hooks and pictures of other figures in the line, which is funny because you can’t buy them from Matty anymore! Snake Face’s package looks fine (heh heh heh), and he’s packaged with his snakes-out face. You’ve got your standard USPS mailer, and then a plain white box with the figure’s name, and then a blister pack designed to fool you into thinking that these toys are sold in stores. ![]() ![]() Packaging: Snake Face is packaged just like everybody else… but you know, maybe a reader or two hasn’t seen these guys before, so here you go: Masters of the Universe Classics packaging is like a big cardboard nesting doll. In He-Man lore, the stone gaze is powerful enough to make him into King Hsss’ nuclear option, which his new bio reflects by turning him into Hsss’s right-hand man. The original figure sacrificed some articulation for it, but the mechanism was great. ![]() Snake Face has a pretty decent gimmick – when Snake Face’s Face Snakes come out, he can turn people to stone (like Medusa). Snake Face is all 4H, and Medusa was rough-sculpted by Eric Treadaway, though her sculpt was finished by another McFarlane employee You can see some of the 4H’s work in Medusa, though, especially when you notice that she and Snake Face have similar scale patterns. And yes, both were sculpted by the Four Horsemen… sort of. Speaking of such, Snake Face does look kind of good next to the old McFarlane Curse of the Spawn Medusa. Other Snake Men could be giant cobras or rattlesnakes or purple frogs (just what is Tung Lashor, anyway?), Snake Face is clearly based on the Greek Medusa, even though the original Gorgon was a girl. Mattel’s April Masters of the Universe Classics figure is Snake Face, the Medusa-esque lieutenant of King Hsss! If you weren’t a subscriber and didn’t want to risk Matty’s awful hassle-filled site, this is the time when you’d be deciding if you want him.Īs one of the Snake Men, Snake Face is a serpentine monster (gee, ya think?), though he stands out because of his surprisingly humanoid features. ![]()
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