As I had mentioned in a recent Black Series review, I am just now opening all of these TFA era figures for the first time.  I’ve seen each of the new movies only twice, so I haven’t necessarily pinned down the identity of every background character.  As such, I had no idea who the heck this guy was.  I figured he was either on Jakku somewhere, or he was one of the gangmembers from the Rathtar scene.  I was wrong on both guesses.

This character was from Maz Kanata’s castle.  Hassks are apparently a sentient, but barely civilized, species that often do thuggish work around the galaxy.  Varmik was the name of one of the hassk triplets that were found in Maz’s castle on Takodana.  Not particularly exciting, but there weren’t that many cool alien designs with any significant screentime in The Force Awakens.  Is it any good?

The figure isn’t bad looking, actually.  The face has some character to it, although the paint isn’t perfect.  The body is a hairy mess, just like the on screen version.  It actually looks kind of like a wimpy cross between a Wookiee and a Lasat.  It has a slightly non-neutral pose (which I normally dislike), but I think it works here.  It stands solidly.  One problem with the sculpt is that the head, while actually on a ball-jointed neck, has close to zero mobility.  As such, this is effectively a 4POA figure.

The figure comes with a blaster, which it holds maybe a little too loosely.  It also comes with a weird accessory (1 of 3 that combine) which, on its own, is a jet pack of sorts.  However, it doesn’t allow this particular figure to hold the handgrips properly because his arms extend beyond the grips.

So the accessory interactivity isn’t great, and the figure has only 4 working points of articulation.  The sculpt is otherwise decent, and we like background aliens.  It’s about as reminiscent of a cantina alien as we’ve gotten so far from new media.  That alone compels me to give this figure a little extra subjective love, even though objectively it’s nothing to write home about.  5 out of 10.