Update 2:34 PM:  New pics added.

Unkar Plutt.  An ugly name for an ugly person.  The name fits the character, but does the figure fit your collection?  If your name is Randy, it’s probably not OK. 

Here’s a figure that may have been a bit tricky to find in stores.  I don’t think I ever saw it in the wild.  I got mine for HTS on the cheap somewhere along the way.  I actually enjoyed this character in the film.  Maybe it’s partly because it was Simon Pegg, but I liked him.  Unkar’s a jerk, and jerks need more screen time in Star Wars films. 

The figure looks good.  It has an impressive heft to it, as Unkar was a pretty big guy.  He’s got a simple outfit, but it’s got some nice texture sculpted in.  The chest/shoulder/back armor thing is a separately sculpted piece, although not removable.  The figure is painted well.  The best part about the figure is the face, which looks great, and is very similar to his on screen appearance.  His expression gives him a lot of personality, as does the mobility of his head, thanks to the neck articulation.  I didn’t think the head would move much when I first took it out of the package, but it actually works well. 

The leg and arm articulation points are standard.  Like many of the figures in the line, the legs don’t have a full range of motion.  However, there was a big, but strange, surprise here:  the right forearm has a swivel cut.  Why this articulation was added is a mystery to me.  A bigger question is, why only one arm and not both?  He can use this extra ability to hold out his hand for more money, face his hand downward to slide portions across the table, or he could hold his pistol like a thug.  Of course, he has a thug of his own, so he probably doesn’t intend to do much shooting for himself.

On that note, he has a pistol that he can grip fairly well.  The giant grappling hook nonsense cannot be held by this figure, rendering it useless with regard to Unkar Plutt.  It can just be a piece of junk that someone gave him in exchange for portions.  If I were him, I’d give, like, 2 portions for that garbage.  Then I’d have my thugs beat that someone up and take back the portions.  And I’d keep the grappling hook and hang it in my shop as a reminder to other desert dwelling idiots that I don’t need a giant nonsensical grappling hook.

So, for a 5POA (actually, 6POA) lump of plastic, this is a cool figure.  Unkar didn’t exactly have the flexibility of a Cirque du Soleil performer, so a little less articulation might actually be OK for this character.  I gave this a solid 5 portions.

UPDATE: after the tip from Faust via Disqus below,  I took images of the removable arm and claw interactivity.  It’s a neat Easter egg, and I upped the rating to a 6.