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123. Mythic Legions Horror of Einsamall Lore · The Euro Legions Podcast

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My wallet is sobbing. I can hear it.
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I can hear it in the hall now. It is breaking down crying.
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It turns out that Attila the arrogant soul.
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And so he's got a fake hammer. Oh.
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A fake? Yeah.
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Whoa. As I say, Dick.
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Welcome to episode 123 One 2-3. Look at that, it's easy counting
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and of the Allegiance podcast and Rich is back to talk about
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the wave. So you've had a week to Stew in
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it now. So we expect all your hot takes
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tonight. Oh.
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I have things written down Even so.
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That's great when he's written. It don't get me wrong, I
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couldn't print on both sides that I failed on that task, but
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I got. Written down.
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So the thing he takes back seriously is his quizzes.
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So, you know, yeah. Yeah, you can.
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Quite be more of. Literally, then, then you were.
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Expecting I did a quiz. I did a quiz this morning.
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We work as an icebreaker so I did a weather related quiz as
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the weather grimly hot here at the moment so.
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Oh, was it still we had a we had bad weather for this was kind of
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enjoyable. It's about 2627 here in Bristol
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today and that goes up to 29 tomorrow and then 31 Friday, 32
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Saturday, 32 Sunday. Yeah, something similar here as
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well, yeah. So we've got the bar in the
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garden and then with the paddling pools going out
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tomorrow so. Get the slap on.
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Get sun cream on. We've got the gazebo of the top,
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so that should hopefully, yeah, limit the sunny exposure.
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Do you wear do you wear a little hat when you're in the sun,
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Rich. I always wear a hat.
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Yeah, I am sensible. Also my dad had their blessing,
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had skin cancer on his face. OK, 3.
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Different times. So there's definitely a warning
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there, So. Yeah, yeah, you definitely, you
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definitely know the benefits of. Yeah, I'm not sure, I said on
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the show once, so I'm not, but yet he had some on his nose and
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had taken off and it was fine, but he had some on his ear and
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they had to cut a little bit of his earlobe off just to get rid
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of it. They were like, because your
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ears quite thin, we'll just cut it off.
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So we were going up there a couple of weeks later.
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So I said to my daughter, I was like, look, granddad's had a bit
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of his ear cut off. So, you know, don't say anything
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about it. You know, just just pretend it's
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not there. Don't worry about it.
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Be cool, be cool. So we get there and we walk in
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and then there's the hugs and everything.
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And then we sit down and I'm like, bloody hell, dad, even
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some of your rear cut off, it's still bigger than most people's.
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To which everybody just fell about laughing.
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And my daughter, like he said, I couldn't say anything.
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It's like that's the difference between a grandchild saying it
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and a tricky son saying. Yeah, you can do that to me.
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Yeah, basically, yes. And she does.
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She's been. Doing that ever.
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She does, yes. Yeah.
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So yeah, you enjoyed our show last week.
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Then without you, we had Luke and Gian on.
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Thanks to those. Guys, it was good without me,
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obviously, but yeah, it was it was enjoyable.
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Yeah, we left people. With the two of them did a good
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job. We left people with your
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opinions to look forward to and obviously we didn't go through
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the lore so that we will be catching up on this week.
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And so if you like Mal reading BIOS, if you like rich hot
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takes, and if you like me not talking so much, then I think
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this is going to be the episode for you.
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Stick it on repeat, everybody. Here we go.
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Yeah, this should be our new format.
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John, shut up. Let the guys talk.
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Speaking of, when you guys were recording last week, can I just
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say heads of state on I think it's Amazon Film with Idris Elba
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and John Cena. Excellent, really good fun.
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Yeah. OK.
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I watched it on Monday when I got back from my trip because I
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didn't want anything with too much thinking to do and it
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struck me as being and yeah, it's, it's pretty good fun,
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isn't it? Like.
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It is. It's just good fun.
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Yeah. Play the British Prime Minister
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and the American president and someone tries to kill them, so
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they're on the run, Right. And yeah, it's just like a
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comedy buddy act sort of thing. Very good film.
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Yeah. That sounds fun, That sounds
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fun, and that's all. So you had the romantic date at
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home then? We went out for the afternoon,
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toured around a lovely stately gardens up about an hour from
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here. The drive was hellish, it was
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about 45 minutes of single track roads.
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So I will not be going back no matter how nice the place
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yourself was. And then we got a big Curry take
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away and watch the film so. Sounds good, sounds good.
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Sorts of good. Yeah, yeah, that's so exciting.
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We get an RHF. Yeah, basically, like, shall we
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go out for a meal? And then it was like, no, it's
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expensive, let's just stay home. No, that's the equivalent of
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like all night nightclub until 5:00 AM in your in your 20s, you
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know, basically, Yeah, yeah, that's that's the the 40s
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fifties equivalent. Yeah, right.
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A little bit of news. We had the cosmic head packs.
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Look at them beauties. Looking good.
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They are, yeah. Yeah, like there's a lot.
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So they revealed them packaging samples.
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So they'll be on the way to the studio soon from China.
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And then I suppose you budget a couple of months, they should be
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shipping them out along with. So there was these head sculpts.
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So you got the the Kragner Dragon, which is called the
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Dragon Seer got the serpent soldiers, which goes with tiger
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blue. So that's the snakes in blue
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basically cosmic ladies, Dysfaxian helmets and the grey
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Bourne. So that's what you're getting.
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They all go with different wave one figures basically.
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I mean the cosmic ladies, I think any female cosmic build
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they'll work on and maybe even mythics as well, your female
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Knights, etcetera. Especially if you don't, if you
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don't need to match them to, you know, a skin tone, you know
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which, which is what you know. There's only a couple of figures
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like Cassia maybe and Juno and those which would.
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Those those are definitely mythics for me.
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Hashtag keep Cosmerian human prey.
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Did we not already break this rule?
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Well, it's just like, it's like a little dent in the rule.
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Is that the Fisher ricer? Well, no, he's not human, but
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I've got a I'm using the ATL 20 fives as some.
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That was this. Although I'm embarrassed now
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because Mark's doing such a good job of making his own that you
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know whatever I do now will just look ridiculous.
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But there we go. If you get him to paint them
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it'll be fine. Yeah, but he painted the first
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head that I've got, so that's. Fine, yeah.
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Then you're you're ahead of the game there.
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So that's basically the news we can get into.
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We had some stuff on the shield as well, the new type of shield
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that we can get into when we get to talking about those figures.
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But shall we crack on then with the wave?
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And I mean, I guess First things first, first Rich overall, what
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did you think of the wave? I absolutely loved it, really
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loved it. I thought it was an excellent
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wave. A couple of mining niggles, but
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only minor things I liked. I liked a couple of reveals so
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much that I was actually heard cheering and whooping from the
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backroom here when I was watching on catch up point.
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My family were like, are you all right?
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And then they sort of, oh, for God's sakes.
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And I was like, it's a gnome, It's a gnome.
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So he likes to know, that's for sure.
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Yeah. Did you, did you manage to watch
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the The Reveal show before actually looking up what all the
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figures were? Yes.
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It was the first thing I did. Basically for all I'd want to
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work the Thursday morning sort of things, I worked the morning.
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So yeah, just ignored everybody popped the reveal special.
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And so you heard Mal on the thing.
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You'd already heard that though. Yes, I've heard that a couple of
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times. Yeah, but we're still exciting
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to see actually on their on their stream.
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And when they said there was comments, I went back and sort
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of looked at the live comments sort of thing it's going
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through. And she's all these just like
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Mao, Mao, Mao. Yeah, that was great.
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It seems good and really well with everybody.
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So there they are anyway, the the wolf.
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What did you think of werewolf? I mean, you were.
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Are we are we diving straight in?
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No, I like over this is still overall but.
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Overall I really like the Wolf 1 little niggle round of the size
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of the wolf, but otherwise I really like him.
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Right. Too big for you?
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Yeah. I was hoping for brute scale
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because while the ogre one's very cool, it's a bit too big
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for what I was hoping. Right, fussy.
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Fussy huh? Although.
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It does make him big enough to fist fight a polar bear, so.
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True, yeah. I mean we'll see in the buyers,
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but they kind of build it up, you know that.
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Oh, is it the polar bear? Is that's the that's the big
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beast. And then I mean, maybe you had
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to go bigger than with the with the werewolf.
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Yeah, yeah. And you get your wind idea.
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The cockler in in that other wave, so in the.
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Well, in no way, shape or form am I disappointed.
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It's just that in an ideal world might have had a brute scale one
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right? Then in an ideal world I'd have
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had an accessory pack that was limbs strewn all over a snowy.
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So you know, you can't always have what you want.
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Judge, I went back and watched the reveal show again, just in
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prep for this show. Obviously didn't have as much
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time before the last one. And Eric did actually say that
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his idea of werewolves are always that they were sort of
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vocal scale. And the point is made that this
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is not a lichen thrope. This is as well.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So this is a wolf, a giant human
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humanoid wolf. So there's still room for other
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types of wolves, werewolves, so definitely.
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But you know, I'm never going to complain.
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Anthropomorphic character getting in and I've been banging
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the drum for werewolves for so long, so very happy.
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But now they have some more Ogre scale tooling with different
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type of stuff on it. So we're definitely going to get
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some other creatures of that scale, you know, change up a
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head, maybe the feet, and you could make a different type of.
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I'll tell you what that that yak boy from house, the noble bears
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in trouble when I get my ogre scale werewolf.
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It's steaks for dinner, boys, Steaks for dinner.
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Who's that? That's bad Where you mean?
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No. No, the, the I can't remember
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the I can't remember the name of the character.
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Oh. Yes, the Rigerian is it.
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Yes. Something like that.
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The one that they teased, the box art?
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Yeah. He's getting Bob.
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Yeah, yeah, sorry. Yeah, I had forgotten there was
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a yak, but then I remembered his name.
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Hopefully got it right. That's very well done.
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Well, let me, I'm just guessing. Your first mail before you,
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Yeah. Yeah, Rigarian.
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Oh yeah, John, that was nicely remembered.
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OK, let's let's do some BIOS then we can and we can talk a
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little bit more more about them. So the first we do them in the
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reveal order. Yeah, because I guess that had
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some logic to it for the BIOS. So I'm going to.
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That is how I did it on my bit of paper.
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You're welcome. Well, before we get into the
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buyer, who's actually, should we talk about the fact that there's
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a new faction or do we want to talk about that?
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Yeah, yeah, no, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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So it's the unsworn N folk and they've got a very good.
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Catch all, isn't it? Yes, well, that's it, isn't it?
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They're going to. I think we'll find some of the
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characters that initially go into there maybe such as a
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werewolf or wolf. Enrique might end up in the
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factions after Oh no, that in fact he ignore that he's in the
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he's not actually in a faction. He's in the factionless bit of
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the website. So I think there's another thing
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to cut. Well, they pretty much said,
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didn't they? There's more.
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Well, yeah, whatever. Chained him up a muscle them is
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yeah yeah is going to be a new faction isn't out of thought.
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I think it's very cool faction symbol as well.
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It looks as sort of got an owl. Shape yeah, they're little kind
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of owl it's like it's almost like an owl bear type of look or
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something here and. John to read the little bio for
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the faction. Absolutely yeah.
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With a history that stretches back to shortly after the First
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Great War, the unsworn N folk descended from the people who
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journeyed to the in hospital hospitable northern region of
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Mythos to begin a new life in the aftermath of the war.
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Led by the wizard named Morrow's dead spell, these people aim to
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create a life away from the dramas and violence that had led
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to the near destruction of the realm.
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Making their home in the icy tundra of the far north, these
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resilient people founded the settlement named Eisenmahl, and
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they lived largely insulated life since those early days of
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the realm. So there's a spoiler in there
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already that isn't this reveal. Yeah.
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So there's a different character we haven't got.
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Yeah, yeah. Did.
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I didn't notice it. But did they say anything about,
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you know, another wave related to this one in the future or?
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Yeah, they they pretty much suggested that there'd be more
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of this part of the story and this horror of Eins and mold to
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come. And actually the end of that
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they didn't read in the reveal, but on the website now the end
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of garment garment the story is that something else, doesn't it
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spoiler it's. An open, open ending yet?
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I wonder if that will be potentially the G con wave they
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introduce wherever had him kidnapped him in prison sort of
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thing is there? Yeah.
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It's possible, isn't it? Or he's escaped and well, he
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obviously he's escaped from somewhere, right?
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And yeah, just just quickly there pop up so you can just see
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which characters are in this in this faction.
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So you got the the two in scale. So Burris and Byler, he got his
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Buren the Polar bear and Jackal Iron Bones his his boss, so to
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speak. Is it just me or is it weird
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that they've got the grizzly head on the picture they're
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showing on the website? That's not the grizzly.
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Head. No, that's the polar bear head,
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Yeah. It is weird how it looks so
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different in that pose. I agree with that one.
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Is that definitely the different?
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That's not that head. The nose is different.
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It is. You know, it's it's that head.
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Look at it. Unless maybe it is, maybe it's.
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Differently from the side, but. But the ears are smaller, aren't
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they? Maybe it's the grizzly head.
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That's that's we don't we don't get the close mouthed.
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Now the ears are different. If you look at the ears on the
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grizzly and the ears on him, so they're bigger on there and then
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you look at him, he's got little, little ears.
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And then if you go back to the. He looks very, I mean, we're
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going off track here, but he looks very grumpy in that the
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main picture, and he doesn't look nearly as grumpy with one
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of them standing up. I know what you're saying though
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and I did think the same thing, but I'm sure I.
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Think, I think this is a grizzly, but we can we can talk
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about it another time. Do you think Trevor's cheated
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and just made the picture of what?
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They would have had. They would have had to provide
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him the painted head. He's hardly going to do
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Photoshop to make that. Because they said they said they
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did one pole of their head. So that head on the standing up
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is not the same head as that one.
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Right. I'm willing to bet 10 whole
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English pounds on that. OK, well, I know what you're
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saying because I did that, but I just came to the conclusion it
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was just because of how it was sat on the, you know, the new
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neck piece. Yeah.
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Yeah, OK, Jeremy, when you when you hear this message, not Rich.
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A message and tell him he's wrong, you know, and tell him
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he's booted. Duty bound to tell us, right?
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Let's get back to Halvar. The story off so sorry just did
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anyone else when they first saw this figure in and I saw it
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mentioned in the cabal and in the midweek.
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Oh, run Twinning, Yeah. Yeah, immediately think of run
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twinning because I did. I could see it, absolutely.
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Goes by either Bjorn on Facebook.
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That's it, yeah. He's one of, he's one of the my
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wife's going to kill me crew. Basically their extended local
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crew. Yeah, exactly.
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Old friend of Travis. And he's going to be at Legions
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Con this year as well. That's what I'm saying.
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So that's really. Good.
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I mean, he's an easy cosplay there if he wants it.
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I think we'll see it. I think we'll see it.
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He got me very drunk at the first legions con we went to on
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that Mead he had. Oh dear me.
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Stay away from the Mead. It's dangerous, so dangerous,
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right? Anyway, let's, let's read, let's
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get to the bio, right? Halvard A froth far.
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Halvard is one of the fiercely loyal and brave warriors who
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followed Atlas the Conqueror from Bjorngar's Great Mead hall
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Froth Far to the fight in the Second Great War of Mythos.
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Since the end of that war, Halvard has served as an envoy
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from the House of the Noble Bear to the Legions of Light
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stationed at the Castle of Four Sides.
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He's there when the report from Einsammal arrives.
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He volunteers to join the adventurers that are sent to
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that remote northern settlement to investigate reports of a
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nameless horror that has been terrorizing its residents.
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No strangers or the dangers of the frozen.
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N Alvard of Frothfar is prepared to face whatever nightmares
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Einsammal has to offer. So we start off strong with 1000
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noble bears, so that's good. We absolutely do.
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Not right, Rich. Well, yeah, I have to admit,
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when they said some of them fled and were killed, you know, I was
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hoping that he was one of them. But no, apparently not.
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But he's such a cool looking figure.
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He is and he gets away with it because he's wearing lots of
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clothes. If he was he was there in a
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nappy and bare chested I'd have more of an issue with him.
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But you're like. Kings, you still don't know I.
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Feel like the likings? It's a fantasy, Barbarians.
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You're not so fussed about it, isn't it?
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Yeah. We we still don't know what's
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under the soft goods. So what torso it is we do.
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I actually made a note, yes, I made a note because it was shown
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during the reveal by Joe Vasopola because they had Joe
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doing like, you know what? That's it.
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Yeah. Joe Cam, that's it.
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So it's the, like the cloth tune, not, you know, the fake
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cloth tune that used to get the original lights.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's a blue colour to match
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the arms, right? So yeah, yeah, I thought I'd
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clarify that. Now that you say that rings
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about it, yeah, yeah. OK.
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And Rich you, is this a multiple figure for you or?
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Yes, I think so. Definitely at least 2 with all
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the soft goods that gives so much options for stuff.
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Also, I really like both head sculpts.
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Yeah. They're very crafty that a
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second head sculpt is like well goddamnit, I need that one now
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as well. I thought you might like that.
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Yeah, but now I, you know, it is a Vikings.
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I can say I really like it. I hope the ponytails movable.
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I know Jeremy said he wasn't sure that it would be or not,
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but that would be great in terms of pose ability and that sort of
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thing. Basically it's just the risk of
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it being more brittle at that joint, isn't it?
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It'll be a small plug. Yeah, because you'll get
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immediate will break it straight away because I didn't do it
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properly and then straighten the cabal going my my air broke.
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And I'm not saying that like that because I'm jealous because
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I'm bored. I'm just.
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And we got a new type of shield here, yes, attachment.
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So this is interesting. It's a kind of, it's a handle.
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Plus we can see how it works here.
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It's kind of grainy image, yeah. Sorry, that's my terrible
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picture taken. So I tried to describe it last
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week but didn't do a very good job.
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So that's so the handle that he's holding is the normal
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handle that's on the back of a shield.
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And it will be, it plugs in either where it is there or
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there's another, you know, the male part of the plug underneath
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where it is there. So you can do it right-handed or
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left-handed. And then it doesn't clip on the
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arm. It just sort of sits either side
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to keep it more stable and, and, and give it a more, you know
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what Shields tend to look like really, isn't it?
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Yeah. And that makes sense, not
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clipping because then it should fit more.
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Yeah, I know they're all roughly the similar sort of size, all
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the forearms. But you know, for those that
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covers that, doesn't it? Prevents rub as well, doesn't
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it? Yeah.
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Yeah, I still say magnets would be the way forward.
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Well, that's this might work even better with the magnets.
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Yeah, that's what I mean, a magnet between this piece and
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the shield. Yeah.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. That would be, but it's very.
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Clever. And they said on the reveal,
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didn't they? You can get so much more in
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terms of pose ability and, you know, different angles with the
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shield and that sort of stuff with this sort of look.
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Yeah. And did you like his alternative
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head Rich the the kind of mass. Loved it.
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Yeah, absolutely loved it. I commissioned an ogre scale
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head that had that sort of look, not the same as that, but that's
22:31
sort of the sort of chainmail lower half and that sort of
22:34
stuff. So all in for that.
22:38
Excellent, might have a picture of it there.
22:42
Look, there you go. Yeah, I don't.
22:47
You know, that's just basically an army builder head head, isn't
22:49
it? Yeah.
22:50
Yeah. Yeah, that's.
22:51
The colours are such that you could use that on most things in
22:54
a lot of different figures as well.
22:56
We were talking last week about, yeah, that you could have the
22:58
classic, you know, 1, you know, the main guy with the two guards
23:01
behind him. Yeah.
23:03
Yeah. So yeah, he's.
23:06
It's almost like they know what they're doing, these horsemen.
23:09
Yeah, yeah, that might. Sound and they know their
23:12
audience, yeah. The boots are fantastic as well,
23:17
yeah. I love the boots.
23:18
Yeah. And you know, I'm a huge fan of
23:20
the cloth goods and the leather wraps and all that, so.
23:23
Yeah, yeah, I know. I love I love the cloth goods.
23:26
They're they're all. You know, you can literally just
23:28
take it apart, have him without any of the soft goods, still
23:32
look really cool and then make three or four other cool
23:34
characters soft goods. Yes, I love it.
23:36
But. But I mean, but I say soft good.
23:38
I mean like the soft good plastic arms and like, oh God,
23:41
yeah, yeah. I mean, I like, I like the soft
23:43
goods he has, but I love like the fabric, look, arms and legs
23:48
and. Parts and it's always nice to
23:50
get a new colour as well. Isn't it on those bits as well?
23:52
So. It's definitely.
23:54
You know, that darker blue sort of thing.
23:55
Because initially I was thinking, oh, would that go with
23:56
Andy's legs? And it's like, no, no, it won't,
23:58
but. That's cool.
24:01
I wonder if that will pass as denim, the legs or whether
24:04
they're more grey. Maybe a little.
24:08
Keep Mythic Denim free. Because that's, Oh well, it
24:11
won't be for Mythic, it'll be for something else.
24:13
I. Want to do at some point.
24:16
Yeah, don't think it'd be like skinny fit is out now, isn't it?
24:20
So OK. Like any of the three of us know
24:24
what's fashionable at the moment, you know?
24:27
Well, skinny jeans definitely never worked on anyone our age.
24:33
And yeah, so and then in terms of his bio and just a kind of a
24:38
cool, you know, he's a heroic dude that stationed at the
24:44
Castle of Four Sides. He's, uh, he's just gathering
24:48
people together, umm, or he's volunteering to join the people
24:54
that are being gathered and uh, he's gone off up north to see
25:00
what's going on. So.
25:02
Like in my head I've got an image of these people all
25:04
looking at him going, well, you're from up that sort of way.
25:06
What's it like? It's fine.
25:08
It's not even as cold as everyone makes out.
25:10
It'll be very fine, don't worry. Worst thing you've got is like a
25:13
couple of fluffy bunnies to deal with.
25:15
It's no problem. I love the extra bit of lore
25:19
around Bjongar and the noble bear.
25:22
They with the Mead hall, the great Mead hall.
25:25
I love that. As you know, that's very imagine
25:26
that that's their throne room with Atlas sat at the end of it,
25:30
and that'd be amazing. Yeah, and you did the name
25:33
Frothvar. You know, it sounds like a beer.
25:36
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, someone's going to
25:39
make that whole with all the the barrel spoiler at the barrels
25:42
that we'll talk about in a minute, just like all down the
25:44
end sort of thing. And conservation trying.
25:48
All you need custom plates on them.
25:50
So you could have the the one that they've got.
25:52
They have all just different names.
25:53
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right.
25:57
And do you want to talk about the beer barrels or should we go
26:00
on to? No, let's do the kick.
26:02
No, it wasn't the order. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
26:05
OK, so here's commander a grain. So Commander Grain a Grain was
26:14
just a young conscript from the Order of a Throne when the
26:17
Second Great War of Mythos began, making a name for herself
26:20
at the attack of Vikonfeld and later at the stand of the Armies
26:24
of Light. Ukraine was honoured to receive
26:26
the title of the Night of Ether on in the aftermath of the war,
26:30
eventually assigned to the Castle of Four Sides.
26:33
As a representative from Ethos, Commander Igrain is charged with
26:38
leading an exhibition of adventures to the remote
26:40
settlement of Einsermal. Her mission?
26:43
To help discover what is terrorizing its residents and
26:47
leaving their bodies torn to shreds upon the icy, icy tundra.
26:53
So we get mentioned here of 2 battles that we don't really
26:56
know of yet. Oh so.
26:59
Yeah. Yeah, the one.
27:03
Particularly you've got like just it might, sorry, just
27:06
imagining hordes of like skeletons just pouring out of
27:09
icon. Yeah, yeah.
27:12
Because you've already got the The Viking Fell skeleton from
27:16
the retailer Wave. Yeah.
27:19
So, yeah, that that would be a good way for you, I think,
27:22
Brett. Yeah.
27:25
Oh, Brett would love that way. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
27:28
And. And I feel like the stand of the
27:30
armies of light, could that be the stand at the, you know, the
27:35
fall of the one covered in the. Castle of Foresight, The stand
27:42
there. Yeah, you know where it what's
27:45
the name, helped defeat all the the evil.
27:49
I'm making a terrible job of trying to explain myself.
27:52
Let's just pretend I didn't do that.
27:53
Cool story. Oh dear.
28:02
But the stand of the Armies of light, I mean, that sounds like
28:05
the the last battle at the end of the Second Great War.
28:09
So I was trying to, yeah. But they've not called it that
28:13
before, have they? No.
28:14
No, no. But like, you know, I think
28:17
that's does sound like the kind of crescendo of the Second Great
28:21
War, so to speak. And the result of that, I mean,
28:25
there's the ashes of egg bendor, which we we had the wave
28:28
already, which gives some indication of how it ended up.
28:32
But yeah, I think still more to be to be figured out.
28:40
And she seems to be pitched as quite young, yes, you know,
28:46
inexperienced almost. But she's leading.
28:49
So does that offer the chance of maybe some conflict between her
28:55
and the others? You know, maybe, maybe lack of
28:58
respect? I want to know her surname.
29:02
If it's commendated Grain Heaven's brand, I'm going to
29:04
suspect nepotism. There isn't.
29:11
There isn't too many surnames in the order of Ethers.
29:14
It was Heaven's Brand and there is Etheros Delfina Alvitos, and
29:20
that's not really her surname either, is it?
29:23
No, no, they're very much first name folks.
29:27
They're basically like Brazilian footballers on their shirts.
29:31
It's just their names are so long, so they just they, they
29:34
just take it upon themselves to to shorten them up in terms of
29:39
the figure here, Rich. When I.
29:42
Saw three-year old Bush. Yeah, when I first saw her I was
29:45
like, why are they doing like an anime head for her?
29:49
And that's still a feel like it now looking at it, even though
29:51
I've seen the close up. Yeah, so.
29:54
And I was just like, well, that that doesn't make sense.
29:56
So they change, you know, they're changing style here or
29:58
what? But then once he zoomed in on,
30:00
it's like, Oh no, that's a really beautiful sculpt.
30:01
It was really, really incredibly well painted.
30:03
But just from the distance, it just still gives me that.
30:06
So yeah, still does. Looking at it now.
30:08
Yeah. Well, interestingly on the
30:10
reveal show, Eric said that they actually starting point of this
30:15
figure was the head and the face.
30:17
So obviously wanted to do something special, you know,
30:20
something more, something different with that.
30:22
And I think he's achieved it. And I said last week on the show
30:27
that I saw this and it reminded me so much of the stuff we get
30:30
out of the customizers in. I think it's Taiwan usually, as
30:36
they, it reminds me so much of the way they do theirs and the
30:38
colours and the palette. And as you say, they tend to use
30:41
some more anime style heads there.
30:43
And yeah, I like to win a first or even though it's a bit like,
30:47
oh, this is different. And the more I say, the more I
30:50
like her. I think she's awesome.
30:53
Yeah, as a figure I really like, I might go the helmeted head
30:57
instead because I really like that one as well, depending if I
31:00
get past the anime thing or not in my head, it's in there now.
31:02
It's like an earworm. But I mean, I'm sure you guys
31:06
said last week spoiler and I haven't listened to all that,
31:09
but I love the the combination of like leather and soft goods
31:12
and armor. So I think yeah, yeah, it very
31:16
much gives that, you know, this is what a knight would wear if
31:18
they were traveling a bit further north.
31:20
So still got their armor because they're a knight, but there's
31:24
the other stuff as well. Yeah.
31:27
And yeah, I like, I think it's a very complete figure.
31:33
You know, it's, it's, it's very well put together.
31:38
It's everything kind of works together.
31:40
We've gotten lots of, you know, pieces in there that work
31:45
together, you know, so maybe newer, newer pieces.
31:50
I mean, all the stuff is kind of of the newer wave sculpting.
31:55
And I love the the scabbard for the sword on the back.
31:59
That's it's a great development. Yeah, I think, I think The funny
32:03
thing is I think the oversized sword adds to that anime vibe as
32:08
well. It's it's yeah, it's a really
32:11
cool thing, but it is, it's funny how different I think, for
32:14
yours. I think the blue sort of adds to
32:16
that as well sort of thing. It's, you know, it's like more
32:19
of a, a bright colour sort of thing.
32:21
So you could see that being like an animator.
32:22
As well. Yeah, I didn't think that.
32:24
Yeah, but you're right. Yes.
32:27
But also with that oversized sword, how the hell did she pull
32:29
that out? Not meant to think unless
32:32
there's sort of things. No, Unless.
32:34
There's something which grabs the handle and then the scabbard
32:36
just falls off by itself. That you know.
32:41
Yeah, it kind of reminds me of that thing that Cameron from the
32:46
studio was saying about the designing the miniatures, that
32:50
they have to scale up the weapons even more for the
32:52
miniatures because they just get totally lost.
32:55
And so, I mean, Legions weapons always scaled quite big for the
33:00
figures. But I do think in pictures they
33:03
look bigger because that you have no, you've nothing to kind
33:09
of reference it against. You don't see the human in the
33:11
background, you know the actual like odd size human, but when
33:15
you see it on the shelf for the big sword doesn't look as as
33:18
Jerry you know in the context. So I heard an interesting thing
33:23
and I can't. I might have said this before on
33:25
the show, can't remember where I heard it.
33:28
But of course Zelda has a similar issue with the sword
33:30
being too big to actually pull out of his scabbard on his back.
33:34
But in so in the animation on the game, if you watch, he pulls
33:38
his sword is scabbard down slightly and pulls it out to
33:43
say, hey, there you go. That's what she might do, yeah.
33:49
So I think overall she's she's a win for for a 2.0 Rich.
33:56
Yeah, yeah. It's not the one those two point
33:58
zeros that I don't like that I do really like.
34:02
Excellent. So next we have Boris, who we
34:09
found out that it is a tribute to Curtis.
34:15
So what did you think of that, Rich?
34:17
That that was awesome. I was literally whooping away in
34:20
in the room here when they showed that as soon as he said
34:23
new scale, I was just like, Oh my God, it's going to be little.
34:25
It's going to be, it didn't go to me for a second.
34:26
It might be bigger or anything. It's like they're going small.
34:30
And then yeah, when he said there's a gnome, which is like,
34:31
yeah, something after homes for ages.
34:36
And the Curtis tribute, you know, that's just.
34:41
It's well, well designed kidding to because it's very well
34:44
deserved. It's it's in fact, he's getting
34:45
his nose and everything too. That's that's.
34:47
The. Story, The story, yeah, Well, we
34:50
get there and say, yeah, and and I mean from your perspective,
34:53
which is just another person out of the way so that, you know,
34:55
you move closer to the top of the queue for a tribute.
35:01
Like they'll never do a tribute to me, and if they did, they
35:03
just do make me a barbarian. Just upset me so.
35:09
No, we're, we're, we're too far across the Atlantic for that
35:12
kind of crack, you know? Oh, unless they decide to do a
35:17
race of evil humans that arrive from off mythos.
35:19
Well, obviously they're always British, so, you know, we'll
35:22
undoubtedly fit in with that thing.
35:24
That's it. When they did the crossover
35:26
between mythic and cosmic is it we'd be the bad guys.
35:30
Yeah, I'm listening to AI listen to the Restless History podcast
35:39
thing I've mentioned before and I'm listening to 4 episode arc
35:43
on the American Revolutionary War.
35:47
And they, you know, they were saying about, you know, because
35:49
it's a British podcast so they learned, you know, it was joking
35:52
saying we probably lost all of our American listeners at this
35:54
point. But you know, the British
35:55
weren't quite as bad as they were made out, particularly in
35:57
that God awful Mel Gibson film. I think was the exact wording
36:00
used. The Patriot was that?
36:06
Is that the one? Yeah.
36:08
Yeah, it's a decent film, but you know, it's.
36:10
Like I've watched it. It's like, you know, it's Jason
36:13
Isaac. I think he's a bad guy, the
36:15
British like cavalry officer. And he's just, you know, he's
36:17
chewing the sceneries, hamming it up, so much sort of thing as
36:20
the bad ESA. Yeah.
36:23
Anyway, I'll take this off topic Mal back to Mal.
36:26
Bio Salary Bio So Boris Burger Story Boris Burger Story
36:33
travelled to the far north many years ago to mine Arctic caves
36:37
rumored to contain untapped reserves of precious gemstones
36:41
coming up empty. In his search for treasures, the
36:44
borough gnome eventually found himself in the remote settlement
36:47
of Einsermal. Slowly integrating himself into
36:50
every aspect of the town's business, he became the
36:53
proprietor of Einsermales only in and eventually found himself
36:57
named it's mayor. Boris is the true heart of his
37:01
community. It was he who contacted the
37:03
Castle of Foresight asking for help as Einsermal fell victim to
37:07
an unseen threat. And he greets the heroes who
37:10
answer that call once they arrive at the Einsermal Inn and
37:13
Public House. Yeah, that's a, that's a good
37:20
one. So Curtis is the bar, the bar
37:23
owner? Yeah, there in the bar only.
37:26
Yeah, amongst many other things, I imagine.
37:30
Right, The community, everything.
37:35
Letters from the editor. Letters to the editor.
37:38
Yeah, very cool bio. And I like the true heart to the
37:47
community thing. That's cool.
37:49
Yeah, absolutely. Yeah.
37:50
And figure wise then Rich. Obviously he's been banging on
37:56
about getting a gnome for a long time, so.
37:59
It's it's so good to get smaller body type in finally, you know,
38:04
it's the one thing that Mythics and Cosmic still is, is missing
38:08
is the the smaller sort of size just to give that variation on
38:11
the shelf and that sort of thing.
38:14
When I first saw the hood, I was like, oh, they've gone like
38:16
proper traditional gnome. But the paint job on the face is
38:20
absolutely outstanding. Yeah, it's so good that it's
38:26
like, yeah, that's just an awesome figure.
38:29
I love the fact that comes a little pickaxe weapon as well.
38:31
I think that's really cool. Ties in with the mining thing,
38:33
but also that's quite a handy little, you know, hand axe.
38:36
But for him, that's quite a big weapon to be using.
38:40
Absolutely, yeah. So the other thing I listened
38:44
out for the compatibility element because we had a bit of
38:46
a question around that. That's right.
38:48
And they said it won't be fully compatible.
38:51
It can't because certain parts like, you know, shoulder ports
38:55
and I think it was feet ports and that'll be smaller.
38:59
But they, you know, they they're aiming for some compatibility
39:03
and mentioned, although obviously not set in stone,
39:08
shoulders heads. They did say the pauldron port.
39:11
So I wasn't sure how that'd work.
39:13
Maybe that's the maybe they mean the between the hand and the and
39:18
the and the glove because they did also mention hands
39:22
potentially, although they look smaller in the picture.
39:25
They do look considerably smaller, yeah, so.
39:28
But we told them the. Weapon.
39:31
So yeah, yeah, it's clearly big enough to just a gnome with
39:38
unusually sized hands. Yeah.
39:41
That would be the thing that's phase, wouldn't it?
39:43
Yeah. Yeah, that's maybe something
39:46
that they could change, but I don't know.
39:49
And this alternative look? This is just genius.
39:52
I can't remember who they said came up with the idea.
39:55
Of a Diego. Is it Diego?
39:57
They call it a frost goblin. Something like that.
40:00
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, just really clever.
40:02
And that head works really well on that as well.
40:04
It's yeah, I love that idea. I do like that head, but I might
40:09
use it as another head on the goblin builder pack I think
40:13
rather than on a nome. OK.
40:15
Yeah, Yeah. I also really like the fact that
40:22
despite some people commenting on the cabal about this, that
40:24
they were really clear about the pricing.
40:26
But this as well, you know, they, they knew to address that
40:31
straight out of the gates. It's like this cost, you know,
40:33
there's paint apps. It costs as much to make this
40:35
basically, but we can Chuck in a couple of little things like a
40:38
barrel or whatever, just to, to give that feel of better value.
40:42
So I really like that too because I was waiting.
40:44
I thought, well, that'll just that'll just dampen down the,
40:47
the fussing straightaway. Keep the cabal a nicer place.
40:49
And it didn't just look at the odd idiot that won't listen to
40:52
them. But I.
40:53
Really like post that's. It.
40:55
It's exactly that though, isn't it?
40:57
It's, but despite the fact that they say, you know, oh, remember
41:02
those pain taps, there's the tooling, there's there's not
41:05
just the amount of plastic. They, they try to add the value
41:10
in there, which is what they always do.
41:11
They try to add the value by giving us more of these diode
41:14
pieces that are clearly very popular and have been a big, you
41:18
know, boon for the community. So yeah, even then, even, you
41:24
know, they're trying to give you what feels like your money's
41:27
worth. Yeah, well, yeah, I mean through
41:29
all the hands, you know, there's a hand pack there by itself.
41:32
Yeah, I mean the beer, you know. Yeah, so many little beer
41:38
tankards to this way. Yeah, I love it.
41:44
And those little foam pigs is they're removable, the beer
41:48
foam. Has so very cleverly done.
41:50
That but also let's you maybe print a custom one or you know,
41:56
buy a custom printed one or you know, if you wanted slightly
42:00
different or just mix and match them because there's a couple of
42:04
different types so. Other photography and that sort
42:07
of thing. Obviously you can pull, you can
42:08
have the foam on the top when they're about to drink, and then
42:11
you can have just a few ones without the foam scattered on
42:13
the floor. A bit.
42:15
Rowdy party, empty jokes everywhere.
42:19
Quite cool to see someone do like, I don't know how they do
42:23
it. The first thought was resin
42:25
coloured dressing of you know, when they're chasing and it's
42:29
sloshing out in the air. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
42:34
And somebody's bound to do it. So they set the barrel up higher
42:37
and then they have some sort of coloured resin coming down and
42:39
someone just like underneath the the barrel sort of things.
42:43
I just straight down my neck. There we go that.
42:45
'D be cool, Very cool. Yeah, I think we don't like to
42:49
go to Burris's public house. It's definitely, yeah, maybe.
42:54
When there isn't a fendrik in walking around outside.
42:56
But yeah, generally I really quite like to go there.
43:00
Cool, but who do we got next then?
43:05
We have the einsermal accessory pack.
43:09
Einsermal accessory pack. OK, but that doesn't have a bio
43:12
though. I'll get to it eventually.
43:17
Yeah, what people can't see is Johnny's cycling through his
43:22
pictures that he's put together and he has.
43:25
So there is slideshow. There it is.
43:27
Rich can't even see it, though, because he's.
43:29
I can't say it next, I don't have the right time.
43:32
I've got 4 beers there so that's.
43:34
Yes. Perfect.
43:35
Yeah, we can have a beer with Curtis.
43:38
Yeah, there we go. It looks like.
43:40
Even different own bits in the top as well.
43:45
It seems like 2-2 kind of almost symmetrical looking ones and two
43:50
overflowing ones. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
43:54
But the frying pan with the sausage juices, it's a little
43:57
thing, but it's so cool. The little paint job on the
44:01
sausages is fabulous. Yeah, just looks.
44:03
It reads as sausages immediately.
44:06
It does, yeah. As Eric was saying on their
44:08
reveal, it was like, yeah, I mean, I just sculpting the
44:12
sausages. They just look like kind of
44:15
little things on the screen. It's like 2 little snakes.
44:18
You can't really distinguish the sausage.
44:22
It's the paint that does most of the work here, you know.
44:24
Yeah, because if you didn't paint it right, let's be honest,
44:26
it would look like the little Arctic fox Keyser has, you know,
44:30
getting up after himself. Yeah, this set makes me want to
44:34
get a bunch of these and just do a a bar like a an in Dio and and
44:40
of course you need multiple sausages because you need some
44:42
on different tables. Maybe go as far as painting a
44:47
couple of them up to different styles of sausage.
44:49
That's that'd. Be so cool.
44:54
So is this something you would get multiple of richer?
44:59
I don't know. I really like it, but my display
45:03
space is very limited. So I don't really do you know,
45:07
although I have a couple of diodes, I just use those with
45:09
photographs basically. So that might limit in itself,
45:12
might limit me to just maybe just the one.
45:14
Yeah, that's kind of my problem is as much I really want to what
45:19
we're going to do with it, I don't have the space at the
45:21
moment. Yeah, I think if he, if he did
45:24
have a little diode that was a bar, then 2 two of these packs
45:28
would be perfect. You'd fill it all out and you
45:32
know, all the day. I would need to be then is a
45:35
couple of walls and a table and you know, maybe a couple of
45:41
things hanging on the walls and this would be perfect.
45:47
I'm certainly thinking I might have a bar dire.
45:51
It's going back through my Instagram posts going.
45:53
I'm pretty sure the first one I ever posted was with that sort
45:56
of setup. Oh, there you go.
45:58
Now you have something more to put into it.
46:01
Unfortunately my phone is painfully slight so.
46:04
There's a shock. That would work as a bar.
46:09
I could. I could literally Chuck, Yeah.
46:13
I don't know if you guys can see on that.
46:16
Nah, Well, just maybe. Oh yeah.
46:19
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you could.
46:21
There's. Benches a little fire and yeah,
46:25
yeah, that'd work. So yeah.
46:29
Happy days. There's a beautiful picture from
46:33
Trevor of the of the kind of so good the whole set setup in a
46:37
dial. So this is the dream if you have
46:40
this type of a setup. Umm, somebody was doing those
46:43
tables at some point. Master allegiance can.
46:48
Drunk Gizmo no. Alexander wasn't.
46:50
It is. Alexander.
46:51
That's drunk. Gizmo isn't Alexander.
46:53
Yeah, it is. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
46:54
So do a few more of them. Alexander, I'm sure you are
46:59
busy. Have one that busy.
47:01
Work. You have one?
47:02
Yeah, give me a SEC. Right.
47:07
And yeah, it's just the paint detail on the on the beers.
47:12
Oh yeah. Fantastic A.
47:16
Little bit dusty at the moment. Also the 3D sculpt sculptors out
47:21
there if you want to do like a. Oh yeah, that's really cool.
47:28
Xander might be offended. If you see it, I promise it's
47:30
getting lots of love. But yeah, that I think that's
47:35
really nice, yeah. You've got a fan, You've got a
47:39
fancy danbar. Yeah, you know, this is the
47:45
Bearish is Mayor or that room. With a, with a fancy chair
47:52
behind it and a big, big cushion or something for him to sit on.
47:54
He's up to the right height. Yeah, yeah.
47:57
That'd be funny, wouldn't? It.
48:02
Yeah, yeah, if the 3D printers can do like a giant, like big
48:06
sausage on a big fork or something like that, as if
48:09
someone's about to eat. I mean that would be a great
48:11
accessory as well. Oh, so like like like as a kind
48:17
of a logo for the barrel muster. No, no, just as somebody you
48:22
know, something could literally be stood sat there with a giant
48:25
fork with a 18 inch sausage on top about to about to take a
48:30
bite. OK, we'd need.
48:33
The German market. OK, we'd need to maybe the polar
48:37
bear to eat that or the wolf. OK, so no bio there.
48:46
So we can go on to the next bio, which is Jackal Iron Bones, is
48:51
it? Yes.
48:52
So Jackal Jack, Jackal Iron Bones.
48:56
Although not technically a resident of Iron Somal, the
48:59
tundra rock named Jackal Iron Bones is well known within that
49:03
remote community. A grizzled hunter who makes his
49:06
home in the frozen peaks of the Northlands, Jacol Iron Bones
49:10
comes and goes as he pleases, and most give him a wide berth
49:14
for fear of rousing his unpredictable temper.
49:18
As an unknown horror stalks the icy lands of Iron Somal,
49:22
suspicion falls upon Jacol Iron Bones.
49:25
Retreating to his hidden lair, he gathers his weapons and
49:28
prepares to deal with his neighbors accusations once and
49:32
for all. Yeah, so a bit of mystery here
49:37
for this guy. Yeah.
49:41
We like the the fact that an orcs first response being
49:44
accused is just going to get some weapons.
49:45
All right, FU Lot, Yeah. Bring it, come and beat the crap
49:51
I like. I like though that he's not a
49:53
bad guy, you know what I mean? Well, at least what we know at
49:56
the moment. He's not actually just a an or
49:58
because he's an orc. Oh, evil doer.
50:00
You know, we used to, but that isn't what this story is.
50:04
It isn't good and evil. It's he's, he's the weird man on
50:08
the edge of town that doesn't fit in.
50:13
Yeah. And yeah, it's just kind of a
50:15
bit of yeah. It's ambiguous as to what he is
50:18
really. Yeah.
50:23
So this is a regular scale figure?
50:27
Yes, with eternal pauldrons. Or it's 3.0 from the waist up,
50:33
isn't it? That's it.
50:34
Yes, yes, yeah. And I love all the weapons here
50:39
in the bone type colours. Yeah, they, yeah, we.
50:44
Were expecting the movie to use the Thraxian weapons at some
50:46
point but it's really clever fit with it.
50:49
And the horns are fantastic on that helmet.
50:54
Yeah, they're meant to be wood, I take it.
50:56
To me the texture made it look almost like the wood so.
50:59
Yeah, yeah, potentially. And they even, it even jazzes up
51:04
that, you know, that kind of tried and tested orc head that
51:09
we've had from forever. Yeah.
51:12
It really, it makes that look almost kind of like a new head
51:17
just with the with the horns. Yeah.
51:21
So he's got a bunch of First off goods as well.
51:24
We know that kind of fur that we've got on a couple of
51:27
figures. That's good.
51:29
And the boots are cool as well, so it's the same.
51:34
Oh yeah, same upper boots with the the feet and the kind of
51:38
knee bit, knee pad bit are different.
51:42
I really like his his braces yeah and if you it's not super
51:50
obvious there, but they they almost look to me like mini
51:54
versions of the ones that. The ogre comes with here.
51:57
Yeah, yeah. And I really like them.
52:00
Yeah, that's true. He's cool.
52:03
Yeah. And there.
52:04
Yeah, there's a lot going on on the top, isn't there?
52:06
But it looks good. And he's brooding in his in his
52:10
cave there, which is referred to in the bio and.
52:13
What do what do you? What are your thoughts on him?
52:15
Rich in terms of? He he's my least favorite of the
52:18
wave, But having said that, I don't think it's a cool figure.
52:23
Orcs generally, I'm not that all I've got plenty, but I'm not
52:26
that bothered about orcs generally.
52:28
So just a blue walk when it's like I'd rather had something
52:31
different. But totally understand if
52:33
they're having a frost goblin, why they want to tundra orc and
52:36
they got the frost giant or whatever, you know, ogre or
52:39
whatever it is they're called near the sets.
52:40
I can see all that completely. I really like the the sort of
52:45
eye coverings too. It makes them look a little bit
52:47
emo, but I really quite like that.
52:53
Ties in with a brooding look. It's just like, yeah, no, I've
52:56
got that over me. And is this 1?
53:00
You could get multiple of or. I think if you're an Orc fan,
53:05
absolutely. Personally I'll say no now and
53:10
then in two years time when they turn up and I'll have 7, then
53:13
everyone could say yeah you got loads.
53:18
Yeah. So we're starting to get, you
53:20
know, some blue guys, you know, in all the different, you know,
53:25
we had the Fury clan. I think we can now say we're
53:28
starting to get the the Frost clan almost, yeah.
53:31
You could even put the ice troll in there as well.
53:35
Definitely, yeah. Yeah, and I mean colours there
53:38
is blue, he's not frosty blue, but you know, still work on your
53:43
blue guys. Yeah, you can even.
53:45
Easily have a. Evil guys blue Shelf can you
53:49
with all the different scales and everything so.
53:54
Absolutely. And he's a kind of a double act
53:57
with the with the polar bear, with his Bourne.
54:03
Should we give him your neck? Excuse me?
54:05
Maybe that's the way we take a slight detour.
54:07
Yeah. Keep Rich waiting longer for
54:14
Let's try to do it. Sorry Is Bjorn Is Bjorn is the
54:18
gigantic polar bear companion of the tundra orc Jackal Iron
54:22
Bones, A monstrous beast with a voracious appetite, Jackal has
54:27
long kept is Bjorn well away from the settlement of Iron
54:30
Somal. This is a wise move, as the orc
54:34
knows that the little control he has over the great Bear would
54:37
fail if the beast was confronted with so much potential prey.
54:43
As more and more of the residents of the remote northern
54:45
village are found torn to pieces, the ferocious city is
54:49
Bjorn is identified as the likely source of these killings.
54:53
It is a logical conclusion, but something even more dangerous
54:56
than the bear stalks the lonely expanse of the Northlands, and
55:00
even the mighty is born will be hard pressed to survive the
55:03
threat from the horror of Einsermal.
55:09
So for a polar bear, that's a pretty cool bio.
55:12
Well, that really is. Yeah.
55:15
I'm not telling the horseman what to do, but if they want to
55:17
make it look even more like he's responsible, have one the
55:20
villagers be a anthropomorphic seal.
55:24
He's banging to rights at that point, isn't he?
55:26
It's like, you know, solar bears Favorite food source.
55:29
Yeah, he's ripped two or three into pieces.
55:32
He's clearly the bad guy. He's so cool.
55:35
He's very cool. I'm really tall, and I said last
55:38
week that I think I might like this face even more than the
55:41
grizzly. I don't know.
55:42
I think I like them both equally.
55:44
They're both really good. So good.
55:46
Yeah. Yeah.
55:47
I'm so glad that they went for a proper polar bear face.
55:50
Yes, and Eric explained why on the reveal rather than just
55:53
painting it white. Yeah.
55:57
And you can see it's got a longer, it looks longer.
56:00
Profile. Yeah, yeah, just because the way
56:02
it fits and, and the way it's sculpted obviously then at the
56:06
front bit more pointy. So yeah.
56:11
And now we have polar bears fighting grizzly bears.
56:14
Yeah, true. Yeah, it's a.
56:16
Setup. How good is that going to be?
56:18
So this is a must have for the collection rich.
56:21
Oh 100% yeah. Instant buy and we all knew it
56:25
was coming. But it's still as melted.
56:27
It's still really, really cool. Yeah, it's by far the the bear
56:33
is by her the best mount we've got so far.
56:36
It's no question And the I love him either one.
56:41
Yeah, and it's great that you get the story here with him, but
56:43
I think you can also just to have your own head cannon for
56:46
him. It's polar bear.
56:47
So, you know, if you want to have it in your fantasy action
56:50
display for whatever reason, you know.
56:54
I have to just make a correction to what I've just said.
56:56
In Mythics, everyone knows Bungie is the best mount we've
57:00
got. I think, yeah, little Bungie the
57:07
best. Forgot about him.
57:08
Yeah, he is super cute. Forget Bungie.
57:12
Yeah, I know. I guarantee somebody, and it
57:16
probably won't be me because of space, we'll have four or five
57:18
of these as a cavalry unit with frost orks.
57:23
Oh, sorry. Thunder orks, frost goblins,
57:25
whatever sort of thing, riding them into battle, which would
57:27
look really good. Yeah.
57:29
And I know, I know personally that polar bears are dangerous,
57:34
but at the same time, I couldn't blame them for, for the, for the
57:38
horror of mine. Somehow it just didn't, you
57:40
know? They don't seem to be that
57:42
vicious, you know. I mean, tell us people in Canada
57:47
and normally. They are.
57:48
I know they are. But you know what I mean?
57:51
Just you can't, it's hard to get your head around because they,
57:54
you know, they're so beautiful. And yeah, anyway, the endangered
57:58
species and all that kind of shit.
58:00
Never be allowed near them because you'll die, is what you
58:02
say. Yeah.
58:05
I mean, there's, of course, there's all, you know, they're
58:07
solitary, you know, they're open the Arctic.
58:09
Of course they're they're angry. Got to get food where they can.
58:16
Right, another imp scale. I don't.
58:20
Talk about this one. It's no.
58:23
Can I just say with the polar bear too, I'm going to throw a
58:25
useless fact out there. Is it the latitude?
58:28
That's the the horizontal lying around the earth.
58:33
Yeah, let's say that. Whichever one is, let's say,
58:35
latitude, the UK is at the same latitude as the places in Canada
58:40
that have polar bears. Just a week.
58:43
The jet stream which calls it makes interest a bit warmer, a
58:46
bit wetter. Yeah, that's yeah, the jet, the
58:50
the Gulf Stream or the jet Stream?
58:52
Whatever it is, yeah, I'm showing that my lack of
58:54
geography knowledge here, but. Is basically that, yeah,
58:57
latitude is the ones across. So yeah, you're correct that
59:02
that really does make up for because I think the North
59:05
northern parts of America, so like Michigan and all that,
59:08
they're on the latitude of Spain.
59:12
Yeah. And Spain has a climate like
59:15
Florida pretty much, you know, and they definitely don't up
59:19
there. I mean, maybe in the summer they
59:22
have warm, but yeah, in the winter they get winter.
59:24
Very cold, yes. Yeah, right.
59:28
Boiler Frost For while the diminutive Baylor Frost fur is
59:32
well known to the residents of Einsermol as the best tracker in
59:36
the North, the vulpine race has never been seen in mythos
59:39
outside of the far northern settlement Fleet of foot.
59:45
And with uncanny senses, Baylor immediately proves his value to
59:49
the search for whatever is attacking Einsermol, leading the
59:53
party to the inner layer of the Tundra Rock who's the main
59:56
suspect in the brutal killings. The heroes uncover A monstrous
59:59
secret and realize that their problem may be much larger than
1:00:03
that they had they had bargained for.
1:00:08
Yeah. So you get, I suppose that's the
1:00:10
logic of having him before the polar bear in.
1:00:12
Yes, that's. A hint at ice.
1:00:14
Spawn But we already knew about the polar bear so you know we're
1:00:19
fine. A tracker.
1:00:22
I love that type of a character tracker, you know, that gives a
1:00:25
lot of potential for cool stuff. Rich.
1:00:30
I love it in. Your bag by any chance?
1:00:33
Your favorite character? I think there's a pretty good
1:00:37
chance. Yeah, yeah, it's a little.
1:00:40
It's a little fella, which I was hoping for.
1:00:42
It's an anthropomorphic one. The idea doing an Arctic fox is
1:00:46
really clever, but I love it and I love the fact that they're the
1:00:50
heads quite big because all the bushy fur and that sort of
1:00:52
thing. I really love that look.
1:00:54
It's very cleverly done. I had a few people complain that
1:00:56
because he's a tracker who won't be wearing an armor.
1:00:58
My response to that is shut up. This way we get an armored
1:01:02
soldier basically other rather than two little people all but
1:01:06
wearing soft goods. It's like now this is by far a
1:01:08
better way and. If people want to, there's no
1:01:11
reason they can't swap it because they will be able to
1:01:13
swap his parts with Boris, Boris, Boris.
1:01:20
Yeah, So they could make their tracker more, you know, less arm
1:01:23
he's. Tracking a giant werewolf.
1:01:26
I mean, yeah. I'd put on a bit of armor to be
1:01:29
fair. I love his little feet as well,
1:01:31
they're very cool. Yeah, and they look even cuter,
1:01:35
sticking out of the armor somehow.
1:01:37
Yeah. Yeah, I mean little hands if I'd
1:01:40
been ultra fussy, but that would be ultra fussy.
1:01:42
I could see why, again why they wouldn't do that, but yeah, just
1:01:46
a really cool character and something comes with.
1:01:48
Awesome backpack that the frying pan can can hook onto and yeah,
1:01:55
he's got little little sack there and a little what is this
1:01:59
little thing or it looks. Like a.
1:02:02
Flask, yeah. Which also hooks on the
1:02:05
backpack, so. And to up the value again here
1:02:08
of the smaller scale figure, you got a fire campfire that is kind
1:02:14
of hollow underneath. They showed on the stream you
1:02:16
can put a little tea light LED underneath it.
1:02:20
That's so clever. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:02:22
I mean, and those little tea light things are, you know,
1:02:25
pennies, you know, they're, Oh yeah, they're cheap as yeah, you
1:02:29
know, 50 pence # whatever. Yeah, you know, yeah.
1:02:33
And I love the fact and Mal read obviously read it in the bio
1:02:36
that the vault pine race is unknown to the rest of mythos.
1:02:39
See. Imagine the grain and halvar
1:02:41
turning up and they're just like, what the hell is that?
1:02:46
There's a rat. The tail is fantastic as well.
1:02:52
Yeah, very cool. Little tail.
1:02:54
Yeah, a little armoured knob. A little armoured.
1:03:01
You're looking at a. Little out now, just the top of
1:03:06
the tail. Yeah, just a little bit of
1:03:07
armoured effect. I like that, yeah.
1:03:11
Yeah, and Thistle torn head, then it's alternate head.
1:03:14
Thought that was a cool one. Yeah, definitely.
1:03:18
And that was they've named this after Jesse, then on.
1:03:22
Yeah, kind of. Officially, unofficially.
1:03:24
Yeah. Thistle torn, so Jesse is a fuzz
1:03:29
monk fanatic. Yeah, yeah.
1:03:34
Now, well done, Jesse. Yeah, as Miles said, this is,
1:03:37
you know, this is without doubt my favorite one of the wave.
1:03:38
It's a brilliant wave, but I love this little fella.
1:03:43
Yeah, he's excellent. Yeah.
1:03:45
The more I look at him, the more.
1:03:47
But I love, I love both of the the imp scale figures.
1:03:51
Yeah, they're so. Yeah.
1:03:51
Sick. These could be the Glios,
1:03:55
figures of Mythic Legions, you know, You know, in terms of hand
1:04:00
candy, you know. Yeah, yeah.
1:04:02
On your. Pocket team, yeah.
1:04:04
Yeah, pocket. Yeah, pocket Figure.
1:04:06
You can just carry them around and take photographs of them,
1:04:09
whatever you're doing. Yeah, it's fair to say I'll be
1:04:12
buying multiples of him and boots, yeah.
1:04:16
You have other heads you'd be thinking of putting on them.
1:04:20
I've got an entire range. I've got about 10 characters
1:04:24
set, part couple done and the rest ready.
1:04:26
I'm using the Wolf King customs, little feet and hands that you
1:04:31
attach to the the elbows and knees sort of thing.
1:04:34
So all those heads will immediately move across to this
1:04:37
sort of setup once we get these. That's cool.
1:04:41
Yeah, I'm tempted to get few few of these for sure.
1:04:47
Same same. I kind of like to know what's
1:04:50
coming up. Yeah, like everybody else.
1:04:55
Yeah, you bite six of these, and then all of a sudden there's
1:04:57
another little character in the next wave.
1:04:59
You know, I preferred that. I mean, it kind of feels like
1:05:01
there might be, doesn't it? But.
1:05:04
Yeah, this one, I think both of these, because the other one is
1:05:08
classic, you know, classically and norm.
1:05:11
And this one is just so cool for what it is that it would be
1:05:16
difficult to have one, you know, I'd be more that that's better,
1:05:22
you know, or maybe just as good, but be difficult to top it.
1:05:28
And I'm more worried about just the overall budget, you know, if
1:05:34
there's going to be another cosmic wave then in, you know,
1:05:37
straight after this or something like that, you know, So that's
1:05:43
the thing. But yeah, very cool, very cool
1:05:46
little figure. And maybe we might get the kids
1:05:52
in a Jeremy's kids in a down the line.
1:05:55
Yeah, we're getting closer, Yeah.
1:05:58
Yeah, be sure. Right, one more bio to go, OK.
1:06:05
So this is off. Oh, yeah.
1:06:11
OK, so there's a bit more in the end of here than we got during
1:06:14
the reveal, which is an interesting bit.
1:06:18
He was the whole thing, Mal. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, right,
1:06:22
Garmi. The ancient sagas of the
1:06:25
Northlands tell of a monstrous creature known as a Fenrick.
1:06:28
Fenrick kin towering be said to be the offspring of the Great
1:06:33
Wolf. There's not been a confirmed
1:06:35
sighting of one of these creatures in mythos in ages and
1:06:39
their existence was deemed the stuff of fiction long ago.
1:06:44
As the survivors of the attacks of Einsermal look upon the wolf
1:06:48
like monster before them, they know that Fen Fernikin are all
1:06:52
too real and that they are in a grave danger.
1:06:57
Clad in strange and foreign armour and still bearing the
1:07:02
broken chains and shackles of one time imprisonment, the
1:07:05
Fenrikin monster Gamir is a feral monstrosity and the true
1:07:10
horror of Einsermal killing. Seemingly indiscriminately, the
1:07:15
Fenrikim beasts violently attacks the residents of the
1:07:19
small settlement as they stand before him in stunned silence.
1:07:23
The heroes of Iron Somaler no match for the monster strength,
1:07:27
but the flames of carefully thrown torch ignite the
1:07:30
creatures for buying those heroes a moment's respite and a
1:07:34
chance to barricade themselves inside the town's in.
1:07:38
Inside that structure, the survivors prepare for another
1:07:42
assault as a terrible howl echoes through the night and the
1:07:45
doors of this structure begin to shake and rattle.
1:07:49
The horror of Einsermal will not be sated until he has claimed
1:07:53
his latest victim. But suddenly the attacks cease
1:07:58
as a cry of challenges heard from the beyond the door of the
1:08:01
inn, as something come to save the people of Einsermal from the
1:08:06
Fenrikin monster. Or is there an even bigger
1:08:08
threat waiting there in the colds of the Northlands?
1:08:14
That's really goodbye. Recall extra bit.
1:08:17
Yeah. Yeah.
1:08:20
Yeah, so a little bit in the middle there sounds like the
1:08:23
Three Little Pigs and the big bad wolf where they're inside
1:08:28
the house, you know? Yeah, but the ending of it.
1:08:33
Which is what makes it sound like the next wave might be
1:08:36
linked, because we've got to find out.
1:08:39
Yeah, who it is. And is that the people who had
1:08:42
him captured originally have come to get him again?
1:08:45
Or is he? Was he a prisoner of other
1:08:47
Fenrick in who were keeping control of him maybe?
1:08:50
Yeah, I'm really hoping it's people had him captive.
1:08:54
Yeah, let me get maybe a new race again, another faction and
1:08:57
that sort of stuff. But yeah, it's a brilliant
1:08:59
little bit to add to the end. Yeah, definitely.
1:09:02
Because we still don't know where we're going for G Con, do
1:09:05
we? No, no.
1:09:07
No, I mean, Jeremy said originally about assessing sail.
1:09:10
That's right. But then it's gone very quiet on
1:09:13
that front now, so they could have pivoted to something else
1:09:15
quite easily. Yeah.
1:09:16
Well, I think also in terms of setting, so they just meant
1:09:19
partly opening up the world, didn't they?
1:09:22
Which is this is starting to do OK.
1:09:24
We're still on. Yeah, the same continent to
1:09:28
really going up north. But, you know, we don't know
1:09:33
where some of these characters have come from originally, so.
1:09:37
No. And they kept mentioning what
1:09:41
was the word they used now? Oh, they kept mentioning
1:09:44
fishers, didn't they? Through the stories and that
1:09:47
sort of stuff. So and these like portals or
1:09:49
something that these things are coming through.
1:09:52
And Eric did sort of suggest this armor was the attempt was
1:09:56
to give us a different style to what we've seen before to hint
1:10:01
at, you know, some of new cultures and new.
1:10:05
So, you know, it's possible that he's come from a different land.
1:10:13
I want a person to come from a land down under, but I won't do
1:10:16
that. That's what I thought.
1:10:17
He's singing terribly. Yeah.
1:10:19
Yeah, I mean, the head scopes are fantastic.
1:10:23
Yeah, that mask is amazing as well.
1:10:26
I love there's a muzzle. It's like I wouldn't use it
1:10:29
until I'd seen whatever's kept in prisoner because I think
1:10:32
that'd have more effect that way.
1:10:34
But it's a brilliant touch. Yeah.
1:10:37
As I said last week again, and I can only repeat it, that that
1:10:40
shot with the muzzle and the chains and the and everything
1:10:44
there, to me, that is the most horror vibe we've had in the
1:10:48
whole line. Yeah, that is scary.
1:10:51
That's the stuff of nightmares and.
1:10:55
You can almost imagine if it was like animated, then then he's
1:10:58
pulling away at the the muzzle and then everyone's like backing
1:11:02
off going Oh my God, Oh my God was underneath that.
1:11:03
And then he pulls it off and then just tears people apart.
1:11:06
Yeah. Yeah.
1:11:08
Very cool, I think I'm going to have him displayed like that
1:11:10
with the with the muzzle. Yeah, otherwise he's going to
1:11:14
eat your figures. That's it.
1:11:16
Yeah, I'll have nothing left on the shelf.
1:11:19
But then he's got that Obsidian axe which is a made L sword
1:11:22
rather which is amazing. So it's like well you know, as
1:11:25
cool as other look has, I'm not sure you could hold the 8 sword
1:11:28
at the same time. Have to buy two, yeah.
1:11:35
Yeah, expensive figure, but it's it is overscaled, so.
1:11:42
Yeah, and it makes sense for them to go scale because
1:11:44
obviously they had the Odysseus parts, so it makes sense to
1:11:48
reuse. Yeah, that's where I got it
1:11:51
wrong last week. When we're talking about it,
1:11:53
they, the legs are actually not the Odysseus.
1:11:56
They that's where Eric decided that even with Lily Odysseus, he
1:12:00
was maybe already not capable of what he wanted from this
1:12:05
character. Oh, OK.
1:12:06
That's got double jointed knees. Oh, that should make it more
1:12:11
interesting, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
1:12:12
So it can get lower down and yeah.
1:12:14
Yeah, do more crouching and stuff.
1:12:19
Yeah. I mean, obviously these are
1:12:21
prototypes, so it's a bit more difficult for Trevor to get the
1:12:24
poses. So you know, any poses he's
1:12:26
managed here, it's already impressive.
1:12:29
Yeah. Well, there's one in particular
1:12:32
that is so cool. Yeah, yeah, I mean, that's one
1:12:37
of them. That's very cool.
1:12:38
I think there's another one he's done.
1:12:39
Is that that one? No, if we go back.
1:12:43
Yeah. That one there on the left, I
1:12:45
think there's something about that.
1:12:47
Poses or Yeah. Yeah, looks like it's just about
1:12:51
to attack. Yeah, I think Trevor said
1:12:54
before. It must be terrifying,
1:12:56
terrifying trying to photograph these, particularly when there's
1:12:58
like spikes on the ballrooms and that sort of stuff.
1:13:00
You're like, any of this falls over and I'm super, I'm super
1:13:03
glue stuff. And it's like, Oh, no.
1:13:05
Yeah, for sure. OK.
1:13:09
So that's the wave, Rich and. I love it and I will be failing
1:13:17
the little fella. I've forgotten his name already.
1:13:20
Byla. Yeah, Byla Frost fur.
1:13:23
And the nitpes. The wells.
1:13:24
Have you got all your nitpicks out?
1:13:26
Yes, they were just that the ideally of like the smaller
1:13:29
werewolf ideally, I've had a different race rather than a
1:13:33
tundra walk and I wish little Byla came with little hands,
1:13:37
little furry hands, very hands. They're all they're all tiny,
1:13:40
tiny nitpicks. It's, it's the best wave.
1:13:44
Oh, that's certainly the best media wave I think they've ever
1:13:46
done. Yeah, I wrote, I wrote a note
1:13:49
today that for me, this is every bit as good as Rising Suns and
1:13:54
Reign of the Beasts in terms of the wave.
1:13:57
Those those three that we've had recently have been exceptional.
1:14:01
So yeah. Yeah, definitely beats Ashes the
1:14:05
Big Bendor as well. Yeah.
1:14:07
Yeah, don't you start having to go at the shadow centre?
1:14:10
That's a great figure. You wash your mouth now, John.
1:14:14
Yeah, I was just one or two. Yeah, there's there's no,
1:14:17
there's no misses in this one. Or is it felt like this one or
1:14:20
two in that one? I mean, to my taste, you know,
1:14:23
it's always subjective, so. Yeah, but they're also showing
1:14:28
now as well, only that the last couple of waves, it's it's
1:14:31
mixing factions up, which makes it more interesting.
1:14:33
Yeah. You know, it could be because
1:14:35
it's a new faction like this one.
1:14:36
But Even so, you know, you've got a ether on, you've got a
1:14:39
house on a, you know, you've got the the other ones in there and
1:14:43
it just gives you more variety. So if they carry this on into
1:14:48
Gcon, you know, you could have 3 or 4 characters from the the big
1:14:51
body faction that's coming over sort of thing.
1:14:54
You can have maybe a couple of the the rescue party that ran
1:14:57
off, but then change their minds and come back and, you know, so
1:15:00
you could have a bomb of the Odysseus one and a convocation.
1:15:04
What you know you can. All those different things you
1:15:06
can do. Yeah.
1:15:09
I love this style. Also, well, I think that's our
1:15:14
lot then for this week. Sounds good.
1:15:18
Yeah, doesn't it? And we'll have next next week on
1:15:24
Tuesday, we'll have the next riches randoms just Trevor
1:15:27
Williams. I skipped this week.
1:15:30
I didn't get start recording some more.
1:15:32
Yeah, yeah. So that's, uh, it's up to you,
1:15:35
Rich schedule. I will get on it, Sir.
1:15:39
Sounds good. Remember, stay safe out there
1:15:45
everybody. If you see a very large thing
1:15:47
that looks like a wolf, back off.