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- 0:20My wallet is sobbing. I can hear it.
- 0:22I can hear it in the hall. Now it is breaking down crying.
- 0:31It turns out that Attila the arrogant so and so he's got a
- 0:35fake hammer. Oh.
- 0:37A fake. Whoa.
- 0:39As I say, Dick. So as I look into my crystal
- 0:48ball, we're all the way forward 10th of November 2024.
- 0:54It's the Hanover Marriott in Whippany, NJ.
- 0:58It's Sunday morning, 8:00 AM. We're all a little bit worse for
- 1:03wear. Couple of days of socializing
- 1:05with friends, new and old. Maybe a drink has been had along
- 1:11the way, you know, to make us feel a little bit even more
- 1:14tired in the morning. No, that wouldn't happen.
- 1:16Uh, but there's one man who's jumping and skipping down the
- 1:19corridor on his way to pick up his cosmic Tupac.
- 1:24It's Michael Malcolm Kennedy. How are you?
- 1:26I am very good, thank you. That will definitely be happy.
- 1:31Back up to the room with bundles of them walking past the people
- 1:35queuing because we, you know if they do it like last year
- 1:38because we had a table, we got to go to them first.
- 1:41So you know, you walk back, big cheesy grin on your face, be
- 1:44like, yeah, when I got. Exactly.
- 1:47And then going back hourly to pick up another one, assuming
- 1:50you can, you know, quite pop at the top of the queue, just unbox
- 1:55them before Monday morning, yeah.
- 1:57Well, I need to keep one in box, get it signed by Diego and then.
- 2:04Diego, you're on the signature list.
- 2:06Yes. We'll tell you a little bit
- 2:07about that. Yeah, so.
- 2:09You're going to be stalking Diego then all day Sunday,
- 2:11basically. Totally.
- 2:12As if I wouldn't anyway, Yeah. Come on, he's a Viking, you know
- 2:16and realize. So.
- 2:18And Rich, are you happy about the cosmic Tupac?
- 2:21I am, yeah. There's a it's a really good,
- 2:23you know, really nice two pack. Obviously I prefer mythics, but
- 2:26you know you can't have everything.
- 2:27Come on, we had. That no, I'm.
- 2:29I'm just teasing. It's it's nice.
- 2:30It's nice to spread it around a little bit and get cosmics.
- 2:32It makes sense. Yes.
- 2:33As I think, like Jeremy said on his show, it's legions Con.
- 2:36It's not mythic Legions Con, isn't it?
- 2:38It's. Exactly.
- 2:39Yeah, I think it's a good. Move from that perspective,
- 2:42definitely. Oh, it is, yeah.
- 2:44Yeah. Just to kind of show the kind of
- 2:47equality a little bit in the lines, you know, and then I
- 2:49think you're obscure as its own little thing that rolls along,
- 2:52possibly rolling along soon, let's see, you know, that could
- 2:55be the next thing we're talking about here.
- 2:57It sort of ties into, because I'm imagining this year there's
- 3:00going to be a lot more Cosmic Legion customs, a bit poor
- 3:04customs heads, all that sort of stuff for sale.
- 3:06So you know it's had a bit of time to get traction and now
- 3:09it's time to really push ahead with the Cosmic stuff and get
- 3:12the exclusive etcetera. Yeah, well, kind of balancing up
- 3:16a little bit the mythics, because it was a lot of cosmics
- 3:18coming out last year. Although we need to do some new
- 3:21mythics now soon. I'm going to be banging that
- 3:26drum now. That's my new I'll be horse.
- 3:29I'm going to all I'm going to say and I'm going to say this
- 3:31every week pretty much till the next wave gets released, Lizard
- 3:34Man. Well, you're kind of getting one
- 3:38in this pack. Yes, this is true.
- 3:41There's more reptilians or features, isn't it?
- 3:43So that's that's good. What I want Mythic lizard man.
- 3:46You want? Yeah, you're mythic.
- 3:47Yeah. Well what are we exactly talking
- 3:50about if you're new to this and, well, the Four Horsemen
- 3:54announced the Legions Con 2024 Day 2 figure set and it's the
- 4:00Cosmic Legion's amazing Alien and Creature Creator 2 pack and
- 4:06this set would be available. Legion's gone Sunday, November
- 4:0910th. As we alluded to in the intro,
- 4:13you just, uh, lookout for Mal, follow him, you'll get one.
- 4:19So uh yeah, it's it's basically UH parts chosen.
- 4:24Uh so you can do a lot of pop and swaps together, mix the
- 4:27characters together. We'll definitely get into that,
- 4:30and it's got a a load of extra parts.
- 4:33UH-2 full base bodies, eight sets of hands, three sets of
- 4:37gauntlets, three sets of feet, multiple weapons and
- 4:40accessories. Uh, the backpack.
- 4:42I think that we got with four guys that the one, a couple of
- 4:45neck or three neck pieces, two sets of shoulder armor.
- 4:49Shoulder armor isn't as common in cosmic legions as it is in
- 4:52mythics, so uh, it's definitely worth noting UH-6 total heads if
- 4:57you get the legions conversion. So that's pretty cool.
- 5:01And and so the two two of those heads, the Red Vampire and the
- 5:06Tusk helmet with the purple visor are exclusive to legions
- 5:09CON. So not too much exclusive parts,
- 5:12you know, but just two heads you know and parts that you can get
- 5:15under the figures. And they're two repainted heads,
- 5:17so you know you can get in the head from a different figure and
- 5:19paint it yourself. And yeah, and it's going to have
- 5:26some throwback style packaging. UH.
- 5:28They say they have something very cool planned UH.
- 5:31And then on Jeremy's stream, they talked a little bit more
- 5:34about it. So we'll talk about what they
- 5:35talked about UH. It's getting very meta, talking
- 5:39about, talking about, talking about UH.
- 5:41We were like the guys that are looking at the football on
- 5:43Saturday, talking about the football that they can't show
- 5:46because of rights reasons. I love watching.
- 5:50Oh, I used to love watching that before they got rid of them all.
- 5:51Soccer Saturday. Yeah, there you go.
- 5:53Yeah, they call it Soccer Saturday over here in the UK.
- 5:56Can you imagine? It's a disgrace, but we'll skip
- 6:00that. And of course they will have
- 6:03standard versions coming in 2025 S and and the BIOS, as we will
- 6:11hear from Mal in the short while set the characters up in a big
- 6:16struggle against each other. So there is the money shot.
- 6:19That's really the only picture you need to see if you're
- 6:21interested in getting these. Of course there's a lot of other
- 6:23cool pictures that we will look at too.
- 6:25Umm, but there it is. Uh, the two figures.
- 6:29So the main heads are basically repaints of Magnus and Novi and
- 6:33lean. Umm.
- 6:35And as Mal said, the kind of lizardy vibes going on here with
- 6:42the Novi and lean definitely in this.
- 6:47Yes, definitely. I I actually, when I first saw
- 6:50it, I thought, oh, it's getting even closer to looking like
- 6:53Predator, but it's not quite when you when you see it.
- 6:56It's. Close.
- 6:58It's not quite. No.
- 7:00Which I mean, I have no problem with it looking more like
- 7:02Predator. I've got this urge to to paint
- 7:05one of those heads up to look like a Predator head.
- 7:09Yeah, well, they bought so many Novian leans.
- 7:11I have plenty of spare heads. Yeah.
- 7:14So you're trying out on maybe I should even for just a bit of
- 7:19fun and yeah, so I mean when you look at it like that, it's
- 7:22probably going to be they haven't announced officially the
- 7:25price. I mean they're very cautious of
- 7:27course in case the factory comes back and says, you know, we need
- 7:31to you know, up the price a bit for something or other.
- 7:35But it's going to be around $100 basically.
- 7:39Yeah, you know, plus or. Yeah, they kept, they kept it to
- 7:41100 last year, didn't they? And there's a lot of stuff in
- 7:43that pack, so. It's a maximum 110 if things
- 7:47really didn't work, but I think probably going to keep it around
- 7:50100. So very cool.
- 7:53Let's get into the BIOS for these guys.
- 7:56So the first guy is the Tusk Experiment CC 24.
- 8:05The CC batch of Tusk experiments in genetic manipulation were
- 8:09meant to produce a new breed of shock troops loyal to the
- 8:12traders union. Protocols in genetic splicing
- 8:15which dictate that no more than 3 gene sequences should be used
- 8:19in a single experiment were ignored and the resulting
- 8:22creations were monstrous. Developed by mixing the
- 8:25sequences of a nearly a dozen species in the labs of
- 8:29facilities D8G O1, including Carzin Carzinian Anthraxian
- 8:36genes, the CC batch of specimens proved to be violent and
- 8:40uncontrollable, breaking free from the labs and slaughtering
- 8:44all who stood in their way. As they made their escape, these
- 8:47genetically enhanced predators have begun to make their way
- 8:50across the rings of Kazmirium, the biggest and meanest of the
- 8:54group, a mess. A specimen formerly known as D8G
- 8:58O1 Experiment CC 24 has been tracked to the remote planet
- 9:03known as Whitney in sector 11910.
- 9:08It is here where Experiment A, a 20s hunt has led him, knowing
- 9:12that only one of these Tusk Lab creations will survive this
- 9:15unavoidable encounter. I love that and listen, tell us
- 9:24that also the the little special note for this, for this one.
- 9:28Do you see that on the note? Released as part of a special 2
- 9:31pack set at Legions, a special 2 pack set at Legions called 2024,
- 9:36this character's name, D8GO One, is a nod to Four Horsemen
- 9:40Studios own Diego Giswoldo sending.
- 9:46There you go. So that's that's why Mal will be
- 9:48looking for Diego's signature. I will I.
- 9:51Will. And so yeah, he got surprised I
- 9:54think on the four issue o'clock show with this yesterday.
- 9:57So that was fun to see as well. Yeah, a lot of cool nods.
- 10:03And so they have mentioned Predator somehow in their
- 10:07Predators and they also mentioned Whippany which we
- 10:12talked about is where the. Hotel is.
- 10:14I hadn't registered that until I was reading it.
- 10:17Yeah, that's one. When you read it out loud, you
- 10:19suddenly got ah. And the date.
- 10:24And the date, Yes exactly. And and 24 in both of these
- 10:28figures names is because of legions con 24.
- 10:32So that's what the number 24 CC 24 is really meaning.
- 10:37And Jeremy also kind of half jokingly said that CC can also
- 10:43mean customer care because that's what the Horsemen saw.
- 10:47But. He did confirm, though, that he
- 10:50actually meant Creature Creator the.
- 10:52Creature creator, Yeah, yeah, exactly.
- 10:54Yeah, that's the official thing and it's written here.
- 10:57And yeah, so he comes with a lot of cool stuff, which we'll talk
- 11:00about when we get to that bit. But he is, so he's still
- 11:06affiliated to Tusk. I guess that's a kind of a.
- 11:13Might be an affiliation they're trying to get rid of quick,
- 11:15isn't it? No, Nothing to do with us.
- 11:17No, no, in a minute. He's definitely on the negative
- 11:20side of the Ledger there and yeah and he's from the facility
- 11:24within so and then we have Fury Magnus, it's he shall now be
- 11:31called a a 20. So he's also an experiment.
- 11:35That's interesting. Shall I go for the bio?
- 11:41Absolutely, yeah. Yeah.
- 11:43Experiment A A 20 is one of the first specimens created as part
- 11:46of the traders union of the five circles of Cosmirium's secret
- 11:50programme of genetic manipulation.
- 11:52The lone survivor of the A, A batch of experiments, AA20 has
- 11:56proven to be nearly perfect. Thrall to the Tusk science
- 11:59officer who gave him life. A A 20 is intelligent,
- 12:03resilient, creative, ruthless and above all totally compliant
- 12:07to the commanders of his Tusk overseers often utilised in the
- 12:12extermination of failed experiments.
- 12:14AA20 has recently been sent out in search for a number of
- 12:17experiments till creations which escaped the confines of the Tusk
- 12:21labs. A A20's mission is to hunt down
- 12:24and neutralize these escapees before evidence of the trade new
- 12:28traders, unions, illegal practices can be discovered by
- 12:32the fair ox authorities. So he's he's the clean up guy
- 12:36for this little mess, yes, but he seems to be under control by
- 12:42them. So again.
- 12:44Is it just me, or with all these sort of storylines, it's always
- 12:48something from the first batch seems to be the best.
- 12:50It's like, why don't you stick that recipe?
- 12:52Then why? Why start changing things?
- 12:55If you've got something that's perfectly compliant and that
- 12:57sort of stuff, it's like, what's the matter with you?
- 12:59You deserve to get Brickly killed by your experiments.
- 13:02Well, well, were they trying to create something else then you
- 13:05know he's he's worked from the first batch and he's the only
- 13:09one, but he's very good. Is it like but we can make him
- 13:12better so? More for one.
- 13:15Actually, yeah. You know, that did a bit of
- 13:18Novian lean DNA that they've gotten from him being at the,
- 13:23dare I say, being at a Valktar so.
- 13:31Isn't it just like billionaires looking to make another billion?
- 13:33Isn't it doesn't exactly that you know, why do you need
- 13:40another billion? You're already rich, minted.
- 13:43You own three moons. Why do you need another moon?
- 13:46Well, because I need another moon.
- 13:47So there we go. Why shouldn't I?
- 13:50Yeah. Right, so here we see the
- 13:56characters kind of in their default look and so actually
- 14:00quite different in the end. What do you think?
- 14:04Would you looking at it straight up?
- 14:06I'm going to guess Rich's favourites, Probably the Alien
- 14:09guy. It's not actually.
- 14:12It's no. Actually a A20 just because it's
- 14:15the Novian lean build and I love that build.
- 14:17So yeah, that's. When it over for me.
- 14:20What's yours favorite? It's it's everywhere.
- 14:25It's like 1A. You've literally got two to
- 14:29choose from, Malcolm on, but I. I'm with Rich.
- 14:32It's it's a a 20. It's the OR 24.
- 14:36What's it called? A, A, AA20?
- 14:39Yeah, a, a 20 because again it's the Novian lean armour and body
- 14:44and stuff, isn't it? In a different colour and that
- 14:47Magnus head that as you know I've used on a customers well
- 14:51recently because I think it's great.
- 14:55Well yeah. Only because they have to
- 14:57choose. It's a clean sweep for a a then
- 14:59in the religious podcast as the favorite.
- 15:01But I mean it's they're two very good figures.
- 15:04They. Yeah, I'm happy with both of
- 15:06them. And I do think, you know this
- 15:10this guy has more Joe Vibes often a A you know he looks like
- 15:13one of the kind of he looks like he could be in GI Joe kind of or
- 15:19cosmic kind of more modern. Yeah.
- 15:23It's like when they first, when they first reclassified, they
- 15:25started going down this route, didn't they?
- 15:27And stopped because obviously it's not a sci-fi line.
- 15:30Classified, Sir. Right.
- 15:31OK, yeah, that's true. But sorry, yeah, GI J and.
- 15:38But I think that it works in this, in this context, in that,
- 15:41you know, you still get your Cosmic Legion, but it gives you
- 15:44also the Joe vibe. And if you're into Joe, that's
- 15:46kind of cool, but it's not replacing or trying to kind of
- 15:49mimic Joe. It's just a kind of that if you
- 15:51like that style of character, it's like awesome.
- 15:54Yeah, well there's there's lots of spacesuit characters around
- 15:57the sofa, so it's quite nice to get the sort of cloth parts and
- 16:00the, you know, the more rugged boots and that sort of thing
- 16:02again. The other thing I'll say that's
- 16:05come from it for me at least, is, you know, I mean I've I've
- 16:10made a couple of like customs or kit bashes where I've used the
- 16:13human heads from Cos Mythic that I liked but not, although I'm
- 16:19not like desperate to have humans in Cosmic, but then
- 16:23seeing them like so with Fisher rice, we've got the Attila head
- 16:27that's painted differently. So it's humanoid but a different
- 16:31race. And this one now painted so it's
- 16:34not human, it's but it's humanoid.
- 16:37It's kind of inspiring me to paint some of my like the third
- 16:43party heads that I've bought with the intention of putting
- 16:45them into Cosmic. Paint them humanoid but not
- 16:49human, and add them to some of these crews, you know?
- 16:54Yeah, exactly. Give them a kind of, and it's
- 16:56probably easy, not easier, but it's probably more.
- 17:00There's more room for creativity in just painting it, you know,
- 17:04kind of human head, blue and red or something rather than, you
- 17:08know, trying to break your heart doing the skin tone, you know.
- 17:11So that's a that's definitely a fun aspect of it.
- 17:15And the paint jobs they mentioned a little bit more
- 17:18muted here. And so obviously the the A, A
- 17:23character is a, a 24. He's more kind of military type
- 17:28fatigues almost. Uh, which is where we get the
- 17:32Joe thing from and even the the CC 24, the alien guy, he's
- 17:39looking you know his skin is more kind of dark brownish kind
- 17:44of green more kind of reptilian than even than you know if Tiger
- 17:51the blue is more kind of alien. This guy is more kind of
- 17:54reptile, I would say. You're definitely getting and
- 17:58the armor, I mean there is like the purple that kind of sticks
- 18:00out and maybe the red on the character.
- 18:03But you know, it is definitely less in your face than some of
- 18:07the other cosmic figures. Yeah.
- 18:10And that's nice. That gives it just a different
- 18:11feel, doesn't it? Like you know, cosmic being
- 18:14bright and all that sort of stuff is great, but it is nice
- 18:16to have, you know, like I think Eric on Jeremy show then you
- 18:20mentioned like Space Marine sort of feel for, yeah, a A20 and
- 18:24you've got that sort of feel to it.
- 18:26So you know, the more drab colors and that sort of thing
- 18:28works really well. Sure it does.
- 18:31Yeah. And if we move on, we can see
- 18:36the back that A A has a backpack from Vargas.
- 18:42I was right there. They're doing that again with
- 18:44him, yeah. And the other guy, the ailing
- 18:49guy has the kind of Tusk back piece, but really nicely
- 18:56painted. Probably the most detailed paint
- 18:59job we have on that piece so far, maybe, I reckon.
- 19:03Yeah, which? Again, just shows the effort
- 19:05they go to because it's at the back.
- 19:07So most people who display it, you're never going to see that,
- 19:10yeah, But they've still made the effort to, you know, really go
- 19:12for it. Exactly.
- 19:14And also, I see you see it. I mean, you see it in the front
- 19:19as well, but those little kind of knife parts coming out of the
- 19:23wrist of the Alien sets, I love those.
- 19:25They're really sweet. Noven Lean as them too.
- 19:28Yeah, this really is a Noven Lean kind of superset, isn't.
- 19:33It. It's not even lean, is it?
- 19:35It's the The Scorpion Lady and by.
- 19:40He has them as well, but but he has them as well.
- 19:43Yeah, yeah, yeah. Can't.
- 19:45Remember now? But yeah.
- 19:47And this is an alternate look. Then with some of the alternate
- 19:51heads, we have the the Tusk helmet on A, A and the alien
- 19:57head with the six eyes painted completely differently.
- 20:02Bright green eyes and a kind of brown top half with the kind of
- 20:06light, very lightish purple lower half.
- 20:10Very alien looking, Very creepy. Yeah, that that 2 tone head is
- 20:13great. It just gives it real different
- 20:15because I've used the head a few Times Now, but with the two
- 20:17tones and the bright shiny eyes that yeah, really different feel
- 20:22but really good feel. Yeah, this is where the design
- 20:25comes into it, where you can design something that is
- 20:28possible to paint a lot of different ways and actually look
- 20:32different. Like, we know it's the same AD.
- 20:34We're not like completely crazy, but we can kind of say that's
- 20:40just another character within that species, you know?
- 20:42And it's kind of believable that way.
- 20:46The gun paint jobs in these next level.
- 20:49Again, really like that? Yeah, just really cool.
- 20:59Is this problem here Rich that you're going to have to get a
- 21:02few to display in different ways and.
- 21:07Yes, I thought about that too long, did I?
- 21:10Yes, the problem is I will have to get a few to display in
- 21:12different ways. And but that's.
- 21:13Fine, I got these. These are two great builds.
- 21:15I have no problem whatsoever in getting a few of them and the
- 21:18fact we get the sobbing I can hear.
- 21:21I can hear it in the hall now. It is breaking down crying.
- 21:25Yeah, you're right. Yes, basically just but just the
- 21:29fact that you get the the additional arms with CC 24.
- 21:33So if you don't have to get on the reptilian route, you can
- 21:35just swap in normal normal arms and then put any sort of cool
- 21:39custom head or whatever on. So yes, I will.
- 21:41Definitely get a fair few of these.
- 21:43Yeah, that's actually a sweet thing that we will when we see
- 21:45the accessories. It's definitely worth talking a
- 21:49bit more about and yeah, what's the tactic here then?
- 21:54Is it to? Is it to stock up at legions con
- 21:57or is it to wait for the standard versions?
- 22:03I will do my normal trick of waiting for the standard
- 22:05versions. However, I do love the exclusive
- 22:08parts in this set and the mythic set, so I will be getting unlike
- 22:12all previous years where I haven't done this.
- 22:14I will be getting them, opening them in the room and bringing
- 22:17them back loose sort of thing so I can get the exclusive parts.
- 22:20Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's of course the
- 22:23packaging sounds amazing. So I think Malin, you'll have to
- 22:26bring back a package one somehow.
- 22:28Yeah, right. Yeah.
- 22:29You know, I'm a sucker for the packaging.
- 22:31And then with all these con exclusives, particularly the
- 22:34tributes, I've been getting them signed by the the person who
- 22:38they're a tribute to. So yeah, yeah, I'll be getting,
- 22:42I'll be getting a few at Legion Con, but how many I'll get, I'll
- 22:49have to decide nearer the time. I think I'll definitely get.
- 22:51Oh yeah. Because because we're sitting
- 22:53here now in early May and we don't know what's going to come
- 22:57up between now and November, which could have a serious
- 23:00impact on any sort of decision making and with your 25 Fisher
- 23:06Rice that you've ordered. Well issue.
- 23:10Well then that that's the cool thing is that you know the I
- 23:14forget. I forget what the faction Fisher
- 23:16Rice is part of this shadow circle.
- 23:21As I said to you guys before, I'd been wanting that sort of
- 23:25mercenary faction that you can just add any character to like
- 23:31the yeah you can use some of the extra heads, add them to the you
- 23:36know the bodies for that you can do.
- 23:39There's all sorts you can do because with these I kind of
- 23:44want the extra because I want the parts more than I want all
- 23:47these different builds, but I do want basically the Tusk
- 23:51character in those colours and the alien, you know, so.
- 23:59Yeah, I hear you. I hear you.
- 24:03But yeah, I think this will be swappable.
- 24:05I think between fish or rice, I think those parts will work.
- 24:08Time it does. Similar similar colours is
- 24:13similar enough anyway to be able to right?
- 24:19Here's a look at the parts that comes with the CC figure.
- 24:23So this is the standard version parts.
- 24:29So without the exclusive pieces you get a neck.
- 24:33So that's the neck that comes with Oleg Tiger though the the
- 24:39deluxe one, isn't it? The one in the in the suit?
- 24:43Yeah, yeah. So sweet.
- 24:46Obviously the two heads, the Novi Lean and it's the open jaw
- 24:49Novi and lean head as well, which is cool.
- 24:51Yeah. Yeah.
- 24:55So I'm sure somebody will repaint the closed jaw one as
- 24:58well. Try to match the colors here.
- 25:00Could be could be tricky. It's definitely possible, but
- 25:04could be tricky given the kind of way this is painted.
- 25:10You know, with the washes and all the different kind of
- 25:13textures and tones and a couple of pairs of hands.
- 25:17As we said, those wrists things. A sword from mythic.
- 25:20I didn't seen that before. Yeah, short sword.
- 25:25Pretty OK. I feel like we OK with that,
- 25:27yeah. Yeah.
- 25:28In this, in this case, it just feels like a a huge dagger, a
- 25:31huge, yeah, knife, you know? Yeah.
- 25:34Just a brutal weapon to use, isn't it?
- 25:35It's just like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 25:38And they can also double as making these sandwiches in the
- 25:41morning before he heads out and spray and and then we have two
- 25:47pairs of feet, which I mean, come on, we love extra stuff
- 25:50like, you know, weird access. Not weird but like unusual extra
- 25:54accessories like feet is, you know, I think they first did it
- 25:57in Vortag in mythic. That was a kind of groundbreaker
- 26:00for me. It was like, yes, like this,
- 26:02bare feet and. Is is she building up John to a
- 26:05scene, like a Dio scene, where you've got one figure going
- 26:07through a door and then there's just all these sets of boots
- 26:09outside through all the other characters already in the room.
- 26:13It's like they've all taken their shoes off.
- 26:14Yeah, well, you know, I'll just borrow my daughter's Barbie
- 26:19Playhouse wardrobe, you know, there you go.
- 26:22Maybe painted up a little bit more in the in the mythic style
- 26:26and there we go. Or cosmic style.
- 26:29So yeah, we get the alien boots and the regular kind of trooper
- 26:33boots here. So these aren't the Novine Lean
- 26:35boots. They come and the other guy.
- 26:36Isn't that right? Yeah, yeah.
- 26:40And the pair of shoulder pauldrons that come with Vorga
- 26:43repainted, as we said before, I believe they're the same color.
- 26:47They're not a mismatched pauldron, but just in this
- 26:49picture, maybe the light is hitting off one of them a bit.
- 26:53I think they are the same color. I think it's just the way the
- 26:55light's hitting it here. Then we have.
- 26:59This is amazing. We have a giant hands pack that
- 27:04comes with. Yeah, it's basically hands back
- 27:06on its own, isn't it? Let's see, 123456 sets of hands.
- 27:11I mean many. Do you get an hands?
- 27:12Back 12 so it's half a hands back.
- 27:16OK, it's not. Yeah, it's not bad.
- 27:18It's pretty cool, yeah. But you usually only get if you
- 27:21get a hands pack. You usually get two different
- 27:23types of hands, like you know, like you say human hands and an
- 27:26orc hands or something. So this is probably the whole
- 27:29set of one type of hand. Definitely no.
- 27:31There's two different hands there.
- 27:33Oh, is there? Oh, there's like the gloves and
- 27:35there's the Yeah, gloves and there's the.
- 27:37Yeah, weirdly they've put the pairs together wrongly.
- 27:42At the start of the picture I say they Trevor.
- 27:47Wow, you just made an enemy for life.
- 27:50Unless it is both to be that way.
- 27:53Well then the rest aren't. So maybe he wasn't sure.
- 27:56Then he's. And maybe he's like.
- 28:00Trevor, I'd like to apologise on behalf of me and John for that.
- 28:03It's a small thing that nobody either not meant.
- 28:07No one will notice. You know it's.
- 28:10Awesome Idiot talks about it on the podcast.
- 28:13Yeah. He just told me it was cool to
- 28:16use one of his couple of his pictures forever.
- 28:19So and now he's going to, he's going to take us to court,
- 28:24right? You know we love you Trevor.
- 28:26So, and no extra boots here, but extra wrist gauntlets.
- 28:34I mean another cool type of accessory there, You know, extra
- 28:39wrist gauntlets. So the kind of mythic leather
- 28:42gauntlets if you want to give them the more kind of more
- 28:50trooper vibe. And then these cosmic ones
- 28:54painted up really nicely with the Reds and silver.
- 28:58Or you can a bit of get a bit of that asymmetry that people like
- 29:02can have one of them. Yeah, I've heard you're a fan of
- 29:06that as well. Yeah, definitely.
- 29:08We all like a little bit. I see it as like the the more
- 29:13sci-fi gauntlet is as if you've got some sort of communicated
- 29:17device or something on, you know, and it does the AH.
- 29:20Yeah, yeah. Does I like it nice?
- 29:24I like it most when you get a figure that you can do both
- 29:27looks with. Yeah, I find it a bit some it's
- 29:31it's fine on the character like say Atlas, but you know maybe
- 29:34uh, if it was like a builder or something and you got one bare
- 29:37arm or something. Oh yeah, for sure, you know.
- 29:40Anyway, uh, very nicely painted up weapons and the backpack as
- 29:46we said, the same. Yeah, the backpack is sweet,
- 29:49isn't it? Yeah, yeah, really nice.
- 29:51And the same shoulder pauldrons again, but painted up in green
- 29:55this time kind of 1 flat green with silver accents.
- 29:59So sweet, the Magnus head painted in a kind of Fury Clan
- 30:06red but with the 2 tone of a kind of purplish into purplish
- 30:11blue at the top and the forehead.
- 30:13Really nicely done there and and the trooper helmet, the sentry
- 30:20helmet isn't it? That's the sentry helmet again,
- 30:24really nicely done. Really glossy black kind of
- 30:28visor and the green and red suite and a couple of tubes
- 30:35there, which I didn't notice at 1st until and we come to them
- 30:38later. A couple of pop and swaps that
- 30:40Trevor did in his while he was photographing them and he shared
- 30:45them on the stream with Jeremy and Eric.
- 30:47So they're always good to get, always nice to have options for
- 30:52you, kind of, you know, they plug into different parts, like
- 30:55into the backpack, into those Risk gauntlets.
- 30:58There's parts on the armor I think, that they'll plug into
- 31:00so. Very.
- 31:02I'm still waiting for a parts maker or someone in the cabal to
- 31:05like come up with multi coloured versions of those.
- 31:07I will find some sort of wire and material.
- 31:10And also you're like bright green ones, bright blue ones.
- 31:13Yeah, Translucent one smile. Yeah, that would be nice, Yes.
- 31:20So then we have the glamour shots and that's the one of
- 31:24CC-24 that Trevor took. Amazing.
- 31:28These are the shots I've used in your episode art.
- 31:31I mean just made that is if you want to market an action figure,
- 31:36just take a shot like that. Yeah.
- 31:38You know incredible. I hope he's got the.
- 31:40Print of these both of these. Yeah, that would be.
- 31:43I'm sure he will. Yeah, that normally that would
- 31:45make sense. That just makes too much sense
- 31:47not to do it. And and these go to the One Six
- 31:52shooter. Follow him on Instagram and
- 31:55you'll see this, and they'll probably have some more pictures
- 31:59up by the time the septal drops or in the next coming weeks.
- 32:04Really, really nice. The one of a A then is really
- 32:08cool. It's kind of like a almost the
- 32:10opposite way, kind of. Yeah, I love.
- 32:13I love the pose with the gun nose.
- 32:15Yeah, across the mile. That's great.
- 32:18Mallet, can you just confirm, are those the same two hands or
- 32:20are they the wrong way around as well?
- 32:22Well, he's actually. Well, actually.
- 32:30No, but it's deliberate, isn't it?
- 32:31There he's, yeah, he'd gone for a bit of that asymmetry and.
- 32:35It looks awesome. Very good.
- 32:38I also, and I meant to say it earlier, I noticed the awesome
- 32:42neck piece from Novi and lean the little scarf, You think?
- 32:45In another color. Yeah, in another color.
- 32:48I used it in my little kit bash custom that I did for the
- 32:52Enablers D&D character challenge.
- 32:55So that's a very sweet piece. Nice to have it in different
- 33:00color for painters and non painters alike.
- 33:03It's always good to get parts in different colors.
- 33:07Yeah, that's one of those pieces that, as much as it's like this
- 33:09little random nothing is not the right word, but on its own it's
- 33:14not a lot to it. I'd love a little pack of
- 33:17various colors of it and. Yeah, but there's there's parts
- 33:21like that, like the Belfagor neck piece, again, it just can
- 33:24bring a figure together. Yeah, you've got maybe a couple
- 33:29of the earlier figures. The, you know, the spiky collar
- 33:33piece comes on, uh, one of the goblins and it definitely comes
- 33:38on UH, cargo, I think. And Malleus I think has a spiky
- 33:42one like that as well. Uh, just a little extra pieces
- 33:46that are sweet. Yeah, uh, then we come on to the
- 33:50packaging and this is kind of where I I understand, you know,
- 33:55the excitement and the, UH, how it's cool for people that were
- 34:00aware of this, but this, this wasn't on my radar at all this
- 34:03thing. But a lot of people maybe.
- 34:06I think it was still, it's from Tommy, this mighty man and the
- 34:10Monster Maker. It's a kind of a, it's basically
- 34:14a like a drawing pack, kind of where you can create your own
- 34:18little monsters with the templates and kind of stencils
- 34:22and things that you draw over. So probably did exist in the UK
- 34:30as well, but not on my radar. No, I've I've never seen it
- 34:34before. So, umm, it is, uh, yeah.
- 34:40As I said, it is a kind of an art thing where you can kind of
- 34:43create these different monsters using, uh, different kind of,
- 34:46uh. They're almost like stamps, uh,
- 34:49with kind of stencils on them. And you can kind of put your
- 34:51paper over it and then you can kind of trace with the crayon or
- 34:54the charcoal, you know, the charcoal thing or whatever.
- 34:59Umm And make your characters then colour them in.
- 35:03What I will say, and I don't mean to belittle it for those
- 35:09people who it was clearly very, you know, very important to, but
- 35:15I feel like the images they show as possible from it are a little
- 35:21bit of. A.
- 35:22You know, aspiration. What you can achieve?
- 35:26Yeah, yeah. It is such you could achieve if
- 35:30you just took the paper out and had really.
- 35:33Could draw. But you have artists like Eric,
- 35:37Treadway and even Trevor who was definitely art was one of these
- 35:41things and that we're talking about it.
- 35:44So it must have some artistic merit, for sure.
- 35:49Oh, he definitely has artistic merit, Look.
- 35:51At the hands on the packet though, it's like, yeah, they're
- 35:53trying to say to kids, you've got to be dead to do.
- 35:55If you're a zombie, then this is absolutely for you and.
- 35:59Apparently there was some, uh, the guys were talking on the, on
- 36:02that show, on Jeremy's show about these hands, that there
- 36:05was something where they actually had to mold these
- 36:08hands, kind of. They weren't just a kind of a,
- 36:11you know, the nearest that they actually were specially made
- 36:13like that. They weren't just, you know, do
- 36:16we have any puppet hands we can shove on this?
- 36:18It was like, yeah, uh, so and then on the back of that pack,
- 36:23uh, they show you all the different characters that you
- 36:26could do or potentially do UH or some of them, maybe not all of
- 36:29them and and all the different poses, uh, So this I believe is
- 36:36kind of going, the package is going to homage this in some way
- 36:39shape or form so. I think that'll be cool.
- 36:42That will be cool. It's cool of them to kind of you
- 36:45know, that's something special. I mean something for the moaners
- 36:49to moan about when they can't make it to legions con.
- 36:51But you know eBay won't be that expensive.
- 36:55If you really want it, you'll pay for it.
- 36:57And and then Trevor showed off uh a couple of popping swaps he
- 37:01did uh to match. If you see the different poses
- 37:05here, umm I can go back and forward for the people watching
- 37:09on YouTube and you can see that the different poses are done in
- 37:14the different UH ones here. So for example this first
- 37:18picture here, it's the second one with the tail uh and kind of
- 37:22hand down to the side and this uh third last one over here with
- 37:26the kind of sword or thing up in the air.
- 37:28I think that's those two and using the vampire head which we
- 37:33need to get back to that, let me get back to that in a SEC.
- 37:36And then we have the alien, uh, guy and the kind of standard,
- 37:42almost standard kind of a a build as well.
- 37:45And they're posed in the same way as two of those pictures as
- 37:50well, That red and yellow kind of superheroes as well.
- 37:54Yeah. And then this is where I saw the
- 37:58hoses first. So is the.
- 38:01I love this pose with the the hoses.
- 38:03I mean, John, according to you, this is how every figure on my
- 38:06display is posed, just like that.
- 38:08It's dark and not moving. But this one, yeah, this one
- 38:11will be, because this one looks great like this.
- 38:13Well, the hoses are giving it a bit of movement, you see.
- 38:16So you don't need to worry too much about, uh, how it's posed,
- 38:19you know, and and probably better to pose them like that.
- 38:23So the hoses are flush and won't be popping out every five
- 38:27seconds. And this is the case where they
- 38:30have kind of mixed their heads between the two figures and
- 38:33which of course we will do, you know, we there is a certain
- 38:36cannon to it all, but uh, we certainly will do.
- 38:40And right before I go on, I wanted to go back to the start
- 38:46and talk about the exclusive heads, so specifically this
- 38:51Barn, Volgar, Redhead, What do you think of that, Rich?
- 38:58Not for Cosmic, but for mythics, absolutely.
- 39:00I now have a Fury vampire. OK, you're going to.
- 39:03I hadn't been tempted. I hadn't been tempted to to
- 39:06paint a vampire head red at all. But as there's one come in here,
- 39:08then yeah, I will find a way to have a Fury vampire in there.
- 39:12Yeah, I did a carpetius head in red years ago, a good few years
- 39:17ago, and it might have been a dragul head, but you know that
- 39:20head. Yeah, in red it looked it looked
- 39:23really cool. Then on the Fury arc, yeah.
- 39:25And this is this is such a great sculpt as well, it just gives it
- 39:27that extra personality, which I think is always good for a Fury
- 39:31clan member. And I also think the red and
- 39:36just the way you'd see it out of context from the vampire build.
- 39:40It doesn't really say Baron Bolliger to me, so I'm good with
- 39:43it. No, it doesn't.
- 39:45It doesn't automatically say that, no.
- 39:49You're going to do anything with this vampire head mall or?
- 39:52I actually think I will, yeah. I'm not fussed about it as
- 39:55vampire. I just like it as another weird
- 39:57alien creature. And that, to be honest, was the
- 40:01head I thought about putting on Fisher Rice Body as another
- 40:04member. Cool, I thought.
- 40:07That'd be quite cool. It's it's also if you have a
- 40:10spare Furious 4 figure knocking around.
- 40:13I got a good view at the time when they had them in stock.
- 40:17Stick it on one of those. That'll work.
- 40:20And then the really cool Oleg Tiger originally helmet with the
- 40:27kind of glass Dome, so done in a purple translucent plastic and
- 40:34the green obviously with the neck piece, I think.
- 40:38I think that next piece must be coming with that head.
- 40:41The neck pieces with the figure full stop.
- 40:43It's always there's yeah. OK, cool.
- 40:46That's that's sweet. And yeah, so that's a that's a
- 40:50nice one. Yeah.
- 40:51Happy to have that helmet, another color, right.
- 40:53And not something you could do yourself because it's
- 40:56translucent plastic. So always good to get something
- 41:00like that, yeah? And then, as you said, the extra
- 41:04armored arms for the alien. Yeah, I completely forgot their
- 41:07exclusive parts so that I might get two lots of this darn thing
- 41:10there. That's like I have a couple of
- 41:11those arm sets. It's like, damn it.
- 41:14That is the that is the bit for for me that I'm like, well, I'd
- 41:17quite like a few of them as options, yeah.
- 41:23And then they have the belt, like the belts or kind of
- 41:25skirts. No belt and kind of folds thing
- 41:31here on the right hand side of the picture.
- 41:33That's also an accessory, I suppose goes.
- 41:37I think it goes with the CC-24, the alien guy, yeah.
- 41:41Yeah, it certainly paints like it is, yeah.
- 41:45So very nice and no accessory that we missed either.
- 41:49No, I don't think. So no, I've got I got a
- 41:51screenshot when Jeremy showed him, highlights it on his show
- 41:53and that was all the exclusive. Nice.
- 41:56All right. And then after all of Trevor's
- 42:01pictures here we had one last one from our friend UH Rick.
- 42:05Emmert and Rich sent us along to our group today and and he says
- 42:11I'm something of a mighty monster maker myself and he has
- 42:15taken uh with a little bit of help from his image he has taken
- 42:20the UH head from the Chris figure in the day.
- 42:25One lead us kind of clis of what's he called again gorge the
- 42:28unbearable. That would be more that would
- 42:34have been more accurate I think, but it's just.
- 42:41Yeah, him, anyway. And the Pauldrons from Novi
- 42:45Lean. And yeah, that looks very
- 42:48familiarly like a character from one of those sci-fi properties.
- 42:54I've got to say, Rick's Digi bash is an awful lot better than
- 42:57my attempt for yeah. We could get, we could get a
- 43:02three-year old on the show and there's.
- 43:04I think, I think, I think what they need at Legions Khan.
- 43:08If they were doing like because they are doing a few.
- 43:10I think they have what do you call them like educational
- 43:14sessions? One on Digi bashing please if
- 43:17anyone. I mean, you have me here, you
- 43:20could have just asked me, you know?
- 43:22I'm right. Yeah, I suppose I could to both
- 43:24of you, because even Rich is better than mine as well, wasn't
- 43:27it? So well.
- 43:28Excuse me? Even riches?
- 43:29Well, you, do. You mean even?
- 43:33We know you're we know you as was good.
- 43:37We know you're a technophobe. But yeah, I'm just.
- 43:43I'm just old. This is A and just for clarity
- 43:47for everyone, this is a. This is a Boba Fett build.
- 43:50Yes, sorry. Yes, for Nobody's listening.
- 43:52Yeah, I wonder about of course we'll we'll all play around with
- 43:56it and see. Must actually maybe bring a
- 43:59Novine Lean to these and scan, but maybe a bit of asymmetry.
- 44:04Maybe I just have one of the shoulder things on.
- 44:07Yeah. Yeah.
- 44:09See if we can. See if we can.
- 44:11There's a lot of soft goods with the Day One pack, so could we
- 44:15wangle one of those soft goods into being kind of a makeshift
- 44:19Cape for her little kid, Bash Boba?
- 44:23We could Weld it, yeah. Yeah.
- 44:27Very good. So that's that's all I had for.
- 44:30Can I can I put my one negative point about the two pack?
- 44:34Oh yeah. And people moan and never can.
- 44:37They can't go to Legion Scan. Oh, they're no, I could.
- 44:41I could talk for an hour about the people that think it's
- 44:43unfair that people who make an effort to go to convention get a
- 44:46couple of different painted heads.
- 44:47Apparently that's a scandal and everybody else should get them
- 44:51anyway, which is complete nonsense.
- 44:52But there we go. It's it's jealousy gone berserk.
- 44:56And it's sad, quite frankly. But no, my actual complaint is
- 45:01that I don't like the fact that you use Magnus head.
- 45:05It's because it's a it's a human head.
- 45:06And I'm going to start a campaign now and I've got
- 45:09Incapdals on my phone here. Just emphasize it.
- 45:11Keep Cosmereum human free. I don't care what colour they're
- 45:15painted. Keep the human portraits out of
- 45:17it. No.
- 45:17No. You need to say humanoid free.
- 45:21See you. You don't like fish or rice like
- 45:24that? Neither, then?
- 45:24No, I don't like that head there.
- 45:25Either so Rich feels very differently to me then.
- 45:28So. So yeah.
- 45:29Come with the solution? Then what?
- 45:31What? What?
- 45:32What just Indian heads? Just use alien heads, Don't use
- 45:35human. Don't have any other alien heads
- 45:37yet. This little head maybe?
- 45:41Goblin head. That would be better just not
- 45:46human, because Miriam is human free.
- 45:51OK, but you know you can take the heads off and put a
- 45:53different one on. Oh, I'm going to.
- 45:55Don't worry. That head's not going anywhere
- 45:56near that body. Very good.
- 45:59Well, have we anything more to say on?
- 46:03No, I'm, I'm relaxed now. I've got the two different rants
- 46:05out of the way at once. So yeah, I'm going.
- 46:07To I love it. I love it.
- 46:08And right. So let's get on after the break
- 46:12for a little bit of All Stars is gone for the year talk.
- 46:18Yeah. My wallet is sobbing.
- 46:22I can hear it. I can hear it in the hall.
- 46:24Now it is breaking down crying. There we go.
- 46:29So. Before we go into that, John,
- 46:32can I just need a quick product placement, American friends, be
- 46:35used to this? The beer I'm drinking this
- 46:37evening is Peroni Grande Reserva.
- 46:40It's an Italian beer. If anyone hasn't tried it, drink
- 46:44it. It's incredible.
- 46:45Like really thick lager. It is beautiful.
- 46:49Is it I have to give that? Is it?
- 46:50Is it like stronger than Budweiser or?
- 46:53Yeah, it's six point something percent.
- 46:56I didn't mean you to check. Yeah.
- 46:58No, it's it's 6.8%. So there we go.
- 47:02There we go. Not sponsored.
- 47:03Not sponsored. Not sponsored at all, but it's
- 47:05amazing. Get it, get it, Get.
- 47:07It very good, yeah. Get it in stock for Rich so he
- 47:12can go down the offi and and get a few.
- 47:14Yeah, yeah. If we've got any way of having a
- 47:16chat with that supermarket by the by the hotel in America, I
- 47:20bet get some of these in. Or if any friends of the show
- 47:23happen to have one in their local and can stick a few in the
- 47:25in their trunk on the way. I will be forever grateful.
- 47:29You can overcharge Richford and spend your money on the
- 47:33exclusives. So yeah.
- 47:38Anyway, one thing that we wanted to get to tonight, as well as
- 47:41the Legions Gone Exclude Day 2 exclusive was uh, the fact that
- 47:46there's going to be no All Stars wave this year.
- 47:48Confirmed by Jeremy. And he kind of, uh, yeah, he he
- 47:55he set up a show like he was announcing something and then
- 47:57this is all it was really. And he had nothing to announce
- 48:01in its place as such. And so it kind of was like, uh,
- 48:06a lot of talking around it and then saying it and then OK,
- 48:09that's it. Which was funny.
- 48:12Umm. He did go very red on that show
- 48:15when that came up. He did slag himself off this,
- 48:20this week about the fact that he's not red anymore.
- 48:25He was obviously having a very busy and crazy work day and
- 48:29we've all had them and there's nothing wrong with that.
- 48:32And yeah, so the All Stars is, is, yeah, I would have been
- 48:36shocked if there was All Stars now after this mystery box
- 48:39thing. I mean, you know, I've said it,
- 48:42I say it's kind of in jest. But there, there we need now
- 48:45some new figures and a wave of new figures, a figure obscure, A
- 48:51cosmic wave OXCREW 2, whatever it's going to be and then get us
- 48:56into lesions con. So I think that's what you know
- 48:58that's what I'm looking at is looking at a new mythics wave
- 49:02cosmics wave figure obscure or two.
- 49:05And then obviously the 25th anniversary stuff might be
- 49:09sprinkled in between there somewhere are related to it.
- 49:13But you guys, I think, I think we've probably established this
- 49:16already. But Mal, you're all right with
- 49:18no All Stars for that. Yeah, yeah, I sort of said on
- 49:22Saturday day show that honestly last couple of times, as fun as
- 49:29the voting side of it is and the prospect of getting some of
- 49:32these older figures, honestly when they're not the figures I
- 49:37voted for, I wouldn't bother with them unless apart from the
- 49:40fact I was buying the all in realistically.
- 49:45So I'm not. Yeah.
- 49:46And the most exciting part of most recent all In's has been
- 49:50the plus part, the new. Figures and rich, I think.
- 49:57Yeah, I mean when you for the audio version of this John, and
- 50:00maybe for the the YouTube version, if you can swing it
- 50:02some sort of celebratory music or song or something like that.
- 50:05When you say there's no, there's no All Stars this year, it's
- 50:08like, yeah, just like cheering fanfares, all that sort of
- 50:13stuff, because there you go. There you go.
- 50:20Yeah, we we, we need a, we need a break from All Stars.
- 50:22It's it's it's good fun as Mal said.
- 50:25You know there's the stuff on the Cabal is great fun with the
- 50:28posters and that you know it can get a bit bit much at times but
- 50:30it's it's great fun. But then you risk getting
- 50:33absolute waste of space characters like Claven getting a
- 50:36spot with no new. Car A.
- 50:40Dreadfully boring figure. It's just like, no, no, no, no,
- 50:44no. So, you know, we can avoid that
- 50:47sort of thing. Which stuff?
- 50:48If he hadn't already. He's writing his second letter
- 50:54to his lawyer and he just thought he was going to be
- 50:59photography, photographing figures while listening to her
- 51:02voices. Instead, he's busy now typing
- 51:05away. But I think the key thing with
- 51:07no All Stars, it just makes more space for new figures.
- 51:11You know, whatever route the go down version twos, you know, any
- 51:16sort of you know, the four great beasts, a dragon, whatever they
- 51:22do it makes space in the calendar for that and it's a
- 51:26busy year. We don't clocked out with old,
- 51:29but in the case of Clavian crap. Figures like what are two
- 51:32things? I'll say.
- 51:33One, All Stars has definitely served us well.
- 51:35I definitely benefited a lot from All Stars given the time
- 51:39they got into the line. So I don't have anything bad to
- 51:42say about it, uh, at all. And I'd have been fine with
- 51:45another All Stars waves. But now that we've had the
- 51:47mystery box thing, you know I that's that's covered that for
- 51:51me. There's people have had a chance
- 51:53uh, at getting older figures, uh, in a different kind of way.
- 51:57There's a lot of trading going on in the group.
- 51:59Umm, it's definitely if you live in America with the flat
- 52:03shipping there was a great deal and if you needed a lot of those
- 52:05figures, I mean as long as I just wanted a cater.
- 52:08So you know, I wasn't going to be run the dice for that anyway.
- 52:12I'm sure by the time you get to Legions Con I'll either be able
- 52:15to snag one off the table or somebody will be, you know,
- 52:19maybe have one for for trade or sale or whatever.
- 52:21Maybe someone that listens to this and be like, well, I I have
- 52:23one. I'll trade you for something at
- 52:25Legions con. Awesome.
- 52:28Uh, if I needed like man, maybe half of them.
- 52:31Yeah, sure, a couple of mystery boxes and see what you do and
- 52:35that's it, you know? But uh yeah, I think I'm.
- 52:39I'm good with it. Uh, bring on the new stuff?
- 52:43Absolutely. And the other thing that he, UH
- 52:45said in relation to that was that they're looking more along
- 52:49the direction of Version 2's. So, uh, that definitely might be
- 52:54something that's coming this year.
- 52:56I see that as a totally separate thing to All Stars.
- 52:59I see that as just a new figure. Uh.
- 53:01Especially as Version 2's often have new parts altogether.
- 53:05Uh, it's not like, you know, just using it.
- 53:08OK, they do use existing parts, but they they do definitely put
- 53:11new things like new heads and and all that kind of stuff into
- 53:15it. So umm, I'm down for that.
- 53:18And they did also say that this would also maybe extend the
- 53:23version 2's further into the characters and that it might not
- 53:27just be the big hitters there. There is scope for some of the
- 53:31uh less kind of uh prominent in the story characters to get
- 53:37version 2. So you know, that's good.
- 53:39Yeah. Sorry, Richard as.
- 53:41Long as they didn't go crazy, and you know, and I'm sure they
- 53:43won't, but they're producing so many version twos that it limits
- 53:46the new characters coming out. I'm sure they won't.
- 53:48But as long as they avoid that, then version twos are great.
- 53:51You know, it's like new parts, better parts.
- 53:54It's just no brainer. Yeah, but I mean if you were
- 53:56looking, you know, maybe a less prominent character, I don't
- 53:59know say something like Orange D Light, maybe he would be a cool
- 54:041 to get a version 2, for example, because he's kind of
- 54:07so, uh, out of kind of production or you know, so long
- 54:12not not in circulation and they have a lot of new dwarf parts.
- 54:18So give give him a new colour scheme, or the same colour
- 54:21scheme with a lot of new parts also, you know, and so Mal, uh,
- 54:28we what's that rich? The gerbil's out.
- 54:34He's not drinking water. He's decided that running in his
- 54:36wheel is a thing to do now while I'm podcasting.
- 54:38It's OK. It's OK.
- 54:40I'm getting better at this kind of stuff.
- 54:42So we'll manage with them. No, I can't hear him.
- 54:45So yeah, if I can't hear him, I'm sure our listeners can't.
- 54:49Hopefully anyway. I also then want in relation to
- 54:55that, I thought we should maybe have a quick chat about what
- 54:59version twos. If we were to pick our top three
- 55:01version twos. And this is maybe something
- 55:03we'll go deeper in, in a future episode to maybe, you know, do a
- 55:07roster version twos but just the top three that if they could, if
- 55:12they're going to do three this year, what would you prefer?
- 55:16And maybe we let Mal go first. Let Rich go first.
- 55:21Rich, go first. Yeah, Rich with the gerbil.
- 55:24Disturbing him. Go first.
- 55:26He's fine. Just keep this up.
- 55:27So. My first one is actually the
- 55:28character you just mentioned, John, so it's on steelhide.
- 55:31Cool. It's such a basic figure that
- 55:35any sort of upgrade would be good.
- 55:36Quite frankly, it's yes. What?
- 55:38Would be your kind of number one thing that you'd like with Doran
- 55:42Steelhouse. I would like more leather and
- 55:44fabric parts rather than all armor, So there's talk about it
- 55:47being a dwarven race that, you know, skips through the trees
- 55:50and all this sort of stuff. So you're not going to be doing
- 55:52that on full plate armor. So that'll be the main thing for
- 55:54me. And then I was thinking of the
- 55:57satchel that came with the gold guy.
- 56:00Yes, the grotos. Yeah, that would work well, and
- 56:04I'd quite like him if they did. He's meant to be a tall dwarf.
- 56:07So if they, Sorry the bloody gerbil.
- 56:11If they, if they. Did like the monkey.
- 56:13They're like Monkey King where they had their longer thighs, so
- 56:16a similar thing for for all. So he's just that little bit
- 56:19taller than the rest of the dwarfs so that you can see is
- 56:22part of a different, different group.
- 56:25I don't know why, but I'm thinking maybe some sort of horn
- 56:27of some sort. So maybe like the one from the
- 56:29new Dwarf 2 pack. Oh yeah, so he can sound the
- 56:32alarm, you know, he's up in the treetops.
- 56:34Steece have coming sound the alarm.
- 56:37Brilliant. Maybe some sort of accessory
- 56:39that better suits him being a tree dweller so you know they're
- 56:43nimble, but obviously if there's a big gap between tree you're
- 56:44not going to make that. So maybe some sort of like
- 56:46grappling hook type thing with a rope?
- 56:48That would be cool. But you can you can ping across
- 56:50the next tree and like Swing or whatever you want to do across
- 56:53that. Oh, like.
- 56:55And finally an A helmeted head. Yeah.
- 56:59I think he needs an helmeted head, and in my Canon I don't
- 57:02have an orn anymore. I'm sold on but he's blonde so
- 57:05it'd be a blonde, blonde hair, blonde beard, dwarf I.
- 57:08Was going, I was going to say I was.
- 57:11I was going to say I was thinking in my head, he's going
- 57:12to say blonde hair and it makes total sense, you know?
- 57:15Yeah. Amazing.
- 57:16Yeah, right. Who have you got next then?
- 57:21Oh, I'm going through more. OK, yeah, Three years.
- 57:24Next up, Carpathius. OK.
- 57:27Now that you can see her ongoing.
- 57:28Because established that Carpathius is the least favorite
- 57:32of the vampire. Yes, I've written here.
- 57:33Get the current worst vampire out of the brood and replace him
- 57:36with a better one. I mean, it's awful like current
- 57:39Carpathius, but no disrespect to Eric.
- 57:41Some person has, some person has got him in his mystery box, you
- 57:45know warehouse kind of find and he's like punching the air and
- 57:49yeah, probably putting it on eBay to be fair, so.
- 57:55But one more expressive face. I don't particularly like that
- 57:57head. Maybe an open mouth.
- 58:00That'd be quite nice vampires to get like a bit of a snarl or a
- 58:03scream with a Fang sticking out, more ornate armour.
- 58:07I think Baron Volligar set the sort of the template, as it
- 58:10were, for that. So you can have vampires with
- 58:12fancier armour, you know, got atheists is, you know,
- 58:15relatively high up vampire. Therefore a bit more ornate
- 58:18armour and better weapons. He's got that basic sword and
- 58:21that basic dagger and I I'd like something something more
- 58:24intimidating. So you know, like a real the
- 58:27vampires, I think quite a lot of the time and I agree with this.
- 58:29So like you know, sleek and it's all about curved swords or
- 58:34Spears and all that sort of stuff.
- 58:35But this guy just make this guy a bit of a brute, so a bit of a
- 58:38club or or something like that that could really do damage
- 58:41with. Sweet, I guess.
- 58:45So that's my #2. And then lastly is Faunus.
- 58:51I love the Faunus figure. I absolutely love it.
- 58:53It's I think it's the first figure I ever opened like
- 58:57properly from the box, you know, like nobody else.
- 59:00I had Archaeopteryx first, but that had already been opened by
- 59:02somebody else. Whereas this is like this is
- 59:03brand new. I've got it, here we go.
- 59:06But I'd want more of a gnarly look to the wood and that could
- 59:09be through sculpting or through paints.
- 59:12It's relatively basic as is at the moment.
- 59:14I think a bearded face would work well.
- 59:17I think all that sort of dryad tree man sort of thing, it's a
- 59:20beard is always a good effect. For that I'd like sort of tree
- 59:24man type hands and feet with like 10 drawls and that sort of
- 59:28thing coming out. Just give it a bit of a
- 59:30different thing and then some cool soft goods that I was
- 59:34thinking maybe you could have even like weave through the
- 59:36wooden parts. So you know, in an ideal world,
- 59:39maybe they'd do a bear torso with like branch type things and
- 59:42you could have the soft goods weaving through or.
- 59:44That'd be, you know. So, yeah.
- 59:47So those are my three. I'd love love those three,
- 59:50Reader. Yeah.
- 59:51Fondness for me is another one that you know, if I got him in a
- 59:55mystery box, I'd keep him for sure.
- 59:57Oh, yes. I'd keep another an extra of
- 59:59him, no bother. So if there is ever, you know,
- 1:00:04one going round at a close to retail price, I'd probably scoop
- 1:00:07it up if I saw it, definitely. Right, Mal.
- 1:00:11You ready or Yeah, yeah. So hang on, Mal, can I just
- 1:00:15check with three? Yeah, we're not going to be here
- 1:00:17for 7:00 or 8:00. Sorry.
- 1:00:18Three. OK, yeah.
- 1:00:20So #1 jar and Roon Shaper, I think with this.
- 1:00:26Sorry, Interrupt he. Very nearly made my list.
- 1:00:28He was very like a good call. So good.
- 1:00:30Anthony Anthony will be lovely. We'll be getting lovely messages
- 1:00:33of Anthony this week. Well, with the with the, with
- 1:00:36all the new versions of Wizards we've got, it feels like they
- 1:00:40could do him less armoured or keep the armour, add more cloth
- 1:00:42goods and bring him more in line with the newer Wizards.
- 1:00:46Keep the colours though, because that's part of what attracts me
- 1:00:49to him. And once that you know him done
- 1:00:51his, those colours are so different, so cool.
- 1:00:56I was going to say Carpathius as well.
- 1:00:59He's just boring, isn't he? He's just a pretty boring
- 1:01:03figure. So I'm not sure how you make a
- 1:01:05vampire boring, but they managed it with that one.
- 1:01:08Yeah, yeah, I mean again, it's the parts that were available,
- 1:01:11etc etc. But that's why.
- 1:01:14They could, you know, if they were to tool a new part for him,
- 1:01:18they could just tool a new chest plate maybe.
- 1:01:21Yeah, to be honest, that would. That would.
- 1:01:23Make a huge difference, yeah. And a bit more soft goods or
- 1:01:27something and maybe an early. Baby, Is there an argument he
- 1:01:31could have the Baron Volligar chess play being his son, and
- 1:01:39you know, so the heir to that? Painted a bit differently maybe?
- 1:01:42Yeah, yeah, maybe maybe slightly less or an 8 version or
- 1:01:46something, you know, something along those lines.
- 1:01:50Or if they really released him as he is now, just get a Kick Me
- 1:01:53sign and stick it on his back. That would be appropriate for
- 1:01:56that figure. And then I've gone blank.
- 1:02:00Oh yeah, Malachi Cinderhorn. Right.
- 1:02:04I mean the I so, I mean talking of mystery boxes.
- 1:02:13I got the Dark Elf warrior. Yeah.
- 1:02:16And it wasn't that it wasn't like the most the one I wanted
- 1:02:19most but having got it, I'm quite happy with it.
- 1:02:21And the I said to you know you guys didn't know that the
- 1:02:26colours are they're actually really cool.
- 1:02:28They're amazing. Yeah.
- 1:02:29Which kind of then makes me want the Dark Elf Warrior and Malachi
- 1:02:33Cinderhorn, which I never thought I'd say, but
- 1:02:36realistically whilst Malachi Cinderhorn looks really good as
- 1:02:40he is, is there an opportunity to update him again better cloth
- 1:02:45goods Because you know now they've got to see Jessam on
- 1:02:48board. The stuff they're doing is
- 1:02:51compared to and they've said themselves I think even.
- 1:02:54But whether it was Eric or Jeremy, I forget.
- 1:02:56But you know, it was just, it was Eric in fact, just like
- 1:03:00pressed out of a piece of fabric, Whereas now they're
- 1:03:02getting full on properly tailored capes and things.
- 1:03:08And you know, he could have like a long cloth coat or something
- 1:03:13like that, couldn't he? Yeah, for for a figure like him,
- 1:03:17couldn't you maybe try and build it on the 1.0 female book?
- 1:03:23I mean in terms of you know some of the the pieces that go with
- 1:03:30that you know yeah that he's not a one point O like bulky but
- 1:03:33he's kind of a slimmer one point O maybe.
- 1:03:36Yeah it could be an option for us maybe not necessarily him but
- 1:03:40for doing version twos of some of the characters that were in
- 1:03:44the two point O scale. Yeah you know that were slimmer
- 1:03:48build but you know maybe don't need to be that slim you know
- 1:03:55compared to you know the females maybe which are you know perfect
- 1:03:59for that scale some of them at least.
- 1:04:02Uh right. Uh so you've gone you boys have
- 1:04:05both gone a bit uh how would I say this a little bit kind of uh
- 1:04:11left field with yours. I'm going to go for the obvious
- 1:04:13ones. Uh boring.
- 1:04:18Well that's why I I let you go first because I thought well I
- 1:04:21have a few but uh I'm I'm willing to you know see what you
- 1:04:25guys come up with. Not that I kind of take the
- 1:04:27heavy hitters and then you're scrambling.
- 1:04:30Umm so Otto obviously version two obvious.
- 1:04:35The the question more with Otto is how do you do him?
- 1:04:38Uh, I think you do him in the same kind of style as they did
- 1:04:42the Gideon, Gideon version two uh, which is uh you do the night
- 1:04:48build with the soft goods over it and you do maybe uh some
- 1:04:54ornate pieces that like I guess easily Odysseus.
- 1:04:58So you're talking more the the ornate pieces like that.
- 1:05:01Come on Attila, maybe you do them in silver or you do a
- 1:05:06slightly, uh different version of of something like that.
- 1:05:10And obviously the head sculpt, uh, they probably would, I don't
- 1:05:14know. Now would they would they redo
- 1:05:15it like they did Atlas. So it's a new head sculpt, but
- 1:05:18it's the same head sculpt. I think they'd redo it and
- 1:05:22update it because I mean they managed to tweak Atlas so that
- 1:05:26it is it. Look, you know, for all
- 1:05:28intention purposes it is the same, but actually if you look
- 1:05:31really closely you can see the subtle differences.
- 1:05:34I think they'd do that. And then helmeted head.
- 1:05:38Why not? He's the knight, so give us a
- 1:05:41helmeted head as well. Maybe.
- 1:05:43Yeah, that'd maybe be called a silver version of.
- 1:05:46Yeah, the Lionless, Yeah. Yeah.
- 1:05:49And then it's just a faceplate. Yeah, so nice.
- 1:05:52That would be good. Yeah.
- 1:05:54So uh, that's him. I think everyone would be down
- 1:05:58for that. And that's kind of I reckon how
- 1:06:02we're going to get out though not you know good, they'll
- 1:06:04obviously be differences to what I say, but I think it would be
- 1:06:07along those lines and or Erzak Version 2 for sure.
- 1:06:16Yeah, we've got again as Ork, I think they even mentioned, I
- 1:06:18think Eric might have mentioned him on one of the programs sort
- 1:06:21of thing as an important character.
- 1:06:22So if they do in brute scale then.
- 1:06:27Yeah, so he's going to get the 3D shield as well.
- 1:06:34Yeah, brute scale would be a dream, but let's just stick to
- 1:06:371.0. We can say we mentioned brute
- 1:06:40scale, so we're right if that's what happens.
- 1:06:43Or him in Ogre scale troll scale, wolf scale, Elf 2.0,
- 1:06:49anything like that, Yeah, you know, that'd be great as well.
- 1:06:52So we could the brand new Orc. Scale, yeah.
- 1:06:57Cosmic version of him. Anything like that?
- 1:06:59In fact, yeah. Specsie and Ozark, yeah.
- 1:07:05OK, so lots of train of thought there.
- 1:07:07Now with that, yeah, so then I think give him the Vorto armor.
- 1:07:14You know, if if we're not doing a new torso sculpt, Vorto armor
- 1:07:20painted up in a gnarly paint job like he has almost in the
- 1:07:24current version, kind of maybe more rusted and kind of battle,
- 1:07:30you know, battle weary, then would Urzuk really have bare
- 1:07:35feet? Probably not at any point, So
- 1:07:39that probably doesn't make sense for him.
- 1:07:41But maybe they do need to do a new version of those spiky boots
- 1:07:46now. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
- 1:07:48I've just nailed drawing those spiky boots and my drawings.
- 1:07:51Jobless. Let's not be changing the design
- 1:07:53of those. Come on.
- 1:07:55Oh, which is not, not those specifically, but you know,
- 1:07:57another similarly bad guy kind of armored boot that maybe the
- 1:08:03more seriously kick ass guys were, you know, Yeah, so.
- 1:08:10And obviously, as I said, the 3D shield would be sweet.
- 1:08:13Maybe give him a more unique orc head sculpt.
- 1:08:16Maybe it's time for a new orc head sculpt.
- 1:08:20Yeah, yeah. And maybe.
- 1:08:22Sort of more battle worn with like, yeah, like a scarf.
- 1:08:26Or an open mouth, open mouth roaring orc, you know.
- 1:08:30I used to love scars down the face of her eyes, but there's so
- 1:08:33many characters and customers now with that that it's like
- 1:08:37maybe a. Broken.
- 1:08:39So the open mouth screaming one rich.
- 1:08:41There you go for an orc. For an ORC.
- 1:08:42Yeah, about screaming. Be good.
- 1:08:44Battle, you know, going into battle.
- 1:08:46So he's lost part of his cheeks as an exposed bit of jawbone and
- 1:08:49he's so tough he just carries on anyway.
- 1:08:52Very true. Yeah, that sounds good.
- 1:08:53And then lastly is Thord Orange Jaw.
- 1:09:00Yeah use some of the new dwarf pieces from the the pack and you
- 1:09:06know maybe give you know throw in a few more bad guy pieces.
- 1:09:13Do we have new we have new bad guy shoulder armor since no,
- 1:09:18there's I mean there's Aratir's shoulder pauldrons, but that's
- 1:09:22kind of unique to him. But is there not the more spiky
- 1:09:27ones the like that come with Vortog Maybe they would work.
- 1:09:30Yeah. But.
- 1:09:30They would work, Absolutely, yeah.
- 1:09:33So something like that. But yeah, and give him, you
- 1:09:36know, the very cool soft goods maybe, you know, kind of more
- 1:09:45kind of 2 tone, maybe 1 tone on the outside, colour on the
- 1:09:50inside, maybe would he, would he be more of the kind of ripped
- 1:09:54soft goods kind of effect or is he more.
- 1:09:57Yeah. You'd want him to look battle
- 1:09:59hardened. I think if you're going to do
- 1:10:00it, it's like, you know, yeah. So he's not worried about how he
- 1:10:02looks. He's he's filthy.
- 1:10:04He's, you know, written to pieces.
- 1:10:05It's like it. Exactly.
- 1:10:08And then, yeah, do it. Do another head for him as well,
- 1:10:11you know, maybe unamated. Yeah.
- 1:10:14Head. Something like that.
- 1:10:16Yeah. So I think, yeah, they would be
- 1:10:19my top three anyway, if it. Was I think I think with Ford as
- 1:10:22well. I would love like an Ogre scale
- 1:10:24Ford, Brute scale Ford .0 Ford 2.0 Cosmic Cosmic Ford, anything
- 1:10:31like that would be great. Yeah, it is breaking down quite.
- 1:10:38Yeah, yeah, we got you. We got you.
- 1:10:42All right. So that's our little stab at
- 1:10:45version twos for this week. Any more?
- 1:10:48Anything more to add on that? Well, I would say the special
- 1:10:51mention, but the reason I didn't mention them is because I think
- 1:10:54we will get them. And when they do the the four
- 1:11:00watch Call and Great Beasts, Great Beasts definitely need
- 1:11:04Ether on again. And as Xyloner against as
- 1:11:09Xyloner. I actually still really want the
- 1:11:12current Xyloner knowing they'll do a new one because there's
- 1:11:14something about it. Probably never get it at this
- 1:11:17point, but I can. I can only imagine what they
- 1:11:19could come up with now for Xyloner.
- 1:11:21Oh yeah, yeah. And if anybody wants one of the
- 1:11:24current ether ones, I can recommend the Jones 1234 on
- 1:11:28eBay, which has an extremely competitively, I dare I say
- 1:11:32cheap one up there at the moment.
- 1:11:34So. I think they squawk not cheap.
- 1:11:38Nice. One Mel.
- 1:11:41How old is he? What is He's an eagle, isn't he?
- 1:11:43What is he again? That's what he is.
- 1:11:46Umm yeah, uh. I think that I'm still surprised
- 1:11:53they didn't find Zylona in the warehouse for the mystery boxes.
- 1:11:58That would have been an interesting one, and obviously
- 1:12:01so loud of her. Umm, I'm still down for Centaur
- 1:12:04Zylona. I know some people are against
- 1:12:07it, but. I quite like that, I know.
- 1:12:12But you know. OK.
- 1:12:14But do you, would you prefer in her kind of current form or we?
- 1:12:20Just don't know. I think that's our size.
- 1:12:21I know she's a great beast, but I think because she's meant to
- 1:12:24be like a deer that, you know, they're not generally that big.
- 1:12:27So I quite like the idea of her current sort of size.
- 1:12:30That's that's that's a point that they'd maybe need to to
- 1:12:33scale the horse down and that's of course a whole new thing, so.
- 1:12:37That is a good thing to do it though.
- 1:12:40Oh, of course they could do it, they manufacturer.
- 1:12:43Now whether we're doing it is another thing.
- 1:12:48Is it? It is I can say is it weird?
- 1:12:50But it is weird, but that I if they do or I want like a a
- 1:12:53normal Zyloner with the big antlers sticking up and looking
- 1:12:57very impressive and then I want to battle as I learner screaming
- 1:13:00with the antlers scraped back into a bun so they're not in the
- 1:13:04so they're not in the way and then she could just really go
- 1:13:06for people so yeah. I think you need to get onto it.
- 1:13:12She's a great beast. You can do whatever she likes
- 1:13:14with them. I think you need to go onto a
- 1:13:17third party parts. You need to Commission that, I'm
- 1:13:21afraid. Right.
- 1:13:24Shall we wind up then with a couple of listener questions?
- 1:13:27Does that sound good? Absolutely right.
- 1:13:31We have Jeremy Govier again with a question on voice.
- 1:13:36So we get to Jeremy again this week.
- 1:13:38You ready? Oh, Jeremy Govier again with
- 1:13:44another question. I've been getting more and more
- 1:13:47into painting custom heads and wondering what do you guys do
- 1:13:51with your custom heads if you've painted them?
- 1:13:53Purchased them? Where do they end up?
- 1:13:55Do you typically put them on bodies?
- 1:13:57Do you just collect the heads? I've been finding I've been
- 1:14:02collecting more heads than I'm actually putting on my figures,
- 1:14:05and I'm wondering if I'm alone in this.
- 1:14:09You are not alone. Absolutely not alone on that one
- 1:14:13there, no. No, definitely not alone,
- 1:14:16Jeremy. Well.
- 1:14:19I've got like multiple answers for this one.
- 1:14:22I am very open to any ideas also of what you could do with them,
- 1:14:26because there's a variety of reasons I buy heads or heads
- 1:14:31that you get and type. So I'll buy painted ones
- 1:14:35thinking. Don't laugh, Rich.
- 1:14:38It's my buying head. I just want to start Googling.
- 1:14:40Apology. So you're going to have to say
- 1:14:47action figure header. OK, so it's.
- 1:14:51Unprofessional, sorry, continue. Mal continue.
- 1:14:53So I'll buy painted ones that I see and think I really like
- 1:14:56that. And sometimes I won't actually
- 1:14:58have any idea what I'm going to do with it.
- 1:15:00And then it just sits there and sits there with no idea what to
- 1:15:03do with it. And sometimes it's like, oh,
- 1:15:05just stick it on that figure. It's great.
- 1:15:10Then there's the ones I buy that I like that are unpainted and I
- 1:15:13want to paint for myself, and I'll have generally have more of
- 1:15:19an idea what I'm going to do with that.
- 1:15:21But then they'll sit around because the parts aren't there.
- 1:15:24Or, you know, I'll have half an idea and go, And if only we had
- 1:15:29this part and that part and the other part this way maybe need
- 1:15:33to get better at breaking other action figures up that are a
- 1:15:36good enough size and sticking them together with mythics.
- 1:15:40Yeah, it would be fun to do that.
- 1:15:42And then there's another, the head type of head, which is Now
- 1:15:45I'm getting von box. There's heads in there I
- 1:15:47probably would never buy, but I'll get an idea of how to paint
- 1:15:51it. But I'm never going to use it.
- 1:15:53But the fun is in painting it. So what do I do with it after
- 1:15:57I've done that? Stick it on the head.
- 1:16:01Rack. Yeah, well, that's kind of
- 1:16:03what's happening. Yeah.
- 1:16:04I'm getting a collection of painted heads that I've got
- 1:16:08nowhere to go in, A collection of unpainted heads that some
- 1:16:11will get painted eventually and some yeah, who?
- 1:16:14Knows. Who knows?
- 1:16:18Well, Rich, you're going to have a long answer for this one.
- 1:16:20So I'll get in in the middle. OK Yep.
- 1:16:24So I paint to some for myself definitely when I have an idea
- 1:16:28for custom or definitely. At the start it was just to make
- 1:16:33a few extra figures. Now I sell a lot of stuff
- 1:16:36through Legions Con, so there will be a lot of painting going
- 1:16:41towards that anytime and painting stuff.
- 1:16:44Uh, where it isn't for somebody else specifically, it's
- 1:16:47generally going on the rack for Legions Con last year had two
- 1:16:51racks here that was just filling up with heads, and I have one
- 1:16:54because the other one is uh, in a skip in Whippany, NJ.
- 1:16:59Probably further away from there now.
- 1:17:01Probably in landfill because uh, it didn't fit in the suitcase
- 1:17:05and had to be sacrificed. Uh, at that stage have to come
- 1:17:09up with a better plan this year not to bring another one to
- 1:17:12Smash. So uh, maybe.
- 1:17:14Walmart if you're happy to Chuck it in the bin, then the Walmart
- 1:17:17down the road, yeah. Yeah, I just wasn't willing to
- 1:17:19to risk there not being one there.
- 1:17:21But I think I'm going to have to take the risk this year, umm, or
- 1:17:24get somebody to pick one up for me.
- 1:17:26Maybe we can do that anyway. Uh, yeah.
- 1:17:30So that's, uh, filling up a rack here.
- 1:17:32Umm. And then the other ones, uh,
- 1:17:35are, yeah, people like Rich say, you know, OK, here's a bunch of
- 1:17:38heads. Can you paint them for me?
- 1:17:40Whatever. Uh, that kind of works.
- 1:17:42So, uh, But yeah, once you get into painting, uh, it can kind
- 1:17:47of build up. And I don't think it's any
- 1:17:49problem just to have a bunch of heads that you're kind of
- 1:17:52building up on a rack and you can swap them in and out of
- 1:17:54figures. Or eventually maybe somebody
- 1:17:58might be interested in one some. I also give some away through
- 1:18:02the show. Patreon, whatever.
- 1:18:04If you want another show, I might like I did last week on
- 1:18:07The Saturday Show giveaway to Painted heads.
- 1:18:11Uh, why not? It's fun.
- 1:18:13You know, they're they're usually unique because one,
- 1:18:18somebody sculpted them and two, I painted them the way I wanted
- 1:18:21to paint them. So, uh, that's the kind of
- 1:18:24uniqueness of them. It's kind of fun like that.
- 1:18:29Umm, I I would like to start this off by saying hello.
- 1:18:33My name is Rich and I'm a painted parts addict.
- 1:18:40I have a problem. No, it's it's, I'm, I'm my worst
- 1:18:46enemy. So I have lots of in my head and
- 1:18:48maybe I may think as well, but good ideas for painting like
- 1:18:51like full custom figures. It's like, yeah, that's what I
- 1:18:53want. I've seen that part.
- 1:18:54I want that part, I get it painted up, but then I'm
- 1:18:57absolutely terrible for completing the custom and
- 1:19:00actually putting on the shelf. So I'll have a painted head or
- 1:19:05100 painted heads that sit in in sit in storage boxes and they're
- 1:19:09amazing heads and I suddenly go, do you know what, I don't want
- 1:19:12that character anymore. And I said it.
- 1:19:15And it's a ridiculous route. And I've cut right back on this,
- 1:19:17John, all the stuff you're painting for me now will be
- 1:19:19wonderfully displayed. Oh, that's good to hear because
- 1:19:22it's currently in a box on the floor in my room.
- 1:19:25Yeah. So I'm sorry.
- 1:19:27I will get that box out to you. I know I keep saying without
- 1:19:29fail the next two days and then I never get around to it.
- 1:19:34So yeah so that that's a problem.
- 1:19:36I I was ironically and nothing to do this question.
- 1:19:39I was actually on my spreadsheet because obviously I'm a geek and
- 1:19:41have a spreadsheet with all my all my parts and that listed.
- 1:19:46I was like I got painted heads that I just haven't even got
- 1:19:49assigned. That I'm not trying to sell,
- 1:19:50that I haven't got assigned to any custom figure at the moment
- 1:19:53that I've just spotted at legions con or something and
- 1:19:55really loved and I do. I have 50 of them, apparently
- 1:20:00so. You know, there's cosmic,
- 1:20:02there's mythic, there's all sorts of stuff.
- 1:20:05But yeah, that I haven't even assigned to a custom or thought
- 1:20:08about it. So yeah, so I have a lot of
- 1:20:12painted parts heads in storage boxes at the moment.
- 1:20:16But the plan is, you know, John and Mal, I wax on about how I'm
- 1:20:21sorting out my display room and that sort of thing.
- 1:20:22And I'm, I'm getting there. I chopped some more wood up the
- 1:20:24other day. Chopped.
- 1:20:26It was a circular saw. I'm not.
- 1:20:27It's not as. It's not as like manly as it
- 1:20:29sounded. Took a circular.
- 1:20:31Saw into. Fire.
- 1:20:32Yeah, yeah, yeah. Chopped down the tree, brought
- 1:20:35it back, planned it. No, I didn't do that.
- 1:20:38Took a circular saw to some free plain wood.
- 1:20:41But once that's up then the the storage boxes will be emptied
- 1:20:44and there will be. I was saying to my good lady
- 1:20:46wife, I one of the things that slows me and I'm going on a a
- 1:20:50long winded answer here. So one of the things that slows
- 1:20:53me down is I've got really good head, really cool head.
- 1:20:57I know the combination of parts or even just a body that I want
- 1:21:00to put it on. But if I have to do any painting
- 1:21:02or anything to that body just to tweak it to work for me, it then
- 1:21:06sits there because I don't get around to the painting.
- 1:21:08Whereas now I'm just going to grab the figure, put the parts
- 1:21:10together, shove the head on and it's going on the shelf.
- 1:21:12And then when I'm in the mood to paint, I will take it down, I
- 1:21:14will paint it and it'll go up and look like as it should do
- 1:21:17sort of thing because that's the only way I'm going to get a lot
- 1:21:19of these out there, so. I had that idea with that an
- 1:21:23armoured Hagdon and he's still sat on the shelf and painted.
- 1:21:29Ladies on the shelf. Yeah.
- 1:21:31So you two can expect, you two can expect to see a lot of
- 1:21:33pictures of like heads that clearly look at a place on the
- 1:21:35body. But it's like they won't
- 1:21:37eventually they'll they'll look great.
- 1:21:40Yeah. So that's what I do.
- 1:21:40I don't paint myself much, you know, bodies and that sort of
- 1:21:44stuff is fine, as you guys know. But you know, in terms of heads,
- 1:21:46I buy a lot. I have a lot of customs.
- 1:21:49I display a few of them. I want to display more, but it
- 1:21:53never occurred to me, I'll be honest, to buy a painted head
- 1:21:55just because I like the head and I just want to display the head.
- 1:21:59That's cool, but not for me. I've got enough trouble trying
- 1:22:03to display the figures, never mind a row of heads as well.
- 1:22:06Sort of thing. Yeah, but you are also unique in
- 1:22:11that you have an awful lot of ideas for characters.
- 1:22:13So you, you, you, you won't be prevented from buying your head
- 1:22:18because you don't know what what to do with this.
- 1:22:22No, I've I've put a buying ban on myself.
- 1:22:26Hopefully that will stay in place from now until Legions
- 1:22:28Con. So every time someone posts a
- 1:22:30new cool custom head, I'm just saving.
- 1:22:33I'm screenshotting it and saving it in a folder.
- 1:22:35So I'll get to Legions Con, and I'll be selling blood and semen
- 1:22:39and wherever else you can sell to pay to pay for this stuff.
- 1:22:44But yes, to try and limit me and stop myself going, that's
- 1:22:46brilliant. I'm going to get that and I'm
- 1:22:47going to get someone to paint it.
- 1:22:48And then no, just wait. Find the cool painted pieces.
- 1:22:52The Legion's gone. Bring them back.
- 1:22:54Do these poor people and companies know that you're on
- 1:22:56the buying ban before they filed for bankruptcy?
- 1:23:02I don't know. I mean it's it's it's meant to
- 1:23:04be a bit quieter at this point. It's meant to be a complete
- 1:23:06buying ban and then I message you guys in the place and I.
- 1:23:10Figures and everything or? Yeah, I'd ordered on the NECA
- 1:23:12werewolves like literally two days ago, So that's on the way.
- 1:23:16Aliexpress have got a Mayday off.
- 1:23:18Yeah, Aliexpress have got a Mayday offer on at the moment,
- 1:23:21so I'm going. To be ordering oh and everything
- 1:23:23or just figures or. Just certain things, but it's
- 1:23:26it's a lot of things. So there's about another six or
- 1:23:29seven different figures from different ranges that I can take
- 1:23:31apart and use for mythics or user was mounts or whatever that
- 1:23:34are going to be on the way. I bought one of those beasts of
- 1:23:38the Mesozoic the other day that arrived today.
- 1:23:40Very cool. One of the velociraptors.
- 1:23:42I'm going to try and use that for a mount for a smaller
- 1:23:44character. Incredible figure.
- 1:23:46I've now got myself eyeing out another two or three of those on
- 1:23:48a shop in the UK that sells them.
- 1:23:51It's like, you know, it's a, it's a, it's a disease.
- 1:23:55So going back to, if anybody wants to buy any amazingly
- 1:23:58painted, not by me, but amazingly painted custom heads,
- 1:24:01then the Jones 1234 on eBay has quite the range, it's fair to
- 1:24:06say. So yeah, pop along, have a look.
- 1:24:09I do deals on multiples, you know, I'll send them a ship
- 1:24:12shipping as cheap as I can. Contact me.
- 1:24:16Cool. So that's my 20 minute answer to
- 1:24:19a simple question. Oh, absolutely, I agree.
- 1:24:24I think, I think the one thing that that becomes clear from
- 1:24:26this. I don't know if Jared where what
- 1:24:28Jeremy's background is, but in the world of Warhammer and
- 1:24:32miniature collecting they have things called piles of shame and
- 1:24:35it's all the unpainted stuff that is put to the side whilst
- 1:24:40you buy new stuff. Turns out piles of shame aren't
- 1:24:44just for miniatures. No, no, they're really not.
- 1:24:48I, I, I went through trying to find stuff to send to John,
- 1:24:51ironically to to to paint for me a few few of the bits and I
- 1:24:55pulled must have pulled 50-60 different parts out and gone.
- 1:24:58Yeah, that's going on eBay. I don't need that anymore.
- 1:25:01There's so many unpainted things that it's just like, you know, I
- 1:25:05used to be worse than I am now, believe it or not.
- 1:25:08So yeah, so many stuff that I just like.
- 1:25:09No, that's good. It's going on eBay.
- 1:25:12Very good. Well if any if any of of you get
- 1:25:15a big order of for stuff from Rich, you know just contact me
- 1:25:19or Matt and we can do an intervention before his wife has
- 1:25:23to do 1. You almost did that allegiance
- 1:25:26continue. You were threatening that last
- 1:25:27year allegiance come whenever I disappeared from the table and
- 1:25:29came back with. Like 3 figures, you know, arms
- 1:25:35full of kind of figures in various packaging, like bits of
- 1:25:38bubble wrap and paper, the odd box.
- 1:25:43Rich, what are you at? Yeah.
- 1:25:46And he was like, oh this is all pre-ordered stuff.
- 1:25:48This wasn't like I went around. This wasn't, like, funny.
- 1:25:52I was. Later I ordered this before I
- 1:25:54got here. In my head, that made it better.
- 1:25:58It don't think it was any better, but it made it better in
- 1:26:00my head by the. Hindsight, you can see that's
- 1:26:02that's yes. But even when it comes to
- 1:26:06procrastinating, I sometimes get stuck on the head or I know how
- 1:26:10to. I know I want to paint one part
- 1:26:13of it A and I I found actually the best way is just go and do
- 1:26:17that and then leave it and then you'll eventually get the
- 1:26:20inspiration. And I've I go through things of
- 1:26:24like I'll have four or five heads maybe that I haven't
- 1:26:26finished up. Uh, and a bunch more that I'm
- 1:26:29going to start and then I'll just get the inspiration to
- 1:26:32finish them and I'll do in one evening, then I'll finish four
- 1:26:34or five and then that's super rewarding because you get the
- 1:26:37end result. And that's why sometimes I might
- 1:26:40send you guys 2 or 4 pictures in a day and you think is he
- 1:26:43painting all this stuff? And one day I was like, no, I've
- 1:26:46just maybe finished the eyes or you know, maybe just finished
- 1:26:50the the the hair or something, you know, Uh, But it was been
- 1:26:53sitting there for a long time. Uh, So that's how that kind of
- 1:26:56works out for me, right. So we have one last question to
- 1:27:00get us out of here. Uh, so I can get this UH episode
- 1:27:03up in the morning. Uh, it's a question from Archer,
- 1:27:07Hawk, Vive, Lafrance and question, how do you manage to
- 1:27:16follow what happens in the cabal?
- 1:27:19Everything happens when I'm sleeping and in the morning.
- 1:27:22It's only reactions and trolling messages about UH, another
- 1:27:28message and it's already been moderated and deleted, et
- 1:27:31cetera, et cetera. Uh, so how do you?
- 1:27:34Well, I'll preface that with by saying Facebook and the
- 1:27:38algorithm, it kind of sucks. You know, you'll eventually,
- 1:27:42you'll eventually see the stuff. What I have found, uh, that it's
- 1:27:48getting better in that if you're friends with a lot of people
- 1:27:51that are in the cabal and they're commenting on different
- 1:27:53posts, you'll start to see those posts.
- 1:27:57So sometimes Richard Mal might send me a post, uh, in, you
- 1:28:03know, in our chat group and say, have you seen this post?
- 1:28:06And I go, yeah, I just saw it actually, because I was
- 1:28:08scrolling and I saw you commented on it.
- 1:28:10So that's how they pop up sometimes to the top to me.
- 1:28:14Yeah, Facebook seems to love anything that Noah Pratt posts
- 1:28:17on. I immediately get a notification
- 1:28:19saying Noah's posted on it. I was like, cool, thanks very
- 1:28:22much. I mean, he's one of like a lot
- 1:28:24of Facebook friends, but OK. I'm not sure how he even has had
- 1:28:26a word with him or what. I don't know but.
- 1:28:28He must have, he must have all the notifications clicked on for
- 1:28:31him by. Accident.
- 1:28:32Maybe. Maybe they've seen that picture
- 1:28:33of me posing with his van and they're like, these are clearly
- 1:28:35best buddies. You need to let me know about
- 1:28:38everything, Noah says. Rich is spying on you, Yeah.
- 1:28:43Well, there was that post the other day, wasn't there where
- 1:28:45you guys were like, oh, it's the first, it's the last latest post
- 1:28:48and it's like still can't see it, still can't see it.
- 1:28:51And I've commented on it and I still can't see it unless I
- 1:28:54search for the guy who posted. It yeah, yeah.
- 1:28:58The searches in the group is is brutal.
- 1:29:00So Archer, I don't think there is any.
- 1:29:04Anyway, I mean, maybe talk more about it to your friends
- 1:29:07because, I mean, I was talking to uh the it's my wife's nephew
- 1:29:14lives in a store. We had a party yesterday because
- 1:29:16it's a public holiday 1st May. And he was telling me in
- 1:29:20Luxembourgish about he's getting driving lessons, and when he's
- 1:29:22getting them, uh and I got advertisements on Facebook this
- 1:29:27morning for driving lessons and driving schools in English then.
- 1:29:33So they are, they're listening somehow.
- 1:29:37And I. Yeah, yeah.
- 1:29:39Yeah, maybe some people might think I do, but I don't actually
- 1:29:44need them because they have a license, if you know what I
- 1:29:46mean. Yeah, listeners, I have another
- 1:29:48problem with with Mal and John Jeremy links for let's face it,
- 1:29:51crap biggers and then all products.
- 1:29:55And then all of a sudden that's all I get the adverts for on
- 1:29:57Facebook. Lip sakes.
- 1:29:59Come on. So you're getting the ads for
- 1:30:02that NECA out figure all the time now?
- 1:30:05Yeah, and the bloody turtles of the universe or whatever.
- 1:30:08They saw stuff and you're like, oh come.
- 1:30:10On Seriously. But yeah, anytime I see a new
- 1:30:13one of them, it's often posted on this German he man site.
- 1:30:17Planet Eternia. Yeah, and I followed that for
- 1:30:20years. Come back to when I was
- 1:30:22collecting he man and then I'll say share the link because I
- 1:30:25know Mal is interested in it. And yeah, Rich, obviously isn't.
- 1:30:30There you go. So yeah, Facebook, it's tough
- 1:30:32one. Umm, yeah, Just follow what you
- 1:30:37like, comment on stuff that you like, and then you might start
- 1:30:42getting more of that stuff if you know what I mean.
- 1:30:46And if you see a post where somebody's having a rant and
- 1:30:48there's 156 comments, just skip that one.
- 1:30:52Yeah. Just move on.
- 1:30:53There's nothing to be done. Whatever you've wanted to say
- 1:30:57about what the person has said has already been said in the
- 1:30:59156th comments. So there's no point in in saying
- 1:31:02it again. I would say, you know.
- 1:31:05That, yeah, my approach to Facebook and the cabal, although
- 1:31:09it's easier in the cabal than he's just ignore the people who
- 1:31:13are just seeking attention. If someone, and I don't mean you
- 1:31:17know those people who post a cool looking customer even it's
- 1:31:21their first one and it you know all that stuff, love that.
- 1:31:24But the minute it's someone. The Horseman.
- 1:31:27This the Horseman. That is just like scroll on.
- 1:31:31They're out to get us. Yeah.
- 1:31:32Yeah. Because someone someone posted
- 1:31:35earlier saying the Forcemen hate their fans.
- 1:31:38It's just like, seriously think about what you type.
- 1:31:41It's like, yeah, because if I want to get someone, I'm going
- 1:31:44to start the toy company 20 years ago.
- 1:31:46I'm going to make loads of cool action figure lines and that's
- 1:31:49how I'm going to get me. Giving people what I think it's
- 1:31:52really cool, yeah. Reasonably, really reasonable
- 1:31:56prices. Yeah, because I hate them all.
- 1:32:00Anyway, that's not spiral down that way, otherwise we'll end up
- 1:32:03like Facebook, right? So we talked COSMIC this week,
- 1:32:08so let's leave on a little bit of the COSMIC outro.
- 1:32:12Thanks very much, gents. It's fun.
- 1:32:15No problem. Stay safe out there, everybody.
- 1:32:53It's them crashing the Starship.