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101. Cosmic Legions Character Packs · The Euro Legions Podcast

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Welcome to episode 101 of the Allegiance podcast.
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Today, it's the John and Mel show.
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Riches decided just to pack it in 100 was enough for him.
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He's. Like I'm done.
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Yeah, Leave on a high. No, he sends his apologies.
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He was all set to make it today, but something cropped up and he
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can't join it. But he did send us his notes.
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So we will throw in his opinions on what we're going to talk
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about. And what we're going to talk
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about today is the cosmic head packs reveals that were came up
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last week. And we're also going to have a
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look at some of the other heads that could possibly have made
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the cut for this cosmic heads pack or just in future what the
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options they were looking at when they decided and just to
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just for fun, not not not to criticize anything that was done
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more just for fun that suit you, man.
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Yeah, yeah. Sounds good, Sounds good.
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And how you've been doing you, you've actually met up with Rich
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last week. So what happened?
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What did you do to him? Yes, nothing.
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He when he left me, he was all good and fine and yeah, he's me.
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Oh, that's what they all say. But now we went, we just went to
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the pub that we have been to a couple of times when he's
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visited, had a bit of food, few drinks home at a reasonably
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sensible well home for me, the hotel for Rich at a reasonably
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sensible time. But it was good.
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Good to see people in person always, isn't it?
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And yeah, of course, yeah, chat so.
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He didn't bring any figures along to to mess around with
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her. He brought with me the turtles
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of Grey School. Leatherhead that Stevo picked up
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for me and gave me at Legions Con.
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Yeah. Yeah, I'd sent it back.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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That's it. In his big box that he'd shipped
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back, yeah. Yeah, I still have some figures
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to get off them from that, but I also have your retailer with
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figures. I need to send you a soon, Rich.
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I think he has other stuff that he wants me to wait for, I think
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anyway. Yeah, we'll get there.
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We've. Done the review so you know.
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That's it. That's it.
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I shipped. I shipped some of my pile of
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loot from Big Bad. So did you.
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Yeah. What you was building.
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So what? What do you got common?
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I got another Monkey King in there, another.
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I ended up buying another Red Death to use the body for a
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custom and the clothes for a custom, a different custom, and
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then it was turtles. They're not turtles.
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Motu stuff. So the Necroconda and the Horde
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Prime because they were very, very hard to get over here.
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So I just bought them from big. Bad they origins or.
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Yeah, yeah, Origins the the sort of toy line rather than the any
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of the other. Yeah.
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And they I thought they were directly at Mattel now, so Big
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Bad is getting them as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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There's there's some being released through the usual
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channels, shops and, you know, retailers and online.
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There's some being released through Mattel Creations this
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past week, just gone. No week before Rio Blaster was
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through Mattel Creations, but there's now a Mattel Creations
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UK, so yeah, yeah. So we'll do it off there instead
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of off the US one. And do they say are they gone in
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60 seconds like they used to be or is it a bit more reasonable
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now that? They varies.
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The last couple haven't. Before that they were still
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going pretty quick. The last are.
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They pre-orders or. They're meant to be in stock and
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I think they're in stock in if you US, they're pre-orders if
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you UK, OK. I mean a real blast has already
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showed up so it's only like 3. But I doubt, I guess the UK has
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an allocation because I doubt they're firing up the factory
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again if the UK orders, you know, 10 more than than they
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have, whatever. Well, I wonder how many people
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actually know about the Mattel Creations UK because yeah, first
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of it just. Sort of popped up, Yeah, yeah,
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yeah. Maybe there's Europe one as well
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because there's a big motors huge in Germany.
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It's, it's probably the, the biggest market outside of the US
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for MOTU. So yeah, I, I mean, I should
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know this stuff, but I'm, I'm not really collecting MOTU at
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the moment. So yeah, kind of tend to bury
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the head in the sand then when you're not collecting the line
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because you just don't want to be to be tempted.
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They're pumping out a fair amount of stuff and
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unfortunately they've got me hooked at the moment, yeah.
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Well. Although I will not be buying
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the Thundercats crossover, I just don't feel the need to with
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that one so. Yeah, then yeah, I saw those
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figures we were talking about a little bit.
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Yeah. I like the battle cat one.
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Yeah, there was another one that was really cool.
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Cheetah or what? Or the.
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No, the mum. Rah was it Mum?
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Rah Skeletor Yeah, yeah, they're all right.
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I love. I don't know, there's something
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about the crossover with the Turtles and it been a bit
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bonkers that it works for me. Whereas didn't quite work so
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much for me for the Thundercats so.
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Yeah, I think even like the Lionel, it just looks a bit kind
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of mixed up or something. I don't know.
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It looks like a mishmash of other figures, but people seem
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to like it, so I suppose the target market.
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So yeah. I'm a bit relieved it doesn't
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appeal to me as well. This is Wyatt from the Mythic
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Enablers podcast, and you're listening to the Euro Legions
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podcast. They revealed the heads pack,
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cosmic heads pack. So it was on the Forestman
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channel. It was also on Jeremy's channel.
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They did a kind of a similar cast at the same time as
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Jeremy's normal show. And we're getting straight to
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the reveal here because we're not that was the real show.
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So we're just going straight to to see them all here first on
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this first picture. So it is as 5 heads packs.
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That's right. And so you got the the two
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female head scopes, you got the grey Bourne head scopes and you
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got the snakes or the Ninion in tiger blue.
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And we got the two Spexian head scopes and then we got a dragon
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head and tail in the colours of Kragner.
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So, so we got and there we go through it now, but they've got
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a bunch of deals and where they're bundling the figures
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with the heads to order direct. And we're also they're also
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doing the head pack separately for I think 10 reach.
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So that's that's the way they're looking at it.
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What do you think of this overall first milk and overall
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impression? I think it's great idea.
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It was sort of announced and then revealed very quickly,
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wasn't it? We'd already shot in a show last
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week, so we didn't really get to cover any of it.
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But yeah, a great idea. Jeremy said on the reveal show
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that, you know, they've been thinking about how they can
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improve, you know, get more sales of the cosmic cosmic line
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and they sort of recognised that with Mythic.
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And he's funny because I'd actually he's something Rich and
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I had talked about when we met up was and I'd said something
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very similar. The the cosmics possibly not as
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popular because there isn't the same pop and swap ability that
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they had straight away with mythics.
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The way I put it with to rich was it's orcs, it's gob goblins,
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it's humans, it's you know, there's no whereas these are
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characters and they're all very different.
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So you lose some of that pop and swap ability maybe.
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And, and this is a way for them to address this and you know,
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create a bit more of that pop and swap ability, which I think
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is a great idea and some very cool head options.
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Yeah, and I suppose worth noting as well, send out Congrats to
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our podcasting brother in arms. That's Eric Miller from the
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Mythic Enablers. But we also know Eric as EM
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Custom Parts. He's always had a table at
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Legions Con and he's done painting for some other
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companies before, but this is his first official paint work
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for the Four Horsemen and he's done four of the five sets.
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So I think the two female heads was the ones he didn't do.
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So that's the easiest way to yeah, to to kind of separate it.
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So he'd been working on these even before Legions Con.
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So I think summer last year, as far as I remember him saying so
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that's pretty cool. He knew about Ninny and then
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before Ninny and came out because he obviously had to
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paint the heads here for for Oleg.
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And yeah, I'm happy for Eric. I think.
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I believe he's kind of on board as one of their painters now.
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He'll be I think that's, that's how it sounds.
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Did yes. He's done a few more projects
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for them yet to be revealed. On the kind of a project basis,
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I guess. But yeah, great for him.
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Delighted to have. He's a phenomenal painter, does
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phenomenal customs, does phenomenal painted heads always
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he's. Incredible.
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Always snapped up extremely quickly if he ever puts stuff up
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for sale. So yeah, no surprise really that
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if they're going to reach out to the community, they're going to
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go for one of the best. Right.
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Next is having a look at the individual heads.
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So we got the Ninion open and close mouth here for Olek.
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So this is official now. Cosmic Snakes is official.
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Or just an alien with a snake like head I suppose.
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This head packs called the Serpent Soldier and this was one
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this was kind of teased on the little teaser to, you know,
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announce the live stream what it was going to be.
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So we had an idea this was going to happen straight up.
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And we weren't sure then whether, you know, there would
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be kind of, I don't know, the tail would come with it or, you
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know, whether there would be like arms and legs or upper
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legs, because I think the upper legs are new as well on the
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Minion in this kind of sculpt. But yeah, it's the two heads
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here. You see them.
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They match perfectly with Tiger himself, the grave ring one
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where he has the naked torso, you know, the kind of scaly
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whatever torso. So and it also comes with the
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other or you can put him on the other Oleg as well here.
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So what do you think Mal? Which is your favorite?
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Of these two, yeah, I love, I love the open mouth sculpt.
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I loved it when we got it on the Ninian Infantry and I think it
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looks fantastic in this, this build.
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Apparently they hadn't even thought about.
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And I can't remember who did they say?
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I can't remember who Jeremy said had sent him a picture of it
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looking like this and he was just like, yeah, that's that's
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awesome. But yeah, I I'll probably say
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that, but I've bought another buddy.
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But I might well try and get hold of one of the these buddies
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and display them like. This yeah, so they're going for
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the combo pack is 40 for the Gravering Tiger.
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That's a regular price figures that you're basically getting
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the heads for free and in the deluxe.
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So this tiger was a deluxe and you're getting him for 50 and
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plus the two heads, which I think is probably what he was.
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It might even be cheaper than what he was direct or no, he was
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maybe 45 direct. Was he back in the day?
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I can't. Remember.
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Yeah, it's, it's it's not far off, though, is it?
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It's it's a bargain of a pack. It's definitely, yeah, These
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packs are kind of set up that way.
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So yeah, what you really need. Though is you need to buy both
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of the Oleks and give him the bare arms on the other other
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pack to make him look really different.
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Oh yeah, that would be very cool A.
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Bunch of Oleg does. Did they say anything about
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retailers? Mel, do you remember?
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They did. I'm sure they said that the
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retailers will get these head packs the later date, a higher
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cost and they were still working out the combo pack and whether
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the retailers would do that and what price was on that if you
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know? Yeah, because we have mentioned
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before, but retailers have pretty much a full stock of
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cosmic legions. Maybe not every retailer has
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every cosmic Legions, but you can get all the cosmic legions
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figures pretty much aside from maybe Slog and even then I think
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he's back on Big Bad at retailers for the retail price.
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So I guess this will also maybe hopefully help those guys in the
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future. I thought this that's what this
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was in the 1st place. But as they're doing the packs,
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they obviously have a lot of inventory themselves because I
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doubt they're producing more inventory to go with these
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unless they really sell out. Yeah, so that's that's this one.
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Then we got the Greyborn pack. The one I would say with the
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with that the 1 little disappointment and it and I
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don't understand why it was to keep the cost down, but it is a
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bit of a shame they're not doing the tail with it as well.
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And I know, I know the argument is it's meant to be a cosmic
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character. So wouldn't necessarily have the
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tail either. But I think I'd have paid a
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little bit more and and had the tail with it.
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I'd have been happy with that because then you can move it
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over to an Indians as well and it's a different coloured
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Ninian, which would have been fun, a different type of Ninian.
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But yeah. But otherwise, yeah, it's
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awesome. Looks great.
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Yeah, I meant to say that as well.
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Yeah, the tail, I was surprised was not included, but this was,
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I understand for the price constraint, but at the same time
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having to buy an Indian to get A to customize it is costing a lot
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more. So I guess it's a tricky 1 for
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them. Greyborn SO2 heads here.
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In the original Greyborn pain scheme, I like to match the
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original Greyborn figure, which is this guy IS, isn't it?
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Yeah. IS sipped on.
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Yeah. So these are two brand new
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scopes apparently. I can't.
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Yes, That's right. Yes.
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Because the one where he's baring his teeth and then the
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other one is like the existing one but without the scar on his
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head. Gotcha.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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All right. I think they look cool.
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They're very cool. They are very cool, Yeah.
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So if you have, I think this is going to be for certain people
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that have, you know, maybe bought multiples of this one or
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want to do multiples of a kind of a grey Bourne because this is
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an iconic looking kind of an alien.
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So I wouldn't say this particular set is for me in that
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I wouldn't have probably multiples of this figure in my
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collection. So I wouldn't feel the need for
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it myself. But it is really cool for people
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that are collecting this, the grey horns, and maybe making a
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bit of an army of them, you know, I think it'll give it a
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really good variety. It's a it's a funny one.
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This is one of probably one of those sets of heads where I
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probably don't need to buy more figures to create more of them,
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but I'd I'd quite like the heads whether I display them
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separately or just have them there in case I want to swap the
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head on. IS yeah, that is another option,
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yeah. You could just have a rotating
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even if you had two in your display and then with the
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original head and these two, you could change them up a little
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bit. And the combo pack is 40 here.
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So again, super good value there.
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So can't argue that's three head sculpts in a $40 figure.
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Then we get to making pretty much a brand new character here
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in Cosmic Legions with the Iraqi gore head and tail.
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Then you can make your Kragner or an extra Kragner you have, or
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buy a Kragner and make him into a dragon dude.
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And considering that Araco was a lot of people's figure of the
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year in 2024, this is bound to be a popular set here.
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I guess you can make him if it's slightly different as well
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because he becomes a forearmed dragon as well so.
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Oh yeah, that's right. I keep forgetting that he has
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the forearms. Yeah, yeah, even though he's
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behind me or somewhere. I've got much for me at the
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moment. Yeah, so he's cool.
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Combo pack 68 and I think this is a custom that a good few
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people did originally. I've seen it.
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And why not? Because it is the dragon head we
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have in Mythic so far. I must admit, this is the one I
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probably won't bother with myself.
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It's very cool. But I, I mean, I've got my
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Kragnar and I've got, what's his name, Scourge with the Kragnar
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head, because I love the Kragnar head.
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And I don't know, I don't feel the need for another Dragocy
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character because we've got Araka Gore and we'll have them
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the big bad exclusive 1 and that I think I'm good with those.
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I don't need another one. Yeah.
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Stavros isn't it? This is one.
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Even if I didn't have an extra Kragner, I'd probably pick up a
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bit like you with the Greyborn. Just have the option I wanted to
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display him like that in the future if I wanted.
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Maybe a fiery dragon in mythic? That's a good way of getting a
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body for Iraq gore in mythic. Just need to get maybe the
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harness and the armored parts from a legion builder or some
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sort of another ogre figure. And there you go Specsians.
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Now we're in turn really entering your territory.
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So this this was a great idea with the specs in helmet.
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So this, this is really smart because the helmet could be
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still at the same character. It could be any character of
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that race because it's a helmet. So what's underneath, you know,
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could be a different character or you know, whatever.
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So it's not, it's not really kind of making it, it's making a
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character into a legion builder in a way.
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So you got. It's the mine worker and the
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block commander, isn't it? Yeah.
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Yeah, so. Yeah, Commander.
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No, it's a black commander, Yeah.
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Yes, it is the commander. Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, prisoner is the blue 1, isn't it?
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That's it, yeah. Yeah, so what's your thoughts on
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these? Vexions are high on your list of
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figures. Yeah, Spexions are my favorites,
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if not my favorites. So really, yeah, I'll be picking
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up a few of these because I've actually, I've I've got a couple
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of block commanders, so I can add the one of them, give him
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that head. I quite like the idea of mixing
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up the miners. But I actually also I want to
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buy that head to maybe turn into a character in the shadow circle
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because I've seen a few people do a specs in in their shadow
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circle and. Oh yeah, yeah.
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I was planning to do something similar, although as you know,
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my shadow circle aren't all the same colour.
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They're all, yeah, they are different races, but I keep them
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as like looking like different races.
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It's more the the uniform that ties them together and that'd be
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a nice. So you don't need to do this
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guy, you know, in the blue or whatever, you can just pump the
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head just. Add the shadow circles onto the.
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That's it. Add the.
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Axis onto the armour. Yeah, yeah.
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So I'll probably that's a cool idea as well.
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But I love this idea, Yeah, because you could always have
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popped your commander head onto your prison guard and it works,
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whereas the prison guard head on the black commander didn't work
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because of the armor colour. Yeah, so the combo pack you get
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the two heads with the block commander for 50 and likewise
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you get the two heads for the mine worker for the 50 mine
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worker was something they didn't they said they didn't have any
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more stock of for shows and stuff.
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So I guess they might be producing a few more of aliens
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popular figure or they found some down the back of the couch.
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That's probably the combo pack. Or buy this one, yeah.
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Yeah, it's tempting. All right, That's tempting.
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Yeah. I actually want to buy a couple
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more mine workers the next time I'm doing an order from a
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retailer, so hopefully they'll still be in stock.
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They should be. Then the ladies.
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And so we got the trace head in blonde Caucasian skin and the
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dark skinned person of that Siri.
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Yes, there he in this. Is Siri Head?
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Yeah, yeah, you know, and. That apparently matches the.
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Yeah, the skin tone matches the Bastet figure, which.
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Got you. Yeah, make sure you.
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Eat another Bastet figure. There you go, Bastet.
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There you go. Syria.
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Yeah, these probably have the most use across multiple figures
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and multiple characters within mythic legions and cosmic
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legions, so they'll be popular for that.
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Of course, they're great on Zary there.
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As you see in the, you know, they don't necessarily need to
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match the uniforms. Of course you get the neck post
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as well in the same skin color, which is very important because
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otherwise it would look a bit weird I think.
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So that's just useful for all those different figures.
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You might be popping it on combo pack with Zeri 40.
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So that's pretty good because Zeri has 2 heads as well in the
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1st place. So yeah, that's very good.
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There you see her on an elf, the trace head on an elf Legion
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builder, and the Zuri head on Best debt.
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As he said. Rich did send a message when
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this one was revealed to us saying not that trace head
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again. I.
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Didn't think we were going to drop him in with that, but all
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right, let's do it. He's not here to defend himself.
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I think he likes the head. I think he's probably seen too
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many replants, but I think he OK.
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It has been used in a good few figures, but I think also a lot
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of people have customized it and sometimes that can very.
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Popular head. Can blur the lines between
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what's official and what's. Not I don't mind it though.
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I actually really, really like this, this head.
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I'm one of the people who really likes this head and it's I've
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already got an idea of how I want to use it.
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I'm going to get a couple of this pack, so I've got Cosmic
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and I've got an idea for a custom with the Bastet figure.
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Yeah, head and a Mythic custom with the blonde.
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Head. So you leave the heads as is and
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you just, you customize all the body.
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Yeah. That feels like easier than that
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I. Definitely am the head.
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No, definitely if you can. If you can avoid repainting the
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head then it is a little bit easier depending.
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So the full team set then you can get so the figures you get
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Azeri figure, Oleg Tiger grave ring, Kragner figure and
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Icipitan figure and a sexy and block commander figure plus all
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the heads packs. So it's the five heads packs are
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character packs. They call them full team set for
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$225. So that's a, that's a pretty
27:06
good deal. Yeah, it's a little bit less
27:09
than even if you were to buy them all individually and
27:12
they're already a good deal individually.
27:15
So there we go. And that's that's going up from
27:22
February the 3rd, I believe, next.
27:26
Week. Is that next Monday?
27:28
That's next week. Yeah, we're almost out of
27:30
January. Can you believe it?
27:32
Yeah, yeah, I know already. The 7th of February.
27:36
Sorry, not the third. The 7th of February until the
27:38
23rd. That's store horseman.com.
27:44
Yeah. So yeah, so next for not the
27:47
Friday coming, but the Friday after.
27:49
So not the Friday that people might be listening to this, but
27:51
next Friday. Yeah.
27:54
And up until I think this Sunday, you have to order the
27:56
book the 1st 10 years. I believe there'll be other ways
28:03
to get it, like at retailers and stuff like that.
28:05
But that is the cheapest. You'll get the book and figures
28:11
and whatever the cheapest you get the Silver Knight.
28:14
So, yeah. But yeah, so that was fun.
28:17
I think that was pretty unexpected in terms of kind of
28:23
what if we were when we were predicting the year, we didn't
28:26
see a Cosmic Heads pack waiver, That's for sure.
28:29
We'd have to be really fortune tellers to get that one.
28:35
Again, a good idea though. Really good idea.
28:38
Yeah, definitely. And it's a kind of a low, a bit
28:43
of a low risk thing, if you know what I mean.
28:45
They don't like it, it sells what it sells shouldn't cost
28:51
them too much to produce. And if it manages to get some
28:57
more people into Cosmic or get people to add more cosmic to
29:00
their collections, than I think it's a job done for for this
29:04
one. Well, and they and they did say
29:07
if it proves successful, they'll do more.
29:10
So yeah. Yeah, well, that's a great
29:13
thing. It's a great segue into our the
29:15
second-half of our chat about the heads backs here.
29:18
So we had I'm going to bring up your few first man so.
29:24
Yeah, cool. We had chatted about what are
29:28
their heads we could maybe see repainted in Cosmic.
29:33
And as I said, that's not to take anything away from these
29:36
head slash character packs, but it's always interesting to see
29:41
what the options are on the table.
29:43
Yeah, so. Yeah, we've seen.
29:47
So the Go Go helmet has started to be used and we've seen people
29:50
use it for cosmic customs as a bit of a Boba Fett style helmet.
29:58
Mandalorian, I should say I have style helmet.
30:02
I hope David, our friend David Williams doesn't mind me using
30:05
his picture there in the bottom corner to show what someone has
30:09
done with it. There's obviously these plugs
30:14
you can buy on Amazon that people are using to plug the
30:17
side holes to give it more of a, you know, less of a more rounded
30:23
look to that side, I guess, and fill those holes.
30:27
It'd be kind of cool to see what the Horseman did and if the
30:30
Horseman could create some plugs for those holes that gave it a
30:33
more cosmic vibe. I think it could be a really fun
30:38
head to and because it's quite unusual, it really does work for
30:43
cosmic painting a couple up myself with different
30:48
inspirations with no no plans, just I'll use at some point.
30:53
So yeah, I think that'd be really cool.
30:56
Yeah, when I saw the the shadow circle picture down here, at
31:01
first I thought was, oh, did he come with the head?
31:03
I forgot. Yeah, exactly.
31:05
I mean. That's that's a good.
31:07
David is, but it works. It really really works.
31:13
And the one of the horns here, you wouldn't particularly use
31:15
the horns in cosmic or. No, no, it was.
31:18
Just you made them metallic. Yeah, like that might work.
31:23
Perhaps, I don't know. The yeah, I don't know.
31:25
I don't know. You'd kind of have to give it a
31:27
go when you for that one. I mean, there's the wing, the
31:30
ones as well that would. Fit.
31:31
Yeah, they're cool as well. Yeah, yeah, you'd have to put
31:34
thin metal as well. Yeah, paint them that that.
31:36
Might actually work. Yeah, that's that could be quite
31:39
cool. Yeah, as I say, it'd be quite
31:43
cool to see the Horsemen design their own plugs for them as well
31:46
that made them like that. Do you know the crusher head?
31:50
It's one of my favourite heads in the line.
31:53
They did do it in Auk colours for the War of the Aether Blade
32:02
Orc builder pack. I use that on a cosmic custom
32:06
that was inspired by 1 Curtis did for one of the pop and swap
32:11
competitions. I I ripped off his idea.
32:14
I did ask him first, of course, he doesn't mind, but I'd love to
32:18
see. Especially if you're not selling
32:19
it. Well, that's it, I'm.
32:20
Just for my own, but it'd. Be cool to see a more cosmic up
32:27
version of the head. So maybe painted up like Ziri?
32:29
Maybe painted up like I've forgotten the name, thus the
32:37
bounty hunter type character. This is bad wife.
32:41
I forgot names. The one coming in Knox Crew one
32:46
is it. No, no, give me a second.
32:48
Italian Shun. That's the one Kelly and Shun,
32:52
yeah. Walter uses the trace head we
32:55
have forgotten. Yes, that's the one.
32:57
So yeah. So, so I think that'd be a
32:59
really cool head to be used as it because it's, you know, with
33:01
it having like the bald side, which is what I'm showing off on
33:05
the bottom there. Not the tattoos.
33:06
It was more to show the haircut. You could repurpose that as a
33:10
futuristic female, a bit of a road warrior female, something
33:14
like that. So yeah.
33:16
Oh definitely yeah. Scream good.
33:18
Scream Mad Max with this one yeah big time.
33:20
And when we're getting in, we're already in the wasteland kind of
33:23
with the Ox crew waves, so. Yeah.
33:27
And then this is. Probably enough wasteland.
33:29
It's probably a bit a bit, I don't know.
33:32
Premature or mean or harsh or it is not harsh because it's.
33:35
But you know, yeah, they weren't going.
33:38
To do an unreleased head, let's be.
33:39
Honest. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
33:41
So Fraxian heads, I'd love to see these in lots of colours.
33:47
And you know, different Thraxians would be cool.
33:49
You could paint this up like Tiger and have that blue, blue
33:55
Thraxian and that would be really cool as well.
33:57
So yeah, easy on there, but. Absolutely.
34:03
Right. Let's go through a few more that
34:06
we have pictures of here. So the alien head that came with
34:11
the science officer, so you could literally do him in any
34:15
alien colours. Of course.
34:18
An interesting one, I guess for people now would have been the
34:21
shadow circle one. But I think that that is one of
34:24
the figures that's pretty hard to track down.
34:28
Fisher Rice. It's probably selling out
34:30
retailers. So I have, I have 4 for you
34:37
here, so don't worry. Yeah, that's true.
34:43
Yeah. But you could do it in a bunch
34:44
of any sort of paint scheme. So I think they said the next
34:50
one, the alien head that came with the sign the Sentry again
34:55
that has been repainted, that did come in Shadow Circle.
35:00
So that has been repainted in a couple of ways.
35:03
And it also came in this year's Cosmic Legions regions can if
35:08
you said something so. But again, this is the type of
35:12
race where they could be all sorts of different colours and
35:14
you know, you could do maybe real bright fluorescent one or
35:17
something, but. Well, and, and I do wonder with
35:20
these two heads, and I know what's coming next, if all three
35:23
of the heads could actually be repurposed as cosmic heads as
35:28
well as different demons. So maybe paint them at?
35:31
Red mythic heads you mean? Sorry yeah.
35:33
Could be used as mythic heads, perhaps painted at red fit Belfa
35:37
gore or something like that maybe?
35:40
That'd be quite fun. Yeah.
35:41
I mean the paint would have to do a lot of the work there, but
35:44
I think they, the horsemen are able to definitely do that.
35:47
So that would be definitely an option.
35:50
Because I think that was something they achieved with
35:52
this head, the heads packed with them done is it felt like it
35:55
could easily be adapted to mythic or to those people who
36:00
want more, a bit more going on with Cosmic, didn't it?
36:02
So yeah. Definitely, yeah.
36:05
And then this, this alien head that came with the female
36:11
engineer Legion builder first cosmic wave.
36:14
So again, this could be done in a number of different colours.
36:19
There isn't you could, you know, there isn't that many female
36:22
bodies in in cosmic, but they're pretty much all armoured.
36:29
So I tell. You what?
36:30
She'd look quite creepy and a little bit how razorish if she
36:35
was done in human flesh colour or pale fewer flesh colour.
36:39
Yeah, really creepy. Decayed.
36:41
Yeah, yeah, maybe decaying or or translucent.
36:44
Now your favorite. Oh yeah, you know I love a bit
36:47
I. Suppose we should take it for as
36:48
read. All these heads would would be
36:50
fine and translucent for you. Yeah, yeah.
36:53
Anything. Anything translucent for me is
36:56
probably going to sell. Yeah, then this helmet here that
37:00
came with Kelly and Chun, again, this is one that could, that
37:04
could be done, you know, a number of different ways.
37:09
But there isn't that many female bodies yet in Cosmic, so
37:15
probably not. And then again, that's the trace
37:18
head, so we already have it in this pack, Greg narrated.
37:22
Hey, I love Greg. Could have done them.
37:24
Any paint scheme you want to give it to me?
37:26
Yeah. Could have done them in the
37:27
blue. Yeah, as we're about to say, we
37:30
need the Iraq ago one, we need a black one now for the Oh yeah,
37:34
for us. First Iraq.
37:35
Yeah, that's probably, Yeah. It's probably too early for that
37:40
one, because even though people know it's coming, they'd be
37:42
wondering what if they weren't in the know?
37:45
Like a lot of us people who follow every move of the
37:49
horsemen, they wouldn't really know.
37:51
Why are they doing in black? Yeah, Yeah.
37:55
So yeah, I think Kragner in blue would have been cool, but then
37:58
that wouldn't have that would have kind of crossed the cosmic
38:01
thing. You know, this is that same head
38:05
from Cali and so from the engineer and so and Byra
38:09
Jambira. I thought about including her in
38:12
my list as well. I I know she got a lot of stick
38:15
for that but I really like it. Yeah, and you could do it in a
38:21
different colour, obviously. This could also be done in a way
38:27
to work in Mythic, maybe with the vampires or something like
38:29
that. I don't know where the demons
38:32
is, always works with the scorpion tale.
38:36
But yeah, again, the female heads in cosmic, you're probably
38:41
only talking about Caesarean, the engineer that's widely
38:45
available. Maybe Calian as well, but she's
38:48
very specifically a character, so be tricky.
38:52
But again, that's always a head that they can definitely use in
38:56
the future. Novian lean.
38:58
So we had the open mouthed one in the Cosmic Legions legions
39:04
compact and we could there's a number of things you could do.
39:08
You could get the the closed mouth one in that paint scheme.
39:12
You could just do an entirely new paint scheme for Novian
39:15
lean. Again, I think they would have
39:18
done put this one in the heads pack if it hadn't been recently
39:22
in the cosmic legions pack. But a great head and I think,
39:30
you know, especially the close mouth one could maybe be used as
39:34
a more generic type of character from that race.
39:38
You know I used to one off. I included him in my list of
39:44
sort of what I thought would be cool because I again painted and
39:48
not that I would think like Tiger was amazing and the
39:50
colours are amazing. I mean, I like it.
39:52
It's but again, it's another one.
39:54
It'd be quite fun painted up in that tiger colour just because
39:57
it's so bright and different to what how we've got it already.
40:03
That's true. Make a totally different
40:04
character. Then we got this.
40:09
That's the same alien from the science officer.
40:13
So that's just to show you what they can do.
40:16
So slog again might be a tricky 1 because slugs hands and arms
40:23
are his particular colour, but they could have made it, could
40:27
have, I don't know, done maybe a slightly more decayed slug like
40:32
if the helmet bubble was coming off or something, that would
40:35
have been an option. Oh yeah.
40:37
But again, maybe a repaint of of slug down the line.
40:42
You know it might be more in order.
40:48
Sandy on helmeted has sexy in heads.
40:52
So we actually have two here. We have the one from the mine
40:56
worker as well with the tongue sticking out and we have the one
40:59
from the block commander I. So what was your ideas for this
41:02
one now? You just, I mean as they can do
41:05
as many of them as they want and whatever style they want, but I
41:09
actually think this is the one. We are one of the ones we are
41:12
most likely to get if they do, if they do more, and I think
41:17
they'll do it when they to match the, the the prison.
41:21
What's he called the prison officer.
41:25
I've got me notes and prison guard, Prison guard.
41:28
They're here, which would be awesome to get the because I
41:31
love the unhelmeted Faxian head as well.
41:34
It's it's got so much character in it, both of them.
41:39
So yeah, that'd be really cool to get for the prison guard.
41:41
And then you could have a mixture of helmeted and
41:43
unhelmeted prison guards in in your tent that I might have got.
41:49
They could throw in a set of hands maybe with this stuff that
41:52
we're going to do a different colour scheme.
41:53
That would be nice. Yeah.
41:54
I think that's that's the only thing because OK, also these
41:58
mandibles that come out from the body here in the middle, but I
42:04
don't know. I'm they annoy me because they
42:07
don't. I can look at them.
42:10
I've got my miner set up without the wings just to save a bit of
42:14
space. Yeah, yeah.
42:16
But yeah, they they seem to be OK now, but initially there.
42:20
Was maybe it was in the 1st wave, Yeah, yeah, the miners.
42:24
Oh no, it was hard to get in on the miner.
42:25
It was. Sligor, that head that's been
42:32
repainted already, Yeah, but but.
42:35
It's a great. Head again.
42:36
It's a great head. It's been repainted in mythic I
42:39
think, isn't it? It's no, it's on the in the
42:43
latest Ox crew wave, isn't it? It's one of the heads for the
42:50
characters that comes with them that teams up with Cal.
42:57
God names Escape Haven. Kern, Ray.
43:09
Kern Ray. Yeah, it's one of her buddies.
43:12
He's got that head. Oh, is it OK?
43:15
Yeah, I'm going to get Sauce horse minute so I can.
43:21
Hi, it's Hylar. Yeah, the blue in the blue.
43:24
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Cool.
43:31
Vorga here again, if you get Vorgo with the upper arms as
43:37
well and just do them in a different colour, then I think
43:43
we could have an entirely new character, especially the the
43:48
Vorgo with the mouth, the the kind of gas mask head, because
43:52
that could be a bit more generic, although it has the
43:56
ponytail, but you know, it could be that species just in a
43:59
different colour. But she also has an unmasked Ted
44:05
scope. So yeah.
44:09
Oh, like Tiger could do Minion colours maybe?
44:14
Yeah, yeah, that'd be cool. That'd.
44:16
Be cool to crossover with the with Mythic a bit, but again,
44:21
he's very much the main character in Cosmic so.
44:25
That was my sort of, yeah, avoided because it feels a bit.
44:28
I just put him in here as a million.
44:30
He's an option, but yes, maybe not a good option.
44:35
He does feel like the character, doesn't he?
44:37
In the whole cosmic, sort of. Yes, and now we get into mythic
44:45
heads that could maybe crossover.
44:47
A furnace was one that'd be cool.
44:50
You could do in a, you know, any sort of a colour scheme.
44:58
Maybe the rich richest suggestion here from his notes.
45:01
Maybe something like stone could work in cosmic metallic as well.
45:08
Could work, I think, in a cosmic context.
45:11
I think you could do anything with him because, OK, he's got
45:14
that because of the way he's painted.
45:16
He gives off tree vibes. But I think if those ears are
45:21
quite aquatic, those ears slash leas could be made to look a bit
45:25
quite a bit aquatic. Or you know, something like
45:29
that. I don't know.
45:31
You make them look more like horns.
45:34
Speaking of horns, yeah, grotos very good space gold.
45:38
I mean, yeah, it could nearly just pop it on.
45:41
Yeah, yeah, Yeah, it could. You're really good.
45:44
We don't quite have the Cosmic dwarf scale yet, but I think he
45:49
could work on the taller cosmic body.
45:52
But yeah, make him maybe a little bit more sci-fi looking
45:57
even in the eyes and you know, give it a slightly a slightly
46:02
more bold colour scheme. This one looks very realistic.
46:07
So yeah, in terms of but yeah, I think that would be a cool one
46:12
that would possibly crossover to Cosmic.
46:15
We go through a few more of what Rich had.
46:18
So he he suggests. I'm not going to bring up
46:20
pictures here now because I don't have them to hand.
46:23
So that's just going to be too much hassle.
46:26
Arot here without the face mask, says big eyes look almost alien.
46:32
The huge ears which give an alien feel painted in some sort
46:38
of pearlescence colour would be great.
46:39
What do you think? I, I, I mean, I, I think there
46:45
are people who would like that. I I think that Arathea head
46:49
looks weird without the, you know, without the visor on.
46:55
Yeah, but I think that's his point.
46:57
It looks so maybe it would. Work, Yeah.
46:59
Oh yeah. I think that plenty of people
47:01
would like it those things to be, yeah.
47:06
Belfagor then. Yeah, it works for everything.
47:10
He's such a good head. Yeah.
47:13
Black coloring maybe would work well.
47:16
Remove the horns. Now, the horns aren't removable
47:20
in the figure, but maybe they're removable in the factory.
47:23
But I think, I think they're glued in.
47:25
They're like a separate tool or whatever.
47:28
I'm not sure. Yeah, I could see better work.
47:30
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I definitely. Yeah.
47:33
I don't think you need to either.
47:34
Or maybe make them. This is a make them metallic or
47:36
some sort of shiny fluorescent color.
47:41
Gives it more alien vibes. The hood, the elf Ranger, the
47:46
unhooded head. That could work.
47:51
I don't know if we have a build in cosmic yet for for that head.
47:55
Female builds, yeah, possibly. We don't have a 1.0 male so that
47:58
would be the only thing holding the back.
48:01
But other than that, yeah definitely agree.
48:07
Grisha again could be some eases because it could be some sort of
48:15
alien race that likes wearing fancy armor, really bright
48:19
metallics or. Aged.
48:23
To look like ancient armor. That could work, Yeah.
48:28
I think they're making it look like they're wearing because
48:31
there's obviously the shoulder piece that Callie shouldn't
48:38
comes with that's obviously meant to be like an ancient
48:41
armor piece. So you could sort of Grisha's
48:45
helmet could be something similar, couldn't it?
48:47
That would work, yeah. Again, it's the 1.0 male build
48:53
though, isn't it? That No, Yeah.
48:56
I suppose it would work on the female, then you just have to.
48:59
Yes. True or you know, this might be
49:02
just a whole new character so maybe part of a future wave
49:06
rather than heads back. So you know, but you know rich,
49:10
he always he doesn't worry about the tutoring budget.
49:12
You know another one that I don't think you could just pop
49:17
on a figure that exists is the Hellfire goblin.
49:20
And but yeah, bright green tongue, bright scaly skin.
49:24
Of course that would really work.
49:26
I wonder if. That will work on the new
49:30
because I feel like. Isn't the connection maybe on
49:32
the new? Yeah, yeah, I'm just talking
49:34
about what's out now. Maybe screw I mean.
49:37
I read a lot of the idea of the Hellfire goblin being used in
49:41
cosmic. I think that would be really
49:42
cool. I actually have a custom with
49:45
the Hellfire goblin. Yeah, I don't I'd have to.
49:49
I have to see how these new space suits work because they
49:52
don't show them disassembled, you know, like the front panels
49:55
taken off. So he wouldn't work in the if
49:59
the if you can't take that kind of if that space suit isn't kind
50:03
of like the way. The Yeah, because the.
50:06
Armor is today where you can take that kind of upper armor
50:08
out. What else has he got here,
50:13
Lucretia? I was thinking vampires.
50:15
I mean, we already had the OK, it wasn't particularly cosmic,
50:18
but it would work. Was the red vampire in the
50:21
cosmic Legions? Legions compact.
50:23
In Cosmic, yeah, yeah. Yeah, but you can use it in
50:26
cosmic, but you could also use it in mythic as a fury vampire
50:29
or whatever. But because Lucretia has no no
50:35
visible teeth, so not obviously a vampire, I wouldn't even that
50:39
wouldn't even bother me that it would look like a vampire.
50:44
So but yeah, some sort of an alien species paint scheme.
50:47
Like I guess you could even put like little patches with paint
50:51
on the head, you know, to give her a pattern that would be very
50:55
cool. Again with my feet or Thistle
51:00
torrent. Sure, but we don't have to build
51:02
that. They work on you.
51:03
That's true, yeah. So Vortec space orc?
51:09
Sure, why not? You know that could go on your
51:12
Fisher rice. Again, they repainted.
51:18
He doesn't necessarily look, you know, make his beard more
51:22
separated and he could be just more, as much as Richard hate
51:27
it, more humanoid. Yeah, I mean I like I have my
51:31
brave fighters head on the heavy gunner or have like a.
51:36
Yes, yeah, which was cool as well, so.
51:39
Yeah, absolutely. And then Zaria again.
51:43
The problem is the build. Oh no, that would work on the
51:47
engineer I think. Yeah, yeah, he put her.
51:49
On the builder, even on. What's the name?
51:54
Zero. Yeah.
51:54
Yeah, and then yeah, crazy colour scheme alien to bright
52:00
colour scheme with tattoos. It's another one isn't it that
52:04
OK it's a demon in mythic but move that into space and it
52:09
could just be an alien. Doesn't matter out the horns or
52:11
anything like that. Absolutely.
52:14
Yeah. So that's that.
52:19
We have a lot of fun stuff coming up.
52:21
In terms of Legions. We obviously have Necronominus
52:25
that we're soon going to get an e-mail in our inbox going, oh,
52:28
it's arrived and it's going to be shipping soon.
52:31
So that'll be the hype for that. Then there'll be the the
52:34
shipping notice drama in the Cabal quite possibly.
52:41
And then we get them and we'll review them, talk about them.
52:47
I'm sure we like them for sure. But I'm.
52:49
Sure we will. They look amazing.
52:52
And then there'll be a lots of fun customs popping up, people
52:57
that have waited two years to get those pieces that they want
53:01
to make the costume with, etcetera, etcetera.
53:03
So this is fun for me as well because this was the wave that
53:08
was revealed at our first Legions con.
53:11
Yeah. So that's always, that's a cycle
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come around, you know? Yeah, Yeah.
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That feels like a in the cycle of something and then taken fast
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after that with the All Star 6 and the next Ox crew.
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That should be all in the first half ish of this year and
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whether it'll be getting better. I won't have to be making
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customs at the moment and even though it's warm in the house,
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somehow you have to heat the stuff more than in the summer.
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It just like I'm literally using hot water for full figures and
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then if I just want to do thing I'm like having to use the hair
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dryer for. Well, a lot of many.
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You've painted it and you're blasting it with, I don't know
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about you, but I'm like, Oh my God, I'm going to start melting
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it with the paint on. Oh yeah, I have to, I have to
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practice extreme patience there because I'm always, when I've
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got to the end and I usually then do, you know, do the
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varnish coat or whatever, and maybe even the second one
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depending on, on how it feels after the first one.
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And then I leave it overnight before I put it together.
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And that is like, I have once or twice not being able to do that
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because I've been so excited about it.
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But the best thing is because you really have much better
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chance of stuff not rubbing, you know, if you do it too soon,
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things can just be slightly more rebuffable.
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And then over time it tends to cure quite well, I find, you
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know? So yeah, the longer customs
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done, the less likely it is to have paint rub.
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So yeah, just extreme patience. But yeah, I'm having a lot of
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fun with the cosmic customs. Couple more on the table, kind
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of ready to be brined. They're fun.
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Did a rhino one this week. So next week going to be using
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the Ninian body and some of the double neck from Mark Calvo, the
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double snake neck and a few other things.
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We're going to have Snakes in Space.
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All right, well, we missed you this week, Rich.
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But yeah, if you're on the Patreon, the TV series look
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ahead for the year is up. So we had movies the previous
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week, TV series. We'll soon be getting going with
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Rich's interview series when he recovers from whatever is ailing
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him at the moment. Hopefully nothing too serious.
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But, yeah, so that was a short bite this week.
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But it's just the two of us. And so, you know, usually Rich
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is the one that has the most to say about this kind of stuff.
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The opinionated sub that is. Yeah, but it'll be, it'll be a
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nice handy one for me to edit on the Thursday morning.
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So all good. Cheers.
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Better pay the outro, I suppose. That's it.
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And I guess it's my turn to say stay safe