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114. Legions Con 2025 Mythic Legions Figure Reveals. The Tale of the Crossroads · The Euro Legions Podcast

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My wallet is sobbing. I can hear it.
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I can hear it in the hall now. It is breaking down crying.
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It turns out that Attila the arrogant so and so he's got a
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fake hammer. Oh.
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A fake? Yeah.
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Whoa. As I say, Dick.
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Welcome to episode 114 of the Allegiance Podcast.
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And this week we're going to talk a Borg about, of course,
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the tale of the Crossroads, which was revealed this week.
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First a lot of legions gone figures.
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So that's going to be fun. And also as little in stock
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sale, which has happened probably the day before this
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drops. So maybe not as much use to you
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there, but at least if stuff is still on the website and you
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know, and our patrons will get to hear our opinion about the in
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stock sale before it goes live. So yeah, we do have Patreon if
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anyone is interested. Come along.
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You don't have to join, but it would be great to see more of
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you there. And yeah, we get wrong about.
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Patreons junk and I just drop in at this point as well.
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The richest randoms. Guys, I've got all your details,
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I've got your time zones and everything.
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So very shortly I'll be sorting out dates and times with you all
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for those. Yeah, and the richest randoms is
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a rich interviewing people, Yeah, as opposed to me.
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So that's going to be much better in my opinion, if.
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I do if I do it drunk each time, just to spice it up a little
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bit. Maybe more progressively more
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drunk. Maybe, you know, the first one,
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just the beer. Maybe the second one.
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Depend on the time zones, how late you have to stay up, you
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know. About on the first question,
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John, can you read it? I'm just.
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The guy's over on the on the West Coast just be getting rich
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at 4:00 in the morning here. Yeah, he's already.
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He's already hungover. Be that late.
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Yeah. So that should be fun.
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And obviously you don't need to subscribe to our Patreon to get
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our episode every week, but we do do some bonus stuff.
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And of course, coming up to Allegiance Con, we'll have some
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cool little perks for the Patreons that we can give out in
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person to the ones that are there.
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And yeah, we're doing some exciting stuff this year.
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I think that should be fun, more along the lines of customizing
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again, and we'll see if we have time for some other stuff.
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Anyone for another pin? I know Malwood.
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Yeah, any pins you want to you want to get made, I would
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happily add them to my. I've actually, yeah, I have.
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I have a little. You just see it there, which way
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there, it's just behind that cabinet there on the wall and
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it's full. So it's like a little kind of
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square with a little triangle on the bottom piece of material and
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yeah, it's full and I have another one, but I don't want to
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take out the other one until I have a few pins waiting because
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it's going to look pretty sad if it's just up there with 1 pin,
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you know, I've. Got.
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I've still got a load of pins, but yeah.
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Oh, it's exactly like that, man. I just see.
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Yeah, it's the same type of thing as that.
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Yeah, exactly. I need to get another one
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because as I say, I've got a few pins that aren't even on there
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yet. They're in a bag like behind the
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the computer here. I need to get them on there so.
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Yeah, I have Ganesha to put up, but I think I'll be able to
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rearrange a little bit and get her in there beside or him in
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there beside the him in, in there beside the other figure
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obscures. They're great pins, the figure
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obscure ones actually really good.
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In this year, we'd have to decide about how brave you're
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feeling, John. Do you want to change the the
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artwork and deal with that Chinese lady or do you want to
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just? Different colour berries.
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I think we're going, we're going to do pin.
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Everyone seems to reach out to George at the Horsemen, so maybe
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I should do that. OK, make more sense.
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But we'll have to see how that works.
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Or I can if. Yeah, if anyone wants to do bins
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in China and send them to me and I can bring them to Legions Con
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for you, you know, without the tariffs, although maybe I
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wouldn't get away with that. So that could be another can of
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worms we don't want to be opening.
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Yeah, no. And you boys made-up for beers
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this past week or on Friday, so. Did indeed.
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I had to do a member of my team's NDP review and they're
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based in Birmingham, so to advantage of it to go out for a
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few beers with with, you know, your man over there.
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We did, yeah. And it was.
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It was as over. It was a nice, enjoyable
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evening, wasn't it? We had a bit of food, didn't
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eat. And did you?
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Go spicy or. No, I went fish and chips.
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Oh awesome. I can't remember what I had, but
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it was nice. Oh, it was a steak sandwich.
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It was a steak sandwich, which is delicious.
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Yeah. Yeah, that that staff member
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then in Birmingham should be getting a little extra quarter
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bonus point or something on his on his appraisal just for the
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fact that you get to go for beers at mile afterwards.
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No, that's not the way I would. Oh, well, yeah, I'm sure you're
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fair. You know, whatever, whatever,
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but that's rich. You might be filthy scalper and
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all that, but you're fair. I'm going to build the scalper
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usually. No, usually.
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Usually you're you're a man that appreciates the value of money,
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and when certain figures that reach a threshold in your
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collection, it can become more difficult to hold on to them.
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Yes, that's a very distinct way of putting it, succinct way of
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putting it. I like that.
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Yeah, yeah. You don't go out of your way to
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to, you know, get, you know, buy a whole shop's worth of figures
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so that nobody else can get them and then sell them all at an
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inflated price. That's that's different.
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No, I've just seen it. If I want to buy a few more
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figures every now and I'll walk in the display room and just
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cast an eye over it. Yeah.
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You know, the ones that aren't already lying down because
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they've, you know, I'm so bad at keeping things organized and
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start trembling. It's like, Oh my God, you're
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going to sell us. You're going to sell us.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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But I mean, I think the longer you're in this line, you know,
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you do click the odd extra for a custom or for maybe army
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building. And then you see more waves
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coming out and you think, Oh well, I don't need that extra
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now because this other one has all the other parts or these
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ones are so cool. I need to go another way in my
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collection. So that's really how I end up
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churning anyway. Yeah, and I've never been a
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completist with any of my stuff that I collect, so.
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Yeah, completism is the most expensive and dangerous way to
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collect for sure because you're literally at the mercy of them
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just releasing a load more figures or uncertain lines going
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backwards to pick up what you've missed out so far so.
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Yes. Yeah, very good.
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So no, no gossip on the beer. No, no, no.
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Funny stories. Nobody.
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Very. Yeah, it was pretty civilised
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actually. Yeah, we put the world to
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rights, I'm sure. But yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Start talking about Legions Con, obviously, you know, that's
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yeah, we're six months out, so now is the time to start, you
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know? Great.
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What's the plan? What's the plan?
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Come on. Miles going on Sunday,
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apparently so, yeah. Yeah, that's why.
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Oh, are you, have you booked my flight?
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So I'm going to arrive. There into New Jersey and all
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that. Yeah, yeah.
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Into New Jersey. I haven't decided to what to do
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hotel wise, rather suggest. I was going to say, yeah, just
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make sure somewhere because of course we're booked from the
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Wednesday in the, in the yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Yeah. Oh yeah, I know.
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I only need. That could be easy to forget
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because you're just thinking, Oh yeah, the hotel is sorted.
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And then you realise, oh, shoot, no, no, yeah.
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I need, I need. I'm I'm deciding what to do for
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Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and where to stay and whether to
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just take the extra expense of the the con hotel or what.
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I haven't decided yet. Yeah, yeah.
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So I recommended the if Mal wants to do New York or
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anything, I recommended the hotel I stayed in the first.
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So legions gone 22 basic, but it's clean, comfortable.
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There's a fridge. There's a.
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Into New York from there, isn't there?
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There is, yeah, yeah. Like it takes like 10 minutes on
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the bus so. You know, I took that bus.
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It's a bit longer, but it's not that long, maybe half an hour.
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From which hotel in there? The one, the one we were at
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first. I was an informed to you guys,
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but yeah. OK.
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Are we? That's much closer.
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Yeah, I went cheap across town so.
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OK, well, even closer again. So decided that that that feels
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like, because part of what I'm going to do is probably do a
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trip to New York the one day and maybe, Oh yeah, definitely
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Jersey next and yeah. I'm ashamed I haven't gone to
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New York yet after as a kid growing up, we had this massive
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coffee table book of New York in the sitting room for years.
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And he's always flicked through and amazed at all these big
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buildings. I should really, I did the first
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year I did transit through and I took, you know, I had a burger
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and on the way and, you know, hung around the streets for a
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few minutes. But I didn't really visit any of
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the sites or anything, but I, I got a sense of the atmosphere.
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It's it is cool city. I've been there a couple of
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times. I really like it, yeah.
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Very good. Well, that's all exciting stuff.
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I can't believe we're a good bit into the year already.
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It's me. I was looking at you know, photo
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roll camera roll on your phone now seems to be the best way to
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look back at your life and you know, if you if you're anyway
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semi regular taking photos or screenshots.
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I think even sometimes they had informative and yeah, some of
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the photos I've seen from like early May last year were stuff
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like prepping for allegiance Con, like the pin order, stuff
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like that. I think was when we were around
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the time we started off the project with the two head
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scopes. So, you know, that's some stuff
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that if we're, you know, if you're thinking of doing stuff,
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you need to start now already really, you know, if you if you,
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I mean, you don't have to, you can be mega stressed at the end
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if you want to, but. Well, we've started in a little
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bit already. Haven't we?
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So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We've started.
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There's three of us in it. So, you know, we can share the
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burden somehow. Yeah, very good.
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And we had this little bit of news pop up.
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As I mentioned earlier, the in stock sale at Store Horsemen
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begins Thursday, May the 8th, 2025 headline attractions here.
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Of course, Ganesha, your second chance to get in it, including
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some Orleans would be slightly limited on the Orleans, but I
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mean they usually are anyway, but does sound maybe a bit more
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limited than usual. And obviously the single the
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just the the figure alone as well.
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ATL 25, which is an awesome figure.
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I think you can confirm guys, you've got yours now as well in
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hand. Really, really good.
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Yeah, and Headhunter, which is the one from a Zolocon, isn't
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it? Yes, the standard version of
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that. You have the conversion if I
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remember well. I do, I have the conversion and
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I will be getting a second conversion.
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Legions con from buddy Matt Drake.
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Oh cool, yeah. Oh that's awesome.
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So these are limited to 1 per person for the 1st 24 hours.
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So if you're if you want multiple and you live over
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outside the US, you might want to just take a chance and wait
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and see. You know, if you don't have to
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have just if you already have one or if you know you don't
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mind missing out but you'd like a few, you might have to wait.
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Otherwise you'll just have to order one and suck up the
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shipping. And then we have also All Stars
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5 and Cosmic Legions Wave One and two, which are completely
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unlimited. Get as many as you want.
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So that might be the way to spread out the shipping if you
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were ordering from over here, for example, you know, I think
13:04
there's a sweet spot in the shipping usually four or five
13:09
figures usually means that you're paying, you may be paying
13:15
10 bucks a figure shipping or something like that, which isn't
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terrible. You guys going to go for this?
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Yeah, yeah, this, this thing here I could hear.
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Well, I got a message through from Miles saying that come out.
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I could hear my pocket. My pocket started sobbing.
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And he's like, yeah, I know. It's my pocket, it's my wallet.
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So what's the plan then for you rich that's going to make the
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wallet cry? Well just anything at the moment
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quite frankly, but spent so much already.
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Probably get a few more armoury. Pound 8 LB beers or nine?
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Yeah, yeah. A few more armoury Knights.
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Of course, yeah, everything else that's in stock on the horse.
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So the Armoury Knights and a bunch of other figures.
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Oh yeah, that's a good one one. Of the normal Atls, definitely.
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I think I need another Xenophon for my plans as well.
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I know they're all go and then it tempted, I have to admit, by
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the the cosmic builders as well. Let me get a few more of those.
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Yeah, I'm thinking that the Atls won't sell out in the 1st 24
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hours I'm. Hoping.
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If you remember the Cosmic Legions heavy gunner that didn't
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sell out. Now this should probably be more
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popular than that because there is a bit of GI Joe not there,
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but. The Cosmic gun is still
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available, so and of. Course, we don't know how many
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there are, but it is the standard version so yeah.
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So it's going to be an interesting event.
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I mean, it probably be already happened by the time you hear
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this, most of you. So let us know how it went.
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I'm. Hoping.
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And hopefully it wasn't a bloodbath for, for stuff.
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So I don't think so. It doesn't tend to be any more,
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you know, I. Mean the horsemen have got quite
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good, haven't they? Again, the quantities about
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right so that you know. Yeah.
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Like the one per person sort of thing means it'll probably last
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24 hours or so before that sells.
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Yeah, I'm not sure on this because I'm broke, but be
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tempted to maybe get a couple of, I might let it go the 24
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hours until the limits are up and then see what's there.
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And if it's not meant to be, it's not meant to be.
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And I think the Headhunter, I don't need Ganesha, I'd love to
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get extras for customs, but that's $70.00 for a custom is
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putting you a very big base price already, although you do a
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lot of stuff now, so. Yeah, I mean, that's the good
16:04
thing with Ganesha, isn't all the extra bits and bobs you get.
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Then you could spread those over a few customs and get a pretty
16:10
good setup. Yeah.
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Speaking of Ganesha, I've got so that.
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So he's grabbing some of the, I can't remember what the dessert
16:18
was called, but with his trunk. I like that.
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So he's helping us after that, and this is terrible TV and he's
16:30
caught a rat trying to get put in.
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He's not happy. He's caught that rap trying to.
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Yeah, he thought it was his friend and he caught me stealing
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his puddings. So he's not happy.
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I love it. That's a good.
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That's so much character already in that that's a Modaka rich, so
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just see. Modaka OK, there we go.
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Yeah, but an amazing figure I had loads of fun.
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Play mode, Yeah. Yeah, one of the best I think
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they've done in a while, and they haven't done very many bad
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ones either. So just tells you how good
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Ganesha is. Yes, I was just sat there
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reminding myself going you don't need any more, you've got 2,
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that's plenty. 1 custom elephant.
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That's it. This could be the kind of thing
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to to pick up at legions con and maybe unbox them and try and
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trade away some of the accessories you don't need or
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something like that. You know, for other parts.
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It's the sort of thing I can actually myself going around
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the, you know, Legions con first thing Saturday morning, see an
17:30
amazing painted elephant head that somebody else has done like
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a 3D part thing, buying that and then running out to the horse
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and moving. I need another elephant please.
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I've got some really look, I mean, as cool as he is now, I'm
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really looking forward to seeing what they do with the retailer
17:47
version because of course there's.
17:48
That's a good thing. That's a good.
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Chance it'll be slightly different colour because there's
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sort of images of him as blue and images of him as pink and
18:00
and that'd be really fun. I think the pink, like not
18:05
totally garish pink, but you know, pink with the kind of a
18:08
lighter pink kind of body. Maybe that'd be cool.
18:14
Yeah, either for me. I think it'd be fun.
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And also you, you have to see think, well, OK, it might happen
18:21
this year now, but there, there might be a figure in an upcoming
18:24
wave that uses that torso. Yeah.
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Yeah. You know.
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One of the exciting things could be.
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Fun. You know, fat lizard man rich.
18:33
Oh, don't teach me. Don't teach Jesus.
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It sounds like a very bad fetish, Yeah.
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And This is why I don't broadcast in my display room, so
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you don't see the stuff on the walls.
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OK, let's move along. And you'll remember from a few
18:55
episodes ago, I had Cassie, had the Traveler.
18:57
And so I've been bringing her around Luxembourg a bit and
19:01
taking a couple of photos. And this one is from Beaufort
19:05
Castle or Beaufort Castle, and it's about 1/2 an hour from me,
19:09
a little bit north from here. Really cool medieval castle that
19:15
actually has a more on the other side of that castle has a more
19:18
modern wing as well that they built.
19:20
And there was a family lived there up until the 70s or
19:25
something. And yeah, and this all this part
19:29
is kind of old ruins, that bit to kind of the right of the
19:33
picture there is this real kind of old ruin.
19:37
You can kind of climb up in it and yeah, you can go in for a
19:42
tour and all that kind of stuff. So I didn't do that.
19:46
Now, I went and got the brochure because I've been there a good
19:49
few times and took this nice picture outside with the castle.
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And yeah, I've sent the photos away to get some of them to get
19:57
printed and I'll be doing my little entry in the book and
20:01
should be ready to head on to the next recipient very soon.
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You're you're on the list, Rich, I believe somewhere.
20:08
Depending what time of year she comes to me, she'll be
20:10
photographed by some Welsh castles, but probably with a lot
20:12
greyer background than the one you had their job.
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But that's more that's yeah, this.
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It was a beautiful day. It was roasting.
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I literally was taking photos and I it was so bright.
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I couldn't, no, I have just a normal, I don't have the, you
20:24
know, the pro version of the iPhone or whatever.
20:27
I couldn't see properly on the screen what the photo looked
20:30
like because it was so bright and I'm a brightness up 100% and
20:34
I still really couldn't see. So I took first a lot of
20:37
pictures and then I kind of went into the shade to look at them
20:39
and her leg was like sticking up like sideways.
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So I was like crap to come back and put her leg and her leg
20:47
still isn't brilliant in the photo, but it's much more, it's
20:50
a bit less amateur. And then that was OK, but I took
20:54
like 10 different angles just to be sure.
20:57
So, and people probably wondering what I was at, but I
21:02
don't care. Yeah.
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But yeah, it was that day was like 27° or something.
21:08
It was roasted. And it's now like 13 today.
21:13
Come on. Yeah, we, we had 20 sort of 2728
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temperatures end of last week. Yeah.
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And it's cooled right off. Turned on Friday.
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In fact, it. Did it's the time of year?
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You know it could. Yeah, it could get.
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Back I went I before I met Apple Mall.
21:28
I finished a bit earlier, Miles getting training.
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So I walked up to Forbidden Planet, which is not that far
21:33
away, but it was so warm. And then Forbidden Planet had no
21:36
air con at all. And I was like picking up
21:38
figures, looking at them while the sweat just ran down my face.
21:41
And I put a figure down, just wiped myself and then pick the
21:44
figure up again going I'm not, I'm not damaging the boxes.
21:46
Honestly, I'm just looking, you know?
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I'm just looking at these Sailor Forbidden Planet damp sweaty
21:51
boxes. I bought two things from them.
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So you know you did. Yeah, I got the the, the DC
22:01
swamp Thing, the the Ron version.
22:04
I think it's like the sort of ready pink sort of thing we've
22:08
shown here. And I bought Guy Gardner a full
22:10
price because he's quite difficult to find.
22:12
So cool. I love my Lantern Corp stuff.
22:15
So yeah, that's again. And Speaking of superheroes,
22:19
have you seen Thunderbolts yet? Marvel One.
22:23
Mal has. Yeah.
22:25
I heard it's a It's a bit of a return to form.
22:29
For me it was. I've have actually.
22:30
Depending on your opinion, of course, Yeah.
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Well, yeah, I mean, I have actually seen that some people
22:35
have been a bit negative about it, but I I really, really
22:40
enjoyed it. For me, it was the best thing
22:42
since the last Avengers film. I know, you know, I enjoy, I
22:45
have enjoyed stuff since I enjoyed Guardians of the Galaxy
22:49
and and. Yeah, it's been some decent
22:52
ones, but it hasn't been this on the same track as it was before,
22:56
I feel anyway. This is This is I, I think
23:00
exceptionally good so. Excellent.
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Well, I'm going to go with with Holly, my daughter, for those
23:07
who don't know. So I'll try and drag her there
23:09
this weekend, but she's already voiced her opinion that she
23:12
doesn't want to go anywhere this weekend.
23:14
I've been busy with family stuff this weekend gone, so we'll see.
23:17
Cinema You can truly fob her off with the.
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I should, I should be out like loads of sweets, chocolate.
23:21
Yeah, yeah, that's stuff. You should be.
23:23
You can. You can stay at home and look at
23:25
your iPad or whatever or TV or whatever.
23:29
Your player. Nintendo with no suites?
23:32
Yeah, you can come with me for two hours, then get high as the
23:34
kite on sugar. I'm going to be starving on
23:36
Sunday because it's mine and my wife's 10th wedding anniversary
23:40
this Friday. Oh OK, so we're we're going out
23:43
on to Michelin star restaurant on Saturday for A7 course
23:47
tasting lunch. Oh lovely.
23:49
Which sounds amazing, but obviously I'm not not an unfussy
23:54
eater. It's fair to say so me.
23:56
And my wife currently. Thinking bets on how many of the
23:57
courses I'll actually be able to eat.
23:59
I'm thinking maybe three of the seven, and they're tiny anyway
24:02
with tasting things, so I'm going to be ravenous by the time
24:04
we get out of there and spend God knows how much money.
24:08
It's a bit like, like my wife, she is completely, completely
24:11
not a fussy eater at all. But there's one or two things
24:14
that she's not that gone on, and a lot of them seem to be in
24:17
those really fancy or they seem to be in a lot of those fancy
24:21
dishes that you get. At least 2 fish courses out of
24:24
the seven and I I don't do fish. Because usually in these places,
24:30
not that I want to say I've been to many, but usually you can
24:33
tell them beforehand, look, I don't eat fish.
24:35
So can you just exchange those courses and they usually have an
24:38
option. You'll get the vegetarian option
24:41
usually for those courses, but it's.
24:43
Nothing else cross the offer is that them when we get there?
24:45
Yeah. To do.
24:46
But yes, whatever they give us, I will be ravenous on Sunday.
24:49
So. Well, look, nice to be out with
24:52
your wife for your anniversary, you know, and spending some time
24:55
together and you know. Exactly, yeah.
24:59
I wouldn't say I got a bad reputation in terms of
25:01
anniversaries and that sort of stuff, which I had to, I had to
25:04
get a picture of her on her phone earlier of me and her
25:06
together because I haven't taken a selfie of the two of us for
25:08
quite some time. And she and she's like, why are
25:10
you doing that? And it's like, well, I'm going
25:12
to sorting your card out and she's like, but it's only, it's
25:13
three days to go. What do you mean you're sorting
25:15
it? It's like, yes, I am rubbish at
25:16
it normally. Oh my God.
25:19
And then you look through the phone roll, camera Roll, and
25:22
it's like thousands of action figures.
25:25
Oh, God, yeah, Yeah. There's a picture of action
25:28
figures or me and Mao more recently.
25:30
You know, I'd have no problem at all.
25:32
But yeah, me and my good lady wife.
25:34
No. Tumbled.
25:36
Only it's me and Mal. Now there's a card you should
25:40
send from the two of. Us, Mal says.
25:47
Thanks for letting the podcaster, Really.
25:54
Otherwise, happy 10th wedding anniversary.
25:56
Here's lots of pictures of toys because that's all I could find
25:58
on my phone. So there you go.
26:00
There might be an 11th, 1:00. Then that's the problem there.
26:06
That is the problem there, right?
26:08
Should we move on to the tale of the crossroads, then?
26:13
This is Thomas Ballet at T Ballet.
26:16
You're listening to the Eurolegions podcast.
26:19
Yeah. See, Thomas was up in California
26:21
at the weekend for the mythic meet up there.
26:24
That looked like a good time. Yeah, they had.
26:27
Curtis. Curtis was there as well.
26:29
He made the trip over from the middle of America, so that's
26:36
pretty cool. And I think he has one or two of
26:39
his children that are studying over in California.
26:42
So yeah, he's probably, yeah, probably combined the trip,
26:45
which makes sense for sure. Him and Darla were there, so a
26:49
nice little selfie. So they had a good time.
26:51
Of course, Dave Williams assigned to and Carver Customs
26:55
was there. He's from Ohio, so that's also
27:00
not that close to California. So yeah.
27:03
He was obviously there as well. Yeah, is a native part for the
27:07
kind of I think the guys running it as so to speak or definitely
27:12
involved in IT. People should look align with
27:14
some of the pictures. There's a couple of tables of
27:16
customs that just had some phenomenal customs.
27:20
One guy had like sort of like angelic themed Knights on horses
27:25
and he's painted all the different horses, different
27:26
colours and yeah, amazing stuff. So look out for the pictures.
27:30
Yeah, there's some if you look for there's a post from is for
27:34
sure is Ramirez, is Ramirez or is Ramirez and what is in it?
27:38
Facebook name is in the Cabal. Definitely worth the shout,
27:42
worth the look, right? And we have tailored the
27:46
crossroads. So this is what we got first
27:49
last week just pretty much after we recorded the day after we
27:53
recorded last week. Yeah, we recorded early last
27:55
week as well. We normally do wins Tuesday,
27:58
record Wednesday recordings and we did the Tuesday one.
28:01
We didn't choose the one again this week.
28:03
So hopefully drop the next one now.
28:07
But I think with the with the in stock sale coming on Thursday, I
28:12
mean, I think that's enough for this week, surely.
28:14
Come on. So we had an idea that there was
28:18
going to be 4 different characters here.
28:20
I think you could see maybe top left and bottom right are one
28:24
point O figures and the other two are a 2.0 figures could
28:32
conceivably be the same figure. But I thought Crossroads, we
28:37
kind of figured that would be 4 as well, no?
28:42
Yeah, it wasn't sure myself, but there's definitely two different
28:47
figures wasn't. There was indeed, yeah.
28:51
And then they got revealed and this is the first one.
28:55
So there is 2 single packs of figures and they're going to be
29:01
available separately AS2 single packs.
29:02
And in each single pack you can make 2 separate figures.
29:09
But in order to have the two figures on your shelf, you'd
29:11
need to buy 2-2 of the packs. But you can make either of the
29:16
figure with one of the packs. So this one is the Shirelle,
29:22
isn't it? And the nymph.
29:25
So I think this the way it's laid out here with the Cape and
29:30
the hood and that's, that's blue.
29:33
Let's repainted head. Yeah, that's the Shirelle and.
29:41
No, it's the isn't that? Because the name is right.
29:48
Yes, yes, sorry. Yeah, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
29:53
And then we also had the Warrior and the Revenant, which is this
30:00
cool looking dude here. So it's a heavy, heavy built
30:03
knight with the afarious skirt piece.
30:06
Is that what it was? I was going to ask you guys
30:08
which one it was. Yeah.
30:10
It's very couldn't for the life of me think which it was.
30:12
Yeah. Yeah, I've seen, I've definitely
30:15
seen people like Dennis Derby use this on customs previously.
30:21
I don't have the box to be reusing a horse torso.
30:26
And you hate CentOS, John, we've established it already.
30:28
Yeah. And the one I have, I actually,
30:31
I slightly melted this this skirt piece when I was heating
30:37
it up for something. I was heating up the other part
30:39
but in. The background because somebody
30:43
who slightly melted his front room carpet heating apart, you
30:47
got away with it lightly. Yeah, I just damaged the figure,
30:50
which, you know, my wife isn't going to care about that much.
30:54
So yeah, that's so we got here. And up here you can see Trevor's
31:02
beautiful glamour shots of them all.
31:06
So there's the four figures that you can get overall impressions
31:10
of this then Rich. I I love it.
31:13
Yeah, I'm sometimes be hit message 2.0 figures, as you
31:19
know, regular listeners will know, but I love, I love both of
31:23
those. I think they're really good Sets
31:25
are really simple and the Knights are both just awesome.
31:28
So I'm really excited about this.
31:31
And you, man. I think it's exceptional.
31:34
I think this is possibly my favorite mythic con exclusive
31:42
that we've got. I I'm the other way.
31:45
I think I like the the two female figures more than the
31:50
male figures, but I do like the male ones.
31:54
You know, I as you know, it's that little bit of their kind of
31:57
nights again, isn't it? Although I like the build,
32:01
that's not so naughty. They're with the boxes torso.
32:08
Yeah, with the boxes torso. But yeah, my very favorite is
32:12
the nymph. I love the the use of those
32:14
little wings and the, yeah, just everything about her.
32:18
When I'd seen these and I knew John had seen them, a message I
32:22
knew hadn't Mal a message on going yeah, Mal's going to love
32:24
the 2.01. He's going to lose his mind for
32:27
that one. Basically got hot goth chicks,
32:30
isn't it? How could I know?
32:33
And on the nymph, is that the trace ray tailor head?
32:41
No, I don't think the user thrace head.
32:42
No, it's this is where I was going to get.
32:45
It's the ghost of Future Past. Oh, it's OK, it's the figure
32:55
obscure. OK, that was my other guess if
32:58
it wasn't. We've done it.
32:59
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's why I was getting
33:00
confused over which one was. Yeah, it does look rounder than
33:04
than Trace, but yeah, thought I'd throw it out there.
33:08
Yeah, I like these as well. The one point O is amazing.
33:13
It's my favorite and I just like these warrior or baseline of
33:18
figures. I think probably if I had to
33:21
choose one, I choose the Revenant as well.
33:23
But the Warrior is also cool. Yeah, excellent.
33:27
Yeah, yeah, he's a really cool heavy knight.
33:32
And yeah, I think he's, yeah, he definitely going to do 1 of each
33:38
of these. So need two of those.
33:40
And then yeah, the other two also excellent.
33:44
And I love the story behind which we maybe have a little
33:47
chat about, have some bullet points on it.
33:51
It's actually posted on the Horseman website now.
33:53
It wasn't for a few days, but so that'll be cool just to dig
33:59
into. It's a it's a cool little back
34:01
story and it really kind of makes these figures even more
34:05
special. And Jeremy went through it on
34:07
his show last week. So if you if you want to check
34:10
that out, Mythic conversations. I think I prefer the warrior
34:14
builds the remnant build right. However, using the Revenant head
34:18
with that face insert on the Warrior, I think we'll be even
34:22
better again. Oh, do they fit?
34:26
Yeah, at the head. Will you you, you just?
34:28
Yeah, you'd have to. You'd have to take the whole
34:29
head. Yeah.
34:30
OK, so the helmet and everything and put it on there.
34:32
But that's going to look amazing.
34:36
For me on the Warrior, I'm going to use the Google ether blade
34:39
head because it looks so cool and then I'm really torn with
34:42
the Revenant. See the go go ahead I I don't
34:48
dislike it, but it's not one of my favourites, I have to admit.
34:51
So there's very few of my figures I've actually got that
34:54
display I. Love that head.
34:58
Yeah, that's the that's all you get them with the the Knights.
35:03
You do get a scaphoid head as well.
35:05
So if we just if we look through here, let's just for the for
35:09
this figure. So the gore go head is exclusive
35:13
to Legions con? It is.
35:15
And the faceplate. Yeah, there's the human face
35:20
plate with the red eyes. Is it red?
35:22
Yeah. And the scaphoid head.
35:27
They're all exclusive. I'm not sure if the neck
35:30
exclusive as well the scaphoid neck that comes with it.
35:33
It is, yeah. Must be, yeah.
35:36
But yeah, I wasn't so inspired by the all these scaphoid
35:39
colored heads in this that I picked up 4 scaphoids cheap on
35:43
the Cabal yesterday. Oh wow, somebody selling four of
35:48
them for $100.00. So I snapped that up.
35:50
OK, that's a good deal. That's a good deal.
35:54
But yeah, I think it's kind of cool that they do heads for
35:58
exclusive pieces because I don't, I feel like you don't
36:02
miss out too much then because I mean, if if they were to do like
36:11
torsos or limbs or whatever, they're harder to kind of get.
36:13
I think feel like you're more important to the look.
36:18
Yeah, I mean, I'm probably going to get like 3 of each so I can
36:21
do the two. And then you have my usual, you
36:24
know, I like to keep the special edition things have one in a
36:27
box, but I'll probably leave it to that for this, for this.
36:31
These these guys, as cool as I think they are and they're
36:37
awesome parts because they're all sort of that muted neutral
36:41
tones, you know, much more neutral tones in blacks and
36:43
Grays and Browns. I'll probably wait until the the
36:48
standard one goes on sale for for that for for the parts you
36:52
know. Mal, I don't know if you heard,
36:54
but they said the standard one's going to be the same price as
36:57
the exclusive. Oh.
36:58
Yeah, but it's transport, you know?
37:01
It's. I just want to make sure you're
37:03
aware. Of that, yeah.
37:03
Spreading out my spending. Let's put it that.
37:05
There we go. Yeah.
37:09
And, uh, I worth to mention that David Williams is doing the box
37:12
art on this, so definitely probably want to keep a box.
37:17
So that's going to be a packaging problem.
37:24
I left dimension to get 2 back. Might have to ship those.
37:26
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Might have to ship those.
37:28
Ones luckily we know people who are very kind and generous and
37:34
these initials are BS and ship stuff back yeah, ironically,
37:39
yeah, but on Jeremy show they talked about the warrior and the
37:45
revenant. They've got the Savai hander
37:47
sword but they said oh, but they've got a shield as well and
37:50
they're like yeah, be so badass. He can he can cope with A2
37:53
handed sword with one hand. That's really.
37:55
Good. As well as having the shield.
37:56
It was like really good. I really like that description.
37:58
That's good. And so just let's just go
38:03
through her then to see what's exclusive.
38:05
So we got the Zary Inspire, head of the Cosmic.
38:10
That is how our mind displayed. Yeah, that looks.
38:13
Really good. That is my favorite head for
38:15
this figure, the nymph. So that's the other look.
38:18
You can get the nymph which is that goes to Christmas Pass.
38:22
I'll probably have, actually, I'll take that back.
38:24
I'll probably have the wings rather than the Cape, but it'll
38:26
be yeah. Yeah, the head I was talking
38:28
about. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
38:30
And that's just the Trevor's pictures are just incredible.
38:36
I mean, it's it goes without saying, but still, yeah.
38:40
Absolutely amazing. Oh I managed to miss the fact
38:42
the wings were on there completely until Jeremy
38:44
mentioned them on his show. I was like what wings?
38:47
Oh, the wings clearly sticking out of the back.
38:48
Yeah, OK. They're cool.
38:51
So they came. They've only come with Artemis
38:53
so far, the version 2 of Artemis, so that's.
38:58
One of the parts are really, really light.
39:00
Yeah, I think that's, you see, if they were exclusive now, that
39:04
would really suck because that's really hard to get because,
39:08
yeah, to get those wings produced in a different color,
39:13
translucent plastic is just that's not a customized paint
39:17
job, you know? Yeah.
39:20
There's really no way of replicating it.
39:24
There she is with the skull in the in the cage.
39:28
We'll we'll get on to the meaning behind all these in a
39:31
SEC. Let's just get the rest of the
39:32
exclusive heads out of the way. Queen irks ahead.
39:37
This bananas. It completely changes the look
39:40
gives you I I feel like this is an entirely different character
39:43
altogether. Same here.
39:45
Yes that's my problem. That's the what might make me
39:48
get another one of the easiest because I really like how they
39:51
look. She looks with that head.
39:52
But as you say, it doesn't feel like the same character.
39:57
It feels like a different character.
39:59
Yeah. And then?
40:02
That's. That's that's there.
40:04
So there's the two, two exclusive heads that you're
40:09
missing with her if you get the standard version.
40:14
So I think that's pretty fair. If we move on then to any
40:20
anything more about the figures themselves and.
40:23
Just so many parts. And as Mal said, it's like the
40:26
the sort of muted color scheme. It's like the soft goods on the
40:30
The Revenant. It's just going to, I mean on
40:32
all of them. Particularly I like the skirt
40:33
piece on the Reverend. It's going to look brilliant on
40:36
anything. Should have an Armoury Knights,
40:38
anything at all. It's going to work really,
40:40
really well. But it's very similar by the
40:43
looks of it and it's sort of cut and style of the epoxy skirt
40:48
piece as well, which is such a good piece.
40:52
Yes, I think it might actually be that Ma.
40:55
It does look a lot like it. And David could ask, and Jeremy
40:58
was like, oh, it might be. Yeah, why not?
41:03
They don't need to if they do it in a different color material
41:07
soft. Cuts.
41:08
CJ's got the pattern and it. Works.
41:11
Yeah, if the patterns already plugged in at the factory and
41:13
it's just do this in black fabric instead of tan or
41:17
whatever that boxes one was, whatever color you call that,
41:21
yeah, absolutely go for it. We're not.
41:24
Excellent piece as well. Yeah, we're not against reuse
41:27
and especially in soft goods and those tattered kind of soft
41:30
goods anyway, you know, if it's a very specific type of Cape for
41:34
a noble guy, Yeah, OK, that might look a bit strange on a on
41:38
a different character, but this kind of stuff looks like they
41:43
just picked it from the a dead enemy or whatever, you know?
41:49
Yeah, yeah. Now there'll be a lot of these
41:51
coming back with me. Yeah, right.
41:55
Let's touch a little bit on the story and I think, I think we
41:59
might record a version of the story in the future.
42:02
Man we have more time for just renew your property.
42:05
Yeah, just been a little bit busy this last weekend.
42:09
Yeah, you don't want me doing it, guys.
42:10
So we get Mal and I'll do the production and everything.
42:15
Everything will work out well. So, uh, the story is, is is told
42:19
as a legend in mythos. So it's a mythos.
42:21
It's a kind of a third hand account.
42:24
So that's already kind of cool. Does this really exist?
42:27
Is this a kind of a, a tall tale?
42:29
Is it a legend or is it actually somewhere?
42:34
And the place is, is, it's called in English the dark
42:38
pathways. Uh, they call it the dew.
42:41
Uh, fear, fear Thrasner, which is sounds to me Irish anyway,
42:46
that word, yeah. And that kind of trust now is a
42:54
kind of a way, you know, So that's the one word I remembered
42:59
from my Irish of those. And and do I mean is kind of
43:06
part of the word black, which the word black is dove in Irish
43:10
and Dublin. The actual Irish literal
43:13
translation is Blackpool. So they didn't want to call it
43:17
Blackpool. So they just kind of anglified
43:23
the Irish name or and actually the Irish name is completely
43:27
different. It's called by all, all clear.
43:29
So yeah. Didn't want all the English
43:31
showing up in their Bermuda shorts and topless with them.
43:35
You know, expect that's where the tower is.
43:38
Yeah, where's the tower mate? So this place is not on the map
43:43
in Mythos, so we won't be able to add it to our map or navel be
43:48
putting it on the map. So something interesting, but
43:52
you somehow arrive there who knows how.
43:55
There was even a suggestion that maybe it moves.
44:00
Yeah, I mean, there's magic in mythos, so of course, yeah.
44:02
And it's almost like a crossroad.
44:04
Yeah, almost like the crossroad might find you rather than you
44:06
find it. It could always seek out
44:09
somebody. When you least expect it, yeah.
44:12
It reminds me a little bit of like, you know, someplace you
44:15
kind of go in between being dead and being alive, you know?
44:21
Yeah, because none of the choices are really good for you
44:28
in the end, are they? Let's be honest.
44:30
We're getting into those. Yeah, yeah.
44:32
There's like, I know there's a scene in the last Harry Potter
44:34
movie, for example, where he meets Dumbledore in this kind
44:37
of, it's almost like a train station and it's really bright
44:41
and whatever. And it's in between him kind of
44:44
in the real world, people think he's actually been just been
44:46
killed. And it's a kind of a what choice
44:50
you make from here determines your fate.
44:53
So similar vibes here. So there's four paths.
44:57
Obviously crossroads makes sense and each path has a keeper.
45:03
I think we're at the end of this.
45:04
We can, we can say which one we'd go for ourselves.
45:10
Yeah. But you know, I don't think
45:13
anyone wants to go for any of them.
45:15
But, you know, you're, you know, if you were playing a game of
45:18
DND or, you know, if this really happened, you would have to do
45:22
it. So the first one is the warrior
45:26
and and you have to defeat the warrior in combat.
45:32
So that's pretty simple. And if you don't defeat him,
45:38
well, you're toast. So the nymph, you have to solve
45:46
riddles. Solve for riddles and.
45:54
Without going mad, it reads a little bit like she send you
45:58
into Yeah, equivalent of an escape room, doesn't it?
46:04
If anyone's ever had a 5 year old child that won't shut up,
46:06
it'll it'll be a bit like that. I haven't had one of those but
46:13
I've I've had to suffer some of those in my time.
46:18
If you do actually solve the riddles, then you become
46:22
attractive to everybody or whoever you most desire, so that
46:27
that would be good. And and if not, she turns you
46:29
into a mouse and you have to follow her around the whole
46:33
time. You're completely in her thrall.
46:36
So, I mean, it sounds better than the the warrior.
46:41
Yeah, but you're a mouse now. Yeah, but you know, you're in
46:44
the moment. I give other sounds of it so you
46:46
wouldn't really know any better. True.
46:51
So for me already that sounds better than the warrior.
46:54
OK, then we got the Shirelle that she's so she's not nice at
47:00
all. I mean you get the vibe from
47:02
Nymph sounds kind of nice. She even looks kind of pleasant.
47:06
The Shirelle looks nasty. She has puzzles, so not riddles
47:12
this time. Puddle puzzles.
47:16
And you go to her if you want to get retribution or vengeance.
47:21
That's why you might choose to to do her puzzles.
47:26
And if you get defeated by her puzzles, then yeah, she consumes
47:30
your soul and you're, it's tied to her and you'll be suffering
47:38
all the pain of your soul being tied to her for the rest of
47:41
time. And she carries around your head
47:43
in the cage just to show everybody you know she don't
47:46
mess with her. It's it's a hard pass for me on
47:49
the Shiro. Doesn't sound like a fun one.
47:53
No, I don't feel the need for Retribution of Vengeance either,
47:56
that that's not really my stuff. Oh, I think I feel not a lot of
48:00
need for that. But not at the risk of being
48:03
carried around. Very certainty, no.
48:07
Yeah. And then the revenant, there's
48:10
really there's no real defeating the revenant.
48:13
So I don't know why you would choose that one.
48:16
Although there is the possibility of immortality, it's
48:21
very unclear what the Redmond actually does to you or you
48:26
know, it's kind of like a close the door, nobody knows what goes
48:29
on behind it, kind of a scenario.
48:32
So and. A lot of literature and like
48:36
myths and that sort of stuff. People who become immortal live
48:39
to regret it. They reach a certain point.
48:41
Can't do anything. Yeah.
48:45
So that can only be a form of torture, yeah.
48:49
Highlander. You give a Highlander.
48:52
Thank you. Yeah, Well done, Matt.
48:55
Yeah. So they're your choices.
48:58
There's a beautiful little rhyme then to round out the story,
49:03
which basically summarizes the different scenarios for you
49:06
there. I think you, I think that rhyme
49:10
could be done in a very kind of a pleasant, upbeat way, but with
49:14
the words sounding very ominous. I think the name is is the only
49:20
one to choose there. But yeah, it's not a good
49:25
outcome either way, is it? I'd tell warrior.
49:27
I'm not sure. Bring the warrior on.
49:31
Is that like you and Anthony basically?
49:33
Yeah. I was thinking if you want to
49:40
summarize the poem but in a not as polite language.
49:43
Take any of these beeps on and you're absolutely beeped.
49:47
Yeah, I think the fact that you'd have to be questioned in
49:51
your life is, but the fact that you're there in the 1st place,
49:54
maybe that's the real, that's the real issue.
49:59
What bad decisions have you made that have ended you up here?
50:06
Yeah. So that's a, that's a story
50:09
really cool. Everything about this is so so
50:13
good. It's yeah, really well done.
50:16
I wonder will the story be included in on the box or is or
50:20
will there be a little booklet or something?
50:22
Maybe if it's too much to print on the box, but it might be I
50:27
think. I'd imagine the box, yeah, try
50:31
and keep it the sort of exclusive and feel of it sort of
50:34
thing, rather than getting in the book.
50:36
True. Or maybe that means I print the
50:38
book so it wouldn't. Be no but like if he knows
50:40
little booklet like you get in the figuras.
50:42
Yeah. They're, they're in single
50:46
boxes, aren't they? So it's only, it's going to be
50:48
just that bit of the story with them in it, isn't it?
50:50
That we've seen. Oh, you think it's going to be
50:52
the half? Yeah, maybe.
50:55
We'll see. We shall see.
50:56
I'm excited to see what David. Does, absolutely.
51:00
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I think others have said
51:04
this already, but these type of characters scream David style to
51:09
me. Yes.
51:11
Even like he specializes in, well, he's tattoo artist and he
51:15
does, he doesn't do colour tattoos, he does black and you
51:19
know, black ink tattoos and a lot of his art is always that
51:24
kind of black ink on paper style and it's really amazing.
51:29
So I can imagine it will be in that kind of style.
51:34
Yeah, well, and I feel like the T-shirt he did Legions.
51:37
Yeah, Yeah, he isn't that. Far away, if you remember these
51:40
guys, these characters, yeah, yeah.
51:43
If you want to go back and listen to our episode with David
51:45
from last October, yeah. And that would be a fun one to
51:50
catch up with David and Thomas. We definitely talked about that
51:53
then. But the other exciting thing
51:56
about this is that's not all from Legions Con exclusive and
52:02
these will be available on both days.
52:07
There will be a standard version as usual.
52:09
Afterwards we talked about the exclusive parts and as and like
52:15
last year, if there are some leftover, I believe that they
52:18
might end up at a retailer or something like that.
52:20
I mean, nothing has been confirmed or anything, but you
52:23
follow the logical steps. You might end up with someone
52:26
like Big Bad having them for a slightly higher price, so all
52:32
good. And the fact that they're single
52:33
packs does make it a bit easier for people to get the ones they
52:37
like and stock up on those instead of being stuck with 18
52:45
Orange Foot Walters or whatever it was, which I don't.
52:49
Find but others maybe don't want there are.
52:52
A few Walters, that'd be fine, yeah.
52:54
Yeah. Yeah, they're great base for a
52:56
custom, let's be honest. It's really you like cosmic
53:00
though, isn't it? That's the kind of problem with
53:02
that one. It was.
53:03
There's a lot of people who weren't, perhaps.
53:05
Well, I've done, I've done a lot of cosmic customs so far this
53:07
year. I need to spend the rest of the
53:10
year doing mythic customs. I'm wondering if the day, not
53:15
the day, two things over both days, but the other pack will be
53:18
maybe a tribute one with one mythic, 1 cosmic.
53:24
Or maybe they're both cosmic, just to spread out a little bit.
53:27
Yeah. Because cosmic doesn't generally
53:30
do as well as mythics. However, the cosmic one last
53:33
year flew and everybody loved it.
53:36
You know they were talking about that more than the mythic ones.
53:40
Yeah, it can often just depend on the figure, you know.
53:45
Yeah. So if it follows again the
53:47
normal pattern, the other figure or figures would be some sort of
53:53
a tribute to somebody in the community.
53:57
What was your you were thinking? You would have thought about
54:00
that, man, if they were going to do one.
54:01
It might be. Oh well, it was this one because
54:05
it looked like it was a male and female character.
54:07
I wouldn't. Yeah, but I guess it still
54:09
stands if we. Usually I wouldn't do for
54:11
Cameron. Cameron and Sherry like, yeah,
54:14
that. Would be cool.
54:16
Yeah. They because they work as a team
54:20
with the painting. So now they have other people on
54:23
board with the painting now as well.
54:24
Eric Miller, I believe is quite heavily involved in in a lot of
54:28
projects now at this point. He did the head pack for the
54:32
cosmic heads back, which I think will arrive at some point and
54:36
we'll go, Oh my God, you remember that Forgot you ordered
54:38
that. I think you will.
54:44
If they do Cameron though, if any, I can't remember if any of
54:46
the heads already got massive mutton chops.
54:48
No, but that could be a good Richard Jones, you know, in a
54:52
former Life tribute head as well.
54:55
Yeah, so that would be cool. Mutton chops?
55:00
Yeah. I suggested to my my wife the
55:02
other day actually, that I was going to grow the beard quite
55:05
long before Legions Con and then just shave it into the mutton
55:07
chops and go to Legions Con with the mutton chops.
55:10
Oh, yeah. It wasn't a positive response
55:12
from the family over me looking like that for any period of time
55:15
in this country. You have.
55:18
To just go with a full beard and we can you can do with their,
55:23
their shoes when you arrive, you know, just turn up, just wear
55:30
wear a mask, a COVID mask just just for for the crack and then
55:33
run upstairs to the room, drop yourself and come back, say hi.
55:41
Yeah, I, I, I wonder if I, I'd love if they use some new parts
55:47
we haven't had yet, but that are in production or maybe even
55:50
produced. Like, for example, imagine if
55:53
they did a dwarf with parts from the Dwarf 2 pack.
55:57
Assuming that Rising Suns might be also arriving around that
56:01
time. That would be amazing.
56:04
That would be awesome. Yeah, that would be my dream.
56:07
I can't wait to get those dwarfs now.
56:09
I think that's my that's my most anticipated now, although the Ox
56:14
crew cosmic has me excited too. Yeah.
56:18
And of course, let's not forget All Star 6, which should be
56:21
popping up soon, but obviously with the shipping uncertainty at
56:25
the moment. It's probably been finished
56:27
already and it's just sat in a container in China because it's
56:30
just too expensive to I'm. Going to give I'm going to give
56:33
the horseman a pass on delaying that until things settle down.
56:37
Yeah, I wouldn't. I wouldn't.
56:38
Some way anybody would import stuff at the moment.
56:40
There's just no point. No, I mean, obviously if they,
56:44
if they have certainty or terms that work for them, however they
56:47
do it, then go for it. But yeah, cannot be sucking up a
56:52
huge loss on that because that's bad for everybody here.
56:56
So fingers crossed that that works out for them and for all
57:02
those collectors, right. So that was that was the leaders
57:09
kind of exclusive and we did of course the in stock sale and now
57:14
that's how are the fish fish. I've had one rise like I've I'm
57:19
slightly worried might have a zombie fish in the tank now
57:21
because I was convinced one of them was dead.
57:23
I hadn't seen it for a few days. And then in it's from the
57:25
flames. Yeah, and it's orange and
57:27
yellow, so it's like it could be like a phoenix or colour as
57:30
well. So yeah, well, that's slightly
57:32
scary. And you're telling me the shrimp
57:40
is maybe chasing that one around now?
57:42
I wouldn't. No, I was, I was joking.
57:44
It was like the the the shrimps because if a fish dies in the
57:47
tank, the shrimps just demolish said fish.
57:51
I found a backbone and a skull before, now I've.
57:55
Fished out diorama pieces for the tank.
57:57
Yeah, Do you know what I mean? It's that they they don't mess
57:59
around the shrimps. So I'd imagine if this one does,
58:03
you know, isn't feeling very well and that's why I didn't see
58:05
it for a few days gets even more poorly.
58:07
There might be just a trail of shrimp falling behind again.
58:09
Die, die. We want to eat, you die.
58:13
Well, it's it's that's a tough, tough situation and.
58:20
But the tank itself is amazing. Yeah, yeah.
58:23
Oh. Yeah.
58:26
Yeah, and, and we were chatting to Anthony O Seal and Messenger
58:29
and he said that when he was kid, his dad had, what did he
58:32
say, 300 gallon tank or something?
58:34
300 gallon tank -50 so a bit bigger, yeah.
58:37
No, he wasn't like Boston. It was just we were talking
58:40
about bigger tanks and he was like, oh, we used to loads of
58:42
fish. And I mean, that's, that's the
58:47
sight to behold. Imagine trying to maintain that
58:49
though. Oh yeah, It's when you start
58:52
getting tanks that big, you basically just have a few big
58:54
fish. Yeah, if you put like some
58:57
showing ones in like I've got, I mean, you'd take like 1000 of
59:00
them to fill it. Yeah, yeah.
59:04
Yeah, there was a well there is a bakery in one of the towns
59:09
near us and it's still there, but they had a big fish tank and
59:12
it was like all one wall at the back.
59:14
So about AI don't know, 10 or 12 feet of wall and also in an
59:21
L-shaped around the corner, another couple of feet.
59:24
And they got rid of it and, uh, harass them or what?
59:27
Like it was there for years. You know, it's only gone about
59:30
five years, maybe before COVID. And, uh, they said, yeah, uh,
59:35
there's this association that used to maintain it for us.
59:38
And there were, you know, a lot of these retired people, umm,
59:42
who had kind of done the hobby in their lives or whatever, or,
59:45
or, you know, part of this club and they would do it for free or
59:49
for a small fee, you know, it would come around.
59:51
And unfortunately they didn't have enough members.
59:54
And kind of, you know, as people kind of got older and died, then
59:59
it kind of just, uh, you know, there wasn't enough people left
1:00:03
to be able to provide that service and there wasn't new
1:00:06
people coming on board. So yeah, unfortunately good
1:00:10
things come to an end sometimes like that.
1:00:13
Yeah, I mean if you've got really big tanks, quite often
1:00:15
like very rich people will have loads of big tanks and then to
1:00:18
maintain it for me to get a company in.
1:00:20
Yeah, I don't know back. Getting expensive then.
1:00:23
Yeah, I don't know the back story of this.
1:00:24
So whether it was, you know, the owner or original owner of the
1:00:27
bakery was into this or whether maybe someone, yeah, some older
1:00:33
person that was that had a big tank was looking for a home for
1:00:37
it and donated it there on the proviso that somebody would be
1:00:43
maintaining it. Because I guess the staff and
1:00:45
the people that owned the bakery can't really take that task on,
1:00:50
you know, as the bread and is burning at the back.
1:00:53
So somebody trying to save a little fish from the shrimp or
1:00:57
whatever. But yeah, the kids used to love.
1:00:58
Watching. Kids, you could sit there for
1:01:02
hours watching it, you know, To be honest is like better than TV
1:01:06
sometimes, you know? Oh yeah, that's This is why I
1:01:09
enjoy keeping fish. It's just, you know, I think I
1:01:12
said before on the show, my 2 massive de stressors are
1:01:14
watching fish be in my tank or you know, anywhere else.
1:01:19
And the cinema. Those are the two things that
1:01:21
just totally relax me. Awesome.
1:01:25
So I'm off to the cinema tomorrow night so I should be
1:01:27
chilled as you like come Thursday morning.
1:01:31
Yeah, but that would be no good for podcasting, you know,
1:01:33
because we don't want you. We don't want you to chill.
1:01:36
We need a little bit of fire. Yeah, I'll be back on Miles
1:01:39
recommendation too, because you said Sinners was good, didn't
1:01:41
you? I did.
1:01:43
I think that's another exceptional.
1:01:45
Yeah, so we're going to see that with a friend tomorrow, so that
1:01:47
should be cool. I've heard some of the people
1:01:50
say it was good as well and some show or radio shows listen to.
1:01:54
So, yeah, it looks like he might be on to a winner there.
1:01:59
And and then next week we have to see what comes up.
1:02:02
Maybe, as we said, maybe there's going to be another
1:02:05
announcements. But in the meantime, we have
1:02:08
some ideas. You had one about characters
1:02:10
fighting each other, Rich. I did, yes.
1:02:13
So. Yeah, a little bit more.
1:02:17
Yeah, so it's basically pick either pick a character and go
1:02:20
right, Magnus, you know, what would his fighting style be?
1:02:25
And, you know, if you had to take him down in a fight, who
1:02:29
from another faction, you know, an evil faction would be able to
1:02:32
do it? And what would the battle be
1:02:33
like? You know, not 20 pages.
1:02:35
I mean, you know, and he raised his sword and he did, you know,
1:02:38
but that that sort of thing. So yeah.
1:02:41
Or we can just pick 22 characters and go, right.
1:02:43
What would happen if these two fought?
1:02:45
Right. Should we rank them and should
1:02:48
we do a couple of character categories and rank them?
1:02:51
You know, strength, I think. That sounds like a good idea,
1:02:52
Yeah. In an ideal world, that.
1:02:55
Sounds like a spreadsheet. Yeah, there used to be a program
1:02:59
called Deadliest Warriors. It was on it years ago.
1:03:03
And they they put like a knight against a pirate, for instance.
1:03:07
And they'd they'd test the various weapons they had and
1:03:09
this sort of stuff. So if I could get some ballistic
1:03:12
torsos and some real swords, we could do that.
1:03:14
But that's probably a bit of a stretch, to be honest.
1:03:19
Was that on the BBC or what? No, it was one of the streaming
1:03:23
services. OK, yeah, but if you find it,
1:03:25
it's it's just hilarious. My wife used to walk in and just
1:03:28
shake her head and walk out and I'd be they're glued to them
1:03:31
going well, if a pirate fighter Muskie, it would do this.
1:03:34
And then actually, you know, in a, a Knights, you know, Zivayan,
1:03:37
the sword would do that. And then they showed them
1:03:39
reenacting it. She had people in as the
1:03:40
characters fighting because they'd run simulations like, you
1:03:43
know, we've run the simulation 12,000 times and the pirate will
1:03:46
run 52% of the time. So you'd see the two of them
1:03:49
fighting and then the pirate would finish off the night.
1:03:51
It's so good, so good. So most, you know, most wives
1:03:56
are afraid of, you know, coming home and catching their husband
1:03:59
watching porn or something on the television and she's walks
1:04:02
in and it's like you're watching a, a pirate fight at night.
1:04:05
She she knows I'm too boring for that.
1:04:07
It'll be fish action figures maybe like golf or snooker.
1:04:12
Not even an exciting sport, you know, she knows that.
1:04:13
It's just like. Snooker was exciting this week.
1:04:16
The World Championship. And so the final, yeah, as
1:04:18
Welshman, that was a bad result in the final, but yeah.
1:04:21
But he's 50 and almost blind, Mark.
1:04:24
Williams I mean, it's the world final loss.
1:04:32
Says a lot if if someone's 50 and still in the final world
1:04:37
final of a sport, is it a sport? The certain sports are like
1:04:44
darts and stuff and that way you know they're not physical
1:04:46
particularly so you can play to a decent age.
1:04:49
I mean golfers or but you know, I think once golfers get to mid
1:04:53
40s they they tend to lose their competitiveness.
1:04:56
I think it was the terms of against the younger guys.
1:04:59
Yeah, I think it was the Tokyo Olympics.
1:05:01
One of the Japanese show jumpers was in his 70s, like, because
1:05:04
obviously he's just sat on top of a horse.
1:05:05
So it's, you know. Strapped on because he can't
1:05:10
hold himself on anymore, Yeah. Yeah, he'd have to get it.
1:05:17
He'd have to. I'm sure he had a lot of
1:05:19
therapeutical use exemptions for all these medication.
1:05:24
Blood pressure? Yeah.
1:05:25
Arthritis meds. Yeah.
1:05:27
Yeah. Yeah, you can't.
1:05:28
You can't compete with all these.
1:05:29
Oh, yes, I can. Here's all the exemptions from
1:05:31
the doctors. Yeah, write them up.
1:05:34
Write them up. Cool.
1:05:37
Well, if you have any ideas for what you'd like us to do in the
1:05:41
show along those lines or something completely off the
1:05:44
wall and you've listened this long, so you must.
1:05:46
You must like the show. So drop us a line, spread the
1:05:51
word, share the show. Yeah.
1:05:57
Any TV, Any recommendations about podcasts, about fish or
1:06:01
anything as well just let me know.
1:06:02
You don't listen to podcasts about fish, do you?
1:06:05
It's not podcasts. It's like video vlogs, whatever
1:06:08
they're called. But yeah, I watched quite a few
1:06:10
of those. It's a bit.
1:06:12
Your YouTube algorithm is messed up.
1:06:14
I highly recommend a higher fish rescue if anyone's into a fish
1:06:17
keeping. OK.
1:06:21
And aside from watching fish, any TV shows that should be
1:06:24
watching? That doesn't seem to be huge
1:06:26
amount at the moment. I finally got around to watching
1:06:29
Shogun, which was absolutely amazing.
1:06:32
I just absolutely blasted through that.
1:06:34
And another older one, but I've just found it in the last three
1:06:38
days, is The Old Man with Jeff Bridges.
1:06:41
OK. Where he's an ex, I'll try not
1:06:45
to spoil too much. An ex CIA agent basically, who
1:06:48
just disappeared, was in hiding, nothing more to do with them.
1:06:51
And he's in like he's about 70 or so sort of thing.
1:06:54
And then he's found and it just goes from there.
1:06:57
And it's really, really good. Quite slow in places, but really
1:07:03
good. Sounds like me.
1:07:12
All right. And I guess that's it.
1:07:14
It's a bank holiday on Friday in Luxembourg, so Europe Day.
1:07:18
It's the one. You could have had lads, it's
1:07:20
the one. There we go.
1:07:21
It's my wedding anniversary, so yeah.
1:07:25
Well it's my birthday tomorrow as we record this, so my
1:07:27
birthday will be done. I'd be a year older by the time
1:07:30
it is this box 46. 46 I wish. Jesus remember everybody, stay
1:07:41
safe out there. If you do keep giant fish, make
1:07:44
sure you don't eat, but some of them get