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117. Mythic Legions All-Stars 6 in hand review · 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 117 of the Religious Podcast.
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And this week we're going to talk about In Hand All Star 6.
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How exciting is that? I know some of you will avoided
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your Orleans there in 2023 like we did and Rich didn't, which is
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why he's taken the week off. We've cast him out.
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From the Wales. That's it, Yeah.
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Well, yeah, it's he's, he's building up to his birthday.
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So he wants to make a big return for his birthday.
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You know, I think that's, that's the logic.
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He's he's gone by. So he's, yeah, he's off counting
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his fish, you know, making sure one another one of them hasn't
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kicked the bucket. But we have a super sub in we
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do. And all the way from somewhere
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close to. Was it Mississippi, you said?
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The Mississippi River in Iowa. The Mississippi River in Iowa,
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it's Brett Stoddard. It's not home.
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It's you're on the road, but you're.
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Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
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Now Brett is quite the skeleton fan, so pretty much on brand for
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this wave and indeed Nick anonymous you're you're I called
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you during the week Brett. You're the kind of anti Joe
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Rousseau. Yes, you know the kind of the
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Yangtze Yang or whatever which. Yeah, and I actually had to send
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him that because, you know, and I'm like, look, it's really.
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Other people say it too, Joe. It's not.
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True. Do you like Knights?
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I mean, I suppose we'll find out.
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You know I have my token Armory Knight Shelf with one of each of
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the different. Bills, you, you.
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You did that. I can I I see the appeal.
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I see it more if I stick a skull on it.
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But they they, you know, it's this whole line.
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What's not to love? And then at one point you have
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to really decide how you want to do it.
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And for me, skeletons brought me in all that other stuff tided me
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over till Necronominus and All Star 6 and it's it's back to the
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bones baby. Absolutely, Yeah, yeah, I mean,
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we, I think we're on our Nick Anonymous review.
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We we even featured a couple of pics you sent us for you were
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going skelly crazy with your Tuppercol eyes.
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And obviously I have a few more in here from from the heads
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pack, which obviously you're going to get a lot of fun from.
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Yes, yes. So did you get more than one all
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in or? I got 2 umm and and I I both
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think past me and admonish past me.
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Why didn't I do 4? But thank you for always doing
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2. Well, you know, it's probably
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two more than a few of our listeners.
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So you know you can't. That's true.
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That's. True, so very thankful.
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Past me was irresponsible. Yeah, Yeah, I think it is.
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If you I think we always say it, if you if you like 90 even 8090%
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of the figures in the wave and you can afford to do at the time
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do the all in, you'll be thanking yourself after you'll
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be. There's probably.
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Always. Somebody will take the extras.
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Always. Yeah, somebody will take the
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extras. I got rid of everything I didn't
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want out of two all ends already.
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Yeah. And then, you know, I didn't
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need to go crazy. It's just like what I paid for.
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Push up and go just, yeah, get him, get him out there.
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Yeah. Yeah, absolutely.
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Especially when you're, you're quite you, you know, you go to a
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lot of the conventions there along the East Coast and even
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maybe further, further afield. And yes, you know, lots of
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people just through that. And so, you know, they, they do
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you favors. Sometimes you, you do them.
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And it's just a big, just a big circle.
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So we're, you know, we don't need to be.
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I mean, I understand if people say, OK, I really need money and
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I have this thing that might be worth a bit more than I paid for
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it. But I think if you're in the
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line and collecting it, you try and do good turns because it
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comes back. You know we.
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See it all the time. It's definitely a good.
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Time. It sure is.
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And Mal, yours came last. Was it yesterday?
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Yesterday, yes. So I've I've, I've not played
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with it as much as you guys. I've opened a few tonight and
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last night just to get a bit of a feel for the ones that I was
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most excited about. But I think you guys are
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probably going to be carrying this episode a bit more than I.
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Am but I can offer I've. I've eaten a coffee Yeah, yeah,
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yeah. And yeah mine arrived last
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Friday and funnily enough, I got an e-mail from FedEx and they
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said we need proof of payment so I had to send them my credit
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card statement from two years ago.
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No, I was, I did it pretty much straight away when I got the
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e-mail because I happened to be checking my e-mail at the time.
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It was early in the morning and it didn't delay anything that
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still came that Friday, but I was like, is this new now or is
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this because the value was above a certain amount or whatever?
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I don't know. So more admin headaches, yes,
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coming down the line, but you got see now I got them.
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Yeah. I'll tell you what I got the I
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did the in stock sale. I just got two of the standard
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8020 fives or ATL 20 fives, so let's see if I need to send
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proof of payment for those that if that's the case then I'd be
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like oh man, I need to set. Up.
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I need to start, you know, saving those bank statements for
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my every time and just put them in a little folder on my laptop
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so they're they're easily accessible so I don't have to
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get a. FOMO and dipped back into the in
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stock sale as soon as my credit card ticked over.
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That's dangerous, man, because we don't know what's coming.
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You know it literally. Well, we do know the Infinite
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legions. We've talked about it.
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Well, this was before they. Announced that properly, wasn't
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it? I was like so.
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That's coming. That was stupid.
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I have a feeling like it might be in multiple versions of that
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figure, not just the one figure. It but it's going to be
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something more, doesn't it? But yeah, well, it just maybe
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they'll be a crossover. Maybe they'll be eh glios for
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grabs, perhaps. Oh, little packing light.
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Oh, that would be cool, wouldn't it?
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That would be fun. Yeah, and thought about that.
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We'll see if anything. One way done first.
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That is breathing, yeah. Yeah, well, it would.
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It wouldn't be a daft idea, would it?
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No, no, not from a business. Standpoint, yeah.
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All right, should we get into the job at hand then let's let's
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get straight in. So I did, I did a couple of
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pictures and because I had a little bit of time as in I got
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my last Friday, so I had the weekend when it's a little bit
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easier to get some stuff done. I took a few little pics with my
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outside underneath the washing line, but doesn't look like it.
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We had this beautiful day on Saturday where there was no sun,
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but there was a nice light for, for taking pictures.
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You're a photographer, Brett, so you get it, You know that kind
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of like. Nature soft box it.
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Just yeah, it's exactly, yeah. So we can talk through them as I
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did here. So the first one I took a
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picture of was Sir Andrew and he was one of my most anticipated
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and I think, well, we were in agreement there and.
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Then I've forgotten to. I got excited by a couple of the
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others. Well, I I had opened a load of
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them and I was like, I do have any more to open.
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And then I realized I had scally bone splitter and I was like,
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holy crap, that was one of the ones I really was looking for
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too. But just the way the cookie
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crumbles. Yeah.
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So Sir Andrew is, I mean, as good looking as the prototype
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and the soft goods are pretty cool on him and it's.
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A unique one. It's it's an upgrade and and
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kind of the capes we've got before even it's it's really
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fancy. It's got this, this kind of trim
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and this shaping where there's two little holes on the back
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that the pauldrons go into on it and you kind of line them up.
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So it is, it can be a little bit fiddly, but what I'd recommend
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is to is to heat up the little torso holes before you do any of
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the messing with the soft goods so they're ready to go, you
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know? There's been a couple of
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estimate of the ones I even do. I've had a bit of a fiddle get
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in the pauldrons thing this time.
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Yeah, double. Layers of cloth there are.
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Yeah, yeah. I just give them a blast of the
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of the hair dryer for 30 seconds.
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And I think that's enough, you know, unless, unless you want to
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do some serious pop in this one. But if you just want to do the
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pauldrons and, you know, change, change hands or something like
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that, or even pop them in half to, to put, put in a skirt piece
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or something. But Brett, were you a fan of Sir
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Andrew when you got him? Yes, I love the colours, I love
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the details. I love that it's the the common
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helmet with the interchangeable face plates because I had extra
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Dahlrich skulls and I immediately killed Joe, I mean
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Andrew. You mean you mean like this?
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I like that. Don't worry, I'm prepared.
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But I mean, that's just another beautiful thing about these, you
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know, it's just, yeah, I can't say enough good things about how
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they're doing these things for us like that.
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And it's just, yeah. Absolutely, yeah.
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And I love the way I look. I sometimes look back at
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Trevor's photos for reference when I'm putting stuff on the
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figures, and this chain went exactly across like in Trevor's
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photo once. I kind of just pulled the the
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Cape down kind of under the pauldrons like he had it.
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So it's pretty much spot on the way they designed it it seems
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like. And I just love the chains on
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all these new cloaks. It just makes them.
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It's just that little bit extra. They're just.
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Yeah. A little bit of a premium feel
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and yeah, and indeed, the soft goods on this guy also gives you
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a little premium feel. And the other thing was the the
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skin tech, the skin paint, the painting on the skin, the little
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shading and everything that they've done on it is mixed.
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Lever Yeah, yeah, that, that that portrait right there is, is
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just incredible. And Joe Russo already has dibs
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on all the extra face plates. I have to say, and this is no
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offense to whoever did paint the prototype, but I actually think
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this is 1 situation where the final product of the face.
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Factory only. Better than Yeah, it might
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actually be better than the prototype.
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And as I say, no disrespect to whoever painted the prototype.
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Yeah, it's so. Good.
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It's so nice. I don't.
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And everything. Yeah, and I think the stern look
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it it does give, it does remind me of the designer of this
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figure, which is Joe Vasapollo. He that when he does that kind
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of, you know, serious Joe face when he's.
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AI think he did the paint job too.
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ADD OK. I think so.
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OK. So we've done the drive by and
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there, man, there you go. Yeah.
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As I say, I don't mean that it was very.
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It was obviously good. It was one of my favorite.
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Testament to how well the factory is producing.
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These days, exactly because. Joe did a phenomenal job and
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they just took it up that notch. Yeah, exactly.
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Yeah, Yeah, it's, it's hard to believe that the factory kind of
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can do that. And I think that I remember
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Jeremy Gerard when he was before he was marketing manager and he
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was full time on the customs, you know, wasn't even working
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with the studio. And his point was always that he
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wasn't going to paint stuff in more detail than the factory
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might paint it right. And because he felt I could did
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looked a bit out of place on his shelf.
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Well, I don't think there's a level now he's.
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Not the case anymore. That the, that the factory, you
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know, ones look out of place. So yeah, I think you can put
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your your Eric Miller paint job custom head beside these and
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they they're not going to fall out of line.
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So yeah so great figure. We we will on the future episode
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go through like the lower and BIOS around this maybe do a
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little bit of a refresher. But for this, we're just looking
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at the figures themselves and. I look forward to Mal reading
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those BIOS. They're listening.
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I listened to the Crossroads story a couple times.
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Yeah, that's very kind. I enjoyed reading it.
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I. Think well as the one that as
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the one that did it. I I've listened to it.
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I have to say I enjoyed listening to it every time and I
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even listened to it a couple of times after, after it was
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published. And because, you know, you're
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constantly listening to it going, oh, could I change
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something? Could I put in a little bit of
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something else? Anyway, yeah, sorry Matt, we cut
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you off there. No, I was just saying I think, I
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think I've really enjoyed reading it because I think
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Jeremy's writing was so good. And yeah, some of his best
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writing even he's done, and he is getting better and better at
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that as well. And you definitely got into it.
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Yeah. Yeah, you got into it.
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Yeah, I was just going to say about the figure, the paint on
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the sword and those flame effects for the sword and the I
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forget what he's got is this spear he's got or a Trident or
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whatever. So cool they look.
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Really. It's not flame, is it?
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It's a spell effect, really, I suppose.
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On yeah, on the. It's a spell effect, yeah.
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I took the open hand and twisted that spell effect all the way up
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to underneath his hand so it looks like he's.
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Throwing it. Wow, that's cool.
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When I get home this weekend, I'll have to get a picture.
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Yeah. Yeah, he doesn't have a spear,
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he just has another sword with the sheath and a dagger.
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So his spell effect is really is really for I.
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Write in my head. He's as I said.
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I only looked at the box in my head.
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He's got something at the side. It must be the sword.
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Another one that has a ton of accessories.
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Each one of these I'm left with these piles of.
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Yes. Yeah, hold on.
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That's got a bucket. Yeah.
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But not a bucket, but like this is a little bad.
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So is that a, you know, kind of an A4 sheet or whatever, like a
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notepad paper size bag of accessories.
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And there's a few others that are in the box because I have
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them just in in a box after taking the pictures and
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whatever. And so I have various
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accessories in there as well. Yeah.
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And it's the same with Necrominus.
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I have a similar bag, trying to keep it slightly organized.
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But yeah, he's he's great. I love.
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Another thing to note on this wave is that all the
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accessories, no Baggies anymore in, in this wave.
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There wasn't. There's all the single tray with
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the figure and maybe 1 accessory and maybe an alternate head and
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then kind of latched behind that.
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You just pull that up and there's all your accessories
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laid out beautifully and it's such a nice presentation.
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That's really, it's an extra thing.
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And I guess it it's a little bit more work at the factory because
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that versus chucking them in a bag definitely.
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But this way there's more error proofing and and putting stuff
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on there because if you don't have everything in its little
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hole then it's not all there. Yeah, Yeah, exactly.
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Yeah, that, that was that was just what I was about to say.
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But I guess both of us have have worked in in industries where
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manual work you try and reduce it to zero and or put in places
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that are processes that try and reduce it.
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So yeah, another thing but a win, win.
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So probably less errors in the Baggies and yeah, and even they
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can do a quick check conserves, you know.
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And I'd also say just having it all in plastic trays adds to
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that premium feel again that we've talked about.
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They just making them feel more and more premium.
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So OK, prices are going up slightly.
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It's worth it. They're still, in terms of
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value, way ahead of most of the lines.
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Well, what you get with this guy and a few of the others know, I
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mean all of them really, but like especially Sir Andrew, I
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would say Enoch that we get on to the amount of accessories is.
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A little Raider took me a surprise to be honest with you.
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Right. So we're given that, Sir Andrew,
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a big thumbs up. We can move on.
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Yeah, definitely right going to both are.
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So this is one of the the ones that was voted in and this is
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more it's a beautiful dwarf build.
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You're kind of classic dwarf build.
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But this is a lot for a lot of people is filling a hole in, you
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know, a wave 1 figure that most people wouldn't have had.
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But really nice color scheme, the silvers and the bronzes and
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some, you know, nice detail there in the horns and stuff
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like that. Really nice dwarf.
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I mean, not much more to say, but is this one of the ones
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you're hanging on to, Brett? No, I sold both of those, but I
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have a single of it coming. So.
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Yeah, I just, I wanted an extra 1.
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I have a dwarf shelf, so I have one on there, but I wanted an
17:53
extra 1 to to to to skelify. And so I'll figure I'll just
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keep the one single and and let the other ones go 'cause I don't
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need to do it anytime soon. Yeah, I gotcha.
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And he's beautiful and I love the colors.
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Yeah, yeah. He'll look good mixed with the
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Cavern Dwarf too. And he'll make look good mixed
18:14
with his shins, mixed well with the Tropiculi belt and and
18:18
stuff. So umm, yeah.
18:21
Yeah, there's a good one. Little discoveries you have to
18:24
make. Yeah.
18:25
And even in a, you know, simple photograph here where he just
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put a little bit of, you know, lighting on it and he pops out,
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he looks, it looks almost. Dramatic lighting, John.
18:35
Yeah, that beautiful dramatic lighting.
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Well, The thing is with that type of lighting that you get
18:43
from, you know, the kind of clouds with the sun behind them
18:45
is when you put it into a photo editor, you can do, you can move
18:50
the sliders whatever way you want and it, it, it all looks
18:54
good. You know, pretty much depend
18:55
what you're going for. And Mali's, uh, he's one to
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yeah, in the collection. That's yeah, we kind of fills
19:04
out the earlier figures. I don't have.
19:07
I love the dwarfs though. Anyway, somehow always happy to
19:10
have a dwarf, whether it's an old one, a new one, you know,
19:13
whatever. And and agreed with everything
19:15
that's been said is paint. It's really nice, simple, but
19:20
really effective. Really.
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Well, it's just that that that gorgeous contrast between those
19:24
two medals. It's just, and then you pull his
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beard right into it and it's just, yeah.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Absolutely, and hopefully he'll
19:35
stick around at retail for a bit so there'll be a dwarf, an
19:38
easily accessible dwarf body out there for the dwarf fans, but
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also customizers that like to do doors because when there isn't
19:45
dwarf parts around that, that can be tricky.
19:50
And I'll probably pick up a couple more at shows just for
19:52
for first pop and swaps and and whatnot, because you can never
19:56
have enough dwarf shins and dwarf wrists to go with bones
19:59
now that they're out there. I need, we need and I'm sure
20:03
it's coming. We need, we need dwarf scale.
20:07
Bare arms. Shit, bare arms, wrists and
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shins now. Yeah, that'd be awesome.
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So we have a full dwarf skeleton.
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Yeah, I like how you're thinking, Yeah.
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Yeah, well, I considering I wasn't that first by the
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skeletons, an acronymous wave and this wave have really turned
20:26
me around on them. I'm converting them all to
20:28
skeletons, one at a. Time.
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I'm not quite there yet. Right, so a nice re release both
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are and another re release we have here is gore talk.
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So this is 1 I actually had. It was one of the first figures
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I got in an in stock sale when I joined the line and he's really
20:53
well done. I mean takes a great picture
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there. As you see the the armor pieces
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are this unique blue color again again with the similar bronze
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accent to both ours kind of kind of a little team there cone, you
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know it's. Gone.
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I gotta tell you, these pictures, that light is just
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gorgeous. I know, yeah.
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As I said, you know, I won the lottery there with the weather,
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but yeah. And yeah, I like like I was so
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happy I had time because of course we can just use Trevor's
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amazing pictures from the website and we we do that for
21:29
the revealed shows that we do. But when we have them in hand
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and and can do our own little photos and give some some people
21:38
something else to look at and in terms of so I have the original.
21:44
So I took a little this is a more just quickly on my phone
21:47
picture, but just to show the differences.
21:50
There isn't really many. I would say the blue armor is
21:53
pretty much the same. The main difference I found here
21:57
was the belt. You can see the belt and the
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loin piece. That's a more weathered kind of
22:03
look, whereas the the new one has a little bit more of a flat
22:09
color. And so you can't really see it
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that well in this picture with a little bit more shading on the
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torso. It's a little bit lighter the
22:18
the, the kind of torso versus the, the, you know, the back and
22:21
the shoulders and the arms. So tiny difference you'd hardly
22:25
notice compared to some others. We get on to maybe Sir Ignatius,
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for example. But yeah, so he works great.
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Had you guys had him before or? I did, and he was always set
22:41
aside because I was waiting for that naked skeleton torso to
22:44
come around so I could turn him into a skeleton.
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All the bare chested Barbarians and gladiators and orcs, I
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couldn't turn them into skeletons originally because
22:57
there was no true skeleton torso out there.
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So with Nick Anonymous I've been turning all those guys.
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So mine is now waiting for me to get back home and put the orc
23:06
skull on on my skeleified gore Thak.
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Cool. Yeah.
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So what does he have left from Gore Thak?
23:16
The armor basically. Is it?
23:17
The armor, yeah, it's all the flesh is gone.
23:21
Just, you know, don't come in Acid.
23:24
Put some armor on him. There we go.
23:25
Yeah. Necronominus really run run
23:28
rampant didn't he in? In in my head Canon,
23:31
Necronominus 1. I love it.
23:36
I love it, man. I know you're the biggest guy
23:39
but but you but you like them. Yeah, yeah, right.
23:42
I don't mind them. I picked, I picked him up as a
23:45
part of a bundle a while ago. He's fine.
23:49
Yeah, I'll probably replace my old one with the new one because
23:54
the old one's a bit floppy. I'm guessing this one, yeah,
23:56
probably a bit tighter that. That wave had with the one point
24:00
O's that had a little bit of a loose hip joint thing going on
24:05
with the legs going into the hip hip piece for whatever reason.
24:09
Do those points. Yeah, they do.
24:12
They do. Original Gideon was like that as
24:14
well. Yes, yeah, my SO, yeah, I'll do
24:18
something with the old one, probably customer or you can go
24:21
and come along to the swap meet Chris's swap thing at next
24:26
Legions con if and probably when that happens.
24:32
Sounds good sounds good and I did put the belts.
24:38
We will talk about the belts pack a little bit, but the any
24:41
of these where I thought maybe a belt would enhance them and add
24:44
that time I stuck on some of the belts from the belts pack.
24:49
It's just an automatic upgrade to the figures and it's.
24:52
So underrated too. It's just something simple, but
24:54
it just. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
24:57
You saw with them, I think on the Four Horsemen socials today,
25:04
they posted pictures that Noah Pratt did.
25:07
Yep. And he put a bunch of the belts
25:09
on where you know where he's off as well.
25:12
And they posted the IT was these guys, the re released ones, the
25:16
All Stars voted ones and he stuck belts on them.
25:20
And they were just making the point as well in that post that
25:22
the belts kind of are a nice little upgrade for figures that,
25:27
you know, maybe had a lot of the same belts pieces or armor
25:31
pieces going back early in the line, right?
25:37
We got Sir Ignatius, so a pretty, pretty unique one.
25:43
I've taken a couple of pics here as as reference to a lot of our
25:46
conversations over the years with this guy.
25:49
And on the right here I did a close up of the skirt piece now,
25:54
which I think you can confirm is much better on this.
25:57
One, it's so much better and the golds are more consistent across
26:05
the figure, which I actually, yeah, I mean, spoiler for the
26:12
next few minutes. I actually think I might prefer
26:15
the new one to the old one. Jeremy mentioned that he's a
26:20
little less pearlescent. I wouldn't say it's not as
26:23
pearlescent. He's got more of a golden hue,
26:27
white hue, which he had before, but I think I might prefer it.
26:32
I think he looks fantastic. He does, yeah.
26:35
Yeah, he looks the original ones from the pictures I've seen,
26:39
because I don't have them, looked a little bit more on that
26:42
translucent side towards the white almost.
26:45
And this one is more creamy, definitely more creamy.
26:49
Yeah. What's your opinion of this guy
26:52
Brett? Well I sold both of them but now
26:55
I need to get another one so I can replace the one I have.
26:59
Sorry mate. Damn, damn.
27:06
But hopefully he'll be. He won't be too hard to track
27:09
down at least that. No, I should be able to get him
27:11
in a show easy. Yeah, yeah, I think the All
27:14
Stars in the. Summer.
27:15
Yeah, Yeah. I think they're.
27:17
Going to. Sort of stick around a bit
27:18
longer. Yeah, exactly.
27:21
Exactly. Yeah, I did.
27:23
I do have a Gadriel or Gladriel, so you can see the difference.
27:27
Now, I know the original Sir Ignatius was slightly different
27:30
to her as well, but you see there?
27:33
Yeah, you can see that he's warmer colored than he is.
27:38
Yeah. So they're not they're not
27:42
uniform, but maybe they're not supposed to be so.
27:47
But yeah, I. Love that picture of the close
27:49
up of his helmet. Yeah, it's nice, isn't it?
27:51
Yeah, they used the macro lens for that.
27:55
But you, John. Try and try and try my best.
28:01
Eh, I like him. I'm, you know, I'm not the
28:04
biggest ether on faction guy, but I've always said it's more
28:07
the lower than the figures with the ether on faction for me.
28:10
And so this is a really cool figure.
28:13
You could get Angel wings and put them on them from, you know,
28:18
one of your other figures that have the Angel type for.
28:21
The Joseph Angel wings coming. Yeah, yes, yeah, yeah.
28:25
So yeah, get to get two of them and just use the wings for
28:29
Ignatius and then the parts for for customs or whatever you want
28:32
to do. Skelet just turn it into a
28:34
skeleton, you know? That will forget, right?
28:38
Well, yeah, figures too. So yeah, my angels are all dead.
28:43
Yeah, that's the first thing you're doing when you get the
28:46
ashes of Egg Bendor, isn't it? You're going to send Joe Russo a
28:48
picture of him as a skeleton? Yeah, exactly.
28:51
I cannot wait for that gold skeleton though.
28:54
That's that's the wings. Yeah, that's so cool.
28:59
Yeah, another underrated one that's I think that's what we
29:03
have to look forward to now is with the we talked about them
29:07
last week, but the version twos cool stuff like that gold
29:12
skeleton. You can see what they can do.
29:15
I think I'm looking forward to Ash is more than I am Rising
29:18
Suns. Oh wow, that's controversial.
29:21
I know, I know. And Rising Suns has Scapular.
29:25
Yeah, yeah. And it has like cool figures
29:31
like these Pitar and, you know, aside from all the Barbarians,
29:34
which, you know, I do like. But I understand Rich and maybe
29:40
even you, not the biggest fans. I think the wrong guest on John.
29:43
I'm not sure. Here we go Yeah, when we get the
29:52
rise and Suns wave, that might be one that Brett has to listen
29:55
to rather than be on. I think he'll be I think he'll
29:59
be good with that. Right.
30:03
So we've got a couple of skeletons here.
30:04
We talk about the dwarf skeleton first, Scally bones splitter.
30:08
So again, you get the dwarf wrists and legs like we talked
30:15
about, but dwarf type piece, skeleton bone, dwarf type piece,
30:22
really cool. And these pauldrons, they're
30:28
really, really nice. And this is the first time,
30:32
yeah, this is the first time we get them.
30:33
Is that right? The one, the one figure a while
30:38
back came with one and now that we're getting that's right
30:40
together. Yeah, because people cut.
30:42
Into the peg. People would cut the peg, glue
30:45
it on the other side and paint it and.
30:47
Yeah. To get dual.
30:50
Yeah, now you don't have to. You get just get this guy.
30:53
You got your pauldrons. You got a skeleton dwarf without
30:56
pauldrons, No problem. You can use different pauldrons
30:59
on them, and he does come with two heads, so one has the little
31:04
skeleton mouth sticking out of it, the other one is more full
31:08
beard could almost be a you could use it on a barbarian or
31:12
whatever. It's totally a barbarian head.
31:15
Yeah, it is, isn't it? Yeah.
31:18
This Poxus originally from Poxus chest piece.
31:22
Beautiful in this blue, kind of shimmery, yeah.
31:25
I was going to say, did you guys notice the little shimmer to the
31:28
paint? Yeah, I didn't.
31:30
I just thought it was a really, really nice blue.
31:32
You know, there's a, there's a shimmer to the to the blue and
31:35
it's just absolutely gorgeous. Yeah, he's a fantastic little
31:40
figure. He's yeah, again, he's got that
31:42
dwarf feel too, in the little stocky solid.
31:44
And yeah, I love him. I think he's brilliant.
31:47
And this hammer here as well, man, we we love getting new type
31:50
of weapons. We've had that with some of the
31:53
Knights, but great to have a different pain colour.
31:57
Yeah, in this way either. Brutal, but so cool.
32:01
Both of these have got awesome weapons with them.
32:06
Absolutely no. Brett, are you keeping one of
32:09
these as is? Yeah I got one as is and the
32:13
other one I already plucked epoxys torso and swapped the
32:17
torso and swapped the waist piece with the turpiculi who
32:23
instead of having the blue tatter has a has a brown tatter.
32:27
So the pox is torso with the brown tatter are the only
32:32
changes I made and oh I put the deer antlers inside.
32:36
Of the horns so. The two of them side by side,
32:39
it's just it. Yes, yes, to overuse it.
32:46
Yes, I could do that all day long right now.
32:47
It's just because this. Is where the problem?
32:49
You're talking to us while you're on the road about all
32:51
this and you're away from your. Stomach and here.
32:56
You've got, you've got hand anxiety now you're like, how am
32:59
I going to, what am I going to pop and swap, you know?
33:01
My thumbs are getting not going to be sore.
33:04
Yeah. A lot of these I didn't have to
33:10
apply heat to get things to move and open.
33:12
Now, you know, lower legs to to thighs, you know, though I
33:16
always got to add heat to them. But yeah, but for the most part,
33:19
these kings came apart real quick and easy.
33:22
Yeah, absolutely. And yeah.
33:27
And he also comes with the classic Dwarf shield painted in
33:32
a different color scheme again. So it's kind of bronze with gold
33:35
trim, really nice. And a kind of machete type
33:39
cleaver almost so, yeah. And that Barbarian head has that
33:45
has those kind of going downwards kind of metal fins,
33:50
whatever. Yeah.
33:52
So he's a great figure, well worth picking up and multiples.
33:56
I have a few extras at retailer that I've already ordered.
34:01
My big singles order is 49 items.
34:07
Whoa, these two. These two make up the bulk of
34:15
that. Well, aren't you glad that they
34:18
puff and swap pretty easily? Yes, yes.
34:23
And Speaking of these two, the other one we have up on the
34:25
screen right now is the Skeleton Raider.
34:29
So yeah. So they introduced Terpiculi and
34:38
Necronominus in the last wave, and they gave us a note.
34:41
Naked skeleton chest torso. Granted, it had wing holes in
34:46
the bottom of the torso, but pauldron holes on the top of the
34:49
torso? They could have been oh, this
34:53
torso is just good enough. Let's not tool up another torso
35:00
and we'll use the one with the wing holes on the Raider too.
35:02
Now this is a brand new torso, and if you notice, it's hollow
35:08
up into it and it's ball peg is not a ball peg.
35:12
His ball peg is a spine. Yeah, yeah.
35:16
Coming out of there. I need to pop him apart and have
35:20
a proper look at him because I was like, yeah, he looks so
35:24
different and I need to work out how he's put together, yeah.
35:27
It's, it's, it's almost as if it's half Maxilla's torso, half
35:34
standard torso. I, I don't know Mal.
35:35
It's just mind boggling because to compound things even more,
35:41
Thoracis has a different torso. OK.
35:46
He's got the solid one with the belly plate.
35:48
Right. Yeah, yeah.
35:51
Without wing holes, they gave us 33 new skeleton naked torsos
36:02
when they didn't have to give us one.
36:05
Yeah. And I know that still would have
36:07
been happy. You know that tells us that you
36:11
know that they might reuse those for future figures.
36:14
Yeah, yeah. Which means we're going to get
36:18
more awesome figures. I've got to say I was looking
36:21
forward to this guy. He was one of my favorites along
36:23
with Scali that I was really looking forward to.
36:25
And I think he's actually got, you know, gone beyond my
36:30
expectation. I was, I'm quite taken aback by
36:33
just how much we talked about how much stuff some of the
36:35
Knights have got, how much stuff he's got.
36:37
I know he is an army builder, but I wasn't.
36:39
He's almost on a par with like the deluxe barbarian builders
36:43
and he's not quite as much. He is he's.
36:46
A deluxe builder. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
36:49
Big time. He's got, yes, he's got those
36:52
beautiful brown leather leather pauldrons painted in a, in a
36:56
kind of a worn leather type effect.
36:59
So really cool and. That helmet that that skull
37:02
helmet is, yeah, yeah. Very cool piece, definitely.
37:09
Yeah, and, and to me, you know, the, the, the, the legion
37:14
builder to the Max Filius Buck, you know, awesome skeleton, one
37:19
of the perfect skeletons you've ever seen.
37:21
But this one has with just the right amount of accoutrement.
37:27
And it just gives me that I'm back as a kid in the 80s vibe.
37:31
And that helmet just is puts it over the top.
37:35
And the little, the little bracers and and the, the, the
37:38
baubles and the Bengals and the thing just so many variations.
37:42
And like you said, that that the, the, the brown on that
37:46
leather and, and these belts, we love these belts.
37:52
Yeah, it's like, it's like something you would might see in
37:55
a video game back in those days, you know, skeleton, whatever,
37:58
you know. Like Dragon's Lair or something
38:00
crazy like that. Yeah, exactly.
38:03
And it's that vibe kind of almost scary looking with the
38:07
the manic head come with that pointy helmet.
38:13
He also comes with the Calavius helmet, the gladiator helmet.
38:18
Yep, which is a nice little bonus.
38:20
I mean I. Very well painted.
38:23
Very nicely painted yes and it also if you're going to get
38:29
multiples, he's a builder. As we said, you could definitely
38:32
use one like as a as a fallen gladiator straightaway switches
38:36
a mop, you know, switches the back story.
38:40
You could even move switch that Clavius head over to do you know
38:44
it. Whether you've got Clavius or
38:46
not, we've got that. We've had recently those
38:48
barbarian parts that just the parts.
38:51
Yeah. You know, combine that head with
38:54
them. Yeah, put it on a legendary
38:57
barbarian if you have an extra. Yeah, yeah.
39:00
Oh man, so much fun. And you get these, these, these
39:05
new wrists, eh, gauntlet things which go over the bones and they
39:09
have little straps and they make a really nice look.
39:14
You see them there on the arm. I haven't tried but I wonder if
39:19
they make good shin pads? You know what I thought they
39:22
were initially when I opened the box.
39:26
Yeah, might need to, yeah. I don't know if it fit on them,
39:30
but yeah, umm, they are a little bit loose on the skeleton, but I
39:35
think that's probably realistic. It's maybe not practical.
39:38
I would think it's. It was if it was on there when
39:41
he had meat, it would stand a reason that it it would be a
39:45
little bit loose. Exactly.
39:47
Yeah, exactly. And if you really are, you know,
39:51
if you really want them to face a certain way, just a tiny
39:53
little bit of tack underneath it, I'm sure, and just put it on
39:58
and you're done. And.
40:01
And it comes with two, two little, uh, tabard pieces.
40:05
So the metal with chains one and the leather one.
40:09
Love the chainmail. Thank him.
40:10
Yeah. Yeah, just yeah.
40:13
That's a that's a piece that for a while it only came with
40:17
Vorthog, wasn't it? Yep.
40:20
And and it was a really and Magnus, and it was a really,
40:23
Yeah. Didn't even come with him.
40:24
No, I think it did. No, it was the torso that came
40:26
with Magnus. Yeah, the torso came with Magnus
40:28
and the this little piece. Yeah.
40:31
And it was rare for so long that that like customizers were
40:37
really, really excited when they got their hands on a few of
40:39
them. So just to have it as a pack in
40:41
here. And now we have them on every
40:44
color of the rainbow. Yeah, and buy yourself some
40:49
paints and you'll have even other colors of the rainbow.
40:53
So let's move on here then to Templar.
41:00
So straightaway I'm going to say here, I used the gladiator
41:05
helmet from really on the template and it works,
41:11
especially with the soft goods. It's not an exact silver match,
41:14
but it's close enough to the chainmail actually.
41:17
Yeah, yes, and. Because that's a darker
41:19
chainmail and a different style than Elijah.
41:23
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so umm, this figure is
41:30
bonkers value with just the soft goods, you would get a soft
41:33
goods, third, third party soft goods for about the price of
41:37
this figure. Easy.
41:39
With with what? What you got here?
41:40
Soft goods. That cloak is just insane.
41:46
Yeah, and again, it's got a chain.
41:48
It's. Yeah, so.
41:53
Sorry, I was going to say. And it's done.
41:55
I think, I assume it's deliberately, you know,
41:58
initially when I was like, oh, it's quite loose.
42:00
You know, normally they seem to fit them a little bit.
42:03
But actually I think it's designed so he can kind of have
42:05
it thrown over the one shoulder more or yeah.
42:08
And I mean, I've got him set up now with it sort of flung back.
42:11
And so he's cross, he's covering his shield arm, you know, and
42:15
he's, he looks really cool. It's less a Cape and more cloak
42:22
that he wears over and he can throw it off or he can go to one
42:26
arm or as he's riding, you know, it's it.
42:29
Yeah. It's it's definitely not
42:31
something that he would go into battle.
42:33
Just all pompous. He would.
42:35
He would take it off. Come here Squire boy, Take my
42:39
cloak. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
42:41
Yeah, it's really. Yeah, it is.
42:42
Is exactly that. It's like just before he goes
42:44
into battle, he's calling your man over, right?
42:47
You know, look after this, don't get it dirty.
42:51
The rest of me will be the little.
42:53
Page Boy drags it through them. So he has so many attachments
43:01
and and different things that I couldn't showcase them all even
43:03
here in three photos. So he he comes with the a kind
43:09
of a Mace. Favorite weapon of the whole
43:12
thing? Yeah, the whole.
43:14
Wave smaller, thinner Mace. I was listening to the enablers
43:18
on my drive today and they brought up the Knights fighting
43:23
skeletons and how it makes more sense for a knight fighting a
43:27
skeleton to have a more crushing weapon than an edged weapon.
43:32
And I'm working out at like Elijah Enoch and these guys have
43:37
crushing weapons, you know, so I, I, I like, and these new
43:43
hammers, maces, you know, it just the, the plethora of them
43:47
is and I like the scale of them too, so.
43:50
Yeah, absolutely. Eh comes with the short sword of
43:56
the sheet and a nice brown sheet.
43:59
A dagger as well comes with these helmets attachments.
44:03
You can see here the kind of round ones that we initially got
44:06
in the Dark Templar. Also new set of wing EH
44:10
attachments for the helmet. Oh, I thought you were going to
44:13
say the wing adapters in the back.
44:15
Yeah. Oh yeah, that is a primitive.
44:17
Feature of this wave isn't it is they've all got wing.
44:20
And they wanted to confirm that that little baggy of spare parts
44:23
I showed you earlier did not include any of the wing
44:25
adapters. They went into a separate box.
44:27
What about the? Modern wing adapters in ankle
44:30
adapters? How many of those did you?
44:34
True, yeah. We appreciate the sentiment
44:37
guys, but we we we're running into storage space of just
44:40
ankles and wing adapters. I don't, I don't.
44:42
No, no, don't listen to all the ankle joints.
44:45
We can get in every way for any figure please.
44:48
It's true. So just to just to expand their
44:52
a couple of the a couple of the figures, especially the ones
44:54
that can be eh, either skeletons feet going into one point or two
45:01
point oceans, or it's not really 1.0 and 2.0.
45:05
The skeleton bone leg is thinner than the normal armor leg.
45:11
So you get 2 sets of skeleton, eh?
45:14
You have a thick peg and a narrow peg.
45:16
Fun fact, Necronomics is let Necronominus's legs use the
45:21
thinner peg on the ankles, not the standard armored peg.
45:26
Right. Yes.
45:29
OK, interesting. So.
45:30
What they're doing now is they're giving you the the thick
45:32
peg and the thin peg for everyone.
45:34
So in case you want to pop somebody else's foot off and
45:37
yeah, yeah. So you got to sit there.
45:39
If you have like me, I have, you know, 100 of them in a little
45:42
thing. And I'm like Nope, Nope, Nope,
45:47
Nope. You don't need to go for your
45:52
annual eye test or whatever. You just tell the doc, yeah, I
45:55
could. I could sort out the foot pegs.
45:56
I'm good. I'm good for another year.
45:58
If it lay them all out and ask him to, what can you see there?
46:01
Yeah, What can you say? Is this bigger than this?
46:03
You tell me now from this side of the room.
46:09
Yeah, so really cool that we get all that.
46:13
We also get, I think with the Knights, again, we're getting
46:16
double neck adapters. Yep, neck pegs.
46:21
So Enoch also comes with a couple of belts, A thinner, a
46:26
really thin kind of belt and a thicker 1, the ones with the
46:31
more detail on them and four sets of hands.
46:35
So can't go wrong. And obviously the pauldrons and
46:38
the shield just see their I. Just can't believe the number of
46:41
hands they're giving us. It's insane.
46:43
I mean, you've, you've got, yeah.
46:47
Again with the skeletons as well.
46:49
So many. Yeah, it's so cool.
46:51
Yeah, I mean, and the vertical hinge, horizontal hinge, fist
46:56
open, you know, finger. Yeah, you will never run out of
47:01
hands if you've if you've got multiples of these figures or
47:05
even singles. I took a little picture.
47:09
This one was later. It's about to take this one
47:12
inside and with my phone. But this is Deacon with the the
47:19
temper on top of him so. No room for a horse, but darn,
47:23
no soft goods. Aren't they just something?
47:26
Special another, you know, 30-40 dollars worth to sort soft goods
47:31
here. Yeah, really well done, really
47:34
cool kind of flagpole type spear here with the the flag on it.
47:40
I just looped it into the horse bits here.
47:44
Mal, you have, you have stripped all the soft goods off this one,
47:48
did I? Yeah.
47:50
I. Yeah, I don't need to put a full
47:53
screen there because they've got the.
47:56
So yeah so I I bought 2 deacons, one to turn him into balius and
48:04
do this to him. This was because Eric Treadaway,
48:08
I forget whether it was on the All Stars reveal show, I think
48:10
it was, talks about, oh, you could, you know, add the
48:16
cannabis armor to Balleus and turn him into a barbarian horse.
48:19
And straight away I was like, yes, so I've done that as soon
48:24
as I can. And as I say, I've got another
48:26
one that can wait till August. He's just going to sit in a box
48:29
on the shelf because I can't find space for him, whereas I'll
48:32
find space for this. And looking at Deacon though,
48:36
just, it has made me think actually, what else I could do
48:38
is repaint his arm a bit on the on his neck to the darker armour
48:44
colour and that and that would actually work with the cannabis
48:48
armour as well because that kind of has that anyway.
48:52
Yeah. But yeah, so I've done that too.
48:55
I need to paint the tail and that, but yeah, I now have a
48:59
barbarian horse. We did have the question here,
49:02
Brett, from Model, whether we preferred the top one here with
49:05
the kind of bedroll or the one here with the armor at the back.
49:08
So I think we were unanimous armor.
49:12
Yeah, yeah. It just feels.
49:14
And again, that's why I think maybe if I do the armor from
49:17
from Deacon, repaint it, it just feels a bit more like some kind
49:21
of War Horse, doesn't it? It's got a bit more, yeah.
49:25
Absolutely. So Deacon is great if you like
49:29
your horses and yeah, if you like, if you like your horses
49:36
and you like Knights on horses, it's great here.
49:39
I mean, with the soft goods, I mean, I didn't have the time to
49:42
do beautiful pose here, but still got the foot into the
49:46
little strap here. You know, you could do the soft
49:49
goods more flowing if you're on thicker.
49:51
Really dynamic. I like it.
49:53
Yeah, exactly. Very impressive.
49:56
Soft goods again. No, it's not.
49:58
It's and the horses are now. I think they have the horses
50:01
fully dialled the horse. Cannabis and Bishop in the last
50:06
wave were flawless. And now we have Deacon.
50:11
Absolutely top drawer now. Some bones, this was my most
50:20
anticipated figure. And because he's look at him,
50:25
you know #1 and he's got the shield, the Necronominus faction
50:31
3D shield, we call it, and he's just great.
50:36
So Brett, what do you think? Hate this one I suppose.
50:40
Oh yeah, so much so I bought, you know, a dozen.
50:47
He's my only quibble. And it's very minor because they
50:51
did say that named skeletons have the potential of being
50:54
different than standard bone color.
50:56
He is different than standard bone color, Right.
51:00
That's that's that's my only quibble.
51:02
But if you take the Walter head off of the two pack and stick it
51:08
on there, you get a younger Thoracis because it's almost the
51:12
same color. OK.
51:14
Right. So I stripped 1 and I have one
51:18
fully complete kitted out and everything.
51:21
I have two places. Together like this?
51:24
Like that Exactly. So you can see the Walter Chin
51:28
and you know, it's, it's Yeah, I tell you, putting that cloak on
51:34
him, that was a bear. I ended up cutting the between
51:39
the two pauldron holes on the yellow or or the orange so that
51:43
I could have more room to to get him in because I had no problem
51:47
with heating it and getting it. Just it kept catching that
51:50
fabric and trying to push the fabric in and it just couldn't
51:53
find the hole. The 1st hole, no problem.
51:56
I had my painting magnifying glasses on and a little to the
52:00
curved tweezers I have for for for.
52:05
Yep. And I was like pulling the
52:08
fabric slightly as I was putting in the.
52:11
It was an operation, but we got it, Yeah.
52:12
So he's probably going to stay like that.
52:16
Well worth it by the looks of things.
52:17
Oh, yeah. Once you get him fully kitted
52:20
out and everything's on there, he's just, eh, imposing.
52:23
He's just is. Yeah, yeah.
52:28
And and you, you can't really see it here because the beard,
52:30
but that, that that cloak comes with the lovely little fur color
52:33
at the top. Yeah, yeah.
52:35
Little bit of decadence there that eh, you think?
52:38
OK, he is one of the the, the chosen ones, you know, one of
52:43
them important characters. He he feels like, and I mean,
52:48
this is deliberate, I'm sure, and you give him that shield and
52:51
it adds to that. But he feels like the leader of
52:54
this, the siblings, doesn't he feels like, yeah, the boss of
52:57
them. And, and I love the asymmetry of
53:01
of the one bone and the one armor just really nailed it.
53:06
And again with the, with the, with the, with the bracers and
53:10
you know, you can swap out the feet for, for for skeleton feet
53:14
that's. Cool like.
53:16
Yeah, yeah. And he's he's amazing, the armor
53:19
and. He's quite, quite a bright
53:21
silver, isn't it? It is.
53:23
I would have liked to have seen a little bit more rusty,
53:25
antiquated, antiquated look to it, but again, quibbles.
53:31
Yeah, but I got a little brown wash I.
53:33
Can the, did someone swap it with the Demistros?
53:36
I think I saw somebody in the mistress parts on to him if you
53:40
wanted to give them that. Yeah.
53:41
Tina, look, yeah. But they're some of the best
53:45
pauldrons though, aren't they? They have battered ones with the
53:48
chainmail. Love the.
53:49
Pauldrons aren't they're a little bit more weathered than
53:53
the actual. It's the arms and the legs,
53:55
Yeah, and the armed. Right.
53:59
But it doesn't take away from it.
54:00
It's just, it's just an observation.
54:03
He's got that wonderful new Gideon, umm, waist piece, hmm.
54:08
Yeah. With green.
54:10
Different colours as well, yeah. Yeah.
54:12
Green leather, yeah, perfect. Yeah.
54:15
So he's got some of the best colours.
54:17
He's got the purple, he's got the greens and purple metallic
54:22
on the helmet here even, and the yellow cloak is cool as well.
54:27
That really kind of yellow eve. It's kind of mustard yellow
54:30
almost, but it it looks great. He comes as well with the
54:35
another flagpole type spirit thing with the Necronominus
54:39
faction banner. So that's pretty cool.
54:42
New new ones. Maybe we'll get them all.
54:46
That would be nice. The pack.
54:48
A new cloth banner faction pack would be really nice.
54:52
Very nice. I think there would be a few of
54:55
us in the market for it that have, you know, maybe wished we
54:59
could have picked up previous banner sets.
55:04
I have one sealed, yeah, but I'm embarrassed to try to sell it.
55:10
Well, Rich isn't. He's been trying to flog one for
55:12
the last two legions guns. Yeah, but how much is he trying
55:14
to sell it for? How?
55:16
Well, more than people are willing to pay, obviously.
55:21
That's like I I want to sell it for 50 bucks but.
55:24
Yeah, because it would be gone, I think, if you worked off the
55:27
principle. Like I'm happy to keep it, but
55:30
if someone offers me silly money for I'll take it.
55:32
I know, I know. Baroda, another amazing figure,
55:41
I think I I'm sorry he's Big Greg, but like this one better.
55:47
My kid when he saw this one he he's always really bulged out of
55:53
his head. It's such a menacing looking
55:56
figure. He gives me Lord of the Rings
55:58
vibes which is a never a bad thing.
56:01
Definite. Nightmare fuel.
56:04
The paint job is incredible on it.
56:08
You've got some new parts here, as in the helmet, like new parts
56:12
from sort of Jack. So you got the helmet and you
56:16
got this thing that comes over the torso.
56:20
Yeah, and I like also the belt. The belt thing is new, isn't it?
56:26
The belt symbol, this little circle?
56:28
Yeah. Buckle.
56:28
Yeah. I like that he comes with the
56:30
two different braces as well. Yeah, I think I'm going to use
56:36
the ones you've used there with the spikes on to give him a bit
56:39
more of a beastly feel too. Yeah.
56:43
So those are the ones I think he comes in packet with when he
56:47
comes with the more nightly ones as well.
56:49
So again, you you have a spare set of nightly ones if you want
56:55
to use them on when you're older ogres or whatever, maybe on the
56:59
on the Ogre legion builder, the the human, the kind of half
57:04
giant one or whatever it is. You fan of this figure, Brett?
57:09
Yeah. And I'm really a fan of that.
57:10
The photograph on the right, the the three quarter shot just the
57:16
way the colors are coming out and in the shadows.
57:19
A lot of times it's more important what you don't like to
57:21
what you do like in a picture and, and, and so, so that's what
57:25
I'm critiquing. First is, is that photograph,
57:27
Secondly. That's why I included it,
57:30
because I thought it brought something more than just the oh.
57:33
Yeah, I mean that's that's, that's a shot that I file that
57:37
under. I wish I took that.
57:40
I'm not kidding, but this the figure is gorgeous and and you
57:44
know, you, you captured it. But when I got it out-of-the-box
57:47
and I just started moving him, it was fluid.
57:50
There was no, there was no cause for concern and nothing was
57:55
loose or tight. And, you know, I kept hearing
57:57
all these falls down a lot, you know, versus this guy.
58:02
But I didn't get of Jack because, yeah, he's a nice guy,
58:06
but I have him and I have the big Greg skull for him, so.
58:11
Yeah, you. I must have seen.
58:14
Yeah. There we go.
58:15
This is what you did and I think I wish I'd thought of this.
58:22
And even though he's done it with the head, so it looks like
58:25
he's kind of taking his helmet off, which I think is even
58:27
better than just plopping the skull on there.
58:30
I. Was like, I was like, should I
58:31
put it under his arm? No cliche.
58:35
How does it look? Oh oh.
58:39
Yeah, it's like the big revealing part of the movie, you
58:41
know, that's what it reminds me of.
58:43
So yeah, you get this skull with syrup, Jack.
58:47
And so even if you don't want that figure, you can maybe be
58:51
able to track it down because probably people are the either
58:56
they're probably not using it on him.
58:58
I would say it's been a. Lot of people out there that
59:00
bought extra of jacks just to customize that.
59:02
Skull's got to be floating around pretty easily.
59:08
How close are we to an ogre skeleton?
59:09
We still need a lot of pieces, I think I.
59:12
Think the only thing we have is just skull.
59:14
I don't even think the arms would work on these bodies.
59:17
They might be long enough, but. Yeah, yeah, I think they are
59:22
Ogre scale though, aren't they? But do they do the?
59:25
Holes work on the trip pick UI. It's over length.
59:30
Yeah, but there, yeah. Yeah, I get what you're saying.
59:33
Yeah. But yeah, so Burdock a really
59:38
nice figure and stands up better than Sir Jack so.
59:45
I'm enamored of that picture, John.
59:47
I might I might need you to send me a copy that so I can use it
59:49
on my. Phone, Oh yeah I'll I'll send it
59:52
no problem and Callavian so again, this was one I didn't
59:57
have time to picture outside so I just took a couple of pictures
1:00:00
to show so. What he's saying is he didn't
1:00:03
pick it up off the floor after he'd thrown it over his
1:00:05
shoulder. To be fair, I hadn't opened it.
1:00:09
He was. He was the last one who opened
1:00:10
it. Although this shield here makes
1:00:13
me want to, you know, keep them for sure.
1:00:18
With that new thoracic shield I mean.
1:00:21
But this shield is still so cool.
1:00:23
It's an it's a nostalgic thing, this shield.
1:00:26
Yeah. And you got the bloodied weapons
1:00:29
as well. The only paint deal theory on
1:00:32
him apart from, I mean the Reds, obviously.
1:00:35
You get the flat kind of gun metal and then you get some gold
1:00:41
on the green. Is it gold?
1:00:42
It looks a bit like the Malleus Green in that picture.
1:00:45
Yeah, it's kind of a greenish gold, but it is, it is more gold
1:00:49
and but you don't get it. You don't get it going down the
1:00:52
torso on the same, which is hard, and you don't get it on
1:00:56
the pauldrons. Yeah, two places I would have
1:00:59
thought they would have filled in.
1:01:00
Yeah, just those two places, because it's the same pattern,
1:01:04
you know, as you see here on the shoulder.
1:01:05
So yeah. I know, I know, I.
1:01:08
Think he was great in his day. I just think his time has
1:01:11
passed. Yeah, I'm quite pleased to have
1:01:13
him because I he's one of those. He fills a gap, but I quite like
1:01:17
the fact we've got, I've said before, if not, I think the
1:01:20
colourful skeletons are fun for the so I'm quite pleased to have
1:01:24
him. But I do understand why people
1:01:26
aren't overly fussed by him. He was my biggest vote getter
1:01:32
for the All Star for me. He was my #1 Yep, he's the one I
1:01:37
wanted the most. You know, it filled that that
1:01:41
red skeleton with all the other coloured skeletons in in the in
1:01:44
the congregation. Now I also it's the most ordered
1:01:48
of of the of the All Stars for me because I want to start
1:01:51
swapping in a lot of those red bones for my Furious 4.
1:02:00
And I figure what better way to sneak some red bones and than to
1:02:03
get extras of this guy. There's jokes and there's about
1:02:08
Yeah, yes and. Yeah, so the the back tablet
1:02:14
piece has has detail as gold detail, but the front tablet
1:02:17
doesn't, which yeah, it's a bit weird as well.
1:02:20
Oddity. Yeah, I didn't register this
1:02:22
thing, but has he got the one? Arm is the umm, yeah, one arm
1:02:25
is. He's armoured and one armor.
1:02:27
Right. OK.
1:02:28
I didn't register that. Yeah, that is when you you
1:02:31
wouldn't really see otherwise and but nice figure if you're
1:02:36
missing them bell packs, that's just to show what you get, so.
1:02:41
So many. You get a bunch and these ones
1:02:44
in the middle here of the pictures go over the shoulders
1:02:49
kind of one arm into them. At least that's how I think
1:02:52
you'd do them. The one I'm.
1:02:53
Gladiator look. Yeah.
1:02:55
Yeah, exactly. And the top ones are for around
1:02:59
the waist and then the other ones are, you know you
1:03:02
versatile. You can put it over one
1:03:03
shoulder, or you can even put it kind of around the torso and a
1:03:08
slightly bulkier figure. I'm so glad we're getting black.
1:03:11
Everything's been brown and you rarely got an odd color like a
1:03:15
red or you've got a black here and there, but now we're getting
1:03:18
full on black of them all. I think that's just an amazing
1:03:23
thing. And when you're, when you're at
1:03:25
Legions Con, if you're lucky enough to be able to go there
1:03:28
and you see these little small boxes with the belt packs on
1:03:31
them and you know, just throw them two or three of them in
1:03:35
with your order because you know, money is money.
1:03:38
You know when you're at Legions Con, it's just money.
1:03:41
You know, you got you got your credit card going, you're
1:03:45
ringing. Up.
1:03:47
You're ringing up like whatever, a hundred 200 bucks, 300 bucks,
1:03:52
you know, 300 and 10330. It is not a big difference at
1:03:57
that point. You're paying for it either way.
1:03:59
So and the joy you'll get out of them is definitely a factor of
1:04:04
10 for what you're paying for them.
1:04:05
I think if you've got, you know, if you're buying the figures and
1:04:08
you want and you like to to pop and swap, especially or
1:04:11
customize, but especially pop and swap.
1:04:13
And even just the the the bottom left one, just take that and
1:04:18
replace all your standard belts from all the old original
1:04:21
figures and it just bumps them up and and and bridges the gap.
1:04:26
It sure does, yeah. My my singles order that I
1:04:29
ordered at the same time as All Stars from the Horseman was
1:04:32
another Deacon and three each of the belt packs.
1:04:38
I love it. Yeah.
1:04:40
Mel's thinking, you know. Bones, so you get bone wings
1:04:44
here. I when I got my neck and
1:04:47
ominous, I was like, where's the wings pack?
1:04:49
And then I looked up on source source man realized the wings
1:04:51
back came with this wave. So no arm, no foul.
1:04:55
You get the wings packed now. So these are the same wings on
1:04:59
Necronominus, aren't they? Yes, in the standard bone
1:05:02
colour. Yes.
1:05:04
They're big. I kind of wish they had re
1:05:06
released the original little guys.
1:05:08
Yeah, as well as well. Yeah.
1:05:12
In this colour. But agreed just a little.
1:05:17
Bit more compact when you're when you're starving for shelf
1:05:20
space. I think, well, I something we're
1:05:23
going to see, I'm guessing soon that you showed us and a few
1:05:26
people have done. I'm going to do that.
1:05:27
I'm going to have to hang in from the ceiling, I think, but
1:05:32
we'll get on to that in a minute.
1:05:35
Yeah. So the heads packed there, you
1:05:37
see a couple of so animal heads at the top, so gorilla in the
1:05:45
middle, one on the left is what? A lion.
1:05:51
A lion, kind of. So the feeling.
1:05:54
Mouth lion and closed mouth wolf.
1:05:56
Closed mouth wolf, there you go. And neck posts.
1:06:01
Amazing. And you get the orc and the
1:06:04
vampire skull And you also got a bonus.
1:06:08
Just regular Malleus wasn't a maleus.
1:06:13
That was nice. That wasn't advertised.
1:06:14
Couldn't work out what it was. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:06:17
Because. It was the only one of the
1:06:20
Legion builder skeleton bodies that didn't come with the
1:06:23
articulated jaw, right? And they snuck the articulated
1:06:28
jaw into the heads pack, right? Yes, OK.
1:06:32
And it's the one with the missing tooth, so if you're
1:06:35
familiar with that one, so that's cool.
1:06:38
We got the Headless Horseman neck piece, which Mal is
1:06:41
particularly excited to get. Yeah.
1:06:43
That's the bit of this whole pack that I'm really excited.
1:06:47
He wants that little ham Shank steak, right?
1:06:49
There. That's it.
1:06:50
That's it. I'm gonna, I've got like one of
1:06:53
the undead builders set up, so it's ghostly with the, you know,
1:06:58
and then I'm going to do a second one that's meaty and no
1:07:01
head. I've got my builders ready for
1:07:06
those 3 heads. And then we got some zombies as
1:07:11
well here, so we got it. Does Hagnon there?
1:07:15
What's the one on the left? Have we got that before?
1:07:17
Is it new? It's new.
1:07:18
It's new. Brand new.
1:07:20
The Hagnon surprised me. I didn't really think I would
1:07:23
like it very much, but painted like that it makes Hagnon look
1:07:27
like a really cool character. I really like the Hagnon head
1:07:31
sculpt. I like Hagnon as you know, but.
1:07:35
It just, I never really saw it in any sort of form of detail
1:07:39
other than the blue and the clear when it gets actually
1:07:43
painted and and it's for something it it really.
1:07:48
Yeah. I can't wait to stick it on my
1:07:50
undead builder downstairs. So we got your so cool.
1:07:57
We got this guy. So gorilla head, long arms that
1:08:01
we were talking about. So sorry, Brett did.
1:08:05
Sorry, John. Brett, did you use the Malleus
1:08:08
body but add the Tropicula arms and that is that how you've done
1:08:11
this one? Yeah.
1:08:12
So it's, it's the Maxillus body. So it gives us the the naked,
1:08:15
the naked pelvis and and the the Tropicula legs with the
1:08:21
Tropicula feet, the Tropicula arms and Tropicula hands and
1:08:26
then the gorilla head. So you, you, you, you need a
1:08:29
Maxillus and you need a Turpiculi to do it this way.
1:08:32
I think I'm going to do it this way.
1:08:34
I think this is yeah. Otherwise, I mean, gorillas
1:08:36
don't really wear waist armor very often.
1:08:38
Yeah, that's my thing, yeah. And now for my for my flying
1:08:42
monkeys, I kind of leaning towards the Tropicula one for
1:08:48
the waist piece because, you know, the flying monkeys in
1:08:50
Wizard of Oz had some sort of form of clothing on it.
1:08:53
Yeah, yeah. So I think that that might be
1:08:56
for my winged ones. That might be the direction of
1:08:58
going but. Like this with wings.
1:09:01
I want him just like some creature.
1:09:03
Yeah, and well, you know me, there's going to end up being
1:09:06
naked ones with wings too, so. So you see there folks, what
1:09:12
what fun you can have with with all this stuff.
1:09:14
You know, this is the kind of stuff you can do.
1:09:18
And you could also go and get your barren vulgar original 1
1:09:22
and stick the vampire skull in them, give them an early weapon.
1:09:28
So this is the souls better for militia.
1:09:32
Yeah, you know why not? It looks pretty cool and I love.
1:09:40
The jaw see that's I can't wait to stick some of these these
1:09:44
other heads on on some of the other umm yeah, ones I've write
1:09:48
down because like my Carpathius has a normal skeleton head yeah,
1:09:52
so. So and then here just, yeah, I
1:09:57
just threw the gorilla head on pretty much just pretty standard
1:10:01
tuberculi build through the shoulder polder, not a.
1:10:04
Cinematic feel to those pictures.
1:10:06
Yeah, like it And then that's the arcade just on burn vulgar
1:10:10
because I accidentally put took it with the arcade 1st and then
1:10:14
realized after. But you know, you get to see
1:10:17
what it looks like with the arcade, so nicked the vampire
1:10:21
armor. Looks great actually.
1:10:23
Yeah, that I I really like that orc, Eh, it's called because
1:10:27
it's thicker. It's like, why?
1:10:29
Yeah, you know, it's. Got some beef?
1:10:30
So yeah, it's got some beef. So, yeah, that's a so that's the
1:10:36
wave. And I think such a good wave.
1:10:41
I mean, we kind of knew it. But when you get it in hand and
1:10:46
OK, if you, if you're one of the ones that hasn't got the all in
1:10:49
yet or not you're, you're waiting for a retailer or
1:10:52
whenever the the individuals come in, you won't be
1:10:56
disappointed and the weight will be definitely worth it because
1:10:59
these are are great. And we'll all be picking up our
1:11:02
extras or getting our extras at that time.
1:11:05
And, you know, doing all the pop and swaps and customs that we
1:11:09
want to do with these. And I have one more picture.
1:11:13
So I have nightmare fuel here on the right.
1:11:19
And then a beautiful goblin Cape from Darla Ackerman that I
1:11:24
thought would fit on the Skeleton Raider.
1:11:26
And it does. You can actually even get the
1:11:29
hood over the horns, but the horns give it a weird shape.
1:11:33
So yeah, do that. But yeah, my kid put the skull
1:11:38
on the dog on the cafe bar or whatever, and he thought he's
1:11:42
like, this looks scary. I was like, yeah, you're not
1:11:45
going to have bad dreams. I'm going to have bad dreams,
1:11:48
yeah. I'm so glad I have so many
1:11:51
chimeras to start sticking more heads on.
1:11:54
Yeah, that is the reason. Like, I don't think I have an
1:11:58
extra blue leather. Maybe I have 1:00 but that is a
1:12:02
reason to get more for sure. If she's still in, is she still
1:12:05
available at retailers? Yeah, so I told you guys I
1:12:08
bought like 24 of her, and I was parting out All I was, I was
1:12:12
pulling the chimeras. I'm sitting in line at Zolocon
1:12:15
and I had a dozen of them with me and I'm plucking the chimeras
1:12:19
out, putting them in a tray, selling the bullets to people
1:12:22
next to me for $35. I don't know how nice, nice,
1:12:25
that's the way to do. It.
1:12:26
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So then you're getting the
1:12:28
chimeras for probably what you want to pay for them.
1:12:30
Yeah, and and and people are like, well, I just but I want an
1:12:34
extra below it, but I don't want to pay full price for an extra
1:12:37
35 bucks. Anybody else?
1:12:39
Anybody else? They were going hand over fest.
1:12:42
Really good idea. So I have a ton of the chimeras
1:12:45
and I love that chimera so much. I think I need to get another
1:12:49
one of them. Yeah, yeah, just the double neck
1:12:53
piece is what a valuable little piece, you know, and it fits it
1:12:57
play it plugs into the skeleton neck, Yeah.
1:13:02
So yeah. Yeah, so they really outdid
1:13:04
themselves with the combination of Necro and All Stars.
1:13:08
And I can see why they split it because John, Can you imagine if
1:13:11
we had all my all of that just I mean, we would have been happy.
1:13:18
Our wallets would have screamed at us a little longer than
1:13:20
normal. But but the fact that it it it
1:13:23
well three months after we lucked out and got these all
1:13:27
ends shipped so. Yeah, you know, I think it's,
1:13:31
you know, the, the timing has worked out well.
1:13:33
I mean, obviously it would be great if if all the the orders
1:13:37
are there, but you know, it is what it is.
1:13:40
But I think it was nice to have a little gap between them so you
1:13:43
could appreciate the Necrominus because I remember the the
1:13:46
bigger waves, the first wave I was in on was Advent of Decay.
1:13:49
No, I didn't go all in, but I had a bunch of figures from
1:13:53
that. But I remember the YouTube, you
1:13:55
know, the, the few YouTube reviews or podcasts that were
1:13:58
going around back then, just overwhelmed with the stuff they
1:14:01
had to get friends in to help them open, you know, and even
1:14:05
then a year later, they'd be talking on the show but haven't
1:14:07
even opened as a spare vendor yet.
1:14:11
You know, imagine 42 figure wave.
1:14:13
Yeah. Yeah, no, I think it's a, you
1:14:17
know, it, it was a function of the time in the line and, and
1:14:21
where they were. And you know, they, they, yeah,
1:14:24
they did a crowdfunding to try and get the extra tooling
1:14:27
funded, which they did. And the the stretch goals just
1:14:32
blew the blew the number out of the water.
1:14:35
And look where we are today. Yeah.
1:14:38
We're happy. We're happy.
1:14:39
All right. I think that's it.
1:14:42
And. I appreciate your time,
1:14:44
gentlemen. Great to have you.
1:14:46
Great to have you on, Brett, and always a pleasure.
1:14:50
You know, we'll get rich back next week.
1:14:53
Hopefully I'm only. Joking.
1:14:57
But if you do want to move, you know, if you ever can find a,
1:15:01
you know, a six months battle girl on this side of the
1:15:04
Atlantic, you know, that would definitely.
1:15:07
I can join the club. You can most definitely.
1:15:11
Absolutely. We'll let you in.
1:15:13
Excellent. All righty.