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144. The Third Annual End of Year Awards · 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 the.
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  Euro Legions podcast End of year awards 2025.
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  So we all got dressed up, man got dressed up as Van and Rich
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  got dressed up as going for his work review.
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  And I think I'm I'm dressed as the host, I hope.
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  Even the most. I'm dressed with addressed how I
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  used to be dressed for 15 years. I was telling now don't miss
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  those days. Sure it doesn't fit, but you
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  can't see that on the screen, so all good.
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  Mine. Mine's quite.
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  We've been dressed down in the office the last three years so
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  this year is a lot snuger than the last time I wore it
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  regularly, it has to be said. Doing the newsreader thing,
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  which I assume you have shorts on.
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  I have my Liverpool Football Club lounging, OK?
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  Let's not, let's not ruin the illusion.
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  So this will be our last regular episode of 2025.
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  There might be a little surprise over Christmas.
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  We'll have to see if we can manage to execute on that plan.
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  Should do. And we'll be back at it in the
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  first week of January, assuming that everybody's around.
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  We haven't talked about that yet and making assumptions that
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  nobody's going on skiing holidays or any of that kind of
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  stuff. I guess the biggest risk is a
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  rich going to Wales where there's no Internet and.
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  When we record, I'm there around New Year, but OK, we're into the
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  first four weeks and yeah, that's fine.
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  The hangover will be worn off. You know when you're back at
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  work, The. 5th of January. OK.
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  And I'm sure it'll be after that.
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  I'm sure. Yeah, very good.
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  And shall we get right into it then?
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  Because we need to get through. So we're going to, we're going
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  to do it in the order of we have a bunch of categories for stuff
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  that we got we received this year.
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  And then we have our favourite reveals and then we have a
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  section for 3rd party stuff. So scopes, toy photography and
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  customs. So everyone will be looking to
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  win the coveted Richard Jones Custom of the Year.
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  But if if it isn't, if you haven't done something like a
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  large big dwarf centre thing, then you're probably out of the
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  running, you know so. I feel like this is the point we
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  should, we should make it very clear to everyone who is
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  nominated and wins that there are no prizes.
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  It is purely. Tried.
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  That we like what you you've done.
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  And there is also, I would say spreadsheets and spreadsheets
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  worth of stuff that is awesome as well that we could have
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  included but. Yeah.
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  But the fun of the whole thing is Whitten whittling it down to,
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  you know, a very tough top five, top three, whatever we've done
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  for the various categories, so. If your name is.
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  Apparent as we go on. If your name isn't called,
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  you're still a winner in our eyes.
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  Yeah, exactly. Yeah, good stuff.
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  Yeah, genuinely there is loads out there and.
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  Like for example, I, I hadn't, I hadn't been keeping track as
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  much of the customs during the year.
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  So I asked Richard said, would you send me, you know, your
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  screenshot gallery? So that was what, 70 or 80
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  photos, Rich. So, you know, we, we've been
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  relatively thorough and obviously with the horsemen
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  figures, that's been a little easier to do because we have the
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  website for that, which is fantastic resource source
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  Horsemen and memories. A camera rolls out to see what?
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  I was looking through my camera. To see and previous episodes to
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  see when stuff arrived. So for example, was it
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  Necronominus was very early in the in the year, but it arrived
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  this year, so. Yeah, I did share that with you.
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  Didn't like, it's like, can I just double check?
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  Also, the Force website let me down.
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  One of the things I wanted to get a picture of it wasn't on
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  there so I had to find I had to use a Billy Beige YouTube video
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  and pause it and then click the picture of what I wanted an.
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  Official figure was not on the horseman.
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  Well, no, it's more the accessory, uh, side of.
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  Things Oh, OK, so you've got anyway, as I said, we should get
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  into it. So, uh, let's do our first in
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  hand. So top five, uh, melted top
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  three. He just told us, cosmic legions
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  in hand. No, the one of all the ones.
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  This was a small. This was basically the Ox crew
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  wave. Uh, was that it?
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  Pretty much. That was it, yeah.
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  Yeah. Yeah, so top five Oxford wave,
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  but let's get started. I'll go first with eh, this guy
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  Velox beard #5 so the spacesuit is awesome.
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  It's definitely eh, brought cosmic up to the next level, I
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  would say. And eh, this is a, you know, the
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  first full build of the space suit.
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  Great figure. I mean, I'm I'm looking forward
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  to seeing other figures that we get.
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  And we obviously have the slightly different scale of this
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  suit in Orvar as well, who may feature later on the line.
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  But I definitely had to include one of Veloc or Valeria and just
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  picked Valoc for no other reason.
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  Then I thought somebody would pick Valeria.
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  There you go, Rich. What you're #5 then?
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  #5 is Looker. I wasn't convinced by this guy
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  when they first showed him, but he's great funny now.
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  Yeah, you know, they've just the silly proportions work
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  brilliantly. It's what you want with a weird
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  alien. The sort of part tech stuff as
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  well is great and I need to get, I like him so much you need to
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  get another one of him so I can use it for a mythic customer as
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  well. My number 4 is Kern Ray There
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  she is two different kind of configurations here, even though
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  this is just a different head and take off the jacket, but you
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  see how much the figure looks different.
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  Great figure. I didn't think she would be my
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  #4 when when before this wave arrived, I thought she'd be
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  higher up, but it has turned out differently, which is
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  interesting. And Mal, what would your four
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  have been then? My #4 would be over.
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  There you go. Yeah, the wrong answer, but your
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  number 4 is the same his. Name is John's.
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  It's Kern Ray. Yeah, exactly same reason as
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  John. Really cool figure, but there
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  are better ones in the. Way, I think you're both wrong,
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  but you're fine, right #3 John. And then we're back on track.
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  My number 3 is OK. There you go.
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  So not much variety here in these pics.
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  As you said, it's a small wave that that is all we got this
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  year from Cosmic. So but OK, has fantastic
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  exceeded expectations because I thought, for example, Kern Ray
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  would be above him in the backing order, but it's just an
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  excellent figure and I had to pick up an extra 1 because
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  definitely should do some sort of custom with it or you know,
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  just to have an extra 1 even just for the shoulder pads and
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  the goggles and the where Belton everything he comes to it, it's
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  fantastic right now. Then you're #3.
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  So my #3 lowlands skate back. I think he's awesome.
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  First non humanoid creature we've gotten outside of horses
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  even in in any of the waves and I think.
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  For Cosmic, yeah. Yeah, well, I think in if you
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  think about Mythic, we've had some revealed, but the.
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  Outside of forces, yeah. Yeah.
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  In hand, right? And I think he's awesome.
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  He's such a fun figure to play with.
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  OK, he's kind of humanoid proportions and so, but doesn't
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  feel like it either. And I love his face.
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  And 0, zero issues with him. You know, when there's always a
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  new, like a new scale or build, you might, you might quite often
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  get, I don't know, just like tiny things sometimes like tight
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  joints or slightly, yeah, yes, something slightly off this guy,
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  he's like, it's like the 20th one they've made, you know, with
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  this book. Absolutely.
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  He's turned out. Brilliant.
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  I've seen a few people had a few problems with the spikes and the
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  spines and he is very spiny, but you just have to be a bit
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  careful. Yeah, that's just.
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  Battles cars. You know where the most pride
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  award for most? Dangerous figure.
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  I've seen a couple of people standing but vertically as well.
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  That works really well. Yeah. #3 for rich, then.
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  Is a Thraxian scout. Superb, yeah.
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  It's, you know, it's a, it's a basic figure, but it's such a
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  good figure. You know, the, the both the
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  heads are awesome. You know I have to get multiple
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  1 display. Just display both the heads.
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  That's Bony armour is awesome and you can use them as the
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  basis with snake men as well. So all sorts of good in my eyes.
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  He was probably close to my #5 Am I even if you know 5A and B?
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  Well he was my number 2IN I think.
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  Just love the basic figure as it is.
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  I love this build and the armour especially.
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  I love his slight link to Brave fighters in how easy it is to
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  pop and swap those two together. They're just ideal figures for
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  for popping and swapping the armour between, you know, give
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  you give brave fighters the kind of wooden armour he works well.
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  You give this guy brave fighters as an armour and you could just
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  stick him into mythics. You could probably stick him
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  into mythics as he is, to be honest.
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  That's that's another plus point to him.
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  It's one of these characters that just straddles the two
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  lines to superb Mal you're #2. My number 2 is OK and for all
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  the reasons I think you mentioned, but he's such a fun
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  character to a figure to play with.
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  You know, it's fun like as you're setting him up, putting
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  looking all the accessories on his belt and yeah, the parts he
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  comes with a really cool as well.
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  So, yeah, OK. Excellent.
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  Rich is number 2. Then we have.
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  Oh sorry, now this is probably a shock because I was bad mouthing
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  this guy when the first The Wave was first revealed.
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  I'm still not a huge fan of the head I'll be honest, but that
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  build is awesome and it works the sort of slightly grunger
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  colour scheme too. Works really well for a couple
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  of different custom characters I want as well.
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  So I do love this guy now. Yeah, the only thing I don't
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  like about the head is the fact that he doesn't come with the
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  way of putting a one point on neck peg in there with a
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  different head. If you wanted it that way, you
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  know, or even an older head you could put in there or something.
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  But but people are caught with solutions for that.
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  But I think he would his value would be even better if he if he
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  had like that little adapter, just a little plate that Vela
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  comes with, for example. But the one point of head, yeah.
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  He's a really, really cool figure and I've obtained a pair
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  of scourge feet as well to use on him because I saw somebody
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  else do that that's. Cool excellent.
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  Well he's my number one love him did a costume with the with
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  these parts already and the yellow kind of flame dude that
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  Trevor actually bought off me legions console.
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  Super cool that it's on his shelf.
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  And yeah, he's a, he's a great figure.
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  I love this build. I love this.
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  The the proportions, the shorter legs, the longer arms, the big
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  bulky chest, the massive head. It's just everything is a, is
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  kind of slightly out of proportion.
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  It's great. And you're #1 now and.
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  My #1 it's Kern Ray. There you go.
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  Yeah, I think she's awesome. I love the soft goods.
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  I love the, again, another one that's got that piece together
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  feel to her. And I think the the new parts
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  that they sculpted for, including helmet are fantastic.
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  Yeah, right, Rich, you're #1 is. The lock.
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  Right. And it's, it's a spacesuit.
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  It, I had so much fun posing this guy up.
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  You know, he doesn't fall over. You can do all sorts of
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  different things. He's like a million little
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  accessories you can clip on to here, there and everywhere.
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  I just, I just love him. Absolutely love him.
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  And the different heads too, you know?
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  You know, you can do so much with him.
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  Yeah, it's great. And then obviously, I'm going to
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  have to put a coy head on him as well as as a Markov Skillshare
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  that officer. Yeah, yeah, Eric Benchman I
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  think was the. 1st That was that right?
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  So, but all loads of people have done it since.
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  So yeah, you could have seen from various different people
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  build. When it for me, for this guy,
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  it's such a good build. As you said, John, it just takes
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  cosmics that next level. Yeah, and that little kind of GI
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  Joe style helmet as well. Super cool.
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  Yeah, kind of underrated. People don't use it that much
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  because he has a unique head sculpt and get people who tend
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  to use that. I understand.
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  But if you have an extra, definitely with the helmet,
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  right? So that rounds off Cosmic top
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  five. So now we're going to move into
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  Mythic top five. Now there's much more variety
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  potentially here because there's a lot more mythic figures landed
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  in our hands this year, including the Legacies line.
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  And my number 5 is Scaphoid himself.
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  I didn't expect Scaffold to be in my top five when I sat down
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  to do this, but he's just such a great figure.
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  The value of the stuff that the jump from what he was to now is
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  huge. Yeah, he really shows you the
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  progression of the line and that's why I chose him and the
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  head sculpt with the runes in it and yeah just the the
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  tuberculite skull here as well. So this picture I I purposely
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  chose this one because this is all the stuff you get in the
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  standard figure. So he doesn't need the exclusive
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  stuff from legions con to make my top five pressure.
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  You know, nice to have that stuff, but I think it's he
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  stands on his own without. You don't need the wings or the
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  tuberculite idea, he's still very cool without those.
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  Yeah, they're definitely bonuses here as well, so yeah.
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  I'm surprised he's in anyone's top five, but great.
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  Figure nonetheless, he's the perfect update.
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  He's the perfect person he is. Yeah, he's Well, if now they do
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  the soft goods, now they do the leather gloves, the leather
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  boots. That's what he should look like.
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  Well, you know, I was gonna. I was like, should I pick Otto
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  for this slot? Maybe.
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  OK, it's maybe spoiling, but you know, OK, I didn't pick out on
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  my top five. But then I thought, well, I'm
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  not Joe Russo, I'm not going on, so I didn't bother.
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  Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
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  There's enough people giving out to you.
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  People giving out to you Rich for the like the constant
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  Fishman lizard men. I mean, what about all these
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  guys that all they do is paint human heads and put them on
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  night buddies right now? Yeah.
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  Give us your number 5. So we had a similar mind and my
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  number 5 is also a Legacies figure and it's servile guard
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  too. Excellent.
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  OK, he's got an issue that we've talked about, but aside from
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  that, he's beautiful. He's awesome.
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  I didn't really know what an updated Serval guard would look
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  like, but I think this is this is just right.
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  I love the colours. I think the two big shoulder
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  pads work because they add to that little bulky dwarf feel.
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  He's just yeah, he's just right. He's good.
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  He's great. I love the I love everything
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  about him. Some of the hardcore dwarf guys
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  are are maybe thinking they missed the mark him because they
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  didn't use any of the upcoming new dwarf parts.
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  I I. I don't agree with that, Yeah.
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  I don't. With with the shoulders the way
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  they are, he feels like he's heavily armoured.
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  So the new dwarf, even the armoured parts don't feel as
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  heavily armoured, which is why they were needed, but not needed
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  for him. Yeah, they went even further
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  into it here with the, with the longer.
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  Yeah, that's it. Kind of pauldrons and stuff and
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  a pauldrons skirt piece. Yeah, Falls, whatever they're
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  called, right. We have then riches #5IN
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  mythics. What could it be?
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  I wouldn't say I've gone for all the glamour shots of these.
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  It's an award ceremony, guys. Yeah, well, I will.
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  Fancy photographs? I love, I love the variety here.
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  You see, you've gone for the for the Trevor pictures, so you know
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  we have different pictures. Kind of, and I do through swap
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  back later in the show as well. So, well, I've got every time
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  in. If you happen to see the same
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  figure twice, it will be a different photo.
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  Or look at the. Attention to detail.
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  I love it. Yeah, so my number 5 is the
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  Skeleton Raider. I know he's a basic figure, but
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  he's just perfect. It's exactly 1 from a Harry
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  housing style skeleton warrior. You know, just all the bones on
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  display, including the torso, you know, a couple of different
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  heads which make him look really good as well.
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  It's. It's just such a fun, fun
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  figure. Yeah, he's, he's really great.
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  Yeah. Could have made my top as well,
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  but didn't want of all skeletons.
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  So to keep the variety going a little bit, but yeah, I love him
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  as well. I can't say anything bad about
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  this figure is there's nothing, you know, there's plenty of
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  stuff with them. Even if you say he's basic, but
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  you get loads of stuff like with the, you know, just.
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  The two heads, I mean I've got to reach 1, you know, 1
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  displayed one head, one with the other sort of thing.
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  And that's enough to, you know, with a couple of tweaks on the
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  Paul runs use and that sort of you've got 2 figures straight
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  away. He's one that I keep him in an R
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  and over getting another one of him to have a couple of
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  configurations on the shelf and I don't do that for a lot of
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  figures. Yeah, and doesn't he have the
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  two options for the risk guards as well?
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  See two separate looks there as well.
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  So yeah, right, number fours then this one.
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  Some people maybe didn't have the opportunity to get this guy
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  yet and he will be coming up in the role-playing game.
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  It's the paladin slash cleric. I don't know which configuration
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  I prefer, to be honest. They're both great.
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  It's a great figure. I mean, super value as well in
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  terms of what you get. You know, Simony was, you know,
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  your, your $50 figure. You're, you're getting a load
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  out there with him and yeah, it's great.
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  I mean, does the rarity factor that I don't think that came
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  into it here because I did, I did like as as in he didn't make
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  it just because he's rare and every and he's flavour of the
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  month. He's it's just a great figure.
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  The soft goods are superb. You get the boots.
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  Everything is great about him right now and.
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  My #4. Is.
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  Particularly the very definition of hand candy.
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  I've got like four or five of them and bits of four or five
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  and bits of others floating around the place and, you know,
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  builds of them using the skull set we got sort of floating
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  around the place. Not put away properly yet.
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  And and and yeah, just an awesome fun figure.
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  It sure is, yeah. It's a brilliant figure.
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  Yeah, OK, Rich, you're #4. Blue lift, which I can finally
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  say. I seem to remember I had
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  problems saying blue lift for quite some time.
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  I think I'm happy with it. I got that 2.0 despite my 2.0
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  attitude. They put some absolute bangers
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  at that 2.0. She's incredible.
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  I mean, the figure itself is good.
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  The face sculpt with the the missing nose is just absolutely
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  brilliant, proper ghoul sort of feel to it.
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  And then she just comes with a plethora of of cool bone
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  creatures. You know, you've got bird, the
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  snake, the chimaera. It's such a good set it you
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  know, you can do so much stuff. You don't want her with all the
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  bone animals. Give them somebody else news as
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  well. It's it's a really, I think it's
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  the right to a beautiful figure. Despite being a goal.
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  I think the way it's done it is a beautiful thing.
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  Yeah, agreed. Yeah, a great figure and just
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  shows you we haven't had, have we had a crossover yet in 4-5
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  and four so. No, no, right.
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  And #3 for me, same wave, Necron Ominous himself, you could kind
• 23:04
  of forget about this guy because of the amount of stuff that has
• 23:08
  come in the line this year and great stuff.
• 23:11
  And also because you're aware of this figure for two years in the
• 23:16
  run up to get in it and the kind of wow maybe goes away for that.
• 23:22
  Then you get them in hand, you get the wow again, and then you
• 23:27
  move on. That's what you should
• 23:29
  appreciate him. He's such a great figure, like
• 23:33
  amazing amount of stuff. Probably figure wise the best of
• 23:39
  the dark 4. By a long way.
• 23:43
  Yeah, soft goods, those even that little is a little gunny
• 23:49
  gold bones necklace thing. They're like the bones of all
• 23:55
  these victims or whatever that's supposed to be amazing big belt
• 24:01
  buckle. There was a point I was, I was,
• 24:06
  I'd looked at Spoiler, I looked at my top five and I was like,
• 24:09
  he really should be in there. But there's others, I just
• 24:13
  prefer more. Yeah, yeah, He, he wasn't in
• 24:16
  mine at some point. And then I was like, oh, hold
• 24:18
  on, no, I need to, I need to look at this guy again.
• 24:22
  Well. That's the thing with the top
• 24:23
  fives, isn't or any sort of top across the year.
• 24:25
  There's personal choice in there as well.
• 24:27
  It's not just which figures got the most parts, which one looks
• 24:30
  the best. I shall.
• 24:31
  It's like, you know, what do I love in each figure as well?
• 24:34
  Yeah. Yeah, because you might then
• 24:36
  just, Yeah, you're just choosing all the deluxe figures, of
• 24:38
  course, but they, you know, right, Mal #3 for you.
• 24:44
  Yeah, John Rich is number 3D. Next.
• 24:47
  No. See you next, Mark.
• 24:48
  No, see you next. Oh, yeah, yeah.
• 24:49
  Sorry. Oh God.
• 24:50
  Sorry folks. This is the Oscars they'll be
• 24:53
  cutting to in a commercial. You know, regularly going to
• 24:56
  come out. He had too many to drink, get
• 24:58
  him off stage. So Koi, I'm a little nervous.
• 25:02
  This is in here for from recently bias, but I don't think
• 25:09
  so because I was thinking the particular thing that made me
• 25:14
  go. He deserves to be in the top
• 25:15
  five was I love the the parts in terms of so the bits coming off
• 25:25
  his head in the fins and all that are done in a soft
• 25:28
  material, which makes him more durable.
• 25:30
  The tails a nice soft material, the the fins on the back are a
• 25:35
  nice soft material, yet plug in really it's all really good.
• 25:38
  And then the paint app on him is incredible, a beautiful
• 25:43
  pearlescent sort of cream and then that sort of more flat
• 25:50
  orange. And it just, it's probably, you
• 25:53
  know, it's those things that made me want to include him and
• 25:59
  it got him higher than a few others, so.
• 26:04
  Yeah, and he's again 0 niggles with them, you know.
• 26:08
  Yeah, yeah. No, no, little like even the
• 26:11
  tail seems to stay in this guy. He's a fabulous finger.
• 26:16
  Yeah. Well, great minds think alike.
• 26:19
  There you go, he. Also looks great on board a ship
• 26:22
  with a bit of behind him. I mean, Miles covered all the
• 26:28
  important stuff, but I just add in that that head sculpt is so,
• 26:32
  so good. You know, the little baubles
• 26:34
  hanging down and everything. It works really well in that
• 26:36
  translucent and softer plastic. I mean, Rich has popped one news
• 26:40
  fish tank and all the fish are freaked out.
• 26:46
  Oh no. These aren't fish tanks safe.
• 26:52
  But yeah, he's such a good figure.
• 26:53
  I also love the fact that it's a little thing, but just the fact
• 26:55
  that they did the two different inserts for the back.
• 26:58
  Yeah. So you could have it with or
• 26:59
  without the Pawntrons, which is such a clever little thing
• 27:02
  today. Yeah, he's, he's just a
• 27:04
  brilliant, brilliant figure. Yeah, right, we're down to #2
• 27:10
  mythics. I've been banging on about this
• 27:14
  guy, I thought. It'd be on one job.
• 27:17
  Yeah, well, there you go. He's a great skeleton.
• 27:22
  He's got the cool shield. The soft goods on them are
• 27:26
  spectacular, they executed this figure 100% as good as the
• 27:33
  prototype would. I like slightly more weathering
• 27:36
  on the armour, probably because the soft goods are weathered,
• 27:41
  but could easily do that myself if I was really bothered.
• 27:44
  But that's my only flaw in the sky, which is probably keeps
• 27:49
  them at #2. This is an awesome figure
• 27:55
  nonetheless. Only read in case.
• 27:57
  Hadn't said that for the audio listeners to be.
• 28:01
  Who are they talking about? Yeah, oops.
• 28:06
  Yeah, this is a great figure. The only reason I think he's
• 28:08
  dropped in my fondness for him now is somebody used that cloth
• 28:13
  torso part on a barbarian. So we had nipple, nipple poking
• 28:17
  out Barbarian and I, I can't see past that.
• 28:20
  I really struggle. That's that's not in the
• 28:23
  thoracis. It's not.
• 28:24
  Thoracis fault? No, I know that, but it has.
• 28:27
  Thoracis would be right on your street trying to stick his sword
• 28:31
  into that nipple and RIP that Barbarians heart out and make
• 28:34
  him into a skeleton. I also, I also and then
• 28:37
  obviously I killed him in one of my stories leading up to the the
• 28:42
  exclusive head sculpts we had. So, you know, he's definitely
• 28:46
  oops, OK. Mild then while you.
• 28:52
  Oops. Inappropriate timing there for
• 28:54
  you man, Sorry. But he's got he's got to swing
• 28:56
  the vodka down. That's all right.
• 28:58
  Yeah. It's just a big right.
• 28:59
  So my number 2 is the heroic paladin slash cleric, all the
• 29:05
  things. It's just, it is.
• 29:06
  It's an incredible figure, but hopefully people who haven't got
• 29:09
  it yet are able to get it as part of the Kickstarter when
• 29:13
  that goes live. We've said before us that too,
• 29:16
  that perhaps the the armour and those leather boots aren't our
• 29:20
  preferred configuration of that. But for him it works perfectly
• 29:27
  and I can tell you my favourite version is the one with the
• 29:29
  hood, so I am more like the cleric.
• 29:32
  So yeah, it is cool. Yeah, it is cool.
• 29:38
  Yeah. I'm I'm also looking forward to
• 29:42
  the the other figures we're going to get on the I mean, if
• 29:45
  you've seen tease of the red ones and yeah, there there
• 29:48
  probably will be more very cool. All the I'm sure we maybe we get
• 29:56
  more than nights which would be even fun as well.
• 29:58
  Because in a row it'd be good. Yeah, yeah, exactly right.
• 30:06
  Rich, your number 2 is. Is Serenuck.
• 30:11
  This guy is. It's a deluxe figure in a
• 30:14
  standard box for a Templar fan like me.
• 30:18
  It's got everything you could want, you know, tonnes of soft
• 30:22
  goods, loads of different head combinations, you know, even the
• 30:25
  helmets got two different types of wings that you can put in
• 30:28
  there. The face sculpt itself is
• 30:30
  awesome. It's like, you know, I'm Sean
• 30:32
  Connery on your shelf. It's great.
• 30:35
  So many accessories. He's a son of a gun to get hold
• 30:38
  of now mind you, because everyone's realised how good he
• 30:40
  is, so he's really tricky to hold on.
• 30:42
  But yeah, my only tiny gripe with him would be that maybe
• 30:46
  less red on the armour. But having said that, obviously
• 30:49
  it's the Temple of Emissary, so it looks like different.
• 30:51
  So yeah, but he's he's great figure.
• 30:54
  Read on the armour. That's what makes me prefer him
• 30:57
  a little more to some of the other Knights.
• 31:00
  Admit that that armour and that cloth set, it will be used for
• 31:03
  more my high-ranking Templars, so having moaned about the red,
• 31:06
  it does set them off nicely. Yeah, for Rosie.
• 31:10
  Isn't it? Yeah, it is.
• 31:11
  It's a brilliant figure. Yeah, he was.
• 31:14
  He was interchange it not not quite interchangeable because I
• 31:17
  picked the paladin slash cleric, but if I didn't pick the
• 31:22
  paladin, he was going to go in there instead.
• 31:24
  But I didn't want to have to similar type figures and the
• 31:29
  reason is probably don't like the Templars as much as a kind
• 31:35
  of a thing then like something like the Paladin, which is just
• 31:38
  cool armour and you know, but if you're into Templars and the
• 31:43
  whole thing, then this guy is easily up up in the top.
• 31:48
  Yeah, couple of figures right, Number ones for Mythic and this
• 31:56
  was tricky but I did like you Mal battled with the recency
• 32:00
  bias. But I just realised no, I'm
• 32:04
  probably going to look at this guy in a year's time and still
• 32:08
  go wow. You know, so I have a bunch of
• 32:13
  figures that when I was I took some pictures for like 2
• 32:17
  episodes ago when we were shown our legions gone halls and I you
• 32:20
  know took a couple pictures of like the armoury bills I did and
• 32:23
  stuff. So I've him up I left him
• 32:25
  upstairs and they seem to survive on the corner of a of a
• 32:29
  cupboard and nobody has taken them away or asked me to take
• 32:32
  them away. So I'm leaving them there for
• 32:33
  the moment. They're normally where the Chris
• 32:36
  like I would put the Father Christmas and and the moose and
• 32:40
  stuff but I haven't done that this year so I'm going to leave
• 32:42
  them. But there's the Armoury bills
• 32:45
  and there's a koi and every time I walk past them like double
• 32:52
  taken on quality because he's so cool, even if he's even in the
• 32:56
  back row and I'm still double taken.
• 32:58
  So that's what. I mean your cat should be
• 33:01
  ashamed of themselves. 4 cats none of them have taken.
• 33:05
  Yeah, Why isn't he? Isn't he on his, you know, at
• 33:09
  least lying down, like being smacked in the head?
• 33:12
  Yeah, every day when I come back.
• 33:14
  But no, he survived. It's probably the smell of the
• 33:19
  paint from, oh, possibly Miles number one.
• 33:25
  Can you guess it, Rich? I can't.
• 33:31
  I should be able to, but I can't.
• 33:33
  I think you will when you see it.
• 33:34
  I was going to say you'll be like, of course, in a surprise
• 33:36
  to absolutely nobody, I'm sure the legendary.
• 33:40
  That's why I couldn't think of this.
• 33:45
  I love this figure it it is a barbarian isn't it?
• 33:50
  The only slight change perhaps would be to the waist piece, but
• 33:53
  I don't think. I suspect we didn't have the
• 33:56
  other leather versions of the belts and things at the time he
• 33:59
  was being made. You can always buy one of the
• 34:02
  figures with that on and swapped out.
• 34:04
  I've done that for one of them and he comes with those three
• 34:08
  hair pieces so you can reference such a famous barbarian
• 34:13
  characters throughout time. I'm not so fussed by the
• 34:17
  helmeted head. It's not that it's bad, it's
• 34:19
  just I like the the faces and that, as you know, he's great.
• 34:24
  Love him, brilliant. I tried very hard to get him
• 34:28
  into my top five, but he just didn't make it.
• 34:31
  I was like, every time I was going, could I slap the
• 34:34
  barbarian in there instead? And every time he just didn't
• 34:37
  make it. So he's just just outside the
• 34:39
  top five for. Me.
• 34:41
  Been a lot of good stuff this year, totally.
• 34:43
  Understand why you know, if you like this type of a figure, you
• 34:48
  know present company accepted Rich I.
• 34:51
  Was going to say. Could definitely make it.
• 34:53
  People will be in no shock at all to hear that he was nowhere
• 34:56
  near my top five. In the in like.
• 35:00
  The point that we haven't, we haven't existed.
• 35:02
  We have a category coming up later.
• 35:04
  Biggest surprise of the year. Well, if I flip the slides now
• 35:08
  and it's rich as #1 is this guy, I will be changing my biggest
• 35:13
  surprise of the year. But I can safely say because
• 35:21
  I've just seen it as rich as #1. Zoc absolutely adore this guy.
• 35:29
  I mean, the orcs are never been my favourite sort of thing, but
• 35:31
  I love the original Zoc. I mean, I flipped him because
• 35:33
  he's worth a lot of money, but I did love him.
• 35:36
  But this is this is basically the perfect upgrade.
• 35:40
  You know, they all the gnarly armour parts, the colour of it,
• 35:43
  you know, gives it that worn feel.
• 35:46
  The new sword was very close to my accessory of the year.
• 35:50
  It's just a big brutish club of a sword.
• 35:54
  And then the three heads too, including the sort of yelling
• 35:56
  one. It's yeah, he's just a great,
• 36:00
  great figure and you can do so much with him.
• 36:03
  It's like, I've seen so many people use different things with
• 36:05
  him or, you know, there's so much stuff on him.
• 36:07
  I've got a couple. So you can even easily split one
• 36:09
  down and start parting the pieces out onto two or three
• 36:12
  other figures to make them look really gnarly as well.
• 36:18
  Yes, I mean, he's a great figure.
• 36:20
  I mean, I'm kind of shocked he's not in my top five.
• 36:23
  And if you showed me this figure last year and said he's not
• 36:26
  going to make your top five of the year, I would have been
• 36:28
  like, well, what else are they bringing out?
• 36:31
  You know? But that's just how it's how
• 36:34
  it's fallen, you know? Been a hell of a year, there's
• 36:36
  been so much good stuff. Well, I'm not, I mean I'm not,
• 36:39
  as I've said many times before, I'm not the biggest orc fan, but
• 36:43
  he's probably one of the top three orcs, you know, he's what
• 36:47
  I want to see more of in my orcs, if anything, you know,
• 36:50
  heavily armoured. I think the new head sculpt is
• 36:53
  is way better than the old one, even though it's only a subtle
• 36:57
  change. Yeah, I love the screaming head
• 37:00
  sculpt. I've got him sat on my desk here
• 37:02
  and he's got the screaming head sculpt on.
• 37:03
  So yeah, completely agree with you on well, not agree with you,
• 37:06
  but completely see why you would pick this.
• 37:12
  Yeah, right. Let's move on.
• 37:15
  So we've got a top three other figures.
• 37:18
  So all the other horsemen related lines of the figure,
• 37:22
  what did we have like the con drops?
• 37:26
  Yeah, surprise drops and that's. It like ATL 25, for example,
• 37:30
  might have been in in contention here.
• 37:34
  We didn't receive but they they would maybe could fall into
• 37:39
  other down the line. But anything else horsemen have
• 37:41
  put out you know that isn't food like the zolocon figure that
• 37:47
  kind of stuff. So anyway, my #3 in this
• 37:51
  category is Ganesha. I mean, it's right there in
• 37:56
  front here. Look at it.
• 37:58
  Incredible amount of amazing new parts.
• 38:01
  We got the big torso, which obviously gives us the walrus
• 38:08
  down the line here. Elephant head.
• 38:11
  I mean I've painted some third party elephant heads in the
• 38:14
  past, so very cool to see a Four Horsemen version of an elephant
• 38:18
  and just an incredible figure. Would love to maybe get an
• 38:24
  elephant character in mythics that has slightly less stuff and
• 38:27
  there's a little bit more on the regular price and has different
• 38:33
  armour and stuff but. You know, I agree.
• 38:37
  I think give him a war helmet and a war helmet, some like
• 38:41
  armoured lower legs, whatever. And yeah.
• 38:43
  Some big shoulder pads. Yeah, like it's, it's absolutely
• 38:48
  in line for the character here. The, the pants, the, you know,
• 38:51
  the pants. But wouldn't be my choice if it
• 38:55
  was a mythic figure. I'd rather, you know, kind of
• 38:59
  armoured legs or elephanty type, you know, skin legs or whatever.
• 39:05
  Right now. Give us your #3.
• 39:07
  My number 3 is the Jersey Devil. I love this guy.
• 39:12
  I think he's he's. I love my cryptids.
• 39:16
  I love horror and. And this guy ticks all the
• 39:19
  boxes. Big scary wings, big scary face,
• 39:22
  you know, weird shape body, weird parts.
• 39:26
  Yeah, Yeah, I love him. I think he's brilliant.
• 39:30
  Yeah. And it's amazing with figure it
• 39:35
  seems to be a the place where we get a lot of new parts 1st in
• 39:39
  hand. It is.
• 39:39
  Isn't it? Yeah.
• 39:40
  You know, whereas when they started off with Krampus, it was
• 39:45
  pretty much a mythic figure with the new head and even Father
• 39:49
  Christmas was, you know, a 2.0 build with the new head and some
• 39:52
  soft goods. And now we're getting like fully
• 39:55
  like you've seen Ganesha and Jersey Devil here.
• 39:59
  Well, pretty much. We've seen people, you can see
• 40:02
  there's people on the Cabal have kind of turned him into the
• 40:05
  Krampus. And Jeremy's even sort of
• 40:09
  pointed to that and said that actually, you think you'd quite
• 40:12
  like to do Krampus again now that we have some of these
• 40:15
  parts, which would be even more suitable for that, Yeah.
• 40:19
  Yeah, makes sense. See.
• 40:22
  Yeah, we've had two. Crampus.
• 40:26
  Crampus is awesome. Maybe a zombie crampus?
• 40:30
  An undead crampus I could go with.
• 40:34
  Well, let's see what you did go with #3.
• 40:37
  I went with Mouse King. He's probably on your list than
• 40:40
  higher, but he he's a he's a great figure, really fun figure,
• 40:45
  some amazing new parts. Obviously when we're shooting
• 40:49
  the shelf at the weekend. I said those creepy ass feet are
• 40:52
  just brilliant. We shouldn't be foot obsessed,
• 40:55
  but I am with this guy. They're they're really cool.
• 40:57
  It gives you that proper creepy rat look.
• 40:59
  You know, it introduces the opportunity for Scaven into into
• 41:05
  mythos and I love the fact, not being A Christmas Carol fan
• 41:08
  particularly, that they stepped away from that as well, which
• 41:11
  probably enhanced this guy's appeal to me.
• 41:13
  Well, it made a really nice surprise, didn't it?
• 41:16
  Yeah. So you're the Quentin Tarantino
• 41:19
  of Allegiance podcast? Yeah, Rich was doing toy
• 41:25
  photography that just be loads of characters with their feet in
• 41:28
  the foreground. Look, you know, they have, they
• 41:34
  have, they have footprints, you know, they have sculpted
• 41:37
  underneath This my #2 surprising even to myself is ATL 25.
• 41:44
  He's just, it's just an awesome figure.
• 41:46
  Just shows you the cool stuff you can do with the cosmic
• 41:50
  build. Combine a few mythic parts in
• 41:52
  there. A great nod to to like Aga Joe
• 41:56
  character. We got Camel.
• 42:00
  I wouldn't, I wouldn't necessarily be like a Camel fan,
• 42:03
  but just the way the paint is done, it's great to see that
• 42:08
  they can do that on a production figure and it comes out that
• 42:11
  well and to see how well the parts translate into a figure
• 42:15
  like this. Just great.
• 42:17
  We could never have imagined it beforehand, and we have it here
• 42:22
  and now. I have changed the slide and it
• 42:28
  is ATL 25. Yeah, everything you've said.
• 42:32
  Awesome. I bought a bunch of them.
• 42:34
  Yeah, You know, because they just.
• 42:35
  I love the paint app and the and the colours and with the
• 42:38
  intention of making a little military group of them, but we
• 42:41
  haven't done that yet. But yeah, they give off and to
• 42:45
  say something the rich might say if he included it, but they give
• 42:48
  off that space, as in the Colonial Marines talking more
• 42:52
  alien style than anything Space Marine kind of thing.
• 42:55
  And then they just look great, don't they?
• 42:57
  But yeah. Yeah, I bought a few of these
• 42:59
  guy just to make my version of the Colonial Marines.
• 43:01
  Now, they're not going to be, you know, anyway, they're Mark
• 43:03
  Calvo, you know, just. Sure, and they were amazing.
• 43:06
  Love you, Mark, you join off, but yeah, that sort of thing.
• 43:10
  So yeah, it's a, it's a good figure.
• 43:12
  He's not on my list though. Right.
• 43:15
  Well, you're list #2. So I didn't go for the mythics
• 43:18
  of this guy because it was a board game sort of thing.
• 43:20
  So I counted him as a separate thing.
• 43:23
  So it's the paladin cleric combat, right?
• 43:27
  Really, really fun figure. The soft goods are I could talk
• 43:32
  for hours about the soft goods. It's so, so good.
• 43:36
  I love the patterning black and the golds.
• 43:39
  It's just, and I really like, I think the just the chainmail
• 43:42
  head with the beard. I think that's my favourite head
• 43:46
  of the three. It's it's a really good look for
• 43:48
  him. It's funny, isn't it, because
• 43:51
  I've always liked black and red as a colour, as a combination of
• 43:53
  colours. Until we got this guy, I didn't
• 43:55
  realise just how much I like that black and gold combination
• 43:58
  as well. Yeah, it's so nice.
• 44:00
  Yeah, so and I'm very, yeah. And I'm very glad I got two of
• 44:03
  them at this point so I can have both configurations on display.
• 44:07
  Yeah, yeah, right. My number one then is Mouse
• 44:13
  King. Could be recency buys here, but
• 44:16
  look at it. It's amazing everything, the
• 44:21
  heads, the the Cape, the neck piece that you can make just a
• 44:26
  single rat, the swords that's bent out of shape when I took.
• 44:35
  Yeah. Looks a bit wonky there, but
• 44:41
  that's OK, That can be fixed. The sceptre is cool as well.
• 44:44
  But yeah, it's just the overall figure itself.
• 44:46
  It's amazing. And Mal, I think we're on the
• 44:49
  same page here. Yeah, we are great minds or not,
• 44:56
  but yeah, everything you've said as you I bought a multiples.
• 44:59
  I keep fighting the urge to buy more because I keep having ideas
• 45:03
  to use the parts for, you know, creature, not creature sort of
• 45:09
  furry characters. And I love the mouse and the
• 45:12
  rat. And there's part of me wants to
• 45:14
  create a mini, a little collection of Scaven, as Rich
• 45:18
  talked about, you know, maybe copy the different Scaven
• 45:22
  outfits in, in in Warhammer and, and using him.
• 45:26
  But yeah, he's so cool, so cool. I like, I like mice and rats as
• 45:31
  well. So that that's part of why I
• 45:32
  like this guy. He is an awesome figure, and now
• 45:34
  that they've done those feet, you know we're going to see
• 45:36
  rats. Yeah.
• 45:38
  So I wouldn't be at all surprised if the next horror
• 45:40
  minds and well thing there's rats on that ship sailing away.
• 45:45
  That would be cool. Yeah.
• 45:47
  And so much cool toy photography with this since it came out.
• 45:52
  It's yeah. And also I love what everyone's
• 45:54
  done about ripping the rats heads off and putting all
• 45:56
  different types of heads on. Yeah, yeah.
• 45:57
  That's. Always work, but it's just fun.
• 46:01
  The skeleton heads. And yeah, I wanted to get all
• 46:05
  our dog sculpts and stick them on it.
• 46:08
  That would be cool. Yeah, but some of them are.
• 46:11
  It's the angle of the head. Yeah.
• 46:14
  But you'd see a lot of people that did it.
• 46:15
  They took the photograph from below because a lot of the heads
• 46:18
  are. Yeah.
• 46:20
  Tilt angles down. Errorsly hanging on sort of
• 46:22
  thing. Yeah, I'll say this now because
• 46:24
  one of my ideas needs somebody to do it.
• 46:26
  But if the sculptors out there could, they could take some of
• 46:30
  their heads and and modify them to fit on these neck pieces or
• 46:34
  create new ones of course that will fit on the neck sis.
• 46:39
  Right, Rich, you're #1 then. Ganesha, yeah.
• 46:46
  I mean as good as the the Mouse King is, this guy is my
• 46:48
  favourite Figura from the year. It's I mean, what else Welsh you
• 46:54
  need? He's got, he's got cool baggy
• 46:56
  trousers. It's got, you know, the dad bod
• 46:59
  coming in with the belly forearms, you know, love the,
• 47:05
  the markings down the trunk. That's really clever.
• 47:07
  A little rat buddy. It's it's just such a good
• 47:11
  figure. I love it, right?
• 47:16
  So that's our top figures. We're going to do a couple more
• 47:19
  categories here and then do our top ten in hand for the year,
• 47:22
  which we'll just run through. We won't.
• 47:24
  We don't need to go, you know, over the attributes of each
• 47:27
  figure. Again, best paint is the next
• 47:30
  category I have there. I went for a different picture.
• 47:34
  It's Coy. Eric Miller did this superb job
• 47:39
  here and the factory obviously did an amazing job of putting
• 47:44
  his paint into production. It's great.
• 47:47
  Even the armour, everything matches up beautifully.
• 47:52
  The weapon is even beautifully painted, really great figure,
• 47:58
  which I think the paint has a large kind of part of making it
• 48:07
  even better. You know, the paint really
• 48:09
  contributes to to how good the figure is.
• 48:13
  Mal, what do you got for for this category?
• 48:17
  I went with something slightly different.
• 48:18
  Whilst I completely agree with everything and already send the
• 48:21
  praises of Koi and his translate evalescent paint job, I went
• 48:26
  with ATL 25 for the thing that you talked about, the camo.
• 48:31
  I think it's brilliantly well painted camo and just the colour
• 48:35
  scheme in general is it all just looks so good together.
• 48:40
  The camera is fabulously painted.
• 48:42
  Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
• 48:43
  And when you you know, it is the type of figure to get multiples
• 48:46
  of and you get multiples and the camera looks great on all of
• 48:49
  them. Always.
• 48:50
  Yeah. And our friend Jeremy Govier did
• 48:54
  different colour schemes in camo.
• 48:56
  He seemed to, he seemed to get the inspiration and the courage
• 49:00
  to do camo. And his camera looks great as.
• 49:02
  Well, really good, yeah. Right, Rich, what do you got,
• 49:09
  Skip? That's got best paint.
• 49:10
  There you go. Same as usual for all the
• 49:13
  reasons that you said, Koi. Incredible paint scheme.
• 49:18
  Right. So next category we got is best
• 49:26
  part, which is I said on shooting the shelf, I couldn't
• 49:33
  think of a better one since then.
• 49:36
  So it is the upper torso and then I put mobile in here just
• 49:41
  to show what they've done with it.
• 49:43
  And when you see them side by side, you see it.
• 49:45
  But when you saw them on the screen, it took ages to figure
• 49:49
  out. Oh, that is from Booker.
• 49:51
  Yeah. But it doesn't matter though
• 49:52
  either though, does it? Because they look like such
• 49:54
  different figures with the paint and with the the the parts and
• 49:59
  the overlays and so good pair of them are.
• 50:03
  Yep. OK, Mal, what you got?
• 50:07
  So I've put the wrong header at the top, but the best part?
• 50:10
  Is. The belt waist piece, so not the
• 50:15
  one that fits over the waist piece, but the one that actually
• 50:19
  is a waist piece itself. You know that.
• 50:22
  So it's got the little hole in that it sits underneath and has
• 50:25
  the hole in the middle and you pop it on and that sort of
• 50:27
  thing. One of these may be the wrong
• 50:29
  one, but that's what I was trying to get across was there
• 50:33
  was that one and I'm just sort of showing the different types
• 50:35
  and styles of them. But yeah, I love that it's, it's
• 50:39
  opened up an ability to create looks that don't require the
• 50:45
  armour down the legs or the skirt.
• 50:49
  And, and you know, you don't I, I don't always want that for the
• 50:53
  kind of characters I I'd like to make, so.
• 50:57
  Yeah, maybe introduces more realism to certain character
• 51:00
  time stuff, yeah. And gives more variety, as ever.
• 51:05
  Rich, you got. The dad bod torso.
• 51:08
  Thank you, thank you. The horsemen.
• 51:10
  We've been crying out for a fatty in the line for quite some
• 51:14
  time and and we finally got it. So you know, as much as I hate
• 51:18
  to say something would help Barbarians, but this sort of
• 51:19
  look would help Barbarians as well.
• 51:22
  It works. Big fat Barbarians.
• 51:23
  Yeah, that would. Work really well for gladiators,
• 51:26
  you know? Obviously worked brilliantly for
• 51:28
  the, the the walrus, you know? So yeah, thank you, Horsemen.
• 51:33
  Yeah, it's it's great and interesting the way they've done
• 51:37
  it. So it's not and I think it works
• 51:40
  better ultimately like this. It's it's not a interchangeable
• 51:43
  with the 1.0 standard to pieces. So it is a separate build
• 51:51
  itself. Thing I'm looking forward to it
• 51:53
  though to Ben is I'm assuming they'll have filled in the two
• 51:56
  holes for the arms on his back, which would be nice to see it
• 51:59
  with a proper back like everything else.
• 52:05
  Right, best accessory then I went with the axe from Erzak.
• 52:12
  It's a good one. It's a.
• 52:13
  Very just a gnarly axe. Yeah, yeah.
• 52:16
  We have had a lot of the same axes over the the last while and
• 52:23
  just to see some new stuff. Awesome, now what you got.
• 52:33
  I said to you earlier, this will either make you chuckle or
• 52:36
  you'll completely agree with me. Oh well, understand the rat.
• 52:44
  Love it. This.
• 52:46
  I will say this. This picture is courtesy of
• 52:48
  Kirby Smith and a post he put on the Cabal about about this.
• 52:53
  I love them. I actually have extras of all of
• 52:57
  the ones we've got so far, although I can't find the gold
• 53:00
  one just at the minute, which is a bit annoying.
• 53:03
  I knew exactly where it was as well, but OK, I'll find it, I'm
• 53:06
  sure. But yeah, I love them, I love
• 53:08
  everything. I want to do a little diorama
• 53:11
  piece with all the different rats and I want us to keep
• 53:13
  getting different coloured rats as we go.
• 53:17
  Well, Rich is not laughing at you.
• 53:20
  I gone for rat as well and this is 1 where the the one that
• 53:25
  comes with a nymph wasn't on the Horseman website.
• 53:27
  So I had to go digging into Billy Beige's video to to find
• 53:30
  that one. But this is just such a fun,
• 53:33
  cool little little piece and you know, and just by changing the
• 53:37
  Paint apps, they all look like completely different things.
• 53:39
  Yeah. Yeah, I absolutely love it.
• 53:41
  Absolutely. Right, we don't like to be
• 53:45
  negative at the awards show, but we do have a fun category for
• 53:48
  least favourite. Doesn't mean necessarily it's a
• 53:51
  bad figure, it's just our least favourite.
• 53:54
  And mine. Sorry, Big Greg, it is Jack.
• 53:58
  Greg's coming after you. He, he went me up so much and
• 54:03
  fallen over and that's, that's fair, Yeah.
• 54:07
  And yeah, the paint job, it's a bit too ether on I suppose.
• 54:15
  You really don't like ether on Dear John.
• 54:17
  No. So yeah, that's it basically.
• 54:21
  Yeah, I, I, I don't mind him, but.
• 54:24
  It's the falling over the. Yeah, it's pretty.
• 54:26
  I hadn't had that many. Problems and the shoes their
• 54:28
  feet. Sorry, the feet is that needs a
• 54:32
  new feat. Yeah, yeah, that figure,
• 54:36
  different feet. He wouldn't be wearing those
• 54:38
  feet, right? So it is a tough, tough, tough.
• 54:47
  Yeah, there's good things about him.
• 54:52
  I really like the feet. And what that suggests could be
• 54:55
  coming soon. And I'm just guessing the bird
• 55:00
  neck could be used again soon. But he just, I don't know,
• 55:07
  something I like his little accessory with the pen as well.
• 55:10
  I've heard heard. So I think Curtis might mention
• 55:12
  that. But just generally there's just
• 55:16
  something I wish he was the black body.
• 55:19
  No, Well, no, that's not true because he goes with the ones
• 55:22
  we've got the moment. But again, the one thing I wish
• 55:24
  about all the gods is the original ones had the black
• 55:27
  bodies. And yeah.
• 55:31
  Instead of the retailer, 17 the black.
• 55:33
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then I'm not so keen on the
• 55:36
  the colours of the retailer ones.
• 55:39
  So the whole of the Gods line at this point, they've got good
• 55:45
  things about them, but then there's things I prefer in other
• 55:48
  in the other version and not suspect he's going to be the
• 55:52
  same if if we get a retailer version.
• 55:57
  Fair enough? Well, you've taken a swipe at
• 56:01
  one. Rich's probably preferred
• 56:04
  figures. Or he loves the gods.
• 56:06
  Well. He's guess where I'm going with
• 56:10
  it. I mean, he's OK, but he's a
• 56:16
  barbarian at the end of the day. I'm never going to like
• 56:18
  Barbarians. So.
• 56:19
  And he's the most for that reason, isn't he?
• 56:21
  Exactly. He couldn't be anymore
• 56:22
  barbarian. So for that reason he's my least
• 56:25
  favourite. That's fair.
• 56:27
  Fair enough. OK.
• 56:29
  What I proposed then for the top 10 is we just do 12:50 each take
• 56:34
  an interns and we don't need to say too much about them unless
• 56:38
  there's there is the possibility that there could be a figure in
• 56:44
  here you haven't mentioned already.
• 56:45
  Because, you know, if, for example, your top 10 is all
• 56:48
  mythic, we've only had a top five mythic, you know, so maybe
• 56:54
  maybe make note of that as we go along if you've done that.
• 57:00
  And people can call anyone out if they have ranked a figure
• 57:03
  higher up in their top ten than they did in their top five.
• 57:06
  Oh. I'm sweating now, I know.
• 57:10
  I meant to say it the very big star.
• 57:12
  That's one for the nerds. That's it.
• 57:13
  I mean to put disclaimer out of do not take anything I say as a
• 57:17
  gospel. It may change in the future as.
• 57:19
  You say there's no prizes in this awards show and there's no
• 57:23
  consequences, right? My top 10.
• 57:26
  So Ganesha coming in at #10. ATL 25 at #9 Scaphoid at #8.
• 57:35
  Still surprised at this one to be honest.
• 57:38
  Thoraxian scout #7 the paladin cleric at #6.
• 57:46
  Necronominus at #5, The mouse king at #4, Thoracis at #3 or
• 57:57
  var at #2. Which means that coy is my
• 58:02
  number one overall in hand figure for the year.
• 58:07
  Nice right now all. Right.
• 58:09
  What you got? So in at #10 we have serve
• 58:12
  algard #2 for all the reasons in at #9 Lowlandscape back #8
• 58:22
  hooker #7 tupecula #6 Jersey devil #5 ATL 25 #4 The Mouse
• 58:35
  king #3 heroic paladin slash cleric in the best look #2
• 58:45
  legendary barbarian the. Iberian has been pipped.
• 58:48
  Meaning at #1 we have Kern, right?
• 58:53
  Yeah, I love her. I really, really, really.
• 58:57
  Yeah. Big fan of her.
• 59:00
  Yeah, I'm definitely going to use her jacket in a custom this
• 59:03
  year with a different figure obviously.
• 59:06
  So that's my promise. Maybe even trying to diet or
• 59:10
  paint the jacket or something Makes fun She's why not?
• 59:13
  She's one that I want to get. I've got a second one on order
• 59:17
  big bad, but I want to get to to display in the her to looks.
• 59:22
  But yeah, like you, I kind of want to get the jacket as well
• 59:25
  to try using on something else. Right, Rich, you're top 10.
• 59:31
  I just did a list, it was enough in that so #10 is the warrior
• 59:36
  slash the revenant? We haven't seen that one.
• 59:38
  Haven't seen that, 1 is really cool figure but not good enough
• 59:41
  to make the top five number 9. I was going to say it nearly
• 59:46
  made it into my top five, to be fair.
• 59:47
  The warrior Evan indeed. But.
• 59:49
  Carry on #9 Skeleton Raider #8 Blue lith #7 the Mouse King,
• 59:55
  Number six the paladin, mage or cleric #5 Ganesha #4 Koi,
• 1:00:02
  unbelievably is a cosmic and #3 which is Velox beer.
• 1:00:05
  I love that body, it's so good. Number 2 is Siri Knock and then
• 1:00:10
  number one is Ozok 2. Excellent.
• 1:00:15
  Yeah, right. Does that bring us on to our
• 1:00:20
  reveals? It does, doesn't it?
• 1:00:26
  How we feeling after that? They think we got it right.
• 1:00:29
  I mean, someone got it right. I think Mal would disagree over
• 1:00:32
  us, but in our own way we both got it right.
• 1:00:36
  Yeah. I think it was a good reflection
• 1:00:38
  of our our likes and dislikes and our personalities and that I
• 1:00:43
  think, yeah, I'd say good. Variety in there after the
• 1:00:45
  cosmic section, you know, I hope people continue to watch after.
• 1:00:51
  Fingers, fingers, fingers. Crossed we get more cosmic this
• 1:00:54
  year, Sorry. Next year, which I'm sure
• 1:00:58
  they've suggested you, yeah. Right.
• 1:01:02
  Shall I kick us off with the reveals?
• 1:01:06
  Just do it the way I've done this because we we had similar
• 1:01:10
  sections before, but because there was no cosmic reveals this
• 1:01:13
  year, really there was one the trooper.
• 1:01:17
  We've done our top 10 reveals of the year, all four horsemen
• 1:01:20
  figures. So exciting and right my #10 is
• 1:01:27
  Garmir R Vine smell wave the big what's he werewolf?
• 1:01:35
  Yeah, he's not called lazy, but he's not technically a werewolf.
• 1:01:38
  But yeah, he's a Yeah, he's a big old wolf.
• 1:01:40
  Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
• 1:01:42
  So yeah, we all thought maybe if there's going to be this type of
• 1:01:46
  a character, we'd get it on the wind, dodgy body.
• 1:01:48
  So it's an ogre scale, which is, you know, big Beastie, cool and
• 1:01:55
  bunch of new parts, open mouth, screaming head.
• 1:01:58
  Amazing. I love, love, love the armour on
• 1:02:02
  this figure and the paint on it. Yeah, it's kind of what it's
• 1:02:07
  along the lines of what I would regularly choose to paint armour
• 1:02:11
  myself if I was doing a custom of of like a beast of some sort
• 1:02:14
  and you didn't need to do, you know, metallic armour
• 1:02:17
  necessarily. It's great.
• 1:02:20
  And the sword, which is this kind of, it's this kind of like
• 1:02:27
  black. What would you say?
• 1:02:28
  It's kind of Obsidian. Obsidian, I think.
• 1:02:30
  Obsidian. Yeah, that's it.
• 1:02:31
  Yeah. So it looks translucent, but
• 1:02:34
  also kind of shiny black. Yeah, it's great right now.
• 1:02:41
  What's your #10? So creeping in at the end of the
• 1:02:45
  year. Lieutenant Holiday, he looks
• 1:02:49
  brilliant. So we'll talk a little bit more
• 1:02:51
  maybe about this guy on our opening show of next year for
• 1:02:56
  the news part of it. But it is basically the next
• 1:03:01
  figure in the line that started with ATL 25, the Toy Lanta
• 1:03:04
  exclusives. The subtle nods to GI Joe type
• 1:03:10
  characters I think is fair to say with it being Joe Lanta, you
• 1:03:14
  know boy Lanta. Sorry, formerly Joe Lanta.
• 1:03:22
  He's using some of the new cosmic parts.
• 1:03:24
  Sorry I keep looking at because I've got him a bigger picture of
• 1:03:26
  him. He keeps using cosmic parts.
• 1:03:30
  More camo, but possibly even cooler camo.
• 1:03:34
  He's got the arms as well. Yeah, one of my favourite.
• 1:03:37
  So which which figure is this guy nodding to He.
• 1:03:41
  Feels a bit like he could be a nod to a few different ones,
• 1:03:46
  doesn't he? The one that came, I can't think
• 1:03:48
  who it is that came to mind for me.
• 1:03:50
  I can't think of his name, the one who puts the I've gone blank
• 1:04:00
  on the Joe carriage. Any help here?
• 1:04:02
  No. No, I mean snow jobs are famous.
• 1:04:04
  Yeah, a bit like a bit. Obviously the head scopes very
• 1:04:08
  different. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:04:10
  But he's just very cool all round.
• 1:04:12
  He's just a, you know, that vibe of the Geo sort of things like
• 1:04:17
  the other one was. So.
• 1:04:18
  Yeah, very. Cool.
• 1:04:21
  Right, Rich? Boris, Boris burger story, the
• 1:04:27
  little fella. I thought Curtis might kill me.
• 1:04:32
  Now he did make the top 10 on his own merit.
• 1:04:37
  It's, you know, introduction of the scale that was extremely
• 1:04:40
  exciting when this first came up.
• 1:04:43
  There's a beer barrel. I mean that almost made my
• 1:04:45
  accessory the year, although it was a reveal rather than in
• 1:04:48
  hand, but still awesome. And the, you know, with the ice
• 1:04:51
  goblin head. You can always put it in the
• 1:04:54
  future. In the future one I can indeed.
• 1:04:56
  Yes, yeah, in hand. Yeah, so this is a really cool
• 1:04:59
  dude. The painter on the face as well
• 1:05:01
  is, yeah, Red Nose and everything is so cleverly done.
• 1:05:04
  And what what do you think of the the ability to make it a
• 1:05:08
  little goblin? Blue goblin dude.
• 1:05:11
  I like that actually. I think that's a really and I
• 1:05:13
  like the fact that the heads a little bit oversized too,
• 1:05:15
  because obviously it's a thumb pad, which is a although it's on
• 1:05:17
  the Goblin, it's a 1.0 head, so I like every size look.
• 1:05:21
  I might be more inclined to use the goblin parts on a goblin
• 1:05:24
  body and make it more of a gobbling than, you know, using
• 1:05:28
  the scale for me I think. Well, Boris makes my #9 so
• 1:05:36
  continuing on here, yeah, it's great.
• 1:05:40
  Cool new scale, cool nod to one of our friends in Curtis.
• 1:05:46
  And yeah, look at all the stuff you get with it.
• 1:05:49
  And you can make a separate character as well, which is
• 1:05:51
  always cool. Like not even, you know, you
• 1:05:54
  could have got another like gnome head to make a different
• 1:05:57
  gnome. No, this is like an entirely
• 1:05:59
  different character, you know, So very cool.
• 1:06:01
  I love that. Now, all right, so going with
• 1:06:08
  the Faden, this is where I probably, and this is a little
• 1:06:12
  hint at what comes next, needed a 9A9B and things would have
• 1:06:19
  shifted around and something else might have got on the list.
• 1:06:22
  But I love the build. I love the new parts that Canon
• 1:06:27
  we're getting. The head scopes are fantastic.
• 1:06:30
  He's great. I can't wait to get him in hand.
• 1:06:36
  Yeah, he's, he's cool, definitely.
• 1:06:40
  Very much looking forward to getting him.
• 1:06:42
  He's a nice mixture of the cosmic parts, yes.
• 1:06:46
  Yes, those big wider legs with a thinner.
• 1:06:50
  Yeah, really good luck. It's.
• 1:06:51
  Cool. Yeah, cool.
• 1:06:52
  Cool design, isn't it? Right rich to Myron is siren
• 1:06:58
  Opel scale. Yes, it's a snake type 2.0
• 1:07:02
  though in my. Yeah, I just like, I just like
• 1:07:04
  always pointing out just just to my job.
• 1:07:08
  This one's I when they first showed her at Legion G Com, I
• 1:07:11
  wasn't I liked her, but not like Oh my God, Oh my God, oh God.
• 1:07:14
  But the more I've looked at the pictures now and that sort of
• 1:07:16
  thing, actually she's really good.
• 1:07:19
  The colour scheme is fabulous. Those translucent sort of bins,
• 1:07:25
  I guess sort of thing on the tail and everything else, you
• 1:07:28
  know, work really, really well. The fact she comes with humanoid
• 1:07:33
  legs as well then that's that's just an added bonus sort of
• 1:07:38
  thing and will enable me to make female.
• 1:07:42
  No, I was. Going to say I was going to say
• 1:07:45
  quattles or minions. You know the female ninjas could
• 1:07:49
  be. Green, the beauty here is that,
• 1:07:52
  you know, you can get extras, use the humanoid legs, and then
• 1:07:57
  you've got snake tail to use in the custom.
• 1:07:59
  Yeah, you know. And a special shout out to that
• 1:08:02
  weapon she's got there as well, which is just horrible.
• 1:08:04
  That one with the two prongs going in, that's yeah, that's
• 1:08:07
  just nasty. It does look like a torture.
• 1:08:11
  It really does. Yeah, right.
• 1:08:16
  Interesting 1 coming up here for me, The Burning Night.
• 1:08:19
  It's a good choice. Good choice it.
• 1:08:22
  Didn't even occur to me to look at any of the the Bay of Theatre
• 1:08:25
  figures or exactly by him. So he's like.
• 1:08:29
  This yeah, maybe yeah he just said preservation there Rich
• 1:08:35
  this just so cool looking and just so unique and I'm not you
• 1:08:41
  know we're not the biggest tag non fans here between me and you
• 1:08:44
  especially rich but this is different.
• 1:08:48
  This really sells the story of this character.
• 1:08:53
  It is definitely not something you can do at home.
• 1:08:58
  I mean maybe you could do paint scheme wouldn't be translucent
• 1:09:01
  but you could do something like a burning night.
• 1:09:03
  But this is just this rocks very.
• 1:09:06
  Cool. And he comes with that, and it
• 1:09:09
  comes on the one of the warrior beast figures with the the face
• 1:09:15
  and the glowing eye, you know, the fire coming out, the eyes
• 1:09:17
  and that. And it's, that's just such a
• 1:09:19
  cool piece. Yeah.
• 1:09:21
  Headpiece. That little head.
• 1:09:22
  Tragic piece, right? Yeah, it is.
• 1:09:24
  It's. A story.
• 1:09:25
  It's a grim story, but yeah. Well, it's not as grim as the
• 1:09:29
  Ashen skeletons, I would say. Oh, I.
• 1:09:31
  Don't know this guy's. This guy's in the midst of.
• 1:09:36
  Burning today. At least they're, you know,
• 1:09:37
  they're toast. Yeah, yeah, but I like getting
• 1:09:43
  my toast at the point before. Burning.
• 1:09:46
  It's molten. The butter will nicely melt over
• 1:09:51
  it and then it'll be all tasty. But yeah, great.
• 1:09:55
  I can't wait to get this guy. Maybe we, I don't know if we
• 1:09:59
  will get better next year, but if we do so we'll obviously get
• 1:10:03
  this guy with the accessory pack.
• 1:10:05
  So yeah, right now #8. So again, it's the same things.
• 1:10:16
  It's why I said I could have probably done with like putting
• 1:10:18
  the both on a slide because it's the build and but this guy, the
• 1:10:22
  colours, I love the colours and that head sculpt is amazing.
• 1:10:27
  I cannot wait to get the brain head sculpt.
• 1:10:31
  It's it's so cool. Yeah, it sculpts.
• 1:10:34
  Incredible. Yeah.
• 1:10:35
  Yeah, Such a fun head sculpt. Yeah, this is my favourite of
• 1:10:39
  the two. Yes, I perhaps could have just
• 1:10:43
  included him and said, but I like them both.
• 1:10:45
  Maybe, but I don't know. I tried.
• 1:10:47
  I was thinking let's do this properly, but yeah.
• 1:10:50
  You've got to do what you like. Yeah, right, Rich, sticking to
• 1:10:55
  the same scale. Here, yeah, another little
• 1:10:57
  fella. So by Le Frost Fur, it's the
• 1:11:00
  Arctic fox. It's so cool.
• 1:11:04
  Again, the bigger head, I like the bigger head on the the scale
• 1:11:08
  bodies. I think that's that works really
• 1:11:11
  well. I mean, horseman heads are a bit
• 1:11:12
  big anyway sort of thing. So this just amplifies that even
• 1:11:15
  more. And he comes with a frying pan.
• 1:11:18
  And a fire. And I mean, yeah, how?
• 1:11:21
  How? Good.
• 1:11:23
  Yeah, he's Little Rucksack as well.
• 1:11:25
  I'm so pleased. Yeah, no rucksack in.
• 1:11:27
  That's how to add value like cool little things like that.
• 1:11:29
  Exactly, Yeah. And indeed the heads been like
• 1:11:34
  bigger means that they will get reuse out of them possibly on
• 1:11:38
  like regular size figures. So that's really cool,
• 1:11:42
  especially. You know this.
• 1:11:43
  Box as well. This dude is awesome.
• 1:11:46
  And look at his little paws. I know his little feet, that's
• 1:11:49
  the only thing. Maybe like hands, like hands
• 1:11:52
  would have been arm and hands doing.
• 1:11:53
  Made it perfect. But yeah, a minor quibble.
• 1:11:57
  Can't have everything right. I went fan host for for my #7
• 1:12:04
  then yeah, same thing. Mali's my favourite of these two
• 1:12:09
  and I will definitely thought I'd include at least one of
• 1:12:14
  these. And yeah, it's a little bit the
• 1:12:17
  same comments with the different kind of use of the different
• 1:12:21
  parts from Cosmic mixed together.
• 1:12:24
  It's great. Can't wait to get these guys and
• 1:12:26
  hopefully they will be with us not too late in 2026.
• 1:12:34
  Right on to your #7. So another new rivet, newish
• 1:12:41
  reveal, but he's prepped in there because I really, really
• 1:12:45
  like this guy. He sort of ticks all the boxes
• 1:12:49
  in terms of the type of character.
• 1:12:51
  You know, he's big, getting got buffet barbarian.
• 1:12:55
  He vibes, doesn't he? Really?
• 1:12:56
  But then giving him that execute execution, his mask and the
• 1:13:01
  gruesome faces is such a yeah. He's really, really, really fun.
• 1:13:08
  Yeah, he's, I mean, I love with him.
• 1:13:11
  I love the, I love the bits that you get with him.
• 1:13:15
  Yeah, like the flaming ball. I think is is from as a zazer.
• 1:13:26
  Yes, it is, I think, isn't it? Yeah, yes, yeah, yeah.
• 1:13:30
  And then you got the the red skull with the yellow eyes.
• 1:13:34
  I mean how much cooler is that than Clavin for example?
• 1:13:37
  Oh yeah, not really cold. And then we got the White Zombie
• 1:13:41
  head with the red eyes, So. And a rat.
• 1:13:45
  Yeah, another rat. The rat.
• 1:13:46
  To add to the collection. So yeah, you know, right, And
• 1:13:53
  Rich, what you got for #7? Even prosper prosperous.
• 1:14:01
  Prosperous. Prosperous.
• 1:14:02
  I pronounced that fine when we started Prosperous.
• 1:14:06
  Yeah, this guy's, I mean, he ticks boxes.
• 1:14:08
  Me, you know, I've talked before about Middle East and stuff.
• 1:14:10
  I love Grisha because the Middle East.
• 1:14:12
  And look, he's got that. He bears striking resemblance to
• 1:14:17
  Zende, which I don't think is a coincidence.
• 1:14:20
  It's called a corny bird. And then like a couple other
• 1:14:23
  figures. It's, you know, like mouthed
• 1:14:25
  about Kern, right? It's it's two figures in one.
• 1:14:28
  You take the soft goods off, pop the different head on and all of
• 1:14:30
  a sudden you've got a foot soldier type figure or an
• 1:14:35
  assassin. I could see that build working
• 1:14:36
  really well as a as an assassin. Really, really good figure.
• 1:14:42
  You know the the introduction of the Cutlass as well, which they
• 1:14:46
  had to get in Papyrus somewhere, but it works really well with
• 1:14:48
  this guy too. Yeah, I, you get vibes of, you
• 1:14:54
  know, he's got a big camp out outside of town and these guys
• 1:14:59
  are just guarding everywhere. And, you know, Garden is tent
• 1:15:04
  guarding just the grounds, everything, you know.
• 1:15:07
  Yeah. It's very it is yeah.
• 1:15:09
  In my head, somebody from Mythos challenge or new my new mythos
• 1:15:12
  is it now is challenged his monopoly on the trade routes and
• 1:15:16
  and those guys just disappeared that person.
• 1:15:20
  Like the two the two versions that you know, the two different
• 1:15:25
  builds that you can kind of make here as in with and without soft
• 1:15:28
  goods. I could see both of them as a
• 1:15:30
  movie character in in various movies, you know, you know, with
• 1:15:34
  this type of character in it, you know, they just come
• 1:15:41
  straight out of that. So you know, that's pretty cool,
• 1:15:43
  isn't it? Right on to number six on the
• 1:15:48
  top 10 reveals. And for me it is the Tusk
• 1:15:53
  Phantom Trooper, AKA nod to the whore trooper from masters of
• 1:15:59
  the universe retailer wave expected early next year.
• 1:16:05
  Expect to have him in kind of January, February.
• 1:16:09
  I would suspect St date in March then from that.
• 1:16:15
  Yeah. So they're this guy's coming
• 1:16:17
  from the retailers super cool. I I ordered three of these so
• 1:16:24
  looking forward to getting them. I haven't ordered any of this
• 1:16:27
  guy. Really.
• 1:16:29
  No, I'm not scaling back on Cosmic, but it needs to be
• 1:16:33
  something that appeals more than this guy.
• 1:16:35
  Fair enough. To get it fair, three different
• 1:16:39
  heads as well. So obviously 3 three different
• 1:16:41
  looks you can go for. The colours are a big part of
• 1:16:45
  this guy, aren't they? They're so nice.
• 1:16:49
  He nearly made it into my top ten as well.
• 1:16:53
  OK, well, who was your number six?
• 1:16:55
  So finally we get on to the actual Legions lines and we get
• 1:17:02
  Byla Frost for everything Rich said.
• 1:17:05
  Everything we talked about before.
• 1:17:06
  Love him, it's very cool. Excellent, right Rich, your
• 1:17:12
  number six is? He's gammy like you, I think I
• 1:17:18
  was, well, I think like you expecting a smaller, maybe a
• 1:17:22
  brute scale wolf to start off. But actually for the storyline,
• 1:17:26
  it being an ogre scale, you know, works, you know, and the
• 1:17:29
  idea of it throwing a polar bear around like it's a soft toy is,
• 1:17:33
  you know, shows what a total badass this thing is.
• 1:17:36
  And I think a lot won't display it with it.
• 1:17:38
  I'll find another use for it. I think my favourite piece is
• 1:17:41
  the the muzzle. I think the muzzle is
• 1:17:46
  incredible. I'm going to display me the open
• 1:17:48
  head, open mouthed head, but I'll find a way to use the other
• 1:17:51
  head wearing a muzzle just because it's such a cool piece.
• 1:17:56
  Yeah, yeah, that is that shows that how badass and dangerous
• 1:18:01
  the character is you. Know yeah, absolutely.
• 1:18:04
  So how badass the people that captured it again?
• 1:18:06
  Well, that's that's yeah, we still I.
• 1:18:11
  Mean the story is really coming together.
• 1:18:13
  Yeah, I can't wait for more lore next year.
• 1:18:16
  I know. Yeah.
• 1:18:17
  I I for a long time I've not been super fussed by the law.
• 1:18:21
  Looking forward to the law book just so we can read about it a
• 1:18:25
  bit. But yeah, he's reading it for
• 1:18:26
  you guys. This is what his commitment is,
• 1:18:28
  you know. But then, then, yeah, you know,
• 1:18:31
  the new law we're getting is so good.
• 1:18:34
  It's so. Connectivity of some of the
• 1:18:37
  events like the the big kind of tsunami slash earthquake in the
• 1:18:46
  most recent story is is related back to the horror right smile
• 1:18:50
  story as well or. And stories in the last story,
• 1:18:53
  the whole of the horror and some all the whole you know, what was
• 1:18:56
  such a good story so long. Ago, doesn't it?
• 1:18:59
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:18:59
  And it was only last year. Yeah.
• 1:19:02
  And that wave is going to dip under the radar, and then it's
• 1:19:05
  going to turn off and everyone's going to go, whoa, look at these
• 1:19:09
  figures. Coincidentally, I put my all in
• 1:19:12
  order in for Horrify Smile earlier on this afternoon.
• 1:19:14
  I need to Oh no, not horrifying someone.
• 1:19:17
  I hadn't got around. I bought some extra Boris and
• 1:19:20
  Bila but I hadn't actually put the all in order in.
• 1:19:22
  So did there earlier today. At your retail before it sells
• 1:19:26
  out. Yes, that was just because I
• 1:19:28
  missed the reign of the beasts all in.
• 1:19:29
  I mean, that went really quick, so I'm just rude on that.
• 1:19:32
  I'll have to find those separately.
• 1:19:34
  Interestingly, talking about the law book, I don't know if you
• 1:19:36
  guys have watched Jeremy show from last week yet, but he said
• 1:19:39
  on that that The Rise of the Dark 4 is the first book about
• 1:19:43
  them. So there'll be at least another
• 1:19:45
  book about them. About them, yeah, he referenced
• 1:19:49
  it. Oh, I suppose Rise of the dark
• 1:19:51
  board and then you have. Yeah, which is great.
• 1:19:54
  That means there's even more content and more things about
• 1:19:56
  the battles. Hopefully that's it.
• 1:19:57
  That's the thing once, I think. Some of the media waves are
• 1:20:01
  going to be more focused on telling previous stories and
• 1:20:06
  whilst perhaps the G con waves are going to be the future and
• 1:20:09
  that sort of thing. Although the horror vines and
• 1:20:11
  all changed that a little bit, didn't it?
• 1:20:14
  But yeah. The story of horror I smile is
• 1:20:16
  so good that if the media wave isn't the continuation of that,
• 1:20:18
  I will be pitchfork angry typing on the kebab.
• 1:20:23
  You enough of what you want, Rich.
• 1:20:27
  Funnily enough, you have a podcast to do that answer and
• 1:20:32
  now if they do a horror Vine Smile related media wave next
• 1:20:37
  year, they're pandering to you again again, again #5 For me, I
• 1:20:45
  went with arc and the crew don't have a connection with this
• 1:20:49
  character as such. Didn't you know?
• 1:20:51
  Not super aware of him, but a dragon man, come on, look at
• 1:20:55
  that. I mean, if, if you if they did a
• 1:20:58
  character like this in mythic, I would have been all over it.
• 1:21:02
  You know, if if one of the bonus figures in the Bay of their
• 1:21:07
  pre-order was this guy, I think it would have been amazing as
• 1:21:12
  well, but maybe doesn't make sense if you're doing a massive
• 1:21:15
  dragon and then the dragon guy. But you know, there can be
• 1:21:20
  humanoid Dragons that are kind of part of his army.
• 1:21:23
  So I love this guy. Definitely will pick him up and
• 1:21:28
  he'll come in Infinite legions next year and I hope to see
• 1:21:34
  other similar type of characters in the mythic line.
• 1:21:39
  You guys checked out his Dark Order colleagues?
• 1:21:43
  Yeah. So good.
• 1:21:46
  Yeah. It's like, I really hope this
• 1:21:48
  guy does well and they move on to the others.
• 1:21:49
  Because there's a there's a dark barbarian in there.
• 1:21:54
  Yeah, well, you can't have everything.
• 1:21:56
  But no, generally they are. There's a totally.
• 1:21:58
  Yeah. It's just like, hey, yeah, OK.
• 1:22:00
  I I do think I will, I will maybe explore further the the
• 1:22:05
  the lore and the the universe that Joe Manganello created.
• 1:22:11
  I I actually. What?
• 1:22:14
  I wouldn't have known him by name, but I was aware of this
• 1:22:18
  character. Right.
• 1:22:19
  When you know all the dots and I think this will have flown under
• 1:22:25
  the radar a little bit because it was the way it was revealed.
• 1:22:28
  It was post G con. Well, it was part of G Con.
• 1:22:31
  But then. It was just a tea.
• 1:22:34
  A tea. Kind of a tea, I mean.
• 1:22:36
  Although we got a figure rather. Than but there's no pre-order up
• 1:22:40
  yet or anything, so there's going to be a much bigger push
• 1:22:44
  once that happens. But what I'll say is, and we
• 1:22:46
  said this, didn't we, when you see him in the saw him in the
• 1:22:48
  cabinet legions, Connie almost doesn't look like a Mythic
• 1:22:53
  Legions character other than in terms of the build and the
• 1:22:58
  articulation and all that. Although he then has that Mythic
• 1:23:02
  legions vibe and feel and built chunkiness to him and another
• 1:23:07
  cool fact. And this is so we probably won't
• 1:23:11
  hear it called this because then it's creeping into a different
• 1:23:18
  IP which is probably far more expensive.
• 1:23:22
  And but that whilst at this time when Stranger Things is on,
• 1:23:28
  people might be interested to know that that hand, that dead
• 1:23:32
  creepy hand, is the hand of Vechtner and it is actually
• 1:23:37
  official DND Canon. The Ark and the Cruel stole
• 1:23:40
  Vechtner's hand. See, we we've just started
• 1:23:44
  watching Series 4A Stranger Things, so I recognise the name
• 1:23:47
  Beckner now. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:23:49
  Well, Vechner is the big bad in in Stranger Things.
• 1:23:52
  Well, one of the big. Bad season 4 is the one with a
• 1:23:56
  lot of long long episodes. Yeah, we're only three or four
• 1:24:00
  in, so no spoilers please, Chance, but we're enjoying.
• 1:24:02
  No, no, no. That's all I'd say is just the
• 1:24:04
  the length of them is quite long.
• 1:24:06
  We were worried about my daughter, whether she'd be all
• 1:24:07
  right. She's 13.
• 1:24:09
  She's loving it. And then Carrie Moore, I've just
• 1:24:11
  like, Oh my, oh, oh, breaking and all this sort of stuff.
• 1:24:19
  But yeah, so, so you know, I think that's it's a very, very
• 1:24:24
  cool character. Excellent, great man, you're #5.
• 1:24:30
  My #5 he's owed to Ben. #5 get him, shut him down, John.
• 1:24:37
  Well. Wait till you see what else is
• 1:24:39
  to come. Though you'll probably get.
• 1:24:40
  You probably won't be surprised when you see what's to come.
• 1:24:44
  Was there any Barbarians? No.
• 1:24:46
  But your, your, your guess. But yeah, I can't get over the
• 1:24:53
  fact that when he was revealed a bit like who I pull siren scale
• 1:24:59
  for you, Rich G Khan, I was like, well, he's cool.
• 1:25:03
  He's got he's fun. He's you know, he's great.
• 1:25:06
  But since then, and the more I've read about, you know, the
• 1:25:09
  more I've looked at him more read about him for this episode,
• 1:25:11
  for our our lore, our episode where we talked about the wave.
• 1:25:16
  He's just so cool. He's he's so good.
• 1:25:20
  I can't wait to get really, really good.
• 1:25:23
  Accessories are brilliant. The build, again, it's a fun
• 1:25:25
  build with, you know, parts that almost feel like they shouldn't
• 1:25:29
  fit together but do When it looks perfect, it looks like
• 1:25:33
  what a humanoid walrus should look like.
• 1:25:36
  Absolutely. They couldn't have done that guy
• 1:25:40
  any better. Unless they made him a giant.
• 1:25:45
  Cry yes it's my number 5 is Bulwark.
• 1:25:51
  I'd like him more if he wasn't massive, I'll be honest.
• 1:25:55
  Because you're more likely to get more of them if you were
• 1:25:57
  smaller. I think that's my main thinking
• 1:25:58
  behind that however. What a whole shelf of.
• 1:26:01
  Crab people, basically I want crustaceans all over the place.
• 1:26:04
  What they've done here though is phenomenal.
• 1:26:08
  The different size claws give a sort of lobster feel.
• 1:26:11
  Love it. The paint scheme, Chef's kiss.
• 1:26:13
  The paint scheme. It's it's this is close to my
• 1:26:16
  paint scheme of the year sort of thing.
• 1:26:19
  The anchor is a weapon that you know, the fact that the shell on
• 1:26:22
  the back has got all that scarring across it and
• 1:26:24
  everything and the fact that you can use it to protect yourself
• 1:26:28
  worst case scenario if you need to because it waste much.
• 1:26:31
  So all around great figure. Excellent.
• 1:26:38
  My number 4 then is mobile. Just never expected this guy.
• 1:26:45
  Already talked about the builds and now it's done.
• 1:26:48
  We talked about him on the the G Con show where we did, we
• 1:26:52
  focused on these figures, you know the grass kind of you know
• 1:26:57
  all all his armour or clothing. What he wears is basically from
• 1:27:01
  the sea. So that's just super cool.
• 1:27:04
  It comes with a bunch of little kois, it comes with the lobster.
• 1:27:11
  Love him, love everything about this guy.
• 1:27:15
  My question with the little my question with the little Coys
• 1:27:18
  there is do they turn into big Coys?
• 1:27:21
  So do do the Amorean start off like.
• 1:27:24
  That that's an. Interesting question originally.
• 1:27:26
  And then they evolve into like the anthropomorphic ones as they
• 1:27:29
  get older. Yeah, Jeremy, we need to know if
• 1:27:31
  you listen to this, we need that.
• 1:27:35
  Or is there? Does the mutation have to happen
• 1:27:38
  earlier in the process? Yeah, maybe these the failed
• 1:27:42
  ones, maybe. Right now, what happens to koi
• 1:27:51
  if he fishes some of his koi? Oh God, Can you imagine that
• 1:27:56
  going to lie down in a dark room?
• 1:27:58
  Right, so my is Gin Ginzar. Ginzar, here we go.
• 1:28:06
  Ginzar. Yeah, Ginzar, we give you.
• 1:28:08
  Imp. Imp.
• 1:28:08
  Scale Imp the little guy. I like the little guys, goblins
• 1:28:13
  dwarfs now and I love his accessories.
• 1:28:17
  Again, I think the the chest of gold and I agree.
• 1:28:22
  I think we said about the gold bar feels a bit out of place,
• 1:28:25
  but it's a very cool accessory. It almost feels like it could be
• 1:28:28
  with it, but perhaps the rather than him I.
• 1:28:31
  Think it's one of those things they put in this one to give it
• 1:28:34
  more value, but they really expect people just use it the
• 1:28:36
  different. Character.
• 1:28:36
  Exactly. Well, it's diode pieces, isn't
• 1:28:38
  it? Yeah, they'll be used all over
• 1:28:40
  the place. But yeah, love him.
• 1:28:42
  The head's brilliant. Yeah, there.
• 1:28:45
  Yeah, Rich has gone #4. Arc and the cruel love this guy
• 1:28:53
  Everything you said, John, the whole arm and it's grabbing the
• 1:28:58
  glowing green thing, you know from Beckner.
• 1:29:02
  It turns out, you know that's that's all really cool.
• 1:29:05
  I mean I'm not a huge fan of the head that's on in this picture.
• 1:29:08
  I'll be honest. I can see you totally see why
• 1:29:11
  the head looks like that. That's very much a dungeon
• 1:29:12
  Dragons look, but it's not a mythic look particularly and
• 1:29:17
  it's not meant to be. I get that this is a different
• 1:29:19
  line, but everything else is is just really good.
• 1:29:22
  You know, the, the cool feet, I really love the the torso and
• 1:29:27
  the, you know, the pauldrons and everything like that.
• 1:29:29
  And I love the fact what it does for the line as well.
• 1:29:31
  You know, it's going to open up more Dragon King characters and
• 1:29:34
  that sort of thing. That's something else.
• 1:29:36
  I didn't say with he was the other thing.
• 1:29:38
  I don't know about you, but I look at this figure and I can
• 1:29:42
  just hear a heavy metal soundtrack in the background.
• 1:29:46
  I love it. Like he's just.
• 1:29:48
  Yeah, yeah. He's, yeah, he's, he's great,
• 1:29:52
  right? Moving on #3 Vernalis Arden
• 1:29:57
  Scale, a big green snake dude with fiery translucent
• 1:30:03
  accessories, a fiery bird, fiery snake effect, and just cool.
• 1:30:11
  Really cool Cape as well. You know, just to love
• 1:30:16
  everything about this guy. He's a druid as well, you know,
• 1:30:20
  so faction unknown. I've really hope he ends up in
• 1:30:24
  Basilia. He would fit, wouldn't he?
• 1:30:29
  Oh no, I suppose he'd fit with the flock as well, wouldn't he?
• 1:30:32
  I guess. Or an unnamed new faction.
• 1:30:36
  Yeah. With him being a druid, I'm
• 1:30:39
  going to have to take him to Anglesey with me at some point
• 1:30:41
  because that's the famous home of the druids.
• 1:30:45
  So after taking up there with me.
• 1:30:48
  A very cool. Captions from the beach.
• 1:30:51
  Yeah. So he's one of my most
• 1:30:53
  anticipated for next year and definitely early next year.
• 1:30:56
  Can't wait right now. Right.
• 1:31:02
  So Captain Iron School. So I suppose he's kind of
• 1:31:06
  barbarian, but he's yeah, he's he's a badass.
• 1:31:10
  I love the pirates they've done in there, which is him.
• 1:31:13
  You know, all three of them have made it into my top 10 reveals
• 1:31:16
  and quite low down in it. Yeah, I'm so, so cool.
• 1:31:23
  The pirate characters in in in that G Con reveal wave.
• 1:31:27
  So good. I've said loads about him
• 1:31:30
  before, so yeah. Yeah, and I think that the masks
• 1:31:34
  and everything you get with them.
• 1:31:35
  Yeah, that's fish stroll mask is so yeah, I think that's one of
• 1:31:38
  my favourite things I've seen a. Couple of tweaks you could stick
• 1:31:41
  him in Cosmic. I'm not sure you even have to
• 1:31:43
  tweak him really. Yeah, post apocalyptic vibe or
• 1:31:47
  fits in your your mythics that with a sort of darker edge to
• 1:31:51
  him as well. And the new upper legs, yeah.
• 1:31:56
  So cool. And every time you look at them,
• 1:31:59
  just they look like cloth. Yeah, I'm.
• 1:32:03
  Still, I'm still doubting myself when I say that, but even though
• 1:32:07
  I know that they are, yeah. Because we've been over this,
• 1:32:11
  yeah. And the weapon as well as a
• 1:32:14
  grappling cook weapon as well, that it comes with the real
• 1:32:16
  chain. So it just adds that extra bit
• 1:32:18
  of menace. If the hook doesn't get you,
• 1:32:20
  he's going to get you with his extendable hook.
• 1:32:24
  And who doesn't love a single pauldron?
• 1:32:27
  That's absolutely crazy and kind of because it's so big it makes
• 1:32:33
  sense to just be 1 because even to just carry Round 2 with them
• 1:32:36
  on you, you wouldn't. Be able to move his head really
• 1:32:38
  ripped, slapping himself so in each way ow ow ow that's.
• 1:32:43
  The reason he's got all the muscles, if he's carrying that
• 1:32:45
  big hook around his arm and he's that big shoulder poldering all.
• 1:32:51
  Right, rich #3. Xinja love love this dude.
• 1:32:59
  Obviously he came straight was he straight after mobu?
• 1:33:01
  I think and it was just the excitement continued.
• 1:33:05
  There was no load drop off from all I've seen a manta ray guy,
• 1:33:08
  which is incredible. This is such a cool little he's
• 1:33:11
  like proper proper evil like the evil grin the whole the bling.
• 1:33:17
  You know I'm a pirate. Therefore I've got a little
• 1:33:18
  bling little Trident pitchfork type thing as well.
• 1:33:22
  The wings, beautifully painted, love them with a little holes
• 1:33:26
  through them and everything. It's yeah, fabulous figure.
• 1:33:31
  Yeah, he's great. He was on yours as well now.
• 1:33:34
  Yeah, right. We're going for my #2 Aldo Ben,
• 1:33:42
  which was my favourite from the Dawns of Discovery wave.
• 1:33:47
  He's crazy big, big badass Walrus Ganesha body.
• 1:33:51
  Ganesha featured in I think all of our top 10 in hand for the
• 1:33:56
  year. So we get that.
• 1:33:57
  But Mal let me. See my feature in mind.
• 1:34:00
  We didn't. Sorry, sorry.
• 1:34:01
  That's all right. He's very, very good.
• 1:34:04
  He was very I do like Ganesh, he's very good, but there was
• 1:34:07
  others are preferred. And then you get the cool mask
• 1:34:11
  with him. You get the the kind of wood,
• 1:34:15
  wooden pauldrons, wooden risk on let's the the kind of rope
• 1:34:20
  thing. I think that sculpted plastic
• 1:34:22
  isn't it that rope? No, I think it's real, right?
• 1:34:24
  No, I think it's real. Sorry.
• 1:34:27
  Yeah. Great.
• 1:34:30
  Yeah. And a new skirt piece for that
• 1:34:34
  Ganesha torso or that that Dad bought.
• 1:34:37
  It's a bit bigger than Dad, but I would say it looks like it.
• 1:34:42
  Looks like it looks like mine and I've got I'm a dad.
• 1:34:46
  OK, he's another one where you could have multiple
• 1:34:50
  configurations and therefore multiple characters with the
• 1:34:53
  same figure, isn't it as well? You absolutely could.
• 1:34:57
  I just thought we'd have to do this live next year because when
• 1:34:59
  Mal said didn't have Ganesha, I just wanted to do Will Smith and
• 1:35:04
  just walk up and slap him and go.
• 1:35:05
  You keep Ganesha out of your filthy mouth, but unfortunately
• 1:35:10
  I can't. Do that I'd fly over.
• 1:35:12
  We can rent a, you know, swanky ballroom and.
• 1:35:15
  There we go. Yeah.
• 1:35:16
  Posh hotel and just do it with the echo in the room coming from
• 1:35:21
  the fact there's no there's no crowd sat.
• 1:35:23
  At the front door or heard the back and.
• 1:35:25
  Shouted across them. We can, we can maybe bribe Qui
• 1:35:31
  and Meg's to come down and watch us, right #2 for you, ma.
• 1:35:37
  My #2 may have appeared a couple of times before and it is Arc
• 1:35:41
  and the cruel Everything we've said, Yeah, brilliant.
• 1:35:46
  Can't wait. I've made them far too small on
• 1:35:49
  these slides though, but hey. All good, I know we discussed it
• 1:35:54
  when we did the review as well earlier, but I'm really hoping
• 1:35:57
  the second character with it. That would be cool, just be
• 1:36:02
  just. Extra little bit of like wool.
• 1:36:05
  Yeah, I think they're all in on this lines and so much new
• 1:36:08
  tooling here. Yeah, we got hints that there
• 1:36:11
  would be others say I think we will get them.
• 1:36:14
  The press and the coverage around this once you start
• 1:36:16
  involving big Hollywood stars. Exactly that.
• 1:36:19
  Then you know that rockets up the interest in everything.
• 1:36:23
  Yeah, true, very true. Riches #2.
• 1:36:28
  Mobile, I never thought I'd have a fish ban as #2 rather #1 but
• 1:36:34
  it shows how good whatever I picked the number one is.
• 1:36:36
  Love this dude. They such a good idea to use the
• 1:36:41
  the UKA body, the wing. I've said on the review, the
• 1:36:45
  wings are incredible. The fact they're painted at the
• 1:36:47
  back too just gives it an extra thing and it's little thing.
• 1:36:50
  But I love the open mouth, the fact there's the slits in there
• 1:36:52
  as well. Yeah, but that's that's an Eric
• 1:36:54
  Treadaway, you know like I make sure this looks like what a
• 1:36:57
  mantri would look like sort of thing.
• 1:36:59
  It's this little details. Love it.
• 1:37:04
  Right, we're down to number ones.
• 1:37:07
  From Roll and the Big End. Don't.
• 1:37:09
  I don't think anyone else has this one, Sir.
• 1:37:13
  Vinegar. He was another one he nearly
• 1:37:16
  featured in my top ten but just got pushed out by this.
• 1:37:20
  It's just awesome Green. I mean, we all like the Paladin.
• 1:37:23
  Yeah. I mean, look at this guy.
• 1:37:25
  Yeah, he's so soft. He's so cool.
• 1:37:28
  Going to be the. Shield everything.
• 1:37:30
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:37:34
  I mean, you can just do the human head.
• 1:37:36
  Just give that to another knight.
• 1:37:38
  Don't need that. The rest of it.
• 1:37:42
  Yeah. Even got the jousting thing, so
• 1:37:44
  it gives you an idea of that. Maybe he's going to, even though
• 1:37:48
  they don't say they ride on the dragon, you know?
• 1:37:51
  Yeah. Good.
• 1:37:52
  Gives vibes. No, Rich.
• 1:37:58
  I love this dude. Not enough to buy a $550 dragon,
• 1:38:03
  but I wouldn't be surprised. Dragon sniffing around the
• 1:38:05
  secondary pocket. Yeah, falling at some point.
• 1:38:09
  And as you said, you know, John, you can use that human head
• 1:38:12
  actor for something else. You know, the fact that comes
• 1:38:14
  with the Lance as well is really cool.
• 1:38:15
  That shield. Shield.
• 1:38:17
  So good. Right, Mal, you're #1.
• 1:38:23
  My number one is Boris Burger Story.
• 1:38:29
  He's sucking up the gang gang, and now he's sucking up.
• 1:38:32
  Really is wow. Now I love this guy.
• 1:38:36
  When he was when I as as sort of commented on them shooting the
• 1:38:45
  shelf the other night when Curtis started talking about
• 1:38:47
  wanting gnomes, I was like, right there.
• 1:38:49
  Yeah, I really, really want gnomes and really want them to
• 1:38:52
  have a bit of that Warham World of Warcraft 5 and he's getting,
• 1:38:58
  you know, not 100% World of Warcraft fives, but close
• 1:39:01
  enough, probably as close as you get in this line.
• 1:39:04
  And I love him. That head sculpt, as we said
• 1:39:05
  before, that head sculpts fantastic.
• 1:39:08
  The paint taps everything. Brilliant A Brilliant
• 1:39:10
  accessories as well. Yeah, and the accessories are
• 1:39:16
  really cool. The even the little pickaxe
• 1:39:18
  here, you know, and the what is that kind of fruit or something?
• 1:39:23
  It's the the pouches that I think, Oh yeah, the pouches got
• 1:39:27
  accessory with something else previously, right Rich?
• 1:39:30
  Your number one here is. Ode Ben.
• 1:39:35
  And so I was appalled the mile only had him as #5 This is, I'll
• 1:39:41
  go as far as this is a perfect figure.
• 1:39:43
  There's nothing different you could do here to make him any
• 1:39:45
  better. Including the ogre hands.
• 1:39:47
  The ogre hands are such an inspired choice.
• 1:39:51
  You know, I'd been happy with him about that.
• 1:39:53
  I wouldn't have known about him, obviously, but it just works
• 1:39:55
  perfectly. It's a walrus.
• 1:39:58
  I love walruses. They're such cool things.
• 1:39:59
  I've already got a couple already in my collection.
• 1:40:02
  All the different options, the wooden stuff as you said John,
• 1:40:05
  the giant superbly coloured fish that you can use to smash people
• 1:40:08
  around with if he needs to or just chow down on it.
• 1:40:12
  It's incredible figure to beat a fish guy to #1 it had to be a
• 1:40:17
  good figure. And anyone that's seen my
• 1:40:19
  reactions video thank you John online from G com will know how
• 1:40:24
  I reacted to this one. Yes.
• 1:40:27
  Incredible. Incredible.
• 1:40:31
  Right uh, now we move on to the next category, which is biggest
• 1:40:35
  surprise. I don't have a picture for this
• 1:40:39
  one because my biggest surprise is no cosmic legions wave in
• 1:40:44
  2025. Yeah, I wouldn't surprise.
• 1:40:48
  I wasn't entirely surprised because.
• 1:40:51
  If I told you at the start of the year, would you be
• 1:40:53
  surprised? Probably, yes.
• 1:40:57
  Uh, but with the reason of they didn't want to do another wave
• 1:41:01
  without having more in hand for people, I can kind of understand
• 1:41:06
  it, but yeah, yeah, it was a bit of a surprise for sure, for
• 1:41:09
  sure. I think it shows how far out
• 1:41:11
  things are planned in advance too, Because the reaction to the
• 1:41:13
  first Thraxson wave coming in, Yeah.
• 1:41:17
  If stuff wasn't planned out way in advance, they'd have found a
• 1:41:20
  way to fit another cosmic yeah. For sure, for sure.
• 1:41:22
  And there's been a lot, well, a lot of reveals and things this
• 1:41:25
  year for sure. Yeah, I mean, I'm, it's not like
• 1:41:29
  they're abandoning Cos I was just surprised they didn't get
• 1:41:32
  one in. But you know, I'm sure we get at
• 1:41:35
  least one next year. Yeah, and maybe a couple of
• 1:41:38
  figures. Yeah, I think we're going to see
• 1:41:40
  quite a few. More names, but he don't.
• 1:41:42
  Got the imp scale? Little aliens.
• 1:41:44
  Little. Aliens.
• 1:41:46
  Yeah. I think variety is what we need,
• 1:41:48
  definitely. Yeah, as much as you know, the
• 1:41:52
  Tusk build for example is cool, but we don't need a bunch more
• 1:41:56
  of them at the moment. Build out the the other type
• 1:42:00
  character types right now. What's your biggest surprise?
• 1:42:04
  My biggest surprise is in scale. I I as sad as it is I I
• 1:42:14
  literally jumped and clapped when they announced in scale.
• 1:42:19
  I was so excited. I cheered.
• 1:42:21
  My family thought I was mad. Like what's going on?
• 1:42:23
  Was like they've ruined another little scale people.
• 1:42:26
  I think I just happened to get up to go and get a drink.
• 1:42:29
  No, I can't. Maybe.
• 1:42:30
  Yeah. And then turned around as they
• 1:42:32
  said, it was like, oh, yeah. Yeah.
• 1:42:36
  And that's why three of us, You know, as I say, I love the
• 1:42:39
  little guys, love goblins, love dwarves.
• 1:42:40
  This is going to be even more little guys that I love.
• 1:42:43
  They are. Yeah.
• 1:42:47
  The three of them featuring my top 10 so excited about getting
• 1:42:51
  these guys and to see what else we get in this scale as well and
• 1:42:55
  as rich as perhaps we'll we'll get a few cosmics in this scale
• 1:42:59
  as well. That'd be cool.
• 1:43:00
  That'd be really. Cool, and yours was rich.
• 1:43:06
  Both. Both.
• 1:43:08
  However you want to pronounce it.
• 1:43:10
  A really good surprise, but I yeah, I didn't think for a
• 1:43:13
  second they drop a figure obscurity without announcing it
• 1:43:17
  at all. So to them to drop it and get it
• 1:43:19
  in hand straight away with yeah, we'd be very happy.
• 1:43:23
  Yeah, I was thinking about this today and I'm still surprised
• 1:43:27
  that they actually like put it up for sale at legions gone just
• 1:43:33
  like that. I still wonder if they planned
• 1:43:35
  that or if they just decided Oh well it's arrived and we don't
• 1:43:40
  have a pre-order or we don't have a window to put them up for
• 1:43:42
  sale. Yeah and you know, on the
• 1:43:43
  schedule. So why not just get him out to
• 1:43:47
  fans here? Whatever the reason, thank you
• 1:43:50
  Osman. Cool.
• 1:43:54
  And right then we're going into the fit.
• 1:43:57
  Well, the favourite overall reveal.
• 1:43:59
  It's it's the same as your number one, Yeah.
• 1:44:02
  For me it is, yeah. Yeah.
• 1:44:04
  Yes. OK, we don't need to do that.
• 1:44:07
  OK. Then we go on to sculpt third
• 1:44:13
  party sculpts. We're in the third parties get
• 1:44:15
  section. So my first one here, we've done
• 1:44:18
  3 of each for these is Mark Calvin MO MO Way.
• 1:44:23
  This the king? What's his name?
• 1:44:25
  The king. Do we know it's the king?
• 1:44:28
  He did for Sir Valgarth? Yeah.
• 1:44:31
  With the crown. The one he sold like a truckload
• 1:44:34
  of. Yeah.
• 1:44:35
  Yeah. Because yeah, he seemed to do a
• 1:44:38
  pre-order for legions, kind of painted ones and then after
• 1:44:42
  legions gone he was still painting them for people.
• 1:44:44
  So. We can assure people he's been
• 1:44:46
  working very hard on the. Yeah, we've still in progress
• 1:44:50
  pictures. He's working his backside.
• 1:44:51
  And they look amazing as well. I don't think people will be at
• 1:44:54
  all disappointed. Yeah.
• 1:44:55
  Oh, no, yeah. Yeah.
• 1:44:56
  Well, you see it here. Oh, yeah.
• 1:44:58
  Pick here. This is from Mark's website.
• 1:45:02
  So that's my first one of the third party.
• 1:45:05
  So, Mel, who've you got for the first one?
• 1:45:08
  So we we, we do have a sculptor we all seem to be very fond of
• 1:45:14
  and that is my way. And this wolf with plats.
• 1:45:20
  I still don't own it, but I intend to own it one day because
• 1:45:24
  it's been up. This is this category has been
• 1:45:27
  quite tough for me because I've tried to resist unpainted parts
• 1:45:31
  this year, so I've not really paid as much attention to them.
• 1:45:35
  But there's been a few I've spotted and kept in mind, and
• 1:45:38
  this one, from the minute it was shown off, I was like that, that
• 1:45:41
  that will be mine. I I have one of these that I got
• 1:45:46
  from GUI on that's legions call. So the braids are vibrated.
• 1:45:51
  Yeah. It's such a fun sculpt.
• 1:45:53
  That's cool, very cool. I've used the word fun a lot on
• 1:45:56
  tonight's show, but it is it's a war and he looks like he'd RIP
• 1:46:00
  you apart. This is one of our favourite
• 1:46:01
  hobbies and should be fun, yeah. For sure.
• 1:46:04
  Now, John says he's one of our favourite hobbies.
• 1:46:06
  Yeah, He restricted me to three in each of these categories I'd
• 1:46:08
  like to put in because we're going for.
• 1:46:11
  Nearly two hours. Yeah, exciting. 6 hour.
• 1:46:15
  Everything we talk about on the podcast, you know, and yeah, my
• 1:46:20
  wife asked me like just out of interest because obviously it's
• 1:46:22
  late at night here. So just like it's not like she
• 1:46:25
  needs me to do anything after the podcast, but how long?
• 1:46:29
  How long are you going to be tonight?
• 1:46:31
  You know, because sometimes, you know, can be shorter than
• 1:46:33
  others. And I was like, ah, top maybe 90
• 1:46:35
  minutes should be fine. Blown past that one.
• 1:46:40
  Shows how enthusiastic. We are we like to talk about
• 1:46:43
  this stuff. Riches first, number three.
• 1:46:48
  So mine is by Blackbeard Tat. Blackbeard Tach used to be Black
• 1:46:53
  Ford Studios. That kind of the guy's real
• 1:46:56
  name, I'm afraid. It's a horse knight.
• 1:46:59
  You know, I love my anthropomorphic stuff.
• 1:47:01
  This is a mean looking horse, you know, He's baring his teeth.
• 1:47:05
  He's angry, but with a Knight's helmet.
• 1:47:08
  And then the big plume on the back as well.
• 1:47:11
  Mark Calvary did some great ones painted up to go with Sir Jack,
• 1:47:15
  so I'm going to ask him to do one of those for me in the new
• 1:47:17
  year. Well, I actually have some money
• 1:47:19
  again. But sculpt.
• 1:47:21
  I love it. I love it, I love it.
• 1:47:23
  Yeah, this is a great Yeah, I probably missed picking this
• 1:47:28
  sculpt up at some point and at Legions can, but yeah.
• 1:47:32
  It's just so cool. It's just so different.
• 1:47:35
  It's like you could do it at a 1.0 scale, you can do it at ogre
• 1:47:37
  scale, you know, and you have a horse night riding a horse if
• 1:47:41
  you want to be really weird. So what?
• 1:47:44
  What scale are you getting? I'm going over.
• 1:47:46
  So I'm going to use it on a sort of Jack, yeah, he's going to
• 1:47:49
  have a, he's going to have a companion night, which is a 1.0.
• 1:47:52
  So the two that will be a little, little crew.
• 1:47:56
  Excellent. Right.
• 1:47:58
  My second one here is from Carlo Lucky Mortal Collections.
• 1:48:03
  So it's the little got dragon dude that he gifted me.
• 1:48:05
  It's incredible. So yeah, you know, I don't know
• 1:48:10
  if this is ever available for sale or, or what his plans are
• 1:48:13
  for, but this is insane. And I'm almost like wondering,
• 1:48:19
  should I even paint it? Because it's like, I don't want
• 1:48:21
  to mess it up, you know? But yeah, really cool, Carlo.
• 1:48:27
  Incredible right now. My my next one is Brian C the
• 1:48:35
  Crab Hunter I. Forgot to get one of the
• 1:48:38
  allegiance con. I was getting my own backslide
• 1:48:40
  when I got home. Was like, oh come on.
• 1:48:42
  This was one of the ones I was actually going to pick up and
• 1:48:45
  then completely forgot to. Went to his stall and was having
• 1:48:49
  a look. I bought stuff for Brian and
• 1:48:50
  still forgot to get this one. It's just like, God damn it.
• 1:48:53
  But I love this guy. He's got, I think, I think it
• 1:48:55
  feels like very sort of Star Wars vibes to me, but he could
• 1:48:59
  fit in anything. Again, he's, you know, cosmic or
• 1:49:02
  mythic, couldn't he really? But I was going to make him
• 1:49:05
  cosmic and as I say, Star Wars vibes and be I love it.
• 1:49:08
  I think it's a it's another fun sculpt, isn't it?
• 1:49:11
  It's a bit. Such a, such an effective
• 1:49:13
  sculpt. It's, it's, it's not complicated
• 1:49:17
  in that, you know, there's, there isn't tonnes of detail in
• 1:49:20
  it, but you get the crab head, yeah, you get the scarf and you
• 1:49:23
  get the goggles, tells you everything.
• 1:49:25
  And then the story is, well, that he gives you, because that
• 1:49:27
  isn't actually his head. That's something he's killed and
• 1:49:30
  stuck on his head as a helmet. It's like, it's so cool, so
• 1:49:35
  cool. Which means he's a typical
• 1:49:37
  Brian. It's a typical Brian sculpt.
• 1:49:39
  Yes he does quirky and fun and just makes him look really
• 1:49:44
  really good. Talking about quirky, scary,
• 1:49:52
  freaky. Yes, so this is an old skull
• 1:49:55
  Customs 00 sculpt. He's burst on the scene, I think
• 1:49:59
  this year pretty much. I think when I bought one of
• 1:50:03
  these, I painted one of these of Corey Jonathan, you might have
• 1:50:05
  done as well. And he referred to it as a mimic
• 1:50:09
  knight. So I think that's probably a
• 1:50:10
  good name for it. It's a knight helmet, but with a
• 1:50:13
  huge tongue coming out and curling out and then just the
• 1:50:16
  massive, massive, gnarly teeth. It's just, it's a really good
• 1:50:22
  Scott. You know, you could do anything
• 1:50:23
  with it. It could be a demon or it could
• 1:50:25
  be a corrupted knight. There's all sorts of different
• 1:50:29
  things you can do with it. Again, it's relatively
• 1:50:32
  straightforward. They're not trying to do too
• 1:50:34
  much with it, but it it's very, very effective.
• 1:50:38
  Yeah, it's really cool and very freaky and scary, but I love it.
• 1:50:45
  OK, My last one here in this section is Richard Jones and Jen
• 1:50:52
  Loco. Did you realise I might have
• 1:50:54
  gone for this one if I'd completely didn't think about
• 1:50:58
  it's? I didn't pick any of my own
• 1:50:59
  ideas because I thought now that's a bit too vain even for
• 1:51:01
  me. Yeah, but then I could do it,
• 1:51:03
  you know, because as I said, you know this, we sold these under
• 1:51:09
  your religions. But Rich was responsible for the
• 1:51:12
  ideas and the design and guiding Gianluca through the sculpt did
• 1:51:19
  an amazing job. We saw how popular this guy was.
• 1:51:24
  He's he's just great. And even if you don't have this
• 1:51:27
  type of dog, I think he's just a super cool character, you know,
• 1:51:31
  And when in scale comes along, keep one of them, you know, grab
• 1:51:34
  and grab one when we sell them next year.
• 1:51:37
  Just keep one of them in in your pants box and when you get the
• 1:51:40
  in scale. That's my perfect.
• 1:51:43
  I love the, you know, that toot my own horn too much, but I love
• 1:51:46
  the, you know, the sort of character with, you know, it's
• 1:51:48
  it's a dashing they're little dogs.
• 1:51:50
  Yeah, but then he's his badass witch hunter.
• 1:51:53
  You know that on and that sort of stuff.
• 1:51:56
  That's, that's literally what separates all the scopes you've
• 1:52:00
  done these dogs from other dog scopes I've seen is that you've
• 1:52:04
  added the character into them. They have helmets, they have a
• 1:52:06
  story. The Saint Bernard has the little
• 1:52:09
  barrel with the with the booze. You know, the the eye patch on
• 1:52:17
  the chow chow. You got the yeah, helmet on the
• 1:52:22
  was the Basset Hound. Yeah, and.
• 1:52:25
  The first two for next year that we've already got done, in my
• 1:52:28
  head, I've got the same sort of feel to them as well sort of
• 1:52:31
  thing. It's not just a dog, it's cool
• 1:52:33
  stuff around it. Very cool Mel, what's your last
• 1:52:39
  one of the sculpt? My last one and I will own one
• 1:52:42
  of these one day and to be honest it's Brian sees custom
• 1:52:47
  using this that makes me want this.
• 1:52:51
  Oh, the 1 richest. One I've got.
• 1:52:53
  Oh, is it? Did you buy it?
• 1:52:54
  In my head was you bought it. But yeah, that it's that that
• 1:52:57
  makes me want this. And I want to basically copy his
• 1:53:02
  his design. I think it's such a again, fun,
• 1:53:05
  fun is what I keep saying. And this is another fun sculpt.
• 1:53:10
  OK, it's a body and a head, but it I think that's it works,
• 1:53:13
  doesn't it needs it feels right for this, for this design.
• 1:53:17
  Somebody, and I can't remember who it was I'm afraid, had used
• 1:53:19
  this and paint it up to match Koi and that worked really well
• 1:53:23
  as well as head torso combo for Koi.
• 1:53:26
  It does. Yeah.
• 1:53:30
  He's awesome. Let's say fun.
• 1:53:32
  Loads of character. Great, great work by Jason.
• 1:53:37
  And riches is another Jason. It is, it's not what I own and
• 1:53:41
  I'm not 100% certain I will buy it, but the sculpt itself is
• 1:53:46
  incredible. So it's an all wearing a, a
• 1:53:49
  dragon skull helmet basically. And the dragon skull's got like
• 1:53:55
  a massive horn front and then side horns.
• 1:53:59
  But if you I'm in picture on the right, there is a sort of side
• 1:54:01
  view. It gives you a better idea from
• 1:54:03
  it. You can see the orcs angry, he's
• 1:54:05
  shouting. But then there's a huge dragon
• 1:54:07
  teeth coming up. There's a dragon eyes and you
• 1:54:10
  know, eye holes and everything in there.
• 1:54:12
  It's it's a really, really good example of a character wearing
• 1:54:17
  the skull of another creature as armour.
• 1:54:20
  And I love that sort of look. So yeah, this is the best one
• 1:54:24
  I've seen this year. Excellent.
• 1:54:26
  I'd say I may. I may never own it because it's
• 1:54:29
  orcs and I do limit my orcs, but the sculpt itself is amazing.
• 1:54:36
  I haven't seen this one painted of you.
• 1:54:39
  I'm not sure I have, actually. No, that's a very good point.
• 1:54:41
  I don't have. Well, if anyone out there knows
• 1:54:45
  of a painted version of this, be interested to see it.
• 1:54:49
  OK, we're on to top three customs.
• 1:54:54
  And this is a very subjective category.
• 1:54:56
  It's, well, it's top favourite customs, let's be honest.
• 1:54:59
  Again, it's and the category there's loads of good customs
• 1:55:02
  people have. And there isn't even a
• 1:55:04
  definitive list. We're going to miss some, you
• 1:55:07
  know. Yeah, and sadly Facebook is is
• 1:55:10
  rubbish for the fact that you might not even have seen
• 1:55:13
  somebody's custom. And if you'll see it then six
• 1:55:16
  months later and be like flipping awesome.
• 1:55:21
  Well, what? I bought 5 at Legion's Con and
• 1:55:24
  none of them are in this because I've already shown them off on
• 1:55:26
  the show. But they could easily have been
• 1:55:29
  here. John, the one I got, you could
• 1:55:30
  easily be in this. The catfish from Ryan See could
• 1:55:33
  easily have been in this. Yeah.
• 1:55:35
  Yeah, they had. I kind of did a similar thing
• 1:55:37
  with that. I only got the one from Noah,
• 1:55:39
  but it could easily have been my top three.
• 1:55:41
  But then I was kind of like, actually I want to keep my
• 1:55:43
  collection separate to what I've seen in the community and that
• 1:55:46
  sort of thing. So yeah.
• 1:55:48
  Yeah, and even, you know, with the bunch you sent me and the
• 1:55:51
  ones that I, you know, had been aware of myself, I still went to
• 1:55:55
  some of my other favourite customizers Instagram page to
• 1:55:58
  see. Well, they have a certain they
• 1:56:00
  did that I've missed this year just to be sure.
• 1:56:03
  And they could have, but they hadn't posted.
• 1:56:06
  They may may not have posted it or you know, just posted in
• 1:56:09
  story or something like that and then missed it.
• 1:56:12
  Anyway, top three my first one, Brian C this mad looking flocked
• 1:56:22
  and so this this is almost more warhammer slash.
• 1:56:27
  I don't know fallout. I don't know kind of to me, but
• 1:56:32
  there is a cosmic legions head. There is some cosmic legions
• 1:56:35
  limbs in there and I guess the arms as well are cosmic legions.
• 1:56:40
  So it definitely meets the criteria for allegiance custom.
• 1:56:45
  It's it's insane, you know, weathered kind of sea dude.
• 1:56:51
  Yeah, like the feet are what they're like kind of, I don't
• 1:56:55
  know if they're like kind of submarine doors or something
• 1:57:00
  new. Yeah, they're be displayed like
• 1:57:02
  like a pressurised portal or something, aren't they Brian?
• 1:57:05
  A tough to say but I do wonder if they aren't actually
• 1:57:09
  Warhammer 40K parts that is used possibly the kit would
• 1:57:13
  potentially be big enough so. Yeah.
• 1:57:17
  This is the sort of customer that's so cool that you could
• 1:57:19
  ask whatever he wanted to Allegiance got.
• 1:57:20
  Yeah, whether he got that or not, if someone did buy it, it's
• 1:57:24
  it's worth every penny because there's so much involved.
• 1:57:28
  Yeah, absolutely. But and on the other hand, it
• 1:57:31
  might be super sturdy and and not but it could also be super
• 1:57:37
  fragile. It's very hard to know from
• 1:57:38
  picture. That's the problem.
• 1:57:39
  Once you start the more and more custom bits you put on
• 1:57:41
  something, then it does add that fragility to it.
• 1:57:44
  Yeah, for sure. Right now what you got?
• 1:57:49
  I'm going to seem like I'm kissing some but, but it is the
• 1:57:55
  idol that Jeremy? Gerard asked.
• 1:57:59
  US. Created literally right before
• 1:58:04
  legions con for any 80s a swig had painted white and then a
• 1:58:12
  variety of parts. There's I think the the dwarf
• 1:58:17
  parts that came with Garvey garwitch.
• 1:58:23
  It wasn't Yeah, yeah, no, it wasn't.
• 1:58:26
  It was the other one. It was the other one in Gaspar.
• 1:58:28
  Gaspar Epoxys upper torso and then some repainted boxes or red
• 1:58:35
  death limbs and then I think something from another figure
• 1:58:39
  line. But this I I said it on his
• 1:58:42
  post. This is one of those customs and
• 1:58:47
  with Jerry making it, it might happen.
• 1:58:50
  No Judge wink wink Jeremy that I want to see this as an official
• 1:58:55
  figure. Maybe not the story that he gave
• 1:58:58
  to it because it was an addict. It was for the swig 1000 swings,
• 1:59:02
  and he'd added it to the crossroad.
• 1:59:04
  So perhaps doesn't fit with mythics in general, but just
• 1:59:08
  this build, this paint at this. I want this as a figure.
• 1:59:11
  How do I really want this as an official figure?
• 1:59:15
  Yeah, yeah, Jeremy posted a lot of cool customs in the run up to
• 1:59:20
  meet the Solutions condom and some of them were definitely
• 1:59:24
  very close to making my best as well.
• 1:59:28
  Yeah, there was a kind of, I think an ogre scale one that was
• 1:59:32
  very cool. Was it over scale?
• 1:59:34
  I think that was based on the Baradec build.
• 1:59:36
  There was a button. Yeah, Yeah, there was.
• 1:59:38
  I think ended up getting that nothing, didn't he?
• 1:59:40
  Yeah, superb. Right, Rich, your first one
• 1:59:47
  here. Mark Calva I went to legions
• 1:59:52
  comp think I'm not going to buy any.
• 1:59:53
  I didn't buy this one by the way, but I went to see nothing.
• 1:59:55
  I'm not going to buy any cosmic full customs.
• 1:59:57
  I came back with three of the five that I bought were cosmic
• 2:00:00
  ones. I couldn't think how to use this
• 2:00:02
  some stuff otherwise I might have gone for this as well, but
• 2:00:05
  this is amazing. So it's a cosmic custom.
• 2:00:08
  It uses the IS so to be to bitter city parts.
• 2:00:14
  Thank you. Yes, painted like an orange or
• 2:00:16
  yellow with undead zombie head on it.
• 2:00:21
  There's got like a glowing chest piece as well and then two
• 2:00:24
  cannons coming out of the shoulders.
• 2:00:28
  And it's, it's terrifying, quite frankly.
• 2:00:30
  It's that's something you do not want to meet in space.
• 2:00:32
  It's one of his. He sort of did a collection of
• 2:00:35
  Doom theme. Yeah, one of the enemies in
• 2:00:39
  Doom. I don't know exactly what it's
• 2:00:41
  called, but yeah. Yeah, and I think those those
• 2:00:44
  intestines are green stuff like he.
• 2:00:46
  Oh wow, he did a really good job.
• 2:00:48
  And practical sculpting there. I remember him posting a behind
• 2:00:52
  the scenes pic. I'm pretty sure anyway.
• 2:00:56
  Yeah, but really creepy. Really.
• 2:00:58
  Yeah. Gory, but an amazing figure.
• 2:01:02
  So much working. Or, you know, with the paint
• 2:01:04
  blending and everything. It's it's a corking figure.
• 2:01:08
  Right. My second one is from Noah
• 2:01:11
  Pratt. It's the green Minotaur and on a
• 2:01:16
  cosmic build, that kind of Novian lean torso and he's put
• 2:01:21
  the Minotaur head in a hood. He has horns coming out the
• 2:01:25
  hood, super cool look. And it's he's painted it kind of
• 2:01:29
  green so to give a more alien E type vibe to the monitor head.
• 2:01:35
  And yeah, just just a super cool custom does a bunch of Noah's
• 2:01:40
  that could have picked, but I settled on this one.
• 2:01:42
  I think this is my to my taste. Oh.
• 2:01:46
  So I went over to him, as I say, and I was literally like, right,
• 2:01:49
  I love all of them. So if and because I've already
• 2:01:53
  got one, if anyone's sort of get hit you up one things that then
• 2:01:57
  point me away from that one and which one of and that's what I
• 2:02:01
  ended up with. But every single all, everything
• 2:02:05
  he did, I would have happily walked away with all of them,
• 2:02:07
  you know? I'm going to have to message
• 2:02:09
  Noah now. I want to know how he takes the
• 2:02:11
  hood off with horns coming through.
• 2:02:14
  How does that minus or get the hood off?
• 2:02:18
  It's magic. Well, the hood is not hard
• 2:02:20
  plastic for a start, I suppose in in.
• 2:02:23
  Reality. I'm in real life.
• 2:02:25
  Yeah. In real life, yeah.
• 2:02:26
  Yeah. So, you know, was there a zip
• 2:02:28
  hidden in the back? He just undoes it and just pops
• 2:02:30
  it off. It's like I need to know.
• 2:02:32
  You're being a pedant, Rich. He's a magic user, so he just
• 2:02:37
  does that. Yeah, it just vanishes off his
• 2:02:40
  head, all right. What's your next one, Mel?
• 2:02:45
  Right. So I had to dig deep for and
• 2:02:48
  actually, I must admit I'd forgotten about this one.
• 2:02:51
  And then when I saw it, I was like, Oh yes, I loved that.
• 2:02:55
  And it was Kevin McGinn did his DND character and sort of made a
• 2:03:01
  comment about, you know, this is one of his his customs that's
• 2:03:04
  constantly changing and being modified as new parts come
• 2:03:09
  along. And I can completely appreciate
• 2:03:11
  that. And I just love, I just love it.
• 2:03:15
  I was sat there trying to work out what bits are what.
• 2:03:18
  And I think you know most of it. I think is is mythics, apart
• 2:03:24
  from perhaps an overlay around the shoulders.
• 2:03:27
  That I don't meant to be describe it for the people that
• 2:03:29
  are listening now. Is it meant to be like grey or?
• 2:03:31
  It's, he doesn't specify what it is, but I think it's meant to be
• 2:03:36
  an orc or at least 1/2 orc. And he's grey.
• 2:03:40
  He's wearing my favourite, one of my favourite sort of
• 2:03:43
  combination of pieces with the trousers, the cloth sort of
• 2:03:47
  trousers and the, the riding boots we've got.
• 2:03:50
  And he's then got leather gloves and the waist piece that I've
• 2:03:56
  said about loving in this episode with I think, I'm not
• 2:04:03
  sure whose cloth skirt that is, but I think it's an existing
• 2:04:07
  one, dyed. Maybe he's had someone make it
• 2:04:11
  for him. But then it's got the Ma Marley
• 2:04:19
  torso repainted the I think so, yeah, it looks like it, doesn't
• 2:04:25
  it? And then it's probably the
• 2:04:28
  Marley arms, but they've got a line on them.
• 2:04:30
  So it could be, it could be Novian lean or someone else's
• 2:04:34
  arms. And then as I say, this overlay
• 2:04:37
  piece that I'm not sure where that comes from, but it just
• 2:04:41
  finishes it off and makes it look like he's wearing a trench
• 2:04:44
  coat. That is, that is awesome.
• 2:04:47
  And then he's he's tooled up with several swords and knives.
• 2:04:51
  He's he's really good, really, really like it.
• 2:04:54
  Yeah, it's great. Yeah, it's great.
• 2:04:57
  Right Rich, your next normal channel is good.
• 2:05:00
  Yeah, so this one is an Ogre scale 2 headed monstrosity with
• 2:05:10
  two big cat heads on. It's half green, half purple, so
• 2:05:16
  too bad Inspired, but obviously different, slightly different
• 2:05:19
  colours, but green and purple. My favourite colours.
• 2:05:21
  So that screams out already the boots.
• 2:05:24
  So you got a green with bear in mind, their ogre boots sets of
• 2:05:27
  paint. All this.
• 2:05:28
  This is by Jared Tanner, sorry, who's put in some really, really
• 2:05:31
  good customs act over the last few months.
• 2:05:36
  Purple metallic boots, green metallic boot.
• 2:05:41
  The sort of divide in the colours is so smooth and crisp
• 2:05:46
  and those two big cat heads look, look really, really,
• 2:05:50
  really good with it. Yeah, it's I love it.
• 2:05:54
  It's from earlier in the year. I say Jared's bought a lot more
• 2:05:58
  stuff out more recently, but yeah, this is absolutely
• 2:06:01
  incredible. If this was Allegiance Con, I'd
• 2:06:04
  be thrown old ladies out the way to get to it.
• 2:06:08
  There you go, Jared, if you want to see some old ladies, go
• 2:06:11
  flying. All right, My last custom here
• 2:06:17
  is the Doomslayer from Mark Calvo Dwarf.
• 2:06:26
  Yeah. It's just incredible.
• 2:06:29
  It's got the this cosmic style helmet, kind of fiery look in
• 2:06:34
  the face mask. It's got green armour.
• 2:06:37
  What could be better than that? Yeah, it's, it's great.
• 2:06:42
  The buckle piece too, with the sort of red and the sort of lint
• 2:06:46
  orange on it like it's catching the light, is really well done.
• 2:06:49
  Yeah, it sure is. Yeah.
• 2:06:52
  Again, one of these Doom ones made to look like the Dooms
• 2:06:56
  player. It's so, so good, yeah.
• 2:06:58
  Yeah, absolutely. OK.
• 2:07:02
  Matt, your last one. My number one is from one of our
• 2:07:07
  buddies as well, and it is David Williams is Cosmic Templar.
• 2:07:13
  It is. It has a repainted, but it's not
• 2:07:18
  Magnus. It'll be from the from the last
• 2:07:21
  year's Cosmic Legions concept. Repainted the blonde version of
• 2:07:29
  Magnus. The body is then the repainted,
• 2:07:34
  or at least it looks like it's probably repainted some of it at
• 2:07:39
  least version of again that character.
• 2:07:44
  I can't remember what it's called, but the cosmic, you
• 2:07:48
  know, we've got the character creator set and it's the it's
• 2:07:52
  the bounty hunter from those two and then with the with the
• 2:07:57
  Frankenstein coat again repainted and it just comes
• 2:08:01
  together brilliantly with some little dog tags from something,
• 2:08:06
  maybe a Joe character, GI Joe character not.
• 2:08:09
  Seeing this, love this. Yeah, really.
• 2:08:12
  Yeah, well, I I haven't seen this I.
• 2:08:14
  Really are when he posted this has been stuck in my mind for
• 2:08:18
  some. Well, I to be honest, I took a
• 2:08:20
  screenshot of it because it actually, I've got a cosmic
• 2:08:23
  Templar I'm in the middle of making and it really made me
• 2:08:26
  rethink how I was going to do that.
• 2:08:29
  But I decided I'd do that one and I may go back and do this
• 2:08:33
  one as well if because I'm sure David won't mind.
• 2:08:37
  I won't be as good as his anyway, but it'll be it's such a
• 2:08:40
  it's such a cool, cool looking character, really cool.
• 2:08:45
  I think you could even make it at it.
• 2:08:49
  Rich, we have Stewart's inquiry here.
• 2:08:52
  It's it's on David's Instagram from 31st of December 2020. 4 Oh
• 2:09:00
  wow OK I could have seen we. Can include it punishment round
• 2:09:05
  of drinks to be. Fair.
• 2:09:09
  It's after our previous year's awards show, so.
• 2:09:16
  Oh wow, OK, double checked that shouldn't.
• 2:09:20
  I have only messed with you. Come on, I'm going to.
• 2:09:23
  Mess with you as well, but you do have around drinks.
• 2:09:29
  But yeah, so that was that. Excellent.
• 2:09:31
  Yeah, this is really great. It's really good.
• 2:09:34
  I mean there's no place in cosmetium because it's human
• 2:09:36
  free zone but. Well, as I say, I think thank
• 2:09:39
  you, he's gone off him and I think you could say he could fit
• 2:09:42
  in mythics as well. Really.
• 2:09:44
  I know he's got the the body armour and the more technical
• 2:09:47
  looking Bell but I think it pass.
• 2:09:52
  Another Templar here. It is this is my #1 so this is
• 2:09:55
  rich Kaist burst back onto the scene.
• 2:09:57
  Legions con. I was chatting to him for a
• 2:10:00
  little bit. I love Richie stuff.
• 2:10:01
  You guys know I've got loads of his his customs.
• 2:10:03
  He does some amazing. Skeletal and dead stuff.
• 2:10:07
  He had he had the figure at Legions con, but not the horse,
• 2:10:09
  interestingly. So this is an undead Templar SAT
• 2:10:13
  astride an undead temple horse. So it's obviously economist
• 2:10:16
  horse, but they there's like really weathered and torn and
• 2:10:19
  battered sort of horse apparel. The Templar itself, there's just
• 2:10:26
  bones and torsos everywhere. There's broken helmets.
• 2:10:30
  He's holding a flag, a temple of flag that's got holes in all
• 2:10:33
  over the place. It's all dirtied up to hell.
• 2:10:36
  I tried to buy the figure from Rich at Legions Con, but he's
• 2:10:40
  like, I want to go back into it. I'm not selling stuff yet,
• 2:10:43
  That's fine. But yeah, it's incredible.
• 2:10:49
  Like absolutely incredible figure.
• 2:10:52
  And the fact that the horse works was so well with it as
• 2:10:54
  well. It's, you know, it's brilliant.
• 2:10:59
  Excellent. That's brave as well.
• 2:11:01
  What he's done with that is. Yeah.
• 2:11:03
  Whether Yeah, big time yeah. Absolutely right.
• 2:11:11
  We're down to our last category here and then we get on to
• 2:11:15
  shouting out the comments we got for our listeners top figures.
• 2:11:22
  So let's try and get this done. In the three hours.
• 2:11:28
  Oh, 2 1/2? Let's name for 2 1/2 bumper
• 2:11:31
  episode. Plenty to keep you going over
• 2:11:33
  Christmas, right? My #3 Toy photograph is from Toy
• 2:11:41
  Immersion and it's his Cosmic Legions and it looks like
• 2:11:46
  hilarious getting chased by the escape back and Oka is running
• 2:11:49
  in the background. My favourite thing about toy
• 2:11:53
  photography is when you conveys movement and this is like it
• 2:11:58
  doesn't just convey mood. It's like speed, it's like
• 2:12:00
  ultimate speed. And if you look at his profile,
• 2:12:05
  assuming it's a his on Instagram, it's just incredible
• 2:12:10
  photographs. I mean, I'm sure he does some
• 2:12:13
  editing afterwards, you know, to to clean it up.
• 2:12:15
  But everyone does that. But these are kind of cinematic
• 2:12:19
  in quality, a lot of them, and love to see cosmic legions get a
• 2:12:23
  bit of love like this. I remember if I've got a toy
• 2:12:26
  immersion warning, I would definitely look at some of this
• 2:12:28
  stuff, yeah. OK, Mal, you're.
• 2:12:33
  So I've got a caveat this with because I haven't done a very
• 2:12:38
  good job of keeping up with all the things.
• 2:12:40
  Most of these are our buddies, but they are excellent pictures
• 2:12:44
  and some of them take, you know, they take amazing photos and but
• 2:12:48
  yeah, there's stuff like toy immersion, all that out there.
• 2:12:50
  They were fantastic as well. And I do have them on Instagram
• 2:12:53
  anyway, so we start off with Corona for the nature strong.
• 2:13:01
  Seriously, another 20 is the name of the photograph and it's
• 2:13:06
  such a fun photo. It's the Paladin there, having
• 2:13:12
  clearly rolled a natural 20, which for anyone who doesn't
• 2:13:16
  entirely know to Dungeons and Dragons is a critical you're
• 2:13:19
  likely to pretty much destroy anything if you do a natural 20
• 2:13:24
  and it's got a zombie looking down at the dice going you what?
• 2:13:28
  Whilst another zombie lies dead on the floor in front of the
• 2:13:31
  dice. It's it's fun.
• 2:13:33
  Fun is what? Paladin is is in the background
• 2:13:37
  celebrating. I love the fact that Zombie
• 2:13:39
  realises his fate is sealed. There's like the.
• 2:13:45
  And how big is that dice? Yeah, it is.
• 2:13:49
  It actually. It must be a big dice.
• 2:13:51
  Wasn't it? Yeah.
• 2:13:53
  That's cool. Very cool, Yeah.
• 2:13:55
  Very. You probably had a challenge of
• 2:13:57
  your 7000 dice. Yeah.
• 2:13:58
  You have anyone that's huge? Yeah.
• 2:14:01
  Another thing I do like about photography is when there's
• 2:14:05
  humour in it. Yes, and this definitely has
• 2:14:08
  that. Yeah, right, Riches.
• 2:14:14
  So you'll see a theme in in mind.
• 2:14:16
  There's lots of skeletal bits in in my 3 which you'd expect this
• 2:14:21
  year. So this is by Ian Saunders and
• 2:14:24
  it's Maxillus on a boat. Basically he's in in the rough
• 2:14:28
  sea. He's on a boat with like a lamp
• 2:14:33
  hanging by the side of him, which is from a figure, one of
• 2:14:36
  the figures. Is it Father Christmas?
• 2:14:38
  No, the lamp came with Ghost of Christmas.
• 2:14:47
  Yeah, also comes with Father Christmas.
• 2:14:49
  Oh, does the lamb come with Father?
• 2:14:51
  Yeah. Oh, right.
• 2:14:51
  Sorry. Yeah.
• 2:14:52
  So he's on the boat. He's looking down into the sea
• 2:14:55
  sort of, you know, wistfully with candles there lighting him.
• 2:14:59
  I love the sort of atmospherics to this.
• 2:15:01
  It's, you know, it appears to be alone out at sea, potentially be
• 2:15:06
  a storm raging. And he's just, he's almost like
• 2:15:09
  he's brooding, you know, gathering his thoughts or he's
• 2:15:11
  looking down waiting for some undead thing to come out of the
• 2:15:14
  water that he's trying to raise up.
• 2:15:15
  Wasn't really like. It.
• 2:15:18
  Needs to be careful there with the candles and his robes
• 2:15:20
  though. This is true.
• 2:15:21
  Well, he's undead. He's going to catch fire.
• 2:15:23
  It's like where? Where?
• 2:15:24
  I mean there's plenty of water as well if he catches.
• 2:15:26
  Fire. This is true.
• 2:15:27
  It's true, actually. Yeah, you.
• 2:15:29
  Fly overboard. I'd like to see the five seconds
• 2:15:31
  later on this. Give me his arm over the edge of
• 2:15:34
  the boat. Oh.
• 2:15:35
  God, that was. Embarrassing.
• 2:15:39
  You know, this super creepy dude just suddenly looking like, OK,
• 2:15:50
  my second photograph here, Trevor Williams, a recent 1.
• 2:15:54
  So it's a battle scene with the Templars and skeletons again.
• 2:16:00
  Yeah, it's a battle scene. There's a lot going on.
• 2:16:04
  This was like a collaboration. Bunch of photographers did I
• 2:16:09
  think different elements of the same kind of a scene.
• 2:16:14
  And yeah, I picked Trevor's ones.
• 2:16:17
  Awesome. There was lots of awesome ones.
• 2:16:19
  And yeah. I see speared another skeleton
• 2:16:23
  in the background. He's doubled down.
• 2:16:29
  Well, I think she can love that spear against the wall and that
• 2:16:32
  will definitely do some damage. It'll.
• 2:16:34
  Mobilise him? Yeah, absolutely.
• 2:16:36
  Yeah, that's one of your favourites, The Skeleton Raider.
• 2:16:39
  I know of course, Skeleton Raider.
• 2:16:41
  Getting a good. I like Delfina as well, but come
• 2:16:44
  on. Yeah.
• 2:16:48
  All right now. So this one actually partly
• 2:16:54
  makes it in because I almost wanted to pick this figure as
• 2:16:59
  one of my favourite customs and it's from her buddy Thomas
• 2:17:03
  Ballet. And for anyone who doesn't know
• 2:17:07
  that head sculpt was painted by a certain John Caulfield and
• 2:17:13
  bought by Thomas last year's legions Con.
• 2:17:16
  The the photo it wasn't called this, but the caption was
• 2:17:22
  incoming transmission from the cosmic cabal. 80 hours until
• 2:17:25
  shuttle departure for Legions Con and it's using the genetic
• 2:17:32
  experiment. I forget what his name was
• 2:17:33
  called from. Me see something?
• 2:17:37
  Yeah, from last year's. CC 24 I think.
• 2:17:40
  Last year's game build a pack, whatever it's called with this
• 2:17:44
  snail head and it as he repainted the hands or were they
• 2:17:49
  that it was a real close match, I think anyway, wasn't it just
• 2:17:52
  coincidentally I think. He might repaint something a bit
• 2:17:55
  more green on there than the ones thing.
• 2:17:57
  Yeah, but yeah, he's so cool and it's and he's looking down at
• 2:18:01
  his arm and that's a car for customs.
• 2:18:08
  Little hollow piece. Yeah.
• 2:18:12
  So it's the Cabal 1 and I just I just.
• 2:18:15
  Yeah, and I think he's given him book as weapon, isn't it?
• 2:18:20
  Yeah, and it just. Yeah, just really cool.
• 2:18:22
  There's a couple of photos in this kind of series and either
• 2:18:28
  either one of them I was very tempted to pick, but I went with
• 2:18:31
  this one because very cool. Like I like the action of it.
• 2:18:38
  Back to skeletons here. Yeah, I'll say it's definitely a
• 2:18:40
  theme. So this is by Emerald Knight
• 2:18:42
  Photos. Who's John Mayer?
• 2:18:46
  This is a, I'm presuming A valiant knight trying to crawl
• 2:18:51
  through the smoke and the fog to get away.
• 2:18:54
  And it's just been jumped on by three skeletons and he's going
• 2:18:57
  to be devoured at any moment. But it's just that sort of, even
• 2:19:00
  though he's wearing a helmet, it's like a desperation feel to
• 2:19:02
  it that he's, you know, he's crawling.
• 2:19:04
  He's trying to get away from these things and these things
• 2:19:06
  just aren't letting him go. They they're on him.
• 2:19:09
  They've got him pinned down the smoke.
• 2:19:13
  You'll have smoke on a toy photography.
• 2:19:14
  Yeah, thing as well, Yeah. Just want to take you just tuck
• 2:19:18
  and buy one of those smoke pens and.
• 2:19:23
  Same. I'm not a toy photographer.
• 2:19:24
  Do. And do I need another thing that
• 2:19:27
  I do? No.
• 2:19:28
  But give me one of those. Yeah.
• 2:19:34
  This this picture, I can almost hear the night shouting help.
• 2:19:37
  It's got that feel to it. So I really like this.
• 2:19:41
  Right and my last slide for the night and last toy for
• 2:19:46
  photograph is Kevin boots. We used it on episode art at
• 2:19:51
  some point. It's Gideon answer of Jack.
• 2:19:56
  So OK, look Jack made my least favourite, but is in my
• 2:20:00
  favourite photographs. It's just, it's just the kind of
• 2:20:05
  moment before something happens, you know, in the.
• 2:20:09
  And it's an outdoor photo. The perspective is really good
• 2:20:13
  and it looks real. It looks like, you know, and,
• 2:20:17
  and the way it's cropped in and you see the kind of Gideon is
• 2:20:21
  turning to look Jack and saying something, you know, right.
• 2:20:23
  You go that way. I'll go this way.
• 2:20:26
  Here we go. There's going to be something
• 2:20:27
  going on. In in my head, you saying talk
• 2:20:30
  to Jack Berodak, the big guy at the back, black armour.
• 2:20:35
  He's the one you need to take out.
• 2:20:38
  Yeah, you're. As big as him, Deal with him.
• 2:20:40
  I know I have AI, know I have a big jousting spear, but you take
• 2:20:46
  out the. Guy's yours, yeah.
• 2:20:50
  All right, Matt, take it away. So Mr Boots absolutely smashing
• 2:20:55
  it. I also have Kevin in Boots
• 2:20:58
  Archer of the Northern Lands. More snow and there you go,
• 2:21:02
  Kevin. He did this one like literally a
• 2:21:04
  couple of weeks ago and as I was looking through was the first
• 2:21:08
  time I saw it and I was just like, wow, I love that shot.
• 2:21:13
  We've talked about, you know, some photos, how cinematic they
• 2:21:17
  can be, and this one to me is cinema.
• 2:21:22
  The way the light frames around the figure as well the kind of
• 2:21:25
  light from the sky. And then you look at that sky
• 2:21:28
  with the clouds and just how thick it is.
• 2:21:30
  It's, you know, it's all Yeah. And he's, he's so good at these
• 2:21:35
  outside shots, isn't he? And making and them making the
• 2:21:38
  landscape in scale with the character, or in this case,
• 2:21:43
  actually, it looks like this epic landscape, even though all
• 2:21:46
  we're seeing is up to up the hill.
• 2:21:48
  And. Yeah, I love this.
• 2:21:50
  Absolutely love this picture. All right, Rich, you can take us
• 2:21:56
  home the last award. The last.
• 2:21:58
  Award is toy immersion. So this is Aaron who's behind
• 2:22:03
  toy immersion. This one is creepy, creepy,
• 2:22:07
  creepy. So it's Sir Elijah with a
• 2:22:10
  dirtied cloak bending down over the earth, and then there's just
• 2:22:14
  skeleton just coming out of the earth but wearing like soft good
• 2:22:19
  sort of shirts and that sort of thing.
• 2:22:21
  So it's like, it's like, Can you imagine me, a peasant or
• 2:22:23
  something that's been murdered, but he's coming out and you're
• 2:22:26
  not quite sure what the interaction is.
• 2:22:28
  So that doubt of is he coming out to attack him or because his
• 2:22:31
  arms are down, is he not coming out to attack him?
• 2:22:33
  Are they having some sort of weird moment where they're like,
• 2:22:37
  am I going to kill you? Am I going to kill you?
• 2:22:38
  What's going on with like a starry night background and
• 2:22:41
  everything? It's beautifully framed.
• 2:22:43
  I really love this. Yeah, it's really nicely done.
• 2:22:47
  The way I imagine it is that he was kind of paying his respects
• 2:22:50
  and then this guy jumped. Yeah.
• 2:22:54
  All right, there we go. So Congrats to everybody, all
• 2:23:00
  the award winners, all the figures that won awards.
• 2:23:04
  I think another fantastic year all around.
• 2:23:06
  Isn't it in in reveals, in releases, in in the community as
• 2:23:11
  a whole and what people are doing as well?
• 2:23:15
  Right, and I'm sorry to all you lovely people that made
• 2:23:20
  comments, you've had to wait until 2 hours and 20 odd into
• 2:23:24
  podcasts to get your shout outs. But we're going to do it as it's
• 2:23:30
  the last main episode of the year.
• 2:23:33
  Let's make it a bumper 1, right? I'll read the first one.
• 2:23:39
  Do you want to? The text is quite big, rich, you
• 2:23:41
  can manage to read 1 off the screen.
• 2:23:43
  I can read that. Yeah, I'm not blind.
• 2:23:45
  OK, so I'll do the first one now the second one you did third go
• 2:23:49
  around until we get them. OK, uh Jade Rusu JRU toys.
• 2:23:54
  He's given us a nice top 3 here. Uh, look at legendary Barbarian
• 2:24:00
  and although so bit of variety there, pretty cool.
• 2:24:07
  A buddy Dylan Dylan Strickart in hand 1-2 and three one figure
• 2:24:14
  obscure Jersey Devil 2 the gorilla skull fair play he's.
• 2:24:19
  A good skull. Three, The Warrior Revenant.
• 2:24:23
  His top three reveals 1-2 and three one Garami 2
• 2:24:29
  Frankenstein's Monster, the retail version so the green
• 2:24:32
  version, and three graveyard zombies.
• 2:24:35
  Must admit they they nearly made it to my list as well.
• 2:24:38
  And honourable mentions the guerrilla sculling Legendary
• 2:24:44
  barbarian see good peace and and Mouse King.
• 2:24:47
  So some good good pictures. I don't want to be rude to our
• 2:24:50
  to our listeners and viewers, but come on.
• 2:24:52
  Seriously Led you had the Barian twice.
• 2:24:57
  Right. Best spreadsheet for you, Rich
• 2:25:01
  Jeremy. I mean, this was the the one
• 2:25:03
  person that emailed in and he, I think he emailed because it was
• 2:25:07
  a spreadsheet. Yeah.
• 2:25:09
  So, and he's this is Jeremy Govier's top five.
• 2:25:13
  He's very much done a mall low. So if we start from the bottom,
• 2:25:15
  I think 5. Just I think we have to take a
• 2:25:18
  moment to see what Jeremy's done here.
• 2:25:21
  He has he has provided a spreadsheet with a list that
• 2:25:27
  goes 515253. I love it, Jeremy.
• 2:25:31
  Thank you right there. So let's go bottom top.
• 2:25:38
  So 5.5 is Thoracis, 5.4 is Gideon version 25.3 is graveyard
• 2:25:43
  skeleton. Interesting. 5.2 is mouse KING5
• 2:25:47
  point more news or laria. Finally we get into proper list
• 2:25:50
  #5 is in Dead builder #4 is Scaphoid version two.
• 2:25:55
  Number three is Headhunter. That almost made my worst
• 2:25:58
  figure. I have to admit I don't like
• 2:25:59
  headhunter #2 is legendary barbarian and #1 is the nymph.
• 2:26:04
  Headhunter's awesome. I just took a moment to remember
• 2:26:08
  who it was. Naked again.
• 2:26:10
  For me it's like I'm not a prude, but I clearly am in terms
• 2:26:14
  of toys. You are, yeah, right.
• 2:26:17
  Queon Horn Dax, A bunch of Knights here.
• 2:26:23
  SDCC paladin #1 Sir Andrew number 2.
• 2:26:26
  Not a Templar man. Well, she's this one night.
• 2:26:30
  You don't like Revenant warrior #3 and the reveals bait here.
• 2:26:37
  Yeah, Sir. Benagar and Burris Berg's story.
• 2:26:42
  So. I mean, Dantic Bay, if it was
• 2:26:44
  last year, we but we'll, you know, let you off that.
• 2:26:47
  Yeah. And the other thing that GUI has
• 2:26:50
  recently learned is he might be the problem.
• 2:26:52
  So he's he's just getting over that at the moment.
• 2:26:58
  Moving on, Justin Anderson. Justin Anderson in hand 1 Sir
• 2:27:06
  Gideon version 2 particularly iconic on Bishop affair to Coy,
• 2:27:15
  I think yeah, a lot of us think that three say Enoch.
• 2:27:18
  Feels like another night fan here though, doesn't it?
• 2:27:20
  Reveals 1. Sir Benigar, 2 Ark and the
• 2:27:25
  Cruel. He's redeemed themselves. 3
• 2:27:30
  Garami and then he's added the note Bay and Thea needs a
• 2:27:34
  special mention. Whilst not revealed in 2025.
• 2:27:37
  There you go. Big beautiful bays.
• 2:27:40
  The stuff of dreams. The campaign was something more
• 2:27:43
  than just a funding campaign. It was an event and experience,
• 2:27:47
  part of toy collecting history. It sure was, yeah.
• 2:27:51
  And we definitely knocked a few podcasts out of it as well.
• 2:27:54
  We did. Rich so British collector Paul
• 2:28:00
  Hodgson so number one's koi #2 is to picky lie and #3 is
• 2:28:06
  legend. Your bearing.
• 2:28:07
  Come on, people. And then for the reveals #1 is
• 2:28:11
  bulwark #2's byla frost fur and #3 is halvard of froth far,
• 2:28:16
  which I thought one of you 2 would have actually in your
• 2:28:18
  list. Yeah, I was quite surprised he
• 2:28:19
  wasn't there. He he was sorry, close for me,
• 2:28:22
  but there's just there's so many cool figures.
• 2:28:25
  Yeah, you know, could have put like a a brilliant.
• 2:28:29
  I suppose they could have. I think you've had Smush down
• 2:28:32
  Thanos and Faden. He'd have been the one that
• 2:28:35
  would have gotten in to the top ten, right?
• 2:28:38
  Yeah. I think in hand I'll probably he
• 2:28:42
  might make an in hand list when we get him back to me again.
• 2:28:49
  Kirby Smith. Thunder Goblin.
• 2:28:53
  So that's Burris with the goblin head chins are and the frost
• 2:28:59
  monk is #3 Honourable mentions port of Mythos accessory pack.
• 2:29:04
  Iceman Accessory pack team here. He's going to say he's taking a
• 2:29:10
  Mick with it. I don't think so.
• 2:29:13
  Kirby would never. He's he's coupling.
• 2:29:20
  Likes little things. It's fair to say.
• 2:29:21
  Yeah, that Frostbunk head is a good head, though the
• 2:29:26
  Thistlethorn head goes really not on that figure.
• 2:29:30
  Yes I agree. Patrick Boyle in hand 1 Legacy
• 2:29:35
  scaphoid 2. Sir Andrew 3 Tupeculi reveals 1
• 2:29:41
  Arcan nice two RPG red paladin cleric.
• 2:29:45
  We gave that a bit of a mention and 3A bylaw frost for.
• 2:29:51
  Nice. Good, good selection there, I
• 2:29:53
  think. Back to Rich here on mute.
• 2:30:02
  That's the microphone. Give me all sorts of chip.
• 2:30:04
  It's not OK. So this is some good big friend
• 2:30:09
  of the show, Jordan Fraser, number one Mouse king #2 Zoc and
• 2:30:14
  #3 Ganesha. Good list, Sir, for the reveals
• 2:30:18
  #1 odeben #2 Boris and #3 Sir Benigar.
• 2:30:24
  An honourable mention to the worker Zombie.
• 2:30:29
  Very good. I have to.
• 2:30:30
  I didn't like the worker zombie. The zombies at all.
• 2:30:32
  They always been my least favourite.
• 2:30:36
  Right. And Anthony Osil, well, like,
• 2:30:41
  but you're glad you're not reading this.
• 2:30:43
  No, I'm surprised you think legendary taunt me.
• 2:30:45
  Legendary barbarian #1 uh, exclusive, uh, legions can
• 2:30:50
  scaphoid #2 Gideon, Heavens, brand #3 and then #1 Halvard for
• 2:30:57
  the reveals #2 mobile and #3 bulwark.
• 2:31:00
  So he was, he was getting by your side there at the end.
• 2:31:03
  No dwarfs in that, Yeah, it's like.
• 2:31:06
  What about I told you? I told you that the dwarf
• 2:31:11
  diehards Valgard wasn't the favourite.
• 2:31:15
  Yeah. Kevin Scott, he's given us in
• 2:31:22
  hand, so we've got #1 coy #2 Enoch and #3 Otho.
• 2:31:28
  I'm surprised you haven't seen more of those and surprised he
• 2:31:31
  didn't really featuring as either, did he?
• 2:31:32
  I don't think. Now my question is, is it Kevin
• 2:31:35
  Scott or is it Ron Pullman? So is this Ron Pullman posting
• 2:31:40
  under a different? Name I suppose a few picture
• 2:31:43
  with Kevin. You've met Ron Perlman.
• 2:31:45
  You have a picture, why not use it as your profile picture so
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  maybe Kevin can clarify. So Michael James Viera, so
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  number one in Handsome Greg John I.
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  Hope he's made it this far. Just forward to this big Greg.
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  Michael, you don't need to listen to my earlier comment. #2
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  is the the paladin cleric and #3 is the Mouse king.
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  Reveals #1 Commander of grain again.
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  I'm surprised neither of you had her in there #2 Gamir and #3,
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  Captain. Iron School.
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  Excellent. Very cool, right?
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  Maverick salvagen #1, Sir Enoch? Or John Bertoon, number 1011101.
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  Too late in the night, so #1 Sir Enoch #2 Erzak version two,
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  number three, coy solid list there and and then further
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  reveals Bulwark, Sir Vinegar and Arkan.
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  They're all great. It's just so many good figures.
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  It's hard told people up, hard to criticise people.
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  Here you know. Apart from the pattern to me
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  wants to pick people up for their spellings, but I'll just
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  message them separately. He didn't pick Mile up for his
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  spellings on a few of his slides, so.
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  There were one or two, they were in there.
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  Don't worry. It's like, Oh my last one.
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  There's a few of the, you know, there's a AA and O or something
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  where I missed it or yeah, the double.
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  Yeah, it's OK. It's all right, yeah.
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  One for Brian, C1 for in hand one Enoch, 2 Velox beer 3.
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  Coy and his reveals #1 bulwark #2 pilot and #3 Mobu.
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  Think what Bulwark has proven. Very popular, isn't he?
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  Well, if Brian didn't pick the big crab guy.
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  Yeah, there'd be something wrong there, yeah.
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  OK, next one. I got Tyler Stevens, so this is
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  number one in hand. Enoch #2 Ozok and #3 the
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  tuberculi and then the reveals #1 odeben #2, Captain Iron Skull
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  and #3 Gamma the Fenrick. Fenrick in so the full.
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  Name is pretty. Cool, he got the full name and
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  everything there. I love it.
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  Great list as well. Wow.
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  And Sig Henriquez. I was going sig wasn't legions
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  con this year? Yeah.
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  So, yeah, so. He's great fun, Sig.
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  It's a real shame he wasn't there.
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  And we met him at the airport. Didn't we come back at the
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  previous year? Couple years ago, yeah, Yeah.
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  One of the years Erzak so in hand.
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  Erzak cannabis Interpicular cannabis is a great pick as
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  well. We didn't shout him out.
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  Yeah, that's good point. It's just a pass us by.
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  Again shows how many good figures they were.
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  Sorry. And then reveals bait here.
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  So we let you have it sick because we like you.
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  But you know, as previously clarified, it's the 2024 reveal
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  bulwark and then Commander grain very good.
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  And that is it, we're done. As you say, bumper issue show
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  well. Now let's see how my computer
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  handles 40 minutes episode. Oh God, I thought was this
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  beating the dwarf form with Anthony?
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  He's going to be furious if it has.
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  How we've beaten that a few times I.
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  Think I was going to say, if it hasn't beaten his episode, you
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  go for another few minutes just to make sure we beat him.
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  I ran out. I ran out of drink about an hour
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  ago.