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66. Outpost Zaxxius Review · The Euro Legions Podcast

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  My wallet is sobbing. I can hear it.
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  I can hear it in the hall. Now it is breaking down crying.
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  It turns out that Attila the arrogant so and so he's got a
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  fake hammer. Oh.
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  A fake? Whoa.
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  As I say, Dick. So Route 66 was a very famous
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  road running across a vast swathe of America, an icon
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  replaced in time by a modern highway network.
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  Progress has no sentimentality, as we all know.
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  On episode 66 this week, we travel to a different transport
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  system, Outpost Saxius, which lies between the circles of
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  Kazmirium. We have the figures in hand and
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  we're going to go through them all and give it our verdict.
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  That sound good. Mal Cosmic lesions episode.
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  Yes, very good, very good to me. Uh, you know to to rip off Robo
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  any day you get to play is a good day.
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  I like it. And just to just to clarify for
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  the audience, myself and Mal have our all insurance in hand.
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  Uh, Rich made a mess of ordering them and didn't order and all
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  indirect so he doesn't have them in hand.
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  Screw you too. I'm not sure a mess is fair made
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  alternative. Arrange yeah yeah it was.
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  It was to know. You know it's funny that I was
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  listening back or not listening back, but I was looking back
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  through our episodes to see when we talked about this this drop,
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  you know because I remember talking about it and it was in
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  episode 3. So that's really early on
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  podcast early April last year and yeah, and it'd be
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  interesting to I think I remember Mal was uh pretty uh
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  happy with the specs and Callie and Shun they were.
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  He's definitely his top two. Umm, obviously Rich.
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  You don't have them, but you were.
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  You're a Manny face as kids, so uh.
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  Oh, yes. That was uh and and I can,
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  spoiler alert, confirm that he's pretty good, excellent, although
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  he has been out there. I mean people, you know, maybe
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  find it strange that this figure is dropping now when they've
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  seen it a lot out and about because it was in Power Con
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  early drop last year. It's a funny one though, isn't
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  it? Because even though I've had the
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  opportunity to pick him up, I just, I couldn't bring myself to
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  do it knowing I was already getting him.
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  So yeah. And now you're going to try and
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  find double somewhere. Probably.
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  Spoiler But yeah, but you know if you have him on pre-order you
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  don't want to be paying over the odds just to get him early.
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  I mean if you're at Power con or you know you can get it for the
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  retail price, sure. But anything more than that
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  considering it's pretty much just a different package.
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  This guy is not even an exclusive piece.
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  So you're not missing if. Yeah, if you have to wait till
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  now. And yeah, so any cracked.
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  You boys, Rich, you're being busy with with work, I hear.
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  Busy with work? Yeah, it's been frustratingly
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  busy. I was up in North Wales with my
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  mom at the weekend, which was lovely, but it's, you know, 5
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  hour drive each way, busy as hell when I'm up there.
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  I was working when I was up there, came back down Tuesday
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  evening and it just been flat out with work.
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  I finished working like half six over today.
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  He said, put some tea and everything like that.
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  It was just like 10 minutes to open one actually figured before
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  we podcast. So yeah, I've had an awful lot
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  of stuff arrive this week. Too much, judging by the look
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  I'm getting for my lovely lady wife whenever a parcel arrives.
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  But I just had a chance to open it.
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  But they've arrived and you're still alive, so that's a good
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  sign, isn't it? Yes, hopefully.
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  So what have you got in? You got obviously Savage
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  Crucible, which. All my Savage Crucible.
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  So that was 14 figures split across four boxes, so that made
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  it look even worse. Thanks for that.
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  So much Crucible although, although on the plus side I
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  didn't get any import duty because they marked them low
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  value. So kudos for that.
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  Then I had. Then I had AGI.
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  What's not my fault, I didn't ask them to.
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  Then I had AGI Joe classified figure arrive, so that's five
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  parcels. And then I had three for Mali
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  Express again was one order and they sent it in three separate
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  things. So it looks like I've been
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  ordering for the last 25 years rather than.
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  Just, you know, a. Little bit of stuff.
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  Well. Is it an evening?
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  Yeah, yeah. Well, once we get through the
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  leads and stuff, we might get a couple of your thoughts.
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  First impressions on Savage Crews, but you haven't had a
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  proper look, so maybe when you've had a proper look you can
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  really report back. But.
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  Yes, will do. Absolutely.
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  First you opened one or two of them I think already so.
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  So we can definitely get your first impressions.
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  And yeah, and Mal, you've you you had some some good news in
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  relation to the Mezco turtles. I did.
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  Not the cartoon ones, no the drums.
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  Not the original ones. They were quite cool, I've got
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  to say. There was also a lot of
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  criticism of them and I I thought they were quite cool.
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  But. But I just literally the same
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  day Emporium of Cool dropped me an e-mail to say they'd managed
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  to get me some of a set of the turtles.
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  Did I still want them? Which, of course, was like, yes,
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  I'll sell my body on the corner and then, you know, have even
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  more debt because I owe somebody some money.
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  But yeah, so I I jumped on that and they should be showing up
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  tomorrow. They actually turned.
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  Wow. With the.
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  Messy. And that'll be good again, so.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm really excited.
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  So just to in case people don't remember.
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  So you had pre-ordered them and then I had been told that they'd
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  been short stocked and. That's it, yeah, by the UK Mezco
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  distributor. Sounds like they'd gone put
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  their feelers out to parts of Europe and see if anyone had any
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  overstock that they could buy off them.
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  So fair play employment, all that customer service.
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  Exactly. The official legions supplier as
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  well in the UK. So they've managed to do your
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  solid. So it was genuine story.
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  It wasn't. I'm sure there was conspiracy
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  theories going, Oh yeah, they saw they were good on eBay, so
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  they're in proper places. Don't do that.
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  They just don't. Do it, Yeah.
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  I think a lot of places had been shorted and.
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  Yeah. And clearly, yeah, purely on you
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  know purely on mescal there and yet they drop these cartoon
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  turtles that are actually in stock which is the that's a
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  tough one to swallow if you've been short stocked on on well.
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  I think it makes. I think they've dropped them too
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  soon, really as well, because they're not cheap.
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  I don't know. There are and they might have
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  thought, Oh well, we'll get a few out for people who missed
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  out, but I think they fulfill different needs.
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  You know if I wouldn't have wanted them in in instead of the
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  ones I've got. They're a different thing
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  because of the colours and the animated look to me, so.
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  Well, they've sold them out. So I guess their business model
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  doesn't really matter, does it, to them?
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  Because they're not. They're not in the Four Horsemen
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  school of, you know, engaging with customers and, you know,
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  building a community. They're in the I like Money
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  Print me money School of Yeah, FOMO.
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  Is a strong thing and I think that's what sold a lot of them
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  based on the comments I was seeing.
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  Absolutely, absolutely. And yeah I Rich has not foam of
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  me but she he has influenced me into enabled me to get a neck
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  Alf from Aliexpress so that's on the way soon.
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  That's kind of the only other, uh, non legions related stuff
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  that I've dabbled in. Mine's in the hold in one of the
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  many boxes I've received this week.
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  Oh, very good, and I managed to do a trade in the European Group
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  for another Calabias. No.
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  She got and I picked up a Shadow Alf Ranger for Yuma.
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  Oh, awesome. Thank you.
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  Back and forth. I knew what you wanted, so just
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  have to see if I could get that done.
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  So I did. So your stuff, thank you.
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  No problem. And right.
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  Shall we start into then looking at the figgy wiggy wigs?
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  Figgy wigs. That reminds me of, I think it's
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  Blackadders Christmas Carol or something.
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  There's this song, Piggy Wiggy, Wiggy, Wiggy Woo.
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  John, just before we start this, and this is me, probably been
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  very unobservant, how long have you had that Euro legions
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  microphone cover? Oh, and not that long.
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  I actually have some for you as well that I'm sending over with
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  the pins. I was looking at it again that's
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  that's Euro legions and it's like it's probably every month.
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  I probably just missed every time.
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  It actually because I had the the camera on this kind of
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  slightly blurred mode. You couldn't read what was on it
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  until tonight. I decided this and yeah so I
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  have got ones for you guys see Brun the surprise now.
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  Sorry. I'm the kid that went looking
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  for Christmas presents. I'm sorry.
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  It's sponsored by our lovely Patreons, so you can thank them.
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  Thank you, Patreon. And you can go around legions
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  con with a microphone with the religions cover like a news
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  reporter. Sticking my muff in people's
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  faces. Oh man.
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  I didn't know you had one, right.
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  So we've we've gone through these before I guess and read
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  uh, we've definitely read about the Lawrence stuff and and we
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  can maybe recap it on that in the future when more cosmic
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  stuff starts to happen. So this we're just looking at
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  our impressions of the figures and in hand.
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  So I had a good, uh, I unboxed on mine and I basically instead
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  of taking photos from the wonderful 4 Horsemen website as
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  usual, I've actually taken some photos and done a few things so
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  we can talk around those. And obviously Mal has had a good
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  look at his, and I think you actually probably were on your
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  on to yours even beforehand and he's got them.
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  John, can I can I just, can I just say at this point the
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  photos absolutely do them justice.
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  It was like, obviously I'm I'm taking photos of my phone so you
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  know, nowhere near a photographer and uh, I use just
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  uh editing program to remove the the kitchen table in the
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  background of this one for example.
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  But umm uh, what I was trying to photograph in this was obviously
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  just the the figures and how they look, but also trying to
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  get the colors, how you would actually experience them, umm as
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  figures as opposed to, you know, beautiful kind of, uh, nicely
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  lit shots that uh umm, you know are great in toy photography.
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  Uh. So this should be what it looks
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  like on your shelf, give or take, you know?
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  Umm. So the colors on.
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  So the first one we have up is the UH Tusk Pilot and he is, uh
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  probably for me, Mal one of the best paint jobs, UH in a figure
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  I've seen just how coherent it is, how metallic the red is, how
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  beautifully smooth that metallic is, and then the red cloth
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  pieces kind of really accented really well and just it just
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  comes together to being this incredible looking figure.
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  Yeah, the the red. You hit it.
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  Yeah, yeah. I mean, I know that was talked
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  about a lot when they were shown off, but until you get it in
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  hand, you don't know for sure, do you?
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  But yeah, that red is so shiny. Yeah, you know it's it.
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  It sort of takes you back how shiny they've managed to to make
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  it and and and it just, it does look metallic, you know he
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  didn't know it was plastic. It it you think it might, they
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  might have done them diecast in parts of it.
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  It's. Yeah, I was.
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  Going to say it's about diecast look, isn't it?
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  Absolutely. That's it.
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  Yeah. It's diecast until you pick it
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  up and realize it's it's plastic.
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  So yeah, the job is done there. I this is the first figure I've
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  really messed with in cosmic lesions where I used the tubes
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  and connected them, you know, to the pads and the belt and the
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  yeah, we see you there, man. With yours.
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  I'm just going to put you big on the screen here.
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  I was just. Showing that I've done mine so
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  it goes like they've got him set on the side, over his shoulders
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  and into it. So you can connect them into
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  multiple of places including into the collar piece, which is
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  pretty cool as well and they've got ports on the side of the of
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  the kind of waste piece. Absolutely love the port system
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  in Cosmics. I think I love.
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  I mean you say on I'm that one. I've got his gun on his belt,
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  you know, and I just love yeah, you can do that and.
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  You can just, yeah, get in. You got a load more of those
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  little clear translucent little port adapters so that way you
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  can find us of cosmics. Yeah, you'll be finding them in
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  when you when you're clear and you're and you're cleaning out
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  your room the once a year that I do it anyway, you'd be finding
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  these in five years time going what is this again?
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  Yeah, yeah. Oh yeah, it's those cosmic
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  legions. And just don't put a post upon
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  the cosmic bar. What are these?
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  It'll be a funny post, it'll be fun.
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  And you, you also get this little back adapter and piece
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  that that you can port up more stuff into, which is very, very
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  cool because I think with that chest kind of collar piece you
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  can't get, you can't get kind of poured it into that.
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  So yeah, very nicely done. Yes, I mean the trouble, yeah, I
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  was just saying you took just mentioning that I am intrigued
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  what we might get in the future that can slot down through the
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  hole and it's almost like a flag or something could go there but
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  you wouldn't think we'd have flags in cosmic, but you never
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  know you. Never know and and the problem
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  with this guy is kind of limitless.
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  How many you could need, need want guess army build and show
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  them their mall with the with the alternate head then I Oh
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  yeah actually didn't take a pic of that so.
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  I'm really taught this is where I'm sort of might need another
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  one is because I'm really torn which head to display.
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  And I also, I mean I think this blue head, it just pops against
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  that red armor and just you know, the contrast of the blue
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  and the red. And I think that's possibly the
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  best version of that head they've done so far.
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  Yeah. The the the kind of wet look
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  they have in it, in the. Yeah.
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  And it is really nice. Yeah, it works.
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  We developed those colors as well.
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  Yeah. The other thing I'd quite like
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  to do with the other head is Joe Vasa Polo showed off how it
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  looks if you painted the inside of that visor and it just looked
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  really cool, but then it was one that was stock and yeah, to
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  paint. Yeah.
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  So the provisional retail St. Date for these is the 27th of
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  June so far even admit it, the all insurance are a bit early
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  than they expected and the rest of the figs probably take a bit
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  longer before they ship them. I must admit I jumped on big,
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  bad and pre-ordered one just because I didn't have to pay
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  straight. Away.
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  Yeah. Yeah, that's a good idea.
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  Yeah. Yeah.
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  I'm kind of waiting to maybe see what comes in the meantime.
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  Yeah. Yeah.
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  And then we'll see around then. And then it's a question.
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  Did it like if these are on the table at Allegiance Con?
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  Uh, I'll be definitely getting a few.
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  Yeah, and I could. Unbox, unbox them, Throw the
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  boxes and stuff away so you can easily, uh, fit them in the
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  suitcase. You don't need the boxes, not
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  like these exclusives. Umm, Richie were excited to get
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  this guy or you're looking forward to getting him.
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  Uh. I think behind the Operative 83,
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  that's my second favorite. I was looking forward to umm so
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  far, from what I've seen, it doesn't seem to disappoint.
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  It looks. Incredible.
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  It's it's it's excellent. Quick question for you guys.
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  The the the front of the chest plate, does that stick out quite
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  a long way? Because one of the heads I was
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  thinking of putting on one of mine was quite a long head with
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  like not beard but a lot coming off the chin sort of thing.
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  Would that work with that or is that chess piece going to get in
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  the way? It's probably, it's potentially
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  you can see that the the front of the head there does kind of
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  dip into the, there is a little, there is a little bowl there
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  where there is some space for for like a you know the chin so
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  to speak. But yeah, OK, well, change of
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  plans. But have you got us, Have you
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  got a slug or uh? Yes.
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  Is it the same chest bar? OK.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. I will try, I will try the head
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  head. Out the slug or so there you go
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  and and would you be inclined to army build these a bit or you
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  know do you have a story with maybe two or three of them in a
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  in a team or. Yeah, so I've already got as
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  well as keeping one as it is, which I may well now display
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  with that head Mal, because it looks incredible.
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  The blue head, it really does. Yeah, there's a couple of others
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  I need as well for the customs. So yeah, I'll definitely be in a
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  few. I wouldn't be at all surprised
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  to himself in the Legions Con with like 5-6 seven of these.
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  Yeah, the the this kind of begs to have like a little cockpit
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  diorama piece or something to go with it.
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  Or you know, inside of a, you know, spaceship kind of diorama
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  or something. Yeah.
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  Not a fool. I mean, I'm just looking at the
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  space I have, not a full ship. Although that would be good.
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  That would be good. But are, you know, even the
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  diorama guys? You know, obviously it's maybe
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  time to start making some cosmic, more cosmic diamoramas,
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  but they are, it's a different thing, you know, well it's it's
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  great sort. Of the same profile as, say, a
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  throne piece, but with maybe a bit at the front or something
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  like that, yeah. Yeah, something around that
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  size, you know, just so that you could take pictures of them in
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  the cockpit or whatever, you know?
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  Yeah, kind of would be, yeah. Because you can Photoshop
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  whatever you want behind it, can't you?
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  So as long as you've got the actual, as Mal said, like throne
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  size thing with this, you know, control unit or something ahead
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  of it. Right Callie and Shun.
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  An absolutely beautiful figure and two main display options
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  here is the helmeted with the soft goods or the unhelmeted
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  head, uh, where you have to dispense of the soft cuts.
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  The the unhelmeted head doesn't, uh work with the soft cuts
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  because it's got the hair going down the back and and uh, it
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  just doesn't it wouldn't fit. It's not designed to fit.
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  So yeah umm did she meet your expectations?
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  Mild then your your lofty expectations I would say.
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  Absolutely. Big time.
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  Uh, she looks beautiful. She's the colours again, So
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  nice, the combinations of colours.
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  I'm torn again which head to use because they look both.
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  They both look so good at the moment.
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  I've gone with the helmeted head and the Cape because as I said
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  previously, and even more, when it's in hand, it reminds me of
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  Leah in the Bush. You know disguise or or bounty
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  hunter outfit whatever you want to call that.
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  Yeah. And I've and as such I've been
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  given of the little staff because it reminds me of that.
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  The gun staff. Yeah.
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  That's right. Yeah.
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  Yeah. She's she's fantastic.
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  I love the use of the mythics parts to give that slight
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  variation. And honestly, that torso piece,
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  you wouldn't know it was a. Oh, that works fine.
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  Yeah, that works fine with the cush.
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  Looks like some sort of. Plate armor with a leather vest
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  underneath. It doesn't have some.
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  So yeah, she's absolutely meets my expectations.
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  And I also think that, you know, the pauldron you get is that
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  little turtle kind of shell one that you get with the is the
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  baton. And it works really well because
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  it's a cosmic pauldron in the 1st place.
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  You know, I don't wouldn't want to mythics night type of
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  pauldron, maybe there wouldn't really work.
• 21:51
  So this works really good and even though you have the mythic
• 21:55
  armored arm on that side, but you know I think it's it's
• 21:58
  painted in a way and you've got the the Greaves, the wrist piece
• 22:02
  that that is cosmic. So you know, it puts you back in
• 22:07
  it there. And the head sculpt, the
• 22:10
  unhelmeted head sculpt is amazing.
• 22:14
  Hard to believe that that's the same as Trace.
• 22:16
  Is that right? Yeah, That's it.
• 22:18
  Yeah. It's trace, yeah.
• 22:20
  Yeah. But as you say, yeah, you
• 22:22
  wouldn't know it. Only the shape of the hair.
• 22:24
  You know, you'd go, that's familiar.
• 22:26
  But the rest I do find. I can't remember with Trace, but
• 22:31
  she does look like she's got a little bit of a grin or, you
• 22:35
  know, a little bit of a smug kind of grin.
• 22:37
  Smoke. Yeah.
• 22:38
  Yeah, which is cool. There's enough stern face
• 22:41
  looking characters. We're happy if one has a little
• 22:46
  smirk, you know, pleased with their work.
• 22:49
  Uh, and the unhelmeted with the with the little uh letters on
• 22:53
  the thing, that's really nice. That's not, that's not something
• 22:56
  that'd be very easy to customize unless you had like a machine to
• 22:59
  do that, you know, free hand is not not very easy to do like
• 23:03
  that. So Umm and the soft codes are
• 23:07
  really good. Umm not.
• 23:09
  Not a super fan of maybe the Velcro strap at the Brunt.
• 23:13
  It's a little bit, uh, it's a. Little hard to get it done.
• 23:18
  Yeah, so that you can't. See the Velcro isn't it, but.
• 23:22
  Yeah, you can see there in the picture I took, you still see
• 23:25
  the corner of the Velcro, but the wires are a good gauge you
• 23:29
  can get. You can see I, you know, I I
• 23:32
  didn't focus too much on the poses here.
• 23:34
  I was trying to just take pictures to show the figures.
• 23:36
  But you can see I got a good kind of flow to the Cape, even
• 23:40
  if it's not, you know, perfectly post or anything.
• 23:43
  But it works really well. And was she on your list, rich?
• 23:49
  She was low down, to be honest. It's 2.0 character, isn't it?
• 23:55
  They're usually your favorites. Yeah, apparently so, yeah.
• 24:00
  But I, you know, obviously I'll get her, I'll display her.
• 24:04
  I think I'll probably display her with the helmeted head, and
• 24:06
  then I'll find a way to use an helmeted head in mythics
• 24:09
  somehow. Oh yeah, I love the unhelmeted
• 24:11
  head. So as long as she's not in the
• 24:13
  same fashion as trace thing, get away with that quite easily.
• 24:16
  Yeah, the even the paint job you could you could have in mythics
• 24:19
  no problem. Yeah, we have all sorts of
• 24:21
  characters in mythics, so. Exactly, yeah.
• 24:23
  Her neck is the same colour as the head as well, so you get the
• 24:27
  the neck piece that you could use.
• 24:30
  Yeah, yeah. She could be like in the Legion,
• 24:32
  Arthur or something, quite easily.
• 24:34
  Some sort of demon. So yeah, Nice.
• 24:38
  I love the the shoulder pad to the pauldron.
• 24:40
  Yeah, yeah. Anything looks turtley is good
• 24:43
  for me. Exactly.
• 24:47
  There needs to, we need to maybe get more lower about where these
• 24:51
  turtle type shells come from. You know, is there a planet?
• 24:55
  I mean, OK, maybe the tracks in the tracks on with that.
• 25:01
  What's the creature called again?
• 25:03
  Tracks in Scout? No, that's the.
• 25:05
  Lizard the low landscape. Back.
• 25:08
  He's a little bit reptilian currently, but.
• 25:11
  Isn't this armament to come from the fair rocks, though?
• 25:13
  So, oh, maybe they they're covered in that sort of armor.
• 25:16
  Maybe. That's oh, maybe that's true.
• 25:19
  Yeah, yeah. Oh, that's right.
• 25:22
  Yeah, mine. The greys are ancient races as
• 25:25
  well, aren't they? Yeah.
• 25:28
  We did a lot of cosmic lore around the episode 21 to 23 for
• 25:34
  Mark, so if you want to skip back there at any stage in the
• 25:38
  future you you can get up to date on your cosmic lore.
• 25:42
  We've forgotten some of it. Or I have anyway.
• 25:45
  I'm really desperate to see the inside of of that.
• 25:50
  Oh, I've got her name, Kalenjin's box that sounds
• 25:53
  really bad. Box that She comes in the figure
• 25:57
  box because Nate was doing the art for that intern last year.
• 26:01
  Oh, was he? I'd be interested to see how
• 26:03
  much of that actually made into the final.
• 26:05
  Inside. Oh, OK.
• 26:07
  Umm. But I can leave the surprise up
• 26:09
  to you. Or I can send you a picture.
• 26:10
  Later send me pictures all day. Yeah, yeah, OK, right.
• 26:14
  It's available. Another, umm, another one of our
• 26:19
  favorites. Uh, never a bad time to get his
• 26:22
  facts. And uh, this facts is sweet.
• 26:26
  Even my wife, when I showed her look at this guy, she's like all
• 26:29
  the colors are really good, really good.
• 26:32
  And and I didn't, I didn't really have, uh, the time or
• 26:37
  whatever to kind of pose them up with the the weapon.
• 26:41
  So I just took a picture of it here just to show it.
• 26:43
  Uh, the paint on the weapon is, I mean all the paint.
• 26:47
  It just looks like the prototypes.
• 26:48
  So you can't say fairer than that you want this stuff.
• 26:53
  Uh, it's really nicely done. Nice little bit of weathering in
• 26:56
  this uh, kind of minor, uh, uh, type of tool thing.
• 27:01
  Here is it. Is it hammer?
• 27:03
  You call it a hammer. I guess drill.
• 27:06
  Drill, yeah. Drill, yeah.
• 27:08
  Yeah yeah, yeah. So works really well.
• 27:11
  This guy is is really cool and the open you get what you get
• 27:16
  here that's a bit different is the open mouthed head sculpt of.
• 27:22
  Course, he had to be had to use that one just because it is
• 27:25
  different to the others, yeah. But how have you got them laid
• 27:29
  out there, my shows? I've to make him a bit different
• 27:32
  again. I used the arms for this.
• 27:34
  One, yeah, you get four sets of these little fiddly arms that
• 27:38
  how are your fingers after putting them in?
• 27:40
  They were sore. I think they're still sore from
• 27:43
  it. They they were.
• 27:44
  They were difficult, but. It's still, I just.
• 27:47
  I left it for another day with that, yeah.
• 27:50
  This fact. But he's my the Specsians are my
• 27:53
  favorites. There's no question, yeah.
• 27:55
  Now if you need these crept in there, but you know.
• 27:59
  You're getting a few of these, or.
• 28:01
  I've already pre-ordered 6. This is all one.
• 28:05
  It's because it you know Jeremy did what he does of put in that
• 28:09
  a squad's made of. What was it.
• 28:11
  Five of these guys with the arms and one leader with wings.
• 28:15
  You just need a You just need a big coal Mike Coalface diorama
• 28:19
  and spend a couple of these on on fishing wire above it.
• 28:24
  Yeah yeah. You can't really laugh rich with
• 28:26
  the with the kind of, you know, getting figure, can you?
• 28:30
  I'm nothing if not hypocritical. Let's.
• 28:32
  Just you're just proud of Mal, let's be honest.
• 28:34
  I am proud of Mal, yes, and I resisted Jeremy's law with the
• 28:38
  the relic guard Templars too. I've only got four of those, so
• 28:42
  despite his twelve rule, so. I kind of have a feeling that
• 28:47
  those not to give those weren't as as popular is the other
• 28:52
  variations of the Templar. But maybe I'm.
• 28:56
  Actually think they were the best.
• 28:57
  Ones of the Templars mafia, personally.
• 29:00
  They're excellent, yeah. But yeah, yeah.
• 29:02
  I don't know. Maybe not.
• 29:04
  My own everything's comment about this Well, two comments.
• 29:08
  Specs about the specs, Ian is one.
• 29:11
  It immediately made me want more variations.
• 29:13
  Like I said to you guys, more specs.
• 29:16
  I don't care if they do a specs with every wave I buy them, but
• 29:22
  this fella could have benefited from a vertical hinge set of
• 29:26
  hands because it was really difficult getting that gun, that
• 29:31
  the gun the drill in position with, particularly the one
• 29:34
  holding the, you know, the the, the upright.
• 29:40
  The handle, Yeah, yeah. The handle.
• 29:41
  Yeah, yeah. But I love him anyway.
• 29:44
  You know, I'm so glad I've ordered multiples.
• 29:48
  I probably could have waited till legions Con, admittedly,
• 29:51
  but yeah. But you know, I think that's the
• 29:57
  right way to do it if you want to get a good view of them.
• 29:59
  You know, legions con is more of a ice icing on the cake for this
• 30:03
  kind of stuff. You know, obviously if if
• 30:06
  there's, you know, the exclusives or stuff that's
• 30:09
  dropping around the time and legions con, that's different.
• 30:11
  But you know, yeah, we have plenty of time.
• 30:13
  And they're fifty boys to cast around, aren't.
• 30:16
  They. They are, yeah.
• 30:18
  Interesting thing about this figure is the the actual body is
• 30:23
  a is a kind of black. It's not just a flat black
• 30:26
  there, there is different shades of black and stuff on it.
• 30:30
  Umm, but maybe less. Umm, how would you say if if
• 30:36
  we're customizing especially less, uh, less of a sad, uh
• 30:40
  thing to paint it Because umm, you know that be the beautiful
• 30:45
  kind of reddish and blue metallic of the other two
• 30:49
  vaccines that we've got so far. It was almost a shame to paint
• 30:52
  that armor. So I see why this is your
• 30:54
  opportunity here. Maybe if you want to accent, you
• 30:57
  know up the armor here. Or do.
• 30:59
  I'm I'm really intrigued to see how well it goes with the Fisher
• 31:05
  Ice Armor. No.
• 31:08
  Whether he just a little bit of adding purple here and there
• 31:11
  because then you could have a Svexian member of I forget what
• 31:15
  they call they have the Shadow. Purple Gang gang.
• 31:18
  Purple Gang. We're pandering to the Purple
• 31:24
  Gang. Oh yeah, don't pander.
• 31:28
  They're going to take over the world.
• 31:29
  One day they will. They have the right approach,
• 31:33
  they're doing everything with with love and they're trying to
• 31:36
  be positive and I think that is. Love and ultimately to be always
• 31:39
  works. Yeah, well you know, it's
• 31:41
  nothing. Happy drunk is much nicer than
• 31:45
  an angry drunk. Uh, definitely not saying that
• 31:47
  they're drunks either, but you know they have an on occasion
• 31:50
  Van. Is that a drink?
• 31:51
  I think. Umm, right.
• 31:53
  Anything more to say about this? Rich, you you've got a few of
• 31:57
  these on the way I. I've only got one actually.
• 32:00
  Umm, I think I was probably waiting to get get this in hand
• 32:04
  to see what the the black looks like.
• 32:06
  I was. I was a little underwhelmed when
• 32:08
  it originally came out, but you know me.
• 32:10
  I said I wasn't bothered about Svexians and I bought another
• 32:12
  one, another Svexian block commander the other day because
• 32:15
  it was going cheap. So I'm up to 4 Svexians already,
• 32:18
  despite going. Well, so.
• 32:22
  Yes, I'm sure I'll end up with a few of these.
• 32:24
  I just like as many variations in colour of these wings, as
• 32:29
  always. I was going to say that wing
• 32:31
  colour is incredible. The the skin tone as well on
• 32:35
  them is and the little touches of pink to purple.
• 32:39
  And that kind of white is just, it's so smooth and beautiful and
• 32:43
  it's yeah. To me, looking at this picture,
• 32:46
  it's almost like it's almost like a steak.
• 32:49
  So it's like that horror effect of like bones and and flesh sort
• 32:53
  of thing in the in the wing colour, yeah.
• 32:55
  So yeah. Right then, we've got Scourge.
• 33:04
  Not the best pictures of him here, but.
• 33:07
  He's on a little boogie, John. He's on a little boogie machine
• 33:10
  and stuff. Yeah, exactly.
• 33:11
  Yeah. And just to get the kind of
• 33:14
  pictures of the detail, I mean, the paint job is phenomenal.
• 33:17
  And if you look at the skirt piece here, kind of down just
• 33:22
  below the fur, they have this little, it's more like a
• 33:24
  rubberish kind of piece or underneath I, I.
• 33:28
  I thought that was. Strange or newer, I don't know
• 33:31
  what the purpose. Was there.
• 33:32
  Don't remember. Don't remember seeing that ever
• 33:35
  at all. I like it.
• 33:37
  It's cool. Little you could.
• 33:39
  Kind of, yeah. It kind of maybe makes it kind
• 33:43
  of takes the place of what would be maybe like the actual line
• 33:48
  piece in on a kind of a mythics figure maybe.
• 33:52
  You know Yeah because you've got the soft goods further.
• 33:55
  But you know you could then use the first lightly over to the
• 33:58
  side and still have this kind of covering the front and it
• 34:00
  doesn't look stupid. So umm yeah the the jaw opens as
• 34:06
  we saw on Araka Gore uh really nicely done.
• 34:10
  Really nicely painted. I do like the uh, the Kragner
• 34:14
  head on him. It's cool.
• 34:17
  It just looks like a dinosaur then yeah Mal it's got his
• 34:20
  Kragner set up. I.
• 34:21
  Love the Kragner head. And umm, yeah, but I'll probably
• 34:27
  keep the just just to keep it digging and keep it the the
• 34:32
  Dragon. Umm, I like the Motu kind of
• 34:36
  element of this. Umm.
• 34:38
  But these type of figures, these size figures, I'd never probably
• 34:41
  need more than one. I'm happy to have one on my
• 34:43
  shelf and that's awesome. And if I had an idea for custom,
• 34:48
  maybe to buy one. But you'd want a good idea for a
• 34:51
  custom to to be doing that much but repainting because it's a
• 34:55
  lot of work, you know? Yeah, so.
• 34:59
  I'm exactly the same issue with that.
• 35:00
  I think they're great and I love having the ones I've got and
• 35:04
  I'll always grab them if they're there.
• 35:06
  And as I say, the crack no head I think is brilliant, but I
• 35:09
  don't need multiples of these figures at all.
• 35:13
  The bigger. Figures After Raka Gore, I think
• 35:15
  I've. I've figured out how to do the
• 35:17
  tale. You don't pop them apart you you
• 35:19
  just lift, lift up the torso a bit and just get the tail in
• 35:23
  under the soft goods. Well, I struggled with doing
• 35:27
  that first thing, so I took him apart and that was painful.
• 35:32
  Yes, I was trying to avoid that at all costs because I had done
• 35:37
  that with Raka Gore and then realized that you could get it
• 35:43
  underneath. But I think somebody had said it
• 35:45
  and I was like, Oh yeah, and yeah, it was a little bit of
• 35:49
  fiddling. And you do, you may be slightly
• 35:50
  worried that, uh, if you put it in, if you kind of push it in
• 35:54
  the wrong direction, you could tear the thing.
• 35:56
  But it's not that fragile. The the The thing is really
• 36:00
  sturdy enough to hold. And is this one you got You
• 36:03
  picked up Rich or interested in picking up?
• 36:06
  Yeah, definitely the one. Umm with the non umm, the non
• 36:12
  racket. Go ahead.
• 36:13
  I prefer the other head for Cosmic, definitely.
• 36:16
  So then the decision for me is whether I want a second one to
• 36:18
  have another Dragon me fix on it.
• 36:20
  Yes, three. Spending part of me says yes.
• 36:23
  The tiny, tiny tiny sensible part of me goes no, no, ogre
• 36:29
  scale. Take up a lot of room.
• 36:30
  You don't need another Ogre scale.
• 36:32
  Who's buying an extra and then another extra for an extra set
• 36:36
  of arms to to make a Kragner? I'm sure people, some people
• 36:41
  will do that, which is the baller move, that one is fair to
• 36:45
  say. I suppose you could use the
• 36:47
  other pieces then maybe, but yeah, maybe need to.
• 36:51
  You'd be down a set of arms then there trying to do the maths.
• 36:54
  Yeah, he probably would, but I really like him.
• 36:56
  Uh, he I was very excited about him when he came out.
• 37:00
  Uh. Obviously having gotten a record
• 37:02
  goal in the meantime and this guy hadn't been out for a while
• 37:05
  and kind of seen people with it. It does kind of take the
• 37:08
  excitement away from him compared to say, the brand new
• 37:11
  figures. But uh, really nice figure all
• 37:14
  the same and well worth picking up if you're on the fence at all
• 37:19
  about this guy moves really well.
• 37:22
  Uh. I do find that that my 1
• 37:24
  criticism, and maybe it's criticism of the scale figures,
• 37:28
  is the weapons are a little bit uh, like they're the kind of
• 37:33
  mythics ogre weapons Plus then do you have it there Mal the the
• 37:39
  weapon uh. Yeah, the one that was meant to
• 37:41
  be like the, uh, whiplash. Yeah.
• 37:45
  Was it 2000 XCS? Yeah, so it's a kind of a Simon
• 37:48
  Cimitar and a Trident kind of shoved together, yeah.
• 37:52
  And for mythics. Yeah, OK.
• 37:54
  But yeah, it's just a bit different to the other.
• 37:59
  So I went with that. It's a weird scale for him
• 38:01
  though. I don't know.
• 38:02
  Yeah, yeah, I agree. Anyway it pick in there really
• 38:07
  with that but yeah I would like to see and I know Kragner has a
• 38:10
  specific weapon and yeah maybe it doesn't make sense to have
• 38:13
  that one but uh oh some more auger scale weapons would be
• 38:19
  nice in the future for the different cosmic and mythics
• 38:24
  variety. Oh uh we have operative 83 now
• 38:29
  what the the one part swap I did here.
• 38:34
  I did a couple here but the the one with the blue head from the
• 38:38
  pilot works really well on him. So Operative 83 is the
• 38:43
  manifest's homage tribute. The colours.
• 38:48
  Absolutely pop man. He's incredible with the
• 38:52
  colours. I was having seen him sort of
• 38:56
  again on like you know tables and things for sale in the
• 39:00
  meantime, even though I didn't pick him up, he was when I was
• 39:04
  very excited to get because as you say the colours are so cool.
• 39:09
  Yeah, he's one that I only want some for you know multiple head
• 39:14
  to display the different heads, but actually I'd quite like some
• 39:19
  to have the armour painted like that to maybe use for other
• 39:22
  things. Don't know what yet, but that
• 39:25
  might be a legions con job, so. You get another dozen legions,
• 39:29
  con them up. Yeah, maybe not a dozen, but a
• 39:32
  few. Yeah, Baker's Dozen 13 and yeah
• 39:39
  so all the heads are great. I think my favorites probably
• 39:43
  the vampire one and which is surprised surprised me
• 39:47
  personally when I got him in hand.
• 39:50
  I was like wow, this is so good and but I like them all.
• 39:55
  The bubble helmet with the kind of other helmet works.
• 39:58
  The human headscope because it's many faces.
• 40:01
  Even though you don't want humans in as Miriam Richards, it
• 40:06
  works. Well, and in this case, he's not
• 40:09
  necessarily human, even though he looks human as it's disguise,
• 40:12
  you could say true. That's what I'm telling myself.
• 40:15
  Mild because I'm an absolute anti human and Cosmirian person,
• 40:18
  but I think that's the favorite my 3 heads for me.
• 40:21
  So yeah, I'll find a way. And the I tried a head swap here
• 40:27
  with the Spectrum Block commander on him.
• 40:31
  Now the colors don't match, but I did pop that on and think that
• 40:35
  could work for another type of build maybe in the future for
• 40:38
  them where they use because that's more of a robot head, you
• 40:42
  know, it's not the organic, it's Vexian head.
• 40:45
  And it worked scale wise. It just looks like a big head
• 40:49
  for kind of a century, but well. That's it.
• 40:52
  There's nothing to say someone hasn't scavenged, as Vexian Mask
• 40:57
  is this. Yeah, exactly.
• 41:00
  And and you just get the one, uh, gun with him painted in the
• 41:05
  orange color from his armor. Uh, that's what Manny Faces had.
• 41:10
  So uh, the main thing here is the accessories and obviously
• 41:14
  you get a bunch of hands with him as well, but he really
• 41:18
  doesn't disappoint. I I really like him.
• 41:20
  I could definitely see myself getting three to display the
• 41:25
  three different looks and more because you've got, you've got
• 41:30
  different heads, But that body, no matter what way they paint
• 41:34
  it, it's like the original sentry.
• 41:37
  You can just stick all your different head sculpts that are
• 41:41
  kind of not, you know, just your standard human and even then,
• 41:45
  but you know all the kind of funky head sculpts you got.
• 41:48
  Stick it on that body and they look great.
• 41:51
  Expect to see pictures like coming from me when I get.
• 41:56
  This isn't it. They've come up with this, this
• 41:58
  Tusk body. Is it because it's mostly
• 42:00
  associated with Tusk at this point?
• 42:02
  Yeah, the Yeah, exactly. It could.
• 42:04
  Be sort of seen as a generic sci-fi body for someone who's
• 42:08
  not a cosmic fan and anything works with it.
• 42:11
  It just works with everything. You can style it how you want.
• 42:14
  You can add bitch. You can do do this that the
• 42:16
  other and it's it's a brilliant body.
• 42:22
  It is, it is, it is and it I think it is their look now for
• 42:26
  cosmic legions, you know, it is their signature look.
• 42:29
  You know like like the stormtrooper would be the
• 42:32
  signature type of equivalent in Star Wars.
• 42:34
  I think this now in cosmic legions is the kind of signature
• 42:38
  kind of soldier body which is. Also, I think yeah, there's some
• 42:42
  Novian lanes kind of build will be the two soldier military kind
• 42:46
  of bodies, I reckon, yeah. And I think Novi and Lean Body
• 42:50
  will lend itself to different type of characters as well.
• 42:54
  This too. But you know, yeah, there could
• 42:57
  be more. Yeah, that's more the bounty
• 43:00
  hunter, isn't it? Yeah.
• 43:03
  Right. Umm, so that's him.
• 43:06
  He's been out and about. People might have seen him.
• 43:08
  You know, he came out Powercon, same as Scourge.
• 43:11
  Here is, uh, the alien alter Silovius.
• 43:20
  Looking at him, I just want to get a 112 scale scooter and put
• 43:23
  him on it. He's basically A6 mod, isn't he
• 43:26
  from the UK? Look at that.
• 43:29
  So I was about to say he's been hanging around with the football
• 43:31
  U firms, so he's had tattooed. This fella, the paint on the
• 43:37
  head is exactly like the prototype.
• 43:40
  You could, you could nearly stick it up to the screen to the
• 43:43
  prototype on the website and you got exactly the same.
• 43:47
  The paint goes all the way around the heads, looks really
• 43:49
  well, it's really, really nicely done.
• 43:52
  The soft coats are really good. You get 3-3 pieces, you get the
• 43:57
  the kind of Navy cloak, you get the kind of brown under cloak,
• 44:01
  and then there is a blue skirt piece which actually just goes
• 44:05
  in between the torso and the belt there and it covers the
• 44:08
  whole lower legs. So that's how it the soft goods
• 44:12
  work. And then I just did a picture of
• 44:14
  the completely the body without soft goods.
• 44:17
  Obviously he's not meant to be like that, but he gets to see
• 44:19
  all the pieces and. He looks like without his soft
• 44:23
  goods on, he looks like some sort of crazed crackhead.
• 44:26
  So he's really skinny and like, but then the face is like, Oh my
• 44:30
  God, don't get anywhere near him.
• 44:31
  No, there's some dodgy about that.
• 44:32
  Don't get anywhere. Near him, he's a little man.
• 44:35
  Don't. Touch him.
• 44:39
  Yeah, so these aren't my favorite, but I like that
• 44:42
  they're aliens. In in.
• 44:44
  Yeah, Cos Miriam, I think I'll never probably get multiples of
• 44:48
  these guys, but I'll pick up one always.
• 44:50
  What was the the articulation like?
• 44:52
  Because the first one, obviously people were complaining that it
• 44:55
  was too stiff and that sort of. Thing No, I have had no problems
• 44:59
  with this wave. All the figures played around
• 45:01
  with them. I'm.
• 45:02
  Just thinking particularly of this one.
• 45:03
  Articulation problems. Oh, was that nice?
• 45:08
  And that or anything? Yeah, yeah, no, they work.
• 45:11
  They worked perfectly out of the package, no heating up.
• 45:13
  I only heated up figures to pop and swap, which I'll do.
• 45:19
  Have a few at the end here. And Jeremy said it on his show
• 45:24
  last night. And we can't.
• 45:26
  It'd already been said before, but the the the soft goods are
• 45:29
  exactly the soft goods that are going to come on the Gaspar
• 45:36
  figure. OK.
• 45:38
  Yeah, that'll work then. Yeah.
• 45:40
  Yeah. I mean, obviously that's a
• 45:41
  different scale. So they might need to be
• 45:45
  slightly adjusted. But yeah, he suggested it was
• 45:50
  going to be exactly the same as they are.
• 45:52
  Yeah. So it's just controlled the
• 45:54
  body. They fit slightly more snow.
• 45:57
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 45:58
  I suppose we could try it ourselves on a on a 1.0 build.
• 46:01
  That's true. Funnily enough, when this one
• 46:04
  came out because of the the monk look of the clothes, I was going
• 46:10
  to get another one to to make a monk using these clothes.
• 46:14
  So I may or may not because I do want.
• 46:18
  I wouldn't need more than one of them to do loads of different
• 46:21
  things with. But I do quite like the idea of
• 46:24
  having using the at least the upper torso in arms.
• 46:29
  Yeah it will bear arms in something else.
• 46:32
  I'm not sure what as I say seen I did think this might that's
• 46:39
  this body might lead us to get in the Wendigo at some point but
• 46:43
  so I might have a go at doing that.
• 46:46
  Yeah, absolutely. Do it before they drop it in.
• 46:50
  Sure, it's figure obscure, yeah. Exactly.
• 46:55
  Yeah. So Richie, you you founded this?
• 47:00
  I'm a bit hit and miss with the Grey Born to be honest.
• 47:03
  It's I probably going to stick to just the one, yeah.
• 47:07
  Although I might acquire a second head because I think it'd
• 47:09
  be quite fun to use that head. Is it just the one head that
• 47:12
  comes with it, Isn't it? Yeah, just the one.
• 47:14
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 47:15
  It'd be quite fun, yeah. What you see?
• 47:16
  There. What you see there with the
• 47:19
  staff and all the soft goods, that's the whole figure.
• 47:21
  And there's hands. There's more hands, isn't there?
• 47:24
  Yeah. No, it'd be quite fun to try and
• 47:27
  find a way, and we'll get a couple of ideas in my head about
• 47:28
  fitting that head into mythics. Oh, interesting.
• 47:35
  OK, so that's the figures then. Uh, we got on to some pop and
• 47:39
  swaps that I did here. So the first thing, uh, I did.
• 47:43
  Apologies for the poses here, but uh, the Monkey King with the
• 47:48
  I used the red cloth pieces from.
• 47:52
  Uh, that looks like that worked really well, actually.
• 47:54
  Worked perfectly, yeah, just a little bit darker red.
• 47:57
  Let's give a slightly different look.
• 47:58
  Might work better, even with the newer Monkey King King coming,
• 48:02
  but uh, what do you think of that rich?
• 48:06
  I really like that. Yeah, so that's.
• 48:07
  I'm slightly dazzled by the dancing poses again, but the.
• 48:10
  Combination worked great, yeah, got no strings to hold me down.
• 48:20
  And then hold on, what do we do here?
• 48:25
  The I got the Vargas with the red pieces.
• 48:30
  Same pieces on Vargas here. Oh, that looks really So yeah,
• 48:35
  it's. Completely seamless, yeah.
• 48:37
  Wow. Yeah, so that's really nice.
• 48:41
  That's worth if you if you want a different look on your Vargas,
• 48:46
  but it matches perfectly with the Legions con Vargas or the
• 48:51
  most recent focus that we got. And then I did a pop and swap.
• 48:55
  I put all dysvexia and white pieces on to the block commander
• 49:00
  and it works really good. OK, yeah, yeah, it looks
• 49:04
  perfectly, doesn't it? Yeah, the only caveat here is
• 49:08
  there's a little bit of the dysvexian kind of buggies on the
• 49:13
  back of the torso that's not popper swappable.
• 49:17
  So that if you turn that figure around, you'd see a little bit
• 49:20
  of the kind of brown flesh from that block, Commander.
• 49:23
  It's a little unfortunate they didn't make that pop and swap,
• 49:26
  isn't it? I can understand.
• 49:28
  Why? Yeah, yeah, of course.
• 49:29
  Probably just not practical, but yeah, but that works really well
• 49:33
  with the kind of green and blue and the pink really pops off.
• 49:39
  So that's that. And then the last one here, the
• 49:45
  box art is coming together really nicely for these.
• 49:49
  You've got, uh, the cross cell on the back, all the figures.
• 49:52
  I assume this is just going to keep getting bigger.
• 49:55
  Uh, we all have nostalgia for that with Star Wars in one way
• 49:59
  or another. And it just looks so cool.
• 50:01
  And if you're someone that's been in on the line from the
• 50:04
  start, you're going look at all they have and if you're someone
• 50:07
  that's just getting in, you're looking back and going right?
• 50:09
  What do I need? Yeah, and you've got a spaceship
• 50:15
  that's is that the outposts Axios there?
• 50:17
  I think that's what it's meant in the.
• 50:19
  Art. Yeah, Yeah, kind of space
• 50:23
  station. I think the box in general is.
• 50:26
  I just described it as pretty. It's so, so pretty the colours.
• 50:30
  Really nice, yeah. Slightly lighter Blues and I
• 50:36
  show up. I show a difference there in the
• 50:39
  skin tones between the 1st 2 grey Bourns, so that's the one
• 50:45
  we got here, Altair Salovius and the original 1 Isipiton, so he's
• 50:51
  really grey and the other guy is more blue.
• 50:53
  Yeah, you see the difference there.
• 50:55
  So probably not compatible to, you know, with heads and stuff
• 51:01
  like that if you want to go between them.
• 51:03
  That gives a nice bit of variety for the the race though, doesn't
• 51:06
  it? Yeah.
• 51:06
  Oh yeah, absolutely. Well, you were saying to me that
• 51:09
  you probably prefer the blue. Yeah, I think the paint up on
• 51:12
  the blue skin tone is, yeah, top notch.
• 51:15
  I think I prefer that one to the grey one.
• 51:19
  Yeah, very. Good.
• 51:23
  And then I just took one of my custom meds that are recently
• 51:28
  painted on to the red pilot. Everything works on that type of
• 51:36
  body. So that's ahead from immortal
• 51:39
  collections if you're looking at it there.
• 51:41
  So umm, yeah, great figures. Uh, really excited to get them,
• 51:45
  really enjoyed to open them up. Now it's to to kind of set them
• 51:49
  up the way maybe finally want them and stick them on the
• 51:53
  cosmics chef. So that's going to be fun.
• 51:57
  Have you got plans ready for that, Mal?
• 51:59
  Uh, that would be probably something I do this weekend.
• 52:01
  We'll be, uh, remove things about, shuffle them about, fit
• 52:04
  them on the shelf, yeah. Excellent, Excellent.
• 52:09
  Right. So, umm, we have a little bones
• 52:12
  here tonight for your audio listeners.
• 52:14
  We're going to drop, uh, our little reading of the 1000 Swigs
• 52:21
  story. Taylor, the 1000 Swigs, we have
• 52:24
  recorded that. So that would be in on the end
• 52:27
  of the episode. Umm, I just had a couple of more
• 52:31
  things, boys, if you wanted to. Umm, I was watching Jeremy's
• 52:35
  show last night and he was showing.
• 52:38
  I was talking about these pieces, uh, which is the the
• 52:42
  fine cuts from the Necronominus wave when the guys were in China
• 52:46
  and the factory and looking at them and what I thought were
• 52:50
  really funny was that Necronominus, a lot of his
• 52:52
  armor. I mean, I'm paraphrasing Jeremy
• 52:55
  here, but he's taken the make out of Etheron with his armor.
• 53:02
  Yeah, I love Got. The kind of eagle pieces on his
• 53:06
  armor and his feathers on his head as well.
• 53:08
  I didn't get the picture of that.
• 53:10
  But yeah, that a lot of the the armor on Necronominus that you
• 53:15
  mightn't have paid attention to, because obviously you see the
• 53:18
  whole figure. It's all this bling, you know,
• 53:20
  Everything Everywhere. But when you see just individual
• 53:24
  parts like this, you realize when Eric was designing it, he
• 53:28
  was maybe imagining that Necronominus was taunting Ether
• 53:32
  on with the, you know, using Eagles and stuff as part of his
• 53:37
  part of his armor. So.
• 53:39
  Or maybe he's clad himself differently since he's been
• 53:41
  away, so he, like, took some of the corpses of Etheron's army
• 53:45
  with him in the temper after he got banished.
• 53:48
  And then he's like, yeah, bling myself up with ease.
• 53:50
  There we go. There you go.
• 53:53
  So that's, that's all I have, boys.
• 53:56
  And that's, oh, rich. Savage Crucible.
• 53:58
  Tell us a little bit. So Savage Crucible.
• 54:00
  Yeah. So first, they are very much
• 54:03
  first impressions. I've only been able to open one
• 54:06
  a couple of minutes before the show started, but the the box
• 54:09
  art is is extreme. Sorry about the reflection, it's
• 54:12
  extremely cool. Even the packaging box, the
• 54:16
  outer box that came in was very cool as well.
• 54:20
  It opens up from the front like that, and then you have a cool
• 54:25
  bit of lore and bio there, and then you've got a map of the
• 54:31
  Savage Crucible realm on the inside, so the packaging is
• 54:35
  absolutely first rate. Yeah, they've definitely,
• 54:38
  they've definitely pushed the boat out there, yeah.
• 54:40
  They have behind the map. I think this was a surprise that
• 54:45
  people knew in advance. You have a little little foiled
• 54:49
  baggie that comes with a card, the figures, and it's like a
• 54:56
  almost like a trading card sort of thing.
• 54:58
  So there's some metallics, there's there's all sorts of
• 55:00
  different ones. And then on the back it's got
• 55:03
  details of if you wanted to use it for like a battle game of
• 55:06
  some sort sort of thing. There's like WEP.
• 55:09
  That's. Good moves and and then you know
• 55:11
  strength and that. Looks kind of bigger than a
• 55:14
  regular size card, would you say?
• 55:16
  It is definitely bigger. Yeah.
• 55:17
  It's much bigger than a regular size 1 but very cool.
• 55:21
  But yeah they didn't tell anyone in advance and some people like
• 55:23
  look behind the the map, look behind the map and then the main
• 55:28
  event is figure itself. So this is one of the conclusive
• 55:35
  Imperial sentries. So it was only available through
• 55:40
  the the Kickstarter and conventions that they attend.
• 55:45
  This has got an amazing hopefully you can see the the
• 55:47
  paint scheme. Eric Miller did it originally so
• 55:50
  you've got the the sort of dark orangey red sort of thing with
• 55:55
  like the the lighter colour patches looks great.
• 55:58
  The armour is like a bluey metallic bluey silver metallic
• 56:02
  with like a purpley colour over the top of it.
• 56:06
  This beautiful armour from what I've seen so far is definitely
• 56:09
  the best of the armour. The tail has got an armour piece
• 56:12
  covering the tail as well so that's pretty cool.
• 56:14
  You wouldn't want your tail getting chopped off in battle.
• 56:18
  Tail itself is multi articulated.
• 56:20
  I didn't realize that. That's really cool.
• 56:22
  Yeah, I was impressed. It's not a wire.
• 56:24
  It's not a wire, no. There's lots of little ball
• 56:27
  joints in there to do whatever you want with, so that's that's
• 56:31
  awesome. He comes with two of these big
• 56:35
  old so and so swords, and a couple of the swords on the side
• 56:39
  as well I. Like the translucent sword with
• 56:43
  the yellow and red. There's also loads of storage
• 56:47
  room for the swords too, so you've got two ports on the back
• 56:50
  here and then two, one on each side as well, so you can carry
• 56:55
  all four swords even if he wasn't actually brandishing any
• 56:58
  of them. So that's pretty good as well
• 56:59
  because often you get figures and they can't hold everything,
• 57:02
  so that's very impressive. First impressions are I
• 57:07
  absolutely love it, really do love it.
• 57:11
  The head sculpt I think is going to have to grow on me.
• 57:14
  This particular head sculpt, it's, you know it's it's can't
• 57:21
  hold this the right way. It's that one which is, you
• 57:23
  know, it's OK, but there's better ones.
• 57:25
  The Como One is better and the I can't remember the guy's name.
• 57:29
  Nil. Veneer or bill veneer or
• 57:31
  whatever it is. Vilniere or something like that,
• 57:33
  yeah. Thank you, Mal.
• 57:33
  Yes, mal's my pronunciation. Guru.
• 57:38
  So yeah, so that head is better, but I think this one will grow
• 57:41
  on me in terms of articulations. Loads of good articulation.
• 57:48
  I won't go into that too much. Now the right knee is stiff as
• 57:51
  heck because I'm going to put some heat on that before I try
• 57:53
  and move that. Otherwise that is going to snap.
• 57:55
  But now that's the same as you go with mythics, You know, you
• 57:57
  just or any action for you just put some heat on it.
• 58:00
  I can see why people are worried about the ankles and the foot.
• 58:04
  The the toe thing in particular, A is pointless and it's just
• 58:08
  really loose. But I've managed to get him to
• 58:11
  stand up fine so far. It's not a great pose.
• 58:13
  It's very much like A and I wouldn't be at all surprised to
• 58:17
  stand him up and then come back the following morning and find
• 58:20
  he's fallen on the floor. But they've you know, they said
• 58:23
  they're looking at that. But yeah, overall, really,
• 58:25
  really genuinely impressed with this.
• 58:28
  I love it. And I and I think having looked
• 58:30
  at the pictures online, I wasn't convinced they would go with
• 58:33
  mythics particularly well. But having opened it now and
• 58:35
  played with it a little bit, actually I think they'll work
• 58:37
  really well with Mythics. Cool.
• 58:39
  Awesome. And also, I'll do a fuller
• 58:42
  review once I've played with a few more of them, yeah.
• 58:44
  Definitely interested to see how the whole wave turned out for
• 58:48
  you right, and shall we hand it over to SWIG?
• 58:54
  Stay safe out there, everybody. You never know how many swigs
• 58:57
  are around the corner. Cheers.
• 59:00
  Enjoy. We'll talk to you next week.
• 59:03
  Bye, bye. Bye.
• 59:09
  Performed by the Euro Legions players.
• 59:20
  The Tale of 1000 swigs by Jeremy Gerrard.
• 59:26
  Out of my way, Out of my way. The goblin alchemist swig snaps
• 59:30
  as he races down one of the dark corridors of Gob Hollow.
• 59:33
  I'm on my way to an appointment with the king out of my way.
• 59:37
  Goblin soldiers press up against the corridors walls as Swig
• 59:40
  storms past. None of them wish to be the
• 59:42
  reason why someone would be late for an audience with King
• 59:44
  Noglin, nor do they want to do something that could upset the
• 59:47
  mercurial king of Gob Hollow. Swig stops to catch his breath
• 59:51
  before the large doors of King Noglin's throne room.
• 59:54
  A pair of burly, squat faced guards stand before the doorway
• 59:58
  and they open the doors so that Swig can make his way inside.
• 1:00:02
  King Noglin's throne room is an unpredictable and oftentimes
• 1:00:05
  dangerous place to be. High-ranking members of Gob
• 1:00:08
  Hollow's hierarchy mingle with ambitious young upstart.
• 1:00:12
  All of them are vying for the King's attentions and favour as
• 1:00:16
  they seek to amuse, entertain or prove themselves useful.
• 1:00:20
  All of this pageantry is a game that these courtiers play as
• 1:00:23
  they scheme to retain their standing in Noglin's court or
• 1:00:26
  find a way to plant someone above them and take their place.
• 1:00:30
  One's choice of words and who they decide to align with or
• 1:00:33
  against must be carefully considered within the walls of
• 1:00:36
  Gob Hollow. The stakes of those actions are
• 1:00:39
  never greater than when standing before the Goblin King.
• 1:00:47
  The Alchemist readers here for an audience, my most esteemed
• 1:00:51
  and gracious king. An attendant announces.
• 1:00:55
  Ah, yes. King Noglin smiles.
• 1:00:58
  He looks out upon the room. Come before me, my subject, and
• 1:01:03
  do tell me about your latest experiments.
• 1:01:06
  Are the results better than we have seen so far?
• 1:01:10
  The Goblin King is seated upon a throne that is much too large
• 1:01:13
  for him. He looks to be sized for full
• 1:01:15
  grown ogre, yet King Noglin sits on a pile of tattered pillows
• 1:01:19
  arranged in the middle of the royal seat, believing that the
• 1:01:21
  throne's size makes him appear more powerful and important.
• 1:01:25
  Constructed of discarded piece of armour, random trinkets
• 1:01:29
  stolen from the surface trash that has long since rotted, and
• 1:01:32
  golden treasures and jewels mined from under the grave a
• 1:01:35
  mountain, the Goblin King's throne is surprisingly accurate
• 1:01:39
  visual representation at the random chaos of the goblin's
• 1:01:43
  Kingdom. Things are going well, my always
• 1:01:46
  intelligent and benevolent king. Swig begins as he bows before
• 1:01:50
  Noglin's throne. I think I may have finally
• 1:01:53
  brewed up the perfect elixir based on your commands, it was.
• 1:01:58
  Just about a month ago, when The Alchemist was summoned before
• 1:02:01
  his king and given the mission to concoct potions which would
• 1:02:05
  increase the strength and abilities of the goblin army,
• 1:02:08
  the forces of Gob Hollow had been summoned by the war monger
• 1:02:11
  Gorgo Ether Blade to fight in the Second Great War of Mythos.
• 1:02:16
  This was a war which King Noglin had assured his subjects would
• 1:02:19
  prove the worth of the goblin army in the New Order, which
• 1:02:22
  ruled the realm after the destruction of the Legions of
• 1:02:25
  Light. Of course, the dwarfs had also
• 1:02:28
  been summoned to fight, and King Noglin wanted to make sure that
• 1:02:32
  his army's contribution to the war effort outshined those of
• 1:02:35
  his bearded neighbours under the Gray veins.
• 1:02:38
  For that, he needed to add some extra punch to his forces.
• 1:02:42
  This is where Swig came in. He had been called to an
• 1:02:46
  audience with his king and asked about his experience in potion
• 1:02:50
  brewing. Up until that point, Swig had
• 1:02:53
  been fairly nondescript member of King Noglin's forces.
• 1:02:56
  He had been named Chief Alchemist after the untimely and
• 1:03:00
  horrifyingly protracted death of Gob Hollow's previous potion
• 1:03:04
  master. Swig had been surprised and more
• 1:03:06
  than a bit unnerved by his elevation to his new role, but
• 1:03:10
  he quickly found himself enjoying the position.
• 1:03:13
  He had been allowed to move into the workspace and personal
• 1:03:15
  quarters of the previous Chief alchemist, accommodations that
• 1:03:19
  were much larger and better appointed than his own.
• 1:03:22
  He also had access to better equipment and tomes of Al
• 1:03:26
  Chemical, knowledge that had been previously unavailable to
• 1:03:29
  him. All in all, he counted himself
• 1:03:31
  pretty fortunate until he got the summons for an audience with
• 1:03:36
  the Goblin King. King Noglin had explained what
• 1:03:40
  he needed from Swig, and The Alchemist promised under no
• 1:03:43
  small amount of hesitation addressed to brew some potions
• 1:03:47
  that would give the Goblin soldiers incredible powers.
• 1:03:50
  The only problem, if Swig was being truly honest with himself,
• 1:03:53
  was that he had no idea if he could actually brew those
• 1:03:56
  promised potions. The truth of the matter was that
• 1:03:59
  he was mediocre alchemist at best, and his bruised just as
• 1:04:03
  often had an intended consequences as they hit the
• 1:04:06
  mark and what they were supposed to do.
• 1:04:09
  Still, he had no choice. There was no saying, no ticking,
• 1:04:14
  noggling. So Swig bent back to his
• 1:04:16
  workshop where he tried not to think too much about the last
• 1:04:19
  goblin potion mastery work there why?
• 1:04:21
  He probably no longer did so and began to produce some magic.
• 1:04:26
  The first few potions Swig mixed up worked pretty well.
• 1:04:29
  Couple of goblins had achieved extra speed and enhanced
• 1:04:32
  reflexes thanks to 1 potion, and a handful of others gained the
• 1:04:36
  ability to jump incredible heights after drinking another.
• 1:04:40
  These early successes may have given Swig an undeserved sense
• 1:04:44
  of comfort, but the next batch of potions certainly brought him
• 1:04:47
  back to reality. First there was the potion that
• 1:04:50
  was supposed to make goblin grow to a powerfully massive size,
• 1:04:54
  but which instead just gave him really, really long arms.
• 1:05:00
  The elixir to allow goblin worries to pass through walls
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  had instead turned them into horrifyingly pungent pools of
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  goo. Of course, there was the potion
• 1:05:09
  that was meant to give the recipient of the ability to spew
• 1:05:11
  balls of fire, but which instead gave the drinkers uncontrollable
• 1:05:15
  hiccups, and which caused them to vomit up golden coins instead
• 1:05:19
  of flames. King Noglin actually approved
• 1:05:22
  this one, even if the results weren't intended, The
• 1:05:26
  invisibility potion seemed to be a success until the goblins who
• 1:05:29
  took it disappeared, and no one had been able to locate them
• 1:05:32
  since. Swig argued that this last
• 1:05:35
  potion had worked as intended, King Noglin disagreed, and that
• 1:05:39
  was the end of that discussion. Time and time again, Swig was
• 1:05:44
  summoned to an audience with the king to demonstrate the effects
• 1:05:47
  of his latest potion, and one after another, those potions
• 1:05:50
  failed to live up to the promise that the Chief Alchemist had
• 1:05:53
  made. Now Swig was in front of King
• 1:05:56
  Noglin's court once again, and something in the King's eye told
• 1:06:00
  him that this was the final chance to impress.
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  Thankfully, he had a potion in hand that he was sure would be
• 1:06:06
  its success. What have you brought me today?
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  The King's asks as he looks down upon Swig.
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  The Alchemist realizes that the throne room had gone quiet, and
• 1:06:16
  everyone stares at him and waits to see what will happen next.
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  I've brewed a powerful. Potion, Swig begins, trying hard
• 1:06:24
  to not to reveal the sheer terror that he feels in the
• 1:06:26
  moment. This potion will give the
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  drinker the strength of 1000 goblins.
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  Think about how useful that will be to your army, my handsome and
• 1:06:37
  truly powerful Ging. The strength of 1000 goblins,
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  you say? King Noglin repeats.
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  That would be something. Hey Kunks, how many goblins
• 1:06:49
  would you say you have the strength of maybe three?
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  Can you imagine having the strength of 100?
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  The burly goblin in rusty armor with a large helmet covering his
• 1:07:00
  face knots as he is dressed by the king.
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  I am excited to see this potion in use.
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  King Noglin continues as a large grin spreads across his face.
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  So why don't you take a drink? Swig.
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  The Goblin Alchemist is confused.
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  Excuse me, he mutters. Take a drink.
• 1:07:19
  King Knuckling repeats. If you think your potion is
• 1:07:23
  going to work, guzzle it down. Let's see what the effects of
• 1:07:27
  Super Goblin strength look like. I I would be honoured to drink
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  the potion, my ever wise and tolerant king swig stammers.
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  But I'm not a warrior. Such incredible strength would
• 1:07:39
  be wasted on the likes of me. Drink that potion.
• 1:07:44
  The Goblin King commands. All mirth is gone from his
• 1:07:47
  voice, and it is clear that Swig has no choice.
• 1:07:50
  King Noglin's patience is at an end, and he has to do as he's
• 1:07:54
  told. Gogs help our Chief Alchemist
• 1:07:58
  take a drink. King snaps.
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  The rusty armoured goblin bounds forward and snatches the potion
• 1:08:05
  bottle out of Swig's hand. For The Alchemist can say
• 1:08:08
  another word. He feels the cold armour of a
• 1:08:09
  gauntlet Fry open his mouth. Fluid is poured down his throat
• 1:08:13
  and he begins to choke. Spit it up and the next thing
• 1:08:17
  down your gullet will be the tip of a blade.
• 1:08:21
  King Knocklin warns Swigs swallows hard and the guard
• 1:08:25
  large goblin releases him. The elixir tastes horrible and
• 1:08:28
  it burns as it flows down. Swig swigs throat and into his
• 1:08:32
  stomach. Well.
• 1:08:34
  The Goblin King questions. He moves to the edge of his seat
• 1:08:37
  to get a better view of the scene below.
• 1:08:39
  Do you feel any different? Do you feel strong?
• 1:08:44
  Swig considers the question. He doesn't feel anything other
• 1:08:47
  than a bit nauseous as the potion swells in his stomach.
• 1:08:50
  Let's try out your new abilities.
• 1:08:53
  King Knocklin continues. Punch conks.
• 1:08:56
  Go ahead, give him your best shot.
• 1:08:59
  If you really have the strength of 1000 goblins, then this
• 1:09:03
  should be interesting. Swig takes a deep breath.
• 1:09:06
  That makes a fist. He raised his arm back and
• 1:09:09
  punches the large goblin square in the middle of his chest arm.
• 1:09:13
  Ouch. Sweet girls.
• 1:09:15
  As his hand cracks against the steel chest plate, Gonx does not
• 1:09:18
  move. As expected.
• 1:09:22
  The king say, shaking his head. Another failure Gonx show our
• 1:09:26
  pathetic little alchemist what a punch really looks like.
• 1:09:30
  Swig looks up just in time to see Gonx's fist coming towards
• 1:09:33
  his face. Then everything goes black.
• 1:09:38
  Ouch, my head, Sweet Gum brawls as he starts to wake up.
• 1:09:42
  He's lying on his back and he can feel the dampness in the
• 1:09:44
  air. He does not need to open his
• 1:09:47
  eyes to realise that he's in the dungeons of Gob Hollow.
• 1:09:50
  The now former alchemist begins to roll over when he feels
• 1:09:53
  something pressed close to him. He turns the other way and feels
• 1:09:56
  another body and another. His head's pounding from the
• 1:09:59
  blow he took, but he begins to open his eyes.
• 1:10:03
  His vision's blurry at first, but as it clears, he's surprised
• 1:10:06
  by what he sees before him. Standing over his body, looking
• 1:10:09
  down into his eyes, there's a vision of himself.
• 1:10:12
  Swigs first thought is that someone has placed a mirror over
• 1:10:15
  him for some reason, but that thought melts away as soon as
• 1:10:18
  what he first assumed was his reflection speaks to him.
• 1:10:22
  Hello SWIG, I'm SWIG. The other swigs looking down to
• 1:10:25
  him says what the heck, goblin alchemy shelves as he jumps
• 1:10:29
  back. This is when he sees the other
• 1:10:32
  goblins are imprisoned in the large cell with him, wall to
• 1:10:35
  wall for as far as the eye can see.
• 1:10:37
  In the gloom of the dungeon, all he sees is himself.
• 1:10:42
  It's the sea of swigs. Take it easy, the goblin he
• 1:10:47
  called himself. Swig says.
• 1:10:49
  You are understandably confused, but let us explain SWIG.
• 1:10:54
  Would you care to do the honour since you figured it out first?
• 1:10:58
  Another goblin, identical in every way to SWIG and all the
• 1:11:02
  other goblins in the cell steps forward.
• 1:11:05
  Thank you, SWIG. He says with a nod to the first
• 1:11:08
  goblin, before turning to Alchemist before him.
• 1:11:12
  Hello Swig. Good news.
• 1:11:14
  Has the potion worked? Well, kind of.
• 1:11:17
  At least the potion made are the versions of me.
• 1:11:21
  Swig gasps, suddenly realizing what has happened.
• 1:11:24
  That's right, SWIG says as he turns to SWIG.
• 1:11:27
  You see, this is where we get our brains from.
• 1:11:31
  I knew he'd figure it out. After all, he's as smart as we
• 1:11:35
  are. Or more accurately, we're as
• 1:11:37
  smart as he is. I was the first SWIG.
• 1:11:42
  Well, other than you, of course, the goblin who called himself
• 1:11:46
  Swig says. And I was the 2nd.
• 1:11:49
  SWIG adds next. Once the two of us were
• 1:11:51
  coherent, we put our heads together and started to try to
• 1:11:55
  figure out what had happened. You were still unconscious, but
• 1:11:59
  we had all the same memories you had up until the big.
• 1:12:03
  Goblin knocked you out, that is. It was pretty clear once we
• 1:12:07
  talked it over, and when the other swigs kept coming one
• 1:12:10
  after another, that just made it even more obvious what the
• 1:12:14
  potion had done. Swig turns his head as he hears
• 1:12:18
  A commotion from outside the cell doors.
• 1:12:21
  See, See, I told you. What do we do?
• 1:12:25
  A pig faced jailer says to the goblin nose side.
• 1:12:28
  You said you turned away for just a minute and this is what
• 1:12:33
  you came back to. The second goblin asks in a
• 1:12:37
  cold, scratchy voice. Yes, yes, it.
• 1:12:40
  Was just a minute or two. I swear there was only one of
• 1:12:44
  them in the cell when I left, but when I came back here was
• 1:12:48
  all of them. The second goblin steps towards
• 1:12:51
  the cell. SWIG recognizes King Noglin's
• 1:12:54
  favorite assassin, a vile specimen named Nubnik.
• 1:12:59
  There is only one reason why he would be down here in these
• 1:13:01
  cells, and that certainly doesn't spell a good end for
• 1:13:05
  SWIG. What is going on?
• 1:13:07
  Here Nubnik asks the throngs of Swig look to the former Chief
• 1:13:13
  Alchemist, waiting for him to answer for them.
• 1:13:16
  My potion. Worked.
• 1:13:17
  Swig replies. He struggles to gain his feet.
• 1:13:20
  Pair of other swigs help him up. But not in the way we all
• 1:13:23
  expected. I said the potion would give the
• 1:13:26
  strength of 1000 goblins, and it did by creating exact
• 1:13:31
  duplicates. Nubnit looks at the cell before
• 1:13:35
  him, and 1000 pairs of eyes stare back at him.
• 1:13:38
  He agreed to kill The Alchemist in a painful and creative way
• 1:13:41
  for king nuggling, but this is much more than he signed on for.
• 1:13:46
  Paint me to the king. Swig says he knows that he has
• 1:13:49
  to handle the situation carefully if he hopes to
• 1:13:52
  survive. Let me show him what the potion
• 1:13:55
  has done. Trust me, he will be pleased.
• 1:13:59
  Nubnik nods in part because he doesn't want to have to deal
• 1:14:01
  with the small army of swigs in the cell.
• 1:14:04
  Better to let that be someone else's problem.
• 1:14:06
  You can come. The assassins say he's pointing
• 1:14:10
  at SWIG. We should come as well.
• 1:14:12
  Swig chimes in his emotions to Swig.
• 1:14:15
  We will prove the success of the potion.
• 1:14:18
  Nubnik turns to the jailer. Shame them together.
• 1:14:23
  Let the king decide what to do with them now.
• 1:14:29
  So as you can see, my formidable and astute king.
• 1:14:33
  Swig says as he finishes his explanation of what happened
• 1:14:36
  since he was dragged out with the King's Throne murder earlier
• 1:14:38
  that day. My potion did indeed work,
• 1:14:42
  Perhaps not as we first assumed it would, but there's no denying
• 1:14:45
  the value in this success. An elixir that would grow the
• 1:14:49
  goblin army to an incredible size.
• 1:14:52
  Think of it. Gopolo already has the largest
• 1:14:55
  army in all of Mythos, but with this potion you can make even
• 1:14:59
  greater. None will be able to stand
• 1:15:01
  against the forces of King Noglin.
• 1:15:04
  The Goblin King considers these words as he looks the trio of
• 1:15:07
  identical goblins before him. This is certainly not how he
• 1:15:10
  expected to see his former Chief Alchemist next.
• 1:15:13
  He expected that next time he saw us wig, there would be a lot
• 1:15:16
  more blood and screaming. But as much he liked blood and
• 1:15:19
  screaming, he had to admit that this was even better.
• 1:15:23
  A potion that would allow him to turn each of his best fighters
• 1:15:27
  into 1000 identical goblins. That was way better than a
• 1:15:30
  single goblin with the strength of 1000 goblins.
• 1:15:33
  You've done well SWIG. The Goblin King remarks.
• 1:15:37
  You can resume your position as my Chief Alchemist.
• 1:15:41
  I expect you to start brewing some additional batches of this
• 1:15:44
  potion right away. There is a war coming and Gob
• 1:15:49
  Hollow will be ready with the biggest army that the realm have
• 1:15:54
  met us has ever seen. The goblins gathered in the
• 1:15:59
  King's throne room cheer at his exclamation clanging shorts and
• 1:16:03
  Shields together in a raucous cacophony.
• 1:16:05
  If I may ask one thing more studious and a magnificent king.
• 1:16:09
  Swig says with a bow. What shall come up the other
• 1:16:12
  swigs. The dungeon is filled with the
• 1:16:15
  effects from my drinking of the potion.
• 1:16:17
  What are your plans for them? The two swigs, standing next to
• 1:16:20
  the chief alchemist, look on intentively as they wait for his
• 1:16:23
  answer. Their fate rests in the next
• 1:16:25
  words out of the King's mouth. Knuckling smiles and adjusts his
• 1:16:29
  large crown. These two shall assist you in
• 1:16:32
  your work. He says he points to SWIG and
• 1:16:34
  SWIG. After all, I will need one of
• 1:16:38
  them to continue that work should anything unfortunate
• 1:16:42
  happen to you. SWIG swallows hard at this
• 1:16:45
  comment. The thinly veiled threat does
• 1:16:47
  not go unnoticed. The rest of the swigs shall be
• 1:16:51
  centered to cross the ram. They will be my eyes and ears in
• 1:16:56
  the corners of every Kingdom on the map.
• 1:16:58
  My army will be vast, but it must also be well informed.
• 1:17:03
  Send out my army of swigs and let the round prepare for the
• 1:17:08
  rise of Gob Hollow. Once again, the room erupts into
• 1:17:13
  cheers and exclamations at the King's words.
• 1:17:16
  Gob Hollow's army is vast, and it will now grow even greater.
• 1:17:20
  Now is the time to rise. Now is their chance to show
• 1:17:23
  their true power. Now is the time of the goblins.
• 1:18:01
  The.