I dunno how y'all feel about mechs but all of the 24th mechs I've gotten can fit a SW woman in the pilot seat so they can all work as 18th mechs. Apologies to you guys' wallets but there ain't no reason mine should be the only one suffering.
Agh, don't tell me this! I'd weeded out the 24th mechs on the grounds that the "only" reason I was considering the 18th ones was to scale with the dinos in my Beasts of the Mesozoic display....
Sympathies to your wallet, but some can even fit 18th dudes:
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I dunno how y'all feel about mechs but all of the 24th mechs I've gotten can fit a SW woman in the pilot seat so they can all work as 18th mechs. Apologies to you guys' wallets but there ain't no reason mine should be the only one suffering.
Agh, don't tell me this! I'd weeded out the 24th mechs on the grounds that the "only" reason I was considering the 18th ones was to scale with the dinos in my Beasts of the Mesozoic display....
Sympathies to your wallet, but some can even fit 18th dudes:
www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1724753314585921&type=3
Ha, no Facebook so it doesn't exist to me! 🙂
Is that the Iron Wrecker Space Operations mech? Cuz that's definitely one I was eyeing.
And who are we kidding, I just ordered the Iron Wrecker Tactical Mecha off Amazon cuz it was $60 with a coupon for another 12% off...
Is that the Iron Wrecker Space Operations mech? Cuz that's definitely one I was eyeing.
Indeed. I've modded it by moving the rockets up to the waist so it can work as a spacepod with the legs removed, and added some Kotobukiya mecha-arms in place of the belly pouches; but the interior is very roomy for 18ths.
The mechs with this type of torso are the tightest-fitting for SW ladies. I had to mod the bicycle-style seatback to fit Fennic Shand in there. You can see it to the left of the right leg here: you put the figure on the seat then slide it all down into the torso, and her knees kept hitting the lip of the hatch.
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The worst has come to pass. Worst for my wallet.
For those that didn't see it; Joytoy has shown off the set of Stormcast Eternals figures from Age of Sigmar. Presumably if those do well we're going to see more Warhammer Fantasy stuff from Joytoy and that, my friends, could be the end of me. Lucky for me, the 'fantasy space marines' are actually the thing in Warhammer Fantasy I care about pretty much the absolute least, so.... fairly safe for now. Although I'm gonna get one. Because of course I am.
In the meantime, I do finally have a few minutes to put together some thoughts about the figures I got. I like them, but after a very little research, it seems like I did buy earlier-generation marines. So I'm finding it hard to criticize anything because it sounds like at least some things I don't particularly like here have already been corrected and I'm just way behind the times.
The big issues for me, and I'm allowing for the obviously limiting nature of the designs themselves, is the pauldrons and wrists, with neither having nearly enough ROM. Makes posing a bit tough. In particular those pistol poses are weird because the arms have to be kept kind of low and.. .it's FINE, but not -good-, if that makes sense. And the wrists just don't have the range I'd like to see but also it's not exactly bad. Just, again, not -good-.
I do think it's kind of hilarious that it feels like the giant, chunky space marines with the obviously limiting designs feel more poseable than the Cadian commander. But again, I believe later-made human-type characters are scaled a little better and move a little better, so....
The fiddly bits are indeed fiddly and bitsy. I'm finding doing things like changing the empty holster for the pistol-in-holster to just be awful. Probably would work way better if I heated everything up, but I just wanted to see how everything works right out of the box. Not the end of the world, but definitely not something I feel good about trying to change on the fly without dragging all the figures to the kitchen to boil some water.
Paint is phenomenal. The amount of shading and edge highlighting and stuff on these things actually kind of blew me away in person. Pretty good allotment of accessories where it makes sense (a lot less with the Ultra who has the giant gun, but that makes sense given the gun is FUCKING GIGANTIC). They just look really, really good.
I'm already annoyed that it sounds like the scale has actively changed with these, so my figures may end up being small compared to newer ones. Guess we'll see as the collection grows.
I still have a bunch of things at various stages of being shipped to me. I've heard a lot of the Ali sellers started using a different shipping company recently and I'm definitely noticing a difference compared to previous orders I've made on that site. Lots of stuff where the tracking just stopped updating for several days and the package has apparently not moved from the distributor here in Canada (you know, the part of the shipping process that should go the fastest -- the after customs part). So.. looking forward to eventually having more figures to mess with. Definitely can't see myself not getting a bunch more of these. Goddamn.
I've also convinced myself that the Space Marines are only actually ever going to TRULY look badass if I have an entire Cadian regiment for them to be bigger and scarier than.
The worst has come to pass. Worst for my wallet.
For those that didn't see it; Joytoy has shown off the set of Stormcast Eternals figures from Age of Sigmar. Presumably if those do well we're going to see more Warhammer Fantasy stuff from Joytoy and that, my friends, could be the end of me. Lucky for me, the 'fantasy space marines' are actually the thing in Warhammer Fantasy I care about pretty much the absolute least, so.... fairly safe for now. Although I'm gonna get one. Because of course I am.
I did not properly absorb this fact when you first posted it, and now I am sharing in your peril. If they actually start doing some unique units rather than the endless riffs on space marines they do with 40K, I am screwed. Larger-sized creatures and I may actually have to sign the overtime list at work next quarter...
@cmoney Right? This could be catastrophic.
It's all speculative. Maybe it will not be successful. Maybe it will be but not enough to warrant the resources on JT's part to carry on. Maybe they'll just do that thing so many import companies seem to do and make zero actual sense in their release strategies. Haha.
But if it does well and they expand this line to have a similar release schedule to 40K, AND step outside the safe zone of 'fantasy space marines' - all a lot of IFs, I could end up buying way too many of these.
So I've fallen pretty deep down the rabbit hole and I already have like 14 Warhammer figures with more on the way.
I just got the SM2 figures and I share the concerns and confusion that seems to be prevalent with this line right now. Like.. what's happening? Is JoyToy adjusting the scaling for the figures, are these just a one-off to match better with the game... what? Frankly, the old Primaris Marines are too small. Honestly, they're probably a touch too small to even actually be firstborns.
So the SM2 figures are more accurate height for Primaris Marines, but in that case everything needs to be scaled up except for the humans (who, actually, are sometimes too big and that doesn't help things). It's just really confusing. The difference between SM2 and older marines is so big that I don't even love having them displayed together as Primaris and Firstborn, because it still doesn't look right.
Also, I don't love the proportions on SM2. The legs are too long, so they have this kind of lanky look to them rather than the chonky look of the earlier figures. And the head ROM seems to be worse on these guys than on earlier marines. I will say that the shoulder movement on SM2 figures is MILES better than the old figures and I would love to see this implemented in all future marines, regardless of how they're being scaled. I wish all the other marines we have could pull off these upper body poses.
Definitely just wish JoyToy would comment on this and explain what's going on so I even know where my collection should be headed. I feel more confident right now getting 30k figures because those are all Firstborns and I can at least deal with them being a little too small. But I don't want to buy a bunch of 40k Terminators, for example, only to have JoyToy start releasing tons of Primaris guys that are way bigger than my Terminators. I dunno....
I also grabbed a 30k Grey Slayer, because I love me some Space Vikings, and was disappointed that, despite this also being a new figure, it has the older style shoulders with the pauldron on a plastic ring. Really inhibits range of motion and seeing the SM2 figures it's crazy to know how much better they could be doing this. Still a great figure, though.
I don't think I've seen any evidence of an English-speaking PR front from JoyToy. Or Chinese-speaking, for that matter.
Sadly, this is $400, but wow:
https://twitter.com/Joytoy_official/status/1895534440505610445
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