Four Horsemen Studios Mythic Legions

PantherCult said:
So I will chime in as a 'pin guy'. I don't wear them on my clothing but I do pick up cool pins I see for properties that I don't want action figures of but want to support or whatever. I have a flap on one of the messenger bags I use at cons that is festooned with pins. I wouldn't go out of my way to get this exclusive pin... but I have a pin of Castle Greyskull, for example.

I used to adorn my SDCC lanyard with pins, but that got heavy and a couple fell off so I stopped that

Disney people know tho... there is a whole Disney pi-trading world that makes us here look like casuals.
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Right on, that's cool man! You seem to be more of a casual pin guy versus the disney people with the pins alllll over the place! I liken that to the "patch" collector thing - my boss and I got into target shooting and he kept getting me these patches for my gun bag. Now these are pretty neat and all, but they just sit in a drawer because I don't want to look like one of those "Tacticool" guys at the gun range.

https://imgur.com/a/WESzAK6
 
docsilence said:
Didn't Penny Arcade/PAX have an entire line of "Pinny Arcade" collectible pins for years? It's for sure a subculture. Not sure how big an overlap it has with Mythic Legions but it's there.

(I dug through my dice bag and found those Beadle & Grim pins. B&G does not screw around. You could kill a man with the Zhent pin.
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Yeah, Mike Krahulik went to Disney and became enamored by the trading structure and social aspects of it, so made his own line for PAX to encourage community interaction.

Blizzard has internal pins for a similar employee system. They fetch a pretty penny to outsiders. Nintendo, too.

They're big in Streetwear - Supreme, Bape. Whenever friends go to Tokyo, they always get me B-Side pins. I don't ask for them. It's just their in-house aesthetic (it's graphic design heavy streetwear/alt girls) totally screams Matt to anyone I know, those people don't even interact with each other.

Artists can hit it big with enamel pins. Stanley Louw pin drops usually go for 50+ a piece. Same for bands.

It's a very deep subculture once you get into it, there's plenty of good faith trade groups on social. Most people I know use cork board to make their walls glitter.
 
I recently bought a few pins that were too good to pass up. Scotty J holding a boom mic from Boogie Nights. The portrait of Tony Soprano on the horse. A cutesy Gengar. A cutesy BMO.

My wife started collecting pins a few months ago. She bought a round frame like the ones you'd use for cross stitch (I'm sure there's a name, but I can't find it on a cursory Google search) to display her pins on her office wall.

All that said, neither of us wants a 4H pin.
 
I didn’t even think about having pins on bags that one actually makes sense to me so do lanyards. I am going to go ahead and claim that I didn’t think of these because I have been be able to go to a Con or maybe it’s Friday and my brain doesn’t want to think before posting. If I ever make it to a Con I am going to have to finally put some of my pins to use.

Disney I had heard about but I figured that pretty much existed just within the parks and hotel grounds. I wonder if I could take my 4H pins and trade them at Disney for pins my kids might actually want.
 
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superdoug55 said:
Disney I had heard about but I figured that pretty much existed just within the parks and hotel grounds. I wonder if I could take my 4H pins and trade them at Disney for pins my kids might actually want.
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Employees have to do something with their trades. I had to trade a song for an Ariel and a Running Man for an Elsa because I had no pins to "buy in".

So it's possible.
 
I forgot about the entire crazyness that happens every year at SDCC at the Marvel booth about the Skottie Young pins. He does a different series of pins every year and they sell them in a blind bag format with 'rare' ones driving over-buying etc. I have a bunch of Skottie Young pins that have just been given to me as the extra castoffs from people hunting rares
 
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Didn't know he did that but it totally makes sense with his art. I bet there's fist fights on the shuttles and hotel lobbies.
 
I don't care about companies doing all their tchotchke bullshit like pins and whatever. But the absolute gall of making a fucking pin some kind of stretch goal in your action figure Kickstarter masquerading as a TTRPG Kickstarter. My god.
 
Damien said:
I don't care about companies doing all their tchotchke bullshit like pins and whatever. But the absolute gall of making a fucking pin some kind of stretch goal in your action figure Kickstarter masquerading as a TTRPG Kickstarter. My god.
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That's really it.

The Ashley Wood Kickstarter for his art book about his action figure line only offered one action figure stretch goal and it wasn't even hit. Everything else was art focused, from extra prints to posters to pins. And the stretch goal was just a soft goods jacket.

All that's to say, how about some dice at least if you're going to throw some plastic crap my way. You know, something table top related.
 
PantherCult said:
I mean there are easy things they could add on in an RPG context... like a good dice tower, maybe? Or a labled dice bag? A dice tray? special counter/tokens?

If they were at all serious about the RPG angle they'd think along those lines
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All of those things could be done with the 4H symbol worked into it to make them unique as well. If I was into the game all that stuff would appeal as stretch goals if they were included in the all in game reward without adding additional cost to me. As someone that is only in it for figures (I don’t have anyone near me to play RPGs with).

I think the split between the game and figures is what may be hurting the stretch goal choices. Typically the more people that buy the game it lets you find extra items but here I don’t know if as many people are buying the game as they thought. That may mean that the cost of game extras is not working out for them unless they baked it into the figure prices as well.
 
PantherCult said:
If they were at all serious about the RPG angle they'd think along those lines
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Literally every single thing in this campaign shows they are not serious about the TTRPG part of the TTRPG Kickstarter. It's actually, as a TTRPG player, borderline offensive.

This is an action figure Kickstarter. That's literally all it is. Take away the book they might never even produce and I bet the funding goals wouldn't even change. It's all about making toys. I have no idea why they even felt the need to dress this up in a TTRPG trenchcoat.
 
It really is an interesting Kickstarter. The whole reason they chose to go to Kickstarter was because it was such a good TTRPG advertising platform. Yet, the game has very much not been the focal point of the campaign - it’s still action figures. At the same they are showing restraint by only having a dozen or so figures and not the 40+ Advent of Decay blew up to. They easily could have put these figures and accessory sets up on their site no problem. Going to Kickstarter to get more traffic for the game made a certain amount of sense but then to not do everything possible to hype up the game is counterproductive.
 
I dare anyone to even tell me anything about the game that this Kickstarter is ostensibly -for-.
I'll wait.
 
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