Harvinger Studios, Savage Crucible

altcunningham said:
I would love Samurai. Playing Yotei right now and I'm just hoping a third party takes a stab.
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I was eyeing up Timber and wondering if any female figures that aren't too expensive right now would be a good base for Atsu. Unfortunately, I just don't think the right combination of parts exist out there to make something I'd really be happy with.

I stayed away from the XesRay Roman stuff because I didn't love the more cartoony proportions and I also DGAF about Roman stuff.

Now I'm just pissed at XesRay because it feels like they went from the human characters having a pretty strong historical realism right into the same bullshit fantasy nonsense as everyone else; naked people in furs. Fuckin' lame. They had so much potential. Especially given a lot of the teases years ago suggested more semi-accurate historical Celts.

I WAS going to get the minotaur, but by god those things are pricey in Canadian goose feathers.
 
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On display at Titans toy expo at the Savage Crucible booth. They teased a collab announcement for this event on the last livestream so I guess that's Fish Toys/D20 doing a Death Dealer horse. Don't have any context for the polar bear other than it most likely being for the Frazetta silver warrior, the art for which is partially visible in the background.
 
Sweet Christmas. I would LOVE a Silver Warrior but if the average mount from lines like this is like 80-120 bucks, four polar bears would be staggering. Would be cheaper to buy four sets of the Snake Eyes MASS Device set and fudge the scale. (Though a bear that is between the Classified size, small but reasonably priced, and Mythic Legions, obscenely big and expensive but balls out in scale, would be interesting to see.)
 
Assuming them selling the silver warrior with 4 full sized polar bears is out of the question, I wonder how they will sell it? 2 pack? Or warrior as one SKU then the polar bear as another? Will they even do the sled chariot thing?
 
If I were to guess, I'd say that Silver Warrior gets a solo release, then maybe the sled and each bear as individual releases as well? It would certainly be a BOLD move to sell that as one complete set only.
 
That bear sculpt looks mostly really nice, but their double joint style of choice looks ROUGH on an animal sculpt. It's like it's wearing furry shorts & socks. They've got to find a way to streamline that overlap a bit.
 
altcunningham said:
According to the stream, Elric is delayed, vaguely. Soft goods cape supplier ghosted them, may have gone out of business.

You guessed it. Frank Stallone.

No, Tariffs.
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That suuuuuuucks! I'm really looking forward to that release. And the prototype cape looked really good. Hopefully this won't set back the company too much. I couldn't imagine keeping your cool if you got ripped off on a scale like that.
 
FuzzyBlueDemon said:
That suuuuuuucks! I'm really looking forward to that release. And the prototype cape looked really good. Hopefully this won't set back the company too much. I couldn't imagine keeping your cool if you got ripped off on a scale like that.
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He seemed pretty chill about the news. Very Que sera, sera.

When he discussed it, he talked about how we have a western idea of what Chinese manufacturing is versus what the reality is, and why tariffs are the issue. It's more Father Son businesses than you'd think, was his point. I wish I had a time stamp for you. I had it running while I was drawing.

I remember that was part of Mezco's stumble during COVID and after. They used to be able to go and have a guy who would just walk the market stalls and look for all the fabrics they wanted. Obviously a lot changed from 2019 and it was one of the reasons they had a lot of the delays.
 
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Was intrigued but unsure about this little dude with the unpainted prototypes but I'm completely sold after seeing this. He scratches some kind of gobliny kobold gnome itch that I didn't know I had. This is my first time paying attention to the smaller bodies but I only just realised they have significantly less articulation than the full sized figures. Guessing they will have more/larger accessories to compensate.
 
It's really hard to see the articulation on the smaller guy. And in certain poses, the articulation on the regular figures isn't always super obvious. Like the butterflies are mostly visible from the back of the figure rather than the front. If anything, I'm guessing maybe the smaller figures only differ by having single-jointed elbows and knees?

And yeah, I'm ready for some figures that change up the overall shelf silhouette, like our little goblin friend there.
 
That's a very cool little guy. Not sure how I'd slot him into my fantasy head canon - he's got redcap vibes to me, or maybe tommyknocker? Pukwudgie?
 
Damien said:
It's really hard to see the articulation on the smaller guy. And in certain poses, the articulation on the regular figures isn't always super obvious. Like the butterflies are mostly visible from the back of the figure rather than the front. If anything, I'm guessing maybe the smaller figures only differ by having single-jointed elbows and knees?
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They seem to be missing the diaphragm joint and bicep swivel along with the double jointed knees and elbows. They seem to have butterflies of some kind but on the prototype that D Amazing had of the dwarf they were very minimal. But they are just prototypes so obviously that could change. Interested in seeing how they maximise that elbow joint on the gnome thing since his biceps are fucking huge.
docsilence said:
That's a very cool little guy. Not sure how I'd slot him into my fantasy head canon - he's got redcap vibes to me, or maybe tommyknocker? Pukwudgie?
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I was thinking of a brownie? Or like a Dragonlance gnome but slightly more evil/mischievous. I feel like the inventor angle goes against traditional forest sprite vibes and leans more into Warhammer's gnomes and goblins.
 
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