Got my order today, haven't gotten too far with them but like them a lot in person.
The sets with the interchangeable parts, I don't understand why companies don't make it clear with the item descriptions which base bodies the extra calves, arms and heads will match in terms of skin color and what not. I am guessing there are parts for each of the three "savages" in a set but hard to tell for sure.
Wish they would produce some additional army builders. Seems like easy sales to me when they fire up the factory for the next waves.
I imagine they didn't think the extra parts would be overly complicated because each of the original lizard dudes has their own specific color scheme. If you're getting black with white patterns, for instance, it's obvious that it only matches the black with white patterns lizard.
For the humans it's a bit more complicated because you're mostly looking at skin tones. Obviously the black hands go with Nashorn, but it's worth noting that the human skin tone hands (so I'm old) only technically go with Who-Man and Krieger, as Frazetta Warrior has a slightly different skin tone. They didn't look different to me in person, but as I've pointed out many times - colorblind.
This is also the biggest reason I bought Krieger and Who-Man. It's a shame they didn't release a "slate" or "savage" to army build the humans with. The cynical part of me suspects that was deliberate to get us to army build the more expensive characters, but their stated reason was that they didn't think they could make decent humans without paint apps the way they did with the Lemurians.
I imagine their explanation may have some truth to it but also be an oversimplification: Making a blank human would basically require new forearm, calf, and feet. That's probably the root of the problem right there. None of the existing humans have completely bare arms and none of them have lower legs that don't actually require paint in order to look right. So to offer something with virtually no paint, they'd have to make all new stuff that won't require paint to look good.
Seems minor, so I'm not sure why they couldn't do that. But they were definitely stretched thin on what they were offering as it was, so who knows. I know people love Jaeger (I do not, so take this with a grain of salt), but that figure is all new sculpting compared to the humans. If it were me, I would have put that money into developing a human blank and maybe one more accessory set. That seems like it would have made a lot more sense.
Anyway.. I really want to use my extra parts, but I also really don't want to take apart my Frazetta Warrior, so.... guess I'm stuck not doing it or spending a ton of money on figures I don't technically want.
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