I got it too.
You can tag me anywhere, technically.
The comic was decent. It made me interested in the other characters (I was familiar with most of them already).
Wait..... what?
The Archer episode "The Papal Chase" Archer says he's worried about the Swiss guard because they're all using halberds. When Lana points out those are ceremonial, Archer agrees because they were made obsolete by the arquebus. Typing it out, I realize it's not the straight-line it was in my head. Something about Archer's specific pedantry reminds me of you talking about swords 'n' shit.
Oooh! As big an Archer fan as I am, I did not remember that part at all.
That was also my first thought, but I suppose technically it could go in the other direction, that they've tooled all these unique weapons already to prepare for their solo releases but wanted to squeeze a bit of extra money out of them by throwing them in this deluxe pack? Unlikely though.
He won't be Crucible compatible in terms of part-swapping, unless it's by coincidence. Almost all the joints are completely different to SC. But he looks like he'll scale well with them, and his overlay clothing and accessories should probably be fudgeable with crucible figures.
Possible? But I'd be very surprised, since that's kind of a reverse to what we generally expect. Unless all those characters are literally right around the corner and this is basically a 'pre-re-use.' Tooling is the expensive part. Tooling up all those accessories 'just for later' without the offset to the cost of actually selling entire figures to go with them? Would definitely be a weird way to do it. But by the same logic, it's weird to do it even if you -aren't- going to make all those figures because you're still paying for the tooling and deco on a bunch of accessories that, quite honestly, probably don't move the needle for very many collectors.
Oh, for sure. But if that deluxe set didn't exist, how many people would have just skipped Conan entirely, like 'nah, if only there was a more expensive deluxe version with a few extra weapons that don't even belong to this character!' I imagine probably like... none. Not to say no one cared about or bought the deluxe. They absolutely did. I'm only saying 'if they hadn't done that AT ALL, would it have negatively impacted sales?' I don't think so.