Four Horsemen Studios Mythic Legions

[Damien]

I have a question: is anyone into the Mythic Legions lore?

Didn't we spend like 10 pages shit-talking their 'lore' in reference to the Kickstarter? You can't really be into the lore because there isn't any. It's just ad-hoc bullshit with the stupidest names they could get out of doing a bunch of crack and smashing their feet on the keyboard.

Unfortunately for @spinc, I think like four of us are the core market for his toyline. Haha.

 

[Reefer Shark]

This is largely in line with the sort of toy line I've always wanted to make, although my idea was a little broader - it would offer "generic" versions of all sorts of characters, from myths and legends to retro sci-fi heroes and Western cowboy types.

On a related note, I have a question: is anyone into the Mythic Legions lore? I've never really looked into it, but it's always felt sort of tacked-on. I find the line more appealing when I can imagine the figures to be characters from my own imagination. That said, I understand why the Horsemen do it - you need to call the figure something to distinguish it from other figures, and a lot of collectors do expect some sort of name/bio and so forth.

Honestly I'm only aware of their lore because I know it exists. I've never been interested enough to even read any of it. They are just knights and villains to me. And really my main attraction is from heavy nostalgia from when I was a kid and would ogle over the display cases of those knight figurines for hours deciding which one I would take home (huge bonus if I got to get one on a horse!).

The Camelot stuff is the first property they got into that interests me, though I really do not like their version of Excalibur at all. When I get that King Arthur figure eventually, my Savage Crucible Excalibur is going straight to him.

Didn't we spend like 10 pages shit-talking their 'lore' in reference to the Kickstarter? You can't really be into the lore because there isn't any. It's just ad-hoc bullshit with the stupidest names they could get out of doing a bunch of crack and smashing their feet on the keyboard.

Unfortunately for @spinc, I think like four of us are the core market for his toyline. Haha.

Hey hey - definitely count me in on @spinc 's line - so we're at 5 lol

 

[docsilence]

On a related note, I have a question: is anyone into the Mythic Legions lore? I've never really looked into it, but it's always felt sort of tacked-on. I find the line more appealing when I can imagine the figures to be characters from my own imagination. That said, I understand why the Horsemen do it - you need to call the figure something to distinguish it from other figures, and a lot of collectors do expect some sort of name/bio and so forth.

For all the money I've spent on this line, I honestly, as someone who like, writes lore as part of my job, find Mythic Legions lore/flavor text almost offensively bad. The last two releases felt more coherent, so I'll give them credit for improving, but until the werewolf wave I always thought their lore felt like if you ran the ramblings of a toddler telling you about his toys through Babelfish into a few different languages and then back into English.

But I prefer to look at them as blank slate figures to project my own head canon stories onto, so I just sort of ignore the lore and always have.

 

[Poe Ghostal]

Frankly one one of my biggest issues with the lore is that as as 47-year-old guy, the text on the side of those packages is impossible to read, even with reading glasses.

Haven't they had some comics and stuff though?

 

[secondwhiteline]

Isn't their lore just basically a bunch of resumes? "This guy fought in a coliseum but now he doesn't." "This guy's an assassin and he wants to assassin harder than everyone." "This guy's a knight from the heroic religious fanatics doing a crusade on the subhuman races."

They should just make LinkedIn pages for their characters. The inspo might actually be fun.

 

[Reefer Shark]

Isn't their lore just basically a bunch of resumes? "This guy fought in a coliseum but now he doesn't." "This guy's an assassin and he wants to assassin harder than everyone." "This guy's a knight from the heroic religious fanatics doing a crusade on the subhuman races."

They should just make LinkedIn pages for their characters. The inspo might actually be fun.

haha as silly as it sounds, I actually like your linkedin idea!

 

[secondwhiteline]

haha as silly as it sounds, I actually like your linkedin idea!

"A chief of a raiding party invited six orcs for an interview. By 7:00 a.m., they had all arrived in armor and the skins of their enemies. He told them to wait.

By 3:00 p.m., 3 had left.
By 6:00 p.m., he came and met only 2.
They got the job ransacking farming villages and trade outposts.

That was the interview.
A test of PATIENCE."

 

[docsilence]

"A chief of a raiding party invited six orcs for an interview. By 7:00 a.m., they had all arrived in armor and the skins of their enemies. He told them to wait.

By 3:00 p.m., 3 had left.
By 6:00 p.m., he came and met only 2.
They got the job ransacking farming villages and trade outposts.

That was the interview.
A test of PATIENCE."

TOO REAL!

Though in all seriousness:
War veteran. Former gladiator. Hero. Leader of the armies of Barbarians. Would be enough to describe one of their characters.
Wizard. Lore seeker. Member of the Council of Basawhatever. Retired aventurer.
Orc warlord. Seeking revenge. A creature of rage and military might.

Just keywords as a bio actually could work.

 

[Reefer Shark]

TOO REAL!

Though in all seriousness:
War veteran. Former gladiator. Hero. Leader of the armies of Barbarians. Would be enough to describe one of their characters.
Wizard. Lore seeker. Member of the Council of Basawhatever. Retired aventurer.
Orc warlord. Seeking revenge. A creature of rage and military might.

Just keywords as a bio actually could work.

haha I agree and that would save them at least twenty minutes of "writing" from what they usually do, right?

Seriously though, I do think that would be cooler since that's all these figures really need for most of it's audience.

 

[Red Ogre]

"A chief of a raiding party invited six orcs for an interview. By 7:00 a.m., they had all arrived in armor and the skins of their enemies. He told them to wait.

By 3:00 p.m., 3 had left.
By 6:00 p.m., he came and met only 2.
They got the job ransacking farming villages and trade outposts.

That was the interview.
A test of PATIENCE."

That hiring manager's name? Albert Einstein.

 

[Mint In Boks]

I got a processing soon notice for the Highland Warrior, so even though Big Bad said “it only comes with two heads” it must be the exclusive version right?!

 

[GrumpyMatt]

They haven't offered the regular version, yet. I feel like it has to be.

BBTS did briefly have some LegionsCon exclusives, too. If I remember correctly.

 

[docsilence]

I got a processing soon notice for the Highland Warrior, so even though Big Bad said “it only comes with two heads” it must be the exclusive version right?!

I am hovering over the cancel button because fuck overpaying for NOT getting the exclusive head (I preordered before reading the fine print), but part of me is thinking there's no way 4H is organized enough to send BBTS the stripped down version six months early. BBTS had it estimated for arrival in 4th Quarter 2026 so it was at that point a safe bet it was the basic version, but 4H haven't even offered the basic on their site.

 

[bat]

I am hovering over the cancel button because fuck overpaying for NOT getting the exclusive head (I preordered before reading the fine print), but part of me is thinking there's no way 4H is organized enough to send BBTS the stripped down version six months early. BBTS had it estimated for arrival in 4th Quarter 2026 so it was at that point a safe bet it was the basic version, but 4H haven't even offered the basic on their site.

Holy crap, $80?! Is that largely a BBTS markup or have the 4HM gone completely insane? Would have guessed $45.

 

[docsilence]

Holy crap, $80?! Is that largely a BBTS markup or have the 4HM gone completely insane? Would have guessed $45.

That's been the BBTS markup for the "get all the fancy stuff" con exclusives for a while now. It's an insane markup but 4H hasn't, at least as far as I can remember, ever offered the con exclusives on their own site, but BBTS can get a small amount.

Now that you've pointed that out I'm gonna cancel, that's almost two savage crucible figures. I preordered figuring I had eight months to change my mind since 4H NEVER ships early and that they might put up the cheaper version on their own site by then. Mostly just a precaution preorder (FOMO kicked in cos I didn't get the Warrior/Revenant when BBTS had it and he actually came with a lot of extras.)