Harvinger Studios, Savage Crucible

Watched a video podcast (is that even the correct term?) with some guys from Savage Crucible. I've watched one with Rob, the owner, before but this time he had some other people from the company as well. Skipped through it to get highlights. They were fielding questions from fans.

There will be more base plate style items in the future. I didn't place a preorder in time, but I may check them out once they're in stock.

They talked about the story concept for Savage Crucible being a world or place where beings from disparate places and times come together. So they talked about potential anachronistic elements. For instance, if someone came to SC with a revolver, what happens when they run out of bullets. Rob mentioned putting the revolver on the end of a stick and using it as a club. It was asked if a character would have a boomstick, and he mentioned yes. I believe they've mentioned cowboys, so I think/hope a cowboy character is in the works.

There will be more Michael Moorcock Eternal Champions. They mentioned 2 coming but did not mention names. This reminds me I need to track down more Moorcock novels. I've read the Eternal Champions novels (3 or 4). And some Elric. Need to try the other characters.

Lots of questions regarding various Frazetta artwork, so I'm assuming they have some kind of deal with Frazetta beyond the Warrior with Ball & Chain and Death Dealer. Someone asked about John Carter artwork, and Rob said it was a possibility.

Someone asked about the concept artwork they used to have and specifically about some kind of 4-armed character. They later specified which artwork, as Rob said they have a couple of multi-armed characters in the works. The person was asking about a robot or knight character and it was said they wouldn't be in the line for at least another 12 months. The multi-armed answer made me think of the Tharks from John Carter. Combined with the John Carter answer, makes me think a potential holy grail of John Carter and Tars Tarkas may be happening.

Someone asked about Buck Rogers. Guess Frazetta made some artwork for him. Rayguns were mentioned but I didn't get the idea it was something in the immediate future.

It was mentioned they don't really believe in repaints. And that each figure should have something unique parts-wise to it. Obviously they have slates in wave 1 and 3, but he could also be talking about accessories. I think they want to make figures somehow unique beyond just paint.

Someone asked about including pants in accessory packs. Doesn't sound like something they've considered, but there will be more characters in pants and several different types of pants in the future.

Wave 4. When asked about when wave 4 will be revealed, they said it may have already been revealed. Or at least part of it. It's gotta include the dwarf and goblin. Not sure if they've really shown off anything else. They've talked about it before, but they also stated they've learned to keep waves smaller. It's more manageable to release and with less figures to make, they can make them quicker. If a wave is large, one little thing can hold up the entire wave.

Rob mentioned having negotiations recently with some more licenses. No real hints.

Collegiate Legends was mentioned. They said they're expanding the line to include something like 15 schools. They rambled off school names and they seem like a lot of southern schools. Interesting they're expanding the line so rapidly.

I'm sure I'm forgetting other bits, but there's at least a bit to chew on.
 
Thanks for that breakdown Ash - much appreciated!

In addition - there's a "sneak preview" of designs of a few future works in the final pages of their second graphic novel. They've asked that people don't post the pages so I'm hesitant to do so, but this was a few months ago...
 
2 more Eternal Champion characters... Hell yes! I'm betting Corum is for certain getting made. I'd wager the other is either an Elric variant or Jerry Cornelius. If it's the latter, I'll start questioning reality.
 
Got my first figure in this line, Jaeger, this morning. Question for anyone who has him in hand - is there a bicep swivel? It looks like there is, but both biceps are frozen AF on mine and before i go blasting him with too much heat I want to make sure there actually IS one. His shoulders were pretty stuck too, but ran him under hot water for a few seconds and now he's moving smooth as silk with the shoulder joints, but the heat didn't seem to help the biceps.
 
Got my first figure in this line, Jaeger, this morning. Question for anyone who has him in hand - is there a bicep swivel? It looks like there is, but both biceps are frozen AF on mine and before i go blasting him with too much heat I want to make sure there actually IS one. His shoulders were pretty stuck too, but ran him under hot water for a few seconds and now he's moving smooth as silk with the shoulder joints, but the heat didn't seem to help the biceps.
He definitely has bicep cuts. I use boiling water when loosening up figures and have never had a problem, so I suggest you soak him up to the bicep in boiling (I mean water from a kettle, not like actively boiling) water for several minutes then try.
 
Thanks for confirming. I didn’t want to overdo it but gonna bitching with more heat to loosen those up. His other joints were fine though—some interesting design choices for the elbows and knees but I dig it.
 
Jaeger is the only wave 2 figure I don't own now, and I still don't really feel any desire to own him. Especially hearing there'll be more figures with pants in the future - which is the only part of that figure I was interested in. I do hope they also re-use the furry parts (I'm sure they will) for different bugbear(?)-style figures in the future.
 
Jaeger is the only wave 2 figure I don't own now, and I still don't really feel any desire to own him. Especially hearing there'll be more figures with pants in the future - which is the only part of that figure I was interested in. I do hope they also re-use the furry parts (I'm sure they will) for different bugbear(?)-style figures in the future.
I remember in one of the early podcasts the sculptor Kevin Delies mentioned that Jaeger was designed to make use of werewolf parts that they already had sculpted and wanted to tool - making Jaeger technically the "re-use" of a figure that hasn't been shown yet, I guess. If they were so eager to tool those furry parts during the production of wave 2 it makes me think we'll see that figure earlier than wave 4.

Also, I am one of the suckers who bought him mainly for the pants. I don't dislike the vibe of a werewolf monster hunter rogue guy, but I found something off-putting about the armour style and colouring, and I don't like the visual similarity to some of Geralt's armour.
 
Jaegar's gonna represent the rogue in my 1/10 D&D party. I love his stupid eyepatch. I just gotta find him some obnoxiously large daggers.

That spot was initially going to be occupied by the upcoming Mythic Legions K’ai Pacha, but you guys bullied me.

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To be fair, K’ai Pacha is the Mythic Legions figure I get antsy about getting sooner every time I see him. The colors they chose for the head / fur are phenomenal.

The eye patch sold me on Jaeger. I'm having wonky vision problems lately and my new soft spot goes to figures who are straight up "this eye betrays me so it's on time out" eyepatch figures, and I'm always a sucker for a sort of werewolf type. (Love the Shifters from the Eberron books.)
 
but you guys bullied me.
I think the word you're looking for is empowered you.



1/10 D&D party.
I've seen you mention this before and it makes me so sad because I was in the midst of a project to turn all the most memorable D&D characters I could think of (mine and others I've played with or DM'd for) into figures in one big display using HACKS parts. Then Boss Fight collapsed under the weight of an egotistical, greedy shithead and here I am kinda not even wanting to look at the figures I'd put together, let alone make more, and certainly can't bring myself to buy more figures for the parts I'd need to continue. Depressing.

I'm kinda into the idea of doing it in 1:10 now, but I can't imagine how long it will be before the parts library is where I would need it to be. If ever.



I remember in one of the early podcasts the sculptor Kevin Delies mentioned that Jaeger was designed to make use of werewolf parts that they already had sculpted and wanted to tool - making Jaeger technically the "re-use" of a figure that hasn't been shown yet, I guess. If they were so eager to tool those furry parts during the production of wave 2 it makes me think we'll see that figure earlier than wave 4.
I thought I remembered something about that. I'll wait and see, though, because I'm sure things will change and have changed, so who knows if that figure they were 'pre-tooling' for will end up coming out any time soon now that they've thrown in stuff like Elric and they're also going to be doing the football shit and the mascots.
I'm fully on board with a furry dude in armor... just not that armor, to your next point.


but I found something off-putting about the armour style and colouring
I think the armor on Jaeger is atrocious. Truly, and by far, the worst design of fantasy armor I've seen on an action figure in a long time. I have been, and will continue to be, endlessly critical of how that made it past the sketchbook. It's just bad. I'd argue that the biggest problem with it is the lower torso. It's so thin (obviously to be interchangeable with the rest of the line and make it all fit together in the same way), that it doesn't look like he's wearing armor so much as he is wearing spandex with armor printed on it. Like a bad cosplay outfit.
Then he's got this weird chest armor halter top over it that's completely disconnected from the design underneath that's (I assume) supposed to be coming out from below it? I don't know what's going on. It's just fucking bad.

The chest-mounted daggers sticking up into his face are dumb, too.

That entire figure could have been saved with all the armor being an overlay piece like Death Dealer. They're really going to struggle to make any non-science fiction, or traditional-style armor look right with a super skinny abdomen and a larger upper torso sitting overtop of it. That's just not what armor looks like, and the issue is that even if you don't think of it in those terms, if you've ever seen movies or TV with human beings wearing armor, that stuff is probably going to hit your eye wrong.



(Love the Shifters from the Eberron books.)
Eberron is a great, underappreciated, setting. Shifters are the first thing I thought of when I saw Jaeger, but I wasn't sure if anyone would even get the reference.
 
Eberron is a great, underappreciated, setting. Shifters are the first thing I thought of when I saw Jaeger, but I wasn't sure if anyone would even get the reference.
It's a setting I want to run as-is some day, but in the meantime I borrow LIBERALLY form it. Keith Baker (and team) knows how to write a killer setting. Shifters shift into other settings really smoothly, or at least cleaner than Kalashtar and such. "Look, my dad was a werewolf, we don't like to talk about it, but..."
 
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