Recommended music: Hank Williams Jr. – Dinosaur
This #WhateverWednesday, we’re taking a look at another great action figure. It’s the Ideas From Mars Defenders of Eden: Armies of Ashmore Infantry Warrior Blank!
The Kickstarter campaign in the spring of 2023 allowed you to pledge for a half dozen named dinosaurs. It also allowed backers to purchase “blanks” of the various mold options.
I have previously picked up other anthropomorphic dinosaur action figures. These include Saurozoic Warriors from Boss Fight Studios and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Triceratons from NECA Toys. However, this line gave me another option. Besides those lines being scaled much smaller than this 8.5″ beast, their character offerings were already established as coming with a character-specific color scheme.
The idea of creating a custom figure and starting with a blank slate is more appealing to me than painting over all the previous colors. Yes, Ideas from Mars used this head and body combination with the Armies of Ashmore line for General Cerros and Rydoor, but I didn’t want another blue or green Triceratops; I want one with a more prominent red color scheme.
Unfortunately, I have yet to paint him up, so the blank figure still resembles more of an action figure test shot or prototype. In the meantime, we can just pretend he’s a statue of an unknown dinosaur army soldier. Fortunately, he includes the same 17 points of articulation, removable armor, and multiple accessories as a named character. These include an axe, three pairs of hands, a helmet, and a shield. Unlike the regular characters that arrived in beautifully detailed window-packaged boxes, the blank one here came in a clear poly bag with a simple “Create-An-Infantry Warrior” header card, awaiting the day it can be customized.
Also, I don’t know of any retailers that stock the blank figures, so they’re likely the rarest figures in the line, including the Kickstarter exclusives. This means that if you’re interested in painting one yourself, you’ll likely have to source this dinosaur on the inflated secondary market.
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