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!
While the Kickstarter campaign in the spring of 2023 allowed you to pledge for a half dozen different named dinosaurs. It also allowed backers to purchase “blanks” of the various mold options.
I have picked up other anthropomorphic dinosaur action figures before. These include Saurozoic Warriors from Boss Fight Studios, as well as 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 making a custom figure and starting with more of a blank slate is more appealing to me than just painting over all the previous colors. Yes, Ideas from Mars did use 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 that with more of a 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 comes with the same 17 points of articulation, removable armor, and multiple accessories as if he were 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 arrived in a clear poly bag with this simple “Create-An-Infantry Warrior” header card, awaiting the day when it can finally be customized.
Also ,I don’t know of any retailers that stocked the blank figures, so they’re likely the most rare figures in the line, including the Kickstarter exclusives. This means if you’re interested in painting one up yourself, you’ll likely have to seek out this dinosaur on the inflated secondary market.
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