If you haven’t gotten your hands on the Kokomo Toys Exclusive Vitruvian HACKS Atelis Warrior then you are seriously missing out!
One of the stand out figures from the first series of Vitruvian HACKS, the Atelis Warrior is a fun new concept with great paint applications and a ton of cool accessories.
Head on over to my Vitruvian HACKS Review Page or click the link below to read my review!
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In spite of how utterly awesome the Vitruvian HACKS Gorgon figures are, there has been some demand among the collector community for Gorgon “foot soldiers”. Snake creatures that run around on two legs rather than slithering on their spectacularly engineered, articulated tails.
Well, for Kokomo Toys’ most recent exclusive, Boss Fight Studio did just that with the Atelis Warrior. The majority of the figure is repurposed from the Amazon template, with the standard female buck, Amazon skirt, leg armor, and gauntlets, except we get Medusa’s chest armor and arm gauntlets to compliment it. Along with that we get both different variations of the Gorgon head, the “calm” version and the “screaming” version which adds a very nice layer of customizability to this fun troop builder.
Putting aside all the great extra pieces, just looking at the figure itself, this is a spectacular looking new type of Gorgon soldier. The green skin color is a really great, unique shade of green that is different than any other shade before it, an almost pale, faded hue, complimented by intricate and fascinating tattoo work throughout. As an “Altered Amazon” this figure has a neat back story, and built upon the already terrific Boss Fight Studio female figure buck, it’s a poseable and well balanced fighting machine. The overall presentation of the figure is terrific, with the Amazon Skirt complimenting the Medusa armor to perfection, giving us a figure that is truly inspired by the Amazon Warriors, but has some really great Gorgon elements.
Accessories
The Atelis Warrior comes with an excellent assortment of great accessories. Her weapons are a nice gold sheen and she is loaded. This tailless Gorgon comes with two swords, two snake whips, one snake knife, two helmets (one Myrmidon and one Gorgon), and the Gorgon shield, allowing for many awesome variations of accessory load outs. Being able to swap out the head and arrange the weapons in so many different ways gives collectors a wealth of options for posing various different Atelis Warriors. As you can see, I bought several for this very reason.
The Atelis Warrior is a ton of fun. A great Gorgon figure worked into the fantastic female base figure adds a fun new element to the Vitruvian HACKS mythology and is an exceptionally fun figure to boot. Great stuff from Boss Fight Studio and huge kudos to Kokomo Toys for pulling off this great exclusive!
Summary
With the articulated tail being such an awesome part of the Gorgon figures, who would have thought that a variation of these snake ladies with legs instead of a tail would be as fun as it is. Surprise, this figure is fantastic! The paint deco is great, she has a ton of really awesome accessories and including both types of Gorgon heads gives her all sorts of army building capabilities. Great stuff here from Boss Fight Studio and Kokomo Toys.
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It’s been an exciting ride over the past year and it’s with mixed emotions that I post my review for the final three main figures in the Series 01 Vitruvian HACKS line! These three figures are the final wrap up to the Greek Mythology series (at least barring the upcoming Kokomo Toys exclusive) and they are certainly ending on a very high note.
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To say I was pleasantly surprised with the Helios Warrior we received a short while ago would be a massive understatement, so at least I was somewhat prepared for what to expect from the Eos Warrior that just arrived at my mailbox last week. Even being so prepared, however, I found it difficult to contain my excitement over getting yet another God and Titan inspired enchanted warrior to fight against the Gorgon Horde.
While Helios is the Greek Titan representing the sun, his sister Eos is a “titaness” or goddess representing the dawn. It makes sense for the two siblings to work together in order to provide supernatural help to human kind.
Like the Helios Warrior, the Eos Warrior is produced with a fantastic translucent orange hue which I can only explain as “blood orange”. It’s a distinctly different, more vibrant color than the translucent orange blank and creates this look that truly feels representative of solidified flame.
I was pretty amazed at how similar this female figure is to her male counterpart, from the figure’s base color, to the rich candy apple red of the armor, to the Phoenix logo on the torso armor as well as the shield itself. They even come with the same accessory compliment.
Like the Helios Warrior, this figure is vibrant and striking, immediately standing out on display among even other colorful offerings. There is an exceptional punch to the color contrast, resulting in a spectacular looking aesthetic that truly feels handed down from the Gods. As with every figure we get from Boss Fight Studio, the construction, articulation and design are spot on, each color choice nearly perfectly complimenting another, and pairing the Eos Warrior next to the Helios Warrior just creates this perfect book end experience and I enjoy having them as additions to the Spartan/Gorgon conflict.
If anything I wish Boss Fight had dipped into more supernatural entities like Poseidon to reflect other environments. Of course, there are blanks available to do this for anyone who truly wants to…
Accessories
The Eos Warrior comes with a nice variety of accessories, with the Amazon torso armor, skirt, and leg armor and the same Gorgon/Amazon gauntlets that most female warriors come with. She also has three separate swords (the same ones that Helios Warrior came with) and a great Phoenix deco shield.
Eos Warrior looks spectacular and comes with some really great accessories, almost perfectly complimenting the Helios Warrior’s look and feel. I love the colors, love the concept and really like how this figure came out.
Summary
This daughter of the Goddess of the Dawn Eos is a great addition to the growing army to fight against the sinister Gorgon Horde. Leveraging the same overall color scheme as the Helios Warrior with some enhanced articulation (thanks to the rocker ankles of the female figures) we get a spectacular additional supernatural flame warrior that is just as impressive as her male counterpart. Even more so.
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Throughout the past year we have received several different types of Gorgons with many different paint decos, so it seems only appropriate that the last release of Greek Mythology figures contains a pair of new Gorgons, and a pair of really striking new Gorgons at that.
The Anakritis Gorgon is based on the pattern of a neon Garter snake with some excellent, vibrant colors and an intriguing pattern across the surface of the snake’s skin. Without the armor, this very cool pattern continues along the flesh of the creature underneath and creates a very cool aesthetic.
Released with the “screaming” Gorgon head, the Anakritis is developed as an interrogator of sorts, a sinister member of the Gorgon Horde, colored in an excellent shade of blue and red. I love the way the two colors compliment each other on the skin, both exposed and hidden behind the armor. Certainly, the Boss Fight folks have limited tooling to currently work from, so repaints are prevalent, but the difference between how Boss Fight handles repaints and other, more mainstream companies do, is that Boss Fight really digs into the reason and purpose behind the repaints and puts together some terrific deco choices, so even repaints feel fresh, appealing, and new.
One word of caution – if you’re tempted to remove the gauntlets from the Anakritis’ arms, use a hair dryer or heat gun and be very careful. Mine were able to be removed fairly easily, but they did cause some paint wear on the forearms underneath. Nothing drastic, but something to watch for.
Accessories
I’m glad Boss Fight went in a different direction than the typical sheath, sword, helmet, shield for their accessory compliment, however these particular Snake Blades did end up a little warped out of the package. Far from a deal breaker, and these weapons seem to be the only ones that suffer from that occasional malady, but I did want to mention it. I really love the vibrant metallic color shade of the blades and the shield, which contrast nicely with the flat almost stone texture of the armor and Gorgon skull helmet.
I’m on board for whatever Gorgons that Boss Fight Studio decides to produce, and the Anakritis is no exception. I love the way the bright colors work off of each other, I like the back story, and the accessories are decent as well. This figure builds upon the existing base of Gorgons well, but also stands apart on its own quite nicely.
Summary
Exciting, vibrant colors, the awesome screaming Gorgon head and an interesting new backstory, the Anakritis Gorgon is a great addition to the ever-growing Gorgon Horde. I did have some minor issues with the forearm paint and weapon warping, but those issues are minor in the grand scheme of things and the figure ends up as an excellent addition to the Vitruvian HACKS line.
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