{"id":18002,"date":"2015-01-18T00:00:51","date_gmt":"2015-01-18T05:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=18002"},"modified":"2015-01-15T16:05:43","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T21:05:43","slug":"gothitropolis-cardinus-fantastic-exclusive-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2015\/01\/gothitropolis-cardinus-fantastic-exclusive-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Gothitropolis: Cardinus FANtastic Exclusive review"},"content":{"rendered":"

For all the technical details on the sculpt (absolutely no complaints) and the articulation (there's plenty of it, but it might require some boiling\/freezing to get moving), please visit our Decimus Hrabban review<\/a> - this review is just about the differences on one specific variant.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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When the Four Horsemen launched their Kickstarter<\/a>, they had six birds ready to go - the raven, of course, but also five others. Our fourth variant is \"Cardinus,\" based, of course, on a cardinal. The bird, not the priest. Though the bird is<\/b> named after the priest, because of its colors. The churchy ones wear red.<\/p>\n

Cardinus has red plumage, offset beautifully by black and gold armor. That means he's also the first variant bird whose weapon - a staff with the spiked mace head on one end, and a sharp spike on the other - really looks like it belongs to him, rather than just being something he was handed. His loincloth is purple, which we have to assume is a color joke<\/a>. His feet are dark grey.<\/p>\n

The cardinal head is pretty good, with one exception: the feathers on the top of his head. A cardinal's crest doesn't stick straight up, like this toy's does, it points toward the back. So Cardinus looks better from the front than from the sides. He's got a nice short beak, painted gloss orange, and there are black feathers around it and his eyes.<\/p>\n

Also, since the Horsemen already had this head, we're surprised they didn't make a blue jay<\/a>, too.<\/p>\n

<i>And now, some more OAFEry:<\/i><\/H5>