{"id":20545,"date":"2015-10-30T00:00:57","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T04:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=20545"},"modified":"2025-03-25T21:00:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T01:00:50","slug":"heroes-of-the-storm-mystery-minis-stitches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2015\/10\/heroes-of-the-storm-mystery-minis-stitches\/","title":{"rendered":"Heroes of the Storm Mystery Minis - Stitches"},"content":{"rendered":"

This isn't part of the Horror Classics<\/i> or<\/b> Science Fiction Mystery Minis<\/i> lines, but honestly, he could fit in either.<\/p>\n

This comical-looking chump is Stitches, a World of Warcraft<\/i> character. No, there aren't specifically WoW Mystery Minis<\/i> - like NECA, Funko went for Heroes of the Storm<\/i>, which is some kind of... Super Smash Bros.<\/i>-style team brawler or something? I don't know. The point is, it's an excuse for Blizzard to throw all their original properties into a blender and make them fight. Warcraft<\/i> vs. Starcraft<\/i> vs. Diablo<\/i>, with all sorts of violent punching.<\/p>\n

Stitches is a level 23 elite named abomination found in Duskwood, and if you play WoW<\/i>, that probably all means something to you. For the rest of us, he's some sort of gross Frankenstein flesh golem created by a necromancer to threaten a town. He's also apparently a knockoff of some character in another game<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The normal Stitches figure<\/a> takes his standard design<\/a> and gives it the usual Mystery Minis<\/i> chibification. But Heroes of the Storm<\/i> is a \"freemium\" game, and so it has a lot of alternate skins you can buy. For instance, if you're willing to pay $10 for something you won't actually own, you can make your Stitches look like a chef: tall white hat, apron, all that. He even gets a silly mustache and pointy goatee, to make him extra Frenchy. His apron has a gaping hole in the front, allowing his ribs, guts, and... stomach-fangs(?) to poke out. Even his weapons get makeovers: the cleaver he holds in his right hand becomes a giant ham hock with metal spikes and a bite taken out of it; the hook in his left hand is now on a string of sausages rather than a chain; there's another string of sausages draped around his neck (again, with metal spikes poking out); and the sickle he holds in the little arm that comes off his back is now a frying pan with two eggs in it, and he's wearing an oven mitt. There isn't a single piece of Chef Stitches that's the same mold as the regular version.<\/p>\n

Honestly, I would have been happy with either version of Stitches, but I wanted the chef one more - it's silly fun. And while the Heroes of the Storm Mystery Minis<\/i> are blind-boxed just like everything else, they're also evenly packed: there are 12 figures in the series and 12 boxes in a case; with no chase figures, you're guaranteed a full set if you buy a case. And since Stitches is one of the biggest, weightiest figures in the lineup, it's easy to figure out which box has him in it.<\/p>\n

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