As someone who grew up with most of my toys coming from dollar tree, I would have absolutely loved these. I hope some kids out there are having a great time playing with these
As a 33 year old man that has like 30 mezcos, I love these. I have all the villians, the villian weapon packs, and the first character he showed. I'm going back for more villains for army build. Great review!
Why is Donald Trump pretty and I am not? But why does he only have a wife but I have TWO HANDSOME GIRLFRIENDS who I show off in my masterpiece YT videos? Do you know the answer, dear tim
When I first got my own set and was impressed by how amazing they are for the price I was hoping Ashens would get his hands on them. If anyone could appreciate these it's him and this video didn't not disappoint!
I'm starting to think that Hasbro's focus is WAY too broad to allow any form of 'quality' to be present in their products. Just look at the 'Soccer Mom Leia' figure that Ashens showed off
@@thatonebritishidiot3037 Yeah, the transformers toys I'll give you. It's just that everything else they make has worse quality than it did before. Granted, where I've encountered it the most (games published by Avalon Hill/WOTC) is a market they don't seem too concerned about (they release like maybe 1 new game or remake a year at the very least)
@@owllymannstein7113 Yep, the Arrow ATV will have an armor pack and a weapon pack. We're also getting in wave 2 a human in purple with a hood and blades on his arms, the robot dog, a Mech Warrior-looking bot, and another Kharn, plus probably more weapon packs. I imagine that guy that disappeared from the cartoon will also get a figure.
How amazing would these be to a parent with limited means. For $10 your child could have a large assortment of figures and accessories. Very impressive value.
Funny you should say they look “Halo-y” because I hid a bunch of these in my Halo shelf and nobody ever notices them next to the standard Halo Marines.
'Lost his left arm and was gravely injured during the first Kharn raid' I love the way that's writen, it implies he lost his arm but not in the fighting, like it just fell off one day and he couldn't find it; not that he was injured in the fight and that's why he's missing an arm, like what was he doing before then to lose his arm?
A five knuckle shuffle kerfuffle. More than the arm probably shot off that day, I can tell you. Probably stressed out by being put into the team of "Woke Warriors! Reeeeeeeeeeeeee!"
no , if it hits a male it has blue explosions if it hits a female it has pink explosions , this is in a futuristic era where they realized that gender reveal parties have more casualties than conventional war weapons
wild to see ashens talking about dollar store figures and not just relentlessly bashing them, these actually seem like decent figures with a fair amount of effort put in, good on them honestly
As someone who works at a Dollar Tree, I can tell you that these have about 70x the amount of effort that anything else in the toy aisle has. They're actually fucking awesome!
@@jamjamcamjam for the money, at least. I could see a kid being happy enough with them, if they had poor parents. It's a great compromise between quality and production cost minimization. If they did some more episodes of the show, maybe using volunteers from an art school to keep costs low, they could create a franchise! 😁
Man! When i went to the dollar store as a kid the best you could hope for was some proprietary sized ninja figure that broke into razor sharp shards in .1 femtoseconds after prying it from it’s cardboard, which in and of itself was struggle due to the 200 twisty ties that binded the two!
2021: the year an English UA-camr got me excited to go to freakin' Dollar Tree tomorrow morning to buy cheapo action figures. The Space Future is Now! Edit: And now they're in my house. Just under $20 for all.
@@Senbei01 You can buy the whole set with accessories from Dollar Tree for about $19.25 (tax included) if you pick them up in-store. I have a store that's like 5 mins away with stock of them. I'm seriously tempted to get them despite having no actual reason to.
If these had been around when I was a kid I might have actually gotten a whole set of action figures for once instead of the random motley bunch I had lol.
As an adult, yeah, the vague regions seems cheap, but then I realized that it's 3+ and I don't think I knew how to pronounce mozambique when I was 3 sad onions.
@@dubuyajay9964 There are at least two. Ashen mentioned it. I can't remember, but I think he said they're on Dollar Tree or Dollar General's official UA-cam page.
@@Chaos89P Dollar Tree; and I watched the 9+ minute episode. I'm the only comment (and it was posted in November) and I said that it was awesome for the wrong reasons, but also bad for the obvious reasons. It looks like it was made 20 years ago, optimistically; but for what it is, I'd say it's pretty good. The second episode is a 35 second short. Super-cringe-inducing, but if I was like 8 and this was 1995, I'd be all over it! LOL :-D
Their advertising is so bad that when I saw these in store I assumed these were unsold overstock from another store and not Dollar Tree original. It didn't help that they only had two different figs.
Its probably the best way for kids to start an army builder, which is something I, and many other kids couldn’t do. With the villains being only a little over a dollar, they can get a couple to really add the play value.
@@misterbiscuit3706 used to play homebrew or weird custom axis and allies ir little wars marches with plastic army men and whatnot with friends, poor man's warhammer and brings back great memories
You're welcome one and all for this glorious video. It shall forever be a highlight of my life, being able to send this line to the best bloody tat man that has ever reviewed tat.
@@Chef_Alpo depending on where you are, they can have really decent fresh vegetables. I visited my grandma in LA a few years ago and the one near-ish her house had really good asparagus,
As a kid in the 80s who had a dad who was .. "careful" with money .. if he knew i could get a full action figures set for under £15! id have had those every other Xmas lol
I quite like that while they are katana adjacent, shift’s swords are actually a kinda unique design vs generic east Asian w/ katanas regardless of if that makes sense with where they’re from
well, she is trained in all the fighting styles, so the swords reflect that, bit of katana, bit of longsowrd, bit of cavalry saber, bit of big manky timbersaw a drunk is attacking you with. all the best swords rolled into one
She's not your typical girl, really appreciates the bragging rights of handcrafted workmanship with a touch of the unconventional. Purchased them off Etsy.
I've bought my fair share of cheap action figures (and those crappy wooden dinosaur skeleton model thingies) from Dollar Tree when I was a child Got me feeling nostalgic about something I've never even heard of...
In the early 90s my mom had $200 of Dollar Tree stocks when the stock first hit the market she ended up selling it two months after buying it to pay the electric bill, I still cry to this day that we could’ve been millionaires off of that $200. Rip😭
You have a gift for making cheap toys sound absolutely fascinating, you really sell it. ☺️👍 Also, "soccer mom" action figure doesn't look like Leia at all.
The Dollar Tree I go to suprisingly has some decent stuff this past year and a half. I haven't checked the toy section in awhile though. Might have to do that next time
Yeah. The Drones as your standard cannon fodder enemies all over the place, Brutes as the heavy guys you need to try and skirt behind, and Synthoids as the level bosses. Someone should make this.
Yeah, especially with the stats and the descriptions of weapons and such. This kind of has a squad based shooter feel behind it. Like watching when he showed and read out Ruck's deal I was like "well, there's my character."
@@Squiddy0912 They really do look like one of those mini-boss enemies that prompt a response of "hold down the fire button until the rocket launcher runs dry and strafe like crazy".
There's bits of a lot of video games mashed together with GI-Joe in these. Halo and XCOM 2 in particular stand out as potential sources of design elements.
I'm always glad to see actually decent toys from dollar stores. I mostly think that it gives less fortunate kids a chance to have some good toys. Also, I kinda want to buy the aliens...
As said it's different all over, some place don't even have sales taxes. Some places charge sales tax, but not on food. Others have sales tax on everything including food.
cause higher taxes for public health care, good public transport, time off work for child care and sick leave as such is so awful. especially when that tax load is mostly dumped on the rich who got more money than sense... so awful.
@@spencers4121 Indiana has 7% on almost everything, except for most types of food. Junk food and Fast food does have Sales Tax but if a junk food item has enough nutritional value or enough of certain ingredients it will not be taxed. Kit-Kats and Twizzlers are not taxed for example.
Every Dollar Tree is different and many figures you could find at one, you won’t find at others. I’m obsessed with Dollar Tree. 7.5% sales tax where I live.
Some get every General Mills cereal that fails test-marketing or otherwise doesn’t sell. Box sizes range from under 10 ounces to 24 or more, expiration dates a few months in the future, and of course they’re $1. I buy them to give away. I don’t know if people will be happy to get 24 ounces of Fruity Lucky Charms...
@@markiangooley Fruity Lucky Charms 😂😂😂 That’s the best name ever for a failed cereal. I have never seen GM cereal but that’s cool that some places have it. Some kids will eat anything
'Lost his left arm and was gravely injured during the first Kharn raid' I love the way that's writen, it implies he lost his arm but not in the fighting, like it just fell off one day and he couldn't find it; not that he was injured in the fight and that's why he's missing an arm, like what was he doing before then to lose his arm?
man, Ruck and that robot totally have bootleg Gundam feet, it's the same shape, same ankle guard, and knee armour as a few 90's gundam designs lol god the way Ashens says gundam fills me with rage
Well, now I have to see if I can find the Heavy Arms set. I swear, I spent WEEKS checking Dollar Trees to try and get a full set, and I still managed to miss stuff.
You know the whole modular things kinda make sense if you buy a weapon pack and all characters from x can use it even new ones down the line such as the synthoids and such
that's actually amazing, they clearly put a lot of thought into the characters and even the weapons. The finger through the gun trigger also impressed me.
Only Ashens can keep me riveted to the screen for 41 minutes. Also, besides getting the figures you're getting a back story for the characters and their war. That alone is worth tons.
I bought two of each of the villains a few months back and they look pretty great next to some Star Trek figures. The arms popping out caught me off guard but I like how a kid could create his own alien creature if he wanted to.
OMG I bought the synthoid thinking it was just cool as hell looking. It is literally on my shelf above my screen right now with the add-on gun things for the back pegs!
Also, you can find those The CORPS figures at Walmart here in the US, or at least used to, still might be able to now. I know they used to turn up around Christmas with a shitload of huge vehicles and playsets.
The vehicle sets were mostly awesome. I think one was a little iffy. However, that multipack of figures, I don't remember that at Walmart. Figure 2-packs, yes, but more than that, I'm not sure...
Wow this is actually one of the best toy lines I’ve ever seen just because of the high quality and creative figures for a dollar$ and they’re getting two more series? WITH VEHICLES ALSO FOR A DOLLAR?!
I think now is the time for the Ashens fan community to start a Final Faction fan site and fanfic hub. That’ll make the execs at Dollar Tree either really excited or very confused.
I've seen some of these at my local Dollar Tree in Tacoma. I wanted to buy the Shift figure, but just haven't yet. I didn't realize the creators were doing a cartoon as well. I wish Cheetahmen had this much success.
12:20 "The cold valleys of Austria"? **looks out the window** Okay, that's more like "the rainy hilltop of Austria"... but close enough. (Sergeant Arnie would have been too on the nose, eh?)
I find it funny that I have a Dollar Tree five minutes from my front door, and have probably walked right past these action figures and didn't even give them a second glance. And yet if Ashens lived here in the states, he'd probably freak out over Dollar General and Dollar Tree stores we have here. Just because of all the new and novel tat he's never seen. :)
Saw the monster designs a few weeks ago in there. Looked actually to have some level of quality. Honestly thought it was some reject mobile app game toy line or something.
This is a fantastic toy line! Wonderful sculpting, no reused or duplicated parts, sturdy posing, figures can hold their arms, and even extra weapon packs? Even the card art is different for each figure and there's actual printing on the back. All around this is great quality.
Just picked up the whole line today, felt great to spend less than 12 bucks on the whole line. It's also nice to go into a store and find the figures on the pegs.
First thing I basically always do is check the runtime of these. Over 40 minutes makes me a happy little Cheapskate. Can't wait till Urinevision 2021 & we get Pel & Auli & Ashens all together again. I miss Barshens.
@@fireandcopper nah, it won't, at least not the way it was. Bars was a little bit kinda why they switched formats. It seems pretty clear he's not exactly, uh, a Cheapskate himself, and would definitely probably cut off any, say, Off Brand Brand Off that may arise, for instance. I am writing this with voice to text because I gave Slepp all my bones years ago (plus a few that weren't mine) by the way...
They can hold their own weapons and the eyes are roughly in the right spot. As far as cheap action figures go this is luxurious.
Slaves are getting very good at painting!
@@liquidslow 💀
As a kid dollar tree had a lot of good cheap toys during the early 2000s
I just bought this set from the dollar store yesterday lol
its odd because alot of dollar trees toys are made even cheaper then poundlands
As someone who grew up with most of my toys coming from dollar tree, I would have absolutely loved these. I hope some kids out there are having a great time playing with these
When I saw these at dollar tree this year I was so surprised that these looked good in quality for something from dollar tree
As a 33 year old man that has like 30 mezcos, I love these. I have all the villians, the villian weapon packs, and the first character he showed. I'm going back for more villains for army build. Great review!
This is way better than those shitty ninja figures that end up cracking down the middle when you take it out of the package
That moment when Ashens does a way better job of advertising and generating interrest in a toyline than the company that produced them.
Why is Donald Trump pretty and I am not? But why does he only have a wife but I have TWO HANDSOME GIRLFRIENDS who I show off in my masterpiece YT videos? Do you know the answer, dear tim
@@AxxLAfriku the answer is your apparent insanity
@@AxxLAfriku Sir, this is a Wendy's
He just sold me a set lol
When I first got my own set and was impressed by how amazing they are for the price I was hoping Ashens would get his hands on them. If anyone could appreciate these it's him and this video didn't not disappoint!
I am genuinely shook that they can actually hold their guns firmly, a feat Hasbro can't even hack on toys that cost 20x this.
The Corps figures have this problem too
Yeah I don't know how they do it.
I'm starting to think that Hasbro's focus is WAY too broad to allow any form of 'quality' to be present in their products. Just look at the 'Soccer Mom Leia' figure that Ashens showed off
@@TheLomdr transformers toys that aren't masterpiece are actually really good
@@thatonebritishidiot3037 Yeah, the transformers toys I'll give you. It's just that everything else they make has worse quality than it did before. Granted, where I've encountered it the most (games published by Avalon Hill/WOTC) is a market they don't seem too concerned about (they release like maybe 1 new game or remake a year at the very least)
Wait till Ashens finds out its been renewed for series 2 and 3 in the toy line. And they're making $1 full size vehicles.
Hell Yeah! Where did you find this out at?
@@valentine_puppy some toy news site. Can't remember off hand.
So Ashens saved the toy line?
@@valentine_puppy Its official, The vehicle is a dune buggy/atv thing which will have two option accessory packs to complete it.
@@owllymannstein7113 Yep, the Arrow ATV will have an armor pack and a weapon pack. We're also getting in wave 2 a human in purple with a hood and blades on his arms, the robot dog, a Mech Warrior-looking bot, and another Kharn, plus probably more weapon packs. I imagine that guy that disappeared from the cartoon will also get a figure.
'the tattooist' is an unironically incredible name for a gatling gun, holy shit
lmao yeah
I always did enjoy 'connect-the-dots'
@@monograeme I prefer to call them "the etch-a-sketch".
Yup!
😂🤣😅
How amazing would these be to a parent with limited means. For $10 your child could have a large assortment of figures and accessories. Very impressive value.
I agree! I would have been so happy with these as a kid. (I'd be happy with these rn as well to be fair)
This might be the ONLY reason to be a parent.
@David Nash I mean that's true for every single product you buy in the capitalist world
@David Nash The child slave made the ten-dollar action figure too.
@David Nash I mean the phone you're using to type the comment would probably be made by them on a remote location somewhere in China anyway.
Funny you should say they look “Halo-y” because I hid a bunch of these in my Halo shelf and nobody ever notices them next to the standard Halo Marines.
That Kharn drone could pass for an Elite pretty easily.
@@Bl4ckD0g the body for sure. the head is more of a doom imp from classic doom or 2016
@@omgiTzkittehhonestly might use some of the faction characters to make a doomguy figure
'Lost his left arm and was gravely injured during the first Kharn raid' I love the way that's writen, it implies he lost his arm but not in the fighting, like it just fell off one day and he couldn't find it; not that he was injured in the fight and that's why he's missing an arm, like what was he doing before then to lose his arm?
He lost it in a bizarre gardening accident.
baking accident
A five knuckle shuffle kerfuffle. More than the arm probably shot off that day, I can tell you. Probably stressed out by being put into the team of "Woke Warriors! Reeeeeeeeeeeeee!"
His arm just fell off? Sounds about right for a cheap toy line...
I dunno, I've heard of pets' heads falling off, so I'm sure if it can happen to animals, it can happen to super soldiers.
"And send up a differently colored cloud based on what it has hit"
Yeah, if it hits people it sends out a pink/red mist.
The technology was originally developed for Gender Reveal Parties...
no , if it hits a male it has blue explosions if it hits a female it has pink explosions , this is in a futuristic era where they realized that gender reveal parties have more casualties than conventional war weapons
This made me laugh way more than it probably should have.
@@Tomer_nur I think the pink explosions played on Jimmy Fallon last night... LOL... Just kidding....
Alt title: Ashens enjoying himself for about 40 mins.
I love how action figure "bio texts" haven't seemed to change since the 1980's.
I'm partly convinced that these ones do it as a tribute in a way, this sort of thing isn't really done anymore.
wild to see ashens talking about dollar store figures and not just relentlessly bashing them, these actually seem like decent figures with a fair amount of effort put in, good on them honestly
They even have a short show to go along with them. The level of effort, while still low, exceeds the level one might expect from the Dollar Tree.
As someone who works at a Dollar Tree, I can tell you that these have about 70x the amount of effort that anything else in the toy aisle has. They're actually fucking awesome!
@@jamjamcamjam for the money, at least. I could see a kid being happy enough with them, if they had poor parents. It's a great compromise between quality and production cost minimization. If they did some more episodes of the show, maybe using volunteers from an art school to keep costs low, they could create a franchise! 😁
@@sbrazenor2 agreed! Some more expensive toys look a lot worse
I recommend watching Retroblasting's vidio on them, there pretty cool
Being born in the cold valleys of Austria, I feel finally represented in the realm of cheap action figures
Your comment is inappropriate,
@@del-boysnostalgiatvads7416 how so?
@@sirernest546 calm down fatty,
@@del-boysnostalgiatvads7416 are you alright?
@@Thom_YIIK 🤣👈🏻
Stuart's "American" voice always cracks me up because he ends up sounding like Liam Neeson to me. 😆
Man! When i went to the dollar store as a kid the best you could hope for was some proprietary sized ninja figure that broke into razor sharp shards in .1 femtoseconds after prying it from it’s cardboard, which in and of itself was struggle due to the 200 twisty ties that binded the two!
As a parent them ties are a right pain. Christmas i normally say wait till later and i will sort it
@@turokforever007 I usually said fuck it and used scissors
Man that comment just oozed so much Ashens flavour I had to 'like' it
@@Silver_wind_1987_ need a pare of those hobby spru cutters
2021: the year an English UA-camr got me excited to go to freakin' Dollar Tree tomorrow morning to buy cheapo action figures. The Space Future is Now!
Edit: And now they're in my house. Just under $20 for all.
Honestly these figures look great
Indeed. I kinda want the whole set now just because they're so neat.
You can get the whole set, on a certain popular auction website, for about $25.
@@Senbei01 You can buy the whole set with accessories from Dollar Tree for about $19.25 (tax included) if you pick them up in-store. I have a store that's like 5 mins away with stock of them. I'm seriously tempted to get them despite having no actual reason to.
@@sbrazenor2 Just got back from 2 local Dollar Trees. Yep, under $20 for all. Yay, more plastic!
If these had been around when I was a kid I might have actually gotten a whole set of action figures for once instead of the random motley bunch I had lol.
I had the Corp figures he talked about at the end, but I only ever got 6 figures and never got anymore, haha. Would have loved these for sure.
The El cheapo figure he brought in to compare them to - I remember having a bunch of them nearly 20 years ago. The paint, the moulds - identical.
"15 year old seems a bit young for someone you'd pick to save the world"
GET IN THE ROBOT, SHINJI
Yes, and Eureka 7, too...
Very happy someone beat me to it. *sips mug*
I didn't notice how these 40 min went.
Genuinely cool figures.
As an adult, yeah, the vague regions seems cheap, but then I realized that it's 3+ and I don't think I knew how to pronounce mozambique when I was 3 sad onions.
Inb4 this video has more views than the official promo.
There's an official promo?
@@dubuyajay9964 There are at least two. Ashen mentioned it. I can't remember, but I think he said they're on Dollar Tree or Dollar General's official UA-cam page.
@@Chaos89P Dollar Tree; and I watched the 9+ minute episode. I'm the only comment (and it was posted in November) and I said that it was awesome for the wrong reasons, but also bad for the obvious reasons. It looks like it was made 20 years ago, optimistically; but for what it is, I'd say it's pretty good. The second episode is a 35 second short. Super-cringe-inducing, but if I was like 8 and this was 1995, I'd be all over it! LOL :-D
Their advertising is so bad that when I saw these in store I assumed these were unsold overstock from another store and not Dollar Tree original. It didn't help that they only had two different figs.
20 hours after release. Just shy of double. It likely has more views from ashens viewers, deflating the disparity a littlw
The real play value I see in these is that it's pretty reasonable for a kid to get a bunch of the aliens to really have a badguy faction
Its probably the best way for kids to start an army builder, which is something I, and many other kids couldn’t do. With the villains being only a little over a dollar, they can get a couple to really add the play value.
@@misterbiscuit3706 used to play homebrew or weird custom axis and allies ir little wars marches with plastic army men and whatnot with friends, poor man's warhammer and brings back great memories
Shift is the person John Cleese was training you to defend yourself with a piece of fresh fruit apparently.
You're welcome one and all for this glorious video. It shall forever be a highlight of my life, being able to send this line to the best bloody tat man that has ever reviewed tat.
"That is a chunky bugger. That is a thick boy, blimey." is probably the best/funniest thing I've heard this week.
Somebody finally let the ROTC kid in the company make a toy line. And y’know what, ROTC kid? You done good.
Somebody needs to let the Kids in the halls chaps make toys.
Who?
@@kinnikuboneman search 'kids in the hall' and 'chicken lady'.
@Jabroni Destroyer Yes. Yes he has.
@@kinnikuboneman Wondering the same thing.
The only time anyone in the history of time will utter the phrase "Well done, Dollar Tree" without being sarcastic.
@Jabroni Destroyer Exactly
@Jabroni Destroyer Dollar Tree rules what, adequacy?
@@Chef_Alpo it's pretty good for assorted stuff
just don't buy superglue there
@@Chef_Alpo depending on where you are, they can have really decent fresh vegetables. I visited my grandma in LA a few years ago and the one near-ish her house had really good asparagus,
They have cheap candy and six microwave pretzels for a dollar.
The thumbnail nearly gave me a heart attack because I thought Stuart had replaced his couch.
Of course not.
He's mentioned either selling the iconic brown sofa or throwing it out, and I dread to see that day. I hope it doesn't happen anytime soon, at least.
It's not even close to the original. I think this is number 3?
But the thumbnail shows the figures in front of the brown couch... what made you think it was a new one?
@@kjw21411 The figures in the thumbnail are closer to the back of the couch, so the texture is far more noticeable.
I think he's given it a good clean
As a kid in the 80s who had a dad who was .. "careful" with money .. if he knew i could get a full action figures set for under £15! id have had those every other Xmas lol
Might actually start looking for these. A whole neatly-designed alien figure trilogy and add-ons for like $6 is hard to beat.
Plus they are DESIGNED to army build. Gotta have a Synthoid, three Brutes, and nine Drones.
@@zuttoaragi8349 That price point just begs to army build!
Good burger
Me: "Oh good Ashens is reviewing tat again!"
*10 mins later*
I WANT
I quite like that while they are katana adjacent, shift’s swords are actually a kinda unique design vs generic east Asian w/ katanas regardless of if that makes sense with where they’re from
well, she is trained in all the fighting styles, so the swords reflect that, bit of katana, bit of longsowrd, bit of cavalry saber, bit of big manky timbersaw a drunk is attacking you with. all the best swords rolled into one
She's not your typical girl, really appreciates the bragging rights of handcrafted workmanship with a touch of the unconventional. Purchased them off Etsy.
But why do they have motorcycle brake handles on them-
They're just Attack on Titan's swords
kabal's weird cross-swords?
The Brute is very Doom
The Synthoid reminds me of the Space Crusade dreadnought
And some of Kharn weapons sound decidedly tyranid...
Drone as well, kind reminds of an Imp. The brute kind reminds a Pinky or a Baron.
@@campbellharris8999 very tyranid . Especially the flesh borer .
I thought the Drone looked vaguely Necron-y.
The Synthoids, upgraded with weapons, and the two three-finger arms look pure Mospeada/3rd Generation Robotech
I bought these for a friend's kids as stocking stuffers. I was very impressed by them
I've bought my fair share of cheap action figures (and those crappy wooden dinosaur skeleton model thingies) from Dollar Tree when I was a child
Got me feeling nostalgic about something I've never even heard of...
If Shift is trained in every form of combat, I wonder if she knows how to defend herself against fresh fruit
What about pointed sticks?
@@carlclo2988 wot about guns?
"What about plums? Red and Black?"
"And mangoes in syrup."
Ashens needs to be sponsored by the makers of Final Faction. Bloody brilliant 40 minute advert.
I wouldn't be surprised if it had a significant fiscal impact on the line like Ssseth's indie game reviews. I hope it does.
@@forgottencameras Another man of culture, I see. 🎩 *tips hat*
In the early 90s my mom had $200 of Dollar Tree stocks when the stock first hit the market she ended up selling it two months after buying it to pay the electric bill, I still cry to this day that we could’ve been millionaires off of that $200. Rip😭
That, or you could have had 200 pieces of cheap tat, if she bought Dollar Tree products with the money. LMAO :-D
doubly so since in 2012 Dollar Tree acquired majority ownership of Family Dollar
As an Australian, I laugh a little too hard at "Fighting with a dead Wombat."
You have a gift for making cheap toys sound absolutely fascinating, you really sell it. ☺️👍 Also, "soccer mom" action figure doesn't look like Leia at all.
I didn't even know about this, and we go to Dollar Tree constantly.
@Stop Banningme those aren't everywhere tho
@Stop Banningme we don't have those around my area.
@Stop Banningme at least with dollar tree everything in there stay at a dollar
I see them constantly at my local Dollar Tree.
The Dollar Tree I go to suprisingly has some decent stuff this past year and a half. I haven't checked the toy section in awhile though. Might have to do that next time
This all looks straight out of a mid-to-late 90s FPS that never was, and frankly I wish it had been.
Yeah. The Drones as your standard cannon fodder enemies all over the place, Brutes as the heavy guys you need to try and skirt behind, and Synthoids as the level bosses. Someone should make this.
Yeah, especially with the stats and the descriptions of weapons and such. This kind of has a squad based shooter feel behind it. Like watching when he showed and read out Ruck's deal I was like "well, there's my character."
The Synthoids look like they came from Marathon
@@Squiddy0912 They really do look like one of those mini-boss enemies that prompt a response of "hold down the fire button until the rocket launcher runs dry and strafe like crazy".
There's bits of a lot of video games mashed together with GI-Joe in these. Halo and XCOM 2 in particular stand out as potential sources of design elements.
Haha, I was in that Reddit thread on r/Ashens. Glad to see they sent it out to you!
I'm always glad to see actually decent toys from dollar stores. I mostly think that it gives less fortunate kids a chance to have some good toys. Also, I kinda want to buy the aliens...
🎼It's the final faction, countdown, 🎼 Thanks that song is stuck in my head now.
Maybe someday those “classic” dollar ninja toys will get an update to be like these.
Sales tax is roughly 8%, but varies in every county. If it ever got to 20%, people would start dumping crates of tea.
Sales tax is 6% in Iowa with a local option tax of 1% in Iowa. It is the same in all counties here.
As said it's different all over, some place don't even have sales taxes. Some places charge sales tax, but not on food. Others have sales tax on everything including food.
cause higher taxes for public health care, good public transport, time off work for child care and sick leave as such is so awful. especially when that tax load is mostly dumped on the rich who got more money than sense... so awful.
@@spencers4121 Indiana has 7% on almost everything, except for most types of food. Junk food and Fast food does have Sales Tax but if a junk food item has enough nutritional value or enough of certain ingredients it will not be taxed. Kit-Kats and Twizzlers are not taxed for example.
15% tax where I live.
Gotta say as a kid I would've absolutely loved getting the robot and the aliens in my christmas stocking.
American sales taxes tend to be under 10%. It's 7% here in Indiana, so those figures would be $1.07 each. I math good.
Here in Florida most food and medicine isn’t taxed, and state and local taxes come to 6.0 to 7.0% on other things, typically. 6.5% where I live.
5-7% seems to be the norm.
@@markiangooley i think that's a federal law that isn't taxed
1.05 in Virginia
@@prh99That's true, though foreigners wouldn't know Chicago has a city tax that stacks on top of Illinois' state tax which is why it's so high
Shift is totally a Scarlett clone. She even has the same outfit, just red.
Every Dollar Tree is different and many figures you could find at one, you won’t find at others. I’m obsessed with Dollar Tree. 7.5% sales tax where I live.
Some get every General Mills cereal that fails test-marketing or otherwise doesn’t sell. Box sizes range from under 10 ounces to 24 or more, expiration dates a few months in the future, and of course they’re $1. I buy them to give away. I don’t know if people will be happy to get 24 ounces of Fruity Lucky Charms...
@@markiangooley Fruity Lucky Charms 😂😂😂 That’s the best name ever for a failed cereal. I have never seen GM cereal but that’s cool that some places have it. Some kids will eat anything
I bless the warm plains in Africaaaaaa.
Straight up. I would have played with these if I had them as a kid.
'Lost his left arm and was gravely injured during the first Kharn raid' I love the way that's writen, it implies he lost his arm but not in the fighting, like it just fell off one day and he couldn't find it; not that he was injured in the fight and that's why he's missing an arm, like what was he doing before then to lose his arm?
These are the best $1 action figures I’d ever seen and own the whole range and was REALLY HOPING these would show up here one day.
The company said they planned to release a vehicle called the Arrow ATV.
Are they still going to release it?
@@williamruiz5965 I have heard someone say closer to the end of the year.
man, Ruck and that robot totally have bootleg Gundam feet, it's the same shape, same ankle guard, and knee armour as a few 90's gundam designs lol
god the way Ashens says gundam fills me with rage
You know he has to be doing it on purpose.
Well, now I have to see if I can find the Heavy Arms set. I swear, I spent WEEKS checking Dollar Trees to try and get a full set, and I still managed to miss stuff.
"Mom can we have master chief?"
"No we have master chief at home."
the master chief at home: 6:52
I think it kinda looks more like doomguy with the helmet
Ashens! Look for Star Troopers Giant Bug Battle figures from Lanard. Smythe's is one of the only places I've seen has them in stock.
Private Ashens
Origins: cold and damp plains of England land.
You know the whole modular things kinda make sense if you buy a weapon pack and all characters from x can use it even new ones down the line such as the synthoids and such
that's actually amazing, they clearly put a lot of thought into the characters and even the weapons. The finger through the gun trigger also impressed me.
They look so fun and they're so affordable I'm upset I'm not a child anymore to appreciate them properly
Man, if only Dollar Tree had these when I was little. 80% of the toys I had growing up came from Dollar Tree.
It's so strange seeing Stuart praising dollar store figures. It put a smile on my face.
Final Faction Series 1 has just arrived in the UK in Poundland! The Bury Saint Edmonds branch had all 14 of the figures and accessory packs, wooo!
If a "large asteroid collided with our moon", I think we'll have bigger issues than adversarial aliens lol
Yeah, for starters, we'd have 7 tiny moons!
@@williamruiz5965 😄
@@williamruiz5965 and the tides would be smaller
Only Ashens can keep me riveted to the screen for 41 minutes.
Also, besides getting the figures you're getting a back story for the characters and their war. That alone is worth tons.
In case you didn’t actually know, Specialist is an enlisted rank in the US Army. Also, Sergeant Steel’s jet pack is upside-down.
I love the way the animated snapshot of the video when hovering over the video is your eternal struggle to open the package.
I bought two of each of the villains a few months back and they look pretty great next to some Star Trek figures. The arms popping out caught me off guard but I like how a kid could create his own alien creature if he wanted to.
Wow, these actually look amazing for just a dollar...might be good to buy and use for painting practice...
I was wondering why I hadn't seen any Ashens vids in a while. He was plotting another long one!! The world rejoices!!
OMG I bought the synthoid thinking it was just cool as hell looking. It is literally on my shelf above my screen right now with the add-on gun things for the back pegs!
Also, you can find those The CORPS figures at Walmart here in the US, or at least used to, still might be able to now. I know they used to turn up around Christmas with a shitload of huge vehicles and playsets.
The vehicle sets were mostly awesome. I think one was a little iffy. However, that multipack of figures, I don't remember that at Walmart. Figure 2-packs, yes, but more than that, I'm not sure...
Specialist Shift....in my neck of the woods in Ireland, 'Shift' means getting off with someone-I suppose that's fairly specialist. 😛
There’s a guy who customises these toys to make them look better, I can’t remember his channel name but shouldn’t be hard to find
There are a lot of people that customize them, at the price they are begging to be cheap fodder.
Maybe Crafsman? He likes doing kitbashes of all sorts of figures
Wow this is actually one of the best toy lines I’ve ever seen just because of the high quality and creative figures for a dollar$ and they’re getting two more series? WITH VEHICLES ALSO FOR A DOLLAR?!
I think now is the time for the Ashens fan community to start a Final Faction fan site and fanfic hub. That’ll make the execs at Dollar Tree either really excited or very confused.
And there needs to be a fan game in the style of old 90s squad based FPS games.
The 2 hand guns are obviously a homage to Dante's Ebony and Ivory. I love this line!
I've seen some of these at my local Dollar Tree in Tacoma. I wanted to buy the Shift figure, but just haven't yet. I didn't realize the creators were doing a cartoon as well. I wish Cheetahmen had this much success.
This is the reason this is the channel is my oldest UA-cam scrip.
Be well and keep on a-rockin' Mr. Ashens, sir!
12:20 "The cold valleys of Austria"?
**looks out the window**
Okay, that's more like "the rainy hilltop of Austria"... but close enough.
(Sergeant Arnie would have been too on the nose, eh?)
Another austrian fan of ashens? Des is leiwand, oida.
@@sirernest546 Schuldig im Sinne des Ansinnens... :P
I see that the guns all fire lasers. Not laser beams, lasers. Nothing hurts quite like a high-speed laser pointer to the back of the head.
Sales tax here in BC Canada is like that. An item that says .99 cents, is really over a dollar
I find it funny that I have a Dollar Tree five minutes from my front door, and have probably walked right past these action figures and didn't even give them a second glance. And yet if Ashens lived here in the states, he'd probably freak out over Dollar General and Dollar Tree stores we have here. Just because of all the new and novel tat he's never seen. :)
hey glad you covered these guys, they are good for custom/kit Bash work. Dollar tree the cost is 1.10 with tax for the States
It depends on the state, in Indiana it would be $1.07 with tax. Most states have sales taxes under 10%
@@stigrabbid589 true, mine it's a dime
“Turbine face” lol that had me rolling
Whoever named the guns deserves a raise
In the U.S. Army "specialist" (SPC) is a rank. Just under Corporal (CPL) and Sergeant (SGT).
🎶"It's the Final Factiooooooon!"🎶
Do do do do do do do do do😂
Saw these last week and thought you would cover them. Amazing!
Saw the monster designs a few weeks ago in there. Looked actually to have some level of quality. Honestly thought it was some reject mobile app game toy line or something.
This is a fantastic toy line! Wonderful sculpting, no reused or duplicated parts, sturdy posing, figures can hold their arms, and even extra weapon packs? Even the card art is different for each figure and there's actual printing on the back. All around this is great quality.
NGL the bio weapons style of the Kharn is actually really cool. I love that their accessories can be attached to their backs like extra limbs
Just picked up the whole line today, felt great to spend less than 12 bucks on the whole line. It's also nice to go into a store and find the figures on the pegs.
First thing I basically always do is check the runtime of these.
Over 40 minutes makes me a happy little Cheapskate.
Can't wait till Urinevision 2021 & we get Pel & Auli & Ashens all together again.
I miss Barshens.
We all miss Barshens....
Give Slepp your bones, barshens might return
@@fireandcopper nah, it won't, at least not the way it was.
Bars was a little bit kinda why they switched formats. It seems pretty clear he's not exactly, uh, a Cheapskate himself, and would definitely probably cut off any, say, Off Brand Brand Off that may arise, for instance.
I am writing this with voice to text because I gave Slepp all my bones years ago (plus a few that weren't mine) by the way...
I like that stylized comic book-style illustration of Ashens there with a shaved head in the packaging artwork... That’s quality
Finally another cheap action figure video, honestly my favorite next to food tastings
Food
Cheap Figures
Advent Calendar
Poundland Special
Seasonal Special
Every time he picked up the synthoid I imagined Airman and the old megaman boss theme.