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Codename: Agent 13 File Name: Hill, Heaven Primary Specialty: Biochemist Secondary Specialty: Medic Thirteen doesn't interact with the rest of the human population, other than to salute and accept orders. Her files tell us that she is an accomplished medic and herpetologist, the reason she was made an agent, and that her hobbies include injecting herself with low levels of snake venom and outdoor survival. For weapons she carries an injector gun, with several doses of anti-venom from each of the aliens in her unit, and a sonic stunner. Surprisingly since she was given command of the serpent team we haven't had a single problem with them. The group follows orders and hasn't yet botched a single mission. If only more of our agents could be as good, and as quiet, as she is.

While I want Tan Vorin, almost as much as everyone else, I'm not going to debase myself for him. However, there there are certain individuals in my collection who are willing to go the extra duck foot.

I should hope so. :biggrin: If it wasn't fun I wouldn't be able to justify buying the fodder needed to keep it up. Oh and if no one has caught on run a search on the names of the Human A51 agents. Hows that for fun? I alway try and slip little things like that in. Codename: Thermal Classification: Robot Thermal is the last of the robots that we've been able to activate so far. He was built to explore extreme heat and high-pressure locations. While there isn't much call for these abilities in the field he makes up for that fact with his skills in the use of heavy weaponry, especially "The Leveler", his plasma projector cannon. We are also studying his armor and metallic skin elements in the hope that one day we'll be able to sell the technology for such uses as heat shields in spacecraft and nonstick frying pans.

Codename: Hydro Classification: Robot Hydro is the second bot we were able to repair. His physical specialty is in exploring liquid and cold environments. He is also adept at using laser weaponry and was the scout group's primary scientific analyst. While his information on the solar system's outer planets and moons during the late Cretaceous is invaluable it really isn't really a big money maker to keep A51 running. To that end most of his assignments have been to study the melting of the Arctic Ice Cap as well as deep-sea exploration.

Well, SoH is completed until I get a new soldier from the NYCC Alpha Flight pack. Unless of course I get around to getting a Bride of Frankenstein. As for Monster High you'll have to look elsewhere since I have absolutely no interest in them. So moving on to the new A51 characters. Codename: Sniper Classification: Robot The discovery of the robots' scout ship came as quite the surprise, both for us and for the paleontologists studying the site. It was buried, rather close to us in the Badlands, in soil dating to within a few hundred years of the K-T event boundary. When we opened the ship up we found five individuals, all off-line. Naturally everything was transported back to the base for examination. Of the five robots so far we've only been able to activate three of them. Sniper is the scout group commander and was the first one we activated. We weren't surprised by the fact that we knew more about what has been happening in our surrounding galaxy considering how long he has been off-line. However one thing that is important is the fact that none of our resident aliens have any information about the bots home planet either. Sniper claims that his primary function was as the group commander and action support cover. Basically he gave the orders and then covered his men from the best vantage point. We've allowed him to continue his role as a sniper due to the fact that he can easily out shoot any other human or alien in A51.

Codename: Rags File Name: Imhotep Classification: Reanimated Human Location Discovered: Hamunaptra, Egypt Primary Specialty: Desert Warfare Secondary Specialty: Chaplain How exactly does one go about finding an immortal monster in a lost city in the desert? It starts by doing lost of research, or going to your local alien teammate and asking him to scan Egypt for any paranormal anomalies. So, it didn't take long for the team to arrive at the lost city. As they landed the sand shifted away and out came Rags, as though he had been expecting us. He boarded the shuttle and the team returned to the base here in New Mexico. It was one of the easiest retrievals ever. Once I'd finished with The Master and Drac, I immediately went in to interview Rags. It seems that, while he hasn't given up on resurrecting his dead girlfriend, he has exhausted all of his resources in Egypt and decided to seek out other avenues. Basically he joined SoH in order to study the other team members to see if they may hold the key to helping him with his quest. When I asked him how he knew about us all he would say is that "the sand told him".

Codename: Drac File Name: Vlad Dracula Classification: Vampire Location Discovered: Seattle, Washington Primary Specialty: Fundraising Secondary Specialty: Night Operations With the discovery of Frankenstein's Monster the question of what other supposedly literary monsters might also be real. With that in mind the two teams were dispatched to Romania and Egypt. The Romanian team had the greatest chance of finding something due to the fact that we'd already had encounters with Vampires, all of whom chose to kill themselves rather than be taken into custody. Still they had to have an origin so Transylvania seemed the best place to start our investigation. Within hours of landing the stealth transport in a remote region Brayve had spoken with the locals and they reported that the one we were seeking did indeed still exist but he had long ago moved to America. We returned to base believing that our mission had ended in failure only to find Drac and The Master waiting for us. It seems that Drac had been part of the organization from the very beginning. In fact, if not for him, there wouldn't even be a Soldiers of Horror. Instead the organization would have fallen under the direct control of another Black Ops department known as A51. None of us trust Drac due to the fact that he works so closely with The Master. However seeing the two together is enough to rule out the possibility that The Master is a vampire. However the jury is still out as to his possible demonic origins.

Now for the newest members of the Soldiers of Horror. Codename: Junior File Name: Frankenstein's Monster Classification: Reanimated Human Location Discovered: North Sea Primary Specialty: Medic Secondary Specialty: Infantry Of course we'd all heard the story or at least some version of it. Dr. Frankenstein created a monster out of dead humans and brought it back to life. It made for good stories and movies but it just wasn't possibly real. Yeah, I know saying that seems contradictory when I'm surrounded with ghosts, werewolves, and aliens. Still, even if the story could have been true the monster would be, at most, a zombie. At least that is what I thought until we got a call from an icebreaker in the arctic sea. It seemed that they had found a body frozen in a glacier. The body was immediately transferred to our nearest facility were it was defrosted what we found was a complete shock. It was indeed Frankenstein's monster. While our scientists were literally drooling at the prospect of what we could learn from the body someone, and I'm not going to point fingers, suggested that we hit the body with the defibrillator just to be sure that he was really completely dead. I admit that having the monster sit up and ask for a salad was a bit disturbing even for us. As it turns out his time in the ice had given Junior a new perspective on life and death. After being frozen he found that he couldn't die again instead he existed in a state of limbo until the beginnings of the analog age. The metal implants that had been used to energize his brain also worked as receivers for radio and television waves. His once dead brain was stimulated and filled with information once more. Though he has no memories of his life before being reanimated he has since given up on seeking revenge on the world for rejecting him instead he feels pity for all of humanity and its unwillingness to accept those who are strange or different. He also regrets his monstrous actions when he was first revived and as committed himself to never taking another life going so far as to only carry weapons with non-lethal ammunition. During his downtime he sits in his quarters with a low powered analog transmitter uploading or learning new information. Most of that information is on the latest in medical research but he also takes time for an episode or two of "Golden Girls".

The cat's out of the bag set Tigra Hellcat Blackcat Black Panther (Shuri)

Next up a new recruit for the XL universe. Codename: Perfection File Name: Caroline Howlett Parents: James Howlett and Carol Danvers Powers: Adamantium Bones, mutant healing factor, enhanced senses, enhanced strength and durability, flight, energy absorption and redirection, photographic reflexes, extensive knowledge of sorcery, teleportation, phasing Perfection was created to be her Earth's ultimate warrior. With the proliferation of super powered beings being born the myriad galactic powers deemed that it had become to powerful and the only option was to depopulate the planet of all powered individuals as well as those carrying potential mutant genes leaving a remnant population of roughly a million individuals. Naturally humanity disagreed with this decision and all humans took up arms to defend themselves. Anyone with the potential to gain super powers were studied by the planet's greatest scientists, sorcerers, and organizations to discover ways to jumpstart those powers. As the war ground on heroes fell and were replaced by the next but the attrition slowly but inexorably continued to reduce the ranks. With nearly all other options exhausted it was decided to begin artificially creating new heroes. Using genetic samples from some of the most resilient individuals and using non-powered surrogate mothers Generation Hero was created. Perfection was one of the first children born in this new generation. The daughter of Wolverine and Captain Marvel she was destined for greatness still until she reached puberty and her mutation could kick in no one knew if she would actually have any powers. So like all the other members of her generation at age one she was injected with a genetic modifier from a randomly selected hero. In Perfection's case the mutant known as Mimic's power mimicry. Each year after that she received another injection in the hope that when she matured she'd develop at least one super power. Most of the children only received three or four injections before their bodies began to react negatively and the scientists could only hope that they would develop something only Perfection received all twelve injections. When she was thirteen her powers began to manifest, the first was her super strength and invulnerability from her mother's Kree genes. With the development of these powers she was placed in a special school that would train her to use her abilities to their fullest as well as continuing to test to see if she would develop other abilities. At the age of sixteen, Perfection was fully trained and ready to enter battle. Unfortunately her first battle would be her last. The Galactic Alliance finally agreed that the extinction of the human race was an acceptable loss. In a stunning twist of fate humanity was give one last chance to survive extinction when they were warned by Galactus to escape to any planet, dimension, or other worldly realm. During the evacuation Perfection stood with her fellow Heroes to hold off the final blow for as long as possible. In the end, as the sun went dark, she was the only one left. Using her Asgardian hammer to open a portal to that realm she was sickened to discover that while the heroes had been defending the evacuation the Alliance had committed the bulk of their forces to infiltrating the other realms and completing their agenda. Each successive portal she opened: the Negative Zone, Limbo, and even Mephisto's realm of Hell had been emptied of human souls. In complete despair Perfection turned to the one power that she had never allowed anyone to know she possessed the reality warping abilities she had gained from an infusion of Wiccan's DNA. She erased her entire reality from the multiverse believing, falsely, that in doing so she would be erased as well. Instead she woke up in the XL base infirmary. While the XL are still mainly focused on returning to their own realities, they are now also searching for gateways that will allow for a planetary evacuation should a similar event take place in their adopted universe.

I forgot about this look! Was it a design, or an animation error? I'm guessing you're asking about Panthro here. In the first episode with the exception of Jaga all off the Thundercats were basically nude (if a character is covered in fur then he or she isn't really nude) with only a few accessories like belts and boots. As for the Brock custom the look comes from the episode where he lost his license to kill. Now for tonight's custom the Neo Olympian Hera. Codename: Hera File Name: Taylor, Diana Day Job: Botanist and Volunteer EMT Powers: Plant control Diana didn't really have a choice as to which God she became; her husband was gifted with the aspect of Zeus so naturally she became Hera, queen of the gods. Her new powers gave her complete control over all plant life as well as making her immune to all known poisons. She can also assess a plant's properties and know exactly how it can be used in potions and poultices.

Here is the last of the StarHunters team. Code Name: Doc Name: Doctor Hans Hawke Planet of Origin: Earth Primary Specialty: Chief Medical Officer Secondary Specialty: Cybernetics Doc was perhaps the most gifted bio-cybernetics researcher on Earth in his time. His research and experiments was the foundation of the process that created the SilverHawks. Still he had one major character flaw, the fact that he tended to apply his skills and research to "upgrading" test subjects, lab assistants, fellow researchers and even himself with cybernetic components even if they didn't need them. Of course he rationalized that they did need the cybernetic replacement but that was after he had removed their inefficient biological components Now that he is once again among living individuals he is excited to get back to his research. However nearly everyone has made it clear that they are not test subjects and if he tries to "upgrade" them they will make it impossible for him to ever continue his work. The only ones that haven't been clear on this are Riot, who is considering a more intimate connection with some of his "friends" and Pilotlight, who is actively interested in improving his aging mechanical components. Now before moving on to other things here are a couple of quick customs. Venture Bos. Brock Samson and Thundercats first appearance Panthro.

Code Name: Armor Name: Sheldon Fields Planet of Origin: Earth Primary Specialty: Starship Repair Secondary Specialty: Heavy Armor Armor wasn't exactly added to the StarHunter project as much as he couldn't be removed from the ship. The StarHunter was his dream project from design to construction and he made sure everyone knew that when the ship launched he would be aboard and there was no way that anyone could remove him. In fact even Commander Chase didn't know the location of his hyper sleep chamber. Not that it mattered since Pilotlight discovered him when the ship was integrated with Hawk Haven. Of all the StarHunters Sheldon was the most effected by the changes he faced upon waking up. It wasn't so much all the changes that had taken place as he slept so much as the fact that his ship had been completely destroyed. After recovering from the shock he has made it his life's work to rebuild the StarHunter even better than it was before.

Thanks Monte, the Buccaneers/Freebooters/Mercs/Pirates group is only in the opening stages I've got at least three more customs to make for the group. I've just got to wait until the Thundercats Mutants set, Strange Tales box set, and Marvel Wave 48 are released to make them. Yes, there is quite a bit of planning and waiting going into that group. As for my unknown character I'm thinking of building my own Femme Fatales set starting with Snow White: The Executioner. Wicked Step-Mothers, stop obsessing over the crows feet and laugh lines, there's a new Sheriff and her posse in the Fable Lands. Now back to the StarHunters. Code Name: Riot Name: Ryan Thomas Planet of Origin: Earth Primary Specialty: Security Chief Secondary Specialty: Unarmed Combat Riot's biggest problem is that he enjoys the company of his weapons and armor more than other people. He was added to the StarHunters after the loss of his best friend, the nearly depleted plasma coil he was removing from his rifle exploded, left him depressed and even more withdrawn than usual. He refused to allow anyone to repair the scarring and instead started wearing a mask. Since waking up Ryan has started coming out of his depression and started making new "friends" with a new rifle and even coming out of his shell enough to join in conversations with the other StarHunters. Of course the conversations are usually about the new weapons and technology aboard Hawk Haven and Cougarra's scout ship.

Code Name: Drive Name: Captain David Chase Planet of Origin: Earth Primary Specialty: Starship Navigation Secondary Specialty: Pilot Like all the StarHunters, Captain Chase has issues that made him unsuitable for military service. Basically he is an adrenalin junky constantly putting himself in dangerous situations. He was on the verge of being dishonorably discharged when he was given the option of joining the StarHunter project, an endeavor many insisted would fail. Drive not only jumped at the chance of being part of the mission but he even insisted that High Command should assign Jessica as the ship's Commander. While it is likely the thought "two birds with one stone" passed though many minds at that suggestion it was never placed on any official records. Of all the StarHunters, Drive is likely the least affected by all the changes that have taken place during their long sleep. As long as there are still risks to be taken and hearts to be broken he feels right at home. Oh look it is bonus time! Here is the team of space pirates from the Thundercats universe that I'm working on. Also I have this custom that is finished and I love the way the parts came together but I have no idea what to do with her in the way of a biography or even a name.

Since I haven't seen anyone else pop a Kreon head on a mate body I thought I'd pick up a blind pack to see how it would look. This of course is just a proof of concept but with the big helmets making the heads look so large I think it is good enough to actually do a few drone type customs. I'm sure in the hands of a customizer with the skills to design and apply decals they could make amazing Transformer Minimate customs out of them.

Wow, I'm really letting my customs get ahead of my writing. Since my last update I've expanded my Thundercats Universe customs into a new outcasts/space pirates team. I've also come up with an idea for an Over the Rainbow flying monkey custom but that will have to wait until after NYCC when I can get a hold of a monkey. With that said I'd better get more bios written up before I'm completely overwhelmed with new customs. Now back to trying to finish up the StarHunter team. Code Name: Chase Name: Commander Jessica Chase Planet of Origin: Earth Primary Specialty: Starship Commander Secondary Specialty: High Speed Driving Unlike the TigerShark and the SilverHawk teams, whose members were chosen because of they were the elite of humanity, the StarHunters were assigned to their posts because they didn't fit in and were expendable. While Jessica Chase is a competent commander she had two strikes against her the first is the fact that when she gets control of any vehicle, be it a hover board or a starship the first thing she has to do it go as fast as possible often pushing it beyond it's safety limits. Her second strike is her brother Captain David Chase. When she was revived aboard Hawk Haven she remained calm and collected. She didn't flinch when she was told how long she had been in hyper sleep. It didn't bother her that the StarHunters were the last genetically pure humans in the galaxy. However, she went ballistic when she learned that the StarHunter had been dismantled, integrated into Hawk Haven, and that they had returned to Earth before giving her a chance to "test the engines" before waking her. Her anger didn't last very long when she discovered Cougarra's Thunder Tank and the Thunder Racers.

Now that the sculpt exists why not lobby for a MODAM/Battle Damaged AIM Trooper pack?

The future is looking very bright for Furries.

Believe it or not I'm not a big fan of the Oz Universe. The only character that I'm working on that isn't pictured is Toby (MvsC3 Amy) and that's because I have to repaint his eyes, I got a bit overzealous when scraping off the red paint. There are likely to be small tweaks and improvements as I write up the bios but until there is a Lion or a Monkey released in the Battle Beasts line there probably won't be any more customs for that universe. I say probably only because there is always the slight (very slight) chance I'll come up with two more companions to assist Ruby on her travels through Oz. Currently my customs have drifted off to working a few of the Lego Ninjago Snakemen into the A51 universe, a tentative Daughter of Space Ghost character (needs more research), a set of Thundercat/human hybrid twins and perhaps even a new Thundercat character if or when I'm able to find a DC Cheetah mate to use as parts.

Since it has been suggested that I need to update a bit more often I thought I'd post a preview of a few of my WIPs. First groups are from my Over the Rainbow project Goblin Frick, The Depraved Drug-Lord of Oz, and Goblin Frack. The Oz Security Services: Aluminum Axe Man, all he wants is a heart and he really enjoys cutting them out of anyone and everyone. Scarecrow, he wants brains, the fresher the tastier. The Emerald Enforcer, The Southern Scientist's personal guard. The Four Directions: The Arms Dealer of the North, Wiccan of the West, Priestess of the East, and Scientist of the South, Next up is my Warriors X Angel. Finally, there's my newest project/quick custom Venture Bros. Brock Samson.

@jcastick, Metalic vs. Chrome. Well, we're on the same page as to what they are and I agree that chrome is nice but it's been my experience that chrome only works if all you want to do is display the toy. When played with or worked with for customs it just doesn't weather very well. The only thing worse, that I've found, is Vac-Metalizing which has a really bad habit of flaking off.

What! I don't see Helen Magnus and her team anywhere.

Ordinarily I'd agree with you; as I also hate blind bags, but it's hard to ignore the success and proliferation of the infernal things (MLP, Lego, Mega Bloks, etc). I just thought it was a better idea for blind bagged blanks and a few parts would be better than a blind bagged army dump. Even the BAF parts in the rare packs are hands and feet which can easily be substituted out for hands and feet or boots from the commons. I also envisioned it as a way to get Minimates more exposure and into more retailers especially if there was a box display showing the customizing options available by combining a couple of packs. However if DST ever releases blind bagged mates where each pack has a unique figure I'll be right there with you going all Universal Monsters Angry Villager (rusty pitchfork included).

Could you give some examples? I may be lumping the two types together, but isn't the difference that chrome is painted on while metallic is the color of the plastic that the mate is formed from. The reason I ask is because my reasoning for metallic was that all the blanks would have no paint on them to keep the cost down. Only the BAF and accessories would have any paint and even then the accessories wouldn't have more than a single color added where appropriate. As a couple of examples the Akuma hair would have the string painted, the machete would have the blade painted silver and the AOX Rogue hood would have the hair detail painted black (just to give Femme Fatale Lil' Red an actual hood and cloak).