Yesssss Ashens is back 🎉🎉

@patrickhannon4217

Ай бұрын

Don't get your hopes up too high, we may not hear from him for another 6 months 🤣😅 Sorry to be pessimistic 😅

@TheSmart-CasualGamer

Ай бұрын

He is working on a film to be fair.

@gecila1

Ай бұрын

His Twitch fills the void.

@samholdsworth420

Ай бұрын

🎉🎉🎉

@samholdsworth420

Ай бұрын

​@@gecila1twitch sucks 😂

Stuart "Acid Fingers" Ashens villain arc begins...

@potatosordfighter666

Ай бұрын

That's just what that kind of fake leather does. I've seen shoes made with it from the early 2000s that are just disintegrating

Terror Billy is still one of the coolest collector’s editions I’ve seen. It’s so nice when the trinket has some kind of utility and not totally static like a statue. Especially impressive given it’s the only piece of physical merchandise that the Wolfenstein reboot has.

@OhhTheHorrah

13 күн бұрын

Yeah I love mine one of my favs.

Ah yes, the Collector's Paradox. Anything that's marketed to collectors, with the implication that it'll be worth money later if kept pristine, never holds any value whatsoever, because everyone who buys one keeps it pristine.

@peterclarke7240

Ай бұрын

The offensively wealthy have a hack for that: buy *all* of them, and then hold them hostage in a safe, occasionally dropping little hints about how cool they were.

The angry Ken face is clearly a reference to SNK's greatest original character: Violent Ken!

@SsnakeBite

Ай бұрын

And yet, still nowhere near as violent as Chargeman Ken.

Metal Gear Solid 'Shadow Moses' cologne is described as having a unique scent inspired by the game's iconic Shadow Moses Island setting. It opens with notes of freshly picked mushrooms and forest soil, evolving into a heart enriched with aromatic hints of myrrh, fir balsam, and patchouli. The base notes include oakmoss, cedarwood, amber, and musk, creating an earthy and woodsy fragrance. The cologne aims to transport wearers to the captivating landscape of the game through its complex blend of natural and musky scents.

@kazcav

Ай бұрын

Sir this is Poundland

@midorifox

Ай бұрын

Ah, good. That's what I expected from the old Konami and Kojima

@greenhowie

Ай бұрын

It's difficult to tell if this is a big joke. Kinda like the Silent Hill skateboards or Harry Potter soap collection.

@lol3342

Ай бұрын

​@@greenhowie nah its real I looked it up

@NeverStopRolling

Ай бұрын

its really disappointing they didnt add the scent of wolf urine

I love how you're still doing these collector's edition videos. They're oddly satisfying to watch.

I remember that feeling of first seeing video game toys. The first one I saw that wasn't a plush that I can remember was a Crash Bandicoot toy I got as a Christmas present.

@charlesplante

Ай бұрын

Congrats bro, I hope you loved it dearly.

Dark Messiah is actually very good. It’s basically fantasy Half-Life.

@supremedorian363

Ай бұрын

It's funny you say that, because Arkane Studios, the devs of Dark Messiah, actually worked on a canceled Half-Life 2 spinoff game set in Ravenholm. NoClip has a video on this as well as the history of the company, I highly recommend it

@killerb2099

14 күн бұрын

A fellow man of culture

13:42 I love that the guy in front of the vampire just has this expression of annoyed contempt, like he's the straight man in their buddy cop duo.

@GmodPlusWoW

2 күн бұрын

Who, the cleric? To me, he kinda looks like Buster Bloodvessel, the lead singer of Bad Manners. He might tell Draccy to lip up every now and then, but together they're a special brew.

I love when my action figures have a 'best before' date cause they fall apart over time.

Great to see Ashens is back, it's felt like ages since he's shared tat with us

@AcornElectron

Ай бұрын

Prepare to wait another similar amount of time before the next one.

@jksmellie

Ай бұрын

Given all the stuff he's doing outside KZread I can understand it. The Turn Back film is likely taking up all his work time.

@enigma776

Ай бұрын

@@AcornElectron Alternately come join us on twitch every Wednesday and Sunday at 9pm GMT.

@bryanmoberg8408

Ай бұрын

@@jksmellie oh i completely forgot about that! Really hope it turns out well.

The nu-Wolfenstein doll disintegrating from touching it is just so INCREDIBLY Bethesda it's almost mind-boggling.

@MrWolfSnack

Ай бұрын

It can be fixed with chair recovering adhesive, it's the same material that gamer chairs are made from. But would be better off finding a custom doll clothes maker on etsy to re-create the jacket for him with a better material less prone to decay.

@ellaisplotting

Ай бұрын

Pleather on doll clothes (and in general tbh) disintegrating even if left untouched is a common thing, that's why I avoid it like the plague.

@MrWolfSnack

Ай бұрын

@@ellaisplotting Yeah it's bad on furniture too, it's cheaper than real leather but it's lifespan is extremely short.

I had that Heroes of Might and magic special edition! My dad bought it for wee little me from Currys in around 2008, they had a huge pile of these sitting around and it was heavily discounted to about the price of a standard game. It was my first exposure to the series and I really enjoyed all the little trinkets and would always reference the poster for what units were. Ended up playing through all the heroes games and had a good time.

Im glad ashens is back and doing game tat agin .

I remember how crazy it was to see Final Fantasy VII figures in a store. You just didn't see that back then.

One day there will be a museum of tat in Norwich

@peterclarke7240

Ай бұрын

There already is. It's called Ashens' Garage.

@greenhowie

Ай бұрын

Technically there are many such museums buried in New Mexico.

@RetroObserver

Ай бұрын

And the kickerstarter rewards will never be fulfilled.

The spinning street fighter toy looks like the offspring of Ryu and Modok. Poor creature.

25:51 Apocryphal but Fun is the name of my Synth-Folk Jazz band.

Awesome to see a new Ashens video! I've got that same Wolfenstein collectors set. Mine definitely didn't disintegrate, Its still in great shape and its been played with at least a little! I got it for 20 bucks at a surplus resale store near where I live in South Carolina, US. Enjoyed all the games too.

Unisex Cologne totally sounds like an MGS baddie.

@Jaybird196

Ай бұрын

It's smell? Pain,..and manly tears! ;)

Couldn't agree more on Dark Messiah not being a good game but being a fun game. Kicking orcs down cliffs and into spikes is still quite a lot of fun to this day.

I've only ever bought two collectors editions. Undertale and Bug Fables. I was very pleased with both.

FINALLY A NEW ASHENS VIDEO. WE NEED MORE

I'll never forget preprdering ac 2(or 3) and getting an Ezio figurine. it was awesome

I'd love to have been a fly on the wall at the meeting where they thought "what if we made Beyblades but with a humanoid body?"

Jada Toys really making fans happy, even non SF fans are buying them because they are just so good for the money. The mega man line is going great too, Jada deserves more licenses!

I hadn't seen any of the designs for _Wolfenstein II_ prior to this video so I'm almost certainly not the first to notice this, but Billy's uniform seems uncannily similar to that of the Canaries in _Red Dwarf_ Series VIII which pre-dates it by about 18 years.

My brother had the CoD: Ghosts set. Seeing that gave me a wave of nostalgia 😂

19:49 you could hear all the Hot Wheels collector's chins hitting the floor.

@NotATube

Ай бұрын

I was imagining them saying "nooooo...." but same idea. But not really, apparently you can still buy them new for £9. Too many people get the idea that things designed and sold to be "collectable" means they'll be rare and worth a lot. When it's usually the complete opposite- they've been mass-produced and sold in their millions, and lots of them will have been instantly squirrelled away to keep them in pristine condition... which ironically means examples in pristine condition will be worth very little. I mean, the fact that Ashens got that "Call of Duty" pack for a fraction of its original price essentially proves it. Late 70s Star Wars toys in their original packaging are only worth so much *because* so few of them survived in that condition despite being mass-produced- most of them were bought by or for kids who took them out and *played* with them. Late 90s Star Wars prequel toys aren't, because countless people bought them thinking the same would happen... so it didn't. I mean, if people like collecting that stuff, that's fine. But your average fanboy is unlikely to get rich off it.

@billgriffiths1685

Ай бұрын

@@NotATube I love collecting great comments and this one is one of my very best. Thank you.

@NotATube

Ай бұрын

@@billgriffiths1685 Thanks- it's a one-off, so it's bound to be valuable! Er... or then again, maybe not. 😁

I am now vigorously pouring through ebay to find some of those HOMM pack of cards. Those were very cool.

"That was slightly more violent than I had anticipated" could be said about the entire CoD franchise.

22:40 the noise the tiny spinning Ryu made as it span away is really funny to me for some reason

@maxshep2829

Ай бұрын

I saw your comment but wasn't expecting the noise... I burst out laughing 😂😂😂

@mgthestrange9098

Ай бұрын

That was funny, he couldn’t have made it do that if he tried. It made me chuckle, had to replay it a few times.

Those street fighter toys gave me a random flashback to the Karate Fighters toys made by Milton Bradley in the 90s.

Those Jada figures are great. The Dahlsim one coming out looks awesome.

Well didn't expect to see a game I have on display on here, Hero's of Might and Magic Complete Edition

Well this explains the eclipse and the cicadas

@RegenTonnenEnte

Ай бұрын

In Norwich?!

@peterclarke7240

Ай бұрын

Signs and Portents of the Coming of the Tatpocalypse. We've even got a "danger to life" warning in the South-West because it's supposed to rain later on. Bloody Ashens...

Not surprised by screenshots in the Hom&M - people were starved for any info they took those for granted.

I love that the Terror Billy is an in universe product

Hey Ashens, I dont think you do the "eating/drink old items" anymore. With that said I have six cans of a regional US soda called Moxie that are ~10 years old. They're in excellent condition from being stored in a climate controlled space. The flavor is.... unique. I would describe it as a slightly bitter bubblegum, others say its tastes medicinal. It's polarizing with people either loving it (me), despising it, or thinking its fine. I'd gladly donate them to the channel if you're interested.

@moloch5801

Ай бұрын

Email one of his mods on his Twitch stream with the info, he still collects that stuff.

28:15 If it's old enough it's probably Metal Gear Rancid... D:

@katierandall9191

Ай бұрын

Perfect for Ashens then 👍🏻

I had no idea about those Space Invaders cabinets, that’s really cool.

Honestly that CoD tacticool camera would do really well for filming mid-00s skateboard videos

@zangl2955

Ай бұрын

I like it. It’s at least better than the camera on my first couple of smartphones

@1324Potato

Ай бұрын

Too bad it came out in 2013

@MrWolfSnack

Ай бұрын

The early 2010's were full of a lot of camera gadgets aimed at kids. Hot Wheels had a couple of camera car cars at the same time period, and there was a lot of action cams coming out from other toymakers. I think it was during the GoPro craze everyone wanted to cash in on it.

I just now realized I'd like to have a Doomguy figure made to look like one of those old-school G.I. Joe figures.

The fact that the first weapon you got for BJ was the Laserkraftwerk, which is his iconic weapon in the MachineGames reboot, gives me joy.

24:55 i felt like you were talking directly to me lol

I cannot believe that back in the day I would sell my right testicle for one of those collector's editions and looking at them now...they are so overpriced and taty it is simply astounding! :D

@jlb9577

Ай бұрын

Me too. I still have a special edition of Halo Reach, and refuse to open it up again cos i just know i’d feel weirdly cringe about it 😂 wanna preserve those lovely childhood memories

@ballbagchris6920

Ай бұрын

Life is Raph: Special Right Testicle Edition

@peterclarke7240

Ай бұрын

Back in the day before we had bills to pay 😔

@MrWolfSnack

Ай бұрын

When you're a kid this stuff is amazing but as you get older and know what it actually is, you know it's just a bunch of cheap crap in a overpriced package. That being said, I still buy this stuff as I am a gamer and a collector and getting it cheap is still fun and great to have. I have the collector's package of Driver San Francisco which is a diecast model of the car in a nice display box. I also have one of the NBA games which is a real life basketball packaged with the game.

@potatosordfighter666

Ай бұрын

@@jlb9577 The one with Halsey's journal?

The weird fake leather foam that "Terror Billy"s coat is made out of is similar to the foam material in a lot of early 2000s shoes. They also disintegrate like that and basically have to be kept in cases, untouchable, otherwise they crumble immediately like he did

@ellaisplotting

Ай бұрын

It's still being used on things now, there's a doll from a couple of years ago dressed entirely in pleather that's essentially turned to dust even if left untouched in the box. The cotton backing fabric is still sound, but doesn't quite have the same effect.

Whoa hey Dark Messiah of Might and Magic was a great game. I won't have you say it wasn't very good, even if you said it was fun. You had a kick button which you could spartan kick goblins into super popular spike decorations!

From what I remember, the third type of each troop in HoMM (I'm not calling it anything else) was a side-grade with a different specialization than the regular upgrade, so you could pick whether you wanted (for instance) Archmages or Battle Mages. It was one of the more interesting ideas that the newer games played with.

I also have that ghosts special edition got it for 10$ 5 years ago. Still use the action cam now. Comes in handy for when i kayak or bike ride cause i can care less if i break it

The only collector's edition of a game to ever wow me has to be the Mortal Kombat 11 one, which comes with a perfectly sized but sadly not wearable Scorpion mask. It looks so cool.

I hate when people give you oversized boxes containing a tiny, tiny piece of tat

@Feasco

Ай бұрын

gotta have them take up as much space as possible to justify that "limited edition value"

Okay, Ken's head is just a... ... ... okay, Ashens mentioned He-Man before I finished typing that sentence. I should have had more faith.

Oh shieeet Stuart, now you have a cam for recording your skate sessions!

I'm guessing the Metal Gear Solid Shadow Moses cologne smells like Otacon's freshly pissed pants.

@peterclarke7240

Ай бұрын

Nothing attracts the wimmins more than the whiff of freshly soiled undies.

I saw scary Aunt May at a local comic book shop. I almost bought it. I have a (sorta, it's leather) sofa to display it on. 😁

@brianm6337

Ай бұрын

Brown Sofa. I'm on back meds. 🤪

What's worse now with some collectors/special editions of games is that there are ones that don't even include the bloody game! Imaging dropping like £300 on an edition that doesn't even include a copy of the game. Madness.

@yeismeload

Ай бұрын

Yep, as far as I'm concerned that is totally anti-consumer, out of line and should be illegal to advertise it as such. 'Supplementary materials' or something, sure, but it's no edition of any kind minus the actual game.

@ElizabethHamlet

Ай бұрын

I have a steel book case for a digital only edition 🫣

@Cbouncerrun

Ай бұрын

Yeah I wonder if that's why the Ghosts steelbook case was unopened

@Gulyus

Ай бұрын

@@yeismeload It's supposed to be easier for the consumer, actually. They are priced so when you buy the game + item it costs the same as the company selling you similar editions. Difference is that it lowers the cost to print them (all of the CEs are the same so reduces printing costs) excepting that DLC might not be a thing in the box. Plus you don't need to buy the game to get the premium. In practice though, yeah, everyone expected the game to come with it so it ended up being pointless. Oh and it was really for people that bought the digital game anyway so *shrug*.

@potatosordfighter666

Ай бұрын

@@Cbouncerrun I had that Ghosts special edition and it came with the game disc. No code, no downloads.

Fry: Watch as I fire upwards through our own shields! Bender: He's a madman! A madman!

ASHENS I MISSED YOU , GLAD YOUR BACK

What a relief to see Ashens back. So therapeutic and calming for me. Thank you Ashens for the 30 minutes of pure escapism.

We love tat!!!

clash of heroes mentioned. incredible game.

I like how Stuart, when first starting these, laughed at artbooks being included but now he actually seems to enjoy them quite a lot

They made some Rugrats Hotwheels, and the Tommy one is literally a dumptruck filled with shit

@ballbagchris6920

Ай бұрын

😂

@MrWolfSnack

Ай бұрын

excuse me what ???

@huhwhatumean

Ай бұрын

and the cab is tommy's carved out skull

Ashens vid out of nowhere! Good to see more tat! 🙂

Yes! Time to unwind with some Ashens ❤️

So glad you’re back Ashens! I enjoy these couch videos.

Hello! 👋 glad to see you back Ashens

Time to revisit those old game-tat vids!

The Wolfenstein action figure was really cool

Man I never would of expected a *Camberwick Green* reference but I welcome it just the same. 👍 Man I miss that show.

Ah wish I could meet ashens live. I'd thank him for in part helping through difficult times of life :)

The very flat and angular look of the spinning Ryu Monstrosity, with it's one fully formed arm had real ‚Trogdor's one beefy arm' energy.

Gotta love the gaming tat videos!

The thing on the Tshirt reminds me of 'ludo' in The Labyrinth

As someone who has spent far too much money on "Collector's Editions," I find these incredibly entertaining and somewhat nostalgic.

i'm not gonna lie, i spent most of the wolfenstein part of the video having an existential crisis after ashens exclaimed that 2017 was 7 years ago.

3:27 Ashens notices that "you can tell it's brand new 'cos it hasn't been dented yet" - 3:37 Receives its first dent after being tossed away and landing on that thing

9:25 "How do I even get this on camera"... if only I had a camera with a wide angle lens... 😇

New video, what a treat!

the video playback of the camera looks good i'm impressed

Good to see you back

Awesome collectivization of tat!

The man returns to us! God bless!

Clash of heroes is on Steam too. Really stood the test of time too, still good fun.

Good you're back, Ashens! I'm wondering if you will do sequel to your "Toys from TV ads" video from 5 years ago. Theres plenty more you could cover, including the 2 new Argos mascots (even though they were a thing before the ads), and plenty more! Hope you do more lovely, funny videos soon.

That thing you took off the usb cable is a ferrite bead. It's used to stop a cable becoming a antenna and introducing noise into a cable.

That is like a 12 buck paracord braclet on amazon

he returns

Ditching the theme of the video and then changing the camera angle is genuinely so funny, and I love the idea that Space Invaders is somehow apocryphal😂 Ten out of ten episode, good vibes

Is this a dream? I cant believe we are getting more video game tat I have been wanting more for so long now.

@MrWolfSnack

Ай бұрын

I keep forgetting ashens is a videogame collector and gamer.

Glad to see a new ashens video

9:40 - you're spot on, Stuart. That was almost exactly the expression I was wearing last month when we were told the mice that had eaten the wiring in our motorhome had done such a thorough job it was a write off. Bloody rodents.

I think the "cable extender" thing you removed is actually something used to filter out interference for data transmission by cable.. the original nintendo 64 controller had those too.

@mauganra99

Ай бұрын

Yep, it's a ferrite bead and used to filter out high frequency signals.

Love these vids. So entertaining ❤

That Might and Magic puzzle game is definitely on the switch

Terror Billy is the only physical extras premium edition I've ever bought cause damn I love the idea of in-universe toys

I would unironically enjoy playing through the life and events of Ghosty McSpook.

ASHENS!!!! Best day ever!! 🙌