https://www.youtube.com/live/k99m1ED-4DE?si=yqdKh8DBxUKNRArPRundown of yesterday's stream...
Reinforcements 2 was originally going to drop earlier in the year.
Due to production of Cosmic, they moved things around in the schedule, and bumped All-Stars 6 up instead.
Their main idea was that they wanted to make sure to get at least some of the outstanding preorders out before dropping a new wave and making us pay for even more product before they even got what we already paid for in hand.
Because of this, they had already picked out all of the figures before the AS vote. They wanted to make another shadow orc, and it was a coincidence that Gorthokk made it in, and now there's a troop builder for him.
Silverhorn Sentry lost by just a few votes in the previous All-Stars; having been beating out by the yellow demon; so they just decided to make a bunch of him to drop sometime anyway.
The "2" versions in the wave were to represent 3 different legion builder eras; 1st kickstarter, AoD, and more recent waves.
Jeremy was sheepish when Dorklair said he was surprised that the original deluxe knight builder wasn't in this wave; due to the All-Stars 6 live stream mentioning how Sir Andrew was color matched to it. Jeremy said there were no plans to have that figure in THIS wave.
They wanted another black knight, but they decided the picks shouldn't be redos of last year's selection, so they made the vampire; which was mentioned in the Vorgus 2's bio. He's meant to be the guy who ends up putting on the armor.
Because they already had a black armor AND a vampire, they decided against putting the first lady vampire builder in.
They know they've been neglecting the 2.0 body in recent waves and are in dire need of a bigger parts catalogue.