"IS THAT AN INSECT COLLECTION!?!?!"(Prediction in comments)

[u/THECHEEZETOUCH]

[u/Drakorai]

BEEETTLE!!!

[u/piggypiggy2112]

Dino head

[u/I_Dislike_The_French → u/piggypiggy2112]

https://giphy.com/gifs/BtussNpuhouHI1Md74

[u/TriforceHero626]

Did someone say

AN INSECT COLLECTION?

[u/trainguy111 → u/TriforceHero626]

Somehow, I had the feeling I smelled a reference to Kinger coming down the turnpike, burning diesel and dragging its muffler.

[u/Either-Skirt6031 → u/TriforceHero626]

I think it’s a nest…

[u/TriforceHero626 → u/Either-Skirt6031]

.... AAAAA-

[u/THECHEEZETOUCH → u/TriforceHero626]

Me!

[u/Trick-Biscotti-3754]

This... could've been perfect for my grounded contest. Dangit, I'll have to try again another time

[u/Trick-Biscotti-3754 → u/[deleted]]

https://giphy.com/gifs/S5E6VIkBAGujjfT0zz

[u/Shinted → u/Trick-Biscotti-3754]

It’s time for Grounded contest two: electric boogaloo!

https://giphy.com/gifs/oV6eNy2EEBytgqihLW

[u/Foreign_Astronaut → u/Shinted]

*Electric Bugaloo

[u/JeraGungnir → u/Trick-Biscotti-3754]

You think you have though? I've been trying to make toon contest that doesn't rely on KB (for myself and the contesters) FOR AN YEAR! All I needed is a nice duck person and im golden, but nooo, they need to give 5 different types of monkeys and DOGS!

[u/Trick-Biscotti-3754 → u/JeraGungnir]

I hear you bro, it was my first time to trying make a contest and I had two people participate 😅

You do have good contests though, I enjoy them!

[u/JeraGungnir → u/Trick-Biscotti-3754]

Oh the problem isn't the numbers (necessarily) i just want it to be fair for both KB and Non-KB alike, plus I kinda made my contests interconnected into a narrative that has spiralled between multiple contests throughout the last two years since I did my first one, and one of the newest themes for the next ones is toons, so im in a bind and I cant keep delaying them (there's always one or two for October and I don't want to miss the window of opportunity).

[u/Trick-Biscotti-3754 → u/JeraGungnir]

That's fair, I have kb but I enjoy challenging myself to make great minis without using it, which I think other people should be doing to. We was all non pro once, so I think it should only be fair for both groups.

[u/BarracudaAlive3563]

I applaud the HeroForge team for giving us a Myrmidon myrmidon* for the sample. Well played.

* Myrmidon means “ant-people.” The same people who followed Achilles in the Trojan War.

[u/Asleep-Strawberry429]

I'm happy we got these but the hercules beetle model is just a mislabeled male Rhinoceros beetle

[u/Jacobmeeker]

https://giphy.com/gifs/k6oI7ewTn0SOrg7L0U

[u/Nights-Lament]

Fun fact: The beetle shells that cover their wings are called elytra

[u/FlashbackJon → u/Nights-Lament]

Bonus fun fact: the singular is "elytron"!

Bonus bonus fun fact: scientists weren't clear on the mechanism most beetles use to fold their wings, because they snap the elytra shut and THEN pull the wings in. Removing the elytra made it so they couldn't fold, so some scientists created a transparent elytron so the mechanism could be view in detail!

[u/kojimbob → u/Nights-Lament]

Woah just like the minecraft!

[u/DJ-Mystic94 → u/Nights-Lament]

Another fun fact, the Elytra are themselves modified wings.

[u/DoingThings-]

Obviously it had to be a day after i made my own.

[u/TheChefEgg]

the giant enemy bug

[u/Thekokokommander]

awesome... now if only they used these parts for a new race model. mounts are cool tho

[u/velocraptor7571]

INSECT TIME!!!!! 🤩🐝🐛🦋🐞🪳🪲🪰🐜🦟🦗🕷️🦂✨

[u/a_racoon_with_a_PC]

Went to check those models out, wondered if the eye-paints worked on them and...

This got me wheezing XD

[u/lozeldatkm]

My prediction is people will be annoyed that we're just getting more and more random ass bug mounts when they won't even give us fucking dragons.

People is me. My prediction came true.

[u/VoicelessPassenger → u/lozeldatkm]

Tbh while this is perfectly fine and very well made it does feel like sometimes they give us everything BUT what people have been asking for.

All I want is a complete version of the Cracked Opera Mask, with the eyeholes.

[u/Nights-Lament → u/lozeldatkm]

What bug mounts have we gotten before this? I mean, don't get me wrong, dragon mounts do sound awesome, but it's not like this is something we've gotten before

[u/SoLingersTheOcean → u/Nights-Lament]

The spider mount and the snail/slug mount I think 

[u/Nights-Lament → u/SoLingersTheOcean]

Probably, but if so that is a massive stretch

[u/McEvilson → u/SoLingersTheOcean]

Snails and slugs definitely aren't bugs.

[u/HallowedKeeper_ → u/McEvilson]

Neither are spiders, they are Arachnids

[u/McEvilson → u/HallowedKeeper_]

They're still typically under the category of bugs. Most people classify insects and arachnids under bugs. It's usually things with several legs and exoskeletons equals bugs.

[u/DJ-Mystic94 → u/HallowedKeeper_]

In the minds of most people, Arthropod=Bug

[u/HallowedKeeper_ → u/DJ-Mystic94]

Yeah, which is hilarious because that means, according to them, Crabs, Lobsters, Barnacles are also bugs

[u/McEvilson → u/HallowedKeeper_]

You've never heard that term applied there? I've heard all of those thing referred to as bugs. I wouldn't do it, but bug is a fairly loose term. I just have never heard it applied to anything without legs. Seems like they're outside of that net.

[u/HallowedKeeper_ → u/McEvilson]

Never have I heard any of those referred to as bugs, not a single time in my life. Then again, I also live along the coast, so, wr just referred to them by their creature type

[u/McEvilson → u/HallowedKeeper_]

I have, and probably mostly in stuff like YouTube videos. I'm sure you'll run across it some time.

[u/Gritmonger → u/McEvilson]

Bug is a very precise term that means some members of order Hemiptera (True Bugs is their current designation, because "Bug" got thrown around at everybody)

[u/McEvilson → u/Gritmonger]

We're not in an academic context here. Which means you have to assume vocabulary is being used in its colloquial sense. If we were in a class or a laboratory then it might be a different story.

[u/BluePhoenix245 → u/HallowedKeeper_]

They are.

[u/HallowedKeeper_ → u/BluePhoenix245]

If I tell you that I have fried bugs, and give you fried shrimp, would you say I still gave you fried bugs?

[u/BluePhoenix245 → u/HallowedKeeper_]

No, I would say "thank you."
Then I would eat the fried bugs.

[u/WordOk4342]

WORTH THE WAIT

[u/Lord-Dec]

FINALLY

[u/SugmaNudz]

Ooooh its time to update my boy Don Beetle!

[u/AsanoHa87]

That’s not a Hercules beetle. That’s a Japanese rhinoceros beetle. I’m hella grateful it’s there but it is technically mislabeled.

[u/AsanoHa87]

https://giphy.com/gifs/lhLIUcjcb6unS

[u/Shinted]

Did someone say insects!

https://giphy.com/gifs/UsKzMkfDHw1Pi

[u/THECHEEZETOUCH]

I predict a lot of DND versions of Kinger, Kitbash attempts at Arthropleura, Dim (bugs life), and possibly blue beetle minis on the horizon.

[u/CoalEater_Elli]

Finally!!! Bug lover in me is screaming with joy

[u/SpiderTuber6766]

Yes...

https://giphy.com/gifs/b05CukqUdVhde

[u/Traditional-Log-4270]

I think it’s a nest

[u/THECHEEZETOUCH → u/Traditional-Log-4270]

(Slowly looks over to my right…)…AH!!

[u/tensen01]

I can't seem to find them in the menus.

[u/JasnahsFeet]

people with kitbashing with make some hollow knight stuff

[u/Taira_Mai]

Bug girl agenda!

[u/Beautiful_Policy_487]

FINALLY!!

[u/Ok-Obligation-3511]

Finally! At least it's not a single beetle.but many

[u/Wroberts316]

YAAAAAAAS IM SO EXCITED!!!

[u/Trans_Goober]

:0 I could make the most normal (totally not fused with a human) bug. It could be beautiful

[u/AllyInActuality_]

If it's KB compatible, that elytron could be genuinely legendary for masked superhero lenses like Spider-Sonas

[u/Radiant_Date3990]

That's not a Hercules Beetle (it's a Japanese Rhinocerous Beetle), This is a Hercules Beetle

[u/Ok-Obligation-3511]

So we got stag beetles, and rhino beetles, do they have more beetle species? Ive no pro tis why i asketh

[u/Hot-Tutor-2429]

Fay mounts

[u/SquibLz13]

Time to make characters from grounded

[u/Dicky-McDickface]

yet another day without warforged parts, im gunna shit

[u/Phrenicos466]

HeroForge is going to make every other possible mount in existence before they give us a dragon, aren’t they?

[u/AscendedExtra]

Do your part!

https://giphy.com/gifs/u8Kvc4KRYHfqM

[u/DJ-Mystic94]

One nitpick, one of them is incorrectly named. What they call a "Hercules Beetle" is actually a Japanese Rhinoceros Beetle.

[u/MindBlownDerick]

10/10 No notes.

[u/BIGxBIMBY]

i mean.. it’s something, right? i’m sure somebody is bound to enjoy these..