I’m nearing the home stretch with my reviews of the first wave of Cosmic Legions figures, which is probably the quickest I’ve ever gone through a wave of TFH figures. It’s nice to try to be current and timely every once and a while. If you’ve missed out on the previous reviews, check them out HERE. Otherwise, I’m blasting ahead with a look at the three members of the T.U.5.C.C. Faction!

What’s all that gibberish stand for? It’s a commerce alliance called The Traders Union of the Five Circles of Cosmerrium. And not only do they orchestrate inter-planetary trade, but they’re also the ones responsible for running Hvalkatar Prison and benefiting from the labors and research conducted there. That can’t be good! My original plan was to review the Science Officer and Sentry together since they share most of the same body, but I didn’t want to leave the Engineer out, so I threw her in here too. Let’s start with the Sentry!

The Sentries are basically the guards of Hvalkatar. I can’t remember if The Sentry and Science Officer were classified as Legion Builders, but I think they were because they were the cheapest figures in the assortment. If you’re not familiar, TFH’s Legion Builders are just a classification of figures with fewer paint apps geared more towards customization and troop building. I almost passed on this fella, because I thought he looked more like an artist proof than a finished release, but I’m glad I got him because even with the drab gray finish, he looks really good. There are parts here borrowed from Olek Thygar and some new bits to give the body a more enclosed and complete spacesuit. You get some silver paint on the belt buckle and chest piece, but that’s it. The flat gray brings out the sculpted detail rather nicely, and boy are there some beautiful details in this suit! I’m not a customizer, so mine is staying flat gray and that’s fine because I could certainly see a drab suit like this being issued to the rank-and-file. I do wish it had the TU5CC emblem (seen on Slogg) printed on the shoulder. The most I’d be willing to do is maybe stencil a white ID number on the shoulders instead.

You get two heads to choose from. There’s an exposed alien head that works well with the domed space helmet, and here we do get some more paint. The creature’s skin is ebony black with some faint white among the fissures. He has six bright orange eyes set in red circles. This helmet stays on a lot better than the one that came with Olek, but I’m still not too keen on the gap in the front, which would be a bit of a problem on a pressure suit like this. Still, otherwise it looks great.

The other head is a fully enclosed and form-fitting helmet, which can be worn under the space suit bubble, but I think that looks a bit redundant, so I prefer this one with the helmet and bubble off. The helmet is the same flat gray as the suit with an opaque yellow-orange shield. The narrative claims these Sentries are of varied races, but this helmet looks like it would be a perfect fit for the alien head included. I dig it!

The Sentry comes well armed, and if we start small and work our way up, then his wrist blasters come first. We’ve seen these before a couple of times and they simply peg right into the holes on his forearm bracers, presumably to look like they could be retracted and deployed. These are cast in black plastic and they look great with this suit.

Next up is his blaster rifle. Again, we’ve seen it before, so nothing new here. It’s cast in black to match the wrist blasters and he has two trigger finger hands, so he can wield it in either hand. You do get a second set of hands, but the only difference is in the way the wrist hinge is orientated. Also, I’ll note here that the Sentry does come with those clear rods to attach accessories to the ports on his suit, but nothing he comes with really works with the ports on the suit all that well. Although, I suppose you could store the blaster rifle across his butt.

Lastly, you get a sniper rifle, and if you haven’t picked up on the pattern yet, yes we’ve seen this before and yes it’s cast in black plastic this time. I said early on in these reviews that the only gripe I really had is the lack of variety in the accessories, and now that I’m more than halfway through the wave, nearly all the accessories are repeats. Just like before, there are sockets in this rifle so you can peg in those arm blasters to give it some more power. All in all, this is a nice looking figure, even if it does lack some of that gorgeous coloring we saw on previous releases. Next up… The Science Officer!

The Science Officer is billed as a sort of combination Lab Technician and Security Guard. He utilizes nearly the same body as the Sentry with the only differences being found in the belt and the chest piece. This one is cast almost entirely in white, although you do get a little light blue-green gradient here and there which gives him a bit more of a premium look than his drab gray cousin. Add to that the brilliant metallic blue chest piece and this guy really pops on the shelf despite not sporting a lot of paint operations.

You get even more vibrant color in the alien head, which is a deep pink and has metallic green eyed protruding from the side of his noggin. This is a really cool head design and I think he’d be right at home hanging out at the Cantina on Tatooine. What’s not cool is they couldn’t bother to throw in a dome for his helmet. I seriously though mine was just missing, but when I looked up the figure on the store site, it confirmed that he didn’t come with one and that’s kind of cheap and sucks. Why give him the lower helmet piece and not the dome?

The second head is a fully enclosed piece with a blue tinted visor, and again this one matches the contours of the alien head really well. I’m not sure how that visor piece would work, as it makes it look more like a robot head. But either way I dig it a lot. I’m really tempted to pick up a couple more of these guys to display with that head!

Moving on to accessories, The Science Officer does come with a new hologram piece for his arm and it’s a blue skull. Is he talking to the skull? Is the skull an artifact being displayed on his holographic projector? Don’t know. But it looks cool and it’s one of only two new accessories we’ll be seeing today that we haven’t seen before, so I’ll happily take it!

As for guns, we get the pistols we’ve seen a few times in previous reviews. This time they are painted with a snappy silver finish and they can be pegged into his hip armor for fast draw action. This is the best use of those clear attaching rods on any of these three figures. And just like The Sentry, you get two sets of trigger finger hands, with one set hinged up and down and the other side to side.

And here’s the blaster rifle that we literally just saw! It’s still an amazing sculpt and it looks damn good in the silver finish. For some reason I have problems getting this guy’s trigger finger into the guard, so for now he’ll just be practicing proper trigger discipline. Let’s move on to the third figure in this TU5CC trifecta… The Engineer!

Oh, it’s a lady! The Engineers are billed as keeping the mechanical operations on the prison running smoothly and also as personal attendants to Highwarden Slogg’s life support systems. She introduces a pretty fresh mix of parts, but like the other two we’re not getting a whole lot of paint applications here. The suit is all black with just a silver hit on the belt buckle and a bright red disk in the middle of her chest unit.

So, I really dig this head sculpt, mainly because it looks like an alien mask with the eyeholes concealed in the design. I’m not sure if that’s what they were going for, or why I think that’s so cool, but I just do. The bulbous crimson head sports one gold and black eye right in the middle of the forehead. Damn sexy if you’re into cyclops.

You also get a fully enclosed helmeted head, which like the others retains the shape of the alien head pretty closely. This is another great looking helmet, and again, I’m tempted to nab a couple more so I can put one one each side of Slogg.

As you’ve already seen, we get the pistols again, and she can peg them into her butt. The pistols, like all of her accessories are cast in a sort of greenish-gray and they still look good.

But wait… here’s a new one! You get an Electrostaff and it’s pretty big and impressive. No doubt a good weapon for skewering prisoners as they try to escape.

And finally, here are the arm blasters… again! Eh, I can’t complain. They look great on her. And I have to keep reminding myself that yes… Mythic Legions was just as bad about recycling weapons in the early waves. I don’t know, maybe it’s because these figures have been so wildly successful since then that I thought we might get a little more variety here. At least the overly recycled weapons are pretty damn cool looking and it’s not really something that’s detracting me from enjoying these.

And that’s it for the TU5CC forces so far! We’ll be getting more in future waves, and that excites me because despite not having the gorgeous coloring we saw on the previous releases, these figures are still loads of fun and look great. As I’ve mentioned a few times, I’d love to pick up some more of these to display with the helmeted heads, but I’m trying to control myself when it comes to army building and let’s face it, even as the “budget” figures of this line, these are still pricey on the second hand market, running about $45 a pop at certain online retailers. And while I’m a bit surprised that they’re still readily available, I doubt they’re likely to last long enough to go on sale. Anyway, I’ve got one more Cosmic Legions review to go, so get ready for some bugs!