![]() These robots have a lot of little parts, and you need to be especially careful about which ones you move. I’m not sure if that is a gender bias on my part since I am basically assigning the female role to the skinny robot with long legs. I mentally assigned P-Body a female sex for some reason when playing the game, and it has always stuck with me. P-Body is refered to as “ Orange” by GLaDOS because … well his eye glows orange along with her portal gun. He’s certainly my favorite of the duo, and the one I would always play as. He’s refered to as “ Blue” by GLaDOS for obvious reasons. I’d almost consider him a robotic Jonah Hill. Lets go ahead and take a look at our two robot friends:Ītlas is the short chubby guy of the group, but definitely the more funny one. The instructions both show me how to install the batteries, and also what joints on the figure move which ways. A parent’s worst nightmare but a collector’s dream come true! If I just started trying to move arms and legs on the fly I would almost certainly snap something. They are wiry and have a ton of small parts. Both Atlas and P-Body are not simple robots by any means. Thankfully the folks over at 3A were good enough to put together an instruction manual to help me see what parts of these robots move. There is also a whole mess of foam keeping the duo nice and safe for storage and shipping. It includes Atlas with portal gun, P-Body with portal gun, two instruction books for each robot, and a print of each bot. There are no exclusive accessories or in-games codes that come with the two-pack, but you do get a giant box with both figures inside of it! The exclusive box is all white with an Aperture logo on the front. It also helped that you saved yourself around $40 going that route as well. Let’s be honest, you can’t have one without the other so of course I was springing for the box set. There were two options when buying these guys: individual figures or the Bambaland store exclusive two-pack. Although if they start doing these Valve releases at a faster clip I may need some kind of a flex pay option, these things are NOT cheap. I’m a fan of this “ pay ahead” model they got going here. I also have to say its nice once in a while to get something that is already paid off instead of getting that shipping notice and realizing my card is about to take a big hit. They managed to surpass my expectation! The figures started shipping from China a few days into 2014 and arrived at my house a couple of weeks later. So in return I gave myself and estimated March 2014 for these to show up. I’d been warned by people who have been collecting 3A product a lot longer than I not to put too much stock in the item shipping on time. ![]() I believe 3A put these guys up for preorder back in May of 2013 with a projected release date of December. I wouldn’t necessarily call them a “ grail” but they were definitely something I wanted a hell of a lot! The arrival of these two is a bit of a dream come true for me. Ever since I first heard 3A was doing stuff with Valve I held a little hope they may tackle Atlas and P-Body. It’s still a great single player game, but the storyline and the puzzles they put together in the multiplayer campaign is nothing short of incredible. I can think of very few video game experiences more enjoyable than getting a friend and playing through the coop campaign of Portal 2. ![]()
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