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Portuguese Dragons!


Phantom Terror

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So I'm in Portugal this weekend, and whenever I visit foreign lands, I make it a goal to come home with some obscure merchandise from them. This time I'm coming home with a Portuguese dragon...

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The packaging

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The contents

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The Dragon

So the thing behind this is that when you buy a 2 euro box of dragon-themed cookies, you get a free dragon figurine with two cards to go with a game that supplements the 5 and a half year old Nintendo DS game

Combat of Giants: Dragons.

On the back on the package, six dragons are shown. Seems easy enough to collect them all, right? Wrong. There are actually thirty dragons to collect, I'd assume that's five for each of the six elemental tribes. So to collect them all, you have to 1) Have a really good image of something in your brain as you're touching it, and 2) 60 euros to spend on cookies.

The dragon I'm not disappointed in. Out of the thirty shown on the promotional pamphlet, its one of my favorites. I got Oclum today, an dragon of air with three attack points in the card game. The description is written in two languages: Portuguese and Spanish. When I asked the almighty Google for translation, it spit out:

""Hawk eye". You can see what happens in enemy lands and that makes him very important. Air dragons have always watching. Nothing escapes his control."

(Spanish)

""Vision of falcon". Can observe all the events in the enemy land and it is transformed into a huge advantage. The dragons air guard always. Nothing escapes his control."

(Portuguese)

So what I can gather from this is that Oclum is an air dragon who observes everything in enemy territory, making him an important dragon. He always guards the air, and nothing escapes his control.

Cool.

Oclum's made out of a very soft plastic, like the Inika masks from 2006. The paint's done really well, and it's just a fun thing to have on display. A black gem is also included, which I think has game relevance, but for me it's just another piece of plastic. I might be able to use it in a scepter for a MOC though...

Now to make a LEGO version.....

I actually got this blind pack for free, because I didn't know you had to buy the cookies to get it. So I might buy some cookies tomorrow and get another dragon.

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Very informative, but you're missing one key bit of information: "How long did it take to break?" l405G.jpg

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Very informative, but you're missing one key bit of information: "How long did it take to break?" l405G.jpg

It hasn't broken, and I doubt it will for some time. It's very sturdy.

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