Fallout - Power Armor Unmasked - Funko Pop! (67) - (Pop In A Box)
Power armor is a personal infantry combat technology developed before the Great War by United States defense contractors. It represents the pinnacle of personal defensive technology, combining excellent protection from small arms with the ability to carry heavy weapons into combat with ease.
The first iteration of power armor successfully deployed in combat was the T-45 model, which originally ran on small energy cells. In response to burning through the cells at an alarming rate, later versions were manufactured with built-in microfusion packs. The T-45 model played a crucial role in stabilizing the Alaskan frontlines at the time of its introduction, while the superior T-51 power armor and later models helped decisively shift the balance in the United States' favor during the Sino-American War.
Stealth armor was the initial Chinese response, focusing on stealth and subterfuge, rather than head-on confrontations. China would still attempt to create their own versions of power armor but were already many years behind the United States.
After the Great War, power armor rapidly became a precious, treasured item, with only a limited number of factions capable of maintaining or fielding them in substantial numbers, much less manufacturing them. Among these are the technologically advanced Brotherhood of Steel and the Enclave.
In the games themselves, power armor is a highly protective type of sophisticated armor. In Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics it is effectively the endgame armor, wildly exceeding every other option in terms of protection and bonuses. In Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas power armor is still a profoundly protective armor but is gated behind Power Armor Training. It serves less as a clear cut endgame armor and more of an endgame option for characters specializing in heavy armor. Finally, in Fallout 4 and Fallout 76, power armor was developed into a separate gameplay system consisting of maintenance and repair not used for other armor, requiring periodic refueling with fusion cores and allowing in-depth customization.
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Fallout is a series of post-apocalyptic retrofuturistic role-playing video games. It was created by Interplay Entertainment. Although the series is set during the 22nd and 23rd centuries, its atompunk retrofuturistic setting and artwork are influenced by the post-war culture of 1950s America, and its combination of hope for the promises of technology, and lurking fear of nuclear annihilation. A forerunner for Fallout is Wasteland, a 1988 video game of which the Fallout series is regarded to be a spiritual successor. Although the game worlds are different, the background story, inhabitants, locations, and characters draw many parallels.
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Funko's Pop! Vinyl line are figures modelled in a style similar to the Japanese chibi style. The figures have large squarish heads, disproportionately small bodies, and large, circular black eyes. The figures typically depict licensed characters from franchises such as Doctor Who, Marvel, DC, Disney, Star Wars, Wizarding World, and other pop culture entities. After a preview line of DC Comics characters were released at San Diego Comic-Con 2010, the Funko Pop! line of products was fully revealed in 2011 at the New York Toy Fair.
The exaggerated body proportions of Pop! figures have invited comparisons with Good Smile’s Nendoroid figures, which are similarly described as "chibi". Both product lines depict characters from many different franchises.
Most Funko Pop! figures are not bobbleheads, as their heads do not move. However, all Star Wars figures in the line are bobbleheads, as well as most Marvel figures. This is to avoid licensing conflicts with Hasbro, the company which holds the license to make ordinary (non-bobblehead) figures of characters from these franchises.
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