Funkoverse: Thank You For Being A Friend... With Cheesecake!

I dove further into the Funkoverse this week, adding the most bizarre expandalone in the first wave...  The Golden Girls.

When I first heard that the Funkoverse would include them, I immediately swore off the game.  "They have DC characters, Harry Potter characters... why would they include half of the Golden Girls?  That's just ridiculous."

Then I realized just how ridiculous it was and it all made sense.

Funkoverse isn't about making a cohesive universe with a story arc about the lives of the characters that live there.  It's about mashing things up and enjoying the mess that you make!

This expansion gives you two of the girls from the series and while you might wonder how well they could stand toe to toe versus a superhero or wizard, these girls mean business!

Blanche Devereaux gives your team some token manipulation in the form of Flirt, a challenge 2 which lets you put one of your opponent's tokens onto their cooldown track.  Notice that she doesn't need to actually win the challenge and she lets you take any token from your opponent's pool.  I can see this ability messing with your opponent as you take away one the token he needed to pull off his masterplan!  In addition to this, she also adds some board control as she can use Southern Hospitality and Hi, Boys to move either herself or her rivals around the board.  Not only can this set up combos with our allies, she can also nerf adjacent rivals thanks to being Devastatingly Beautiful.

On the other hand, Rose Nylund can be something of a brute since Life Isn't Fair, Kiddo.  Challenge 4 is a solid blow and being able to move them afterward could be a handy trick as well.  Story Time gives her some board control as well as she pulls an ally in line of sight potentially across the board.  I can see this being handy in several of the scenarios as you pull allies across the board to score extra points or set up follow up actions.  Thank You For Being A Friend can supercharge Rose as it lets perform any basic action when her friend is challenged.  You could even use this to pop the friend right back up if Rose is adjacent since assist is a basic action.  Last but definitely not least, you need to remember that she is St. Olaf's Favorite Daughter.  If you're going to challenge her, you better knock her down or she'll be coming right back at you!

And of course you can't forget their item; cheesecake.  Whoever is carrying this item can use it to stand up as an action.  That's right, cheesecake make you Relentless, just like Batman.

This is a really fun looking set and I'm excited to add them to the mix as I can see some strong combinations coming from both of them.  I'm also that much closer to having the all the set from the first wave which just leaves the question; should I get Ron and Draco next or Rick and Morty?  Until next time...