We've all been there.......you may have partaken in a few too many loudmouth soups the night before, you stumble downstairs in dire need of a caffeine assisted reality check....
You give your face a 10 minute power nap on the kitchen work top while you wait for the coffee to come into being ...because let's face it, in this state time almost seems to stand still...and that is no more apparent... than when you are waiting for a pot of coffee....
The first pot....unlike the coffee itself.....disappears in an instant....this pot is a necessity and fuels the attention needed to repeat the process in as short a time as possible, because the second pot...is the one you actually have a chance of tasting...
You grab your favourite mug (no..I don't mean the Mrs).....pour yourself a fresh coffee....put on your dressing gown, pick up your vape rig and a bottle of your favourite liquid....and with a litre of caffeine pumping through your veins you feel equipped enough to brave the outside world and enjoy a coffee in the beautiful early morning sunshine. You open the back door....take one wobbly step onto the stone patio, and for reasons no one will ever truly understand... your mod decides that gravity is in fact nothing but a myth, as it inexplicably jumps out of your dressing gown pocket and in slow motion...floats mockingly in front of your horrified face ......
Before descending with almost suicidal tendencies headfirst towards the unforgiving Indian stone flooring.....a thousand things will flash through your mind in that fleeting moment...do I drop my coffee and try and catch it?....Do I have super power lightning fast reactions?....Can I actually stop time with my mind?......and while this mind is manically trying its best to comprehend the Rolodex of ideas flicking before it....one idea pops into your sluggish brain like a fart in a mud bath....'use the foot Luke'...
'OF COURSE!...The foot!....I can break it's fall with my foot!!...Genius!!....Wait....who's Luke?...And why did that idea sound like it came from Alec Guinness?!?'
Regardless of the surrealism of that particular conundrum...your leg juts out with almost cat like reflexes assuming it possesses the silky foot skills of Lionel Messi ....yet...assumption being the mother of all fuck ups....and without any rhyme or reason, what actually happens is... your leg unexplainably decides that once.....it used to be owned by Bruce Lee....
It's quite possibly the best, most powerful...and accurate karate kick that you've ever delivered to anything...ever....if you could in fact have done this 'special move' on demand in days gone by.....you may actually still have more of your own teeth...but no....this moment is the one and only time you will ever be able to pull off such a jaw dropping manoeuvre.....as you watch your precious device fly across your garden like a comet...and crash into your beautifully landscaped rockery....leaving the whole area looking like the Roswell UFO crash....only on a much smaller scale. You drop your coffee anyway...in sheer disbelief....as you slowly start to weep....
I say 'we've all been there'.....what I really mean is....I've been there, because that happened to me a few years ago with one of my Smok Privs...I can't remember which, H?....G?....Whatever, it was one of only 2 mods I owned at the time..the other being too shit to use.... and it left a scar in my mind that only people who have just broken their only available vape device through their own ham-fisted clumsiness.....will understand..
What I really needed.....was a Tonka Toy mod, a Panasonic Toughbook of vape devices....a ruggedly solid, bulletproof, Chuck Norris regulated machine that would stand the test of time should I nearly drown, be frozen solid, or fall from a 5 story building.....yes...I am that accident prone. Of course this idea wasn't around a few years ago...however....today is a different story....it would appear that Geekvape fully understand my plight.....bless their little Kevlar woven fireproof socks..
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Welcome back my cumbersome cloudy tearaways, back again with more drivel cunningly disguised as useful information regarding something that has, to all intents and purposes, been invented by your very selves...'Why?' you may ask....well, Geekvape in all their wisdom and understanding actually paid attention to their demographic when they released the original unbreakable colossus that was of course...the Aegis. This thing was pummeled, burnt, run over, frozen, drowned and murdered in more ways than an Italian Mafia torturer could ever possibly come up with.... and survived.... well.... sometimes.....everything has a limit. Even I put forward a set of stringent 'tests' last October, which were nigh on borderline psychotic savagery upon this apparent 'unbreakable' mod....with surprising results...remind yourself of that brutal 'snuff' review here.......be vigilant..
Pugsley's brutally savage snuff review of the Geekvape Aegis 100w Mod
However... despite all it's puffed up macho bravado....it was lacking, It was a 7ft man-mountain built like Arnie with the durability and testosterone of Chuck Norris...but with a tiny penis, and the people spoke...'What we need...is this device...with a massive pair of bollocks'.....and so, the Aegis returned....with a legendary pair of gentlemen spuds, Courtesy of two of my favourite squads from the East, Sourcemore & Gearbest....I throw at you, with no regard for its own safety....the Geekvape Aegis Legend 200w mod....this time....with giant knackers.
'Why two suppliers?' you might ask yourself, well...it's not a particularly interesting story, it would seem that the different colours were staggered when it came to release dates, so what you're seeing here is the first one I received with the tan leather which you get to see after 2 months of solid use, and the Snakeskin version which is fresh out of the box....call it a durability comparison if you will...now.....shall we...
The Lowdown
The Geek Vape Aegis Legend is a 200w regulated device utilising TWO 18650's as opposed to its older sibling's meagre offerings of a single 21700....thus upping the testosterone from 100 to 200 fantastically well endowed wattages....and they say size doesn't matter.....
As you can clearly see however...it has suffered in the girth area when compared to the original, but it doesn't particularly matter when the old Aegis was all show and little go, and the Legend has both power and stamina to boast about....okay enough with the willy anecdotes....it's making me slightly uncomfortable ...(cough-envy-cough) ...and besides...what the Legend loses in girth...it certainly gains in depth...(oh please)
Although the Legend may very well echo its predecessors appearance, it's different in almost every other area. I mean, this is a complete re-design from top to bottom, they didn't simply stuff another battery in there and say 'Well...there you go...you asked for it' ......For example, gone is the hefty stainless 510 plate only to be replaced by.....well...nothing actually, it's now built into the chassis which...if I am completely honest...is something I wish they hadn't changed. Both will still fit a 30mm top without overhang but there's something about an over-sized bolted top plate that just tickles my nethers....
Also on the list of amendments is the battery door, never really been a fan of threaded battery caps, and although the Aegis had a rather well made one with a pull out thumb lever...
I just find them a pain in the ass, on top of that I much prefer the option of ejecting the battery should things go awry, so it's nice to see a spring loaded hinged bottom door on the Legend.
It can be a little tricky and stiff to unlock but it is rubber sealed to help with it's claimed IP67 waterproofing. One thing worthy of note in this area though, the battery tubes are SNUG, if you have re-wrapped bats you could well find yourself acting like someone trying to shake the last drop of ketchup out of a bottle just to remove your batteries, I have found however that ODB wraps are thin enough to make a significant difference with this dilemma...but standard Sony wraps can prove frustrating...
The fire button has retained it's excellent form and thumb/finger friendly shape, only this time it's slightly narrower and a smidge longer, it's still impressively clicky and so far this still remains my favourite style fire button to date, the function buttons however are completely new, instead of being independant like on the original, they are now a kind of rocker switch.
it's dead easy too.