4e / GSL Monster Manual: Legendary Evils Complete Set!!

[Kunimatyu]

Others may disagree, but this may be one of the best DDM sets *ever* produced, especially if those are production paintjobs (and they likely are).

It's also likely the best Huge set ever produced - all eight Huges either kick ass or are incredibly useful, which has basically never been true before.

Giants of Legend had a few figures with amazing paintjobs (Lareth, Soth, Rakshasa, and....Grick, oddly) but there were also some really, really crappy figures (slaad, minotaur skeleton) and a huge proportion of non-monster figs.

[Mark]

The Balor, Elder Green Dragon, Elder Iron Dragon, and Storm Titan are the visibles I like and am likely to get.

[Huw]

Originally Posted by JohnnyQuest

It's not really a policy. It's just that the change in packaging required 36 PC sculpts for the first two series of Player's Handbook Heroes. Given that production time can be up to one year, and the fact that the already-produced sets didn't have that many PC sculpts, there was a need to use existing molds for some minis in the first two series (four in PHH1, five in PHH2). From here on, we won't see any more repaints.

Now that is good news. Thanks for the info. Now I'm actually looking forward to PHH3

[humble minion]

First time for ages I'll be buying a few of these.

The Green Dragon is absolutely perfect for my campaign right now (3.5, but for a mini this beautiful I can live with the silly nose horn!), and the Beholder Tyrant, Djinn, Human Rabble, the pile of coins (yeah, it's supposed to be a swarm, but that's not what people will use it for...), the two duergar, the Remorhaz, the Balor, the Chuul, the Goristro, the Hezrou and the Salamander are all great. Hell, the two slaad and the Earth Archon don't even exist in the edition of the rules that I'm using, but I'll invent a bunch of stats for them regardless just cos the minis look so nice...

[Invisible Stalker]

Now to revise and extend my remarks.

ADULT BROWN DRAGON - new dragon that I want to try out, nice standard pose and I like the look of his scales ****
AIR ARCHON ZEPHYRHAUNT - not even I'm convinced elementals need armor and weapons, look is a bit meh **1/2
AURAK DRACONIAN - say hello to my dragonborn sorcerer! excellent! ****1/2
BALOR - visible #1 is great, among the best of the set *****
BARGHEST SAVAGER - pretty good, won't go out of my way to get one ***
BEHOLDER ULTIMATE TYRANT - visible #2, I like the look of the one I just got best of all, but this one's base should hopefully be better. I still like the look and will be getting one ****
BOLRAZA, PRIESTESS OF BANE - love the pose and the look, the bad guys are about to get a new enforcer ****
CHILLFIRE DESTROYER - I love clear plastic minis and this one looks really good, possible invisible stalker??? ****1/2
CHUUL - don't have the old one, but I'll be making room for this one ****
DJINN STORMSWORD - love it, especially the top half ****1/2
DOOMDREAMER - I can never have too many cultists and this one of the best ones yet, and a common ****1/2
DUERGAR CLERIC OF ASMODEUS - leader for my duergar, love the pose ****
DUERGAR GUARD - the hammer is a little large, but this common is still ok ***
EARTH ARCHON RUMBLER - much better than the other archon, possibly because the armor stands out better ****
ELDER GREEN DRAGON - visible #3, awesome! I can practically smell the chlorine gas *****
ELDER IRON DRAGON - visible #4, It's Rodan! This one is just great for me, but I agree the hydra would have been the better choice for most ****1/2
FOULSPAWN HULK - figure is fine, I'm not sure I'll be getting one ***
FOULSPAWN MANGLER - this one I like, he seems like a gentleman and really evil all at once ****
FOULSPAWN SEER - I like the accessories on this one ***
FROST TITAN - visible #5, more like an ice titan, I love the clear plastic on the body and the ice axe, the pose is great ****1/2 for a non sticky one
GITHZERAI CENOBITE - gith BAH! and this one's boring *1/2
GITHZERAI MINDMAGE - BAH!, much better pose though **1/2
GOBIN CUTTER - great common and one of the best goblins *****
GORISTRO - visible #6, my least favorite of the visibles but it's still a good mini ****
HEZROU - I'll be needing one of these and it looks great, nice power glove ****
HORAD SCARAB LARVA SWARM - also known as PILE OF GOLD COINS, it will probably cost a lot of gold coins for this common ****1/2
HUMAN RABBLE - nice basic common guy with a club, very useful ****
IRONTOOTH - about a year too late, but an excellent mini *****
MINOTAUR THUG - I welcome the minotaur minion ***
PSYCHIC SENTINEL - he's too big to be the Human Torch, but I still like this mini ***
REMORHAZ - visible #7, like the rust monster this is a classic I wanted badly and done to perfection, once again WOTC comes through *****
RIMEFIRE GRIFFON - albino griffon, maybe at the right price ***
SALAMANDER FIRETAIL - always up for a good salamander and this fits the bill nicely ****1/2
SCARECROW STALKER - not sure about this one, but it's a little different ***
SIVAK DRACONIAN - my evil dragonborn NPC boss! gimme gimme *****
SLAAD SPAWN - awwww, nice ugly common little evil minion ****
STORM TITAN - visible #8, best mini of the set, jaw dropping perfection *****
TALON SLAAD - good for a slaad, but it's a reminder of how much I hate that cigar chomping midget from the X-Men ***
WAR TROLL - it's a good mini, but I'm kind of full up on trolls at the moment ****
YOCHLOL TEMPTER - why is Hedora yellow? it's weird, but I want one ***1/2

28/40 rate 4 stars or above, I'd say I'm going to love this set.

[Nai_Calus]

Man, that Storm Titan looks awesome. I have no use for monster minis and I still want one.

The second bout of PHH looks so far to not have a single thing I'd even remotely want. The Genasi is pretty headscratchy though.

I'm still clinging to my dream of them someday doing a male Eladrin that can reasonably be claimed to be a Swordmage. The likelihood that it would be blonde with green eyes and wearing purple is slim, but even in the wrong colours it'd still work. Even Reaper doesn't really have anything that works for me on that, and I don't have the eyesight to paint my own anyway. (I've tried painting other larger things before, and it does not work at all. My lack of depth perception kills it.)

[chaotix42]

I must chime in with the Storm Titan love, that dude is just impressive. All of the huge minis have me very excited! Sign for up for one case & some extras please!

[Quantarum]

Color me impressed, I'm in for a case.

-Q.

[Riley]

Originally Posted by Quantarum

Color me impressed, I'm in for a case.

-Q.

Ditto - and I've limited myself to picking up a few singles from the last few sets.

Actually, make that a case + 3 more boosters, containing: Balor, Green Dragon, and Storm Titan.

Nice job, Wizards!

[Rhuarc]

Just great! Have to get many of them, they are too good to be passed on, especially the huge minis!
Too bad it takes two more month until they arrive...

[Nebulous]

Goddang it. There are two sweet looking duergar in there i'd love to use for Thunderspire, but i don't think this set will be out in time. Otherwise, yeah, there are a lot of must-haves in there. I wish i didn't love minis so much

[Beckett]

*open mouthed gape*

Visible balor? Oh, yes. The rest look good too. Time to budget in a case.

It's too bad the module minis keep showing up too late.

And I'd be willing to bet good money on Dragonlance for the 2010 setting.

[WotC_Logan]

Originally Posted by DaveMage

No use: Air Archon Zephyrhaunt, priestess of bane, chillfire destroyer (any ideas how to use this, 3.5 fans?), chull (already have that), djinn (already have a djinn), doom dreamer (boring), earth archon, foulspawns, frost titan, githzerai (plenty from earlier sets), goblin (plenty from earlier sets), hezrou (the hezrou from a previous set is my all-time favorite mini, so no use for this one), swarm, human, irontooth, minotaur, griffon, slaad spawn (no use for 3.x), war troll (have enough trolls).

FYI, the foulspawn are in 3.5. They're called ushemoi and appear in MM5.

[Beckett]

Looking at the Hero pages, it confirms my suspicions from seeing the boxes on Amazon- we're still getting a repaint per pack. As much as I'd like to see all new models, it does seem to be an inexpensive way of getting some of the older minis (the dragonborn warlord goes for a fair amount as its original, the dragonborn fighter). It does give me a little regret for buying the frenzied berserker recently (the repaint is the last one in Primal 2). Same order, I bought the Cleric of Sune, also receiving a repaint in this set (although the Cleric was a lot cheaper than the berserker).

[Agamon]

Another beholder? Is that really necessary? I already have 2, which is one more than I need. I guess this is a huge tyrant, so I guess...same with the balor, looks nice, got one already. Maybe someday the party will face one, but two? Where's the hydra?

Whining aside, there, I like the dragons, the remorhaz, and the titans. Awesome. I told myself that the least set was the last set for me, but I'll have to rethink that. Maybe I'll just grab the huges, I dunno.

[coyote6]

Me, I'm happy to see a balor. I have one, but the PCs in my group might find themselves meeting a couple soon, so a second would be fine with me. When does this set hit the streets, again?

[Herschel]

Originally Posted by Nai_Calus

I'm still clinging to my dream of them someday doing a male Eladrin that can reasonably be claimed to be a Swordmage.

Bralani Eladrin from Blood War.

[thecasualoblivion]

Originally Posted by Herschel

Bralani Eladrin from Blood War.

And boy does that figure see a lot of use when you have it. It kind of becomes the default male elf/eladrin figure for any character who swings a weapon. I've seen it selected for PC use on about 6-7 characters so far.

[DaveMage]

Originally Posted by WotC_Logan

FYI, the foulspawn are in 3.5. They're called ushemoi and appear in MM5.

Ah!

Excellent.

Thanks for the info.

[Herschel]

Wow, for all the complaining and whining about the old distribution system and anything that was even slightly good for skirmishers and now we get a great looking set with the ditribution more what RPG-only people wanted and it has trouble getting three pages of discussion?