D&D General If You Wanted a LIfe-Sized Mimic Chest, Now's Your Chance

Put that in the guest room and none of your guests will stay more than a night or two. All for a mere $375 in the second quarter of this year.

It's every adventurer's rite of passage to encounter a Mimic in combat--now you can have one with you in the room while you play! This life-sized Mimic chest is 20" tall and made from soft foam that's painted to show off each eye and tooth, not to mention that long tongue! This replica creature is incredibly lifelike and stands mid-lunge toward its next victim

D&D Replicas of the Realms: Mimic Chest Life-Sized Figure

It's every adventurer's rite of passage to encounter a Mimic in combat--now you can have one with you in the room while you play! This life-sized Mimic chest is 20" tall and made from soft foam that's painted to show off each eye and tooth, not to mention that long tongue! This replica creature...

www.dndmini.com

 

[FoolishFrost]

How are they "messing with our expectations" if they posted a video doing actual size comparisons of the product? And clearly state the dimensions of the product on their website?

Would a giant treasure chest mimic statue be awesome?!?! YES! But those complaining that this particular mimic "isn't life-sized" . . . . I think just need something to complain about.

Okay, two things.
1. You just went personal with anyone you argued against.
2. You dismissed others opinions because you disagree.

I made my reasons clear as to why I thought what I did. You just dismissed them with, “Aw, don’t pay attention to them! They just like to complain!”

you can see why that’s bad, right?

 

[Cergorach]

How are they "messing with our expectations" if they posted a video doing actual size comparisons of the product?

That video wasn't linked in the first post or the linked product page. I agree that the video gave a far better visual indication of the size then the product page. That product info is what's being copied in webstores, the images with the dimensions is all the way to the bottom of the image list.

Writing/making ads has it's own science behind it. This ad/product page indicates that the mimic is big, how big? They only list the biggest dimension in the text on the product page (20"). That leaves the consumer with it's imagination. And even the video doesn't show the product next to an adult of average height, all the shots are made at angles that make it look big besides things that make it look big.

Imagine me sending instructions to a sawmill, stating the the plank needs to be 20" high and then hiding the rest of the dimensions somewhere in an image gallery that has a pretty good chance of being overlooked. Do you think I'll get a plank that has the 'hidden' dimensions or just 20" tall and some random other dimensions? This is how the average consumer looks at these kinds of product pages.

This is not the first such a D&D/Wizkids product page I've seen. Often Wizkids painted miniatures even show colored renderings of the minis instead of the actually painted minis... Some product pages inform the potential customer of ALL the product information and try to sell the product to the potential customer, in this case they are just trying to sell you on it.

The most instructive image for a potential customer is making a photo of an average sized human holding the mimic. Straight on, no special lenses, etc. It's not there.

I know how Wizkids operates, so I'm way less surprised then someone who first reads that, then actually does the math and realizes that it's far smaller then they first thought. We all make mistakes, it happens. But people become pissed when they realize that the ad/product page was written exactly like that in the hopes you didn't do the math (or scrolled all the way down in the image gallery). People 'complain' not because it was a honest mistake, but because the company is trying to mess with you to buy an expensive product.