D&D General Bought a brick of the 50th Anniversary minis :(

[Oofta]

Ikea is my go-to. They have full glass displays and cabinets with glass doors. I'm good at carpentry but the cost and time is just not worth it compared to a glass door Billy cabinet:

BILLY Bookcase with glass doors, dark blue, 31 1/2x11 3/4x79 1/2" - IKEA

BILLY Bookcase with glass doors, dark blue, 31 1/2x11 3/4x79 1/2". It is estimated that every five seconds, one BILLY bookcase is sold somewhere in the world. Pretty impressive considering we launched BILLY in 1979.

www.ikea.com

True, but I don't have my degree in "Understanding IKEA Instructions" yet. I hear it's a graduate level.

 

[The Soloist]

True, but I don't have my degree in "Understanding IKEA Instructions" yet. I hear it's a graduate level.

You do not understand pictograms and yet played AD&D? It's easier than THAC0! LOL

 

[Warpiglet-7]

Ikea is my go-to. They have full glass displays and cabinets with glass doors. I'm good at carpentry but the cost and time is just not worth it compared to a glass door Billy cabinet:

BILLY Bookcase with glass doors, dark blue, 31 1/2x11 3/4x79 1/2" - IKEA

BILLY Bookcase with glass doors, dark blue, 31 1/2x11 3/4x79 1/2". It is estimated that every five seconds, one BILLY bookcase is sold somewhere in the world. Pretty impressive considering we launched BILLY in 1979.

www.ikea.com

I have three smaller ones from there! I bought a larger one for the other side of the room I think from Amazon…

They apparently discontinued my smaller cases so went bigger elsewhere. Almost out of room again…

 

[Oofta]

You do not understand pictograms and yet played AD&D? It's easier than THAC0! LOL

Yeah, but I played that when I was much younger when my brain was fresh, malleable and able to pick up arcane wording and rules! Now my brain is so old and calcified I'd probably look at Gygaxian prose and give myself a migraine.

 

[Warpiglet-7]

I opened up one slot and have 5e books at the base…but some shelves like demons and devils are tight and might need to be split.

In fact I am in the process of moving and trading for new minis so some of the open spaces will get taken up.

Goodman games classics added for some old school conversion fun!

Pay no attention to piles of toys and such in the background

 

[Warpiglet-7]

Yeah, but I played that when I was much younger when my brain was fresh, malleable and able to pick up arcane wording and rules! Now my brain is so old and calcified I'd probably look at Gygaxian prose and give myself a migraine.

I hate to say it but due to my Anheuser’s syndrome and age…

I appreciate the relative simplicity of 5e vis a vis some other games!

 

[Mistwell]

If there is one Chase figure per brick, and a brick is 8 figures, wouldn't it make more sense to buy 8 individual minis from 8 different bricks?

 

[Sacrosanct]

Ugh. So tempted. If there was an option to buy them painted, I'd probably have already ordered them

I got them. Good quality.

 

[Bacon Bits]

Why would WotC take the cartoon characters. Put them in a new adventures and showcase them for the new updated edition and then make the figures hard to get?

That really sucks. I'm really sorry they put this together so badly. I'm not sure I've seen Games Workshop have deals that frustrating.

Ever since Nike did their limited editions, it's you have to be careful when buying stuff. They package things for collectors, scalpers, and whales and make the average customer buy it on eBay. You know how Stanley drink cups have been super in style? Guess where the limited edition guy from Nike went when he left Nike.

It's really awful. It's maximized wealth extraction, leveraged with FOMO. It allows the producer to make something that exploits the customer and relies on the existence of a robust secondary market backed by the Internet to function at a very basic level.

WotC has been pretty bad with it. WotC has Secret Lairs and the 30th Magic Anniversary set. Even arguably the D&D FLGS covers qualify, but at least those are kind of a good cause. From my memory WizKids has been bad with it, too, but I don't buy their products anymore so I don't know. I do remember the HeroClix MechWarrior was an absolute nightmare to get what you wanted, but when I played the communities were pretty small and nobody was buying solely for resale.

 

[Deset Gled]

If there is one Chase figure per brick, and a brick is 8 figures, wouldn't it make more sense to buy 8 individual minis from 8 different bricks?

For one, it would be very hard to be sure you're getting that unless you're at a store that let's you open 8 bricks.

For another, if I did my math right, that gives you ~34% chance of getting no chase figures at all.