Colossal D&D Miniatures News!

[Varianor Abroad]

Snark. Good one coyote6! I can only hope that my players offer to buy them for me without previewing them in the store!

 

[KB9JMQ]

Ooooh, I cannot wait.
But please.
Year 2 Figure 1 = Tiamat !!!!

 

[bodhi]

How the heck do you sneak one of these things in? ;-)

Tea Cozy.

::crosses fingers for purple worm::

I want a range of Dread Gazebo figures, from Tea Room, through Chalet, to Revival Tent.

 

[Agamon]

Darn, I just (finally) finished painting the metal Black Dragon that WotC released back in 3E's first year. He doesn't have a base, but he'd make a good Gargantuan or even Colossal mini. So what do they pick for the first big DDM? :\

Ah, well. I'm betting these are going to rock. I second the call for the purple worm and tarrasque. Hopefully they don't do a Century Worm, it may look like it belongs in an adult shop...

 

[Psychic Warrior]

I'mn happy to be seeing colassal minis finally coming to the DDM line. I hope to never see the Tarrasque, however. One of the worst monsters ever designed.

 

[megamania]

A while back I saw a quote from someone who "used to be in the business" of making plastic miniatures like the D&D miniatures & Mage Knight miniatures (in this case he was discussing Mage Knight figures).

While plastic miniatures are less expensive in raw materials compared to metal miniatures (the plastic being cheaper than the metal), the same isn't true of the molds. Molds for metal miniatures are very cheap. Molds for plastic miniatures are very expensive. The price he quoted for each mold was about £20,000, IIRC (it might have been £10,000). Of course, this was the price when he used to be in the business, late 80's-90's. This is also the cost for the mold for a single piece. Miniatures tend to be made of several pieces (especially large figures).

Now, that price is spread out among all the miniatures that are made from that mold. However, contrary to popular opinion, plastic miniatures aren't necessarily "dirt cheap." You have to make a lot of them to come close to making your money back.

I work in plastics and he is right. The figures may not cost much to mold but the prep and design can be costly and the molds are scarey. Aluminum cause flash issues and steel is VERY expensive.

I have interest in these but at 50 apiece I may have to look elsewhere. Someone mentioned McFarlane's dragons which are nicely done though they don't look exactly like the WoTC ones but work well. I bought one for 13.00 this weekend. With that in mind, 50 dollars is a scarey amount to spend.

 

[JediSoth]

Freakin' sweet. Now I just have to figure out a way to pay for them.

Dragons are nice, but some of the more "mundane" colossal and gargantuan minis would be my vote...purple worms and the like. They'd get more use.

Man...this is going to cost me a lot of money in scrapbooking supplies (the wife lets me buy any gaming stuff I want if I let her buy as much scrapbook stuff as she wants, it's a good deal).

JediSoth

 

[Zander]

I have interest in these but at 50 apiece I may have to look elsewhere. Someone mentioned McFarlane's dragons which are nicely done though they don't look exactly like the WoTC ones but work well. I bought one for 13.00 this weekend. With that in mind, 50 dollars is a scarey amount to spend.

I have one of the MacFarlane dragons and I agree that they're well sculpted and painted.

I recently got this dragon (scroll down the page and enlarge the pic) which is pretty cool too IMO. It's about 5.5" high and 6" long and, like the MacFarlane dragons, only a fraction of the price of the DDM dragons.

 

[Klaus]

I hereby make a motion to rename these "minis" as "maxis" or even "maxiatures", 'cause hey, there's nothing "mini" about them!

 

[devilbat]

At $50 or $65+ Canadian, I'll likely pass on these. I will compare them size wize to McFarlane's dragon line though.