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Message: <blockquote data-quote="piper909" data-source="post: 9642785" data-attributes="member: 7052169">Hola! Some responses and further chit-chat:My recollection is that the Golden Unicorn was found, altho' not as quickly as the Silver Dragon.  I felt at the time these were both just silly gimmicks. Garnered some publicity, but was it worth it in the long run, and could you sustain a line of games on the concept?  But neither was anything I was involved with during my time at Metagaming. I was at TSR during the Silver Dragon launch and the Golden Unicorn was already published by the time I was back in Austin. I have to assume all the Martian Metals molds and masters were lost in that fire, since none of the figures have been reissued to my knowledge. I still have a bunch of the pirates and a few other things.  I haven't played Revolt on Antares since it was published, I don't think! But I thought it was a nice bit of work at the time. Those microgames had very hard production  limits imposed on the designers -- only so many counters, so big a game map, so many pages in the rules booklet. The design had to be shoehorned into those dictates. That explains a lot about the compromises made.  Tom Wham's "Icebergs," for instance, in its playtest prototype was a lot bigger game than the final product. Things got shrunk.I have been reworking They've Invaded Pleasantville off and on in the past years -- I invited Mike Price to join in but never heard back. But on my own, I wanted to expand the game board so I've added a whole new town section and blown up the map, a few more characters, rewritten the rules to add clarity and include the revisions, and want to make it miniatures-friendly. Use 3-D components instead of those bland counters.  I have all the townspeople painted up in 25mm (and a few alien types) but what I need now is to line up a professional printer to make some markers, cards, bases, whatever to use to distinguish when a townsperson is under alien control or not. And it would be nice to have the enlarged and expanded map redone professionally. I'll be looking into that sometime in the next year I hope, if we're not caught up in another house move (which is quite possible). I'll see if I can attach some photo files from those Metagaming days -- I have scans of some photos of Howard at the HIA show, and Norman Royal and myself (Norm's on the left), and the warehouse.  This will be my first attempt to use the "Attach Files" tab here.  Fingers crossed --</blockquote>

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