WizKids to Release Glow-in-the-Dark D&D Miniatures

WizKids will release new miniatures with a DungeonGlo effect later this year. Today, WizKids revealed their next set of branded D&D miniatures - D&D Icons of the Realms: Underdark Expeditions. The new set contains 44 different miniatures, including some that have a glow-in-the-dark effect. The set will contain mostly classic D&D creatures like the gelatinous cube, the flumph, and the hook horror, with monsters like the gas spore having a glow-in-the-dark effect. It's unclear whether this new set uses artwork from the 2014 version of 5th edition or the 2025 Monster Manual as inspiration.

As a note, WizKids' parent company NECA is one of the largest unsecured creditors of Diamond Comics Distributors, which owns Alliance Games Distributors. Diamond owes NECA $2,682,994, as revealed in its recent Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing. Universal Distribution has an offer to buy Alliance Games although the large balance may impact WizKids' 2025 plans, especially as Alliance is a core distributor for WizKids.

D&D Icons of the Realms: Underdark Expeditions will come out in May 2025.

 

[abirdcall]

As gimmicky and narrow-use-case-y as these are, damn if I'm not tempted to blow some money on them. The poster boy Gas Spore looks awesome. And who doesn't want a glowing myconid?

(I am not being sarcastic even a little bit. These things look SWEET.)

The gas spore is just uncommon too!

 

[Nebulous]

I long ago quit buying plasticrack, but I still love to use these for VTT. Some of the models are pretty sweet. The actual "glow" aspect is not particularly useful, but I could replicate it on the screen much better than at the table.

 

[Joshua Randall]

Can you make it flash and pulsate? (at the same time of course) I need more early 1990s web design in my VTT experience.

 

[Nebulous]

Can you make it flash and pulsate? (at the same time of course) I need more early 1990s web design in my VTT experience.

Not easily in Roll20, but Foundry VTT probably does that.

 

[Quickleaf]

D&D is really getting a glow up, just like we were told.

 

[wicked cool]

The chase rare scam that wizkids is pulling on their customers is shameful. For me they are a step below WOTC

 

[Clint_L]

The chase rare scam that wizkids is pulling on their customers is shameful. For me they are a step below WOTC

WotC does the exact same thing with Magic cards, for example. Blind boxes/boosters with chase items was not a Wizkids invention; it's been around forever. I don't like it either, but it's not a scam. Everyone understands how it works.

 

[Joshua Randall]

Chase rares are the entire business model, and everyone knows it. For it to be a 'scam', someone would have to be lying to someone.

 

[wicked cool]

For me I don’t play magic but at least the person who wants the magic card wants it for their deck?

These wizkid chase rates are aimed at collectors? The latest is the Bg3 chase rates? Most d&d players don’t even want these. This just seems mean and bad business

 

[abirdcall]

The chase rare scam that wizkids is pulling on their customers is shameful. For me they are a step below WOTC

If there were no chase rares in a set would it make the set better?