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Star Wars Collectible Miniatures Game Revealed 29

Posted by simoniker from the make-with-the-greased-yoda-tsarkon dept.
Klytus writes "As seen at GamingReport.com: 'A disturbance in the force seems set to take hold next summer, as news of Wizards of the Coast's plans to release their Star Wars Collectible Miniatures Game has surfaced. To debut August of 2004, the first set is to include prepainted figures from the classic era of The Star Wars Saga (episodes IV, V, VI).' Now I have to make room amongst my SW action figures..." There's more info and some packaging shots on a messageboard thread at the Creation Matrix gaming site.
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Star Wars Collectible Miniatures Game Revealed

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  • Is Star Wars doing too much? (Score:5, Insightful)

    by orthancstone ( 665890 ) on Wednesday December 03, 2003 @11:08PM (#7625298)
    Maybe it is just me, but Star Wars is expanding itself in anything and everything it can get its hands on. Now, I'm not trying to imply it can't work in role playing (c'mon, KOTOR would prove me wrong even though that is video games and not tabletop), but seriously...it is getting to be too much. In my opinion, they are stretching out SW too much and practically just making it an item to be sold rather than a story to be enjoyed.

    • Re:Is Star Wars doing too much? (Score:5, Informative)

      by Drakin ( 415182 ) on Wednesday December 03, 2003 @11:30PM (#7625406)
      Um. Star Wars has existed in role playing game for for quite some time, done by West End Games and more recently Wiards of the Coast. In fact, KotOR is somewhat based on the Wizards d20 game (very loosely).

      Heck, there's been mini based games before as well.

      There's nothing new here. More licensing money for LucasArts... this on top of the games, rpg books, trading card games, action figures, clothing, models, lego sets and all the other stuff.
    • Star Wars being marketed? Ummmmmm have you ever been out of the house? Star Wars has been adorning lunch-boxes, bubblebath, shaped soaps, toothbrushes, dixiecups, kites, underwear, sheets, bandaids, lollipops, pez, legos, figures, games, cereal, trashcans, TV trays, trapper-keepers, pencil boxes, socks, shirts, and an infinite multitude of other random objects. Sift through any landfill and you will find a rich 20 history of worthless shit adorned with the Star Wars name. At least this game makes more s
  • This has got to be said... Star Wars gaming fans are tired of the original trilogy and need some new storylines. The OT has been beaten to death...

    And besides, recently the best Star Wars stories are coming from people other than George Lucas (clone wars on Cartoon Network, New Jedi Order, etc.)

  • Just to let you know, this isn't a troll/flamebait post, but....that being said.....God, how many bloody franchises can milk the Mage-Knight game? Yeah, it was a fun game when it first came out, I should know, I helped beta test it. But now every single god-damned franchise out there has a game that uses roughly the same system, and comes with the same prepainted miniatures on the little click bases.

    Marvel did it, Battletech did it, now Starwars. Whats next? A Matrix miniatures game? Lord of the Rings?

    • Actually, there IS a Lord of the Rings miniatures collectible, just came out recently.

      Hideous minis on these absurdly large bases, too. Blech.
    • But now every single god-damned franchise out there has a game that uses roughly the same system, and comes with the same prepainted miniatures on the little click bases.

      Star Wars is not on the "little click bases". WizKids makes all the clicky-base games. Star Wars is being made by Wizards of the Coast, and like their recently released D&D miniatures game has a plain base.

  • Oh no (Score:3, Informative)

    by obeythefist ( 719316 ) on Thursday December 04, 2003 @03:02AM (#7626517) Journal
    I have nothing against the attempts of WoTC to try and milk some more cash out of their license for the Star Wars franchise, it's a great franchise and people really like it. I don't think there are many people in the world who don't know what a Jedi is.

    The problem is, the really horrible quality of WoTC miniatures. I'd advise anyone who likes nice things to stay right away from this. The WoTC D&D miniatures that came out were some of the worst I've ever seen. Cheap plastic, every minature in the pack is bent out of shape, they only used four colours, and the paint looks like it was fingerpainted onto each miniature by a four year old kid in some third world country. (I may not be far from the truth, either!).

    • Yeah agreed, terrible paint jobs, poor contruction, and easily broken material, it was a total let down. Sad too, if anyone remembers the original Chainmail game.
      • Okay, the terrible paint jobs are a matter of opinion, and while I disagree, I can see why others wouldn't.

        But easily broken? A guy ran over Tordek with his car and only the base broke. You have to work at it to break them.

        As for the fact that the miniatures are mostly bent, you can fix that by putting them in hot water. Microwave a cup of water for about a minute or two, put the miniature in, watch it unbend, then pull it out and dry it off. The bending is still annoying, but it's not that bad.
        • I must admit, the DnD minis game was pretty cool, being a 40ker and DnDer myself, the construction substandard the painting horrible, the price great not having to use Space Marines for DnD Stand-ins Priceless Some crazy mastercard slogan
        • Course I may be a tad biased as I am an avid miniature painter and wargamer. I actually loved the Chainmail miniature game, and when Wizards decided to send out these new ones, I was totally disappointed. I never did run across an explantion as to why they switched.
    • I agree....Wizkids mini games are great, D&D minis are just crappy little statues! I'll check the game out, but Heroclix is my game.
  • What has WotC done with Star Wars? Does anyone play the SW:TCG? I havn't heard much about it, but i was deep in the old Decipher SW:CCG before they lost their liscense.
  • Too bad "collectible" is secret gaming industry code language for "this is going to suck like a Hoover in overdrive."

    -Carolyn
  • As a collector of the (now ancient) Kenner Micro Collection [toysrgus.com] toys, I'm intrigued to see what they look like...

    The D&D Minatures don't look too bad from the pictures at Wizards [wizards.com]. Hopefully the SW ones will be a little more detailed, but close to the scale of the old Micro Collection...

    Hmmm... do I dare add another line to my already crowded SW collection. Too many decisions, I tell you, too many decisions!

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