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Author Topic: Crooked Dice: Minions Preview  (Read 4362 times)

Offline uti long smile

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Crooked Dice: Minions Preview
« on: October 18, 2010, 01:39:14 PM »
Crooked Dice's last release of 2010 are two Minions. These are generic troops to populate your spaceship corridors and secret bases. To try and give as much flexibility as possible there are two headless bodies, one unarmed (6a) and one armed (6b) (sculpted by Mark Evans) and a range of different heads.

There are two head sprues each containing either three human or three alien heads - all compatible with the previous astronauts. Sprue 6c has three human heads include a Peaceful Space Explorer, Grizzled Survivor and Hard-hatted Goon. Sprue 6d includes three alien heads - a Hog-Hybrid, a Squid-Servitor and an Emotionless Mannequin.
 


Pricing and deals released shortly, but we are aiming for a December release.

If you'd like to see the heads configuration on the different bodies and some more pictures, then pop over to the Crooked Dice forum:

http://www.crooked-dice.co.uk/forum/Blah.pl?m-1287407848/

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Offline bandit86

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Re: Crooked Dice: Minions Preview
« Reply #1 on: October 18, 2010, 02:50:42 PM »
Oh these are useful!  heads are ok, not sure about the ompha lompha head maybe i can find a fat little dwarf body to put that on :D  But I'd get some
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Offline uti long smile

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Re: Crooked Dice: Minions Preview
« Reply #2 on: October 18, 2010, 02:54:08 PM »
Ha! Oompa Loompa was NOT intentional  lol lol lol - but I can see a new line developing!

Offline Dr.Falkenhayn

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Re: Crooked Dice: Minions Preview
« Reply #3 on: October 18, 2010, 03:25:32 PM »
very nice,i like the Alien Heads!  :o

Offline Heldrak

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Re: Crooked Dice: Minions Preview
« Reply #4 on: October 18, 2010, 03:32:13 PM »
Excellent multi-use figures with a thousand applications- Well done! One hopes there are more bodies and heads planned to expand the range even further.
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Offline uti long smile

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Re: Crooked Dice: Minions Preview
« Reply #5 on: October 18, 2010, 03:40:09 PM »
Excellent multi-use figures with a thousand applications- Well done! One hopes there are more bodies and heads planned to expand the range even further.

Absolutely. A Robo-Minion is on the cards for next year, plus more heads.

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Re: Crooked Dice: Minions Preview
« Reply #6 on: October 18, 2010, 05:26:09 PM »
Oh these are useful!  heads are ok, not sure about the ompha lompha head maybe i can find a fat little dwarf body to put that on :D  But I'd get some

sadly it's spot on for what they intended... bloody Thals - bunch of poofs...

Offline myincubliss

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Re: Crooked Dice: Minions Preview
« Reply #7 on: October 18, 2010, 05:58:27 PM »
Woohoo!

In slightlyless exciteable tones, is there any chance of conversion kits in the future? (eg, different sets of arms?)

Offline uti long smile

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Re: Crooked Dice: Minions Preview
« Reply #8 on: October 18, 2010, 06:19:23 PM »
Cheers :) We did consider separate arms - but it started to get a bit expensive to cast.

 

Offline Centaur_Seducer

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Re: Crooked Dice: Minions Preview
« Reply #9 on: October 18, 2010, 06:21:09 PM »
You got me at the Ompa Lompas...

Offline Onebigriver

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Re: Crooked Dice: Minions Preview
« Reply #10 on: October 18, 2010, 07:50:01 PM »
Having had a small role to play in the creation of the figures, I'm just chuffed to see these made flesh, but an amazing job has been done of these. Love them!  :-* :-* :-*
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Offline uti long smile

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Re: Crooked Dice: Minions Preview
« Reply #11 on: October 18, 2010, 09:18:24 PM »
Not quite boiler suited OBR - but getting there :) Glad you like them!

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Re: Crooked Dice: Minions Preview
« Reply #13 on: October 19, 2010, 04:50:49 AM »
They also look like they could fit in with Copplestone's hard-hatted minions from KKBB!

Offline Onebigriver

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Re: Crooked Dice: Minions Preview
« Reply #14 on: October 19, 2010, 12:34:44 PM »
Not quite boiler suited OBR - but getting there :)

Close enough to make me happy! Now I just need money to order some.  :(


 

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