John Carter gaming history...........

[The Dozing Dragon]

I posted a small article on my blog that was published in the currently defunct OSFMapa Journal number 2. Miniatures and gaming.....

http://deartonyblair.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/john-carter-warlord-of-mars.html

[Donpimpom]

a very interesting post!

[shadowking1957]

Superb buddy really good stuff

[The_Beast]

Curse you! 

I was SO smug with my copies of Warriors of Mars and Barsoomian Battle Manual. I suppose now I'll have to start hunting the Adventure Gaming Handbook.

Thanks for the track through the memories; a few suppliers I wasn't aware had done Barsoom...

Impressive!

As for the other Heritage book, I know I've seen and held same. Sad, scary thing, I may actually have a copy somewhere...

This getting old...

Doug

[Mo]

Good stuff! There are a lot of old minis there that I was not familiar with. I have an unabashed love of the Mars series. In fact I originally wrote Fantastic Worlds to be a John Carter system. It eventually grew to include most of pulp sci-fi ideas, but it was born from my ERB passion. I'd love to have a copy of the old Gygax version.

As far as minis, we are spoiled for choice these days. Bronze Age's line is amazing as is Parroom Station's.


Marc
Oddman Productions

[twrchtrwyth]

Thanks for that, a few minis I had no idea existed.

[The Dozing Dragon]

I'm sure I've missed some lines out but it was just putting the article out as published back then. Shadowkings mentioned some Hinchliffe larger scale.......now those I would like to hear about!

[black hat miniatures]

Nice round up.

Actually, our characters pack has an "Earthman Gone Native" and a "Martian Princess" in it...

Mike

[FramFramson]

Say, maybe some of you might know this, but there were a larger series of JC-themed miniatures (54-60mm or so?) released in the 80's I think. They were actually sculpted to a very high standard, but for the life of me I remember who made them or what the line was called. Does anybody else remember these figures or hand any idea what I'm talking about?

[The Dozing Dragon]

I'm not aware of any myself but there's a lot of ranges out there that appeared for a short while and might not have been advertised or on general release? Tony has mentioned that Hinchliffe had 2 large figures sculpted for the US market and he saw the masters back in the day - one may have been the Heritage Tars Tarkas but he remembers another John Carter figure (54mm) that doesn't appear to have seen a release. Some plastic doll type figures were released for the toy market but they were pretty poor overall. If you can remember anything else please post.

[HerbyF]

Archive also did a 4 armed green alien in their alien gladiators pack. I have a couple of them. I also have the Hinchcliffe green martian & a few of the reds. And I have several if the Heritage John Carter series figures. I also have a lot of the Rafm & Parroom Station figures but they are a different back story for Mars. I will dig my stuff out & get some photos for you. 

[FramFramson]

Mainly I'm remembering a series of Dejah Thoris-like figures, one of which also included a big cat of some kind? It was also a fairly large range.

It's been a while, so it's hard to recall the details.

[The Dozing Dragon]

I would guess you are thinking of the Pheonix Miniatures Atlantis range. There are a number of pieces pictured on the Lost Minis WIKI;

http://www.miniatures-workshop.com/lostminiswiki/index.php?title=54mm_Atlantis_Series

It would be great if it wasn't this range as I would have another to find!

[FramFramson]

I am 90% sure that's the line. Thanks!

I was tempted by a couple of those figures in the past, but I wouldn't really have much of a use for 54mm except as giant statues. Some of them sure are nice though!

[The Dozing Dragon]

Just remembered, molds bought up here;

http://www.forty-third.co.uk/32_phoenix_home.htm