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Meh, as long as the figures are great, it could be worth backing on the basis of the figures alone. Warzone is a line of figures pretty strongly linked to one series of rules. However, there's a long line of Alien and Colonial marines figures (both licensed and "not") as well as many different rulesets that have been heavily influenced by Aliens.
For my $, cupporting an Aliens kickstarter is much more dependent on the figs than rules. There's plenty of options for rules, but there hasn't been a line of plastic figs (not couting clix) that capture this subject matter.
Despite all those, I think that a cohesive range of models, in plastic, and as accurate to the subject matter as only a licensed product can be, has the potential to surpass all of the options presently available. I will be watching with considerable interest.
Since warzone is going to be all resin (they tried plastic for some rank and file troops but were not satisfied with the quality they could get with it) I think it's unlikely that this will end up plastic
but we'll all have had a chance to look at their warzone resin (hopefully) by the time this launches so we can make an informed choice
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From the conversation I had with with someone unnamed at Prodos I can tell they will not do anything without a proper license and would do nothing to threaten said license.
Meh, as long as the figures are great, it could be worth backing on the basis of the figures alone. Warzone is a line of figures pretty strongly linked to one series of rules. However, there's a long line of Alien and Colonial marines figures (both licensed and "not") as well as many different rulesets that have been heavily influenced by Aliens.
For my $, cupporting an Aliens kickstarter is much more dependent on the figs than rules. There's plenty of options for rules, but there hasn't been a line of plastic figs (not couting clix) that capture this subject matter.
Despite all those, I think that a cohesive range of models, in plastic, and as accurate to the subject matter as only a licensed product can be, has the potential to surpass all of the options presently available. I will be watching with considerable interest
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Since warzone is going to be all resin (they tried plastic for some rank and file troops but were not satisfied with the quality they could get with it) I think it's unlikely that this will end up plastic
but we'll all have had a chance to look at their warzone resin (hopefully) by the time this launches so we can make an informed choice
Thanks for that. I hadn't been following the warzone thread. Does change the equation a bit for me. Could still be tempted into buying in, but it's have to be a great figs and a good deal.
14th broklyn wrote: From the conversation I had with with someone unnamed at Prodos I can tell they will not do anything without a proper license and would do nothing to threaten said license.
I'm assuming it's still 20th Century Fox that owns the license to both franchises?
14th broklyn wrote: From the conversation I had with with someone unnamed at Prodos I can tell they will not do anything without a proper license and would do nothing to threaten said license.
14th broklyn wrote: From the conversation I had with with someone unnamed at Prodos I can tell they will not do anything without a proper license and would do nothing to threaten said license
Confirmed.
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Yeah, the biggest limiting factor here is how much I'm currently not saving to put toward this because I don't know enough about it yet.
I mean, we don't know if there will be a KS. We don't know anything about time frame. Are we talking about a KS in 2014? That's a different world from now. I feel like the sculpts will be good but that's a guess rather than solid knowledge.
So hopefully we'll get some more info within 30 days so all my dollars don't go to Mars Attacks.
The tacit admission that Prodos has the license is a great piece of info, however. So now it's not really a question of whether I will spend dollars on this but how many.
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The USS Orinoco was a Federation Danube-class runabout that was in service with Starfleet in the late 24th century, attached to Deep Space 9. It was outfitted with a sensor pod.
If they make this stuff in styrene they'll be fulfilling a lot of dreams. It deserves to be done right, and if it is, I don't see how they could fail to make money on this franchise.
I'd personally prefer resin so it'll have as much detail as possible, but wouldn't be adverse to cheaper polystyrene
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Please give us more images, I really want to see some pulse rifles and Alien inner mouths, these will do great for minis for my skirmish game im working on
This is a very interesting project, as Dark Horse comics is rebooting the entire Aliens/Predator comic multiverse next year, and adding in elements and connections in a new Prometheus related monthly book as well.
I'd *much* rather straight aliens vs. colonial marines. Mixing predators in there... hasn't been good for the movies and was always the weakest part of the games imo. Still, colour me highly interested.
2013/10/12 08:40:17
Subject: A Very Pleasing new Project from Prodos Games
Sounds very interesting. I am a big fan of the comics.
But I still hope that the Warzone project gets properly finished (pledged for more that 400 EUR, still no minis!) and nobody gets distracted by doing the AvP minis!
I do hope they have some good marine sculpts, but would it be too much to ask for actual likeness from the movies.
There are those cheaper heroclix aliens (good sized Alien queen).
Damn, didn't realize they had predator figs that look awesome like those, even female predettes (eek!). I do like that where else would you buy predators but from the Predastore. lol.
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