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http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/674003445/classic-dungeon-adventurers-miniature-set-chibi-an?ref=card

A new Kickstarter by impact! Miniatures...

Oh yeah.....

You know you want it.....


Anyone of you whippersnappers remember who these guys really are?

I remember it, I still hate it with the fury of a thousand suns.

...

umm... NO! I have never seen them before in my life! I would never associate myself with something -that- geeky!

...*hides in the corner and makes a happy squee sound*

For those of you who don't know, they're from the old D&D animated TV show.

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.

Awesome. It was hard to get me away from the TV on Saturdays waiting for them.

Dreadball was supposed to be my last KS this year but as soon as I saw these the other day I threw down $33 for the D&D hero's and I'll probably be picking up a few more along the way at least I know this one isn't going to cost me north of $500 like the last few!

They should be compatible with SDE but Impact miniatures seem to be trying to distance themselves from SDE links even though a lot of backers will be getting them for that reason - I know I am.

Project is funded next up is Diminutive Mage @ $5,000. Can be added to a pledge level for $5.



Then Demon Lord at $7,500 hopefully this will be Venger. It will cost $8 as a monster sized miniature.

Grot 6 thanks for posting the thread but would an expanded/clearer title get more people to look at it/pledge?

yeah,
Boom! I'm down for $46 I want the full set!



I agree Grot great find but this thread is your responsiblity now !!! haha!
you gotta update the first post with Photos updates and links!

Panic...

Hmmm, interestingly cool stuff. Might have to get in on it.

Warduke?

I really loved this show... I'm in.

Fething KS... it's gonna be my ruin.

Can the OP make the thread title a bit clearer to avoid a second thread about the same thing getting locked?

Just had a look at the Demon Lord Silhouette has to be Venger with just 1 horn - don't know how I missed that before.



The only other 2 minis mentioned so for are Evil Fighter (wonder if this will be Shadow Demon) and Unicorn that's obviously Uni. Oh and the minis won't just be D&D that's just what they decided to start with they will draw from a range of classic 80s and 90s fantasy RPG characters they plan on 24 in total (for now) at $2,500 stretches that's ambitious given they'd need $62,500 to fund all 24 but it's do able.

Wow, really nice. Like the dice add on too. This looks great!

$5,000 funded.

We hope to be able to continue adding new miniatures as stretch rewards very quickly. After the first stretch reward we'll add a new miniature every time the total project increases by $2,500 up to 30 total sculpts.



When we reach $5000, the Diminutive Mage becomes available to be added to your reward. He is a TYPE I miniature. Andrew has completed this sculpt already.




Our first TYPE 2 miniatures will become available when we reach $7500. Who it is will be revealed when we reach Stretch Goal #1.

Time Line
If funded, Andrew (the sculptor, see below) is scheduled to complete the original six miniatures in November. This means that we look to ship these in February. We can add six more miniatures a month to his schedule.

heh heh... Point taken on the title.

This one is a really fun little project, one I found by accident.

I'll wait for them to hit retail. Unless they go for Golden Axe. Then I might cave.

$7,500 is up and it's Demon Prince (Venger ) available for purchase at $8 once the stretch is met.



And a clue at $10,000

The sculpting so far is rather lacking IMO... hopefully it will improve.

That new stretch goal design seems to be Warduke

Update 3 has been posted - choose the next mini for stretch #4 and buy 4 get the 5th free offer.

The poll options are
Pig faced Orc (type 1 mini - $5)
Bullywog (type 1)
Bearowl ( type 2 mini $8)
Shadow Demon ( type 1)
Buggiebear ( type 2)
Goblin (type 1)


Monsters and tigers and bears (ah ... okay not the last two) ... POLL - Vote Now
Update #3 · Sep. 30, 2012 · comment
For Stretch Goal #4 we want to start doing some monster fodder that your characters could slay!

However we'd like to get your votes to decide what which slayable beastie we create for Stretch Goal #4.

The Poll is here: http://kwiksurveys.com/app/showpoll.asp?sid=fif97dnemwwdoz225258&qid=25258&new=True

VOTE NOW!

When we hit Stretch Goal #3, the leader of the poll will be what we have Lorranie sketch for us for Stretch Goal #4.

Now to borrow one of my favorite cartoon lines:

GOOD NEWS EVERYONE!

We've had several people wonder if every Stretch Goal is going to be us asking for more cash. We'd run the numbers on our costs and want to make a special offer that will be true for the rest of this KickStarter.

For every 4 TYPE I Add-ons you purchase, you'll get the 5th one one for Free. For every 4 TYPE II Add-ons you purchase, you'll get the 5th one for Free.

This will let us have two different effects for the duration of the KickStarter.

1: If you are getting just one of each different figure you like, you'll get periodic free Stretch Goal figures to pick from.
2: If you want to get multiples of certains monsters to create a small horde of them, you can get 5 for the price of 4.

 NAVARRO wrote:
The sculpting so far is rather lacking IMO... hopefully it will improve.

That's the style. Cf. the Super Dungeon Explore chibis:



The Dungeon Master looks good, though I wish Andrew had outlined the pupils and irises; freehanding those seemed to be the biggest headache for people painting the SDE figures.
Re the dice, I can never understand why so many of these sets fail to keep all dice in the same style. Why did the DM die change material? And surely there's a gold swirly one available for the Ranger die?

Squeeeeeee!

Well I joined up and sunk in $100 just incase to cover all of the minis and any extras that arrive. ,maybe even some dice.

I loved that programe when I was a youngster.... like many it was hard to drag me away from the T.V when it was on.

bring on the goals.

LGW

NB: found this site for all you D&D animated fans.

http://www.dungeonsdragonscartoon.com/2009/08/alicorn.html

Construct wrote:
Re the dice, I can never understand why so many of these sets fail to keep all dice in the same style. Why did the DM die change material? And surely there's a gold swirly one available for the Ranger die?

Well to be honest the white gold one was supposed to be the set. Our original plan with the color dice was just to offer them seperately as we tried to find the dice type that matched the character the best. We decided to offer them seperately and as a set but given how different they already were we didn't get the ranger and diminutive mage dice as being that off-putting if the concept is to have the die match the personality more than working together. The was frequently not a group that was in total harmony together ... and the diminutive mage definitely not really part of the team ... so we thought if the color dice were a bit discordant that it actually matched fairly well.

That is where the dice are coming from.

Tom @ Impact!


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DaveC wrote:at $2,500 stretches that's ambitious given they'd need $62,500 to fund all 24 but it's do able.

The creator of the Order of the Stick KickStarter had my absolute best advice I've read on doing a KickStarter.

Expect to fail and plan for incredible success

Tom @ Impact!

I am loving this KS project.

I would love the Dragon queen to be made and like we have mentioned on the KS comments page about having 5 goals that would have one of her heads added as a bonus and then make her body as a single goal by itself.

So come on guys spread the word lets get the Demon Prince so we can then get the Shadow Demon..

LGW

Oh yes please, Tiamat would be awesometastic!

The Demon Prince has been unlocked and can be purchased for $8.

Next up is Evil Fighter @$10k (currently @$8,551)

Artwork is coming shortly they weren't expecting to hit $7,500 so quickly so the concept artist is working on a few bits now.

Also offered are a card dungeon tile set for $39, 6 pewter treasure chests for $40 or both for $74. There are 2 new pledge levels for them or add them to any of the 3 original levels. International shipping is $3 for the dungeon tiles if not added to a mini/dice pledge level.



And T-shirts for $20 as people asked for them



There may be 2 new pledge levels one that will get you 1 of every Type 1 mini unlocked for a set price and one for 1 of every Type 2 mini unlocked for a set price they still have to work out the set prices to make them viable.

And some more info on Dragon Queen from Impacts! comments

") The Dragon Queen. We are spending the money to see if we can have the figure made to our quality standards. There is a possibility this might take longer than 31 days but definitely less than February 2013. So we are working on the Dragon Queen ... it MIGHT just be something that we announce in an Update after the KickStarter is over as something you can add on for a much less than retail price as a backer through like a PayPal invoice to do so. We are going to try and get it done in time, but I don't believe in not being upfront with backers on the status of things. We don't want to sell a Dragon Queen as part of the KickStarter and discover that such a figure is just not going to be able to be produced to our standards ... but we are definitely working on it and if we succeed ... backers of this KickStarter will get it at a promotional price.!

Now to be a spielverderber or anything, but one of these days one of these bottom-feeder companies really needs to get hit hard with the IP hammer or we'll never see the end of these stupid ripoffs.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Now to be a spielverderber or anything, but one of these days one of these bottom-feeder companies really needs to get hit hard with the IP hammer or we'll never see the end of these stupid ripoffs.

I hope your not implying that Impact miniatures is A BOTTOM-FEEDING company????

as to the IP he is creating a PARODY of the miniatures and currently it is for that reason why it is doing so well. And considering the possible concept for the project was around in the early 80's I don't think he will have any issues.

There are SOME companies that do ride the I.P bus to the ground and back and do deserved to be given the Iron boot but certainly not Tom and his team.

LGW

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Now to be a spielverderber or anything, but one of these days one of these bottom-feeder companies really needs to get hit hard with the IP hammer or we'll never see the end of these stupid ripoffs.

Yeah, heaven forbid that the only chibi heads out there available need to ONLY be japanese school girls with low cut tops riding chibi headed robots.


As a side note, I'd like to see a 28mm version of these guys, I'd snatch up a set in a heartbeat. "Rip Off" or not, people want THESE.

Must be because it was one hell of a cartoon and there was never anything else like it since, except maybe Thundar the Barbarian, or Johnny Quest.


Oh, and "Evil Fighter" is up...

As a second side note, a good place to get some treasure chests is from a company called War Torn Worlds.

They are running a deal on them.

http://wartornworldsstore.myshopify.com/

New stretch goals and pledge levels announced!

Chibi Warduke has been unlocked at $10k



Shadow Demon will be unlocked at $12.5K, as a Type 1 mini:


At $15k they'll be unlocking three different Type 1 minis: Orc, Bullywog and Goblin:


And $17.5k will unlock one Type 1 miniature and other two minis that will be sold together as a Type 2. I think Uni is pretty obvious in the pic, but I'm not sure about the team:



Also, the new pledge levels are:

- $100 or more - WARRIOR LEVEL: Any 14 TYPE I figures of your choice (original 6 or any unlocked Stretch Goal TYPE I (duplicates allowed)), 1 T-Shirt, 1 set of Adventurers dice (your choice of white/gold or color) and one of EVERY unlocked TYPE II Stretch Goal figurines during the entire KickStarter. Add $3 for International Shipping.

- Pledge $150 or more - CHAMPION LEVEL: Original 6 characters, Demon Prince figurine, 1 T-shirt, both sets of Adventurers dice (14 dice), 1 Dungeon Tiles set, 6 pewter Treasure Chests, and one of EVERY unlocked TYPE I Stretch Goal figurines during the entire KickStarter. Add $3 for International Shipping.

And a small reminder: For every 4 TYPE I add-ons you buy, you get one TYPE I of your choice for free. For every 4 TYPE II add-ons you buy, you get one TYPE II of your choice for free.