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yeah,
I'm in full support of Doom Guy being recruited to fight the strain... It seems like the kinda thing he'd do.

Doom..
Doom.
Doom..
Doom.
Doom...


Panic...

ONLY $8K TO GO TO GET "NOT-RIDDICK"

How about Sean Connery's Marshal Character from "Outland" ?

Or one of the cooler characters from "Farscape" ?

Or a pair of Fox / Mulder X-File Agent types looking for the "truth out there" ?

Or a couple "Men in Black" even ....


Or Johnny-5 from "Short Circuit" ?

ooh, oooh .... or Mini Me in his wee little man space suit ?!

Tribbles !! YES !!! With Strained versions, too !!! FTW !!!

OK, getting silly now ...

Pacific wrote:The Doom Marine would be awesome..

Otherwise, what about one of these guys?

The awesome little robot dudes from 'Silent Running'


Otherwise, a couple of other ideas:
- Captain Kirk
- Doctor Who
- 'Macready' (Kurt Russell's character) from 'The Thing' (armed in winter gear, and flamethrower of course!) - I mean come on, the 'Strain' are basically the 'Thing' anyway!
- Randy Roddy Piper from 'They Live' (complete with special sunglasses)

Huey, Duey, and Louie!!!


Oh MY!!! Where did you find those at!?!?!?


Haven't seen that movie in years!


As for Kurt Russell- Snake Plisskin. Or some of the guys from Ghost Of Mars....

Do these guys size up well with Hasslefree minis?


A couple of others, might be Dieter Laser, from The Human Centipede, Bishop/ or other Synthoid from Aliens.

I haven't seen a Lance Henrickson mini, yet.

Another one to look at would be Rutger Hauer from Bladerunner.

I've personally enjoyed a lot of the homage characters, especially the firefly crew. Probs won't use them in-game, but they'll be a lot of fun to paint up!

That being said, I have a horrible feeling the final stretch will be someone like master chief. I really, really hope not (there's so much sci fi stuff to plunder!), but it'll definitely be a populist choice...

In the end they made 55k yesterday. That's their biggest day to date. For the 26th (which it still is in some parts of the world) they've made 30k, which is their 4th biggest day, and the day isn't over yet.

Well, MC, did fight the Flood which have similarities to the Strain.

But we already have one head-to-toe armoured guy. Much as like MC, I hope he isn't included.

Well, we've already covered the new BSG people ad the Firefly fans, so we ALL know who the next huge money growth is really gonna come from...

One of the Doctors.

Yeah... I feel adding the Chief would water down the experience. He's too ubiquitous and banal. We need obscure/oblique references to other things.

Eh... I would go for Batman, Superman or any other super heroes.

Don't suppose Mystery Science Theatre 3000 would interest them?

Nearly 5k to "Riddick"

Uriels_Flame wrote:Don't suppose Mystery Science Theatre 3000 would interest them?

I could go for some Tom, Crow, and Gypsy.

+1 for starcraft I think that would target a slightly different audience and so might bring new blood into the game

Grr....I'm just having such a hard time choosing what I want to get of the extras. With a wedding in a week and being out of work right now, finances are tight.

I've mostly decided that I only want the product that I can not only play the base game with, but which would also have the most utility in the skirmish-level games I want to play outside of Alabaster Station with the main game's models/rules. I think right now the favorites are the Opticamo Vanguard, and Ridley, and maybe one other figure set. I really want the Calamity Crew as they are awesome to paint(and I'm a Firefly fan- duh), but they have very low utility in a skirmish wargame, where (both) versions of Ridley and the Evolved Proto-Phaedrus definitely do.

Argh! So much cool stuff, so little moo-lah!

So, this 500.000$ game has...

ALIENS
Dead Space
Serenity
Riddick

The other 700.000$ game has...

Die Hard
Pulp Fiction
Big Bang Theory
Machete
Kill Bill

Originality is completely overrated

BobbaFett wrote:So, this 500.000$ game has...

ALIENS
Dead Space
Serenity
Riddick

The other 700.000$ game has...

Die Hard
Pulp Fiction
Big Bang Theory
Machete
Kill Bill

Originality is completely overrated

Nerds like their nerd references.
What's your point?

I think given Studio McVey's UK origins the Red Dwarf boys would be a great addition.

Boys from The Dwarf! Now that's a homage I can get behind!

Or mad no star wars yet? Have faith, even just these two games, we have another round of each likely with the expansions.

I'm just watching here that CoolMiniorNot is making like 1.500.000$ with these products.

And part of this incredible success is because they are using characters from other franchises, and they do not own the copyrights to do that.

It is a very attractive idea: -"Let's put Bruce Willis in this!!!" and it generates a reaction: -"Wow! Die Hard! cool, take my money!"

And I think this is getting dangerous because you'll never know when the lawyers are goign to kick some doors and try to get some of that excepcional ammount of money.
Of course, this doesn't happen in the miniature industry because it is so small and it makes no money... until it makes 1.5 million dollars through crowdfounding.

I like the basic ideas of both Zombiecide and SeditionWars, but I think the funny cameos can bring some problems when this is getting as big as 1.5M$

The thing is... Ok, Batman is cool but you cannot use him in your next Kickstarter project.

BobbaFett wrote:So, this 500.000$ game has...

ALIENS
Dead Space
Serenity
Riddick
Battleship Galactica

The other 700.000$ game has...

Die Hard
Pulp Fiction
Big Bang Theory
Machete
Kill Bill
Army of Darkness
Falling Down
Walking Dead
Mr. and Mrs Smith
Penny Arcade
Chuck Norris

Fixed!

How about Borg and Seven of Nine?

Or Dune? Complete with giant sand worm and osl required blue eyes!

Kroothawk wrote:Battleship Galactica

For shame sir!

BobbaFett wrote:And I think this is getting dangerous because you'll never know when the lawyers are goign to kick some doors and try to get some of that excepcional ammount of money.
Of course, this doesn't happen in the miniature industry because it is so small and it makes no money... until it makes 1.5 million dollars through crowdfounding.

The US(where CMON is based) allows parody for the purpose of entertainment. This type of homage falls under parody and is thus protected under Fair Use.


At least from my understanding of law covering parody.

I think the tone of Sedition Wars and Red Dwarf would clash too much for that to work well.

Less than 2k till NotRiddick.

As for the IP, I'm sorry but this is a spoof and has been altered enough to safe.

I think one of the only Star Wars characters you could get away with is some version of Boba Fett - a bounty hunter looking for rebel Firebrands. But including not-Boba Fett would just look a little too much like pandering.

H.B.M.C. wrote: But including not-Boba Fett would just look a little too much like pandering.

You say that like pandering is a bad thing.

Less than 1k...


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