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 cincydooley wrote:
Also, all of the player cards for the exclusive characters are available for free from GG. You simply need to proxy the models.

I for one think its pretty impressive GG is stickin to their guns in the face of such complaining. Gives them a +1 to respect in my book.

Exactly, everyone CAN play these characters, they just have to get a proxy model, which isn't too hard and in most cases will be cheaper or comparable in price to what the official figure cost from the Kickstarter. I honestly don't understand that complaint, it is the character sheet which allows a player to play a particular character, not the figure.

Joshua Human version (one of the 6 survivors from the Prison Outbreak box set)

Wow! That looks like me.... just remove the glasses.

primalexile wrote:
Wow! That looks like me.... just remove the glasses.

If you added the glasses back on it would then look like me!

It looks like a guy I know that works at an LGS down in Florida..

Is this a homage character, or one of the 'Mary Sue' backers from the first Kickstarter maybe?

It's based on Joshua Harris a KS backer but he didn't have to pay for it they did as a thank you for his help on the first KS.

 DaveC wrote:
It's based on Joshua Harris a KS backer but he didn't have to pay for it they did as a thank you for his help on the first KS.

Ah, nice.

Joshua looks really super good, like great tabletop wargame quality. Is it the board game-quality plastic that makes the models look less good in the actual game?

 Salacious Greed wrote:
Joshua looks really super good, like great tabletop wargame quality. Is it the board game-quality plastic that makes the models look less good in the actual game?

I'm pretty sure he cast in the same plastic they use for the models. The quality of all the Zombicide models I got look pretty similar, honestly. It may just be an effect of the lighting or something along those lines.

 epy346 wrote:

 Salacious Greed wrote:
Joshua looks really super good, like great tabletop wargame quality. Is it the board game-quality plastic that makes the models look less good in the actual game?

I'm pretty sure he cast in the same plastic they use for the models. The quality of all the Zombicide models I got look pretty similar, honestly. It may just be an effect of the lighting or something along those lines.

Something that I've noticed is that people will see a model as being higher quality if its a grey color material, even if its the exact same material/mold. We've had people remark about the quality increase in our casting when we switched to using a grey dye in the resin mix, rather then just having the eggshell white color of the plain resin.

Yes, but the SAdeptus Mechanicus model weren't necessary to play the game, and in fact, did not have rules. You can still get the rules for the missing characters and just proxy a figure, that's not so bad. It just sucks knowing there are more characters out there that add more depth to the game that I won't have.

The More Zombies box set sounds great, but I'd like to see a set with different poses. Another kickstarter maybe?

Maybe a kickstarter for more characters? Like an additional characters box set?

--Chris
www.chrisvalera.com

So Jason Statham and Woody Harrelson join the lineup, eh? Nice. Email just came through.

New update as it seems to have stalled $5k from the cars.

So now we get Jason Statham and Woody Harrelson as Tallahasse - think that's the first time they've used the same source for 2 characters

 chris_valera wrote:
Yes, but the SAdeptus Mechanicus model weren't necessary to play the game, and in fact, did not have rules.

Those characters weren't a necessary to the game either.

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 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 chris_valera wrote:
Yes, but the SAdeptus Mechanicus model weren't necessary to play the game, and in fact, did not have rules.

Those characters weren't a necessary to the game either.

Not necessary, but more integral to play than the AM figures. It still sucks knowing there are option out there you can't have. With proxies, it makes it easier, but it still sucks. They sell for crazy money on ebay.

edit: Jason Stathan should have pistols or an automatic rifle and a suit, like he did in the Transporter. Maybe a bonus to driving vehicles, less of a chance to running over one of your buddies.

--Chris
www.chrisvalera.com

Look at his character description. He's "Rick" who "woke up in a hospital". So basically he's Rick from The Walking Dead if he'd been played by Jason Statham.

Actually that's kinda cool.

Ralph looks cool!

Going to pass on Rick though, don't really like him that much. At least the paid character will help get us to the free one.

I'm just hoping they include a Twinkies special item with Ralph.

I'm really hoping for a "not Will Smith" from I am Legend with a unique companion dog.

Best Survivors yet!

Besides the toxic Mall whats the difference between the $100 and $150 pledges?

is there a compile of all the freebies so far?

 5deadly wrote:
Besides the toxic Mall whats the difference between the $100 and $150 pledges?

is there a compile of all the freebies so far?

I believe it is just Toxic City Mall, as all the stretch goals have been for the $100 level or box additions.

 cincydooley wrote:
I'm just hoping they include a Twinkies special item with Ralph.

I'm really hoping for a "not Will Smith" from I am Legend with a unique companion dog.

Twinkies are copyrighted. It's actually a cream-filled lemon cake.

But an I am Legend guy with dog would indeed be awesome.

--Chris
www.chrisvalera.com

 chris_valera wrote:

 cincydooley wrote:
I'm just hoping they include a Twinkies special item with Ralph.

I'm really hoping for a "not Will Smith" from I am Legend with a unique companion dog.

Twinkies are copyrighted. It's actually a cream-filled lemon cake.

But an I am Legend guy with dog would indeed be awesome.

--Chris
www.chrisvalera.com

I 3rd that... I am Legend with an M16. that would rock

I am Legend would be a great inclusion.

This makes the new sweet spot $190

Fugitive $150
Dakota $10
Fred $10
Lea $10
Rick $10

Two awesome choices for Zombicide Survivors.

 adamsouza wrote:
This makes the new sweet spot $190

Fugitive $150
Dakota $10
Fred $10
Lea $10
Rick $10

Two awesome choices for Zombicide Survivors.

Although if you're patient/want to save more money you could just go in for inmate and wait for retail release of TCM

TCM has all the Zombivores for the classic 6, so I wouldn't want to wait months after the Kickstarter crowd get it to get my hands on it.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I am Legend would be a great inclusion.

I would take it closer to source: Charlton Heston in an Addidas tracksuit armed with a Greasegun SMG and one of those old fashion tape recorders and microphones.

You could literally take things from his "cold dead hands" in zombvivor mode.

Call him Ortega or something that's close to Omega (ie. The Omega Man).

The Fat Lady - Alternate normal Fatty for the Prison Outbreak box - and probably part of box of zombies #4.

and on a side note GG posted that whilst there are only 3 dog companion sculpts so 2 of each in the box there will be different colours for each set of 3 so you can tell them apart.