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Hellfury, where did that "exhibit B" come from? I've not seen anything other than the witchlord.

As a massive HeroQuest fan for most of my life (I got the game when released in the UK in 1989 and most of the expansions), I'm pretty disappointed by this.

The commercials seem rubbish - non-UK (where we know there's a huge market) and huge company using crowd-funding for a sure bet - just seems poor.

But really it's the game itself that bothers me. I was hoping for a re-make of HeroQuest. The same "DNA", but with some new fun stuff. So keep it simple (aimed at kids) with easy to learn rules, but add a little more flavour. New heroes to choose from (and actual new heroes, not just female versions of existing ones - although having a female option is probably the only great change they've made!), new weapons, new quests, maybe some skills for the heroes to learn as experience. There's so much potential. Just look at Ye Olde Inn (https://www.yeoldeinn.com/) to see what can be done with the game.

But instead of a re-make, it's just a re-print. From what I've seen it's identical to the original (US) version. Same numbers of models (i.e. exactly the same number of orcs, skeletons etc as the original), the board is the same, the cards look the same, as do the stone/trap/door tiles. It's all new artwork that looks exactly like the original artwork. It's literally just a re-print. There's been no imagination put into this at all. I mean, the box art is so similar it's unreal. The characters are the same, in the same positions, the Wizard's even wearing almost the same clothes, the magic lightning is the same - there's just nothing new here.

We don't know the 'new' rules, but from what I've seen (character boards, wording on some of the cards) there'll be nothing new or changed. Which means the clunky search mechanic will still be there, the slow pace of: enter room, stop. Search for trap, wait a turn. Search for treasure, then move again. Some of the weird rules interactions won't be fixed. And if The Castle of Mystery is in the quest book that confirms there's been no effort whatsoever put into this.

I don't see the point in buying this if you have the original (not that I can, because I'm in the UK).

I feel like I've put more effort into HeroQuest (house rules) than Hasbro have.