(Today: What lurks?)
Geeks in Paradise
From Allnerdreview, here's an interview with the Advertising and PR Coordinator for WizKids, Jason Mical (aka "Brother Magneto") conducted at the 2004 Toy Fair - a sort of industry trade show for toy products being launched in the coming year. While much is veiled in knowing smiles, it should be of some interest to Heroclix fans.
Slightly dated, we now know that the "mystery set" being mentioned is Marvel's next set, Ultimates, as mentioned in earlier posts; that's due out sometime in June, around the 23rd I believe. We also know most of the figures seen for DC's Unleashed, which the article writer decided not to mention because he was asked not to.
Highlights include: Hints of one or more big surprises for the fall. Vague indications of more double-sized figures and perhaps new licensing agreements that will allow them to provide vehicle pieces. There's confirmation that no official 3D terrain is forthcoming. News that while the new Marvel starter set for Universe will contain a new map, it will be a smaller one than we're used to; he also mentions it's a "compilation of past maps," which makes the "new" tag a little stranger. No more map and token sets are in the works since so many of the Marvel and DC ones are apparently gathering dust on shelves and are being heavily discounted. (I should have waited!)
All in all, there's some good information there, with more lurking under the surface. The nerds were being perhaps a tad too polite, and didn't ask what could have been telling follow-up questions. Maybe we should have sent Scooby and the gang instead of the Nerds?
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