Hasbro 2021 Remake: Public Unboxings ARE HERE!

[Cael Darkhollow]

Going through that latest video, it looks like the quest Lair of the Orc Warlord is still exactly the same. Still says to use the orc with the large sword for Ulag. We don't have a unique orc in the new set. Something that they overlooked maybe?

They changed very little in the text of the old quest books mostly the replace CHAOS with DREAD stuff. It appears they indeed missed this reference to the vintage HQ orc "boss" miniature with the notched sword as they were just copy pasting the old Quest Book verbatim.

[cynthialee]

they really should have had someone get involved with the community (on the down low) specifically to discover the small *lemony goodness* they missed in the originals so they wouldn't recreate long standing issues

we could have told them in very short order what was missed in the old stuff that should have been repaired

[Kurgan]

If I were a mod I'd split off the posts, but since I'm not I'm going to humbly suggest one of you start an "Official Errata 2021 edition" thread, since reviews and complaints will just derail what I intended to be an information thread about the box contents.

I could lead by example and start it, but that means I'd be obligated to keep it updated and I have my hands full with this one.

[Cael Darkhollow]

PROPHECY OF TELOR QUEST BOOK all quests MUST be played AFTER the main game system quest #5 MELAR'S MAZE.

Immediately after, or any time after?

Mentor speaking to the heroes: "As you may recall you recovered the Talisman of Lore sometime ago..."

So unless the heroes have a short term memory loss I would say not immediately after, but it is vague on just how long. I would assume a long while after as Mentor is questioning their memory.
The plot revolves around the Talisman of Lore artifact so that is why it MUST be played after Melar's Maze where it was originally found.

[Kurgan]

Not long after for the heroes, but perhaps three decades for the players controlling them, eh?

Posted up some more links to picture threads and video unboxing on the OP, page one. Enjoy!

[Cael Darkhollow]

Are you going to compare the female heroes even though we dont have those expansions for the new game? or do you not have those expansions with our blue heroes from the original game?

You want a picture of the girls? Fine. No place to put them in the Game System comparison thread as all except the new female elf didn't come in the game system. the three vintage female figures came in the Barbarian Quest Pack expansion also known as The Frozen Horror and the Elf Quest Pack expansion also known as the Mage in the Mirror, while all the other new ones come in the Mythic tier expansion. They are in the new box though so in the unboxing thread I suppose it's fitting.

Left to right:
originals 1992: female Barbarian (TFH 1992), Sinestra elf sorceress (MitM 1992), Elf Female (MitM 1992) apparently I no longer have an unpainted figure of this one, I gave my spare elf quest pack to my brother, and started painting this set at some point.
new female heroes 2021: Elf, Wizard, barbarian, dwarf, warlock [sic], druid


And the female monsters 2021: orcs, goblins, mummy, zombie,Dread Warrior, Lich(?) Dread Sorcereress

[Kurgan]

No love for the female Skeleton, Abomination and Gargoyle?

So the latest is that I'll be doing my own unboxing video (or by then, perhaps a review by that time) Wednesday. We're getting together in the morning but it might not get posted until later that day.

[Cael Darkhollow]

No love for the female Skeleton, Abomination and Gargoyle?

So the latest is that I'll be doing my own unboxing video (or by then, perhaps a review by that time) Wednesday. We're getting together in the morning but it might not get posted until later that day.

perhaps the abominations and gargoyles keep their reproductive organs internally, the alternate pose mythic figures of those two don't appear female to me. In fact the other gargoyle has a beard! The other abomination has tentacles all over it's back absent on the base game figure, so I suppose that could be a gender difference but plenty of dudes have dreds or long hair too. In Fact, the Prophecy of Telor quest 11 requires a special abomination figure that is male, and this is the only other special figure we got so I would say its male.
Skeletons, well I suppose someone would have to have a great deal of expertise in osteology especially the measurements of the femur, ilium, ischium, and sacrum to determine the gender at a glance, but there are no alternate skeleton figures anyway. But there are some taller skeletal figures that I would call wights as they most closely fit that description from the old Warhammer days
left to right:
base game abomination, mythic tier abomination, base game gargoyle, mythic tier gargoyle, mythic tier wight, base game skeleton





Kurgan did you get your set?
P.S. you might want to update your intro questions I have answered a few of your open questions I think

[Kurgan]

Updating as we speak! My set won't arrive until sometime late tomorrow.

Still another unboxing video was posted by thedungeondelver but it didn't really tell me anything new.

I was going to mention a Fimir from classic HeroQuest that used spells (the female Fimirs were the ones who tended to know magic in Warhammer if memory serves) but then the same book, back in 1990 referred to that Fimir as "it."

Then again these are a totally different monster

I thought the classic female Barbarian looked great, but the female Elf was somewhat lacking, yet the paintjob in the above pic is a great improvement. I kind of like the armored elf, but I'm bored at how similar the two versions they released are.

It's finally dawning on me why they made the Dwarves so "big" to differentiate from the halfling Warlock.


Another unboxing video was posted by Old School Gamers

Unboxing from GoblinHQ Inc. on youtube

[Kurgan]

So from those pics it looks like the bases are molded from the same piece as the rest of the character miniatures, NOT as I had originally assumed, that they were slotted and super glued into a generic round base (which is of course actually hollow).


Another unboxing video, this time from MovieMessiah.. Nothing really new, but kinda cute nonetheless!