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This year's Gencon exclusive
« on: 09 June 2011, 14:42:29 »
Will there be an Gencon exclusive mini this year?
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Re: This year's Gencon exclusive
« Reply #1 on: 09 June 2011, 18:52:52 »
Two actually...he says mysteriously...  ::)   It is not for me to say ( yet ) which miniatures these will be.

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Re: This year's Gencon exclusive
« Reply #2 on: 09 June 2011, 19:00:04 »
Oh please let them not be "jumping" minis....
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Re: This year's Gencon exclusive
« Reply #3 on: 09 June 2011, 19:05:23 »
you've lost that bet!
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Re: This year's Gencon exclusive
« Reply #4 on: 09 June 2011, 19:06:02 »
Will the same be at Origins? Either way I will have to get one of the guys going to get one of each.
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Re: This year's Gencon exclusive
« Reply #5 on: 09 June 2011, 19:31:40 »
will these minis eventually be put in the IWM site as online exclusives like the ones in the years previous?
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Re: This year's Gencon exclusive
« Reply #6 on: 09 June 2011, 20:07:13 »
Quote from: Wolf Lancer 4 on 09 June 2011, 19:00:04
Oh please let them not be "jumping" minis....

+1

Sick of them
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Re: This year's Gencon exclusive
« Reply #7 on: 10 June 2011, 00:53:37 »
Quote from: Wolf Lancer 4 on 09 June 2011, 19:00:04
Oh please let them not be "jumping" minis....

+1. I prefer alternate variants like the PPC Catapult over jumpy mechs.
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Re: This year's Gencon exclusive
« Reply #8 on: 10 June 2011, 02:29:40 »
Quote from: Shi_no_Kami on 10 June 2011, 00:53:37
+1. I prefer alternate variants like the PPC Catapult over jumpy mechs.

+1 for me as well I'm afraid. 

As the con exclusives are more expensive than run of the mill mechs perhaps its an opportunity to sculpt alternate versions that otherwise wouldn't see the light of day.

For example, my inner munchkin would particularly like to see the KGC-010 version of the King Crab  :D
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Re: This year's Gencon exclusive
« Reply #9 on: 10 June 2011, 06:31:17 »
n+1, tired of the jumping theme.  Whatever they are they're probably already sculpted, but a little feedback never hurts. 
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Re: This year's Gencon exclusive
« Reply #10 on: 10 June 2011, 07:20:25 »
I will add my vote for no more jumping mechs. One of the reasons I won't buy the latest version of the Panther. I try and get the old sculpt off of the auction site.
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Re: This year's Gencon exclusive
« Reply #11 on: 10 June 2011, 09:53:09 »
I kind of like the jumping mechs, but a non-umping one would also be cool just for a little variety.
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Re: This year's Gencon exclusive
« Reply #12 on: 10 June 2011, 10:17:56 »
Quote from: phlop on 10 June 2011, 07:20:25
I will add my vote for no more jumping mechs. One of the reasons I won't buy the latest version of the Panther. I try and get the old sculpt off of the auction site.

Its not all that hard to convert the jumping Panther to a standing pose, just annoying. I for one don't want to see more jumping mechs, rare variants would be a good way to go.
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Re: This year's Gencon exclusive
« Reply #13 on: 10 June 2011, 12:32:50 »
Quote from: Stormlion1 on 10 June 2011, 10:17:56
Its not all that hard to convert the jumping Panther to a standing pose, just annoying. I for one don't want to see more jumping mechs, rare variants would be a good way to go.

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i'll throw in another vote for rare variants, or custom variants, the jumping mechs have lost their novelty after the 3 in a row they did.
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Re: This year's Gencon exclusive
« Reply #14 on: 10 June 2011, 12:54:51 »
I hope it is a wreck marker mech
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Re: This year's Gencon exclusive
« Reply #15 on: 10 June 2011, 13:44:34 »
my vote is for a Charger 1A1 resculpt. But that's because I'm not going to make it this year. Though a remake Crescent Hawks PHawk LAM would be cool too.
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Re: This year's Gencon exclusive
« Reply #16 on: 10 June 2011, 14:14:59 »
Quote from: ShadowRaven on 10 June 2011, 13:44:34
my vote is for a Charger 1A1 resculpt. But that's because I'm not going to make it this year. Though a remake Crescent Hawks PHawk LAM would be cool too.

Charger 1A1 would be awesome.
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Re: This year's Gencon exclusive
« Reply #17 on: 10 June 2011, 17:01:27 »
Rare variants?  ???

Okay... They should make Gausszilla!  ;D
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Re: This year's Gencon exclusive
« Reply #18 on: 10 June 2011, 17:54:22 »
please: no jumping mechs.
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Re: This year's Gencon exclusive
« Reply #19 on: 10 June 2011, 19:43:52 »
Quote from: Kotetsu on 10 June 2011, 17:01:27
Rare variants?  ???

Okay... They should make Gausszilla!  ;D

you joke, but this is a cool idea O0
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Re: This year's Gencon exclusive
« Reply #20 on: 10 June 2011, 21:27:41 »
Quote from: ShadowRaven on 10 June 2011, 13:44:34
my vote is for a Charger 1A1 resculpt.

Why a resculpt? 

What is wrong with the original?

OOP?

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Re: This year's Gencon exclusive
« Reply #21 on: 10 June 2011, 21:33:28 »
Quote from: Burning Chrome on 10 June 2011, 21:27:41
Why a resculpt? 

What is wrong with the original?

OOP?

It's OOP, for starters.
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Re: This year's Gencon exclusive
« Reply #22 on: 10 June 2011, 21:53:10 »
Another idea may be a characters mech, it would be pretty simple. Just sculpt new parts and make up some well known characters infamous ride.
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Re: This year's Gencon exclusive
« Reply #23 on: 10 June 2011, 23:00:55 »
We need more of those character minis.  A Daishi Widowmaker with Natasha would be great. 
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Re: This year's Gencon exclusive
« Reply #24 on: 10 June 2011, 23:17:20 »
Quote from: Jal Phoenix on 10 June 2011, 23:00:55
We need more of those character minis.  A Daishi Widowmaker with Natasha would be great.

I was just about to say this...

That or Rhonda and her strange Highlander (I think it was suppose to look strange), but overall I vote Widowmaker with Natasha.

OR Thomas Hogarth with his Atlas (did he pilot an Atlas?)
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Re: This year's Gencon exclusive
« Reply #25 on: 11 June 2011, 01:57:54 »
Quote from: Burning Chrome on 10 June 2011, 21:27:41
Why a resculpt? 

What is wrong with the original?

OOP?

it would have to be a resculpt of the CGR-1A1 because IWM don't have the mold for the original 1A1.  I asked Mike Noe a few years back and it was one of the ones they didn't have.

Also resculpting will hopefully make it a bit bigger and bring it in line with current scale.
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Re: This year's Gencon exclusive
« Reply #26 on: 11 June 2011, 02:01:27 »
Quote from: Stingray on 10 June 2011, 23:17:20
I was just about to say this...

That or Rhonda and her strange Highlander


a resculpted Highlander would be great.  And Highlanders jump, so it fits the profile.



but another +1 for a non-jumping mech please.
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Re: This year's Gencon exclusive
« Reply #27 on: 11 June 2011, 07:00:18 »
Widowmaker WOULD be pretty cool... with a Natasha figure, and a ruined Thor to put at the base of the Daishi with it's leg sticking up at the cockpit...
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Re: This year's Gencon exclusive
« Reply #28 on: 11 June 2011, 07:03:23 »
Quote from: Jal Phoenix on 10 June 2011, 23:00:55
We need more of those character minis.  A Daishi Widowmaker with Natasha would be great.

 O0
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Re: This year's Gencon exclusive
« Reply #29 on: 11 June 2011, 10:14:44 »
Quote from: JadeHellbringer on 11 June 2011, 07:00:18
Widowmaker WOULD be pretty cool... with a Natasha figure, and a ruined Thor to put at the base of the Daishi with it's leg sticking up at the cockpit...

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