Star Wars Collectible Miniatures Game Revealed

Klytus writes "As seen at GamingReport.com: 'A disturbance in the force seems set to take hold next summer, as news of Wizards of the Coast's plans to release their Star Wars Collectible Miniatures Game has surfaced. To debut August of 2004, the first set is to include prepainted figures from the classic era of The Star Wars Saga (episodes IV, V, VI).' Now I have to make room amongst my SW action figures..." There's more info and some packaging shots on a messageboard thread at the Creation Matrix gaming site.

Comments

Is Star Wars doing too much?

[orthancstone]

Maybe it is just me, but Star Wars is expanding itself in anything and everything it can get its hands on. Now, I'm not trying to imply it can't work in role playing (c'mon, KOTOR would prove me wrong even though that is video games and not tabletop), but seriously...it is getting to be too much. In my opinion, they are stretching out SW too much and practically just making it an item to be sold rather than a story to be enjoyed.

Re:Is Star Wars doing too much?

[Drakin]

Um. Star Wars has existed in role playing game for for quite some time, done by West End Games and more recently Wiards of the Coast. In fact, KotOR is somewhat based on the Wizards d20 game (very loosely).

Heck, there's been mini based games before as well.

There's nothing new here. More licensing money for LucasArts... this on top of the games, rpg books, trading card games, action figures, clothing, models, lego sets and all the other stuff.

Oh no

[obeythefist]

I have nothing against the attempts of WoTC to try and milk some more cash out of their license for the Star Wars franchise, it's a great franchise and people really like it. I don't think there are many people in the world who don't know what a Jedi is.

The problem is, the really horrible quality of WoTC miniatures. I'd advise anyone who likes nice things to stay right away from this. The WoTC D&D miniatures that came out were some of the worst I've ever seen. Cheap plastic, every minature in the pack is bent out of shape, they only used four colours, and the paint looks like it was fingerpainted onto each miniature by a four year old kid in some third world country. (I may not be far from the truth, either!).