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how can I trust your reviews when you give that cranium rat swarm a pass?...I do like most of these figures though, I don't think the set is as bad as some of these people are saying...I don't know any other set that will give you NPCs that are good for towns and cities like guards, nobles, merchants etc and it gives you some that can be used for PC's too...I bought 2 bricks because the review I read said it was the best set they ever got ...just waiting for them to come in the mail
These are some truly horrible looking miniatures for those prices. Just... wow. The paint job is bad, the miniature quality is far below market standards and they're overpriced on top of that?
There were some decent ones in there, but that pit fiend... Wow. Really hoping the bent mace and weak paint job was just a fluke. And the rat swarm! Holy balls...
Jim Murphy (that some may know from Matt Colville's interview with him) has a few videos about how to touch up and improve pre-painted mini's with a bit of ink and dry-brushing. Unfortunately, I think anything pre-painted isn't going to be great, or it's going to be really expensive. I do agree with you that these don't seem great value for money etiher, but you're likely also paying premium for the branding.
I just don't understand the "loot box" approach to everything these days. Like, your supposed to drop a hundred bucks for 8 figures with the hope that one or two might be usefully? If I don't know what I'm getting, I sure as hell ain't buying it. Oh wait, I guess it's 32 figures? Does that make it better?
I love Cody’s enthusiasm, but good lord those paint jobs are a gut punch. Seeing this I’d definitely avoid the Wizards of the Coast minis and get the unpainted ones from 3rd party minis
@@companyoflosers well if you can't paint, they become a lot more appealing. I'd probably screw up just priming an unpainted mini...even if they came pre-primed, lol
The paint jobs on the older D&D Miniatures line from 3rd and 4th edition were way better than these, and I think those came in packs of 8, with more variety.
@@Elamdri To be honest even a basic paint job done by hand by a newbie would be better than this. Literally the minimum amount of effort consisting of just colouring each bit a solid colour and throwing a shade wash afterwards would be far better than these things which are basically the painting equivalent of a child unable to colour inside the lines.
4:54 that pit fiend's weapon is bent 90 degrees into his own face. To be fair though, if someone had painted my teeth to look like Donkey from Shrek then I'd probably be trying to smash them out myself too. I don't want to be too down on these miniatures - I think they are great for players that have money to burn, are not necessarily into painting themselves and just want some random models to throw down and dress up their DnD games - but good lord I just find everything about them ghastly. They look like someone sculpted them with blu-tac and a soup ladle, the paint job is horrendous, the super-glued bare bases look awful. It boggles my mind that people are prepared to pay good money for these things, more so that they are paying for blind boxes and have no idea which one of these shambles they are going to get. Isn't it cheaper to buy 5 miniatures and paint them yourself? Even if you have never picked up a paintbrush before, I believe ANYONE could do a better job of painting miniatures (or at least match the paintjob this company happily splat all-over their pre-painted range).
Wizards mini's have gone down the toilet. It used to be that you got 10 minis in a booster. There was a game you could play with just the minis, and they all had easy to reference stat cards. It's now four. The subgame and the stat cards are gone.
To be fair the initial larger figures you unboxed were decent but those smaller humanoid figures were really rough both in sculpt and especially in the paint job department. Also looking at the way those things were just glued to the bases so haphazardly grinds my gear. At 12.50 a box your paying about 3 bucks per figure and that doesn't include shipping. If your desperate and need to quickly throw some figures on a table this might do it for you but man if you own any decent quality figures these will stand out and not in the good way(especially now where enthusiast 3d print the damn things in resin with spectacular results). But it all boils down to Time, Quality, Cost where you can only pick two, so for certain people this is a good option to have available.
I just got back into painting minis after 34 years and my first batch of 4 bugbears smokes the paintjobs on these minis. I can't wait till I'm ready for dragons. Glad I saw these so I'll save my money. They look like shitty chinese toys, not d&d rpg minis. Be a hard pass for me. Thanks for the good reviews though man. The lion and bear looked like the cheap toys that come out of those bags of plastic jungle toys. I'd rather use those for simple animals than these overpriced cash turds.
I appreciate the video. You have definitely helped me decide never to buy these again. The sculpts are gross, as well as the paint jobs. I'd end up spending so much time repainting poorly sculpted models. Thanks for saving me money.
2 weeks ago I started painting mini's as a hobby. The fun is in the painting my friend and if you think those look good, you have to paint your own. I've been loving it so much so that I just bought a 3d resin printer and I can't wait until it arrives....
I really know dont what to say politely on these (the vid is great mind you). I kept thinking if I should just get some of these every month to slowly grow my collection. However, truely...those are horrrible looking and I really cannot grasp why you keep saying beautiful or great looking and I dont try to just be negative or something. These look like minis back in the days, like 90ies, when as teenagers we tried first to paint minis with the wrong brushes, wrong paints and no experience. I'm honestly not sure I'd use these if for free...I'm looking at my old metal minies and heck, they are at times 30 years old but the level of details is a completely different league. I honestly don't understand these here...except for the price, of course.
He has to be positive about them because it's basically a sponsored video. Even if he's not getting paid for it, he's still getting free miniatures. I guess they're not so bad if they're free. The animals look dull. If a pit fiend can have an awesome pose, why can't a crocodile?
I was thinking of getting some of these also but decided to just get 2 of the D&D board games instead, Temple of Elemental Evil an Ravenloft. Basically scored about 84 minis and 73 tiles for $100 thanks to a sale on Amazon. Granted, the minis are unpainted, and not all top quality, but it was a good deal and the minis aren't too bad. Plus I got 2 fun board games that are compatible with each other.
These things are ridiculously bad in terms of quality and paint job. Good lord. As a miniature collector and painter, I cringed so hard at the quality of these things for $100. OUCH.
I love collecting and painting minis and making up characters more than I loved playing D&D. I have over 1000 official metal and plastic minis as well as over 1000 farm animals, safari animals, sea animals, dinosaurs and at least 100 monsters I made up myself.
Do more openings like this! It is the best DnD unboxing I've seen most others don't show rarity, excitement or even the miniatures with proper pictures they just take them up to the camera where we hardly see them.
i nearly love all of them. I find npcs very useful as miniatures,when they arent too special (like myrt),and you can often use them like merchants and city guards. unfortunately in the other booster sets are so many strange creatures I would not have a use for. so I decided to get a whole brick from this dragon heist set. and I absolutely love it! yes, it is not so well painted when u compare to newer sets. but for me the most useful
Taking20 I mean it! I’ve watched so many mini Unboxing’s. And little things like speeding up the opening of the package. The commentary. The editing. Cutting away to a close up shot on a turntable. Great content Cody as usual.
Boy Wizkids. I really thought that the original Monster Menagerie set was going to mean a higher quality release schedule. However, I just think they are trying to get too many sets out too quickly and the quality is not consistent. There are some good sculpts in this set but they need to be touched up! This really stinks for people who don't have the time to paint their miniatures. I am going to check out the new Pathfinder release tomorrow but I don't have super high hopes. I dunno if any 3rd party people are going to try to produce prepainted stuff. I know reaper dabbled in it and some of those miniatures were cool. Dungeon Crawler put out some good stuff but I don't know how financially successful that line was. I will keep my eyes and ears out for any other 3rd party prepainted releases. Consider the original Pathfinder prepainted "Beginner Box Heroes" pack! Wizkids can do higher quality products! I mean if it's the different between paying $2.50 per miniature and $3.50 per miniature then maybe they just can't cut the costs anymore.
A lot of the sculpts are good but the paint jobs almost never are. That Pit Fiend looks great for about 2 seconds until you see the paint. The floppy weapons are also don't help. Still after seeing that Pit Fiend, I'm tempted to grab some boxes and do some repaints.
After watching the video, I saw the price and stuff and it is not all that bad. Once on the table, you can't really see the details, so the paint job is adequate for that price range. Thanks for the good video!
@@cerberouse1 Thanks! I believe it is so much better to paint your own minis! I started playing dnd again lately and stated painting again. Bought normal minis, unpainted, and had a lot of fun painting our characters the way we want, I will look at these reaper bones ones though :) Thanks!
For some people my group included two of us paint and it kinda breaks things for us seeing minis with shading and stuff we painted next to stuff like the rat storm. I would have to repaint these
I would really only recommend the Annis Hag, Shield Guardian, and Devourer. And the Pit Fiend of you have time to paint. The paint jobs are super rough, but this is the first time you can get a real Annis Hag mini and they're pretty cheap on MM.
You going to try to fix that pit fiend mace? I’m sure you already know this but for anyone who doesn’t. Use a hair dryer or boiling water. The. Bend it passed straight then hold it straight until it cools. Should be good
Thankfully my local hobby lobby will open these for us prior to purchase. Ive never actually opened one and been happy with the results...loot boxes are for suckers
Not really, these are just about the lowest tier minis you can get. The unpainted Wizkids mins are similarly priced and much better quality. Check out Dark Sword Minis or Games Workshop for GREAT minis, but they are more costly.
@@christopherjones9547 thank you for the info! I can pay a bit more for quality. I just looked at them and unfortunately, they are unpainted. These are great quality but I could never paint them well enough to do them justice.
WOW that Durnan paint job was HORRENDOUS! I actually got a brick of these, (Just to get the promotional statue set which was AMAZING btw) these ones here, I don't understand you're enthusiasm (I guess you have to act happy since they gave them to you) I won't be buying any other bricks from this set. I recently bought a Ravinca brick. (they were nicer for sure) I wish they would come out with an entire box for example of "20 orcs" or 20 Goblins. (with a nice quality mold and paint job) Some of these go into a giant bag of random figures I'll NEVER use.)
I wouldn't give anyone more than $2 a box for those shoddily painted and made minis. The paint is just globbed on and the bent weapons and limbs are just cheap. Not to mention all the unfiled rough edges (the lion looks like crap and one of the stands had a huge chunk of the mold frame still on it). I miss the days when I could go to the local game or hobby shop and buy a pewter mini and just paint the thing myself.
Thanks for the video! Also, thanks for confirming my decision not to invest any more money in this set :/ I thought the brick I already opened was a fluke, but your brick has exactly the same problem as mine had. The sloppy sculpts and the sloppier painting. There are a couple of stand out pieces (Looking at you, Pit Fiend!), but as a blind box it does not have good odds on getting your money's worth. :/ fwi, I may buy singles, but not interested in spending @ $100 for 4 good minis and 28 garbage minis.
Paul Hill In my opinion that’s wrong, i mean the rats... I see exactly what you mean but I can’t see most of the others are good for people that hate paint and I think they are good in general. And I know the pit fiend had a broken mace and just a few sloppy mini’s here and there but they are great for adventures.
I just don't get this whole concept. I've been painting minis for about 6 years now (after a 30 year long hiatus) but I just don't get this blind box business. Judging from the quality it looks like this is targeted at kids as toys? Is that was the target market is? Teens who want to play D&D but don't have time to paint it themselves?
dreadknot69 that makes sense to me, as teen/young adult who wants to get in the hobby, thinks miniatures are cool, but sure as hell don’t know how to paint them myself. I don’t know what the price of this brick thing he got is, but these were probably painted either by a machine or someone in a shop/factory with a quota. It could be worse, but this video was shilling pretty hard.
@@witchBoi_Connor I can totally get that, if you're new to the game and don't want to paint for whatever the reason. The problem that I still don't get is why it's a blind buy? If I want a mini or minis, it's for a reason and I went specific ones. If I wanted to collect them then I'd certainly want better quality than this crap. I just don't get why people buy these blind.
As someone who has experience with state audit programs, NEVER mention that you don't pay tax on purchases either online or from over seas. That will instantly flag you for an audit because there is something known as Use Tax that customers have to pay whenever a business doesn't charge Sales Tax. I would edit this video honestly to remove that last portion. Just because you didn't pay taxes, doesn't mean taxes aren't due. @Taking20
I bought and opened the same brick yesterday! I did get Jarlaxle !! I also reallyw anted him and was stocked to get him. Also looted the Xanathar, complete with his rings on his stalks and his smug face. I'm envious of your Griphon Rider ! And your Annis Hag is different than mine. Mine has no lightning bolt spell on it, but he his holding a skull head in his left hand.
I hope you got these for free, because they're all ugly AF. Hearing you say they're all wonderful and whatnot just cheapens the experience. "whoever painted this did a wonderful job". Dude... come on....
i enjoy miniatures and even painted them back in the day but i have never actually used them when playing RPGs but don't know about these ones some of my lead ones from the eighties have better detail
Going to skip this line, the quality on the molds and the painting just isn't up to par with what they released previously. If Wizards doesn't want to do their own minis anymore they could just let Repear do them for them. I don't mind painting my own.
I think because these are mass produced in large quantities it would be really hard to get really good quality paint jobs on such a high count of figures. But you could even go for cheap reaper bones figures for like $2.00 and paint them with even some cheap Acrylics and get a better outcome. But with that price would get some metal figures and some Valehjo paint and a few washes.
I'll agree with the comments that these aren't the best looking D&D minis, but they were still fun to see get pulled. I know the upcoming Ravnica minis are a bit better quality.
@taking20 Hey, I just wanted to say that you are the most positive roleplay channel I've ever seen. It's really nice to see someone just being enthusiastic and having a good time. So many other channels are really over-assertive with their opinions and smack-talk different player-tastes. I'm glad to have someone who is purely constructive and actually makes me happy to watch, rather than someone hostile.
You know, the minis are actually still being statted for use in the D&D Miniatures game. It's all online at ddmguild.org/ if you stuck around for the 2.0 ruleset! :D
I want to buy a brick for the glory of the giants- but am worried that some minis will double up. Especially the big ones. What’s the odds that you get the same minis in a brick?
the painting quality on these things is kind of iffy if you ask me, but then again, if i thought i could do a better job, i probably would be considering these.
The only minis I buy are the Nolzurs ones where you can actually see what you're getting. i made the mistake of buying the "Wrath of the Giants" board game for some sweet giant minis and the paint job on them is terrible. I could have done a better job on them and I barely know how to wash. Even the quality of these minis is terrible, looks like what you would get out of a quarter machine at a supermarket.
So, back in the days of 3.5 the pit fiend mini was actually terrifying. This one... just....looks like some shit a 3rd grader made in art class... Wizards, the fuck?
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Half of these monsters I've never even seen used in a campaign.
Also, I think a "Vargoyle" is a Warhammer monster.
how can I trust your reviews when you give that cranium rat swarm a pass?...I do like most of these figures though, I don't think the set is as bad as some of these people are saying...I don't know any other set that will give you NPCs that are good for towns and cities like guards, nobles, merchants etc and it gives you some that can be used for PC's too...I bought 2 bricks because the review I read said it was the best set they ever got ...just waiting for them to come in the mail
That animated door is truly adoorable.
These are some truly horrible looking miniatures for those prices. Just... wow. The paint job is bad, the miniature quality is far below market standards and they're overpriced on top of that?
There were some decent ones in there, but that pit fiend... Wow. Really hoping the bent mace and weak paint job was just a fluke. And the rat swarm! Holy balls...
@@roscopico you could use them for anything... Guards, nobles etc exist in many settings, my homebrew game uses all sort of figures.
Jim Murphy (that some may know from Matt Colville's interview with him) has a few videos about how to touch up and improve pre-painted mini's with a bit of ink and dry-brushing.
Unfortunately, I think anything pre-painted isn't going to be great, or it's going to be really expensive. I do agree with you that these don't seem great value for money etiher, but you're likely also paying premium for the branding.
I just don't understand the "loot box" approach to everything these days. Like, your supposed to drop a hundred bucks for 8 figures with the hope that one or two might be usefully? If I don't know what I'm getting, I sure as hell ain't buying it.
Oh wait, I guess it's 32 figures? Does that make it better?
It also looks like they use a bottle of super gule to stick each miniature on a base its literally caked on it
that Cranium Rat swarm is indefensible
honestly the best option for any kind of rat swarm would be to get the unpainted one and paint it yourself
As someone who got one... you're right
@@epicladd6114 hey, did you strip the paint off and repaint them? I'm thinking of getting one of these but want to know how easy it is to fix
Never seen a Pit Fiend attempting to deep throat a floppy mace.
I love Cody’s enthusiasm, but good lord those paint jobs are a gut punch. Seeing this I’d definitely avoid the Wizards of the Coast minis and get the unpainted ones from 3rd party minis
the minis themselves are fine, but the paint jobs on most are terrible.
@@companyoflosers well if you can't paint, they become a lot more appealing.
I'd probably screw up just priming an unpainted mini...even if they came pre-primed, lol
The paint jobs on the older D&D Miniatures line from 3rd and 4th edition were way better than these, and I think those came in packs of 8, with more variety.
@@companyoflosers The paint jobs are terrible. But I reckon if you through a light ink wash over them they will be vastly improved.
@@Elamdri To be honest even a basic paint job done by hand by a newbie would be better than this. Literally the minimum amount of effort consisting of just colouring each bit a solid colour and throwing a shade wash afterwards would be far better than these things which are basically the painting equivalent of a child unable to colour inside the lines.
4:54 that pit fiend's weapon is bent 90 degrees into his own face. To be fair though, if someone had painted my teeth to look like Donkey from Shrek then I'd probably be trying to smash them out myself too.
I don't want to be too down on these miniatures - I think they are great for players that have money to burn, are not necessarily into painting themselves and just want some random models to throw down and dress up their DnD games - but good lord I just find everything about them ghastly. They look like someone sculpted them with blu-tac and a soup ladle, the paint job is horrendous, the super-glued bare bases look awful. It boggles my mind that people are prepared to pay good money for these things, more so that they are paying for blind boxes and have no idea which one of these shambles they are going to get.
Isn't it cheaper to buy 5 miniatures and paint them yourself? Even if you have never picked up a paintbrush before, I believe ANYONE could do a better job of painting miniatures (or at least match the paintjob this company happily splat all-over their pre-painted range).
Wizards mini's have gone down the toilet.
It used to be that you got 10 minis in a booster. There was a game you could play with just the minis, and they all had easy to reference stat cards.
It's now four. The subgame and the stat cards are gone.
Fear the deadliest monster in the whole of D&D... The flying Door!
All of Vox Machina immediately drops to 0 hit points, with the exception of Tary I suppose.
The animated items like the flying sword and the door are great additions. I have used them a bunch of times in the last few months.
To be fair the initial larger figures you unboxed were decent but those smaller humanoid figures were really rough both in sculpt and especially in the paint job department. Also looking at the way those things were just glued to the bases so haphazardly grinds my gear. At 12.50 a box your paying about 3 bucks per figure and that doesn't include shipping. If your desperate and need to quickly throw some figures on a table this might do it for you but man if you own any decent quality figures these will stand out and not in the good way(especially now where enthusiast 3d print the damn things in resin with spectacular results). But it all boils down to Time, Quality, Cost where you can only pick two, so for certain people this is a good option to have available.
Obnly nicely painted figure is the door - the rest are pretty shocking
swarm of rats more like a pile of turds, gotta say the quality of these minis are terrible
The only good looking one was the griffon rider, other than that I'd say they are all shitty
Lmao thanks man.
I just got back into painting minis after 34 years and my first batch of 4 bugbears smokes the paintjobs on these minis. I can't wait till I'm ready for dragons. Glad I saw these so I'll save my money. They look like shitty chinese toys, not d&d rpg minis. Be a hard pass for me. Thanks for the good reviews though man.
The lion and bear looked like the cheap toys that come out of those bags of plastic jungle toys. I'd rather use those for simple animals than these overpriced cash turds.
These look like they should come out of the 25 cent toy machine at a grocery store entrance.
I appreciate the video. You have definitely helped me decide never to buy these again. The sculpts are gross, as well as the paint jobs. I'd end up spending so much time repainting poorly sculpted models.
Thanks for saving me money.
2 weeks ago I started painting mini's as a hobby. The fun is in the painting my friend and if you think those look good, you have to paint your own. I've been loving it so much so that I just bought a 3d resin printer and I can't wait until it arrives....
Every single mini close up felt like falling deeper past rock bottom.
The bear, lion. and crocodile would be great for a classic Tomb Raider inspired adventure.
The quality of these minis hurt my eyes
I really like the editing on you unboxing vid here. Real time unboxing videos are so booring
Thanks Ed!
i was done when the pit fiend mace was a boomerang. i could do better with yard dirt and elmers glue
omg that swarm of rats looks soooo bad
you get so excited over a damn spy but just meh for manshoon? priorities right?
besides, I'm pretty sure Manshoon had an arm missing
5:03 the singing pit fiend. Glorious
These moldlines are highly triggering... gonna have to go and do some moldline removal on a few of my minis to take the edge off.
I really know dont what to say politely on these (the vid is great mind you). I kept thinking if I should just get some of these every month to slowly grow my collection. However, truely...those are horrrible looking and I really cannot grasp why you keep saying beautiful or great looking and I dont try to just be negative or something. These look like minis back in the days, like 90ies, when as teenagers we tried first to paint minis with the wrong brushes, wrong paints and no experience. I'm honestly not sure I'd use these if for free...I'm looking at my old metal minies and heck, they are at times 30 years old but the level of details is a completely different league.
I honestly don't understand these here...except for the price, of course.
Literally spending 15$ on Reaper Bones miniatures will net you higher quality and like, eight or nine miniatures....
He has to be positive about them because it's basically a sponsored video. Even if he's not getting paid for it, he's still getting free miniatures. I guess they're not so bad if they're free.
The animals look dull. If a pit fiend can have an awesome pose, why can't a crocodile?
Sponsorships would be why, don't wanna detract from the potential value
I was thinking of getting some of these also but decided to just get 2 of the D&D board games instead, Temple of Elemental Evil an Ravenloft. Basically scored about 84 minis and 73 tiles for $100 thanks to a sale on Amazon. Granted, the minis are unpainted, and not all top quality, but it was a good deal and the minis aren't too bad. Plus I got 2 fun board games that are compatible with each other.
@@Xeonort You should look into Zombicide black plague and Massive Darkness. A lot of minis for a very good price if you can get a discount.
This is way too similar to watching someone else open presents on Christmas morning. I'm not sure why I am watching it. But I am. And I am invested.
These things are ridiculously bad in terms of quality and paint job. Good lord. As a miniature collector and painter, I cringed so hard at the quality of these things for $100. OUCH.
I love collecting and painting minis and making up characters more than I loved playing D&D. I have over 1000 official metal and plastic minis as well as over 1000 farm animals, safari animals, sea animals, dinosaurs and at least 100 monsters I made up myself.
When I opened my brick of Waterdeep, I actually had my first large be a pentadrone too.
Do more openings like this! It is the best DnD unboxing I've seen most others don't show rarity, excitement or even the miniatures with proper pictures they just take them up to the camera where we hardly see them.
i nearly love all of them. I find npcs very useful as miniatures,when they arent too special (like myrt),and you can often use them like merchants and city guards. unfortunately in the other booster sets are so many strange creatures I would not have a use for. so I decided to get a whole brick from this dragon heist set. and I absolutely love it! yes, it is not so well painted when u compare to newer sets. but for me the most useful
WOW...
GREAT PULL...
VERY COOL MINI...
*cries inside
Fuck dude your reviewing format is so satisfying. Plz make this a frequent thing.
Awwww shucks. I appreciate the compliment!
Taking20 I mean it! I’ve watched so many mini Unboxing’s. And little things like speeding up the opening of the package. The commentary. The editing. Cutting away to a close up shot on a turntable. Great content Cody as usual.
Animal minis are great! Imagine how happy your future druids will be
I enjoyed the video but some music in the background would be nice to cut out some of the dead air next time
Boy Wizkids. I really thought that the original Monster Menagerie set was going to mean a higher quality release schedule. However, I just think they are trying to get too many sets out too quickly and the quality is not consistent. There are some good sculpts in this set but they need to be touched up! This really stinks for people who don't have the time to paint their miniatures. I am going to check out the new Pathfinder release tomorrow but I don't have super high hopes. I dunno if any 3rd party people are going to try to produce prepainted stuff. I know reaper dabbled in it and some of those miniatures were cool. Dungeon Crawler put out some good stuff but I don't know how financially successful that line was. I will keep my eyes and ears out for any other 3rd party prepainted releases.
Consider the original Pathfinder prepainted "Beginner Box Heroes" pack! Wizkids can do higher quality products! I mean if it's the different between paying $2.50 per miniature and $3.50 per miniature then maybe they just can't cut the costs anymore.
A lot of the sculpts are good but the paint jobs almost never are.
That Pit Fiend looks great for about 2 seconds until you see the paint.
The floppy weapons are also don't help.
Still after seeing that Pit Fiend, I'm tempted to grab some boxes and do some repaints.
After watching the video, I saw the price and stuff and it is not all that bad. Once on the table, you can't really see the details, so the paint job is adequate for that price range.
Thanks for the good video!
If you feel that way, give Reaper Bones a look; they're cheaper by a long shot with significantly better sculpt models! :3
@@cerberouse1 Thanks!
I believe it is so much better to paint your own minis! I started playing dnd again lately and stated painting again. Bought normal minis, unpainted, and had a lot of fun painting our characters the way we want, I will look at these reaper bones ones though :)
Thanks!
For some people my group included two of us paint and it kinda breaks things for us seeing minis with shading and stuff we painted next to stuff like the rat storm. I would have to repaint these
Whilst I can see the benefit of these to people who arent into Mini's or painting but the price and quality is.... AWEFUL, really typical Wizkids.
As a Pittsburgh native, I feel compelled to point out that your choice of jersey is *wrong.*
I could almost swear that you pulled my exact brick. Its like watching a memory.
I would really only recommend the Annis Hag, Shield Guardian, and Devourer. And the Pit Fiend of you have time to paint. The paint jobs are super rough, but this is the first time you can get a real Annis Hag mini and they're pretty cheap on MM.
You going to try to fix that pit fiend mace? I’m sure you already know this but for anyone who doesn’t. Use a hair dryer or boiling water. The. Bend it passed straight then hold it straight until it cools. Should be good
Thankfully my local hobby lobby will open these for us prior to purchase. Ive never actually opened one and been happy with the results...loot boxes are for suckers
I admire the paintjob and surprise mechanics, totally worth it /s
And there i thought i was bad at painting miniatures.
I dont collect minis so maybe Im just too critical. I see every flaw in them. Is that normal for minis?
Not really, these are just about the lowest tier minis you can get. The unpainted Wizkids mins are similarly priced and much better quality. Check out Dark Sword Minis or Games Workshop for GREAT minis, but they are more costly.
@@christopherjones9547 thank you for the info! I can pay a bit more for quality. I just looked at them and unfortunately, they are unpainted. These are great quality but I could never paint them well enough to do them justice.
WOW that Durnan paint job was HORRENDOUS! I actually got a brick of these, (Just to get the promotional statue set which was AMAZING btw) these ones here, I don't understand you're enthusiasm (I guess you have to act happy since they gave them to you) I won't be buying any other bricks from this set. I recently bought a Ravinca brick. (they were nicer for sure) I wish they would come out with an entire box for example of "20 orcs" or 20 Goblins. (with a nice quality mold and paint job) Some of these go into a giant bag of random figures I'll NEVER use.)
Manshoon is HE, the founder of the Zhentarim
i like how they add normal animals in it... my local shop just got these in an will be picking up a few myself
That gryphon rider would've had me geeking out!
the basket hilt on mirt's sword is screwed up
I wouldn't give anyone more than $2 a box for those shoddily painted and made minis. The paint is just globbed on and the bent weapons and limbs are just cheap. Not to mention all the unfiled rough edges (the lion looks like crap and one of the stands had a huge chunk of the mold frame still on it). I miss the days when I could go to the local game or hobby shop and buy a pewter mini and just paint the thing myself.
Cody, man... Cut away from yourself or you'll take 1d4 piercing damage to the other hand, eventually.
He can recover the damage with cure wounds no problem
I was thinking the same thing
I know! I was cringing every time he started cutting.
Thanks for the video!
Also, thanks for confirming my decision not to invest any more money in this set :/ I thought the brick I already opened was a fluke, but your brick has exactly the same problem as mine had. The sloppy sculpts and the sloppier painting. There are a couple of stand out pieces (Looking at you, Pit Fiend!), but as a blind box it does not have good odds on getting your money's worth. :/
fwi, I may buy singles, but not interested in spending @ $100 for 4 good minis and 28 garbage minis.
Paul Hill In my opinion that’s wrong, i mean the rats... I see exactly what you mean but I can’t see most of the others are good for people that hate paint and I think they are good in general. And I know the pit fiend had a broken mace and just a few sloppy mini’s here and there but they are great for adventures.
This is great your the only channel making good videos unboxing minis right now
I just don't get this whole concept. I've been painting minis for about 6 years now (after a 30 year long hiatus) but I just don't get this blind box business. Judging from the quality it looks like this is targeted at kids as toys? Is that was the target market is? Teens who want to play D&D but don't have time to paint it themselves?
dreadknot69 that makes sense to me, as teen/young adult who wants to get in the hobby, thinks miniatures are cool, but sure as hell don’t know how to paint them myself. I don’t know what the price of this brick thing he got is, but these were probably painted either by a machine or someone in a shop/factory with a quota. It could be worse, but this video was shilling pretty hard.
@@witchBoi_Connor I can totally get that, if you're new to the game and don't want to paint for whatever the reason. The problem that I still don't get is why it's a blind buy?
If I want a mini or minis, it's for a reason and I went specific ones. If I wanted to collect them then I'd certainly want better quality than this crap. I just don't get why people buy these blind.
As someone who has experience with state audit programs, NEVER mention that you don't pay tax on purchases either online or from over seas. That will instantly flag you for an audit because there is something known as Use Tax that customers have to pay whenever a business doesn't charge Sales Tax. I would edit this video honestly to remove that last portion. Just because you didn't pay taxes, doesn't mean taxes aren't due. @Taking20
This was a great unboxing, truly enjoyed it!
It's like Christmas morning 🎄🎁🎅
Adding it to my list to send to Santa. Thanks Cody👍
Very handy minis if you have a moon druid player. Bear and crocodile are my go-to wildshapes. 👍
I bought and opened the same brick yesterday! I did get Jarlaxle !! I also reallyw anted him and was stocked to get him. Also looted the Xanathar, complete with his rings on his stalks and his smug face. I'm envious of your Griphon Rider ! And your Annis Hag is different than mine. Mine has no lightning bolt spell on it, but he his holding a skull head in his left hand.
This is the first unboxing I have watched through. I could get into this. Lol
I love the enthusiasm, pretty great. But it feels a bit disingenuous when everything is an awesome amazing mini.
I hope you got these for free, because they're all ugly AF.
Hearing you say they're all wonderful and whatnot just cheapens the experience. "whoever painted this did a wonderful job". Dude... come on....
Grifo He has to say they’re good because they’re sponsored
i enjoy miniatures and even painted them back in the day but i have never actually used them when playing RPGs but don't know about these ones some of my lead ones from the eighties have better detail
The animals could make great Druid wildshape.
Going to skip this line, the quality on the molds and the painting just isn't up to par with what they released previously. If Wizards doesn't want to do their own minis anymore they could just let Repear do them for them. I don't mind painting my own.
I think because these are mass produced in large quantities it would be really hard to get really good quality paint jobs on such a high count of figures. But you could even go for cheap reaper bones figures for like $2.00 and paint them with even some cheap Acrylics and get a better outcome. But with that price would get some metal figures and some Valehjo paint and a few washes.
I'll agree with the comments that these aren't the best looking D&D minis, but they were still fun to see get pulled. I know the upcoming Ravnica minis are a bit better quality.
I play Warhammer 40k so I’m used to painting my mom minis. I won’t use prepainted minis for D&D. I’m new at D&D so that my change over time thiugh
The animals can also be very good for a Druid.
I popped Xanathar. You can straighten out the weapons if they are bent.
They need to do these booster bricks but with unpainted minis that have better sculpts.
@taking20 Hey, I just wanted to say that you are the most positive roleplay channel I've ever seen. It's really nice to see someone just being enthusiastic and having a good time. So many other channels are really over-assertive with their opinions and smack-talk different player-tastes.
I'm glad to have someone who is purely constructive and actually makes me happy to watch, rather than someone hostile.
I was wondering which brick to get, I know I don’t need lions and tigers and bears ...aww man!
As a Mounted Combatant Paladin I REALLY want the Gryphon Rider.
A simple dip or dark wash would make most of these minis look a hell of a lot better
I'd be more bothered about the twisted/bent parts, and the little nubbins from the mould that haven't been removed
You know, the minis are actually still being statted for use in the D&D Miniatures game. It's all online at ddmguild.org/ if you stuck around for the 2.0 ruleset! :D
OMG.... don't tell me that. I can't go down that rabbit hole again!
Yeah I pick up a my unpainted D&D mini's MM but for the hard to find mini's i use Amazon
These are kind of like a mixed bag in both paint and sculpt quality.
I want to buy a brick for the glory of the giants- but am worried that some minis will double up. Especially the big ones. What’s the odds that you get the same minis in a brick?
the painting quality on these things is kind of iffy if you ask me, but then again, if i thought i could do a better job, i probably would be considering these.
Them animals are actually pretty dope
Lions and bears would be great for druids and arena fights
The only minis I buy are the Nolzurs ones where you can actually see what you're getting. i made the mistake of buying the "Wrath of the Giants" board game for some sweet giant minis and the paint job on them is terrible. I could have done a better job on them and I barely know how to wash. Even the quality of these minis is terrible, looks like what you would get out of a quarter machine at a supermarket.
that bear looked awful, but so did the rest, these can be usefull for practical use, but i personally wouldnt waste the money
I've opened 3 packages and haven't gotten any rares yet. Is that normal? It makes me very sad ...
Man if I get them I have to get a break don't want to just get one and end up getting a lion or a crocodile
The pentadrone will definitely be saying "Exxxxxterminate!" in my game.
The slithering tracker looks as if it jumped out of Aerosmith's Nine Lives album art
There's a jarlaxle in my local game store for $17.
I have the drizzt and gwenevar minis.
Nice jersey... Ed "too tall" Jones (going old school on that one)... He never had to ask for a level up...
Travis Frederick
Save or Dice well ok then...
So, back in the days of 3.5 the pit fiend mini was actually terrifying. This one... just....looks like some shit a 3rd grader made in art class... Wizards, the fuck?
Someone give this man a box cutter so he doesn't cut himself in the future.
What's up with the a/b/c? So there are more than 44 minis?
A few have variants. So there's really like 56ish (dont know the exact number)
Do you think you'll be doing openings on some of the older sets? I'd love to see you crack open some of the Tomb of Annihilation boxes!
Maybe actually. I spoke to MM and they pitched this idea. For me it's all about having enough time.
@@Taking20 That's understandable, but here's hoping! Who knows, you might even be able to pull Acererak out of one of them if you get the chance!
Oh? You guys buy them individually?
That’s so cute…hhmhmhmhmhmh
Are these not randomized? I bought a booster box on line. Your last box were the same ones I got.
I don't like that unique NPCs like Mirt that you could only ever need one of are "common"