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I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.

Friday, February 9, 2024

Q is for Question Time - Wizards' Wizard?

And odd question as I know it's marked Wizards, presumably Wizards of the Coast, but what it he exactly, is he a giant from the 30mm sets, is he from a stand-alone board game, or is he some kind of mascot, or convention freebie?

The Star Wars, 2000AD and Lord of the Rings sets were also a factory painted, black rubberised-polymer, while he is unpainted polyethylene, in an odd shade of puce/mauve.
 
I know where I got him from as well, Graham Apperley, at last year's Plastic Warrior show, and he probably told me something about the figure, but that's a day when the brain is sent more information than it can store in short-term memory!
 
Anyone recognise this chap, and know what his role or employment looked/looks like, within the Wizards empire? An empire swallowed by Hasbro since we looked at them here, back at the beginning of the Blog!


3 comments:

Anonymous said...

D and D mineatures King Hekaton

Anonymous said...

I am not really well versed in D and D lore but he is some sort of giant storm king.

Hugh Walter said...

Cheers guys, a picture search of Google revealed him, but always painted, is this one stripped-down?

H