"List of Illithid or Mind Flayer miniatures (ever made!)" Topic

Perhaps it's the pain pills I'm on at the moment, but I've been having really vivid dreams lately.

I've been looking around for inspirational sources for my next couple of years' worth of releases, and after reading a bunch of Conan paperbacks, I decided to pick up the D&D "Lords of Madness" sourcebook, covering Aboleths, Mind Flayers, Grell, Beholders, and other aberrations.

Reading that book I think is what prompted a dream I had last week – in it I'd build a huge Underdark table, the main feature of which was an Illithid outpost, complete with an Elder Brain. I had dozens of figures on the table, ropers, umber hulks, and various other Underdark and Illithid related figures. The dream has inspired me to collect yet another set of things.

Illithids, Mind Flayers.

I've always liked them – creepy, freaky monsters, useful for fantasy gaming as well as Pulp Cthulu and even sci-fi stuff (potentially).

And they've been making Mind Flayer miniatures for 25+ years now, too. As far as I can tell, nearly every company that's ever had license to make D&D miniatures has made a Mind Flayer figure at some point.

I've got a couple of Ral Partha ones, two Reaper "not Mind Flayer" minis, a Grenadier one, and a couple of the current D&D plastic ones.

The Otherworld website has a wonderful gallery of the Citadel figures… but I'm sure there must be more. Ebay doesn't have anything currently listed that I don't have yet (although I would like someone to explain "Half-Illithid Lizardfolk" to me…)

Can anyone link me to pics of their Mind Flayers, information about old manufacturers, OOP figures (or current "not-illithid" manufacturers). I'm looking for 28mm figs, but a few 20mm or 15mm figs would be OK – I can call them homonculi, or halfling-grown Illithids.

I expect I'll update this thread over the next few months, as I collect more figures and paint them.

-Alex

Heritage Dungeon Dwellers had one or two. Great for their time, but a bit small and crude by current standrds.

There's a not-Illithid from Black Tree as well: picture

Damon.

Some of the oldest ones might end up doing duty as statues.

Good find on the Black Tree one – I never would have thought to look there… but ye gods that's an ugly sculpt.

Still, I'm gonna buy it! It might be the angle, or maybe just need a different paint job. Thank you! Keep 'em coming, please!

The old publishers of Kryomech minis (can't recall the name right now) made a "Bthulu" miniature that was pretty fun.

Pretty sure it is OOP now.

Superfigs makes a one that might fit the bill:

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ooh, I like the Heritage "Mind Disruptor" figure!!

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Grim Reaper made one picture
can still get him from Ral Partha Europe

Good luck, Alex.

I collect Beholders and not-Beholders, and Umber Hulks and not-Umber Hulks. So far I've been able to obtain 65 different Beholders and 33 different Umber Hulks, and i know there are more out there.

I suspect there are almost as many Illithids and not-Illithids out there, if not more, so you have your work cut out for you. I have a lot of them, so I'll pull together a list of what I have and post it later.

Also looks like Grenadier did one in its Tomb of Spells boxed set: picture (take a look at entry "O").

Damon.

Reapers are the best:

Casting: link
Scheming: link
Mummified: link
Swashbuckling: link
Naked/Slishy: link

One of my favorites is the one in techno-armor from Magnificent Egos. This is the resin version:

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It was also available in metal. I, too, went through a grab-the-evil-octopus-dudes phase. What I found disappointing is that in the 3.0+ art, illithids are depicted as these gaunt, goth, creepy critters with goggles, scalpels, outfits made from black leather, etc. Almost none of the miniatures look like that. They pretty much all look like Gandalf with calamari sticking out of their gobs.

If you like the 3.0 look, I'd recommend getting the four available poses of Cephalyx for Warmachine and somehow give them cephalopod heads.

A Cephalyx (properly creepy):

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Here is a female one from Black Orc games. And its only a buck to boot…

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BTW… I bought about 10 of these figs, as the HEAD IS A SEPARATE PIECE! Head swaps, here I come!

richarDBM, that is a perfect likeness to Zoidberg's girlfriend!

There are Walktapus from Glorantha/RuneQuest too. Not really the same, but still
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(Both Ral Partha and Citadel made one each, as well, IIRC.)

You could also perhaps get a 'not-Davy Jones'. I've seen a couple around.
Here's Captain Calamari from Tin's Bits
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Here are all of the Illithids, not-Illithids, Cthulhoids, Squidoids, and Octopoids that I'm aware of, past and present. I'm probably missing minis from some of the older or smaller companies out there. There are also lots more octopi, giant squids, and tentacled sea monsters out there, if you care to expand your search.

Archive 819 Runequest Walktapus (also sold by R-kiiv and Dark Ages) link

Asgard FM46 Psionic Flayer – I couldn't find a picture online

Black Orc Games Mini-Sculpt 100-MS-0025 Kalovon – Cthulhoid Alien (naked female with large breasts) link

Black Tree Design M130 Psychic Flayer picture

Citadel ADD79 Mind Flayers (9 different – 3 different body sculpts, each with 3 different head sculpts) link link

Eastern Front Studios Fathoms Deep Bastard of the Depths (octopus-man) link

eM-4 Elfsera 6 Dungeon Monsters (prepainted metal minis) link

Evil Gong 15mm Squidmen link

Fenryll FM124 Depths Creature (Cthulhoid) picture

Grenadier AD&D 5004 Tomb of Spells, figure O picture

Grenadier Bladestorm 2213 Sercathv Hue-Eaters (3 different 4-armed 4-eyed squid-faced guys) auction

Grenadier Call of Cthulhu 217 Spawn of Cthulhu (Cthulhoid) picture

Grenadier Nightmares 624 Spawn Horror (same sculpt as 217 Spawn of Cthulhu)

Grenadier Special Subjects 4903 Dungeon Dwellers picture

Grim Reaper Castings Nasteez 1079 Mind Disruptor picture

Heritage Dungeon Dwellers 1260 Mind Disruptors (also sold by Reaper) picture auction

Harlequin M130 Psychic Flayer (same sculpt as Black Tree design; Harlequin came first) picture

Lance & Laser Glorantha 3018 Walktapus link

Magnificent Egos MEO6013 Quytled – Planeswalker link

Mega Miniatures MEM 10013 Squid Swarm (possibly use for head swaps; also available individually) auction

Old Glory 50 Fathoms-007 Octopons (Cthulhoid) link

RAFM Call of Cthulhu 2011 The Great Cthulhu (Cthulhoid) link

Ral Partha AD&D 11-406 Mind Flayer picture

Ral Partha AD&D 11-505 Illithid picture

Ral Partha Battlesystem 15mm 11-955 Villains of the Forgotten Realms (2 different 15mm Illithids) TMP link

Ral Partha Runequest 18-015 Dark Denizens of Glorantha Walktapus (also Jack-O-Bear and Dragon Snail; also sold by Citadel) auction

Reaper 2116 Cthal T'Chuk Bathalian link

Reaper 2568 D'Kuhl M'Broon Bathalian link

Reaper 2843 Undead Bathalian link

Reaper 3135 B'thuhl Brinemurk, Bathalian Pirate link

Reaper 14511 D'Khul, Bathalian link

Reaper 2021 Bathalian (looks identical to 2568) link

Simtac Macho Women with Guns MWW-101 Bthulu – I couldn't find a picture online

SOTA Call of Cthulhu (Cthulhoid) link

SOTA Ultra Cthulhu Statue (Cthulhoid) link

Superfigs SF-AL-09 Krong the Mighty link

Tin's Bits FP-001 Captain Calamari link

Wizards of the Coast D&D Aberrations 34 Half-Illithid Lizardfolk (prepainted plastic) auction

Wizards of the Coast D&D Aberrations 39 Mind Flayer Telepath (prepainted plastic) auction

Wizards of the Coast D&D Demonweb 21 Shadow Flayer (prepainted plastic) auction

Wizards of the Coast D&D Demonweb 25 Concord Illithid (prepainted plastic) auction

Wizards of the Coast D&D Dungeons of Dread 26 Mind Flayer Scourge (prepainted plastic) auction

Wizards of the Coast D&D Harbinger 50 Mind Flayer (prepainted plastic) auction

Wizards of the Coast D&D Night Below 38 Mind Flayer Lich (prepainted plastic) auction

Wizkids Horrorclix 89 Avatar of Cthulhu (Cthulhoid) auction

Wizkids Horrorclix Great Cthulhu (Cthulhoid) auction

Wow, thanks for the lists folks!

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Nice painted one!

Heres one to watch when it comes out. Its in Reapers Cronoscope. Here is a link to the warstore spot for it;

Bathalian Exarch SKU :RPR 50062
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With a drill,wire and a little bit of green stuff you could possibly alter half of the existing miniatures out there into Illithids.Isn't that difficult.
;-)

Rogcollectibles,
Here is your Exarch: link

A little snakey…

Yeah, a little serpentine, but very cool! Great Cthonic monster!

Norscaman, that is one wild Illithid!

There's also the Wizards of the Coast Demonweb Thoon Hulk:

auction

Good catch, Mad Dog. In fact, that would make a great Illithid statue, repainted appropriately.

NOt quite an Illthid – tentacles out of the body – but worth a look.

Great White Games – octopons

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Already covered in my list, Richard, but as an Old Glory release:

Old Glory 50 Fathoms-007 Octopons (Cthulhoid) link

I will add the two-headed Cosmic Stranger from Hydra Miniatures, though: link

I noticed there is one missing from the WOTC pre-painted line of minis:
Shuluth Archvillian-War Drums #38/60

Cool, I hadn't seen that one yet, Red.

i'm really surprised that no-one mentioned GW's Genestealer head that has "feeder tentacles"

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with these heads you can turn anything into a mindflayer.

let alone Privateerpress's game Monsterocalypse has a whole faction of Cthulu's. Called the lords of Cthul.
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Well with the Cthulhu mythos being public domain, as far as I know, it appears anyone can sculpt critters like this.

Also funny Alex, I've been on a mind flayer/illithid/Bathalian/aberration kick lately too.

Cheers.

I would like to add to jpattern2's list with Ginfritter's Gnomish Workshop Squidbeard the Illithkin Pirate. Link:
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He is tooled up with a pistol and a skull bomb in full pirate regalia.

Ginfritter
Armorcast
armorcast.com

Lost Minis Wiki topical gallery on the subject:

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I can appreciate the necro-lift of this thread, some of the links have broken since but the idea behind the squid faces is a valid one.

Certainly one of the best monster to come from the D&D collection of creatures :)

Not much difference (except in clothes) between Illithids and some Cthulhu cultists:

I'm almost sure I saw similar minis with the hood on: does it ring a bell? Was it indeed in 28mm?

Ironwind Metals has Ral Partha's "Brain Slayer" available again as an online exclusive:

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