"Other options for table top giant monsters?" Topic

Meaning those toys, action figures, etc. that are not meant to represent giant monsters/bots but do meet the appropriate size for your gaming.

When I pass the dollar store toy section I look at the crap knock offs for that gem that could be repainted or mod'ed into something else.

Same thing for the prime selections at MalWart and others.

One that has been mocking me to buy it…

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I would/will open the mouth, fuse, and build up the inner details a bit, repaint the mouth section.

Just a funny guy…raawr!

The Ben 10 line also provides a bit of potential.

And many many more.

So for you…see or pick up anything fun and useful?

The Skylander stuff has promise but a bit pricey at $7.99 USD each…

The Skylander stuff has promise but a bit pricey at $7.99 USD USD each…

Especially if you like a bit of humor in your monsters, which I do appreciate if done well :)

From the dealer booths at Anime Boston, I wasn't able to resist adding some Strike WItch figures for giant flying catgirls. These have proven to be immensely popular figures in the Dai Kaiju : Die Boston games. Everyone always thinks its very appropriate when one of the giant flying catgirls destroys the Hynes Convention Center and Anime Boston along with it!

28mm the top two skylanders you showed are actually $14.99 USD :) I only know because ive purchased EVERY skylander for my eight year old son

I think Pokemon and Skylanders are great sources of alternate figures for giant monster gaming.

-Ken
Radioactive Press

I've got a handful of Final Fantasy figures that have shown up in various games.
My favorites are the Iron Giants:
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Also those old (but still easy to find) AMT Gigantics kits… spider, scorpion, mantis and wasp make great 50's era mutant critters.

I like the Pokemon figures but the're a bit too cute for my tastes in Kaiju.

Do you guys usually use the figures as they come or mod them?

I mention because some of the cute can be mod/painted out :)

And sorry about the skylanders, I just grabbed a couple pics to add to the prior post…$15 is a touch ugly…time to hit the garage sales and find one for a quarter :)

No worries. 28. In your support the $15 USD ones are more in the 4-5 inch range :) But I concur, the skylanders definitely fit the bill for the right blend of campy/cute and monstrous

Gotta say in the above post, the jellyfish looks good on the table…not too scary but very cool none the less…shocking touch, poison perhaps, entangling tendrils, slow flight…fast flight would be crazy insane…maybe a burst of speed for a charge attack?

We likes it.

How about the wildlife series of toys and collectables?

Much like the above jellyman.

Dino toys…of course.

Gorilla figures are a given.

Some out if context types like the giant octopus or crab?

What have you found that should be noted?

The Safari Toy lines are quite good IMO.

That jellyfish looks great. I think some of the Ben 10 figures would work in my city too, bottom left in the lineup pic looks just right. Thanks all for the ideas.

My most used non-monster monster must be Bender.

Here knocking the giant wooden robot, which I think 28mm Man told me was a Little Big Planet figure, into a single block building and turning it to rubble.

Lord Fahl is a 3" South Park figure.

In our games he is a Hindu god type giant monster.

The foam block idea is great!

I wonder if that jellyfish would take paint? I'd be tempted to make it a bit more colorful… but I know it's pretty wiggly.

Thanks SW, I use the blocks from foam figure trays that normally have no use.

I was wondering if the jellyfish would work with a pulsing LED inside it, like from an LED tea light.

The foam blocks are just great. I had been thinking back to a great scene that was full of the foam blocks.

I suspect they were Twigs!

As for the light, check the $1 USD store…they have a dozen different type of LED lights.

Twig yes it looks like the Wooden robot from Little Big Planet 2

The Jellyfish is statted out as Dogora for Monster Island rules:
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Many Tendrils give 1 additional Strike attack
Tendrils: +2 to hit with Grab attack
Long Tendrils: any HtH attack up to 4" Range (Target may
counterattack)
Slippery, +2 to Evade vs. Grab attacks, +2D6 escaping being held
360˚ Sense: no bonus to attack this kaiju from the rear
Floating: ground movement ignores low-lying terrain, water, etc.
Flying 9"

Safari ltd…a little bit of everything from the natural world as well as prehistoric and even classic fantasy pieces…lots of giant monster potential here!

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Some are a bit longer than the common 4".

A few of my favorites…

And the simple cut and paste possibilities are unbound…

RhinoGon

Sharktopus!

:)

Pathfinder Battles Runelord line perhaps?

Guyvers anyone?

If I were to put a Crusader type out on the table it would be a Guyver…I prefer the organic monster types, but Guyver's get my attention :)

Did someone say Tyranids? Pretty much the perfect storm for my team…rrrawr…

How about the monsters from the Arkham Horror line?

Though they may be a little small…anyone have comparison pics?

Galactic Heroes Rancor anyone?

Uuuuuhhhh never mind…I just looked up the availability and cost…E'freakin egads.

Ok…how about back to my favorite Star Wars to Giant Monster fodder

Hmmm also tough to find at a reasonable price…looks like it is on my conversion radar lol.

:D

I think they might be a little pricey now, but when the "How to Train Your Dragon" movie came out I bought some of the mini figures (the ones that came with the stand and were attached with a spring) and ran a few demo games using them.

-Ken
Radioactive Press

Tomy has a new line of Pokemon figures that would work great as an alternate source of giant monster figures.

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I picked up the Druddigon and Volcarona two pack yesterday.

-Ken
Radioactive Press

There are limited pics but the Excadrill vs. Darmanitan pair looks good also

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There are several good figures in the Pokemon line and they are small so you don't need a large playing area. With over 500 monsters to make figures for the Pokemon line is a great source for a wide variety of figures if you can get past the cartoonish aspect of many of them.

-Ken
Radioactive Press

I think Ken from Radioactive press once posted pics of a bunch of "giant" plastic ants from the dollar spot section of Target. I of course stole this Idea, and bought 20 of them myself. The Target dollar spot has rubber insects/snakes/dinos almost every spring. It is a great resource for Kaiju fodder.

Do you mean these pictures?

-Ken
Radioactive Press

"Ewe! Bugs!"

:)

Looks like a fair match…I do like the idea of a small group compared to the one figure…different tactics and options…good times :D

Reading some Thor comics last night, the Asguardians merged with Thor to form a giant monster; The Asguardian Blood Legion. This got me thinking, anyone use Marvel figures?

Did they make a model of the giant things that attacked Earth or the helicarrier in the Avengers film?

I do not think a commercially available Leviathan is out :(

Looks like it is made of Tyranid bits!

Indeed!

With a little bit of Necron bits added in.

-Ken
Radioactive Press

Has anyone mentioned the M.A.R.S line of figures for giant monster gaming. I saw the robotic and regular motorized dinosaur figures (about 8" tall I think) at Ross. I can't seem to find a pic of them.

Toys r Us also has several different figure and monster/dinosaur sets like this: link

-Ken
Radioactive Press

Dude !

That squid is just great!

If you like that check out these:

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-Ken
Radioactive Press

Ken yes those are the ants I was talking about. I have a bunch of those bad boys. I went to three different Targets to get them.

I had to go to a few different Targets myself and I couldn't stop with just the ants I also bought the spiders (I used them in an 8-Legged Freaks scenario, the ants of course were used for Them!).

-Ken
Radioacitve Press

I have just been looking on google image search for "jelly fishing lure", I think there is potential here.

Hmmm maybe…they are really flexible, you would need to mount them as if flying or floating.

How about something in the silicone aquarium genre?

The aquarium piece would make a good spawning ground, very tempting.

Without hooks or anything the lures are really cheap. I have ordered some of these;

I think I will push a ball bearing into their heads and they will go on my magnet topped little flight stands. I think they have a hole through them where the ball bearing will go so their legs disguise the stand.
I shall report back once they arrive.

An alien race from Neptune; The Lure.

I pushed a bead into their heads (9 orange, 1 black) and put them on a Litko base.

With 3" monsters.

Very clever!

Looks good from here. Can you prop up a couple arms for "movement"?

And what is the figure with its back to us in the last pic?

As you said, they are really flexible, but they sort of drape well. You can lift them off the base an inch then put them back down and they balloon out like the ones on the ends in the pictures or tip them and stand them up again for a flowing skirt, moving, kind of look.

I call the facing away one an Imperiser Robot.
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They look awesome Twig66!

That central eye looks like it should have the ability to project a deadly beam and the tentacles are there to hold the opponent in place so the beam never misses.

-Ken
Radioactive Press

Twigg66 these "Lures" (great name) are surprisingly very interesting. I like these a lot. They remind me of Viras from the Gamera films.