"Anyone Follow Otherworld Miniatures?" Topic

This isn't meant as criticism. More curiosity, really.

One of my guilty pleasures is to occasionally visit Otherworld's site to look over their offerings and dream of a D&D project that never quite gets off the ground. After a hiatus of several months, I yesterday took a peep (just for old times' sake) and was quite surprised to see the amount of change over there.

A number of ranges have been resculpted. I like some of the changes, but others have me wondering. To take a positive example first, the new Bugbears look much better to my eye than the old sculpts did – more "Erol Otian," which is always a good thing. So points there. I'm thinking the Goblins have also been redone? I like them too. But then the new Roper doesn't look nearly so good, and the Aspis don't look right at all; they should look like big Boll Weevils and these don't. It looks as though a number of the vermin figures are gone…cultists are missing, and weren't there more Gelatinous Cubes? Most frustrating of all, a relatively new demon sculpt (can't quite remember the name – Demonic Servitor/Handmaid or something like that) is also missing. There are probably other changes I haven't noticed.

This might be nothing more than a factor of what sells and what doesn't, though I'm still left scratching my head at some of the resculpts (love the new Bugbears, though!). And it's a little odd some newer figures are already gone. So just curious: anybody know what's up?

Wow. Indeed the Bugbears have been redone. I myself liked the old ones better, and changing the sculpts really limits the force I have now, as I do not see the two "looks and feels" mixing.

I noticed the prices remain prohibitive for me anyway. Generally really, really nice stuff though. Sculpts you can't get anywhere else and beautifully presented to boot. I just love this Magic User:

otherworldminiatures.co.uk/shop

"The black pudding sure is black today, Muh-thah" and at just under $8 USD this exquisitely sculpted pudding could be yours:

@Virtualscratchbuilder: I feel your pain, I really do. While I prefer the new look, the old ones were definitely excellent sculpts. Might be worth contacting them?

@Flashman: It's funny you mention the black pudding. I always think the same thing and wonder why companies even bother having such things as slimes and oozes sculpted. Surely a little greenstuff and five minutes would do the trick!

Because I will pay $8 USD to not have to buy green stuff and sculpt it myself…

"Anyone Follow Otherworld Miniatures?"

Wh? Where are they going?

And that is your prerogative, Rottcodd.

@MajorB: I wish I knew!

I liked the old Bugbears as well. Hopefully they will re-surface somewhere else.

And I don't understand why the cultists were removed.

The cultists are still there

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Yes, saw those, but didn't they have several other varieties (in hoods, some bald chaps…)? Maybe I'm mixing them up with another range.

The newer bugbears have more of a literal old-school feel. The sculpting is less..refined? More painterly, but in a sculpting sense? Anyway, I like them.

The new bugbears appear to lack the reproductive organs so prominent on the old sculpts. Perhaps to make them more "family" or "child" appropriate?

Can I say "reproductive organs" on TMP?!

Didn't know they were doing base Bugbears without the dangly bits. Always found the male organs on nude/semi nude figures to look laughably small in comparison with everything else so I don't generally buy them. But now I can team up the Chieftan I got with some of his tribesmen.

Looks like he might have had Orcus resculpted, too, sans schlong.

I like the old bugbear sculpts better but wouldn't buy them because they seemed silly with their genitalia dangling around.

More important, where's the damn bestiary book that has been promised for years. And some unit creation and campaign rules would have made this a cool system instead of a curiosity that sits on my shelf.

Imagine citadel schlong sculpts if they were like their swords.

Anyhow, I'm going to guess that the schlongless figures sell much better than those so endowed. It's just business.