 Dances With Words   | 31 Oct 2006 5:42 p.m. PST |
Ok….someone, (was it CC?) was asking about 'grabboids' ???awhile back…latest release of D&D 'Blood War' features a #49 Ethereal Marauder – Uncommon for about .99USD apiece? link How's that 'GRABBOID yah!' (heh, heh….) Sgt DWW…Tentacle at Large…and in CHARGE! |
| Cacique Caribe | 31 Oct 2006 6:07 p.m. PST |
Yep. That was me!
TMP link Now, if there was a way to attach THAT head/jaws to THIS body, I think we would have the closest thing to the Graboids in the first movie! Thanks for remembering, DWW!!! CC |
| jpattern | 31 Oct 2006 8:01 p.m. PST |
Nice, I'll have to pick up a few of those for an eventual Tremors game.
I already have a handful of Reaper's Astral Maulers: link
They're no longer shown on the Reaper website, so I wonder if they were pulled for being too close in concept to the Ethereal Marauders? (Pretty close in name, too.)
One of my "to-dos" is grafting some Mongoose Starship Trooper Bug mouthparts onto the front of a Sculpey Graboid body. One of these days… |
| Cacique Caribe | 31 Oct 2006 8:07 p.m. PST |
Jpattern, If you tinker with that project, do let us know. CC |
| Cacique Caribe | 31 Oct 2006 8:30 p.m. PST |
DWW, that Ethereal Marauder is pretty close to the bipedal graboids:
link Jpattern, is this what you have in mind (the underground kind)?
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link CC |
| Boone Doggle | 31 Oct 2006 9:34 p.m. PST |
The shrieker from Tremors II. You'll also need the flying one from Tremors III
link and the nymph stage one from Tremors IV. |
| Boone Doggle | 31 Oct 2006 9:38 p.m. PST |
Here's a, not very good, pic of tehe nymph stage form Tremors IV. picture |
| artslave | 31 Oct 2006 9:57 p.m. PST |
I like that figure. There are several critters I'll be grabbing from "Blood Wars". |
| Cacique Caribe | 31 Oct 2006 11:54 p.m. PST |
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| Mysterioso | 01 Nov 2006 9:44 a.m. PST |
Has anyone ordered from Popular Collections before? I hit a button to "e-mail to a friend" and was sent to a "set up your own site" site. That makes me a bit leery. |
| artslave | 01 Nov 2006 10:35 a.m. PST |
Mysterioso, I have ordered much from them. Except for the highish shipping (UPS) they are very good. I have never had a slip-up, mixed up figure or delay. I have combined many different and various clicks, and they have always got it right and fast. They are not unique in the required account set-up thing. |
| jpattern | 01 Nov 2006 1:11 p.m. PST |
Yes, CC, I have photos that I grabbed from the Web of the Graboid action figure that I plan to use when I sculpt my 28mm version. One problem: I don't have a lot of spare time, and Tremors is pretty low on my priority list. Another problem: My sculpting skillz just ain't too good. :) |
| Cacique Caribe | 01 Nov 2006 2:29 p.m. PST |
Jpattern, I might try tinkering too in the meantime. I have more time these days (at least for the next 3 weeks or so). What size do you think they should they be (in cm or mm) to match up with 28mm humans? CC |
| jpattern | 01 Nov 2006 4:00 p.m. PST |
Based on multiple viewings of all the movies, the TV shows, and the toys, I'd say a typical graboid is about 30 feet long, about 4 feet wide at the head (wider in the middle, maybe about 7 feet), and about 3-12 feet high at the head (about the same in the middle). When they burst up from the ground, maybe 4-5 feet is exposed.
Based on a 28mm human, I'd say about 25mm wide and 20mm top-to-bottom would be about right, with maybe 28mm out of the ground, with half of that being jaws. |
| Fortean | 01 Nov 2006 4:48 p.m. PST |
Wouldn't it make more sense to use something like a "torpedo marker" when they're travelling underground, and a head sticking up from the ground when they attack? How often would you need a full size Graboid? |
| Mysterioso | 01 Nov 2006 6:38 p.m. PST |
Artslave: Thanks. The link was not to an account set-up but a buy your own URL deal. How ever hearing from someone who has ordered and seeing there is a telephone number listed on the site is much more reassuring. Are the Ethereal Marauders prepainted click-type figures? They look it. Sad to hear that the Reaper figures are gone. |
| Cacique Caribe | 01 Nov 2006 7:06 p.m. PST |
". . . about 30 feet long . . ." So, if completely above ground, they should be about 150mm (5 x 30mm human)? CC |
| Cacique Caribe | 01 Nov 2006 10:40 p.m. PST |
I wonder how big these are: auction CC |
| Farstar | 02 Nov 2006 2:19 p.m. PST |
Are the Ethereal Marauders prepainted click-type figures? They look it. Sad to hear that the Reaper figures are gone.
The new WotC Ethereal Marauder is a pre-painted plastic, yes. Barring the mishaps associated with assembly line manufacturing, it is actually pretty good looking. Reaper doesn't have a license, but cheerfully dances around some of the D&D standards with vaguely familiar names very similar to what smaller manufacturers get taken to task for doing by TMPers at least once a week. Presumably WotC recognizes that slapping Reaper would be bad for everybody, so there is likely some sort of phonecall during the development of each of the WotC pre-painted sets that lets Reaper know which models are now off-limits. |
| Cacique Caribe | 02 Nov 2006 3:02 p.m. PST |
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| Cacique Caribe | 05 Nov 2006 12:38 a.m. PST |
DWW, I think you have found the closest thing to those "Shriekers"! Ethereal Marauder Images:
link Tremors 2 Bipedal Graboid ("Shriekers"):
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link CC |
| Cacique Caribe | 05 Nov 2006 2:32 a.m. PST |
The Astral Mauler is close too: link CC |
| Cacique Caribe | 16 Apr 2007 4:05 p.m. PST |
Here's how Burt and Heather Gummer took one of them down . . . link CC |
| Cacique Caribe | 08 May 2007 8:32 a.m. PST |
Interesting FAQ from the creature's designers/makers: link CC |
