"Topps & Mantic Announce Mars Attacks Wargame" Topic

Errr…what?

"We come in peace."

I love it.

Ack, ack!

"All your base belong to us". I want this.

Cue Slim Whitman!
"When I'm calling you-ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo!"
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Will there be a 28mm Tom Jones too?
And Jack Nicholson?

I want this. I also want the skill to paint those brains.

Will the PTA pressure Topps to cancel this project?

'Attack….ack….ack….ack!!!!'

Oh boy, this is gonna be GOOD!

Slishfully,
Sgt DWW-btod and brainfully……

Which Jack Nicholson, John, he was multiple characters. Make sure Darrell knows about this!

Ack ack ack!

I need a Martin Short figure. And James Brown in pharaoh outfit.

28MM ????

OK count me in.

Jim Brown. Not James Brown.

Darrell has noted that our games are "official" when I sing. I used to have a fine tenor (that's my story and I'm sticking to it!) but too many Stroh's and Yuenglings have not exactly made me a baritone, but just a tenor who can't reach those Slim Whitman notes. I try, though, much to the distress of the Militia.

It's all about me.

1/72nd scale so we can use the Korean War figures by Imex as the US Army troops. I would hate to have to collect a whole nuther scale just for this. I have been working on a miniature gave version for over a year on my own. I posted photos of my work on a Martian city on my blog. Mike Bunkermeister Creek bunkermeister.blogspot.com

WOW I wonder what inspired this?

at 1/72 these will work as well for the most part.

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Lee

Looking forward to this….may even take up gaming again……

Wow!
I've never bought a single mantic product…. but sign me up!
I am now a devoted mantic fan! I only hope they don't veer to far from the original card series. And don't get me wrong I love the movie and all but that was Burton's take on the cards. There is so much potential here.

This is great news!
It will be a nice escape from the boring ZZZZs in all these zombie games.

Hah! I'll be all over this!

I've been a fan of Mars Attacks! ever since an older cousin gave me his complete set of the cards back in the late '60s. My mother "sent them to live on a farm upstate" shortly thereafter, which broke my little 10-year-old heart.

Revenge was mine, though, when I bought the reissued cards in the '90s, all of the comics (including the crossovers), saw the movie twice in the theater, bought the DVD, and received all of the action figures as presents from my wife and daughter. Basically, just about everything marketed for Mars Attacks! through about 2002. (After that, there were so many official tie-ins and garage kits I would have gone broke trying to keep up.)

So, Mantic plastics? Heck, yeah!

The mad converter in me is looking forward to recreating some of the scenes from the cards and comics. (No, not "Destroying a Dog," that would just be mean.) But plastic Martians and Humans plus '60s-era US tanks and giant insect models from MPC (Mantis, Scorpion, and Tarantula) and Moebius (mutated Giant Insect) – Clear some shelf space!

Awp! Awpp! AWWPPP!!! AWPP!! AWWWP!!!! AWWWWP!!!

Leland R. Erickson
Metal Express
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Seems very early to announce this (especially given how long other projects are kept hidden away under wraps) .. are they trying to steal some of the thunder from AQMF ??

Yes seems a little odd, but if they have had to sort Ip etc it must have been in the pipe line for while. But to drop it mid 'another' martian game does seem a bit 'off' to me.

Early announcement? I wouldn't call it that. With a release date of early 2014 this is the time to get to work on this project. And I'm guessing that will be the next Kickstarter campaign for this year that Mantic have mentioned in the past few days.

And it will be so different from Martian Front I doubt many pledgers are dropping out for Mars Attacks.

Exciting news!
I'm looking forward to seeing the first sculpts.
If its 28mm I'm definitely in!

Cheers

SP

Normally firms wait till one of their Kickstarter projects finishes before announcing another one, I guess Mantic are trying to hype this one up well in advance to maximise sales. I wonder if it'll effect the Deadzone KS in anyway?

ok I know Mantic haven't said this will be a KS funded project, but we all know deep down it will be, just because that is there business model at the moment

Very true Tauboy Mike. It seems like KS is everyones business model theses days.

The mad converter in me is looking forward to recreating some of the scenes from the cards and comics. (No, not "Destroying a Dog," that would just be mean.)

Part of the attraction of Mars Attacks cards was that the Martians could do things little boys could not do. Face it, pre-pubescent little boys are monsters, just like adolescent boys and …I am not going to go there.

The movie scenes where Slim Whitmans yodels cause the Martians brains to explode is rather like inserting firecrackers into toys and watching them explode. Ponce de Leon, thou shouldst be living in this hour.

Gakk! Gagakk gakk gak, we come in peace, BZZZZZTT!!!!

So going to get this…

IF you can't wait until 2014 for some 'ack-ack-acktion'….you could use these:

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a little 'mod-work' on the 'brain' before you glue helmet down and….'ack-ack-ack'…(at least till the OTHER chaps come out!!! Then you can 'combine forces' and wipe those suface-dwelling, bipedal, mammalian, oxygen-breathers out!!!!

Sgt DWW-btod, welcoming ALL our new Martian overlords with extra croutons at the Salad Bar….

Mwah-hah-hah!!!

Funny thing is .. Mr Mantic at Triples Sheffield told me today, the plan was to do this in 15mm as far as he knew ..

…a little 'mod-work' on the 'brain' before you glue helmet down…

Actually you could use them as-is and then when the "real" ones come out you can use Worf's "We do not discuss it with outsiders." line to explain the differences.

Word is that Tim Burton and crew didn't know just what the Martians sounded like so they filled the lines with Ack! Ack! By the end of production, they all agreed Ack! Ack! was exactly what Martians sounded like.

One word…

Nerdgasm.

15mm you say…..Hot Damn !!!!

15mm?!? HHmm…maybe…28mm, I would be in!

Nooooooo 15mm???

Why?

Who plays skirmishes in 15mm?
A Martian head will just be a blob of plastic with no detail (brain).

This would be a catastrophic business decision..!

Please let it be at least 20mm…but to be honest for me it has to be 28mm to be interested.

Cheers

SP

If it's 28mm, I'm in. If it's not, I'm not. All the best!

Same here. 28mm, I'm in. 15mm or 20mm, probably not.