Early board games with fantasy components in hard plastic. I am old enough that when these games came out I sneered at them, compared them to my metal figs and gave them a pass. A decade later when they showed up in garage sales I picked them up for particular pieces or for cheap regiments. Later still, I used them to introduce my kids to roleplaying and painting. And now they are a collectable subgenre I think of as One Piece Plastics. Their originally slightly-too-large scale is now "heroic". And now when new games come boxed with a pile of fantasy minis I pay attention and some get added to lead, plastic and resin pile.
Recently we had a mini break in NY state and though we had some vacationy outings planned my wife announced that she wanted a couple of days curled up with a book in front of a fire, so I should bring my paints. Not wanting to pack half finished metal I grabbed eight primed and based old plastics and some bold colors.
Dark World
Mattel 1991
Forked tongue added to the manticore - It really needed a fix.
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Dragonfire
Heartbreaker/Target 1992
This game came with just the four types of figure
The Dragon Knight has always struck me as a teenage wannabe chaos knight. The embarrassing son of the grim countenanced Dark Lord who sighs heavy as his pathetic minions fail yet again to thwart a party of bold halfling children.
Previous One Piece Plastics Posts:
HeroQuest and other game plastics
http://leadnpaint.blogspot.com/2017/07/
https://leadnpaint.blogspot.com/2021/12/plastics-too.html
Doorways for HQ and AHQ are here
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