Figma Video Game Figures

Pop-Up Parade Emperor. Not Figma, but it does give me hope for a Figma down the line.

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TheSameIdiot said:
Pop-Up Parade Emperor. Not Figma, but it does give me hope for a Figma down the line.

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I literally went SWEET JESUS F*CK when I clicked on this thread and the Emperor appeared. I'll be going into debt if someone starts making good Baldur's Gate figures.
 
Pop-Up Parade statues and Nendoroids are good indicators of Figmas to come. I'd say BG3 Figmas are more likely than not, though you won't add them to your shelf until 2029.
 
Yeah, I got the pop-up parade Zagreus statue because it looked so good, and now they're making an actual action figure. When will it be out? Who knows! But at least it's happening.

I'd definitely be down for some BG3 figures. The main party would be great but this is figma were talking about, so...I'll settle for whatever.
 
I'm still salty Hasbro never did any figures, and I'll remain salty about it until I've got a Karlach on my shelf from somebody.

Sick looking Emperor statue though.
 
Yeah, a full Hasbro line would have made sense given they own the rights , but I can see why they didn't make any BG3 figures. Their previous video game lines have not done well, and their D&D line did not do well, so a combination of both would probably also not do well. There was a very specific window of time that these would have sold and I don't think they could have predicted how well the game would do in order to be ready for that.
 
I generally liked the monsters from the DND movie line. A lot of those classic DND monsters have found their way into so many JRPGs, they’re nice to have around to fight various video game characters. Really wish someone would make a decent mindflayer figure.
 
Popoman said:
Yeah, a full Hasbro line would have made sense given they own the rights , but I can see why they didn't make any BG3 figures. Their previous video game lines have not done well, and their D&D line did not do well, so a combination of both would probably also not do well. There was a very specific window of time that these would have sold and I don't think they could have predicted how well the game would do in order to be ready for that.
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Best I could tell Hasbro just didn't care about BG3 until after it became successful and was too flatfooted to capitalize on it except in anemic ways through DnD Beyond. Not surprising, that's basically been their move throughout the lifespan of 5e, it's just that some stuff (Critical Role, Stranger Things, the Pandemic) had a long enough shelf life they didn't get totally left behind. But this whole edition has been Hasbro thinking they were geniuses tapping this vast blue ocean of new folks, when in reality it's largely been the result of 3rd parties (that Hasbro execs largely despise) doing all the legwork.

I do think BG3 toys would have sold, even up to a year after launch, especially if they'd tried to work with Larian to promote it. Heck, this is gonna sell and we're way past launch now.

Ah well. At least I got Xanathar. He's a fun one. And Once Shuma Gorath comes in I'll have the full evolution from big-head-villain (MODOK) to big-head-eye-monster (Xanathar) to big-eye-tentacle monster (Shuma).
 
I don't see why Hasbro couldn't have started on BG3 figures in October 2023. We'd have had them at the beginning of 2025 if they had.
JakeEkiss said:
Best I could tell Hasbro just didn't care about BG3 until after it became successful and was too flatfooted to capitalize on it except in anemic ways through DnD Beyond. Not surprising, that's basically been their move throughout the lifespan of 5e, it's just that some stuff (Critical Role, Stranger Things, the Pandemic) had a long enough shelf life they didn't get totally left behind. But this whole edition has been Hasbro thinking they were geniuses tapping this vast blue ocean of new folks, when in reality it's largely been the result of 3rd parties (that Hasbro execs largely despise) doing all the legwork.

I do think BG3 toys would have sold, even up to a year after launch, especially if they'd tried to work with Larian to promote it. Heck, this is gonna sell and we're way past launch now.

Ah well. At least I got Xanathar. He's a fun one. And Once Shuma Gorath comes in I'll have the full evolution from big-head-villain (MODOK) to big-head-eye-monster (Xanathar) to big-eye-tentacle monster (Shuma).
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Exactly.

This is super inside baseball for D&D/WotC fans, but worth a watch if you're in either of those groups:


As a sidenote, if you are in one of those groups, why aren't you joining the official Articulated Thoughts D&D campaign?

Tl;dw: Hasbro/WotC has been a terrible steward for the brand. All of D&D's success over the last 10 years happened in spite of them.
 
TheSameIdiot said:
As a sidenote, if you are in one of those groups, why aren't you joining the official Articulated Thoughts D&D campaign?
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I got my draft character made, just waiting on the session zero Saturday. I doubt anybody will mind an amnesiac wizard in the party.
TheSameIdiot said:
Tl;dw: Hasbro/WotC has been a terrible steward for the brand. All of D&D's success over the last 10 years happened in spite of them.
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Yeah. And it is *astonishing* how thoroughly they managed to squander the good will they stumbled ass-backwards into in the span of about a year and a half. So much so that they inadvertently gave half a dozen other direct competitors an immediate boost. Truly epic own-goal.

Like, I ran 5e for 6 straight years, and all things considered I had a good time. But now? I'll play if other people run, but there's loads of other games I'm itching to try.
 
I had forgotten I had ordered and paid for Princess Zelda a year back, so pleasant surprise for it to show up and realize my bank account was still as I left it.

Still weird how she and Link are larger. Have they changed scale on others? Haven't cracked into it yet.
 
It's cool having them this size for the detail, but what an odd move.

For a moment I even confused myself thinking that the Eva figures were Figuarts (they were Figma a decade plus ago), and got excited they'd be bigger.
 
It seems like an infuriating random thing that they're doing.

I know the new Byleth is also a strange larger scale than every prior Fire Emblem figure. I think I saw some new anime figure is also larger than everything else that came before.
 
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