Swansong Musings.

[Videtta]

Dylan Thompson wrote

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rage at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And as i hear more and more people raging aginst WoTC and their lack of game loyalty i muse back to when heroscape first started. It was plugged on the air during childrens shows like YuGiOh big time. In fact a huge ad campaign hit the airwaves right before the christmass shopping season. It was created by Hasboro, and it was a toy designed to combine legos action heros with some basic game concepts. IN fact the primary game was, not the advanced game, but the basic game. It was designed so that 8 year old with no gaming back ground and parents that had no interest in gamaing could play cops and robbers with some structure.

Now we are nearly a decade later, and a game that has all the earmarks of being designed by hasboro to fall out of production after a year at the most of kids buying it and it being the in toy probably lasted about 8 years longer than what hasboro intended. People are raging against WoTC for no game loyalty. REmember ladies and gentlemen this game was not designed to last. It was designed as a toy a fun toy with pieces so that kids would not choke on them. We all love heroscape, but do not blame WoTC or hasboro that it is not monopoly or clue.

The way to save it is to encourage the powers that be in WoTC to sell the rights They were attempting to make a bridge came to dnd minatures, but why should they make two minature games, particularly one that takes up so much resources to build and produce the tiles.

That being said I hope that someone saves heroscape and continues to produce it. It is fun and it is legos, combined with action figures, combined with war game light. I would love to continue to build and add to it. But do not blame a major company for wanting to make obscene amounts of money for their stock holders. After all that is what hasboro is, not a game company for gamers, but a money making blue chip corporation.

that is my 2 cents worth on the death of heroscape. Now to duck as the massive quantities of rotten fruit get heaved in my general direction.

[Rÿchean]

Originally Posted by Videtta

Now we are nearly a decade later.... lasted about 8 years longer than what hasboro intended.

8 years? a decade?

Master Set 1 came out in September, 2004.

Closer to 5 than 10, my friend.

Originally Posted by Videtta

REmember ladies and gentlemen this game was not designed to last. It was designed as a toy a fun toy with pieces so that kids would not choke on them.

I have to disagree: Dice, Order markers, round marker, grenade marker; all small enough to choke a child.

Also, it was meant to last at least a little while because it was developed as an expansion based game.

HS had a good run and most likely will manifest in some form in the future. It has too many good things going for it to never be seen again.

[Robotech Master]

It's Dylan Thomas by the way. /English Major hat.

[Chorazin]

Originally Posted by Robotech Master

It's Dylan Thomas by the way. /English Major hat.

If that's the worst offence to an English major perpetrated by that post, I'll eat my hat.

[Robotech Master]

Originally Posted by Chorazin

If that's the worst offence to an English major perpetrated by that post, I'll eat my hat.

Well, I didn't say it was the worst, and I admit I didn't do more than glance at the overall subject and message of those paragraphs, but it was just the literature trivia in me springing to call.

[ChilliDog]

Originally Posted by Rÿchean

HS had a good run and most likely will manifest in some form in the future. It has too many good things going for it to never be seen again.

Now there's some inspirational words. I agree, Rÿchean.

[Remi]

I agree with chilidog and Rÿchean....
Waitaminute!!!!
Unrelated topic swerve.......... NOW!
Chilidog, you are the one who originally posted the Heroscape webisode link on this site to "Monkeybar Tv" on Hasbro's website. They were taken down, I didn't get to see them. Do you have a link to their new location?

[ChilliDog]

Ah yes, my reputation precedes me . I didn't know they were taken down but now I'm curious and looking into it. Not to thread hijack... I'll PM you with anything I find.

[Remi]

Cool

[Agent Minivann]

IN fact the primary game was, not the advanced game, but the basic game.

I'm betting that the primary game was the advanced game and hasboro (sic) pushed the designers to add the basic game so they could put a lower age recommendation on the box.