Marvel:Reinforcements Arrive - Never To Be Released (Photos)

[Heroscaper62]

I stumbled across these photos of the unreleased Marvel wave the other day and didn't know how many people on the site have seen them. I'm sorry if these are old and have already been seen.

Picture of all ten figures:


Sandman:


The Human Torch:


Doc Ock:


The Thing:


Invisible Woman:


Bullseye:


Beast:


Black Panther:


No photos of the Punisher or Super Skrull. Sorry.

None of the photos are mine; they were found at http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/31003/heroscape-marvel-expansion-set-the-reinforcements
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Background Information: The Reinforcements Arrive Marvel expansion set, as seen in these photos, was first shown alongside The Conflict Begins master set. When The Conflict Begins was released, many wondered when the expansion was also going to come. Then Heroscape was given to Wizards of the Coast and it looked unlikely for the Reinforcements Arrive to ever be realeased. Then Truth interviewed Wizards (can be found here) and they told him that Marvel was going to be released.

Marvel/Licensing Questions:

Is Marvel staying with Hasbro?
WotC: Marvel, yes. The Marvel booster wave is going to come out - our engineers are working on it now. We don't have a date for it yet, as it wasn't as complete as Wave 8 when it transitioned.

Are Marvel waves going to be released the same way as regular Heroscape, with four packs in a wave, large expansions, and terrain expansions?
WotC: Marvel waves are 2 packs per wave.

Does this open up some more leeway for DC Comics to sneak into the MARVELSCAPE line?
WotC: We're definitely releasing the already revealed expansion. But, I wouldn't expect DC Heroscape any time soon.

Will WoTC puruse other licenses like Marvel? Will we see Star Wars HS and the like?
WotC: We're looking at other potential licenses that could be brought into Heroscape.

Does new control mean that Heroscape will be further leveraged as an open combat-mechanics system?
WotC: We've talked about it, as Heroscape's such a good game system. I'd love to hear more thoughts about this in a little while (probably "ways to expand Heroscape" is a good topic for another thread, if there isn't one already).

It once again looked like Marvelscape was going to continue, but then Wizards dropped Heroscape completely, without ever releasing the promised Marvel wave. And this is where we are now. No Marvelscape. No Heroscape at all.
This was probably all review for you guys, but it was a nice refresher for me, since I've have given up hope on Reinforcements Arrive a long time ago.

[robbdaman]

Yeah, this is extremely old news, probably could have found these by some searching. It is too bad Marvelscape didn't take off, the things planned for it were awesome.

[Griffin]

I don't recall seeing those close up shots before. Thanks.

[killergoat72]

Wow, I forgot how awesome those looked....

[elitebeatk]

We'll never get an official Deadpool.

[Balantai]

Originally Posted by elitebeatk

We'll never get an official Deadpool.

You must've missed it.

[elitebeatk]

This thread was not created to provide shameless plugs to C3G, fine sir.
I already have that Deadpool (and the 50 other custom deadpools) printed out.

[Griffin]

I better try and rep Balantai before he takes down the plug.

[Margloth]

The sad thing is that, with a few exceptions, these are better than any representations that HeroClix have ever done of these guys...

...too bad this is as close to the sculpts as we'll ever get!

[Lord Pyre]

Originally Posted by Margloth

The sad thing is that, with a few exceptions, these are better than any representations that HeroClix have ever done of these guys...

...too bad this is as close to the sculpts as we'll ever get!

Yeah, I know. Most of the others have some decent sculpts, but I drool over that Bullseye all the time...

[Griffin]

Originally Posted by Margloth

The sad thing is that, with a few exceptions, these are better than any representations that HeroClix have ever done of these guys...

...too bad this is as close to the sculpts as we'll ever get!

They do look great, but Heroclix also has some fantastic sculpts as well. Granted Heroclix has a lot more stinkers too, but that is likely somewhat due to the fact that they have a LOT more figures.

But look at the Heroclix Punisher figure that C3G uses, it blows the Heroscape one away IMO.

[Margloth]

Originally Posted by Griffin

They do look great, but Heroclix also has some fantastic sculpts as well. Granted Heroclix has a lot more stinkers too, but that is likely somewhat due to the fact that they have a LOT more figures.

But look at the Heroclix Punisher figure that C3G uses, it blows the Heroscape one away IMO.

The Punisher argument is very valid, and a lot of these have a somewhat interchangable sculpt with with 'Clix anyway.

But those Bullseye, Thing, and Sandman sculpts... oh my!

Plus, a 'Scape scuplt is a meaty, sturdy sculpt.