Fimm McCool
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This thread http://forum.oldhammer.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=944 has opened up again a problem I've been struggling with almost all my life. Nope, not deadly envy or critical flatulence, the problem of
HEROQUEST PROTOTYPES!
As a small boy I got Heroquest for Christmas. I noticed slight differences between the figures and pictures on the box, why weren't mine on nice bases instead of plastic rectangles that obscured the feet? Why was the Barbarian posed differently? Why were the Chaos Warriors much thinner?
When I rediscovered Heroquest later on the internet had come along and I discovered that there were prototype models which were different from the plastic figures in the box. But I still don't understand, maybe someone can offer advice,
Why are there only slight but very definite differences between the prototypes and the released figures? Surely they weren't all resculpted slightly differently, yet this was before the age of being able to scan in a metal figure and alter it digitally wasn't it? Besides, some of the changes imply a resculpt rather than slight tweaking. What exactly was the process which went between the metal masters and the plastic production run? How come the Space Crusade figures could be much closer to the prototypes and have slottabases when the Heroquest ones couldn't?
It's all so confusing.
HEROQUEST PROTOTYPES!
As a small boy I got Heroquest for Christmas. I noticed slight differences between the figures and pictures on the box, why weren't mine on nice bases instead of plastic rectangles that obscured the feet? Why was the Barbarian posed differently? Why were the Chaos Warriors much thinner?
When I rediscovered Heroquest later on the internet had come along and I discovered that there were prototype models which were different from the plastic figures in the box. But I still don't understand, maybe someone can offer advice,
Why are there only slight but very definite differences between the prototypes and the released figures? Surely they weren't all resculpted slightly differently, yet this was before the age of being able to scan in a metal figure and alter it digitally wasn't it? Besides, some of the changes imply a resculpt rather than slight tweaking. What exactly was the process which went between the metal masters and the plastic production run? How come the Space Crusade figures could be much closer to the prototypes and have slottabases when the Heroquest ones couldn't?
It's all so confusing.