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The amount of stuff Prospero Hall is announcing at New York Toy Fair is bonkers.
Aside from Wonder Woman, Marvel Villainous and Back to the Future, so far we have:
-Jungle Cruise. This looks really cool. Surely to lineup with release of the movie (which, I’ll say it, looks fun) but doesn’t look like it’s taking much inspiration from it.
-Hocus Pocus. I’ve never been an avid fan of the movie but my wife has a soft spot for it so I’m sure this will end up in the house somehow.
-New Funkoverse stuff. Two new smaller sets, one is Wonder Woman with Cheetah, the other isOHMYGODHOLYSHIT QUINT AND JAWS. Jaws is just sitting in a puddle. It’s awesome.
Last Defense - This is one of two oddities, as it’s published by Funko Games and is not based on a licensed IP. Description is you have 20 minutes to save the world from an alien invasion using whatever resources you can find. Not much else to go on aside from the box art. It’s real-time, so this might not appeal to me, but who knows.
Yacht Rock - The other of the two strange ones from PH and Funko. It’s based on a vinyl record. No other info on it as of now.
There’s two more games Funko announced, still waiting for confirmation that they are indeed by PH, but it’s likely they are. One is called Pan Am, another game with no additional details or even box art, but the other....hoo boy. Godzilla: Tokyo Clash. Yes, we could be living in an age in which Prospero Hall puts out a Godzilla game. Box art is super cool. No word on what kind of game it will be or if it will be the heroic or villainous version of Godzilla, but going off this box art, looks like he’s gonna be a complete menace.
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I actually may be the most excited about Pan Am! I -love- that era of commercial aviation...I actually have a vintage Pan Am carry on bag.
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I also learned that in addition to human play testing, they run computer simulations, so they can run an enormous amount of testing to discover imbalances and corner cases.
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One of them mentioned how they wished FFG would republish Nexus Ops, having never seen the original AH edition.
This made me wish that Prospero Hall would pick up both of these, give them a development spitshine, some new art, and convince some non-Asmodee-husk publisher to reprint them. I suggested Ravensburger or any Target-oriented publisher really (Funko?).
Guffaws ensued. Oh no no no. These games aren’t in *that* wheelhouse.
I’m starting think “the hobbyists” either haven’t been cruising Target or Barnes & Noble lately (these Prospero Hall titles have been impressive), or have a very elevated idea of the production quality required of either of these games.
Nexus Ops might be a lot of plastic, but I’d love to see some of these classic IPs picked up by this tier of the market.
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OTOH, they have produced games like Jaws which is, uh, at minimum, PG-13 material in the American perspective. So, something like Wiz-War doesn't seem that outrageous. However, as noted above, they've basically just released their own version, complete with a bunch of notable IPs that will drive sales, so maybe they're ahead of the curve on this one?
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Oh wow! You are so right that Funkoverse feels a lot like Wiz-War. That is probably one of the reasons I like it so much.
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ubarose wrote: @Jackwraith
Oh wow! You are so right that Funkoverse feels a lot like Wiz-War. That is probably one of the reasons I like it so much.
And, as it turns out, I'm wrong about that. You can make two successive challenges in the same turn in Funkoverse (either regular or ability or both.) It still kinda feels like Wiz-War because of points gained from knocking people out or interacting with tokens/being in specific areas, depending on the scenario.
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