WizKidsD&D Icons of The Realms Miniatures: Fangs and Talons Individual Booster, Black

Fun mixture of miniatures.

Prompt shipping and an excellent "miniature". The figure is suitably large compared to other figures and well detailed.

This thing is irrefutably pricy, but it is worth it. The overall quality of the detailing is impressive, the colors are clean and vibrant, and the figure itself has a nice weight to it that makes it feel sturdy.

Awww, look at it! Just look at that ridiculous big purple fella. Real talk - It's pretty awesome. The table presence alone - imagine throwing on the Dune soundtrack and dropping that beastie in the middle of your grid-mat, toppling character minis while the players abruptly stop their giggling over the tremors you just described as making the plasmoid cleric jiggle Jurassic Park style. The slack-jaws... the expressions of vaporizing trust in their dungeon master... the nervous glances at their character sheets. Yes, this violet spiral of danger noodle of doom gracing your table is the great normalizer - mage, fighter, DPS, tank... there's not a PC in sight that isn't weeing themselves a little knowing that at this moment they are may as well change their class to "one delicious part of an adventurer-flavored snack-mix."So why four stars? This is a big mini that you're going to likely have on display, and it is expensive. I suppose I think of this as a luxury item - you're paying for something you could probably print and paint yourself... but like any other luxury item, that hard-earned cash is in exchange for somebody else to pull it off better than you could, right? So I'm bummed about the seam where the two halves meet. It is off by maybe only an 1/8 of an inch, but where top and bottom parts come together about halfway down the worm, the painted bits particularly highlight that it doesn't line up quite right. Looking at it carefully, it actually does appear lined up at several key points, but what will likely be the most player-facing side is off - it may be that the original mould could use a tweak. It's not a great big deal? I'm not feeling like returning it is the right move? But also giving it five stars seems like the wrong way to go as well. Maybe you'll get a five star version of this Shai-Hulud-homie, but I did not. (Honestly it would have been cool to have it come apart right there by design... imagine a lego-like connection at that seam. You could then have just the top chunk sticking out of the ground or choose to have the full model poke out. And like... easily rotate it to be lined up... if, y'know... it arrived... not lined up when it was produced... shoulda woulda coulda...) Anyway, don't worry about it too much, your players are probably too busy counting the teeth on the thing, wondering if their mount would fit in its gaping maw, (spoiler: Yuuuuup! Who names a horse "Lucky" without anticipating karmic retaliation?) wishing they had cast some of those ritual spells 11 minutes ago, hoping they remembered to bring their winged boots, etc.

I am a game master that loves to have the exact minis for my players' encounters and this new set is no disappointment. Sure the paint quality isn't the best, but when your players' characters are facing life and death, they don't see the smudged paint on the dragon's eyes but see instead the terrifying end boss that has terrorized the land they are protecting.That being said, I received only one double in this set and got most the ones I bought it in the first place for. I am not sure if they made sure to prevent doubles in the Booster bricks, but if they did I hope it is a practice they continue. The only complaint I have is the clear bases for the Large and Huge minatures that clearly stands out over the black bases of the Medium and Small miniatures. I think in gameplay this won't matter and will help players see any markings below them for magical effects and battlemaps but I haven't received feedback from players yet.

I was scared I would get many repeats in a bundle but thankfully I only got 4 repeats and a TON of cool new figures! One repeat was a kobold and the other a twig blight so it's still pretty useful to build encounters with!

This is an amazing piece. It literally made the other purple worm mini I own look like crap. My players informed me exactly that. It's everything a gargantuan figure should be. Beautiful detail. Hefty. Well worth the price to see the looks on my players faces when I brought it out.

I was excited to catch this on sale, but even at the normal $50 price point, it's a lot of value for the money. Purple Worms aren't complicated things - they eat, they digest, they dig tunnels. It's a great straightforward fight for a party with some levels under their belt and feeling their oats. This miniature has incredible presence on the table, and it's perfectly sculpted with a hungry maw waiting to engulf a PC mini.