Storm King's Thunder Minis Full Review - D&D Icons of the Realms

Showcase and review of WizKids' Icons of the Realms: Storm King's Thunder prepainted minis. Click "Show More" for timestamps and corrections.
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Timestamps:
0:23 Introduction
0:31 Lineup of all painted minis in the set
1:00 Turntable view of box packaging
1:34 Intellect Devourer (# 1)
2:31 Sprite (# 2 and 3)
3:30 Darkmantle (# 4)
4:09 Homunculus (# 5)
4:54 Cazi Alphelandra (# 6)
5:36 Crag Ungart (# 7)
6:00 Giant Frog (# 8)
6:34 Scarecrow (# 9)
7:07 Kenku (# 10 and 11)
7:59 Yochlol (# 12)
8:41 Hell Hound (# 13)
9:13 Bandit Captain (# 14) and example of an invisible, which is an identical sculpt but in unpainted, clear plastic
9:54 Bandit (# 15)
10:24 Thri-kreen (# 16 and 17)
11:16 Githzerai Monk (# 18 and 19)
12:11 Kleef Kenric (# 20)
13:12 Wight (# 21)
14:04 Yuan-ti Pureblood (# 22 and 23)
15:08 Azer (# 24)
16:11 Winter Wolf (# 25)
16:46 Fomorian (# 26)
17:34 Fire Giant (# 27)
18:19 Cloud Giant (# 28A and 28B)
19:03 Frost Giant (# 29A and 29B)
19:41 Stone Giant (# 30)
20:29 Hill Giant (# 31A and 31B)
21:06 Fire Giant (# 32A and 32B)
21:36 Solara Thann (# 33)
22:13 Night Hag (# 34)
23:17 Yuan-ti Malison (# 35) - Type 1
23:48 Yuan-ti Malison (# 36) - Type 2
24:31 Yuan-ti Malison (# 37) - Type 3
25:26 Helena Nostrum (# 38)
26:03 Yuan-ti Abomination (# 39)
26:41 Lai Antolio (# 40)
27:21 King Hekaton (# 41)
28:07 Countess Sansuri (# 42)
28:38 Harshnag (# 43)
29:19 Iymrith (# 44)
29:45 VIDEO: Minis from this set on a Dwarven Forge battle map for scale
AUDIO: Conclusions-many figures in this set not part of the Storm King's Thunder adventure
AUDIO: 30:26 This set is great for giants for the Storm King's Thunder adventure with other giants available in Monster Menagerie III
31:18 Quality of the figures in the set
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33:55 Listing of all minis and their numbers in this set, including invisibles and the case incentive premium figure
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[@mysticevil887]

You guys have been very efficient these weeks

[@TheGallantGoblin]

Yeah, we both need a nice vacation one of these months. -Theo

[@Dominik-ev9en]

Hello Theo, so great review again. Your videos are incredibly valuable for everyone planning to buy these boosters. Thanks for the great work.

[@TheGallantGoblin]

That's very kind of you. Thank you! -Theo

[@Thornspyre81]

Oh man what an understatement. I have been binging your booster vids and have bought a slew of bricks and thanks to your channel I'm super happy w my purchases!

[@TheGallantGoblin]

@@Thornspyre81 Thank you very much! We're glad to hear it. -Grady

[@Thornspyre81]

Just bought a STK Thunder booster brick and the very first I opened got King Hekaton!

[@TheGallantGoblin]

Nice! Congrats! -Theo

[@Alucardswar]

The only set I've bought a brick for which I got two hekatons! Loved the video and the unicorn small shirt at the beginning

[@robmatheny2412]

Awesome video, great to have on while I do data entry work or when I plan my game session. Glad I found this channel.

[@TheGallantGoblin]

Glad you’re enjoying it!! Welcome to the goblin family, Rob! -Theo

[@AppletunCrisp]

This video is super helpful. I was going to buy a Yuan-ti Abomination from this set but it's a medium miniature, when the creature itself is large. Seems like an oversight.

[@stevemcstevens1279]

I was about to buy this set. You've done it again Gallant Goblin!

[@TheGallantGoblin]

I'm not sure if that means we drove you to buy it or not buy it! -Theo

[@stevemcstevens1279]

@@TheGallantGoblin who are we kidding? The miniature addiction runs _deep_ . I doubt I can go back.

[@adamusdm4128]

Great video! And the code for -5% came in handy during my Black Friday shopping. Thanks very much

[@TheGallantGoblin]

Great! I'm so glad you got some use of it! Thanks for letting us know! -Theo

[@RIVERSRPGChannel]

Nice review Cool minis I’m editing a video on them

[@TheGallantGoblin]

Thank you! Looking forward to your video. -Theo

[@josephskiles]

There is not one mini in this set that I could not use TBH, Wizkids needs to keep putting out sets like this, there have been way too many basically unusable humanoids I would never use in other sets. As always thanks for the review, I'm going to at least get a brick , and maybe I will grab some of the MM3 minis from a shop ( I really want that storm giant with the lightning effect for instance!). Thanks as always for the great reviews! My eyes are not the best and the Wizkids site is a pain to check out with it's small pics so your full reviews are massively helpful!

[@commanderbbshockwave8698]

Just to add, Thri-Kreen are most well known for being a playeable race in the 2E /3E Dark Sun settings. :) So far, I don't think 5E added them as playeable but we can only hope it happens.

[@TheGallantGoblin]

Oh, I didn't know that! Sounds like a tricky race to play with their method of communication. -Theo

[@commanderbbshockwave8698]

@@TheGallantGoblin Not to mention that they tend to eat other people if they get hungry... :D There was a Dark Sun videogame back in the DOS era, and you could get a Thri-Kreen party member, probably where I first heard of the race. They are a challenge to play, then again, Dark Sun is all about the challenge, a world where water and food are often causes for murder, arcane magic users are despised and feared as most drain energy from the land and kill vegetation, and where even the gods abandoned the world thinking it is a lost cause so the few clerics have little respect. Did I also mention the cannibalistic Halfling tribes? :D

[@commanderbbshockwave8698]

Quick question... where on T&T can I input the coupon code? I oddly find no such option when checking my cart or checkout screens... weird. EDIT: Never mind, had to click NEXT and it suddenly appeared after the third window in the checkout, oddly was not visible before. Thanks! They have some great deals on Ravnica rares, will get a few. :)

[@jaypob]

Awesome video, per usual!

[@TheGallantGoblin]

Thank you! -Theo

[@1pieveofKH]

My only real complaint about the set has to do with the Yuan-Ti Abomination. It's a large creature on a medium base, which I can live with, but it's sculpt has a lean to it and it gets knocked over rather easily.

[@TheGallantGoblin]

Yeah, that one definitely could have seen a little more revision I think. -Theo

[@commanderbbshockwave8698]

Nice to see you got a case! I assume this was re-issued then? I never knew before 5E giants were Huge in 2E - they are measured in feet in the old monster manuals and when I read them I had little idea how much 1 foot was, being used to meters. :) But I really prefer them this way now. This set sacrificed a lot of "space" for separate minis with duplicates but I guess that was needed to make it an all-Huge set. (This certainly became a praactice for Wizkids after this set) Well, almost all-Huge. There are some weird size changes in it, like making the Fomorian Large and putting the Yuan-Ti Abomination on a Medium base, but I forgive it since all these minis are just so excellent and greatly detailed. I also liked how many giants are female, we needed more of those, the old WotC sets did not do many female giants. The Yuan-Ti are great, and love the variety, especially the snake-hands Half-Blood. He must be hard to befriend, imagine shaking hands! :) The Abomination is probably the most detailed and best looking snake-man mini I have ever seen. Btw, a female Abomination appears in Rise of Tiamat too, I think. The only other weirdness in the set are the giant hunters. They are apparently based on never released art for the adventure, but they kinda came out of nowhere. I like them, they look interesting, especially with the specified giant hunting weapons, but to this day, they are the least desired Rares, you can often get them for 3-4$. Sansuri, Hekaton, Harshnag and Ymrith are absolutely amazing, and they still fetch huge prices as singles today. I do wish the helmet's lower half and hair was different painted on Harshnag though, might repaint that myself somedy. Same for Hekaton's beard melding into the fur of his coat! The female Frost Giants are some of the best in the set, though I do wonder how easily they can come by so many white dragon skulls for their armor, LOL. The Hellhounds and Bandits are excellent too, and I like the "quivering palm" attack on the Githzerai Monk. Oh and some of the best Kenkus so far! Funny how in 2E they used to look like hawks... now both Pathfinder's Tengu and D&D Kenku are crow-like, like the mythical ones. Oh and love the translucent beard on the Azer. We had 2 before, but comparing them, the new one stands out with this effect. Was surprised we could actually get Sprites, they were never done before. They are tiny yet detailed. And odd choice to have Yochlols, quite high level Demons, as Commons, but not complaining, the previous Yochlol mini took me like a decade to find cheap.

[@TheGallantGoblin]

Well, this one we didn't get a full case for. Since this was the adventure I was running with my home group, I had been collecting minis from it one-by-one for years. So it was more cost effective to just grab the ones we didn't have on the aftermarket. Interesting, interesting. Yeah, and I'm glad Monster Menagerie also included some female giants too. It's certainly good to have the variety. It wasn't until I filmed the conclusion of this video that I put all the Yuan-Ti sculpts next to each other and suddenly had a strong urge to add them to my next game. It was a bit of an odd inclusion in the set, but I'm glad they went all out and gave us the entire clan in one go. Yeah, the giant hunters were confusing to a lot of us who didn't track down their origin. It was a strange way to include PC minis. I wonder if there was a plan for those characters at some point that fell by the wayside. A book or video game appearance maybe. Or even a subplot in the adventure that got cut. Oh, surprised to hear that these are our first official sprite minis. Seems like a common enough creature that would have shown up at some point. I really wish I was a fly on the wall in the meeting where they decided which minis to include in this set. There really are some inexplicable choices. I need to see if we can get an interview with some of the Wizkids folks to get some of these pressing questions answered! :-) Thanks, Commander! -Theo

[@commanderbbshockwave8698]

@@TheGallantGoblin Oh, so you got them one by one! Must have took some time! especially the Rare giants are expensive on the secondary market and hard to find cheap. Yuan-Ti are some of my favourites too. :) Who wouldn't want "sneapole" (snake people) in their games? They also benefit from having a lot of older sculpts, as 4E used them a lot, even the old D&D miniature game's second edition starter set had a Malison. Did you find artwork for the giant hunters somewhere? I never did... But most often Icons and PFB minis are based on existing artwork as Wizkids works easier using that, so I assume some must exist somewhere. There was a "Thorn" mini in Angelfire, who I suppose could work as a wingless Sprite, but yes, this is the first time. I think the old WotC minis must have been manufactured from injection molds, not printed, and likely that technique has a size limit - explaining why also past Stirges or Imps were pretty big compared to the current ones.

[@TheGallantGoblin]

Well I think the rares we did have were from random booster boxes Theo had picked up one by one for the campaign way before we started collecting. We did have to buy Iymrith and Sansuri as singles but had pulled Harshnag and two Hekatons haha. I had these giant spreadsheets tracking prices on three or four different retailers trying to figure out if it was cheaper to buy singles or a new case. In most cases it ended up being only about $50 or less cheaper to buy singles but money is money and we didn’t need more of the non rares. There’s one piece of art in SKT that happens to show Kleef and Crag, and we show sections of that in the video when those figures come up, but that’s all we’ve seen. We know for sure that WizKids gets shown art that is not publicly available. -Grady

[@efm4783]

My Hekaton’s scepter broke too! I fixed it, but not before forgetting that the hand came detached, which made the process that much more difficult...😣

[@TheGallantGoblin]

Oh yeah... hopefully you got it all sorted out! -Theo

[@cameronf5893]

I got a few bricks of this set. Questions have been answered. :)

[@genghisgalahad8465]

Will return after adventure! Excellent show, guide, side by side, highlights, and time stamps! Is this the same maker, oh wait, will you feature DnD WotC/GF9's Storm Giant Royal Guard and Frost Giant Reaver (2) ?

[@TheGallantGoblin]

Thanks! We haven't covered the GF9 minis much on this channel mainly since we've been focused on pre-painted minis, but they're on my radar! Stay tuned! -Theo

[@davinci3259]

For the yuan-ti abomination I think they should have done the sculpt more like the artwork. Having the tail more coiled than bunched up. That's my only complaint for it though is that it looks weird to me.

[@TheGallantGoblin]

Yeah, as we were proof-watching the video we were talking about that mini ourselves, trying to decide how they could have improved it. That's a good suggestion. -Theo

[@samuelknapp6866]

Spoiler... Yuan ti are in SKT. There is a camp of mystics outside of Imryths lair.

[@mjstege6881]

Do they make a version of Iymrith in her dragon form, or should a normal ancient blue dragon be used?

[@TheGallantGoblin]

Not by name, no. But yes, we do have an adult blue dragon mini coming soon, and if you’re patient, an ancient blue coming sometime later. -Theo

[@mjstege6881]

@@TheGallantGoblin thank you, and that was a shockingly quick response!

[@Gamarishi]

A little late, but nice video! Why are there minis that do not appear in the adventure?

[@TheGallantGoblin]

Do you mean the named NPCs or creatures? The named NPCs are based on concept art that never made it into the adventure. It is possible the characters were present early in development and removed. It's also pretty normal for these sets to have player character figures, just instead of naming them "Human Female Ranger" they gave the sculpt a name instead, so from that perspective the figures aren't that out of the ordinary. As for the creatures that don't appear in the adventure, this seems to happen in just about every Icons of the Realms set. It's partly a way to get in creatures that couldn't fit in other sets and to encourage people to buy sets they wouldn't otherwise want--you can see that with Eberron especially where they put Monster Manual creatures in for those who otherwise wouldn't be interested in an Eberron-exclusive set. -Grady

[@Inhuman115]

My cousin and I have blown over 9000$ usd on dungeons and dragons boxes as well as a giant beholder and mind flayer head. we have hundreds of figures...i mean hundreds.. as well as the colossal red dragon, and amongst all old minis

[@toddgrx]

14:17 Yuan-ti do appear in SKT… in Ch 12

[@TheGallantGoblin]

Oh you’re right! I completely forgot about the doom of the desert section.

[@kimjensen4977]

23:25 “... or the arms of a snake.”? 🤔 😄😄😁

[@TheGallantGoblin]

💪🐍

[@Amdor]

"Just like the scarecrows in real world these constructed beings are placed in fields and imbued with spirits of slain evil creatures" - ye. Just like in real world. Yup. *heads to slay an evil creature*

[@garnermcculloch2778]

That one Yuan-Ti looked like it had an otter head

[@dabinbuh]

There is a cloud giant female 32b of 44 from 2018, it almost feels out of place Ps, i saw you already unboxed the female cloud giants these reviews are great for decision making

[@TheGallantGoblin]

Glad we can help! I think the female cloud giant you’re talking about is from Legendary Adventures? That set is for Pathfinder 2nd edition, not D&D 5th edition, which is why it looks so different. The two games sometimes go their own ways on how creatures look and giants in Pathfinder are smaller. -Grady

[@dabinbuh]

@@TheGallantGoblin yes it was, i agree they definitely take their oen srtistic routes although id love to see both editions models compared!

[@TheTriforcekeeper]

Any suggestions where to get these nowadays? Ideally from people who might not need them anymore. The official boxes are random, correct? I dislike that system

[@TheGallantGoblin]

We have an FAQ and the last section at the bottom lists online retailers we’ve bought from. Almost all of them carry singles so you can buy specific minis and compare prices and availability between the retailers. There’s definitely other stores too, but those are the ones we’ve bought from and had a good experience. www.gallantgoblin.com/post/wizkids-minis-booster-sets-demystified

[@rhinodoesstuff9477]

They come together easily... I think not I just bought a brick and my could giant scimitar is so hard to. Put in

[@TheGallantGoblin]

Hmm... that's strange. They did fall out a bit easily when I was storing them, but I don't recall them being difficult to slot back in. Perhaps something changed with the reprints. -Theo

[@rhinodoesstuff9477]

The Gallant Goblin dang you always reply to my comments when I have issues, thanks!

[@Cologero]

Wights remains me off white walkers

[@illyrio]

What I think? Your video is awesome. I still don't like the officially painted minis. They look so... globby.

[@TheGallantGoblin]

Thank you! Yeah, a professional, detailed paint job will often be better than what any factory can do. But the factory is able to do better than I can! The Wizkids factory paint job has been improving in the years since Storm King's Thunder. -Theo

[@andrewblack1928]

I didn’t know these even existed. 🤦‍♂️

[@TheGallantGoblin]

Haha! Welcome, Andrew! -Theo

[@jamesbehrmann5104]

Yuan-Ti Abomination need to be spread out on a bigger base for better representation.