Unboxing the Wizkids Dungeon of the Mad Mage miniatures for D&D

[@mordecairasputin8110]

OMFG MAN! IM BRIMMING WITH JEALOUSY!!! I cannot wait to get my hands on those boosters man that set is AMAZING! EVERY SINGLE LARGE YOU GOT WAS EPIC! So jelly right now

[@heroesdelve]

Nice unboxing video. GREAT looking miniatures!

[@Nerdsonearth]

Thanks. I agree. I think they are getting better and better. The upcoming Pathfinder set is great too!

[@FishVet]

The premium set things are not often sold alongside bricks. I only see them sold separately or bundled with full cases.

[@aidyn0657]

Trobiand is one of the mad mages apprentices and transformed himself into a construct.

[@SteveReed562]

Murial is one of halastars apprentices in the dungeon! What a cool mini

[@paulcurlin2789]

"I like big Thugs, I can not lie!" Poetic license insured by Lloyd's :-)

[@adammsbarry]

i have seen 2 brick unboxing videos now, and both had the same minis

[@sportshero3092]

check mine out, I got fucked

[@jamesdenson4730]

Muiral (referred to as "Murial" on the base of the mini) is Halaster's ex-bodyguard and later one of his apprentices from The Ruins Of Undermountain and it's sequel Ruins Of Undermountain II. His name is just miss-spelled on the mini. I think it's an awesome mini and definitely worthy as a representation of "Muiral the Misshapen". :-)

[@therealDonMac]

I love when I get invisible minis in boosters. They beg for a paint job. i prefer unpainted minis. Good news is, I don't care for the prepainted paint jobs and usually prime and repaint to my own preference. You got a great brick. It's the third I've seen unboxed this run. You got the best of the three by far.

[@br0adsw0rd65]

Since one usualy doesn't buy pre painted minis to paint them, nobody likes the "invisible" ones. Otto's a tiny Fairy Dragon, but the Characters 'll be all shrinked to miniature size when they meet him, that why he's so huge.

[@Nerdsonearth]

Thanks for the Otto lore!

[@jacobbeckham6531]

Purple faerie dragons can also cast major image and tend to project themselves as much larger to intimidate their predators.

[@patrickwhited1871]

Instantly pulls a froghemoth. At least its an uncommon (?) Maybe I can afford to buy one if i don't pull it. Also the flumph looks great.

[@Nerdsonearth]

Agree on the frogemoth. It's a pretty sweet pull right off the bat!

[@commanderbbshockwave8698]

Hey dude, thanks for the video, often your unboxings are the only previews of these we ever get - and the mini collector community is VERY hungry for previews. Thanks for showing the bottom of the mini too this time so we can see the names and numbers! I gotta ask, how do you get these? Wizkids or WotC are the ones who sends you the brick? Just curious which company actually cares about previews. About the things you asked, since I read the adventure I can reply. ;) -Trobriand is Trobriand, the Metal Mage - he is a classic 2E D&D character, and one of the apprentices of the mad mage, Halaster. He transferred his mind to an Iron Golem, hence why you see him slinging fireballs. -Otto is indeed a fey/dragon crossbreed... he is a Faerie Dragon! There is a level of the dungeon where you get shrunken down in a miniature castle while Otto stays the same size, so while generally Faerie Dragons are Tiny, now he is Large. :) -Muiral is another apprentice of the Mad Mage, he was a fighter though who learned some magic. He turned himself into a human-scorpion crossbreed, more better known as Tlincalli. -The Scaladar is one of the creations of Trobriand. They are scorpion-like constructs that can shoot lightning. -Flying Swords are animated objects, plus you can also get them from the Mordenkainen's Sword spell, the adventure has a lot of rooms where the swords on the wall are these. -Tanarukks are demonic orcs. They aren't a new thing, we have an old mini of these from the WotC series too. There are also a ton of Intellect Devourers in the adventure (Mind Flayers breed them and send them up the levels) so I guess that is why we get a reprint of the same mini from Storm King's Thunder? Odd still.

[@Nerdsonearth]

Thanks for all the info! I remember Undermountain from back in the day, but only vaguely. So, thanks for filling in the details on the figures I didn't recognize! I need to get the book off my shelf and read it. Nerds on Earth has a lot of readers, so we get lots of stuff from lots of different publishers and distributors. Our bread and butter is written content; since miniatures are so visual, it's one of the few things we do on KZbin. Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed the minis!

[@commanderbbshockwave8698]

@@Nerdsonearth You are welcome! And yeah this is a very different version of Undermountain, they had the levels thematically written around various scenarios - there is a level for Halaster's apprentices, a level with access to the Astral Plane with githyanki, a drow battleground, a junkyard for Trobriand's constructs, etc. Are you going to unbox more bricks, or you only got this one?

[@edwardheroes7567]

For a while i was hoping that there was some experiments on otto, so he grow up to the size of averege dragon.

[@jeremygriffin620]

Tanarukk is a half-orc, half-tanar'ri (demon). I'm guessing its meant to be a portmanteau of tanar-orc. Dates back to third edition. Their present incarnation, like many of these monsters in this set, is from Volo's Guide to Monsters. Thanks for showing off your set!

[@n4c0n]

The thug wasn't a duplicate. You had a thug and a thug leader.

[@commanderbbshockwave8698]

Yep, guess he did not notice it. Since Storm King's Thunder they do this "repaint/remold" duplication of Commons at Uncommon level, likely to offset the making costs of Huge minis.

[@forsakenprogeny]

Congrats on the goristro! They're an awesome demon but I recommend looking up the 3.5 stats for them - that version had levitate. Imagine the things a goristro could do with levitate...

[@cheeseburgerdave2463]

thanks for showing this minis for my fav Dungeon i run..Im spending mad cash on this

[@Nerdsonearth]

Yeah, another really good set!

[@JoeStoryteller]

great unboxing, thanks for sharing!

[@Nerdsonearth]

Thank you! Appreciate the comment.

[@entropy6e]

Any update on these? Weird that I don’t see them listed on Amazon...

[@Nerdsonearth]

Scheduled release end of February. Understandable it might slip into March.

[@gory51gaming72]

First box down and WOW!....

[@Nerdsonearth]

Getting a frogemoth first thing is a pretty sweet deal!

[@commanderbbshockwave8698]

Well the Frogemoth is an Uncommon only, so you are bound to find one in every brick with luck. I wish he pulled the Balor as the Huge Rare, we have yet to see good pics of that one.

[@seangere9698]

That fairy dragon is way too large unless something has changed a lot from 3e to 5e.

[@joselazo9799]

In the story, Otto transforms the party into tiny beings, so in comparison he looks large.

[@shivamutreja6427]

Otto is a fey dragon!

[@johnjohn-bh4cu]

My gaming store just closed this year it was the only place I had to buy these types of minis and advice where to but them online?

[@Nerdsonearth]

john john Dang, sorry to hear about your FLGS. I’ve had good luck with coolstuffinc.com online.

[@Zachafinackus]

If you're looking for just the booster packs, you can usually find them on Amazon.

[@commanderbbshockwave8698]

Miniaturemarket ships free within the USA on orders over 100$, so buying a case from there is a good call. Outside America, I usually use Tritex.

[@dkvaternik]

www.atomicempire.com/ has the lowest prices I've seen and great customer support.

[@RoloMilk]

How did you get these so early? I thought they released next month.

[@Nerdsonearth]

nerdsonearth.com has over a million readers. They do release next month, probably toward the very end. So this is a way for you to get an early look.

[@alexandredesrochers1957]

Trobriand is another Halter apprentice

[@pikapuffqc7929]

i think otto is a adult faeri dragon , he or she look very nice , same for the robotic scorpion i will buy them all like always Q.Q

[@commanderbbshockwave8698]

Nah, they do not grow in size as they age, they only gain more spells and hit dice. :) He is actually still tiny, but in the adventure you encounter him inside a miniature castle that shrinks visitors down - except certain creatures. So when you are the size of ants, a Faerie Dragon that is the size of a cat is HUGE to you. :)

[@pikapuffqc7929]

your right its not the size but the color when they get old , violet is the older ones my bad @@commanderbbshockwave8698

[@commanderbbshockwave8698]

@@pikapuffqc7929 No prob! I am kind of a monster lore buff when it comes to D&D - though I don't play the game, I just love the world and lore. I also love how close the mini is in style to the Monster Menagerie 1 Faerie Dragon mini, which is tiny. I do wish Otto had an invisible variant too.

[@pikapuffqc7929]

i know what you mean , i got every figure from monster menagerie 1 to now, and same for pathfinder , i love the monsters and minis @@commanderbbshockwave8698

[@Pao-wb4hp]

Does anyone know when these come out

[@Nerdsonearth]

BleedGreen Productions March 6 is the latest I heard, so any day now.

[@Pao-wb4hp]

@@Nerdsonearth ok thanks

[@owenblogs6145]

Where did yoy get these please tell me

[@Nerdsonearth]

They release end of this month or early March. They'll be at your local game shop or, if you are just looking for a booster or two, you'll be able to get them from Amazon.

[@owenblogs6145]

Thank you

[@alexandredesrochers1957]

Sorry Halaster

[@bennynikki564]

Hej

[@GunmanJag]

Will they never stop making those stupid invisible figures??? Who wants these invisible ones? It seems like nobody. Literally no one. They serve almost no purpose and don't even make sense a lot of the time. Like, there is an ultra rare invisible tiefling battlemaster in this. That class and race combo has nothing to even make you invisible. I'd be so pissed if that was my rare. I never hear anyone saying, "Wow, I want to get these painted miniatures so I can have an unpainted one if I'm lucky!". WHO ARE THESE FOR?!?!?

[@GunmanJag]

P.S. Great video lol

[@commanderbbshockwave8698]

Yeah, most of the invisibles are stupid and serve no purpose - they used to make sense on creatures like the Faerie Dragon or Phase Spider, and of course thieves and rogues and wizards, but why a fighter... But don't worry, they do not replace your Rare. You are guaranteed to get 2 Medium Rares in every brick (8 boosters). Invisibles replace a Common in a booster, so they are just extras. I mostly sell or trade mine, but they don't fetch as much as they used to.

[@GunmanJag]

@@commanderbbshockwave8698 Goo to know that they don't waste the rare slot then. I can't believe they keep making them, especially for minis that don't make sense. I remember some of the early ones were kind of an interesting concept, but they push it too far. My guess is they are way cheaper to produce so they keep crankin them out

[@commanderbbshockwave8698]

@@GunmanJag I just realized, they did not make one for the ONE creature in this set where it would make sense, Otto the Faerie Dragon! I mean he can turn invisible at will and mostly stays that way... you'd think he would be the one invisible they would not have to think twice about.

[@nickbaldino1590]

You can paint them (invisibles). Got a strahd and a acererack on Ebay for a third of what pre painted went for and my cousin painted them.

[@sportshero3092]

Look at my shitty booster box video it was trash