Boggles and other Wizkids miniatures

This post will show some recent miniatures that I bought, and consists of various non-related things that I found interesting.

The first groups of figures are Boggles. D&D Boggles take their name from the folkloric bogle. They made their first appearance in AD&D Module A2 – Secret of the Slavers Stockade.

The two painted Boggles are from the Icons of the Realm line (Fangs & Talons #05, Wild Beyond the Witchlight #06), while the unpainted figures are from Nolzur's Marvelous Miniatures (WZK90437).

The figures are based on the 5th edition depiction of the creatures, with enormous heads, and scale out almost exactly to their stated 3' height in 1/72.

The next figures are the Brigganock Miner (Wild Beyond the Witchlight #01), Ija, Human Summoner (Advanced Iconic Heroes 20F8), and a Sewer Ooze (Bestiary Unleashed #23).

The Brigganock comes from the Icons of the Realm line, and remind me of Kobolds from World of Warcraft (except for being lime green).

I was more interested in the Soul Light that is part of the figure, which I will use as a standalone hitodama miniature.

Ija is a Pathfinder miniature representing one of their so-called iconic characters from the Mwangi Expanse. She is the perfect size to use alongside 1/72 scale figures, but I don't know why her right arm was sculpted so short. In any event, I went and lengthened her arm with a metal staple, and Kneadatite.

I don't have too much to say about the Sewer Ooze other than the fact that I got it because it reminded me of the riding beasts from Ralph Bakshi's Wizards.

The next miniature is an Icons of the Realm Amber Monolith (Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft #28).

I'm not sure if an Amber Monolith is the same as the Amber Sarcophagus also mentioned in Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, but it is described as the vestige of some powerful dead entity that is trapped in a gigantic block of amber.

The final miniature is an Icons of the Realm Zombie Clot (Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft #27). Not much information is given about the creature, and it is merely described as being formed by "crushing an entire horde into a single, rotting titan".

When I first saw this figure, I thought of the Brian McNaughton story The Return of the Colossus from the anthology The Averoigne Legacy (which I read not too long ago).

However upon re-reading the original Clark Ashton Smith story The Colossus of Ylourgne, I realized that the McNaughton version of the Colossus was quite different from the one described by Smith.

In the McNaughton story, the Colossus is made up of fused cadavers, while in the Smith story, the flesh of the cadavers was rendered down, before being used to construct a giant zombie (something that somehow slipped my mind despite being shown on the cover of one of my favorite D&D modules).

In any event, the Zombie Clot (despite its massive size) is too small to represent the Colossus, and in hindsight is more like The Rotten from Dark Souls II.

Mushroom People

The Mushroom Parent and Mushroom Child are from the Dark Souls video game. The children are clumsy and harmless, while the parents are famous for their right hook.

I think my first lineup shows the only licensed figures of the Mushroom People. The pair on the left are from the line of super-deformed Dark Souls garage kits produced by MouseUnit, and the pair on the right are from the Darkroot Expansion of the Dark Souls Board Game.

The MouseUnit SD Mushroom People are sold at WonFes, and don't look particularly different from their non-SD appearance. I think they may be very close to being 1/72 scale.

The game pieces on the other hand are made to be compatible with 28mm figures, but can represent larger/older members of the mushroom tribe.

I magnetized the MouseUnit figures so that I could mount them individually on metal washers, or display them together on their original base.

While on the topic of mushroom people, I wanted to cover more figures from other manufacturers.

On the left are three Otherworld Lesser Myconids (DM33a), while on the right are a pair of Myconid Adults from Nolzur`s Marvelous Miniatures (WZK73405).

The Otherworld myconids are multipart figures that require some drilling and pinning for durability. The lettering on the tabs indicate which arms go with which bodies.

Also, in somewhat of a surprise, I found a package from the Warren of Vile Fungi Kickstarter on my doorstep this afternoon, so I'll show a few of the miniatures in this post, but the rest will have to wait for another day.

The first group of miniatures are the Myconids of the Circle (MAFMMN12). From left to right they are Grumble Cap, Mushgut, Phun & Ji, Fungbob, and Wormy.

The set came with slotta bases, but the figures do not come with corresponding tabs for the bases. I added metal pins in the legs to secure them to the washers that I use as bases, but most of the figures have very thin legs, making drilling more difficult.

Mushgut looks like a slimmer version of the Mushroom People from Dark Souls.

Grumble Cap, Fungbob, and Wormy are somewhat similar to Mushroom Children in size and build.

The second group of miniatures I wanted to show (along with Phun & Ji), are the Rhyzonid Children (MAFMMN09B).

I think these guys are the perfect size for 1/72 myconids, and I wish that the other small miniatures from Mortal Arrow were all closer to this size.

In fact, I think that it would be cool if someone made even smaller myconid figures just because...

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