My first impression of him was his massive size, I was expecting something more the size of Draco from Dragonheart, boy was I wrong. As the title says, how the hell is GW going to do this? They going to release a pair of legs one dragon base each foot and call it good? Forgeworld seems to be the only real option...and I'm doubting they'll even attempt it.

Even if its scaled down, inevitably,the Mumak is pretty close already to its proper size.

I'm basing that off the dead mumak that was an actual prop, not the cgi ones that changed size throughout the scene. Look at the foot next to the actors and then look at the miniatures, the difference is negligible.

Just going to ignore the comment about the bases, could only find this pic if the dead one, the foots pony sized. Never said out was the right size, but within 25 more mass is close enough for me. Otherwise it'd be hard to play with.


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Talking to one of my GW buddies rumor at corporate is they're going Resin, I said that's crazy, but it makes sense. They'll be able to produce it for alot less then if they went plastic.

A lot less...? Not money for us!? Maybe for them, but I see GWS doing it cheap, charging a fortune, but we will see, so far some of the Hobbit and old LotR stuff are just crazy prices!

ASs the avengers says.

Funny noone mentions the Stone Giants.

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Sadly I think it's going to be a failure on the table. It will have to be significantly more potent than the existing dragon profile considering how it is shown in the film and book.

Historically such models are just not fun on the table for one side or the other (or both). They might be able to pull it off but it's going to take a lot of play testing. And what would the points of something that potent be? 1000 points...maybe more? If they under cut it's potency it's going to disappoint.

If it is a good profile afterall I have a feeling getting one of the plastic toy ones (sure to be showing up at your local Toys R Us and Walmart) will probably be a more cost-effective option.

The Balrog pretty much single handedly destroyed Khazad-Dum, which was a MUCH greater kingdom than Erebor and he's only 400 points.

As for the mumak, the current mini would be about 30-40 feet tall. To the top of it's back is ~6in (it's actually 5.5, but if it were standing straight, it would be 6). 1 inch ingame equals about 6 feet (Lurtz is about an inch, and the actor who played him is 6'3") so the Mumak would 36 ft tall. Mumak's were described as being about 50-75 ft tall, so the current mini is about 1/2 scale.