I’ve long been a sucker for giant-sized "miniatures." Heroclix Galactus back in the day. vehicles and such in Mage Knight. And even miniatures in general, whether D&D, Mage Knight, Heroclix, Warmachine, Warhammer(/40k), etc.
A year or two back, I bought a (used) box of the D&D game Attack Wing or such (the D&D version of the one Star Wars game)ā¦just for the DRAGONS.
So when I recently learned of an upcoming giant-sized dragon–the Adult Red Dragon–from the Dungeons & Dragons Icons of the Realms line, I was all for it.
The box wound up being significantly larger than I’d expected! But that also made the figure itself larger than I expectedā¦and i’d been a BIT worried about its pose with the wings, whether they’d make the overall figure seem too "skinny" or be opened out and adding depth and "size."
I needn’t have worried overly much. This thing is huge.
Appropriately enough, I had a "nano mini-fig" D&D mini handy to pose with the dragon.
While still surely out of scale, it at least shows what a couple-inches-tall figure looks like dwarfed by the dragon!
And in the background you can see a Heroclix Sentinel, as well as the lower part of The Spectre.
Here’s another angle with the figures isolated on a different shelfā¦
And another angle to create the illusion of a greater difference of size!
This is probably my favorite of my dragon "minis" thus far–though the Mage Knight dragons have a lot of nostalgia for me, and are still cool artifacts from the past for me and NOT something I’ll be looking to part with anytime soon.
But all the more for the price I paid–my math was broken, so it wound up even cheaper than I’d mentally budgeted despite having the discount %percentage correct–this is an amazing figure, and I’m really looking forward to the Adult Blue Dragon now, and even considering other Adult _____ Dragons. A definite "grail" piece, though, would be the Mage Knight Apocalypse Dragonā¦but that was a limited-edition thing 16-17 years ago, let alone now!
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