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Reply To: Hobby Weekender 14/06/19 – Halfway through the year already?

June 18, 2019 at 11:24 am #1405999

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Hi guys, just wanted to drop in let you all know I’m out of hospital and back at home – surgery went great, just waiting for a few niggling side effects to pass. Downside is not really fit to try any painting, but working on kits is helping get my fine motor control back 🙂

And to @mage ‘s questions:
1) Crossovers can add some fun spice to games. The aforementioned Zombicide/Massive Darkness ones are a nice bit of brand synergy, but CMON have done some neat things with the idea of their Special Guest boxes where some of the artists have used it as a chance to bring in creations from their own setting (the Carl Critchlow box in particular springs to mind), but they can be quite fun when teams do it as a bit of cross-promotion (thinking of Kingdom Death and how there have been versions of the Twilight Knight for a few game systems, normally as kickstarter exclusives).

2) Con exclusives are cool, but I think more companies could do with making them available online during the course of the event – I can appreciate how for attendees it might impact the exclusivity, but equally they get the benefit of instant gratification whilst those who can’t attend have to wait.