At the weekend I went to ChillCon Derby for the second year.  For those who do not know, it is a small (but growing) con that takes place in a school.  They took up 3 decent sized halls, some corridors and foyers this year, and didn’t quite have enough space.  I think they had more booked but the venue made changes last minute.  They also do an event in Sheffield every year too, but I’ve never made it there.  Last year we attended, did a little shopping and spent the day in the board games library occasionally revisiting the Bring and Buy to see what has been added and what prices had dropped.  We had a good day out, even with a toddler in tow.  We planned on doing the same again this year, but sadly they did not have a board game library, hopefully just due to space limitations.  If you want to do some shopping from the less mainstream companies, or try some participation or demo games its a good day out.  With a toddler “helping” out, its not really for us, although because of him we did get to meet James M Hewitt this year.

If you’re nearby and curious I’d definitely say you should stop by one of their events, although they might not be worth travelling for.  I hope they grow and become more.

Anyway, on to the reason I’m posting this.  If you buy tickets in advance they cost £4 and come with a free show exclusive mini.  You can however upgraded to a £30 ticket that gets you a goody bag, entry, and the show mini.  I got it last year and it was value for money.  This year it got a little silly so I wanted to show it off to give them credit, to give Mantic credit, and to get help identifying everything.

First up, Here is this years goody bag, stuffed full of toys, with 30mm Bradigus Thule, Blackclad Wayfarer for scale.

And here is everything from in the bag, all laid out:

So what is all of that?

1. Mars Attacks World War Book
2. Dreadball Xtreme Player Manual
3. Dungeon Saga The Adventurers Companion hardback book
4. Fox Box Comss Gobbo mini
5. Belt Fed Gamings Cleopatra, Egyptian Queen mini
6. Show Exclusive 4-Dial Battletracker widget by Lasercut Architect
7. Mantic branded tape measure
8. Ainstey Castings Ape Mounted Command mini (Planet of the Apes solo horse rider)
9. Bad Squiddo Games Thorrun, Shieldmaiden Champion mini
10. Dreadball Ultimate plastic token set
11. Chillcon Coaster and leaflets
12. Chillcon show mini: Hecate, the Goddess of Magic & Witchcraft
13.  A plane.  All packaging is in Russian.  I’ll need help working out what the plane is and what its from.  EDIT: Confirmed 1:100 Di Agostini Yak 3.  Is that around 15mm, so suitable for Flames of War etc?
14. Arcworlde Halfling Sheriff metal mini
15. Some actual red bubble wrap.  I assume this was around something, but I prefer to believe it is off-brand Tension Sheet
16. A ProArte Scholar size 0 Paint Brush
17. A keyring made from a purple D20
18. Studio Miniatures Donald mini (Totally not Donald Sutherland from Kelly’s Heroes)
19. Colour Party paints put of unlabelled Brown paint.  Not sure if this is a wash, a paint, a weathering thing.  Update.  Found their website, and this is Acrylic paint  MA41 Staffwood, 30ml
20. Warlords of Erehwon mini: Arise, Oh Restless Dead
21. 1x Booster Cards for Lightseekers and for AoS Champions
22.  Lovely blue drawstring bag

Here are some pics of the plane and of its packaging.  perhaps someone can translate it or recognise the plane or the product line and give me more information.  Currently thought to be a Yak 3, but is it from a specific game or range?

For £26 all of that seems like great value for money, right?  That bag is stuffed.  Adding anything else would be silly, right?

Enter Mantic who asked ChillCon to hold its beer.

They threw in an entire copy of Dreadball Xtreme and what I assume is one of the Mystery Boxes.

Apparently, by the time I arrived the check-in staff were already sick of hearing the phrase, “Oh.  I need to go back to my car already”.  Seems Mantic took ChillCon by surprise as they really expected everything to fit in the blue bags.  I wonder if Mantic needed to free up space in a warehouse?  Anyway, here is the box all laid out on my table.  I’ll do a full inventory soon, and I really need help working out what this stuff is, and how to eBay the bits for games I don’t play (ie does anyone need 5 extra herds of flaming cows, or should I sell them individually?

I think there was also a VIP Swag Bag for £100.  Can you imagine what was in that?  You’d have to hire a van to drive it home.