[BB Shockwave]

I waited all my life for a proper D&D toyline. These look amazing, especially the Displacer Beast, sooo bought! Strange that like Drizzt 2 years ago, these are HasbroPulse exclusives. I would have a hard time getting them if I did not have an american friend.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Boogieman4hire

I know some of the monsters simply because I like monsters but I also didn't know that. I looked it up. Xanathar is more of a title than any one specific character. It goes to the leader of some guild of thieves who's usually, secretly, a Beholder. This one though was specifically named Zushaxx. The fish also has a name: Sylgar. The fish has actually died and been secretly replaced multiple times by Zushaxx's subordinates.

Yeah, but this particular purple-beige Xanathar has been the same individual for quite some time now - not only all of 5E uses the same design for him, but also a 2E book had him on the cover too meaning this one has been "the" Xanathar for quite a long time now.

Quote:

Originally Posted by firmpulse

I never thought they were anything more that a weird animal. But apparently they have higher intelligence. Xanathar is the actual name of the character in the film. And it looks like he's an arms dealer that values a goldfish over mounds of gold. Hilarious.

Telling that to a Beholder is the quickest way to get disintegrated. Or petrified. Or have your life force drained.
Beholders are not animals but aberrations, weird creatures from another realm (like Mind Flayers or Flumphs or Aboleths). They are hyper-intelligent, the average human to them is like a dog to us humans. Luckily for Faerun, Beholders are incredibly xenophobic, and I don't mean they look down on any other life form (which they do), but they hate any other Beholder that looks even a little different from them. That's why they never work together. Beholders like the Xanathar who actually deems to work with "lesser beings" are pretty rare too.
He is actually not in the movie, though... so that gives me hope we can get toys of other D&D monsters that are not in the movie. Frankly, I think that Owlbear body could be retooled with some effort into an Umber Hulk, too.

Quote:

Originally Posted by firmpulse

I played Dragonlance as a kid. I like it a little more than AD&D. If I remember correctly it had a few different classes and races. Also Oriental Adventures was GREAT.

Dragonlance WAS AD&D. It was one of the settings under that ruleset, same as Forgotten Realms, Planescape, Greyhawk, Spelljammer, Dark Sun, Ravenloft, Al-Quadim, Oriental Adventures, etc.
Forgotten Realms (which does include the last two settings too basically) is the most common one, but Wizards has been bringing back the others too. Dragonlance got a new adventure just last autumn, btw, set just before the War of the Lance (aka the first book in the novel series). Spelljammer also got revived last year, and Planescape is coming this autumn!

I don't think Doric/Owlbear was a Pulse exclusive, it was sold on BBTS too, but these new ones - and Drizzt - weren't.
It is annoying that Hasbro made an EU website too, but only ships to like 4 countries... mine not included. How hard can it be, when other webshops ship worldwide???