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lordan wrote:
Just couldn't resist that pumpkin head bugbear.....

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 8763554144

ebay auction wrote:This is a Archive Miniature (Fantasy Miniature) #5032 "Dungeon Nasties, Bearowl, Bugbear, Winkdog and Rotting Crawler" sealed in it's original package.  I believe the figures to be from the 80's and are made of lead.

Here's a website with a list of Archive Miniature Dungeon Nasties:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tpope/sol/archiv ... sties.html

751  Violet Worms
752  Slimes
753  Molds
754  Black Puddings
755  Owl Bears
756  Giant Ticks
757  Eleven-Eyed Floaters
758  Giant Bats
759  Giant Toads
760  Rust Eaters
761  Rotting Crawlers
762  Wink Dogs
763  Werebears
764  Bugbears
765  Ochres/ Shamblers
766  Rope Monster
767  Spoolts
768  Giant Rats
769  Giant Boring Beetles
770  Stag Beetles
771  Giant Snakes
772  Lizard Men
773  Giant Ogre
774  Giant Lizards
775  Amber Hulk
776  Weretigers
777  Skeletons
778  Wolfmen
779  Wereboar (Pigman)
780  Hellwolf
781  Sea Demons
782  Throons
783  Phraint
784  Deodanths
785  Wobras
798  Sharkadillio         

"Eleven-eyed Floaters"



That's one way to get around using "beholder"  

Blackmoor wrote:Anybody know who made this

As zhowar said, it's an Archive mini.  The base gives it away --- the strange shape of the base and the groove around the top of the base mark it as an Archive.

Hmmm, surprising.  I thought it was modelled after the original bugbear, as depicted in one of the OD&D supplements (was it Greyhawk?).

Speaking of Archive, I've got a bunch of their original molds (as well as production right to the minis), but alas, not the pumpkinhead.

JohnGaunt wrote:Seriously, you should do some new casts!  Your use of the old molds will wear them out, but you would be the source of some original-mold recasts.

Seconded!

I'll have a look when I get home.  

I've also got master-castings (and production rights) for some Archive minis for which the original molds no longer exist.

The molds all look like this:



Massive rubber, and heavy.  A really nice "piece" of history there, if you know what I mean.

I have the following Archive minis molds:

RKV-043 (pictured):  Hobbit B, 1979
RKV-065:  werebear, sculpted 1977 (I think), mold date 1980
RKV-119:  Cimmerian with broadsword and shield, unknown date
RKV-229:  Conan on horse (a massive set of one 9-inch and one 12-inch mold); sculpted 1977 (I think), mold date 19980
RKV-230:  Giant Frog, 1977-78?
RKV-035:  unicorn for mounted gnome princess
RKV-165-166:  gnome princess rider, centaur

I also have the master castings (mold no longer in existence or use) for RKV-177:  Basilisk (8-legged lizard).

As mentioned above, I've also got the production rights for the above molds and master castings.  According to the documents, I'm the 5th owner of the rights and molds.

Interestingly, all of the documents state that the molds are original from the 1970's but I think what they mean is that the sculptures that the molds are made from are from the 1970's.  Some of the molds clearly have "1980" painted on them.

I thought I had the master castings for the old tree man (ent) and something else, but can't seem to find them.  I've also got a few scattered castings including the pumpkinhead, old tree man, elf magic-user with rod, a bunch of the hobbits, werebear, and that's probably about it.

Man, I love the old Archive minis!  

Here's a whole Dragonsfoot thread dedicated to the Jack-o-bear.

http://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=20208

No references to this miniature, though. I tend to think it's based on the Greyhawk bugbear pic because the Archive mini packaging refers to "bugbear" (see the auction linked above, posted originally by lordan).

stumbling tiger wrote:For that matter, when did TSR abandon the pumpkin-head and move over to the 'hairy hobgoblin' bugbear? Compared to the oddity of this mini, the "normal" bugbear is kinda bland.

Gygax has said that ol' pumpkin-head was just an artistic interpretation...

http://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewt ... kin#328256

Gygax wrote:

Gary, After reading the original descriptions for thr gnoll and seeing the original artwork for the bugbear what prompted the changes from their original forms ( Bugbear, a pumpkin headed baddy and the Gnoll a Gnome/Troll mix) to their AD&D versions?

LOL!

The pumpkin-headed bugbear was an artist taking literally my diesription of the monster as having a head like a pumpkin, i.e large, round flat oval.

Akthough the gnole might be such, I thought that a cross between a gnome and a troll was quite unlikely in the developing game system, so I decided to make the gnoll a hyena-like humanoid. I took a dislike to hyenas odor and appearance when I was a wee lad taken to the zoo regularly by my father.

Cheers,
Gary

I always found the pumkin-headed bugbear to be more frightening than his teddy bear descendants.

I could always picture the head suddenly lighting up in the stoney black of a dungeon...or on the edge of a midnight meadow in the dark of the moon.

The 3.5 Monster Manual depicts a pretty keen bugbear...with more muscles than Arnold.  And then the stats provided give him a fairly low strength.

Nice find!     I'm sorry I missed that one -- only $5!

Martian Metals also did a Walktapus (sculpted by none other than Paul Jacquays himself, iirc).  I've never seen it in real life, but it's something to behold:
http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p85/ ... tapus2.jpg