Center_Stage_Hobbies wrote:Check out the auction below - are these "re-releases" from the MiniFigs line, or is the seller just using the AD&D name to sell his minis?


** expired/removed eBay auction **


I've never heard of the "Fantasy Folk" line before - especially not in direct connection with the AD&D game.

Any info would be appreciated!

Not saying they aren't officially connected to the AD&D game, but I've never heard of them or seen them before.

I believe that seller is mistaken, at best.  The history of the official TSR/WOTC miniatures should go:

Minifigs (D&D and World of Greyhawk)
Grenadier (AD&D and Gamma World)
TSR (every game TSR produced at the time)
Citadel (AD&D)
Ral Partha (AD&D)
Wizards of the Coast (Chainmail and D&D)

(Minifig's "World of Greyhawk" line was mostly repackaged miniatures from the Aureola Rococo line, so Minifigs should still have the rights to reproduce many of them under their original names. For some reason, they've rereleased the Amazons and nothing else.)

On the other hand, there were lots of miniatures companies (just like there were lots of game publishers) who advertised their products as "for D&D" without TSR's permission. That may be the case here -- hard to say without a better view of the packaging.

Grenadier did a Western Gunfighters box set but I don't think it was official Boot Hill minis.

I have a lot of Fantasy Folk minis packs, they are old style lead minis, but have nothing to do with Greyhawk or TSR in any official capacity.