[EDITOR’S NOTE: Welcome to Clix-Mas 2017, wherein we here at Critical Missives rather foolishly try to provide you with twelve different articles in twelve days, all brought to you by either the Ghost of Christmas Past, the Ghost of Christmas Present, or the Ghost of Christmas Future! If you need to catch up with our intro to all of this, the first Night of Clix-Mas 2017 can be found right here! And we announced a new Holiday Scenario for our local venue on Night Two! And the Ghost of Christmas Past named a few of his favorite things from the past Clix year right here! On Night Four, the Ghost of Christmas Present left us his Top Ten Figures from Star Trek: Away Team!! And yesterday, the Ghost of Christmas Future gifted us some Irresponsible Speculation about IndyClix!!]
Welcome back! It’s Night Six of The Twelve Nights of Clix-Mas, and we’re continuing yesterday’s Irresponsible Speculation by pondering which non-Marvel, non-DC licensed properties out there would make a great Heroclix expansion!
As always, we’ll start with the obvious…
Image Credit: geekgirl137 (@byntp137)
TRANSFORMERS:
Why It’d Work:
Giant robots in disguise? Hell yeah!
A Heroclix set based on the 80’s cartoon and toy line would kick serious butt. It would also tick all the boxes on the unofficial “Heroclix Licensed Property Checklist.”
–Property with large awareness and appeal to target audience;
–Long roster of BOTH heroes and villains from which to pull figures from;
–Plenty of characters with powers/abilities that would be easily adapted to the Heroclix format;
In fact, this is such a no-brainer THAT IT’S ALREADY BEEN DONE... sort of!
An amateur creator going by the handle “geekgirl137” actually created a whole Transformers Heroclix set and sent two bricks of it to the folks at HyperRPG’s “Indomitable” show! Check it out!
Will We Ever See It?
I’m inclined to say no, for three reasons.
First, I have no idea how much the Transformers license would be, but I’m guessing it might cost more than some of the other licensed properties out there. Also, part of the core business of Transformers is selling action figures, which isn’t in the same category as Heroclix, but isn’t that different at the end of the day.
Also, from a design standpoint, virtually every piece in the set would have the Robot keyword, which could technically lead to Themed Teams of figures that have no business being Themed together.
Finally, these characters are, for the most part, giant robots. Dramatizing that as an actual 3D sculpt that doesn’t look ridiculous next to normal Marvel and DC Clix yet still fits in a Gravity Feed or five figure Booster Pack is definitely going to be a logistical challenge.
G.I. Joe:
Why It’d Work:
The G.I. Joe universe is practically as close as one can get to Marvel or DC without actually being them. Plenty of great, colorful heroes and villains to bring into Heroclix, all with distinct abilities (read: power sets), iconic costumes and cool codenames. Duke, Flint, Gung Ho, Snake Eyes, Quick Kick, Scarlet, The Baroness, Destro, Cobra Commander… this set practically designs itself!
Will We Ever See It?
Look, we’ve gotten the Turtles already. One could argue that this would be the next logical step! While I doubt there’s anything in the works, I could definitely see this happening at some point.
STRANGER THINGS:
Why It’d Work:
Because it’s a hot, modern property!
Stranger Things doesn’t have the breadth of content that the previous two entries on this list have, but it certainly has enough to fill out, say, an 18 piece Gravity Feed set and a Starter.
If nothing else, this set would give us a great Map or two!
Will We Ever See It?
This would be really out of the box thinking. The folks in charge of Stranger Things have been licensing the bejeezus out of the property recently, but I don’t think this would interest Wizkids. Usually, when we see an unexpected property adapted in Heroclix, it’s a film (Kick-Ass 2, Pacific Rim), not a television series. Star Trek: Away Team is kind of an outlier in this regard.
Agree? Disagree? What properties would YOU like to see adapted by Wizkids? And would you like to see an expanded version of this article at a future date? Sound off in the comments below.
And don’t forget to come back tomorrow for more Clix-Mas goodness!!
Critical Missives 
Hi, do you think we can ever see a Will Eisner Spirit in clix form. I know there is bound with DC but i don’t know who is the reel license orner. But Spirit is such a legendary universe wich i think would fit quite well in Heroclix.
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I would never say never with Heroclix; having said that, there would have to be a swell of customer demand for Wizkids to dedicate resources to pursuing that license. Until then, I’d imagine we’re going to keep seeing more Marvel, DC, TMNT & Star Trek releases.
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