Hunting the Unreleased Quests

[Pancho]

I'd love to see the story-line and the quests (if indeed the designers got that far). Sinestra and the Frozen Horror had interesting backgrounds and added a lot to Heroquest in my opinion. I wish I knew what adventures were planned for the solo dwarf and wizard.

[Drew]

There are also a discussion on BoardGameGeek!

can you link me up? cant find it.

Also if there are more info on those Id love to know . Any links would be useful.

[torilen]

Great idea - as it always is - but what in the world would be the price on that sucker?
Their remake of fireball island is selling for $75 right this very moment. In 1985, when
Fireball Island came out, it was what...a $20 game? That's roughly $48 in today's money.

Of course, I understand things a really a bit more expensive than "today's money" typically
comes out to - games, in particular, seem to be horribly expensive. This is why I do not
own any new games.

But if that is the case, what would be the market for a HQ remake, if they were able
to do it - or even just publishing official expansions using the HQ name and such, which
we've been through before and I highly doubt they would be able to do. If Fireball Island
is $75, anything for HQ could easily be well over $100-$120+. You can get real, actual
expansions for HQ for less than that...sometimes you can even get the entire game system
for $200, if you're lucky.

Not trying to be a downer - but everyone gets so excited about remakes and real expansions
and such, and there have been numerous "news" and "attempts" and all that over the past
few years...every single one a let down that didn't follow through.

And in case no one has kept up with it - I just looked it up - remember HQ was owned by
Mood Design, who published HQ material for Glorantha? They merged with Chaosium.
The wiki page says they have been experience financial troubles, but they are a fairly
major rpg company, and it says they continue to publish material for HQ. So, it is highly
unlikely anyone will be publishing official "Heroquest" material any time soon. If they can
find a way of letting people know their products are meant as an expansion, without stating
it outright (which would be illegal), then hey - we can all hope for the best.

[Daedalus]

There are also a discussion on BoardGameGeek!

can you link me up? cant find it.

Also if there are more info on those Id love to know . Any links would be useful.

Found some for ya. First, a related pic by the guy who has some of the unreleased figures (Skyknight of Heroscapers and Old Scratch's.) He never posted pics of the unreleased 4-ups because of a promise made to the Hasbro gifter. As I recall, Mr. Bistro of Heroscapers (and also Plaid Hat Games contributor) also has some 4-ups and maybe one other (maybe Grunge Bob of Heroscapers?)
https://boardgamegeek.com/image/659322/heroquest
Pay attention to how Skyknight refers to other unreleased sculpts:
https://boardgamegeek.com/image/659322/heroquest
Toco (an Inn member as well as from Old Scratch) made these posts:
https://boardgamegeek.com/image/659322/heroquest
https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/696142/complete-story

If you can search on your own you may find more.

[lestodante]

Yeah, I was searching the topic on thi sforum because I mentione it before and Daedalus posted the links in the meanwhile.
Another part od this discussion started on the Old Scratck forum but it is currently down unfortunately.
That guy, Skynight, claims to have the plastic prototypes for the Elf and Barbarian Quest Packs (that you can see in the photos) plus he sayd to have an unreleased DWARF QUEST PACK but he can't post any pics because he doesn't have permission.
Other infos here:
https://boardgamegeek.com/image/659319/heroquest

These are the original molds where the mini is doubled in size four different times. Many times companies use three ups from what I understand. These are then viewed to make sure that when the minis go into mass production there will not be a problem, things like too sharp of angles and such can be detected at this point. Once these are a go and everyone from the production guys, artists, and sulptors say they are good they then get reduced down to the size we know and put out to public.
So what happened is you had the original mold sulpt, these were then cast from that mold in resin for handling purposes, handed to the production teams, ok'd, and then miniaturized for production.

and

I have seriously been wondering how to do that with the unreleased set I have. While I know I cant really do much with them other than personal use it would be cool to have my own dwarf expansion set.

And finally this last one:
https://boardgamegeek.com/image/659350/ ... quest-pack

Other people sayd they've seen this unreleased stuff as well...
(and you can also read my try to convince them to show some photos)

[Daedalus]

There are also a discussion on BoardGameGeek!

can you link me up? cant find it.

Also if there are more info on those Id love to know . Any links would be useful.

Found some for ya. First, a related pics by the guy who has some of the unreleased figures (Skyknight of Heroscapers and Old Scratch's.) He never posted pics of the unreleased 4-ups because of a promise made to the Hasbro gifter. As I recall, Mr. Bistro of Heroscapers (and also Plaid Hat Games contributor) also has some 4-ups and maybe one other (maybe Grunge Bob of Heroscapers?)
https://boardgamegeek.com/image/659322/heroquest
https://boardgamegeek.com/image/659322/heroquest
https://boardgamegeek.com/image/659320/heroquest
https://boardgamegeek.com/image/659319/heroquest
https://boardgamegeek.com/image/659323/ ... quest-pack
https://boardgamegeek.com/image/659350/ ... quest-pack
Toco (an Inn member as well as from Old Scratch) made these posts:
https://boardgamegeek.com/image/659322/heroquest
https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/696142/complete-story

Search yourself and you may find more.

[Looks like a double-post with some changes as it was being reworked--whoopsie.. -edit]

[Spookyhappyfun]

Even if they're never released officially (and I don't know how they ever could be), just having images of those unreleased quests and figures would be like a gift from heaven. I'm sure someone in the community could get with a skilled sculptor to create a reasonable facsimile based on images.

[Drew]

Even if they're never released officially (and I don't know how they ever could be), just having images of those unreleased quests and figures would be like a gift from heaven. I'm sure someone in the community could get with a skilled sculptor to create a reasonable facsimile based on images.

Man im pretty sure there are a few people that might even have a couple official unreleased complete expansions. The only problem is that they cant release them if they wanted.
The only thing they could do is "leak" them if they care enough for the fans of this game cause we all know for sure that they are never getting an official release.

[lestodante]

Yeah! What Spooky sayd!!!

[Daedalus]

Never say never.

It may not be likely, but if anyone could license and remake Hero Quest properly, it would be Restoration Games. They have both a legal expert and top insiders that worked for Hasbro. They also have a great track record. The unreleased expansions would make great stretch goals in a kickstarter.