(Part 2) Reddit mentions: The best action figure vehicles & playsets

Okay FIRST! You should know, you can play any faction in Armada, Empire VS. Empire, Rebels VS. Rebels, Rebels VS. Empire.

Also the Thrawn expansion won't be available for another couple of months. Probably end of November - end of December.

If you want something to counter Thrawn's ISD Chimaera that really depends. This is a point game, you can have five Corvettes or one STar Cruiser, it's up to you. Do you mean a ship of a similar size? Then there's the Home One Cruiser and Liberty Cruiser, but there's also the Profundity Cruiser coming out with Thrawn. I feel you should also know the Chimaera will come with inferior cards, the regular ISD comes with the normal ISD-I and ISD-II cards. You won't have a fun time playing without the ISD-II card. I suggest finding a way of getting one.

Someone asked this a couple days ago. I'm just going to copy my answer over, you might find it useful.

Is this on a budget? Or just wondering what to get first? I'll link everything I name to Amazon, just so you can see what they look like and to see the rough pricing. You might have to change the url to your respective country's though.

It might look like a wall of text but I'm very brief on each ship here. The bottom will give you the best explanation. Please feel free to ask any questions about the various ships. I own at least one of each ship I name and have used them all at least once.

You could first invest in Squadrons. Rebel Fighter Squadrons Expansion Pack I, and Imperial Fighter Squadrons Expansion Pack I. Then there's also the Rogues and Villains Expansion Pack which includes ships for both factions. Such as the Millienium Falcon and Slave I.

For ships, it all depends on what you want your fleet to work as. Want large capital ships? Go for an Imperial-Class Star Destroyer, and a Calamari Cruiser, to which there are two options. The Home One Cruiser and the Liberty version. Easiest way of differentiating the two? Home One is slower and fires from it's flanks, Liberty is faster and spews out its attacks from it's front hull. All three are of course super fun to play, though they take a little more skill to manuever effectively. I rarely use fleets that lack my Star Destroyer Basilisk or my Home One Cruiser Allusis. My two favourite ships to use.

Want something smaller? Try an Assault Frigate or two. Great ships. They can lead fleets well as Flagships or support larger capital ships. Another invaluable Rebel ship is Mc30c Frigate. Fast, and deadly at close range. I rarely play Rebels, but when I do I always use this ship, along with the Assault Frigate or the Home One.

For the Empire you have lots of options. You can add a second Victory-Class Star Destroyer to your fleet, along with the core set Victory. They work pretty well, are easy enough to move around, and look cool. Want something up close and personal? The Gladiator-Class Star Destroyer is one of the most popular medium sized Imperial ship. Manueverable, deadly at close range, and very effective title cards.

Now lets talk Corvettes and Cruisers. Out of everything here I'm going to 100% suggest you buy at least one Arquitens Light Cruiser. Comes with great cards, works well as a Squadron carrier, picket ship, you name it. One fun and easy fleet I play is two or three Arquitens with a Gladiator, or two Arquitens and two Gladiators. They all fire from their flanks, so you line them up in a conga line like a convoy and fire salvos into your enemy. For something smaller the Raider-Class Corvette moves around the board fast, can move squadrons around, but is kind of hard to use unless you have experience with it. Still a very cool ship to own, I like using at least one when I run larger Capital ship fleets. Allows me to manuever my ISDs into space while also having something really fast to close gaps and push fighters around.

For the rebels there's options, depending on which flank you want to fire from. Front? Get another Nebulon-B. It comes with the Salvation and Yavaris title cards, which perfect the Nebulon-B. Corellian Corvettes are also good options. Side arcs? The MC30c Frigate.

Lastly lets quickly talk more speciality ships. I don't have any experience with Rebel Squadron dedicated carriers, but I do with the Imperial Quasar Fire-Class Cruiser Carrier. This thing exists solely to push Squadrons around the board. Know how to use it and you can wreck enemy fleets, make a bad move with it and it'll get torn to shreds ruining your strategy.

There exist two ships called Flottilas, they are very cheap and also exist solely as Squadron movers. They are the Gozanti Cruisers and Rebel Transports respectively.

That's the bulk of most of the ships. There are a couple others like the Hammerhead Corvettes and the Second wave of Squadron expansions, but these are harder to play with (in my opinion) and I'll let someone else tell you about them. Bottom line, it depends what kind of fleet you like playing. Squadron heavy? Look at Carriers and Squadron expansions. Classic ships? Go for a Star Destroyer or Star Cruiser. Want lots of ships in your fleet with lots of options? Get a bunch of Light Cruisers and Gladiators, and the various Rebel Frigates and Corvettes.

Edit: Forgot about the Interdictor-Class Star Destroyer. A personal favourite for casual games, but really hard to use competitively. A very expensive ship point-wise, and not very powerful attack wise. It has some cool abilities, like forcing enemy ships to change speeds, but that's about it. Shame really, this is by far my favourite looking ship.

If you'd like a more assertive answer. Buy the two Squadron expansions I. They come with classic ships like TIE Advanced, Interceptors and Bombers. And The Y-Wing, A-Wing, and B-Wings. Get one or two Light cruisers and one or two Nebulon-Bs. And if money isn't a problem get a Star destroyer and a Star Cruiser.

Maybe my kids aren't that creative or I just haven't shown them how to build cars and planes and stuff with their Legos, but my guess is: if they get the magformers, they might build the structure on the picture once or twice and then that's it. They make really simple "planes" and "cars" meaning they put two pieces together and tie a string around it or something and say, "look I made a car!" So the magformers would be a no go for me. Not for that price point atleast!

My kids love their magnatiles so I would probably pick the wheel bases for that, but I'm not sure if they'd build cool cars with them or anything. Like I mentioned in my earlier post, they just use their regular toy cars and stuff with the magnatiles. They basically make crazy multilevel garages with bridges and ramps for their cars and play house. The wheel bases for the magnatiles might not really add much to their play, but that's my kids. Maybe find a friend with the magformers and see how they like them? Lol

We have this set of vehicles that come apart with screws and a battery operated screw driver that they love. Of course they lose the pieces and then leave them everywhere... But if you're not set on adding to the magnet sets, you might consider something like that? It was from the learning resource center or something like that (it was a gift). It was similar to this but it has a battery operated drill
OCATO Complete Set of 5 Assemble Toy Take-Apart-Toys Vehicle Play Car Toy Set Multi Mix Educational Toy https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01CJ6E2CY/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_wxYHxbWDZ5VSC

Oh here I think this may be it or closer to it
Motor Works by Discovery Toys https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002AGMOQA/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_zyYHxb5E38HJD

Anyway. Sorry if that wasn't as helpful as you'd hoped! Each kid is different and honestly... I'm trying to pare down on our toys since they only really play with a few toys anyway. They used to love Legos. Love love love them! But the magnatiles took over. Maybe Magnatiles are too easy and I should push Legos on them more, but eh....... I'm too tired.

Anyway good luck!

So, as someone who is relatively new to DMing (started just over a year ago), here's what I'd suggest to make sure you keep your cost down, while still having figures you can slowly replace over time:

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Starting off, you can get a lot of generic "green-army-men" style fantasy figures for relatively cheap.

• Here's some knights
  
• Here's some skeletons
  
• Here's a random assortment of generic fantasy charcters
  
• Here's some undead
  
• Here's some barbarians that also just make decent random warriors
  
  They're not very expensive and what they lack in quality they make up for with quantity.
  
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  The next best solution I have for cheap decent figures is for animals. I've been able to find tubes or tubs of a decent selection of cheap, pre-painted figures at just about every Walgreen's or CVS Pharmacy I've been to. I use these guys for animal encounters, pet companions, and they're especially helpful for my druid.
  
  If you can't find them at your local drugstore IRL, there's plenty of selections you can find online.
  
  
• Here's just an example of some of the tubes you can find.
  
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  Now, players understand you can't afford unique figures for every encounter. However, I've noticed that the figures you have stand in for whatever they're fighting can sometimes be distracting, or if you have multiple identical figures it can be confusing knowing which one they're targeting in a battle. A great, cheap solution I've found to this is just using multi-colored generic pawn pieces like from the game "Sorry!". The pieces themselves are so nondescript (other than color) that the players have an easier time projecting the combatant you describe onto them, and the various colors make it easier to track what's going on in a battle, both for the players and DM.
  
  If you can't just salvage an old Sorry game you find lying around you can find packs of the pieces or other generic multi-colored pawns online for very cheap.
  
  
• Multi-colored pawns
  
• Meeples
  
• Sorry Pieces
  
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  This last suggestion isn't really about where to find cheap figures, but more to address the reason you said you wanted figures in the first place, to "help the immersion".
  
  You may have heard of the website HeroForge before and it's a great tool for D&D players. It allows you to make very customizable figures for your games. Now, the cost of their cheapest figures are still over $30 for a single figure, so definitely not cheap. However, as a DM, I still regularly use it. I use HeroForge to help design notable NPC's or enemies for my campaign, then save the screenshot of them and post the image in our group chat when the character gets introduced. This is very helpful for a lot of reasons: I get a more solid idea of characters that I was designing in my head, it gives the players a visual and helps with the immersion, and when I DO decide to actually order a character (like, for example, a villain or NPC I know will be reoccurring for many sessions) it becomes a MUCH bigger deal and way more intense.
  I also always recommend that PC's at the very least design their figures on HeroForge for the same reasons.
  
  
• Here's some examples of figures I designed and posted used over the past few months without ever having to spend a dime
  
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  I hope these were helpful. I'm still in the process of building my figure collection as well and love to share cool tips or resources I have found while doing so.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0131S4VTS/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_evjXCbDC227ZS

These might require you to give them a paint job. The good thing is they come in pairs so if you mess up on one you still have the original :) This is a deal worth taking for the price and the amount of dragons in this set, I'll use them as either pseudo dragons or the offsprings of a larger one.

I'm seeing if I buy one of those gargantuan-sized (5 in. x 5 in. x 6 in.) figures from Michael's that cost about $15.99 each, although those seem expensive and the guys at D&D would much prefer to imagine these smaller ones as large so the would-be dragon money goes to snacks.

The dragons in the bag stand on an 1 in. x 1 in. square, that's how much space they take, maybe a little bit more. If you seat them on a base made of foamboard or insulation foam and carved to look like stone or grass it makes them occupy the space of a large figurine and it works nicely.

If you need huge (3 in. x 3 in.) dragons these might not be for you. When the Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate Collector's edition was released for the 3DS I bought it, the game came with a collectable figure of the game's flagship monster: Gore Magala. And although he was an easy one to beat in-game, the G Magala armor was superb looking and I'll be using the figurine as a stand in for the final boss of the adventure I'm running currently, an Amethyst dragon called "Amathysia".

The cool thing is the figure has a purple shade and Amethyst dragons use Psionics so that matches well. Overall I'm really happy with my bag of dragons, it is an amazing gift that will give for many battles to come. Good luck with your dragon hunting :) 👍

That set looks pretty nice....I haven't gotten through much of SKT yet, I bought 3 things from amazon to save money:

these guys to be just a whole bunch of giants, like in the first part of Goldenfields, Triboar, or Bryn Shander. They're a little small (about 2.5 inches tall) but it works for cheap, and I don't think there's a lot of instances where you have a dozen giants at once.

[this guy] (https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00Q0R0Y2G/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1) and this guy are actually to the right scale for giants, and are pretty well painted and ready to go for cheap. I'll use these for more one-on-one situations.

I didn't know they had made a Giant-themed boxed set yet though, I woulda considered that more carefully, but anyway the way I did it was about $20 for 2 good giants and 12 more okayish ones.

EDIT: Looking at amazon after I finished this post I see the prices have changed a little...I paid like $5 each for the nicer giant guys, and now they're $10. There are some good suggestions in Amazon for other viking-type guys though

EDIT 2: They're all pretty expensive now! I think I must have gotten lucky with some sort of holiday prices when I bought them, but also at the same time Assault of the Giants is $77 on Amazon so I guess either way it isn't going to be too cheap.

This playset would be awesome for any child who loves PJ Masks although it might be cheaper through Walmart or Target- it's worth a Google!

These figurines of the PJ Masks characters are also a great gift.

It's hard to get little kids to tell you what they want unless you're always looking in the toy aisle or they follow a lot of like toy review channels on YouTube. When I make my child's birthday and Christmas list because her birthday is a couple months before Christmas, usually I will make a shopping list by taking her into the toils of department stores and then we take pictures of things that she likes so that way I can compile a list for family and friends easily. If I didn't do that and just asked her I think that she wouldn't know what to request because she isn't that in tune with what the new toys are that are coming out etcetera. Now that she's older she watches YouTube channels of toy reviews and such so she probably knows more what she would like because she collects certain things but for a young kid just starting to get into certain brands and characters I would definitely get him something related directly to those interests.

Happy Early Birthday!

I know it's not the same as the MacDonalds toys, but have you thought of getting her other 90s toys like the Pound Puppy van, or just Matchbox cars or something. Those are the kind of toys I liked growing up apart from Power Rangers (I was a huge tom boy). Those Shopkins aren't the same but I think they're pretty cool, might be a good idea for her?

These aren't MacDonalds toys, but they are better quality and easily available https://www.amazon.co.uk/Toy-Story-Pack-Rob-Anderson/dp/B004BAXBVK/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1482254962&sr=8-9&keywords=toy+story

You're looking for the Marvel Infinite Series 3.75" line. Hasbro renamed all their Marvel lines (3.75", 6", 12") Marvel Legends recently which causes some confusion. The old 3.75" line is Marvel Infinite Series. Black Panther and Mark 1 Iron Man are from the "new" Marvel Legends 3.75" line.

Amazon/Ebay is probably you best bet. I have this Ant Man and I like it, Or if you'd prefer the movie version. Here's a nice cheap Hawkeye. You can just search " Marvel 3.75" " for a lot of good results.

/u/moc847 and /u/dovahkiin0117 have two of the nicer 3.75" Marvel collections I've seen on this sub, maybe they can help you out a little better.

Moc's collection and Dovahkiin's collection

There's also the "Marvel Avengers All Star" line that is super cheap but doesn't have much articulation and only do MCU figures if you're interested in that. Here's an example. This series is your only option for Scarlet Witch as far as I know.

These wouldn't be bad if you're just interested in the display, but the posing will be limited.

I would love this Doctor Who Character Building Tardis Mini Set from my "Doctor Who" wishlist. I think it would be super fun because Doctor Who is awesome, and so are Legos, and this is the closest thing there is to Doctor Who Legos. You get to build a little tardis! 33! For a second place prize I would love this Cybermen Speeder Mini Set, also on my "Doctor Who" wishlist. Sunday Funday!

This is Amazon UK, and I notice your using Dollars, but these should be similar prices and probably have prime as well.

Nice little Curious George cuddly toy (No UK prime but free UK delivery)

A collection of Curious George Stories (has UK prime)

Collection of Horse Toys (has UK prime)

Basketball set (WARNING: Bad reviews, may not be too good but if it does turn out to be decent should be great! (No UK prime but free UK delivery)

Space Hopper, great for if you hate your Reddit buddy! (has UK prime, and pretty cheap)

Hope this helps!


EDIT: Also found this nice Curious George counting book, goes from 1 to 100 so pretty basic, but also has thing sot count on each page! And has UK Prime!

It's been awhile since we had a little girl around. I've been stuck with boys. lol You could always go with the standard barbies and baby dolls. There also:

Aquadoodle mats My cousin had one of these and she used it all the time. Plenty of sizes and types.

Floor Piano

The EZ Bake Ovens

Leapfrog they have all kinds of stuff made to let kids learn. Kids carry it everywhere because they think its a game.

Karaoke Machines Walmart has various ones and the Moana one is like $10 cheaper. I have never met a kid who didn't love this.

What girl doesn't want a castle? I bought something like this for my niece, shes like nine now and still sets it up.

Lego Friends Playsets

Play Makeup if you're okay with that kind of thing. They do have plastic sets that don't give off any colors or anything.

Okay, this was cute.

Shopkins lots of kids have these toys.

Dress up

Dollhouse

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Outdoor toys are a lot of fun too. Any kind of sports and bicycles and trikes.

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The 1701 refit:

• At about $20, you've got the Hot Wheels version, which looks like it's got slightly less detailing than these toys and is at the same price point...might be larger than the ones in the monthly magazine.
  
• For about $50, there's the Diamond Select toy, which, although more expensive, is a VERY pretty, nicely-detailed and well-put-together display model (also does secret double-duty as a toy)
  
• At varying price points, there's the Furuta kit which is pretty small, but I've seen them sell for cheap on eBay.
  
  The NX-01:
  
  

• For around $10-$15 on eBay, another small kit, the F-toys (I think this is the Furuta?) kit offers a pretty nicely detailed NX-01.
  
  
• Between $15-$30 on eBay, the Hallmark ornament - you could probably snag one for cheap on there.
  
  
• I won't link the Bandai or Art Asylum toys/kits because they've ballooned in price to what I would call "unreasonable" (i.e, $100+)
  
  
• There's also this Johnny Lightning one, but it seems subpar...
  
  The 1701-D:
  
  
• For around $50-$70, there's the Diamond Select toy, which is big and beautiful.
  
  
• For around $15-$20, another small Furuta kit
  
  
• For $40 - I've never seen this before, but it looks amazing. You won't find that Aztec detailing on most of the toy ships.
  
  
• For $15-$30, you'll find lots of the Hot Wheels ones floating around on eBay
  
  
• For around $20-$25, heck, you'll often find the original Playmates toy floating around on eBay. And don't pay a cent more for it...there are so many of them that sell for no more than $25 on eBay that paying more for that original toy is a sin to your wallet...

Diamond Select may be the way to go. They are toys rather than models, but they are a good size, decent quality and cheap. No assembly or painting required. They do an Enterprise E.

I also have the 1990's Playmates USS Voyager. It's not as detailed, but it is pretty cool. I've had it since it was new! Why not snap up this little bargain...!?

DS9 would be the hardest to get I think. I have the Eagle Moss starships collection version. Its detailed, but only about 10cm in diameter.

Hope that helps!

Oof, I was, like, the perfect demographic for Padme shit. I was ~9 years old and obsessed with Star Wars and historical figures like Eleanor of Aquitaine and Joan of Arc (so, a dork. A huge dork). And they didn't make a lot of action figures in her regalia, oh no - they made third party barbie/fashion dolls.

Dolls that I distinctly remember having and playing with were Ultimate Hair Queen Amidala, a white ceremony gown doll, red senate gown doll, and a 'black traveling gown' doll. And oh my gosh did I play the shit out of that ultimate hair doll. Hmm, I couldn't find the white ceremony or black travel dress on Ebay, and I kept those in the box - it had a pretty background and I just liked 'looking' at them.

I had a few action figues, but thought that dress-up dolls were way more fun so those were my big ticket toys. God, and I worked my kid fingers to the BONE to save up for those toys...

Playmobil is my favorite toy line, and I've been amassing figures since McDonald's handed them out as one of the first Happy Meal treats when I was a kid. You can get single figures for just a few bucks, and get some really cool stuff if you watch for the bigger sets to go on sale. They come with a thousand tiny accessories that make them a huge choking hazard, but I can't wait until my daughter is old enough to play with them with me.

I mean, sure, I've got a Victorian mansion for her, along with some mermaids. But I've also got cowboys, a group of Roman centurions, some ghost pirates, a mandarin prince and his ninja warrior, a dragon-riding knight, a spy in his transforming gadget-mobile, an emergency hazmat team, a mech-like power exoskeleton, an arms smugglers, an astronaut in a one-man moon rocket....

Best toy line ever. We're going to have a blast.

Oh man, you have to get one. It's the "Innerspace playset" Basically, the Star Trek take on the Micro Machines / Action Fleet toylines. If you buy the other little micro playsets from the Innerspace line, you end up with the whole bridge crew. Gimme a sec, and I'll get it down and take some other pics.

Ok, check it out:

Shuttle Bay

10 Forward

Captain's Ready Room

Q! Stick him in the brig!

The Bridge

Overall view

EDIT - Jesus Christ, I didn't realize how huge these images are. Hope they load correctly on your device / pc / whatever... Also, thanks for giving me a fun project while I'm working on bills etc! :)

Here's what a quick search of amazon showed up. These all have prime shipping and are some of my favorite ships. I can really recommend the NX-01 kit. It's a joy to build.
Enterprise NX-01 (or refit) - $23.35

TOS Enterprise - $24.44

Enterprise Refit/A - $23.19

USS Defiant - $25.62

Enterprise E - $14.69

Edit: the pricezombie bot is showing prices that don't include shipping. The prime options are your best bet on amazon right now. Maybe other sites have them cheaper. Look around

https://www.amazon.com/WizKids-Icons-Realms-Falling-Sailing/dp/B07G4HSG36 is available for pre-order. It'll have several levels and is huuuuge. Looks amazing. The price matches the coolness of it though...

Here’s a fun game to play with your idiot dm.

D&D Icons of The Realms: The Falling Star Sailing Ship! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07G4HSG36/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_lIvDDbVPJMX7Z


Look at the picture of the official licensed dnd ship. Lots of places to climb.

Product name might have changed

http://www.amazon.com/Motor-Works-by-Discovery-Toys/dp/B002AGMOQA/ref=pd_sim_t_4?ie=UTF8&refRID=0ZKBRNQ6BD382Q9R3HK9