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Estradus
2018-07-23, 09:19 PM
I'm not 100% sure if this is the right forum subsection to ask in, but I'm on a mission and this is the best I can find.

In September 2006, wizards or whoever made the ridiculously massive D&D Icons Collosal Red Dragon miniature. The advertisements for this miniature? Were incredible. Stupid, but beautiful. They featured gamemats with Regnar fighting a giant chicken on a stand or a watermellon or something, where the next page has the dragon miniature, alongside the text "Player deaths should be dramatic."

For the past 3 years now, every time I remember these ads and want to show them for someone, I've gone on a three hour quest to try to find them. I've tried googling whatever might work, I've checked the dragon and dungeon magazines I own physical copies of, I've checked the dragon and dungeon magazine pdfs (the ones I have lack full page ads). I can't find them anywhere - so I'm turning to the internet.

Please, I need help. Someone find these ads and prove I'm not just making these up.

Mutazoia
2018-07-24, 12:11 AM
I'm not 100% sure if this is the right forum subsection to ask in, but I'm on a mission and this is the best I can find.

In September 2006, wizards or whoever made the ridiculously massive D&D Icons Collosal Red Dragon miniature. The advertisements for this miniature? Were incredible. Stupid, but beautiful. They featured gamemats with Regnar fighting a giant chicken on a stand or a watermellon or something, where the next page has the dragon miniature, alongside the text "Player deaths should be dramatic."

For the past 3 years now, every time I remember these ads and want to show them for someone, I've gone on a three hour quest to try to find them. I've tried googling whatever might work, I've checked the dragon and dungeon magazines I own physical copies of, I've checked the dragon and dungeon magazine pdfs (the ones I have lack full page ads). I can't find them anywhere - so I'm turning to the internet.

Please, I need help. Someone find these ads and prove I'm not just making these up.

http://www.enworld.org/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=25085&stc=1&d=1153235925

Not an ad, but built on the same scale as the CRD
http://paizo.com/image/product/catalog/TSR/TSR95751_500.jpeg

hamishspence
2018-07-24, 05:58 AM
I think the Colossal Red Dragon model's base size is actually twice the width of the Gargantuan's (so, 40 ft in-game) - whereas a RAW Colossal Red Dragon would have a 30 ft base.

Estradus
2018-07-24, 09:26 AM
http://www.enworld.org/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=25085&stc=1&d=1153235925

Not an ad, but built on the same scale as the CRD
http://paizo.com/image/product/catalog/TSR/TSR95751_500.jpeg

Thank you so much! do you have the previous page as well?

Mutazoia
2018-07-24, 11:34 AM
Thank you so much! do you have the previous page as well?

Unfortunately not. The only other mention I could find last night was in Dragon #344, where they introduce the Icons, but there wasn't an actual add.

Algeh
2018-07-28, 03:29 AM
If you have the physical Dragon magazines, those ads are on pages 17 and 19 of the August 2006 issue #346 (pineapple/black dragon) and September 2006 issue #347 (chicken/red dragon). There might also be others - I decided to stop looking after 2 since those were the specific ones mentioned.

oxybe
2018-07-28, 05:22 AM
wow... that dragon magazine is actually one of the very few that I actually own. Here's a picture of the actual chicken ad.

https://i.imgur.com/rkLEjvn.jpg

I also have the red, blue & black dragons if you want to see them to scale.