Gremlins: Gizmo's Great Escape - In Stores Now Hot

Whoa -- where the hell did this come from? I used to have a 2' tall Stripe that scared the shit out of me in the night. Sounds interesting --- hope it isn't 100% stupid.

I put it up because I thought it was funny. NECA produces movie collectibles. They got clix when Wizkids went under or whatever it was that happened to Wizkids. It looks like NECA putting clix bases on some of their collectible movie figures and repackaging them as games.

Being $19.95, I will either buy this or Forbidden Island. There is something about Gizmo that pulls at my heartstrings, so it will probably be this.

Autobuy.

(responding for Steve "buys anything with a click base" Avery)

Awesome. I'm in.

Seeing this makes me wish NECA still had the Ghostbusters licence.

Anyone remember the Gizmo Furby Limited Edition? That thing creeped the hell out of me when I saw it on a shelf, as if I had witness marketing so meta it rended my postmodern sci-fi predictive senses in two.

Not sure whether I'm into Clix though. I'm more of a CCG school of nerd pandering, and I never really appreciated Gremlins as much as other people. But if you like Gremlins, that is to say the movie, I could see the appeal.

Now where are the anime clix?

I have ordered this and that Freddy vs. Jason game, can't wait.

Do let us know how they are when you get them, sydo. They both sound like potential hoots.

NECA's Gremlins board game is actually pretty fun. It's silly, and it definitely coasts on the license, but it's still entertaining.

Between this and the Voltron MonPoc, I will be doing something I've never done before--buying game pieces not to play with them, but just to have them and display them. I feel like I'm crossing a line or something, but I don't care.

That's just begging for a Busen Memo joke, Ken.

My dad and brother went to some comic book event thing yesterday, and they bought me a copy.

First of all, there are no clix bases. They're just plain ol' collectible figurines. Second, the game is pretty stupid.

You've got a grid with an exit on one side, Gizmo on the other. Between them are Stripe, the Gremlins, and a bunch of trap spaces. There's a 20 card deck, and each card has a Gizmo half and a Stripe half. On your turn, you draw a card, and do whatever your half of the card says, which will either be to move Gizmo and/or some non-Stripe Gremlins, or move Stripe and/or some non-Stripe Gremlins. If anything gets moved onto a trap space, it dies. If Stripe or another Gremlin lands on Gizmo, he dies. Gizmo needs to make it to the exit, and Stripe needs Gizmo to die.

I haven't actually played it yet, but there it is. Silly, and pretty themeless. I'd say skip this one and pick up the other if you're really wanting a Gremlins game. It's not great, but about as good as I can imagine a board game based on Gremlins being.

OR, an even better idea would be to skip both of them and play the Atari 5200 game, which to this day remains one of the best movie-to-video game adaptations ever.

We picked this up last night and played it five times straight this morning.

MJ is right, not much game for adults, but we had fun with it for about 30 minutes.

We have a nine year old and she is going to love it.

Recommended for kids.

Too bad.
This is not giving me alot of confidence in the Freddy VS Jason game that is released at the same time.
Anyone played that one? I know, the movie was terrible, but I have always been waiting for a freddy game that at least scratched the potential of this license.

My brother picked that one up. It's a tile laying thing. Sort of like an stripped-down Drakon.