Greetings Fellow Clix Fans!
Some exciting news broke a few days ago. It was discovered by another member of the HeroClix community that WizKids had added solicits for a new set, tentatively due out in November of this year. Much to my surprise and excitement, it was a solicit for Star Trek Away Team: The Next Generation!!!
Booster Packs
Star Trek HeroClix Away Team returns to the tabletop, this time with fan-favorite characters from the Starfleet Crew in Star Trek: The Next Generation!
Star Trek HeroClix Away Team: The Next Generation Booster Brick includes some of the most iconic characters and creatures from Star Trek: The Next Generation. The crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise-D including Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Riker, Data, Geordi, Worf, Deanna Troi, and more are joined by classic adversaries Romulans, Klingons, Borg, and the omnipotent Q in this brand-new HeroClix 5-figure booster release!
The Star Trek HeroClix Away Team: The Next Generation Booster Brick has 73 new figures to collect:
- 18 Common figures including one Prime
- 18 Uncommon figures including one Prime
- 18 Rare figures including one Prime
- 13 Super Rare figures including one Prime
- 6 Chase figures
Wow! This set is going to have six chases instead of four, as well as Primes in each rarity! This is not a colossal set, so it’s safe to assume they’ll be the same size as previous five figure booster sets. There doesn’t appear to be a price increase, or if there is one, it’s minimal. This is good news since many were worried that WizKids would just adopt the new colossal booster price for non-colossal sets.
Primes – There are numerous opportunities for primes in this set. Every prominent character in the show would frequent the holodeck dressed in a variety of roles from history or literature. There are also characters like Lore, which is Data’s ‘twin’ of sorts. Doctor Soong was also portrayed by Brent Spiner (Data/Lore), and that presents an opportunity to see Soong as well! Picard was assimilated by the Borg for a time, so I wouldn’t be surprised at all if we see a Locutus of Borg figure. We might even be graced by the presence of a Thomas Riker!
I really need to know, which outfit is Deana Troi going to be wearing?! Any or all (Primes!) of the following are okay with me! She’s had loads of other outfits over the span of seven seasons and four movies, but these are my favorite and most memorable.
There are a few things that I really hope WizKids puts on character cards as their ability flavor text. For Picard, he needs Outwit and it needs to be called “Shut up, Wesley.” You can watch a clip, here. Another is for Reginald Barclay, and they need to incorporate his nickname, Lt. Broccoli, either on his card or Wesley’s card.
There is an enormous and rich universe for WizKids to pull from, so there is only speculation about what we could potentially see, until spoilers begin. There’s enough content in the Star Trek universe, as a whole, that WizKids could make a set every year for the rest of their existence! I can’t wait to see who they chose to include in this set. We do know that we’ll likely see the entire main cast crew and some very notable secondary crew. Some of the villainous characters have been confirmed in the solicits as well. We’ll be seeing Q, Gul Madred, and the Borg Queen. I imagine we’ll see generic Klingons, Romulans, Borg, and Starfleet officers in this set as well. It would be a lost opportunity to exclude them.
Starter Set
Star Trek HeroClix Away Team: The Next Generation Starter Set includes six of the most iconic crewmembers of the U.S.S. Enterprise-D with all-new dials! This Starter Set features Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Commander William T. Riker, Lt. Commander Data, Lt. Worf, Dr. Beverly Crusher, and Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge coming together to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before! Other Starfleet members, like Reginald Barclay and Ro Laren, can join with the rest of the crew of the Enterprise to take on fearsome adversaries such as Gul Madred or the Borg Queen, all four of which can be found in the Star Trek HeroClix Away Team: The Next Generation Booster Brick!
Starter Sets are excellent products for new players to learn and play HeroClix!
Includes everything a player needs to play HeroClix: figures, one double-sided map, Rulebook, Powers and Abilities Card (PAC), Object and Terrain tokens, Dice, and Character cards.
MSRP: $24.99
We have a confirmed roster for the starter:
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard
- Commander William T. Riker
- Lt. Commander Data
- Lt. Worf
- Dr. Beverly Crusher
- Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge
You’ll see that Tasha Yar, Wesley Crusher, and Deanna Troi are missing from that notable list. Troi is already listed in the booster solicit, but it’s safe to assume that we’ll see Yar and Wesley in the set too, unless Denise Crosby and Wil Wheaton have something weird going on with licensing their likeness.
I think they chose a great line up for the starter. Since this is a starter, it’ll have a rulebook, PAC, dice, a double sided map, and object/terrain tokens. I’d like to see something Star Trek related on my object tokens – like a console for a heavy object and med pack for a light object. I think I’m asking for too much though, even though it’s just pictures printed on cardboard.
Dice and Token Pack
Star Trek HeroClix Away Team: The Next Generation Dice and Token Pack contains two (2) custom dice featuring the Starfleet icon and six (6) custom action tokens featuring images of the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise-D.
The Star Trek HeroClix Away Team: The Original Series Dice & Token Pack is a great way for players to enhance their HeroClix experience!
MSRP: $9.99
Obvious cut/paste typo in this solicit – “The Star Trek HeroClix Away Team: The Original Series Dice & Token Pack is a great way for players to enhance their HeroClix experience!” This solicit is definitely for TNG Dice and Tokens and not the TOS set. Now, the question is, who is going to be on these? Will we see crew or aliens?
The TOS pack had all the crew members from the starter, which was awesome! I’m hoping they do the same for TNG. If they do, these are the faces we’ll have on the tokens:
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard
- Commander William T. Riker
- Lt. Commander Data
- Lt. Worf
- Dr. Beverly Crusher
- Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge
I’m also very curious about the dice. We had gorgeous dice from the TOS pack, so are they going to reuse those dice or make new ones?
Personally, I’d like the TNG communicator badge symbol, even if the color scheme is the same as the TOS dice.
They could even do a silhouette of the Enterprise-D, or use the standard Klingon badge symbol. As long as it’s TNG related, I don’t care what they use!
Organized Play Release Kit
The Star Trek HeroClix Away Team: The Next Generation OP Kit includes*:
- Three (3) Samuel Clemens Limited Edition Prize Figures
- Five (5) copies of a double-sided 24” x 36” HeroClix map
- Release Day Instruction Sheet with Tournament Format
Release Day Organized Play (OP) Kits –
HeroClix Release Day OP Kits contain everything a retailer needs to bring HeroClix players into their store to celebrate the release of a new HeroClix set including new limited edition figures or game elements not found anywhere else! Each Release Day OP Kit ships with the new set so stores can run events on release day. Stores should schedule their HeroClix release day events in the WizKids Info Network (win.wizkids.com).
Each Release Day OP Kit includes prizes to host a release day event, with a prize for 1st place, a Fellowship award and a Flex Award (Flex Awards are used at the store’s discretion so long as the use is within the context of the WKPPLA for the expressed purpose of supporting in-store play).
Stores are not required to have a volunteer or judge present to run an event; store owners may ultimately determine how events in their store will run and how the kits are used so long as they are used to support in-store play.
RETAILERS PLEASE NOTE: Star Trek HeroClix Away Team: The Next Generation OP Kits are only available while supplies last!
Star Trek HeroClix Away Team: The Next Generation OP Kit is covered by the WizKids Promotional Product Licensing Agreement and is marked “NOT FOR RESALE.”
Exemptions are determined based on a store’s demonstrated player base size as indicated in their event history in the WizKids Information Network. If you wish to request additional OP kits, please speak with your sales representative.
Maximum 3 OP Kits per store unless store requests and receives exemption based on their WizKids Info Network history and product order history.
*Kit contents subject to change
Oh my goodness – Mark Twain himself as a prize piece! It was a great episode where time travel happened a few times and Samuel Clemens had a chance to tour the Enterprise-D. Seeing Samuel Clemens makes me believe that Guinan will be in the booster set or maybe a future LE.
I really dislike time travel shows, but the times that Star Trek incorporates it in the show are well written and feel like they have purpose, even the ‘accidental’ incidents. The only time I have ever truly enjoyed time travel content is in Star Trek.
Thoughts
I don’t think I can express just how excited I am for this set! This series was a very big part of adolescent years and this is THE dream set for me. I know several folks had their dream set with Star Trek: The Original Series, or maybe one of the other various comic related sets, but this set is something I didn’t think I’d ever see. I may love Ninja Turtles and Batman: TAS (coming soon and can’t wait!), but in my heart, I’m a Trekkie. I’m very attached to all versions of Star Trek, but TNG is special to me, as I’m sure it is to many other folks for various reasons.
Star Trek is a franchise that highlights diversity and unity and while I believe some of the series are better at representing this than others, they’re all great in their own way. I would like to see WizKids continue this trend and bring all the series to life on my HeroClix map. Not only are there TV series and movies, but there is also an animated series, novels, and comics that WizKids could use. These sets allow me to connect with players that have no interest in super heroes but like to play HeroClix because of the Star Trek characters. WizKids makes Star Trek: Attack Wing, which is another great Star Trek game, but there’s something super special about commanding an away team of your favorite characters. I want to field a team of TNG Klingons to take on Thanos or battle against a Bat-Family! They may be defeated, but they will die in glorious battle and earn their place in Sto’Vo’Kor! Qapla’!
What are you hoping to see in an upcoming set?
Is your ‘dream’ set already a reality?
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