Darktide Arrives

The Darktide DVD and Minimates arrived yesterday in the mail. I felt like a little kid running over to the DVD player to pop in the video. The minimates look good and the box art is great. I will probably review the video and minimates over the course of the coming week.

The biggest question people have about this set is "how good is the movie, really?" Because there are few movies like Darktide doing a review can be difficult. It is a student production, as the video notes in more than one place, and the movie is very short. Other student productions exist out there, and at that level Darktide rates as top notch. But Darktide is commercially produced and mass marketed, so it's placed in a bit different category.

Some collectors leveled a lot of criticism about the fact that these minimates were essentially re-releases with different facial expressions. I think this criticism had more to do with the lag time between releases of Series 11 and 12 than anything else. Darktide is a great box set for kids at the mass market level, and the re-releases are appropriate to tap that market. I'm glad new face designs were included as a bonus for some of us collectors.

I will go into more detail about the movie and minimates later in the week. Stay tuned!