First, Looney Labs has partnered with Gale Force Nine in order to create Star Trek Fluxx and Star Trek: The Next Generation Fluxx, both of which will be on display at NYTF ahead of their August 2, 2018 U.S. street date, which coincides with the opening day of Gen Con 2018.
Second, another pair of games coming from Looney Labs results from a partnership with folk artist Mary Engelbreit, whose work you would undoubtedly recognize, even if you don't know her name. Details on these games will be available at NY Toy Fair, but for now we know that the publisher will release some kind of Mary Engelbreit-related Fluxx as well as a version of Loonacy featuring her artwork. This deal isn't something that will rock the hobby industry, but given how well-known Engelbreit is across the United States, this is a brilliant way for Looney Labs to introduce itself to a new audience.
• I already wrote about a handful of 2018 releases from Cryptozoic Entertainment in late December 2017, and now the publisher has revealed even more upcoming releases that it will have on display at NY Toy Fair 2018, including two more titles based on a pair of Rick and Morty episodes.
Rick and Morty: The Rickshank Rickdemption Deck-Building Game, a sequel of sorts to 2017's Rick and Morty: Close Rick-Counters of the Rick Kind Deck-Building Game, features a set of council cards that cause players to vote to enact new rules, dramatic one-time effects, and other mysterious situations. Access tokens give players votes and chances to devalue the Galactic Federation currency from 1 to 0.
Rick and Morty: The Pickle Rick Game is based on the "Pickle Rick" episode, comes packaged in something that looks like a pickle, and bears this description:
Another fresh twist to gameplay comes in the form of personal crisis cards, which may directly affect only one character, but can still take down the whole team if players don't work together to solve the problem.
This game is based not on the Madeleine L'Engle book, but on the Disney movie due out March 9, which of course is based on the book. As for the gameplay, here's what we know for now about this 1-3 player game:
A coding portion of each round relies on players' abilities to communicate and lay out an "operation chain" that aims to generate a successful result, after which they will use the color filtration of Mrs. Who's "Quizzing Glasses" to reveal Mr. Murry's hidden whereabouts.