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Tweets from NY Toy Fair 2016: Legendary, Colony, Sushi Go Party, Deadpool, TMNT Dice Masters, Pyramid Arcade, Back to the Future, and Much More

Tweets from NY Toy Fair 2016: Legendary, Colony, Sushi Go Party, Deadpool, TMNT Dice Masters, Pyramid Arcade, Back to the Future, and Much More
From gallery of W Eric Martin
I zipped into NY Toy Fair 2016 this past weekend to check out the upcoming games being shown there, leaving home at 4:30 on Saturday and returning at 22:30 on Sunday, taking home a few hundred pictures, a few videos, and roses for my wife since it was Valentine's Day. Gotta cover all the bases, right?

Anyway, I tweeted dozens of pics from the Javits Convention Center during the fair, tweeted even more since returning home, and still have a few dozen more images to share at this point. Snapping a pic is easy, especially when you're as unschooled and low-tech as me, but posting takes a bit more time. If you want to see everything that I've posted about NY Toy Fair 2016 or see what else is still to come, follow BGG on Twitter. If you don't like Twitter, I apologize, but them's the breaks as I also need to do my regular work, and finish posting the remaining 30-40 videos from Spielwarenmesse 2016, and work on some other projects, and...

For now, here are some of the highlights from NY Toy Fair 2016, with additional comments when I have more to say than I could tweet. If you have questions, please ask and I'll answer as best I can, with the caveat that for many titles (especially for Upper Deck) little was available beyond a box that featured a single illustration:



• That's right, Pie Face spinoffs, with some being simply a new frame and paint job on the existing model. Pie Face Showdown, on the other hand, is a two-player model in which each player slaps a button repeatedly as quickly as possible; doing so moves the arm that holds the cream pie (or whatever dirty object you're using) closer to your opponent's side of the playing area, and if you move the arm far enough, it then splats in their face.

Personally I don't see the appeal of humiliation-based games (or humiliation-based humor in general), but having watched my teenage exchange student and a dozen of her friends gush with excitement over the BeanBoozled Spinner Jelly Bean Gift Box and "play" it for at least an hour, I know that I'm just not the target audience for such things.




• At BGG.CON 2015, we recorded a teaser video of a Star Trek 4X game from Gale Force Nine, but at that time we didn't even have a name to use for a game listing, so it was somewhat buried in the publisher listing. Here it is:




• Following the announcement of distribution changes for Asmodee North America in Dec. 2015, many people have questioned what ANA is doing to support brick-and-mortar stores beyond simply lowering the discount at which online retailers can purchase games.

Here's one such answer: Asmodee NA is continuing the AsmoPlay demo program for B&M stores that it started in 2015, a program in which stores demo particular games in particular time periods and in return get custom swag to hand out to customers who participate in such events or win tournaments of the games being featured. Elysium, for example, received a custom playmat and full-art family cards through AsmoPlay, while these items would also be available from Asmodee directly at conventions.

Now Colt Express will be getting a similarly nice playmat, and the Asmodee rep told me that since publisher Ludonaute is working on additional expansions for Colt Express right now, the idea is that the playmat will be able to accommodate everything that's coming, at least in the near future.



• Those numbers add up to only seven as you use nigiri, not pictured above, in each game of Sushi Go Party!


• It's hard to convey how excited designer Andy Looney was about Pyramid Arcade, a 22-game compilation that represents decades of work in a fantastic-looking, retro-futuristic package designed by Eileen Tjan.








• Yes, this next caption should read "a small Deadpool expansion will join..." since Deadpool is already included in the Legendary base game, but character limits demand shortcuts.


























• And here's the promised video of one of the Boogie Dice in action, courtesy creator Nimrod Back who demonstrated this to me at NY Toy Fair. In short, Boogie Dice is a pair of sound-activated, self-rolling dice that can also serve as timers thanks to the internal programming, and you can adjust the timers in the dice, the color of the lights, etc. via an app. At least one game exists for the dice, which will retail for about $45 from Breaking Games




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