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She-Hulk, Hulk, Abomination and Red Hulk

Welcome back to the photographic record of Super-Strength characters who can hold their own object tokens. Today we’re looking at several freakish-looking characters…and no, it’s not Halloween again. It’s the HULK set!

She-Hulk (Incredible Hulk #007 & #204): holds her token neatly under her right arm.

Hulk  (Incredible Hulk #001 & #201): holds his in his forearms as shown. I forgot to see if sculpt-mates Spear-chucking Hulk and Cosmic Hulk (Incredible Hulk #043 & #045, respectively) can as well, with their extra sculpt elements!

Abomination  (Incredible Hulk #013 & #206): there’s a crevice on the right side of his neck that might be able to hold the token as shown. Otherwise, he’s actually unable to reliably tote his token.

Finally, Red Hulk  (Incredible Hulk #028 & #210): The token actually has to be bent to fit (look closely and you’ll see). If you’re a stickler for pristine object tokens, you may wish to tread carefully here.

Me, I don’t care. I got 20 or more object tokens.

I wanted to get more Token Totin’ up, but time escapes me, and I really need to finish my long-delayed Top Ten Changes We Want for Clixmas before year’s end — it’s already too late to finish it for Christmas! Don’t get left out in the cold: be here tomorrow for the #9 most needed change to HeroClix!

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Event dials were like dynamic, ever-changing Battlefield Conditions. But they never caught on, really, because they weren’t useable in tournament settings (since any player could vote down the use of Event Dials).
And rightly so. Just as many BFCs have the potential to either greatly enhance or hamper particular characters or team builds, so too do certain Event Dials. Indeed, as my Building for The Event Dial series showed last year, certain teams CAN’T be played with certain Event Dials at ALL.
But then came one final Event Dial unlike all the others: the Intrinsic Field Experiment 15 (Watchmen E-001). Like modern Special Objects, it has a point cost on your force. But just like other, no-cost Event Dials, it can be voted off the island HeroClix table.
And, just like that, you’ve lost 40 points of your force.
Because it’s literally a part of its player’s force, an opponent should not be able to nix its use without paying his own points to do so (as he would to use, say, Batman & Catwoman’s trait to remove an object from the game right off).
Hence, the #10 most-needed rule change for HeroClix:
Event Dials with a point cost must be played when on a force. 
It’s only at the bottom because A) there’s only the above solitary example of the problem and B) event dials are pretty much a dead mechanic. But with this rule change, perhaps they could become a dynamic, balanced element in the metagame rather than the random, overly complicated thing they are.
Or were. Whatever.
But wait! Apparently, after I wrote the above text and was ready to post it up, it was revealed that one of the limited edition Special Objects in the Incredible Hulk set’s prize kit was essentially a new event dial, complete with point cost. So it seems that, in a small way, this change has been made, sort of.
Be here tomorrow for the INCREDIBLE HULK set edition of Token Totin’, the photographic record of how each Super-Strong figure can physically hold an object token. Then we continue the Top Ten Changes We Want for Clixmas!

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A new full-sized set of HeroClix was due  today. Here’s Heroclixin’s customary pocket checklist for you!

(I’d intended this to be available earlier, but the “Publish” button on WordPress’s Quick Post feature  appears to be non-function on my browser at the moment.)

Be back next week for the resumption of Token Totin’ — finally! — and  the true beginning of my long-delayed Top Ten Changes Needed in HeroClix.

HULKpocketchecklist

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With another HeroClix release comes another of my checklists reminiscent of the ones WizKids used to include in every booster from late 2005 to early 2008. Here’s a list for Lord of the Rings’ gravity booster set and the starter game.
LOTRpocketchecklist

Then, as a bonus, go ahead and grab this compiled list of the Fast Forces of the year: Green Lantern, Thor, Watchmen, Hulk and Superman.
FastForces2011