Hasbro is rolling the cube on a brand new product line to tie in with subsequent yr’s Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. The just-announced Dicelings figures convert from an outsized twenty-sided die to an iconic Dungeons & Dragons monster and again.
Revealed on a Hasbro Pulse live-stream final evening, the Dicelings have a urged retail value of $13.99. Hasbro has unveiled 4 of the changing creatures; Rakor the Black Dragon, Themberchaud the Red Dragon, the White Owlbear, and the Beholder. The Owlbear and the dragons remodel from die to creature in eight steps, whereas the Beholder is a contact less complicated, solely requiring six steps. The two dragons and the Owlbear will probably be featured in Honor Among Thieves, whereas the floating, many-eyed Beholder is barely acknowledged to be “impressed by Dungeons & Dragons“, so viewers might must rewatch Big Trouble in Little China to behold a cinematic Beholder. However, presumably on account of their measurement and the addition of hinges and joints, Hasbro doesn’t suggest you utilize them as cube to your subsequent Dungeons & Dragons sport. You most likely do not need to throw them on the wall in frustration subsequent time you roll a important fail, anyway.
Hasbro has owned Dungeons & Dragons since buying its father or mother firm, Wizards of the Coast, in 1999. With a brand new Dungeons & Dragons film on the horizon, and with Dungeons & Dragons popping up all over the place in popular culture, from podcasts to Stranger Things, they’ve been ramping up their merchandising efforts for the long-running fantasy role-playing sport. At this yr’s San Diego Comic-Con, they introduced a line of six-inch figures impressed by Honor Among Thieves and unveiled a fan-favorite Gelatinous Cube monster determine. They additionally lately introduced a line of figures based mostly on the fondly-remembered Dungeons & Dragons animated collection, which ran for 27 episodes from 1983 to 1985.
Paramount’s Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves would be the second Dungeons & Dragons film to hit theaters and the primary because the critically and commercially unsuccessful Dungeons & Dragons from 2000. Directed by Game Night administrators Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley, it stars Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page, Justice Smith, Sophia Lillis, and Hugh Grant, and will probably be launched on March 3, 2023. A Dungeons & Dragons TV collection can also be within the works from Red Notice‘s Rawson Marshall Thurber.
Hasbro Pulse expects the Dicelings to ship in March 2023, simply in time for Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves to hit theaters; they are often pre-ordered now on HasbroPulse.com. Stay tuned to Collider for future updates.
