CMON’s Marvel United: Multiverse Kickstarter campaign just announced final expansion box, and while the theme wasn’t a surprise some of the contents are: Marvel United Multiverse – World War Hulk!
My prediction for a Gamma-oriented box from World War Hulk or one of the subsequent 00s Hulk storylines has been rising in the odds in every update I’ve made on this campaign. However, the surprise is that this box actually covers two events in one in terms of characters, as it includes two of the predicted anchors of my #1 pick for a Siege expansion: anti-heroes Ares and Sentry/Void.
The total contents of World War Hulk are Gladiator Hulk, Hulkbuster Iron Man, Hercules, Ares, and Sentry/Void. This box will be available at retail, but it has a Kickstarter Exclusive figure of Doc Samson.
Clearly this departure from a pure Gamma-focused box that would include The Leader, Skaar, A-Bomb, Thundra, and Red She-Hulk. I ultimately think it was a good idea to get Hulkbuster into the action in lieu of some of those more-obscure Gamma characters, since a Gladiator Hulk vs. Hulkbuster set will have terrific character recognition at retail. Also, this is a perfect chance to introduce Hercules, since he took over Hulk’s title just after this period!
However, I’m slightly disappointed by this all-male group of characters when Thundra or Red She-Hulk could have easily been pulled in from a subsequent storyline to round out the box.
(Using Ares and Sentry here doesn’t erase the chances of a Thunderbolts box in a future campaign, so I’m happy we snuck them in! However, if we see Moonstone as a late stretch goal, the gig is up for the Thunderbolts.)
In my last set of Marvel United: Multiverse predictions, I had Siege ranked #1 with 60% odds and World War Hulk ranked #3 with 40% odds, so I’d say I did pretty well! I’m disappointed that we won’t see a proper Secret Wars expansion for a “Multiverse” campaign, but “Secret Wars” is a big enough deal that it could be the entire campaign theme for a fourth season.
(Want to play Marvel United right now? Grab either the Marvel United or Marvel United X-Men core boxes right now. They are fun cooperative games that are fun to play with adults and kids alike.)
With this box comes the announcement of the all-in “Omniverse” pledge that includes all of the new gameplay elements in this campaign – which means every new expansion, card deck, and stretch goal figure (but, not plastic tokens, cardboard locations, game mats, reprinted expansions, or past campaign stretch goal boxes).
The all-in offers a $50 discount over getting everything individually, which is more than one expansion free – a pretty good deal. If you had pledged for everything so far, this will be $15 cheaper and you won’t have to up your pledge for the new Marvel United Multiverse World War Hulks expansion box.
Not only is the all-in Omniverse pledge cheaper than buying everything separately, it comes with a HUGE bonus character: FIN FANG FOOM!
I was on CMON’s “Final Countdown live stream when they announced the character, and it is absolutely massive. It’s not quite as tall as Galactus, but it’s not only three times taller than a standard figure, it’s also at least three times as wide and deep. It’s worth checking out the video to see them place their 3d-printed version onto a turn-table next so some of the sculpts from World War Hulk
That means Fin Fang Foom is a Kickstarter Exclusive that you can only get by pledging for everything from this campaign. Even if he is offered again in future campaigns, it would likely only be in conjunction with picking up every single stretch goal from this campaign. Based on the upcharge for reprints of those “every stretch goal” promo boxes in this campaign, this will likely be the cheapest way you can ever buy Fin Fang Foom – if not the only time he is ever available given his size and cost to product.
This isn’t the end of the Marvel United: Multiverse Kickstarter campaign or my posts about the game! There are still 55 hours left to pledge that will be absolutely packed with stretch goals (the current goal is classic Ghost Rider!) Plus, I’ll wrap things up with a look at all of the Stretch Goal characters, a refreshed look at who we’re missing, and predictions for what we could see from a fourth campaign a year or two in the future.
Have you been following this campaign? What has been your favorite expansion box so far.