Today I attended a Legion demo at Wizards Asylum ICT in Wichita, Kansas. The real highlight to me was getting to check out the physical quality of the miniatures. Since Legion was announced, one of my main concerns about the game was the material used in the miniatures. (My other main concern -- model and faction variety -- remains in play.)

Descent. Imperial Assault. Rune Wars. All of Fantasy Flight Games' unpainted miniatures lines (that I'm familiar with) use a fairly soft plastic. FFG gets surprisingly good detail out of that material, but it still isn't what I want to see in a game that aspires to be a serious wargame.

I'm happy to report that I'm no longer worried about the material of the minis. They seemed to be made of a firmer plastic, and possibly heavier, although that might just be a matter of the slightly larger scale of Legion. The material probably could be better, but I am fully satisfied with what I saw today.

Now, if FFG would just announce Clone Wars factions, so I can preorder a Separatist army of battle droids and droidekas with Ventress (or Dooku or Grievous) as commander ...

....great report!...vielen danke...

I've heard it was soft IA level plastic.

Are you certain it is better than that? It's not GW level of hard precise awesome plastic, that I'm fairly certain of.

My LGS has a demo and some of the minis were not glued together but still intact. the Vader mini wasn't glued but it never fell apart. They are sturdy even not being glued.

I would echo the ops opinion on the minis

The way I like to describe the hardness of the plastic is by how it sounds. When you take two miniatures and clink them together there's a distinct high-pitched "tinking" sound. With other FFG miniatures you would get a more mushy sound. Plus the minis barely bend at all, with the lightsabers as an exception. Much stronger than IA.

the mini's are great quality. Very hard plastic. Just shy of GW qualities.

11 hours ago, KryatDragon said:

I've heard it was soft IA level plastic.

Are you certain it is better than that? It's not GW level of hard precise awesome plastic, that I'm fairly certain of.

I wasn't comparing it side-by-side with GW or PP models, but it was clearly a step above the plastic used in Imperial Assault.

And as long as I have it, I may as well post a size comparison. On the left is one of my Imperial Assault Stormtroopers (primed but not painted) next to a Legion Stormtrooper on the right. (I was impressed that the shop had the minis assembled and painted before having the demo.) Even after accounting for the difference in the thickness of the base, the Legion miniature is clearly bigger.

It is a very hard plastic much different that any prievous ffg minis. Same as most quality car or plane models.

On 3/12/2018 at 12:17 PM, Drakoniss said:

It is a very hard plastic much different that any prievous ffg minis. Same as most quality car or plane models.

Are the minis on Sprues or are they in like component baggies?

But they are still vinyl plastic, right? It amazes me how much that material has been improved recently.

1 hour ago, KryatDragon said:

Are the minis on Sprues or are they in like component baggies?

Not had any myself but seen vids of bags.

They are in baggies but the material is a hard as the Gw stuff that was the lighter gray plastic. No vinyl feel at all.