MetamorphosisSigma wrote:
Thanks for the insight. There are a couple of pictures of unopened blisters linked to at the sight below. These also have price stickers underneath the edge of the plastic. I can't tell for sure from the photos if they are stapled or not:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tpope/sol/grenadier/gamma-world.html

They don't look stapled.  Also, I have never known Grenadier to staple any of their packs, so maybe they were originally glued.  I'm not really much help here.  

GW Adventurers (0005) Box Set:

GravityThief wrote:I bought some of these blister packs back in the early 80's and I still have the cards.  I can confirm that no glue was used- there are only staple marks on the cards (no glue tears in the ink on the cards).

Thanks for the confirmation! I was leaning in the direction of believing the staples were original, but it's nice to get corroboration. It seems a few things changed in miniatures packaging between 1979 and a couple years later. I don't recall ever seeing blisters like this that were not glued on. Kind of doesn't make sense, as staples are by far the more durable solution. I guess they weren't thinking someone would be sitting on unopened packs 30 years later, though   .

The price stickers on the cards are indeed from Grenadier.  They always had the price and in smaller print above the price was the stock number (G-##).  I noticed that one of the packs (G-8 ) you photographed has the price marked out with a black pen.  It must have been a rejected, and returned, gift!

Thanks for confirming that, too. There are also a couple blisters with X's on the cards, and one or two with a dash (-) in permanent black marker. Not sure what these indicated.  

I would love to see that Yexil better!  If you decide to pry any staples and want any input as to which to open, the Yexil is my pick!  

I would too . At least there is an illustration of the Yexil in the rulebook, so I know what he's supposed to look like. It's the mutants that aren't illustrated that are most tempting to me, as it would help me to visualize some of the weirder ones. They're kinda hard to see in the packs, some of them.

I've been contemplating opening these at some point in the future. BUT, I'm moving to another state in the next couple of months, and these will travel much better the way they are.

I wouldn't sully these by even attempting to paint them, but I guess I could put them together (does one use glue, what kind?), and I would need to figure out how to display them while still keeping the contents sorted so they can remain together for posterity.

GravityThief wrote:The Yexil on the cover of the second Gamma World box set (#5006, "Denizens") looks a bit different from the one in the back of the first ed. book.

Here is a picture of the box cover here:

http://img823.imageshack.us/i/gammaworldminis005.jpg/

From what I can make out from your photo, the Yexil on the cover of the box set definitely looks like the miniature.  There is no Yexil in the box set.

Thanks for the picture of the Denizens box; I hadn't been able to locate one. That Yexil must be offended by the fashion (i.e. culinary) sense of that unfortunate group, LOL.

Since my chances of actually finding that figure are astro-freakin-nomical, I have been thinking about moding an old manticore figure by cutting off the front legs and adding some dragon wings and mandibles from some crappy umber hulk or something.

I thought my chances of finding any of them were similarly infinitesimal, but about 2 days after I started searching... voila! I started out pretty strong, but these do seem as rare as hen's teeth. I'm not holding my breath waiting to finish my collection (21 more blisters, the 2nd box set), but that's kind of a good thing. If I can find one or two per year, it keeps me in something to obsess about for the next decade or so .

GravityThief wrote:I would love to see that Yexil better!  If you decide to pry any staples and want any input as to which to open, the Yexil is my pick!

 

I finally succumbed to temptation and opened/assembled the Yexil (G-50). It was just a matter of time; what's the point of having toys you don't "play" with ?

I'm not just preachin' it, I'm now practicing it too... I've opened 31 of the 32 boosters I have, and all of the figs are now primed! I'll post a pic at some point. It's quite the menagerie.

Now if I could just paint worth a damn.

Hissers, Knights of Genetic Purity, female human adventurers, etc. The "Do-it-Yourself" mutants are in the back (hard to see). I had a blast deciding which heads to use on which bodies, though I was a bit disappointed heads were the only real variable.

MetamorphosisSigma wrote:I'm not just preachin' it, I'm now practicing it too... I've opened 31 of the 32 boosters I have, and all of the figs are now primed! I'll post a pic at some point. It's quite the menagerie.

Now if I could just paint worth a damn.

Can you match the Gamma World minis with their original fantasy counterparts?  Some of them should look quite familiar, as they are fantasy figures with tech trappings.

It pains me to see those packs open