Today I picked up two packs of the new Pirates set (Pirates of the Mysterious Islands) and found this cute flyer inside. WizKids will send you an exclusive ship if you send them:
- All four "bottle messages"
- Four Mysterious Islands wrappers
- The original receipt(s) for purchase of those four packs
- A coupon printed from WizKidsGames.com
Jesus Christ WizKids, you need a blood sample and a spot in my Will too?
How about I send you one wrapper and $5, and you send me the stupid crappy exclusive ship that's probably just stupid and crappy anyway.
Out of my two packs, I got exactly one of the silly bottle messages. And, the coupon isn't even on their website yet.
I'll probably pick up a couple more packs because I want some of those new submarine ships. So we'll see if I get close to collecting all four messages.
Also: the new "Mysterious Island" thing is awful. Instead of the cheap paper islands having some terrible rarely-used terrain thing on the flip side (like "fog"), there's now a D6 chart. Whenever you dock at one of them, you roll and on 1-2 something bad happens and 5-6 something good happens. Yay for stupid randomized effects that could hurt you as often as helping you. Certain crew members will add to your roll, thereby increasing your shot at the good effect, but who's going to waste their build points on that.
I already own the lush painted 3D islands anyway.
