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I received an alert from CamelCamelCamel that Amazon currently has the hard-to-come-by Wingspan game in stock for $54.99 w/ Prime shipping.

From the looks of it, there are only a few copies left. So, if you're interested, you'd best jump on it while the getting's good.

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Wed Sep 25, 2019 11:15 am

Only 3 left in stock - order soon.

I ordered and it still says 3 left in stock. Lies!

It's a fine game, but I'm not quite sure why it has gotten all the hype. The artwork is great and the theme is nice, but IMO, the game play isn't anything super innovative or unique. Also, birds are the worst.

Ralph-Wiggum wrote: ↑Wed Sep 25, 2019 11:43 am It's a fine game, but I'm not quite sure why it has gotten all the hype. The artwork is great and the theme is nice, but IMO, the game play isn't anything super innovative or unique. Also, birds are the worst.

You may not be the target demographic.

Ralph-Wiggum wrote: ↑Wed Sep 25, 2019 11:43 am It's a fine game, but I'm not quite sure why it has gotten all the hype. The artwork is great and the theme is nice, but IMO, the game play isn't anything super innovative or unique. Also, birds are the worst.

I am hearing good intro engine-builder with nice art. Haven't played it... and amazon won't let me cancel the order because it is preparing for shipment... ordered today, delivery monday. Yeah, getting pretty close to boxing that one up.

Reminds me of a video we were shown at work about how hard it is to close your amazon account.

I will say that it definitely has been a good game to get people not normally interested in board gaming to give it a try. Of course, most of my friends are biologists so I suppose it isn't surprising that the game would spark their interest.

I want to try it but I bought Scythe before playing and didn't care for it at all. Never could get it to click. I'm sure it's a great game, but it just wasn't my style at all.

I'm afraid Wingspan would wind up falling into the same boat.

Worst comes to worst I play it then sell it at the game convention in two months and recoup most of my costs.

Just picked up a copy in trade for my old Intermetro game shelves, and I picked up the Broken Token organizer. It’s a lite but deep engine builder. And I’m a sucker for engine builders like hepcat is for dungeon crawlers.

It's a nice gateway game (or maybe a stepping stone once you're ready to go past gateway games), but $55 feels like way too much for the gameplay it delivers, IMO. (I guess it's because of the components and the strong box, but still...)

Zarathud wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2019 2:49 am Just picked up a copy in trade for my old Intermetro game shelves, and I picked up the Broken Token organizer. It’s a lite but deep engine builder. And I’m a sucker for engine builders like hepcat is for dungeon crawlers.

...and Pax games, COIN games, pew pew space games, grand strategy games, pachinko...ah hell, I love games.

Funny but many moons back when the frenzy for this had spooled up, the wife told me quite randomly one day that she'd seen an interview with a lady game designer and wanted me to acquire the game for her. With her not being into board games, she couldn't recall the name so I blurted out "You mean... Wingspan?" Yup! I told her it would take some time and to be patient, during which time I think she actually forgot about it. I checked with my FLGS and they put my on The List for maybe getting one in July from the 2nd printing. I also hooked up a Covenant subscription for it as well, just to cover my bases and then forgot about it as well. Suddenly last month the Covenant version came through and it showed up, to which she said "Oh yah!" and was very excited for a brief moment of time. I put the birdhouse dice tower together and... there it sits. Ah well, into the collection you go!

Got a call from my FLGS a couple of weeks ago to tell me they got ONE copy in and I was the lucky dude at the top of the list. Laughed and told them to pass it along to the next luckiest person on the list.

Still working on getting it (and her) to the table one of these weekends.

Got to try this out over the weekend, and it definitely ranks as one of the all-time great gateway games IMO.

BTW, for anyone that enjoys upgrading their game components, this set of 3D-printed bird action markers (or, if you prefer, birdhouse markers) provide a great thematic improvement over the included wooden cubes:

Anonymous Bosch wrote: ↑Mon Oct 14, 2019 1:51 pm Got to try this out over the weekend, and it definitely ranks as one of the all-time great gateway games IMO.

BTW, for anyone that enjoys upgrading their game components, this set of 3D-printed bird action markers (or, if you prefer, birdhouse markers) provide a great thematic improvement over the included wooden cubes:

dammit man... done!