Beadle & Grimm's Pandemonium Warehouse recently rolled back the mist to unveil their latest product, the Curse of Strahd Legendary Edition. This big box of Barovian beauty marks three firsts for Beadle & Grimm’s: it’s their first Legendary Edition set, it’s their first product licensed from the Wizards of the Coast back catalog, and it’s their first set to include … wait for it … finger puppets.
The Beadle & Grimm’s Curse of Strahd Legendary Edition presents a wealth of physical gaming materials for the Curse of Strahd (CoS) Dungeons & Dragons adventure released in 2016. The box is available now for pre-order on the Beadle & Grimm’s online store for $399.00, and it looks to be worthy of every cent. Aside from the expected prime materials such as maps and handouts, the CoS Legendary Edition includes finger puppets.
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According to the official CoS Legendary Edition announcement on the Beadle & Grimm’s website, five finger puppets have actually been proposed to come with the box. The first and most obvious choice for which CoS character would be a finger puppet is none other than the vampire lord of Barovia, Count Strahd von Zarovich. The other four proposed finger puppets are for the Faceless Bride, Jester/Marionette, Undead Cleric, and Werewolf.
As awesome as the Strahd finger puppet sounds, this isn’t the first time Strahd has appeared in puppet form. The intro credit reel of Dice, Camera, Action episode 22, “Dead Meat” first presented a puppet-like Strahd popping out from a coffin-styled jack-in-the-box. And then there’s the unforgettable Dice, Camera, Action Sock Puppet Theater episode, where Chris Perkins performed a 33-minute sock puppet theater show of the Waffle Crew’s daring exploits in their CoS adventure with sock puppets crafted by the excellent Holly Conrad.
The Beadle & Grimm’s boxes have become renowned for the quality and quantity of items they come stuffed with, and the Curse of Strahd Legendary Edition is no exception. In fact, it may just mark a new milestone in what they add in, and in what we may hope to see in future box sets. Hand puppet Acererak? Full-size Xanathar mask? Tarrasque kigurumi? Make it so.
Source: Curse of Strahd Legendary Edition