Comics and Weird Things

D&D Classic Collection: Monsters A-C coming soon from WizKids

Based on the artwork from the original 1st edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual (TSR, 1977), the set includes:

Ankheg

Basilisk

Beholder

Bulette 

Carrion Crawler

Chimera

Cockatrice

The beholder design is classic except for being scaled up to the much larger modern size; in AD&D they were described as 4-6′ in diameter, and some art depicted them even smaller, around beach-ball size.  Tom Wham contributed this version inspiring the new miniature:

By the old manual the ahnkheg / ankheg would have been the biggest in the set at 10-20′ long, followed by the bulette / land shark at 9-½ ′ tall and 12’+ long, and the carrion crawler at 9′ long.  The chimera was only 4′ tall at the shoulder.  Most of the relative sizes in the figure set work out except for the baby-sized bulette.  Sutherland drew the bulette knocking down trees and pinning a horse under one foot, with the pose of that title page image being referenced in the new figure set, if not the massive size: