D&D Icons of the Realms' Newest Miniature May Be The Weirdest Yet

Dungeons & Dragons is getting one of the strangest versions of an iconic monster yet, courtesy of a crossover with another iconic Hasbro brand. Outside of dragons and mind flayers, there is no monster more iconic to D&D than the beholder. This terrifying aberration can kill or maim its opponents with powerful magical rays with various effects and can also incapacitate spellcasters with its anti-magic eye cone. While there are plenty of beholder variants that appear in D&D lore, a new and bizarre version just popped into life thanks to WizKids.

WizKids has announced that it's making a new D&D Icons of the Realms: Potato Head Beholder Boxed Miniature. The miniature combines aspects of the fan-favorite classic toy and the fan-favorite classic monster, with variant eye stalks, variant facial features, and even optional accessories to help customize the beholder. Additionally, the Potato Head Beholder can actually be used as a miniature in a tabletop combat sequence, as the miniature comes on the appropriate 50 mm base. The miniature will be released later this year with a retail price of $24.99. A convention-exclusive version is available as well.

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Beholder Comes With Plenty Of Alternative Parts, Just Like A Normal Potato Head

The new miniature comes with a mix of familiar Potato Head accessories and beholder-specific parts. There are three central eye options, a bowler hat, and a single eyeglass (because beholders only have one main eye.) Additionally, the beholder will come with three different mouth variants, two of which incorporate standard Potato Head variants like a mustached mouth, and a standard fanged mouth. The full list of included accessories is below:

While many fans might balk at the idea of adding the Potato Head beholder in a D&D campaign, there's actually an easy way to introduce the beholder in any world. Beholders "reproduce" by dreaming, so a beholder simply needs to dream of a Potato Head doll to create a Potato Head variant beholder. Alternatively, DMs could use a beholder's fear of dismemberment to create a beholder creature with body parts that pop out. It also wouldn't surprise me if D&D created its own Potato Head beholder statblock closer to release.

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At the end of the day, a Potato Head Beholder is the sort of goofy fun that Hasbro and its licensed partners should embrace. Things like this and D&D's transforming Dicelings released a few years ago are harmless, amusing toys that encourage fandom rather than trying to aggressively monetize or exploit it.

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The response to these beholders has been pretty positive so far, even though they're quite different from typical D&D miniatures. As a simple, fun concept with immediately understandable appeal, I'm guessing they will be a popular gift for casual and hardcore Dungeons & Dragons fans over the next few months.