Author Topic: Latest thing from Basically Wooden (Read 31065 times)

Decar · « **Reply #15 on:** November 28, 2015, 10:41:28 AM »

I picked some up at the UK Meetup, along with my travel box, I thought I had included some pictures of these score markers alongside it. Basically Wooden have a few more things up their sleeves coming in the next couple of days.

They also have these, which we saw at the Meetup too: Meeple Puzzles!

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/257899318/meeple-puzzle-in-solid-english-oak?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=PageTools&utm_campaign=Share

jungleboy · « **Reply #16 on:** January 05, 2016, 04:22:47 AM »

I'm discussing a couple of things with Sue from Basically Wooden at the moment. They are thinking of offering their tile tower dispenser in a flatpack version that would result in cheaper shipping, but that has to be assembled by the user. Do you guys think North American residents and others far from the UK would go for this option to save on shipping? Apparently the assembly would be quite straightforward.

Paul · « **Reply #17 on:** January 05, 2016, 04:27:57 AM »

Quote from: jungleboy on January 05, 2016, 04:22:47 AM

I'm discussing a couple of things with Sue from Basically Wooden at the moment. They are thinking of offering their tile tower dispenser in a flatpack version that would result in cheaper shipping, but that has to be assembled by the user. Do you guys think North American residents and others far from the UK would go for this option to save on shipping? Apparently the assembly would be quite straightforward.

I assume it's not assembled from the start, they could leave it flat and have a description in the store if they want it assembled or not.

It's more common that items required assembling (especially the straight forward kind) comes flattened so I think it's a good move. Saving on shipping costs is very important for many customers. And it's fun to build things.

danisthirty · « **Reply #18 on:** January 05, 2016, 04:29:49 AM »

The tile tower is the only thing that Basically Wooden have created for Carcassonne that I'm not convinced by. I found it embarrassingly difficult to draw tiles from (the embarrassment caused by the fact that I had about 10 people watching me fail to get a tile out of the thing, including the guy who makes them

) and prefer to draw either from a bag or from stacks.

None of this goes anywhere towards answering your question, but if they're able to sell to a wider audience by offering these flatpack, and they're easy to assemble, then it seems like a no-brainer to me.

Decar · « **Reply #19 on:** January 05, 2016, 07:04:06 AM »

Quote from: danisthirty on January 05, 2016, 04:29:49 AM

the embarrassment caused by the fact that I had about 10 people watching me fail to get a tile out of the thing, including the guy who makes them )

To be fare, there were only 5 of us in the room the second time you had difficulties

ARabidMeerkat · « **Reply #20 on:** January 05, 2016, 09:39:23 AM »

Quote from: Decar on January 05, 2016, 07:04:06 AM

Quote from: danisthirty on January 05, 2016, 04:29:49 AM
the embarrassment caused by the fact that I had about 10 people watching me fail to get a tile out of the thing, including the guy who makes them )

To be fare, there were only 5 of us in the room the second time you had difficulties

Enough said?

jungleboy · « **Reply #21 on:** January 26, 2016, 04:32:18 AM »

For my next order from Basically Wooden, I asked for them to make some more dividers:

- Winter Crop Circles
- H&G / H&G special tiles / H&G Scout
- The Castle Falcon expansion

For H&G, I made suggestions for potential designs and they ended up making four dividers, so you have two to choose from for the base game (the mountain or the mammoth), the stone temple for the special tiles, and the tile back image for the Scout.

For the Falcon, they were going to do the nest but there was too much detail in it so they did a falcon instead.

As always, I think they all look great and I'm looking forward to receiving them very shortly. They also did a Star Wars one for anyone who has that spin-off.

SRBO · « **Reply #22 on:** January 26, 2016, 02:17:54 PM »

Looks good! It still is too expansive for me

sadly..

jungleboy · « **Reply #23 on:** February 08, 2016, 03:25:45 AM »

My latest things from Basically Wooden: the Carcassonne travel box and the ruined dice tower. Both are spectacular! The wood and craftsmanship is beautiful.

With my two big boxes:

Decar · « **Reply #24 on:** February 08, 2016, 03:29:11 AM »

I love my dice tower - how do you find yours?

jungleboy · « **Reply #25 on:** February 08, 2016, 03:38:03 AM »

Quote from: Decar on February 08, 2016, 03:29:11 AM

I love my dice tower - how do you find yours?

I think it's superb. I couldn't decide between the ruined one and the gothic one, and at one stage I was going to get both. But in the end I decided to just get the ruined one (which means I can get the gothic one next time!).

The only problem is that I currently only own one game that has dice, and I've only played it once: SPQRisiko (which is essentially Risk: the Roman Empire). Although my current Kickstarter and other games binge should take care of that soon enough. Imagine playing Escape: Curse of the Temple with every player having their own dice tower! I also realised the other day that I have somehow lost my die for the Flier mini-expansion, so we improvised by putting 1, 2 and 3 sheep tokens from Hills and Sheep into a bag and pulling that out to activate the Flier.

Decar · « **Reply #26 on:** March 01, 2016, 11:42:24 AM »

I forgot to mention it! Today is Basically Wooden's second Birthday - to celebrate they are offering 10% off all the things!

Place your orders now!

hunnymonster · « **Reply #27 on:** March 01, 2016, 12:57:02 PM »

Amongst other things I went to order some additional dividers - slight bug that it calculated the postage on each additional divider as an additional £2 - 30 dividers, £60 post.

Emailed sales@BW and my order is placed now. Keep thinking I've got all I need from BW but keep finding just one more thing to buy...

jungleboy · « **Reply #28 on:** March 01, 2016, 01:35:31 PM »

Quote from: hunnymonster on March 01, 2016, 12:57:02 PM

Amongst other things I went to order some additional dividers - slight bug that it calculated the postage on each additional divider as an additional £2 - 30 dividers, £60 post.

Emailed sales@BW and my order is placed now. Keep thinking I've got all I need from BW but keep finding just one more thing to buy...

While you've figured it out now, a good tip for others is that you can always contact BW by email and they're very responsive and helpful. I've never actually placed an order on their website, I always do it through email correspondence as there always seems to be much to discuss!