The Ads of Dragon: Advanced D&D Action Scenes

Issue #68 (December 1982) was the first issue of Dragon I received as part of a subscription rather than by buying it individually from a book or hobby store. Due to an error on the part of TSR, I received two copies of every issue from December 1982 to November 1983. Apparently someone in their periodicals department processed my subscription order twice, one with a Baltimore, Maryland address and another with a Baltimore, Mississippi address, both having the same addressee, house number, and zip code. Needless to say, I didn't complain.

Anyway, issue #68 contained this advertisement:

This was one of a series of D&D model kits put out by MPC. Basically, they took molds from Grenadier and used them to create plastic miniatures, along with some cheap dungeon terrain to create fantasy dioramas. I never owned any of these myself, but had a couple of friends who did. We liked them primarily because they were an inexpensive way to acquire a large number of miniatures, especially of monsters. The quality wasn't the highest, to be sure, but we weren't exactly connoisseurs back then, so we had fun with them, though, in retrospect, I have to admit that it's a pretty peculiar product (though not the most unusual).