The best part is at the very bottom of the second page, where it truthfully describes one of these things as a "dollhouse".

Instead of "diorama," I would recommend saying "sculptured action setting" or perhaps "man molds."

I prefer "three-dimensional heroic scale tactical combat action arena."

Nothing dorky about that!

I had to click into it just to see how they did the fountains. Amazing.

Great. Now I need clean underwear.

Emission warning next time, pal.

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

I love the six story one built here

By a woman in Hawaii no less. She'd be a geeks dream wife...well maybe.

Wow.

Just wow.

Later,
bbeck

Ayes of Death,

You made me laugh. Thanks I needed that.

Well, it looks nice and all, but none of the rooms look big enough to hold a purple worm or red dragon...

oh well.

Old, so very old. I've known about them for years.

What next, you introduce the funky crystal dice as the lastest thing?

Buy your very own Virginator(tm) today!

Meh, when I was a young merp'er, I built a big map of middle earth on a board with hills, mount doom, mirkwood forest and hobbitton.

Fucking thing was to scale as well.

I'm disappointed - I went to that site, and found out that those are all just little dinky models! Ace was so excited, I thought that these things were LIFESIZE! And he'd like to build one of them, dress up in armor and run around acting out a fantasy. Little Playmobil models on the ramparts - pah!

Oh come on Wanda.
You didn't notice the Kandy Korn 'torches' in the pic?

One of the cruelest things I ever did to a friend who DMd a D&D3 game was get him a "Starter Set" of one of those modular dungeon assembly sets.

I think he's spent close to a thousand bucks on expansion sets.

Heh.

I swear to God, I didn't. I just thought that this was something like those tasteless Greek pillars and stone lions stuck on the front of normal-sized houses. One in our neighbourhood even has frescoes of Greek gods and goddesses on the front. I thought maybe people constructed these mazes in their back yards.

I don't have time to do miniatures anymore, let alone the terrain.

Yeah, but the realy key to DnD dioramas is knowing when to plunk them out on the table. I mean, if you just set 'em out as soon as the characters see the front wall then they're going to know the size of the place waaaay too early.

And what about secret doors? After about the 11th time that Kalothanien the Elven Thief checks the same area (which just HAPPENS to be right in front of where the model has a room they haven't been able to get into), you're gonna be wishing you'd stuck to graph paper and drawing the walls as you go.

You gotta THINK about these things, man!