D&D: It’s Only a Matter of Time Before This Mr. Potatohead Beholder Comes For You
It’s not every day that you wake up to see a living nightmare unleashed upon your very own reality, but today? Mr. Potato Head Beholder.
Science fiction is full of stories of humanity’s hubris leading to a nightmarish undoing of our tenuous grasp on reality. All it takes is for one’s reach to exceed one’s grasp even just a little bit, and suddenly you’ve got a genetically engineered superweapon on the loose, or a grey goo scenario, or you’ve torn open a portal to hell with your spaceship. As Jeff Goldblum reminds us:
All that to say, the newly unveiled Mr. Potato Head Beholder is a real life example of it. And I get it. Beholders have eyes. Potatoes have eyes. It practically creates itself. But have you ever stopped to think that maybe a thing that creates itself isn’t necessarily what you want to usher into the world?
It’s like an even weirder version of Roko’s Basilisk only without all the weird tech cults surrounding it (that’s a real thing too—turns out there are techno cultists in our world in case you’re somehow convinced you’re not living in a cyberpunk dystopia). Inevitability aside, the Mr. Potato Head Beholder will haunt your dreams. So let’s take a look.
Mr. Potato Head Beholder – Proof That “What Fresh Hell is This?” is an Evergreen Way to Greet the Day
This appears to be a newly revealed miniature that’s somehow in the Icons of the Realms line at WizKids. I’m not sure what book this appears in (or will appear in), but if you put a Mr. Potato Head Beholder down on a table, the party will know they are doomed.
As you might well expect, this “miniature” comes with all the classic Mr. Potato Head and Beholder pieces. The potato body comes with a central eye, several mouths, several different eyestalks, and a bowler hat that, actually, is kind of cool and yeah a Beholder in a hat is a great concept. But that’s how they get you.
First you think “oh yeah that’s kind of funny” and then you’ve got six f these i nyour house and they’re planning to Ides of March you the next time you come home.
Parts include:
- 10 Eye Stalks, including 1 Fire Ray Eye Stalk and 1 Lightning Ray Eye Stalk.
- 1 Central Eye
- 1 Central Eye with Lashes
- 1 Angry Central Eye
- 1 Pair of Glasses
- 1 Bag of Holding
- 1 Hat
- 1 Moustache Mouth
- 1 Fanged Mouth
- 1 Pair of Red Lips
- 1 Tongue
Mr. Potato Head Beholders – what’s next, slinky purple worms?
