The Le: I asked the HCRealms community to fire off some questions, if you don't mind...

BudPalmer: What was the best day of your life to this point?

Jason Mical: The day I got married. The day I got my job at WizKids was in the top 5 though.

CarlosMucha: Not a question, but tell him that he was the best person/worker that Heroclix had!

Jason Mical: I was part of a team, and it was really a team effort. I just happened to be the public face of that team. But thank you!

Algrim: What exactly happened to the program he was looking to implement for the envoys where they would have access to unlicensed prototype figs and figs that just never quite made it

Jason Mical: The short answer: too many envoys, too few prototypes.

Indiana Ton / Sensualninja : How much input do you think the HCRealms community will have on the new Heroclix line, and future lines?

Jason Mical: That's hard to say as I'm not familiar with how NECA responds to community feedback. If they're on the ball, then hopefully at least some input! HCRealms and general community feedback was always taken into consideration, even if we couldn't always incorporate some or all of it for various reasons.

Hair10: Where does he get those wonderful toys?

Jason Mical: Nowadays it looks like the Disney Store. Sigh.

anonym0use: IS there a Sister Magneto? Is she single?

Jason Mical: I have a brother, and he just got married. Sorry!

Glen_smith: What is your most memorable convention experience while working for WizKids?

Jason Mical: The answer may surprise some people. I was working the late-late shift at GenCon and there was a kid, probably 10 or 11 years old who was there playing until really late, 3am or so. This was near the end of a three-convention circuit and I was dog-tired, but the kid couldn't get in touch with his mom to pick him up and I wasn't willing to leave him sitting outside the convention center on his own. We went to security and we eventually found his mother, who had (if I'm remembering correctly) fallen asleep. She drove in to get him but it took her an hour, so I sat outside with him and just talked about games and stuff for a while, even though I had to be awake and fresh in a couple of hours. I don't know why but that's always stuck out in my mind as my most memorable experience at a con.

subliminalthreat: why no one punched Tuttle in the throat?

Jason Mical: I'm a pacifist, and violence solves nothing!

Imbalance: What was your favorite toy as a child?

Jason Mical: Either my Choose You Own Adventure books, or my Legos. For many of the same reasons.

mr-coffin: What positions should NECA be sure to have in their new wizkids branch?

Jason Mical: A community manager, but I'm biased in that regard since it's a job I wouldn't mind having.

bill4935: What's Tony Randall really like?

Jason Mical: I have no idea.

WolvieFan9: Any good slightly embarrassing, insider anecdotes about former employees you'd like to spill? (Especially any involving any employees whose name closely resembles the common name for a Terrapene?)

Jason Mical: There was a company quote board for a while, which was usually stuff taken out of context that sounded vaguely sexual. It actually turned into a competition at one point to see who could work the best double-entendres [check the spelling on that] into conversations. Then we (thankfully) wised up a bit and it went back to being just really odd stuff we'd hear from time to time.

wintremute: If you could make ONE change to HeroClix (rules, system, whatever), what would it be and why would you do it?

Jason Mical: Make HorrorClix 100% compatible with HeroClix, which is how it should be.

WolvieFan9: Who was Boneyard's "Deep Throat"?

Jason Mical: There were two: a playtester we never identified, and me. By the way, this is a great place to plug Boneyard's awesome comic, Bedbug, which I would have liked very much to make into an IndyClix piece.

I should clarify: Boneyard and I had an arrangement that I would send him accurate information so that he wasn't leaking pre-release stuff, or non-approved figures/characters or stats. I don't really care that we never caught the leak, but it was certainly fun being the approved Deep Throat for a while.