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Happy Little Dinosaurs & Here to Slay update

 


Last Thursday Joey said "Let's go away for the weekend." So we looked for a Van Der Valk hotel which had availability. This was not that easy, but eventually we found two rooms in the Van Der Valk hotel Utrecht-De Bilt for two nights. We had to get 2 rooms, because Cloud, our 18 year old son, also came. Since I still had work on Friday (and we had a hard time finding a hotel with available rooms) we left home at 19:00h and came at the hotel at 20:00h. We had dinner there and then, very full, went back to our rooms.

The next day we drove all the way back to Heerhugowaard. There was a Retour Depot pop-up store. They have packages that were sent back to Amazon, Bol.com and other webstores, but apparently got lost or something. So they anonimize it as much as possible and then sell these mystery packages for 2,49 euro per 100 grams. So we bought a bunch of packages unseen and back at the hotelroom we had fun unpacking all the (crap) stuff. It felt a bit like Christmas. There were some semi-useful things like charger blocks for Samsung, an outside solar wall light, a wireless phone charger for in the car and RGB lighting for the back of the TV. Also there was a lot of useless crap, like a huge sunvisor, which you see old Chinese ladies walk around with, parts for fixing stuff and things I don't even know what they were. My best find though: a rubber Trump (we think) mask!


Anyway ... in Heerhugowaard we also visited Mox Spellen, a boardgame store. There I had an even better find: the game Happy Little Dinosaurs, discounted to only 15 euro!


In this post I wanted to give an update on the Gamefound crowdfunding of Here to Slay DUNGEONS. That game and also Happy Little Dinosaurs are published by Unstable Games. So now we have Here to Slay (original card game), Unstable Unicorns, Happy Little Dinosaurs and next year Here to Slay DUNGEONS. Cloud is a big fan of the boardgames of Unstable Games. I think it's also one of my favourite publishers, along with CMON (Zombicide, Marvel United).

On Saturday afternoon and evening, we played Happy Little Dinosaurs and Here to Slay (I recently bought the expansions Warriors & Druids and Berserkers & Necromancers) on a way-too-small hotelroom table. Both games were fun, but for Happy Little Dinosaurs we only have the basegame, so that went a lot faster. I might get some of the expansions later, because it's a fun and easy game. Unfortunately I got the Dutch version, which made it a bit harder for Joey.

In my original post, I already said I couldn't promise I wouldn't get more expansions. So here's an update of my order of Here to Slay DUNGEONS.

Original order

  • Hero Vinyl Figure Set: Dreamscape | Nightmare
  • Free Gift: Mystery Gift!

Items added on 02/04/2026 13:51

  • Rain Vinyl Figure
  • Holographic Promo Card Pack

Items added on 15/04/2026 09:26

  • $1 Mystery Endgame Add-On
  • Here to Slay Convention Exclusive Promo Pack (+ bonus Unstable Unicorn Party Leader) - this is for the original card game
  • Here to Slay: Sorcerers & Squires Expansion - this is for the original card game
  • Dungeon Bundle - so instead of only getting the Dreamscape | Nightmare dungeon (which is removed from my original order) I got all 3 dungeons.

Items added on 17/05/2026 08:54

  • Here to Slay Bigger Box - this is for the original card game
  • Here to Slay: Banner Quest Expansion - this is for the original card game

Okay, that's it. I have to bring Joey to work and when I get back, Cloud wants to play more cardgames. :D

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  1. tayafilina17 May 2026 at 06:19

    It's really interesting! I would love to play this game too :)

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