Board Gamers Poker Chip Interest Thread (2 Viewers)

Except many specific items listed above, especially Meeples, are trademark protected...

In a perfect world, a track around the edge would be the mold instead of the label. If that happened I would probably have to buy a set.

That's exactly what I was thinking...It would certainly be unique...
 
At that point you are now making train game chips. All the meeple lovers will feel left out. If you were to customize the mold, it should have a train, merchant ship, meeple, die, coin, pyramid, zombie, and Catan city. Or something like that.
What about just the Mediterranean Sea?
 
Most likely the labels will all be one color. Also, thinking about removing the crown mold and adding a small train.

Color me intrigued. If the mold was changed from the crown I would be much more inclined to grab a set. I’m not a fan of any specific type of symbol, whether they be letters or icons (that’s part of why I went with Milanos) but I’d be more into trains than crowns.

I’m also much more inclined to the color labels. I understand the argument behind single color labels, so people can mix and match, but why not have the colored labels on the labeled chips, and offer the single color labels for the blank chips?
 
Color me intrigued. If the mold was changed from the crown I would be much more inclined to grab a set. I’m not a fan of any specific type of symbol, whether they be letters or icons (that’s part of why I went with Milanos) but I’d be more into trains than crowns.

I’m also much more inclined to the color labels. I understand the argument behind single color labels, so people can mix and match, but why not have the colored labels on the labeled chips, and offer the single color labels for the blank chips?
that would mean someone would have to sticker ALL their chips, even if they just wanted yellow 20s or blue 1s and the rest the same as they are now
 
As someone new to this, is label swapping a manual process (remove and stick on new labels yourself)? Do custom labels stick less well, protrude more, etc.?
It is possible to manually remove the labels from china clay chips like these (a hobby or exacto knife to get under and lift them and just peel. But these would also most likely be offered both with labels and without, so people who want to change denominations don't have to peel the labels in the first place.

Blanks plus labels will be more expensive than pre-labeled, but will give greater flexibility of course. The offered labels will be the same type as what is on the chips, so they should fit the same.

In any event, Gear Labels here on this forum will also be able to produce custom labels in basically whatever design you want for between $0.10-$0.15/label (twice that per chip).
 
I'm curious what a mild railroad track pattern would look like.

Something like the Milano's except with a discrete railroad track pattern.
 
Trains would really restict the appeal to a very limited market segment.

I think a meeple mold might have the greatest appeal. But I think 18XX players would hate that.

Here're some meeples, in case anyone doesn't know what they are...
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Here is the Greek key pattern.

I think suggesting poster had it correct. This is thematic enough for board games but generic enough that it can still be used for marketing to poker players

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Rio grande has the Carcassonne meeple shape trademarked
Actually Hans im Glück [Carcassonne’s (original) publisher] has trademarked both the term Meeple and the shape, but please ask a lawyer if those Nice classes even cover poker chips.
In case of the meeple shape some simple alterations should be enough to prevent infringement. Some boardgame publishers already did so …
 
Indeed. A board game reviewer disliked a particular game, Vasco de Gama, so much he gave it a terrible review. As a followup, he posted an "apology" video in which he proceeded to toss the game off his roof.

 
18xx it's Victorian era, so the crowns are just fine.

if not, I want gears! because of the industrial revolution

or steam..
 
Actually Hans im Glück [Carcassonne’s (original) publisher] has trademarked both the term Meeple and the shape, but please ask a lawyer if those Nice classes even cover poker chips.
In case of the meeple shape some simple alterations should be enough to prevent infringement. Some boardgame publishers already did so …
Ah yes, had the wrong company in mind. Thanks
 
Love the idea. A few of the "loud" color combinations still scream "casino chips" to my eyes though. I'm still undecided on getting a set of blanks and labels or just designing my own custom set which would be much more costly.
 
Here are a couple looks at a possible new mold. Either a classic train or tracks will work great.

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Something about that train doesn't do it for me - looks a bit too whimsical. 18xx is serious business.

I like the tracks!

Seeing both on a mocked up chip with colors could make a huge difference of course.
 
Here are a couple looks at a possible new mold. Either a classic train or tracks will work great.

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I am in for either of those and will pre order them as soon as I get the opportunity.

Probably trend towards the track design. I think they may be more versatile that way because many might just think that's the edge design and not explicitly train tracks.

On the other hand, I love trains and that would be epic too.

Either way, I'm in!
 

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