Carcassonne Central

This topic has been covered before, but I thought it would be a good idea to update a little.

There are a few places online from where you can obtain game parts. Here are some of them:

For those requiring extra meeples to use in their games, variants etc, you can use the ad on the CC Home page to order from Meeple Source. If you do use Meeple Source for your parts, make sure you do click on this link: http://www.meeplesource.com/index.php?PARTNER=carccentral (http://www.meeplesource.com/index.php?PARTNER=carccentral) or the ad on the front page, as it supports CC and helps to pay for hosting, etc. They supply meeples, big followers, pigs, builders in various colours (including non-standard colours) along with other Carcassonne related stuff.

I have used a fantastic dealer from Germany on eBay. Peter, the owner, has available several colours of meeples with the big follower, pig and builder. As well as Carcassonne tokens, he also supplies tokens for many games. I have used him for meeples and other game tokens for use in Carcassonne variants. He will be pleased to assist. The shop address is: http://stores.ebay.de/Spiele-Agentur-Mick-Ado (http://stores.ebay.de/Spiele-Agentur-Mick-Ado)  This is on the German eBay site, but will list all items he has for sale. Try translating the page via Babel Fish or Google Translate. He will ship outside Germany. Contact him, he's very helpful. I have heard that this shop will shortly be closing.

Here is a comprehensive supplier of wooden (and other) game parts, although there are no Carcassonne related pieces: http://www.bedi-spielematerial.eu/ (http://www.bedi-spielematerial.eu/)

And in the USA you could try: http://boardgamebits.com/store/ (http://boardgamebits.com/store/)

For Agricola animeeples and vegimeeples: http://mayday-games.com/452.html (http://mayday-games.com/452.html)

Edit: Changed the Meeple People link.
Edit: Mayday can also supply Vegimeeples for Agricola
Edit by Scott: Changed MeeplePeople link to MeepleSource.

Don't forget http://www.meeplepeople.com

Okay, this thread is worth it's weight in gold. Thanks, Joff!

...although I foresee more gold slipping out of my wallet, thanks, Joff. ::) ;)

These are good for keeping track of largest city and longest road when playing with the King expansion:
http://boardgamebits.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1_12&products_id=20 (http://boardgamebits.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1_12&products_id=20)
http://boardgamebits.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1_12&products_id=17 (http://boardgamebits.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1_12&products_id=17)

For keeping track of the longest road I use a brown meeple, and to keep track of the largest city I use a purple (royal) meeple, but to use a road and city piece from Catan is a good idea :)

Well, everybody likes new additions and here are my latest additions to my Carcassonne family of meeples!

(http://www.john-warren.co.uk/carcassonne/images/CC_forum_images/100_1230.jpg)

1 pink set of standard meeples with big meeple, builder and pig

and 2 lovely sets of standard white meeples with big meeple, builder, pig, mayor, barn and wagon!

Now I have my mayor, barn and wagon for painting orange!

and the other white set for use in other variants/expansions :)

Where did you get those other white A&M meeples?  They look good.

This is the supplier I use:


Contact him via e-mail and he will help.

Ah, he only has white at the moment.

I really do like the cow, black pig and sheep from Mayday Games:

(http://www.shopsphiatt.com/images/IMG_1082.JPG)

Do we need to use new sheep meeples in Kevin Graham's Shepherds?

He doesn't anymore.  Now he has white AND orange!

Link: http://cgi.ebay.de/Carcassonne-Figuren-Orange-KOMPLETT-Abtei-Buergerm_W0QQitemZ160300570372QQihZ006QQcategoryZ22167QQcmdZViewItem

I have an orange set on the way :)

I'd just like to have the A&M meeples though... I wonder if he will sell just that...

Well, my orange line up arrived this morning :)

(http://www.john-warren.co.uk/carcassonne/images/orange_meeples.jpg)

Can you do a comparison with the yellows and the reds?  I'm wondering how the orange compares with the other colours.

The orange really is a great colour. This would be my preferred colour (if they had orange in Stone Age!)

(http://www.john-warren.co.uk/carcassonne/images/comparison.jpg)

I play Yellow in Carcassonne, Yellow in Stone Age, Yellow in Ticket To Ride, Yellow in Settlers (an extra set was purchased)... you get the idea!

I think the orange set looks good.  I'll probably order one from the german ebay guy next month... hey wait, that's a few days away :)

I definitely like the road piece idea, although I was leaning towards using a crown for the king tile.

Peter (the German eBay seller) is a very helpful man.

I have ordered several items from him. One thing that amuses me though, i'm in the UK and can order something from within the UK and something from Peter on the same day, and Peter's items usually get here before the UK stuff! The German postal service must be very efficient indeed!

Funny you say that. I have had a similar experience, but ordered Catan-Austria on eBay almost two weeks ago from a 2500+ positive eBay seller and have yet to see it. Sigh. Usually fast, but not always apparently.

Who actually manufactures the wood pieces used in the game?

I have no idea :(
I'd love to know.

Gepetto, perhaps. (from Pinochio)  ;D

Yet another update to this thread.

Upon browsing the web for game part suppliers I found this link:

http://www.spielmaterial.de/english/ (http://www.spielmaterial.de/english/)

There is plenty to look at here for those of us interested in game developing (including basic Carcassonne figures), but one thing did grab my interest:

If you click on Counters (in the sidebar menu) and then scroll down to the bottom of the page, check out the Customized counters / tiles section. It could be useful ;)

Wow, 480 tiles for EUR100 (excluding shipping) sounds good.  And wow, they print the tiles out in colour, both sides.  This sounds like a nice plan :)

I think you should've looked closer... you forgot the price for the actual printing (100 Euros for 10 sheets is just for the material):

Each sheet-design costs a setup-fee of 45 Euros... so you can get 48 different tiles on one sheet for 45 Euros... if you have another 48 tiles (different from the first sheet) on the second sheet, that one costs you another 45 Euros... and so on...

Example: Let's assume I want to print 2 copies your Forest-Expansion, and only use 144 of the 150 tiles (so that they fit on 3 sheets each), that would be three different sheets (each one having different sets of tiles), each costing 45 Euros setup-fee = 135 Euros. I print each of the sheets twice, so that's six sheets, costing 16 Euros each = 96 Euros.

So for two copies of the Forest (or at least 144 tiles of it... a total of 288 tiles), I'd have to pay 231 Euros...

Changes my enthusiasm a bit. But I've mailed them about options... like completely white tiles, tiles with only the Carcassonne-C on the back and so on. We'll see. Nice find anyway!!!

Ah, I wondered what that EUR45 was for.  Thanks for the clarification.

OK, as of now, let's say we print 10 sheets (for 10 euros) of blanks to get 480 tiles.  That's 45 for the setup fee (I'm assuming they need to do it only once since it's all the same) so it's 480 tiles for 145 euros.  Hmm... and that excludes shipping.  3 tiles for a euro isn't that bad... but it's a lot of hassle to get it.

I've asked them about blank tiles, and they're not going to make those (with the Carcassonne-C on the back) because of copyright reasons. So I doubt they'll be printing whole fan-made expansions ;)

Altogether it'll be easier to just buy another base game for like 10 bucks (that's how much you pay for them on eBay) and work with those tiles.

I'd like to get some new meeples, but I can't find any place to buy the mayor, cart, and barn.  Is that guy that has the German ebay store still in business?  Does anyone have his email?

His shop is closed, but some of his stuff is now being sold on ebay.de by "spieldomizil". They had a few meeple sets, but I think they didn't have any (yet?) that included barn, mayor and wagon. For the last few days the shop has been listed as "closed due to technical reasons" though...

Hmmm, so are there any other verified places that these can be purchased?  Many of the expansions call for the use of meeples from a bunch of other Carcassonne sets (or at least suggest their use).  So it would be great to get ahold of these somewhere.  Especially meeples like the Dragon, the Fairy, Huts, Discovery pieces, Castle pieces.  I emailed  HiG (assuming they have at least one person that speaks English).  Hopefully someone will get back to me. 

You could buy extra sets for the meeples and use the tiles to make custom tiles.  There was also a thread (http://www.carcassonnecentral.com/forum/index.php?topic=767) somewhere here about getting the H&G meeples directly from RGG (which is in the US).  Perhaps you might want to send them an email to ask about the availability of the other types of meeples.

The other place to get meeples is Meeple People (http://www.carcassonnecentral.com/index.php?option=com_banners&task=click&bid=3).  If you purchase anything from there, make sure you use that link (or click the banner on the main page) so that part of the proceeds come back to support this site!

Following the recommendations here, I ordered a full sets (with big, pig and builders) of pink, white, brown, purple, and orange meeples about 10 days ago from meeplepeople.com, choosing the cheaper shipping option (as the dear one was more than the meeple were worth). Given I live in Australia, I wasn't expecting to see them for a while, but they turned up yesterday - the supplier had paid more for postage than they are asked for on the order and so I got them in about a week. They look great, and I'm more than delighted with the purchase - easy, quick, perfect. Just thought it was worth a plug and a big thankyou.  ;D

The only problem with meeple people is you need to buy A&M as well and paint the mayor, wagon and barn. (and I'm not too good at painting meeples, as I learn when I tried to paint 2 huts (for trading posts) grey, which isn't in H&G.

Oh, and happy ANZAC day to any other Australians out there...

Does anyone know what works best for painting them?  We've found that if you don't do anything to them, the new paint simply rubs off.  Is there a thread for this topic alread?

Korf - there's a Search link in the top left (in between Help and Profile).  Using that, I found this thread (http://www.carcassonnecentral.com/forum/index.php?topic=643.0) which will probably answer your question.

Anyways, if anyone is going to Essen next week (or is it the week after?), you might want to purchase some aluminium meeples from Jofasa's booth (http://jofasa.com/).  I think they have other colours as well.

(http://www.jofasa.com/metalmeeples.jpg)

I just spray painted them with a can of spray paint.  I didn't do any pre-sanding down or finishing coat.  Quick and easy, although you have to let some sides dry so you can flip it and paint the bottom.  It's been about 5 years and no sign of wear. (http://gwommy.homestead.com/files/PurpleSmileHappy.gif)

At 20 euros, that's more than the cost of the material, which makes me suspect he's trying to recoup set up costs. I wonder if they're molded or extruded? The low quantity is also strange; the price per meeple would be much better if he had produced more.

These appear to be selling the same items, but it's good to have alternative suppliers sometimes:
http://www.miniongames.com/accessories/boardgame-parts.html (http://www.miniongames.com/accessories/boardgame-parts.html)
http://www.rpgshop.com/accessories/boardgame-parts/ (http://www.rpgshop.com/accessories/boardgame-parts/)

MeeplePeople is now MeepleSource. Direct link to wooden meeples section:
http://www.meeplesource.com/products.php?filter=woodenmeeples (http://www.meeplesource.com/products.php?filter=woodenmeeples)

Also, www.boardsandbits.com has sets of 8 regular sized meeples in the original colors for 2.25. Along with cubes and catan boats and all sorts of extra useful stuff.