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A Brief History of Dream Pod 9

Dream Pod 9 finds its early roots in Ianus Publications founded in 1987 to publish the Protoculture Addicts Anime Magazine and which later also published Mecha Press magazine dedicated to Japanese SF animation, mecha, modeling and gaming. Talsorian Games to publish an Alternate Reality Universe line of products based on RTG's successful Cyber

punk 2020. The game design team at Ianus became known as Dream Pod 9 and when on to publish Jovian Chronicles for RTG’s Mekton II game system. DP9 was then hired in 1993 by Palladium Books, publishers of the Robotech and Macross II roleplaying games, to produce three volumes of the Macross II Deck Plans books. In 1994, DP9 began developing its first home grown game called Heavy Gear Fighter, which was the Card Fighter game that introduced gamers to the world of Heavy Gear. We worked on other projects including the Project A-ko roleplaying game, all the while continuing to work on our own game system. Heavy Gear the Roleplaying and Tactical Game was released in the summer of 1995. It became a success with its anime inspired artwork and realistic warfare game mechanics. Due to phenomenal growth of the game in late 1995 we decided to split Ianus into two new companies, Protoculture, which would continue to publish Protoculture Addicts magazine and Dream Pod 9, which became a fully fledged company publishing gaming books and miniatures. A year later, DP9 entered in a partnership with computer game giant Activision to create computer games based on the Heavy Gear property. Both Heavy Gear: the New Breed, and its advanced sequel, Heavy Gear II: Black Talon, took the computer game world by storm! In late 1999, Dream Pod 9 licensed the worldwide television rights to its popular Heavy Gear game universe to Sony Pictures Family Entertainment. The 40-episode computer animated series debuted in syndication across the world in early 2001. Dream Pod 9’s game universes include Heavy Gear, Jovian Chronicles, Gear Krieg, Tribe 8, and Core Command. With numerous RPG rulebooks and sourcebooks published for each, along with miniature wargame rulebooks for Heavy Gear, Jovian Chronicles, and Gear Krieg and full lines of pewter and resin miniatures. In 2003 the team behind Dream Pod 9 started work on a new project to work on action scenes for movies. Dream Pod Entertainment was created along with the Shadow Squad Stunt Team. Members of Shadow Squad have worked on numerous productions in Canada and Internationally one of the biggest being the 300, which film here in Montreal. Heavy Gear Blitz became the dedicated tabletop wargame version of Heavy Gear in 2008. We manufacture a complete line of 1/144 scale pewter and resin miniatures for the game. Plus, our first successful Kickstarter at the end of 2014 made possible plastic miniatures for 4 factions (North, South, CEF, and Caprice) in the game. And we recently ran additional successful plastic miniature Kickstarters to make 3 more factions (Peace River, NuCoal, and Utopia), which are available to customers now. Jovian Wars is the updated edition of our Jovian Chronicles miniatures wargame. In 2017 we ran a successful Kickstarter for a new line of miniatures, starting with the 2 main factions. The Venus faction miniatures have been added since then and additional Kickstarters are planned to make all the Jovian Wars factions available in the future. Dream Pod 9 currently has an outside team working on a new 4th Edition of the Heavy Gear Roleplaying Game, which we plan to release in 2022. Address in Canada and Contact Info:
Dream Pod 9
5000 Iberville, Suite 329
Montreal, Quebec, H2H 2S6
Canada
Phone: 514-523-1350
Contact: Robert Dubois
Email: [email protected]

Info on Our Products:

Dream Pod 9's pewter and resin miniatures are Made in Canada at our offices in Montreal, where we have complete casting facilities. We get our current plastic miniatures (North, South, CEF, and Caprice) are Made in USA by Models LLC (USA) and we have them shipped to our offices in Montreal, Canada where they are assembled and packaged. New plastic miniatures (Peace River, NuCoal, and Utopia) are Made in Canada by Plasti-World Products (Canada) and shipped to our offices in Montreal, Canada where they are assembled and packaged.

[[ Warning: Due to small parts and the choking hazard they may represent our miniatures are not recommended for children under 14 years of age. ]]

We get our current rulebooks Printed in the USA using Lightning Source (USA) print on demand for Dream Pod 9. Older backstock books were Printed in Canada. Our acrylic tokens are Made in Canada by Umake (Montreal, Canada) for Dream Pod 9 and we have them shipped to our offices in Montreal, Canada where they are assembled and packaged. Our dice are Made in Denmark for Chessex (USA) and we have them shipped to our offices in Montreal, Canada where they are packaged. Our patches are Made in China by Custom Patches (USA) for Dream Pod 9 and we have them shipped to our offices in Montreal, Canada where they are packaged. Our water slide decal sheets are Made in USA by Fighting Pirannha Graphics for Dream Pod 9.

07/04/2025

Happy Independence Day!

Just a quick post to wish all our American cousins to the south a Happy Independence Day (July 4th, 2025) from the staff at Dream Pod 9. We hope you all have a great day with family and friends!

07/01/2025

Happy Canada Day!

The staff at Dream Pod 9 wishes all our Canadian friends a Happy Canada Day, July 1st, 2025. We hope you all have a great day with family and friends.

06/16/2025

New Mammoth Strider 3D Model Preview and DP9 News!

Today we have another surprise for the Northern faction players of Heavy Gear Blitz. We have a new Mammoth Strider 3D Model by Duymon to preview. He previously did the Damocles Artillery Strider and the new Mammoth uses the same legs/feet and shoulders. Duymon also made another amazing cockpit with the pilot and gunner and closed or open hatch parts. Plus he made all the Mammoth variant weapon arm parts and a new Apex Hammer for a future Command Mammoth variant. And we added the Bombard LFG arms from the Damocles to give the Mammoth another new future variant. Checkout preview images of the Mammoth and its variants, including exploded parts view and the HGB 3.1 Mammoth model stats.

Alain over at Fusion Models will be doing 3D tests prints this week and then getting the Mammoth assembled and painted for the end of June. Once that's done we'll get photos taken and make the black box cover sheet. Our goal is to have the Mammoth up for sale on Friday July 4th 2025.

Some DP9 News today as well, the Dream Pod 9 office will be closed from Today thru June 29th for a staff vacation before the summer convention season begins. We'll be back in the office on Monday June 30th and get all orders received cast up and packed that week and shipped for Canada and International customers. US orders will ship the following Monday July 7th, 2025 by the US Postal Service.

06/13/2025

Dark Mamba Two Pack - Available Now!

The Dark Mamba is a strike gear for the Black Talon faction of Heavy Gear Blitz, sold as a two pack but includes 3 leg set options (Standing, Running, and Kneeling) to choose from. The New Dark Mamba was 3D modeled by Tony Baltera to replace the old pewter miniature single pack. Checkout photos below of the assembled and painted Dark Mamba Omicron (MLC) with Psi upgrade, Nu (MRL) and Chi (MGL) variants by Alain Gadbois. Along with resin parts photo with future upgrade option weapons and image of the Dark Mamba HGB model stats sheet.

Contents: 2x Dark Mamba (with 3 Leg Pose Options: Standing, Running, or Kneeling) + 1x Standard and 1x Across Torso Arms + All Variant Weapons and Parts + Extra Weapons + 1x Hex Base, 1x Hex Base for Running Legs, and 1x Round Base for Kneeling Legs. Packaged in a clam shell blister to protect the resin parts.

1/144 Scale 3d printed ABS like resin miniature, 39mm tall with base to top of the V-Engine. Assembly and painting required, decals not included.

You can purchase the Dark Mamba Two Pack now on the DP9 Online Store in the new releases section at the following link.
https://store.dp9.com/new-releases

06/05/2025

New Black Talon: Dark Mamba Two Pack 3D Model Preview!

Today we have a preview of the new Dark Mamba Gear for the Black Talon faction of Heavy Gear Blitz. Previously the Dark Mamba was made using a pewter Black Mamba and BT: Dark Series Parts and sold as a single pack with random arm (standard or across the torso) and random legs (standing or running) poses. Our 3D modeler Tony Baltera made a new Dark Mamba with kneeling legs pose option and new distinctive Black Talon version weapons, like he did for the Dark Jaguar. Checkout preview images for the Dark Mamba Omicron, Nu, and Chi variants plus the Psi Upgrade parts and HGB 3.1 Dark Mamba model stats image. Also we have an exploded parts image along with rear and side view images.

We've done test prints of the 3d printed parts this week, see the parts photo below. Alain will be busy assembling and painting up the Dark Mambas, then later next week we'll get photos taken and the blister sheet made. On Friday June 13th we'll make another post to show everyone how they turn out and put the new Dark Mamba Two Pack up for sale.

After that its on to the New 3D Printed Mammoth Strider (Late June/Early July Release), we'll get a post done next week with a preview of the 3D Model.

05/30/2025

Damocles Artillery Strider - Available Now on the DP9 Online Store!

The Damocles Artillery Strider is finally available as 3d printed miniature for the Northern Faction.

The original Damocles was a mobile Heavy Artillery Gun (HAG) with light pulse lasers and medium machineguns, based on the Mammoth Assault Strider. It later received an A2 variant upgrade adding arms and we added the Tracked Feet (Secondary Movement System) upgrade to increase its combat speed. The DP9 team looked at the bar arms of the A2 and decided to add 2 two more variants. The first being the Standoff variant to deal with anyone wanting to get to-close with an Apex Heavy Frag Cannon (HFG) in the right hand and an Apex Heavy Vibro Blade (HVB - Axe) in the left hand. And the new Bombard variant with Light Field Guns (LFGs - link) on both arms. Then we added an interior cockpit detail with pilot and gunner, plus open and closed cockpit hatch detail parts. The HAG also includes parts for 3 different inclinations and the Damocles shoulder/arms are fully posable and then glued as desired. The legs, ballistic cloth section, and feet all have connections with 2mm diameter by 1mm deep holes for magnets (not included) for easy leg pose changes and there are 2 different (standard and leaning a bit forward) ballistic section pose parts. Checkout the resin parts photo below along with the HGB 3.1 Stats image for all the game options.

1/144 Scale 3D printed ABS like resin miniature, 51mm tall to the top of shoulders. Assembly & painting required, decals not included. Packaged in a small black box, with foam padding and all the resin parts in a small zip lock bag.

The Damocles is available now on the DP9 Online Store in the New Releases section at the following link.
https://store.dp9.com/new-releases

05/18/2025

Final 40 Hours of the Dream Pod 9 Online Store - March Madness Spring Sale!

The Dream Pod 9 March Madness Spring Sale 2025 is ending at Midnight EST May 19th, 2025.

With special 10% OFF pricing on our Heavy Gear Blitz 3.1 Rulebooks (full size and half size). Heavy Gear Blitz two player starter boxes, faction army boxes, miniature packs and boxes, patches, decals, and dice. Jovian Wars spaceships, squads, patches, decals, and dice. Plus Fusion Models products (HG/JC garage kits, and Historical kits). Click the link below and visit the DP9 Online Store for some great deals on Heavy Gear Blitz, Jovian Wars, and Fusion Models products.
https://store.dp9.com/

Also ending at the same time is the special sale pricing on the Heavy Gear RPG Fourth Edition Rulebook Ebook, POD Softcover and POD Hardcover (Print On Demand) books on DriveThruRPG. The Heavy Gear RPG 4th Edition is 480 pages long and in full color. The special 25% OFF pricing makes the Ebook $22.50 USD (normally $30), the POD Softcover book $75.00 USD (normally $100) plus shipping, and the POD Hardcover book $93.75 USD (normally $125) plus shipping. Here is a link to the ordering page on DriveThruRPG or you can scan the QR Code on the image below. Special ends at Midnight EST May 19th, 2025.
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/457450/heavy-gear-rpg-fourth-edition-rulebook

Also with the end of the Spring Sale we have a few price increases to announce that will go into effect when the sale ends. Our Printer down in the USA (Ingram) raised their printing prices in April. Our Heavy Gear Blitz 3.1 Rulebooks full size book (DP9-9374) will increase to $59.99 USD ($52.99 old price) and HGB 3.1 half size book (DP9-9375) will increase to $36.99 USD ($32.99 old price). Also our supplier of boxes and printed paper wrap-around sheets have increased their prices. So the Heavy Gear Blitz Battle in the Badlands (DP9-9380) and War for Terra Nova (DP9-9381) Two Player Starter Boxes which include the half size rulebook will increase to $130.99 USD each ($124.99 old prices). And our Northern, Southern, CEF, and Caprice plastic miniature Army Boxes (DP9-9340, 9341, 9342, and 9343) will increase to $64.99 USD ($62.99 old prices), the Peace River and NuCoal Army Boxes will increase to $71.99 USD each ($68.24 old pricing), and the Utopia Army Box will increase to $75.99 USD ($73.49 old pricing).

05/07/2025

Damocles Artillery Strider 3D Model Preview!

Today we have a surprise for the Northern faction players of Heavy Gear Blitz and the Heavy Gear 4th Edition RPG. We introduce a new 3D modeler, Duymon to the Dream Pod 9 team. His first project with DP9 is the Northern Damocles Artillery Strider, which is built from the Mammoth Assault Strider chassis with a massive KLG-675 Artillery GUN (HAG) mounted on top. Duymon also made a detailed cockpit with the pilot and gunner and closed or open hatch parts and did an amazing job. Plus he made the Damocles A2 variant with poseable Arms, which lead to the DP9 Team discussing possible new variant options. This is the fun part where ideas are brainstormed and which lead to the new Damocles A2 Standoff and Bombard variants. The Standoff variant uses the arms to hold an Apex Heavy Frag Cannon (HFC) and a big Apex Heavy Vibro Axe (HVB). While the Bombard variant replaces the lower arms with linked Light Field Guns (LFGs Link). Checkout preview images of the Damocles and its variants, including exploded parts view and the HGB 3.1 Damocles model stats.

We'll be doing tests prints of the Damocles 3d printed parts this week and then get one assembled and painted. Once that's done we'll take photos and get the black box cover sheet made. Our goal is to have the Damocles up for sale around May 23rd, 2025. We'll do another post to show everyone the painted Damocles when its available to purchase on the DP9 Online Store. Next on the projects for Duymon is the Northern Mammoth Strider and Tony Baltera is currently finishing up the Dark Mamba 3d model.

Also a reminder the Dream Pod 9 Online Store March Madness Spring Sale is now in its final 2 weeks, ending at Midnight EST May 19th, 2025. With special 10% OFF pricing on our Heavy Gear Blitz 3.1 Rulebooks (full size and half size). Heavy Gear Blitz two player starter boxes, faction army boxes, miniature packs and boxes, patches, decals, and dice. Jovian Wars spaceships, squads, patches, decals, and dice. Plus Fusion Models products (HG/JC garage kits, and Historical kits).

Click the link below and visit the DP9 Online Store for some great deals on Heavy Gear Blitz, Jovian Wars, and Fusion Models products.
https://store.dp9.com/

04/24/2025

Dream Pod 9 Online Store International Orders Shipping Update!

As of April 22nd, 2025 all Dream Pod 9 Online Store International Customer orders will be processed as they are received and shipped using Canada Post to the International destination. This is due to US Customs and Border Protection changing rules and no longer allowing Canadians to ship packages thru the USA to International customers without using a Customs Broker and Bonded Carrier in the USA, which would increase shipping costs by 2 to 3 times.

All US Customer orders will be processed as they are received and shipped by either US Post in a weekly shipping (if we have enough US orders to justify the cost of gas, US Customs entry fee, and our time). Or the orders will shipped by Canada Post or UPS Canada ground service to the US destination.

All Canadian Customer orders will continue to be processed as they are received and shipped using Canada Post's Expedited service.

Canadian and US orders now have a fixed shipping cost of $22 USD and International orders have a fixed shipping cost of $55 USD.

Remember the DP9 Online Store Spring Sale is now on with great savings, check it out at the following link.
https://store.dp9.com/

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04/22/2025

Dark Jaguar Two Pack - Available Now!

The Dark Jaguar is a strike gear for the Black Talon faction of Heavy Gear Blitz, sold as a two pack but includes 3 leg set options (Standing, Running, and Kneeling) to choose from. The New Dark Jaguar was 3D modeled by Tony Baltera to replace the old pewter miniature single pack. Checkout photos below of the assembled and painted Dark Jaguar Alpha, Beta, and Gamma variants by Alain Gadbois. Along with resin parts photo, Sigma variant Medium Bazooka and future upgrade option weapons and image of the Dark Jaguar HGB model stats sheet.

Contents: 2x Dark Jaguar (with 3 Leg Pose Options: Standing, Running, or Kneeling) + 1x Standard and 1x Across Torso Arms + All Variant Weapons and Parts + Extra Weapons + 1x Hex Base, 1x Hex Base for Running Legs, and 1x Round Base for Kneeling Legs. Packaged in a clam shell blister to protect the resin parts.

1/144 Scale 3d printed ABS like resin miniature, 38mm tall with base to top of the V-Engine. Assembly and painting required, decals not included.

You can purchase the Dark Jaguar Two Pack now on the DP9 Online Store in the new releases section at the following link.
https://store.dp9.com/new-releases

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5000 Iberville, Suite 329
Montreal, QC
H2H2S6

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Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm

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https://www.dp9.com/

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The Universe Next Door

A Brief History of Dream Pod 9

Dream Pod 9 finds its early roots in Ianus Publications founded in 1987 to publish the Protoculture Addicts Anime Magazine and which later also published Mecha Press magazine dedicated to Japanese SF animation, mecha, modeling and gaming. In 1992, Ianus struck a deal with R. Talsorian Games to publish an Alternate Reality Universe line of products based on RTG's successful Cyberpunk 2020. The game design team at Ianus became known as Dream Pod 9 and when on to publish Jovian Chronicles for RTG’s Mekton II game system. DP9 was then hired in 1993 by Palladium Books, publishers of the Robotech and Macross II roleplaying games, to produce three volumes of the Macross II Deck Plans books.

In 1994, DP9 began developing its first home grown game called Heavy Gear Fighter, which was the Card Fighter game that introduced gamers to the world of Heavy Gear. We worked on other projects including the Project A-ko roleplaying game, all the while continuing to work on our own game system. Heavy Gear the Roleplaying and Tactical Game was released in the summer of 1995. It became a success with its anime inspired artwork and realistic warfare game mechanics. Due to phenomenal growth of the game in late 1995 we decided to split Ianus into two new companies, Protoculture, which would continue to publish Protoculture Addicts magazine and Dream Pod 9, which became a fully fledged company publishing gaming books and miniatures.

A year later, DP9 entered in a partnership with computer game giant Activision to create computer games based on the Heavy Gear property. Both Heavy Gear: the New Breed, and its advanced sequel, Heavy Gear II: Black Talon, took the computer game world by storm! In late 1999, Dream Pod 9 licensed the worldwide television rights to its popular Heavy Gear game universe to Sony Pictures Family Entertainment. The 40-episode computer animated series debuted in syndication across the world in early 2001.

Dream Pod 9’s game universes include Heavy Gear, Jovian Chronicles, Gear Krieg, Tribe 8, and Core Command. With numerous RPG rulebooks and sourcebooks published for each, along with miniature wargame rulebooks for Heavy Gear, Jovian Chronicles, and Gear Krieg and full lines of pewter and resin miniatures.

In 2003 the team behind Dream Pod 9 started work on a new project to work on action scenes for movies. Dream Pod Entertainment was created along with the Shadow Squad Stunt Team. Members of Shadow Squad have worked on numerous productions in Canada and Internationally one of the biggest being the 300, which film here in Montreal.

Heavy Gear Blitz became the dedicated tabletop wargame version of Heavy Gear in 2008. We manufacture a complete line of 1/144 scale pewter and resin miniatures for the game. Plus, our first successful Kickstarter at the end of 2014 made possible plastic miniatures for 4 factions in the game. And we recently ran additional successful plastic miniature Kickstarters to make 3 more factions available, which are currently in production and will be shipping to Backers in early 2019.

Jovian Wars is now the updated edition of our Jovian Chronicles miniatures wargame and in 2017 we ran a successful Kickstarter for a new line of miniatures, starting with the 2 main factions. Additional Kickstarters are planned to make all the Jovian Wars factions available in the future.

Address in Canada and Contact Info:

Dream Pod 9

5000 Iberville, Suite 329

Montreal, Quebec, H2H 2S6

Canada

Phone: 514-523-1350

Contact: Robert Dubois

Email: [email protected]

Info on Our Products:

Dream Pod 9's pewter and resin miniatures are Made in Canada at our offices in Montreal, where we have complete casting facilities.

We get our current plastic miniatures (North, South, CEF, and Caprice) are Made in USA by Models LLC (USA) and we have them shipped to our offices in Montreal, Canada where they are assembled and packaged.

Future plastic miniatures (Peace River, NuCoal, and Utopia) will be Made in Canada by Plasti-World Products (Canada) and we'll have them shipped to our offices in Montreal, Canada where they will be assembled and packaged.

Warning: Due to small parts and the choking hazard they may represent our miniatures are not recommended for children under 14 years of age.

We get our current rulebooks Printed in the USA using Lightning Source (USA) print on demand for Dream Pod 9. Older backstock books were Printed in Canada.

Our acrylic tokens are Made in USA by Impudent Mortal (USA) for Dream Pod 9 and we have them shipped to our offices in Montreal, Canada where they are assembled and packaged.

Our dice are Made in Denmark for Chessex (USA) and we have them shipped to our offices in Montreal, Canada where they are packaged.

Our patches are Made in China by Custom Patches (USA) for Dream Pod 9 and we have them shipped to our offices in Montreal, Canada where they are packaged.

Our water slide decal sheets are Made in USA by Fighting Pirhana Graphics for Dream Pod 9.