>One thing I'm wondering is what game are all those different meeples >from? In the choir pic I recognize the 3 short ones from my Carcassonne >game but there is a tall green one with feet and a tall blue one with no >feet... I have no idea what game they inhabit.
Okay, here's the story, from the guy who shot and posted those pics.
The term "meeple" is short for "my people" and was originally coined by one our Unity Gamers, Alison H. The reason I made the pics was sort of a joke and sort of a sales pitch. You see I wanted to get some meeples of the kind you'll find in Europa: 1945-2035 (or whatever its name is) and after a bit of digging got in touch with Eurogames' supplier. They sold them in batchs of 1000s and the more you ordered the cheaper they were. So in order to get them as cheaply as possible I had to order 12,000 (2000 each in 6 different colors). Well I didn't need 12,000 meeples to myself, thus the pictures in the UG group ("See all the uses of meeples! being the theme). There wasn't a whole lot of thought put into the pics and it was done on my birthday in about 45 minutes time.
The pics were taken using the 120 meeples you get in Europa, plus the ones you get with Carcassonne. Note that the meeples in Europa are of 2 different sexes (skirts and no skirts), thus the 3 different kinds of meeples you see.
I managed to sell off almost all of the 12000 meeples (I have only a few hundred left). About a handful of folks actually bought up lots of 1200 meeples to themselves and occassionally I hear interesting stories of the uses they were put to, although I would imagine most are collecting dust somewhere.
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