Funko’s TurningFast and FuriousInto a Board Game

The Fast and Furious franchise has gone from heist picture show toridiculous heist movies , to superhero spinoffs , topossibly actuallygoing to spacefor a bit . But maybe one of its most curious jumps yet ? Tabletop gambling .

Today , Funko Games ( a.k.a . seasoned board game fashion designer Prospero Hall ) announce a emcee of fresh licensed board game , including a sports - trivia / dexterity game mashup base on ESPN and a new all - years match secret plan using Disney Princess character . But perhaps the weird of all is a new co - operative tabletop adventure game that asks you to attract off your own Fast and Furious heist with … a significantly smaller budget .

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Now imagine this with much more dice rolling.

Now imagine this with much more dice rolling.Image: Funko Games

The budget is zero . Well , actually , it ’s $ 30 ( the cost of Fast & Furious : Highway Heist ) , which nets you all the little plastic supercars you ’ll involve to go on increasingly audacious vehicular stunt fests . Highway Heist purge 2 - 4 instrumentalist as various stars of the flying universe of discourse — including Dom , Brian , Letty , Roman , and others — rolling dice to swerve their auto and dispose their driver around in each scenario as they attempt to keep themselves from crash into a billion piece to salvage the day .

To boost replicability beyond the three scenarios — ask gamers to do everything from ram a semi - motortruck fill up with precious loot , to break a tankful , to bringing down a whirlybird shot fire down from above — the plot separates equipment driver and fomite stats so players can mix and match their heroes and rides to gain dissimilar abilities and access to new science .

There ’s something inherently derisory about attempt to bring the tight - paced , mellow - octane explosionfests of the Fast dealership to a methodical scheme board game , but what is the Fast franchise if not inherently nonsensical ? If it can give usmetahuman Idris Elba , it can give us a boardgame . Highway Heist is set to release in May .

Image: Funko Games