Flashgitz’s Space King board game blasted past $2 million in less than a day with a Warhammer 40k parody done right.
Those roughly 18,000 Space King Kickstarter followers before the campaign went live weren’t just window shopping. Flashgitz just generated 2 million in less than a day with their game.
That is 40 times its original $50,000 funding goal, with roughly 5,400 backers already throwing money at the campaign. Currently it’s at $2.8 million, and we expect it to keep climbing with over 24 days left in the campaign.
What looked like a promising launch a few days ago has become a pretty convincing demonstration of what happens when you spend years building an audience before trying to sell them plastic.
Flashgitz built Space King by making fun of Warhammer 40k, and now they’re officially selling us some of their own. This isn’t somebody tossing Space King-looking files onto a print farm and hoping nobody notices. Flashgitz is making the board game themselves, with official Space King miniatures and lore straight from the show.
Games Workshop spent decades teaching hobbyists to buy plastic by the sprue. Apparently Flashgitz took some notes themselves…
Yes, Space King Is Really Selling the Plastic Models Now
Updated on September 1st, 2026, by Rob Baer with the latest Kickstarter news.
- $2 million in less than a day: Space King blew past its $50,000 Kickstarter goal with roughly 5,400 backers piling into the campaign, and is currently at $2.8 million.
- Creator-owned, not fan-made: Flashgitz is making this one themselves, with official Space King miniatures and lore, so it isn’t another legally distinct STL drop.
- Hobbyists are spending hobby money: the average pledge was already north of $370, which looks more like miniature collecting than casually picking up a cheap board game.
- The experiment already worked: Flashgitz built the audience first and turned its parody universe into a multimillion-dollar tabletop property without needing another miniature company to do it.
The Kickstarter makes it pretty clear this isn’t just some collection of renders that might become miniatures eventually. The Psycho Warriors are around 50mm tall, regular enemies are roughly 36mm, and the bosses can hit 109mm.
They’re PVC, come fully assembled, and can be painted if you want your particular band of murderous lunatics looking a little more respectable on the tabletop.
That’s quite a bit different from the third-party miniatures and 3D printing scene, where we’ve seen takedown notices, cease-and-desists, and communities getting nuked over models that got a little too close to somebody else’s designs.
Here, the people who own Space King are the ones putting Space King in the box. Nobody has to wonder whether the minis will disappear two weeks after launch because somebody got an angry email.
Space King Made $2 Million Before the First Day Was Over
Before launch, their Space King Game tracker had roughly 18,000 people following the Kickstarter. At the time, that looked like the big number.
Turns out it was just the waiting room.
The campaign launched with a $50,000 goal and was sitting above $2 million before its first full day was over. Roughly 5,400 backers had already joined in, putting the average pledge above $370.
That’s probably the most interesting part, honestly. Plenty of people will throw $40 or $50 at a funny board game from a creator they like. An average pledge in the hundreds starts looking a lot more like how people already spend money in the miniature hobby.
Cool characters, piles of models, expansions, exclusives, and giant centerpiece stuff aren’t exactly new tricks. We as hobbyists have been trained for years to look at that spread and immediately start calculating how much plastic they can justify.
Flashgitz also didn’t launch this thing in a vacuum. Space King 5: War World is out now, so the Kickstarter arrived while people were already paying close attention to the series.
Overall, it’s a win-win for everyone. They make the cartoons people want to watch, build characters people care about, then put those characters into plastic while everybody is still talking about them.
Most of Us Are Buying the Plastic, Not the Rulebook
Best of all, there is an actual game underneath all this plastic. The base game supports two to four players, with everyone controlling Psycho Warriors across five different missions while killing aliens, stealing kills, backstabbing the competition, and generally doing whatever it takes to become Space King’s favorite.
So this isn’t just Space King art slapped over some completely generic miniatures board game.
Still, plenty of hobbyists are clearly looking beyond the rulebook. The campaign is packed with minis and lore, and from what we’ve seen, they’re exactly what you’d want from extremely legally distinct proxies for another grimdark game.
Just don’t start building a Space King army quite yet. Everything official still calls this a board game, not a wargame, and a box full of cool power armor doesn’t automatically mean there’s a deep tabletop army system hiding behind it.
But you could use the miniatures in Warhammer 40k games for sure.
Flashgitz Found the Same FOMO Button Too
The Kickstarter campaign also comes with something Warhammer hobbyists should recognize immediately: reasons to buy now instead of later.
Flashgitz says some items are Kickstarter exclusives that won’t be available once the campaign ends. Backers are also supposed to save at least $20 compared with eventual retail pricing. The standard game and expansions are also planned for the Flashgitz store after Kickstarter rewards have been fulfilled, but that isn’t expected until early 2028.
So yes, Flashgitz apparently figured out the whole limited-availability thing too, just like Games Workshop’s FOMO.
But to be fair, that’s hardly unusual for Kickstarter, but it helps explain why people are going so deep on pledges right now. If somebody already likes Space King, waiting means missing exclusives, paying more later, and potentially sitting around until 2028 before the regular retail version shows up.
This Is How To Rip Off Games Workshop
To be clear, Flashgitz isn’t actually ripping off Games Workshop’s products here. That’s what makes this whole thing more interesting.
They just copied the lesson.
Don’t sell unofficial Space Marines and spend the next few years wondering when the lawyers show up. Build your own setting, your own characters, your own audience, and then sell those people the kind of physical hobby products they already like buying.
Space King already had the factions, ridiculous lore, recognizable characters, oversized armor, monsters, and fans quoting the show at each other. Turning all of that into miniatures feels almost obvious once the audience is large enough.
GW spent decades building lore around plastic miniatures. Flashgitz came at it from the other direction by building an entertainment property first and making the plastic later.
The result is still thousands of people paying hundreds of dollars for toy soldiers, and other creators will probably notice that too.
An animation channel, webcomic, indie game, or other creator-owned universe doesn’t necessarily need an established tabletop company to decide whether its setting deserves miniatures anymore. Build enough fans first, crowdfund production, and those same fans can finance the jump into physical products themselves.
Final Thoughts on Space King Making $2 Million in One Day
The question isn’t whether Flashgitz can get people interested in Space King miniatures anymore. Two million dollars answered that question pretty quickly.
Now comes the part every giant miniature Kickstarter eventually has to deal with: actually making all this stuff and getting it into people’s hands.
Flashgitz has already proven the audience exists, and they’ve said they’d like to keep making expansions if the campaign works out. Financially, crossing $2 million against a $50,000 goal makes that particular question look pretty settled.
Games Workshop spent decades proving people will pay serious money for cool plastic wrapped in ridiculous lore. Flashgitz spent years making fun of that formula and eventually realized there wasn’t much stopping them from using it themselves.
It works because the people making fun of grimdark clearly know and like the thing they’re roasting. They went from drawing ridiculous power armor to putting their own version of it in a box, and thousands of people immediately started buying it.
Whether Space King grows into an ongoing tabletop line is the next thing to watch for!
See the Kickstarter for the Space King Board Game
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What do you think about Space King cracking $2 million in less than a day, and is Flashgitz onto something here that other creators are going to copy?
