I think I'm going to skip this set mostly for budget reasons. Does anyone know if they're selling the small Demogorgen separately?

First, nice website and an excellent resource. I'm glad I stumbled across it.
I like this set a lot. A whole lot. If this had been available in the early 1980s when I started playing D&D, a set like this would have sent me over the moon because the figures look just like they are pictured in the 1st edition AD&D Monster Manual. It only took 40 years for someone to get things right! One big reason "modern day" versions of the monsters in this set have diverged so much from the way they originally looked in the MM is because back in the day, Grenadier, Ral Partha, Heritage USA, etc., either didn't bother to make white metal figures of these monsters that actually looked like the pics in the MM, or they didn't make figures of them at all. Grenadier made a few that looked right. Its Shambling Mound, Lizard Men, and Black Pudding (or was that Heritage?) were good and Heritage made a Hobgoblin that was spot-on. But Orcs and most other humanoids were all over the map back then. A properly sized and shaped Purple Worm was out of the question in 1980. (BTW, Otherworld minis now has a perfectly sized and shaped resin PW kit - it's around 15" long or so - see pic with credit to Otherworld). Anyhow, with so much artistic license taken back them, some of which was perhaps necessary because intellectual property issues (which I didn't appreciate until I got older), for this old gamer, I am very pleased with the "retro" look of this set. To me it's not retro - it's the way things should have been all along!