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<blockquote data-quote="pawsplay" data-source="post: 3042901" data-attributes="member: 15538"><p>I was looking at the different galleries, and I had a few thoughts.</p><p></p><p>First, the minis have improved in quality. There is just no comparison. However, they have not improved all that much in terms of "giving the people what they want," people meaning me and the gazillion ebay users who could give a rat's ass about a Draegloth or a Kapak draconian. </p><p></p><p>Huge sets are cool, because Huge minis are cool. Plus they usually tuck a few regular minis in there that are just great, such as as night hag, a mind flayer arch villain, the drow fighter, inspiring marshal, and the sword of glory. But overall, the rest of the is just kind of lame. I think they try too hard to make the Huge sets crowd pleasures, when in actuality, with those sets, I think people are looking for unadulterated awesomeness, even if there isn't a lot of building room for funky dudes. </p><p></p><p>They still haven't been putting out a lot of PC friendly minis, which is nuts. You get a handful of iconics, often ones that have already been done. Very little in the way of various arms, armor, and spellcasting gear. For instance, if you have a male human wizard, your choices are the wacky looking Evoker's Apprentice, various old dudes, and an elven wand expert. How about a dude in a cloak or traveler's clothes or a simple robe who looks cool? Bards are fairly well covered, as are heavily armored warriors, monks, and various elves. Barbarians, mages, half-orcs, halflings, archers, and druids have gotten pretty weak support. There is not a single female half-orc of which I am aware. </p><p></p><p>I know it isn't their business model, but I wish I could go out and buy a pack of animals, or undead, or a particular humanoid race, or some archetypal characters for a certain setting (i.e. Red Wizards, Solamnic Knights, that kind of thing). </p><p></p><p>I wish they have more competitors in the prepainted plastics market.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pawsplay, post: 3042901, member: 15538"] I was looking at the different galleries, and I had a few thoughts. First, the minis have improved in quality. There is just no comparison. However, they have not improved all that much in terms of "giving the people what they want," people meaning me and the gazillion ebay users who could give a rat's ass about a Draegloth or a Kapak draconian. Huge sets are cool, because Huge minis are cool. Plus they usually tuck a few regular minis in there that are just great, such as as night hag, a mind flayer arch villain, the drow fighter, inspiring marshal, and the sword of glory. But overall, the rest of the is just kind of lame. I think they try too hard to make the Huge sets crowd pleasures, when in actuality, with those sets, I think people are looking for unadulterated awesomeness, even if there isn't a lot of building room for funky dudes. They still haven't been putting out a lot of PC friendly minis, which is nuts. You get a handful of iconics, often ones that have already been done. Very little in the way of various arms, armor, and spellcasting gear. For instance, if you have a male human wizard, your choices are the wacky looking Evoker's Apprentice, various old dudes, and an elven wand expert. How about a dude in a cloak or traveler's clothes or a simple robe who looks cool? Bards are fairly well covered, as are heavily armored warriors, monks, and various elves. Barbarians, mages, half-orcs, halflings, archers, and druids have gotten pretty weak support. There is not a single female half-orc of which I am aware. I know it isn't their business model, but I wish I could go out and buy a pack of animals, or undead, or a particular humanoid race, or some archetypal characters for a certain setting (i.e. Red Wizards, Solamnic Knights, that kind of thing). I wish they have more competitors in the prepainted plastics market. [/QUOTE]
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