I'm feeling very out of touch; I managed to miss some major announcements about the future of D&D and the D&D Miniatures line. Oh well, I'm catching up now.
Source: Wizards, through the coverage of their seminar by Living Dice:
Later in 2010, the Lords of Madness miniature set will be released. It won't have a visible miniature in it, instead being fully random, and consisting of 1 Huge miniature plus 5 other miniatures per pack.
The big feature of this set is it will be the *only* set of (random) D&D Minis in 2010, and they'll be going forward with the one set/year from now on - or until they change their minds.
Of course, they're doing other non-random sets for specific customers, such as the gargantuan Orcus miniature ($75) which will be released to hobby shops only; and there's also the Beholder pack release coming up (not mentioned in the seminar, but talked about by Bill Slavicsek in his Ampersand column).
Cheers!
Source: Wizards, through the coverage of their seminar by Living Dice:
Later in 2010, the Lords of Madness miniature set will be released. It won't have a visible miniature in it, instead being fully random, and consisting of 1 Huge miniature plus 5 other miniatures per pack.
The big feature of this set is it will be the *only* set of (random) D&D Minis in 2010, and they'll be going forward with the one set/year from now on - or until they change their minds.
Of course, they're doing other non-random sets for specific customers, such as the gargantuan Orcus miniature ($75) which will be released to hobby shops only; and there's also the Beholder pack release coming up (not mentioned in the seminar, but talked about by Bill Slavicsek in his Ampersand column).
Cheers!