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Message: <blockquote data-quote="justanobody" data-source="post: 4593973" data-attributes="member: 70778">I got a dumb idea for all where no game is really involved anymore and no need for rarity or randomization. Make and sell sets.One SKU per set.Have some minis that are sort of common that appear in multiple sets, like with 4th editions those that would be minions.If someone wants more of something they buy a whole new set. Seems to work for many of Hasbro's other toy lines where the "figures" come packaged in a set and do not have articulating joints.Remember those dime store bags of monsters and dinosaurs that had Rust Monsters in them?Cheap, painted, plastic, lots fo figures.They just need to break out of CMG territory to find what used to work to get minis games and minis themselves back on track, and it goes for all plastic minis makers these days.I see bags of glow-in-the-dark Zombies!!!, and little plastic army men all over the place and each is less than $10 and has a higher weight that DDM boosters, and it has the stiff plastic bags instead of cardboard boxes that DDM or Clix as packaged in.There is another problem with the pricing is the excess cost on packaging, as with everything else, there is where a lot of the cost goes to the consumer is paying for the excessive packaging!Why are each mini contained in their own little bags? These pillow packs could reduce space by allowing minis to ujumble together and then cause reduced packaging costs by not filling it with a void of air.And why the high end cards as thought you are making American Playing Card Company poker decks out of plastic/paper when you sell card sleeves that people can put the cards in. Another overall product costs reduction to pass along to the consumer to allow and entice them to buy more product and help sell those extra minis to lower the costs of production of plastics.....Thanks goodness some companies are moving towards metal and peewter again because it has become cheaper than plastic. Why not wodden minis made from compressed saw dust and clue since they are painted with varnish that will seal them anyway.There are tons of things in the costs that could be done to reduce them, but it takes either a plant in the USA to start to do it, or convincing China to do these things and prices could be lowered in the long term.Minis will be back, but I think now for some RPGs it will be a tough time finding new ones other than second hand markets, and Catalyst/Pinata will have as much work or more than the DDM Guild in stabalizing those games to keep minis out there for RPG use.</blockquote>

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