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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MNblockhead" data-source="post: 9341174" data-attributes="member: 6796661">Agree 100%, but nostalgia is a hell of a drug.I also can't prove the intent of Wizkids, but I feel pretty confident that they did this to generate buzz and they were very successful.  I don't get why folks keep saying this is cynical. Maybe there were other characters and artwork to introduce a bulked up female warrior for the 50th anniversary, but the Red Box cover is one of the most well known pieces of D&D art and was one where the character was only shown from the back. What other piece of art could they have used to as successfully subvert expectations and create as much buzz with?The female art is definitely targeted to appeal to heterosexual guys, just like the covers of pulp adventure fiction. The male figures are also targeted as men as aspirational. The target audience was guys.Nothing nefarious about it. Whether it was good for society (lots of conservative types decried it as trashy, and many women's group decried it as exploitative at that time) or exclusive (probably not trying to exclude, they are just making assumptions of who their target audience was and probably had numbers to back it up), it was definitely capitalizing on the male gaze and did so successfully.  I appreciated it then and I appreciate it now. But I can also see why people might have other preferences. It is not as if straight guys have less access to depictions of beautiful women in revealing garb and suggestive poses in 2024 than they did in 1984. You can't always get what you want. There have been minis of the D&D cartoon characters, minis of iconic D&D monsters from the OD&D and AD&D era, there is a mini of the Paladin in Hell art, and probably more that I forgot about. But Wiz Kids makes ONE mini that doesn't fit some folk's expectations and they throw a tantrum.Like I did with my kids when they threw tantrums at stupid things, best to ignore them.This isn't a Bud Light or Harry's Razor situation. Those upset enough over this are likely a very small minority of the potential consumers. They may be very vocal, but that will likely just be free advertising that will drive up sales of this miniature.</blockquote>

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