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<blockquote data-quote="Clint_L" data-source="post: 9335246" data-attributes="member: 7035894">I've been pretty active on miniatures discussion boards for many years. Games Workshop is its own thing - either you collect them or you don't. There is virtually no discussion of them on minisgallery, for example. I know it skews heavily towards Wizkids, but you can find ongoing discussions of Reaper, Steamforged, and so on. That's why in my first post I described them as their own ecosystem. They're very successful but pretty irrelevant if you are collecting for D&amp;D, Pathfinder, etc.I'm unusual in that I do incorporate GW miniatures into my collection - holdovers from fantasy battles that still work. But not a lot of them. Most GW workshops very much have that signature style, a kind of Heavy Metal magazine interpretation of fantasy that looks odd with more conventional miniatures. I would say maybe 5% of my current collection that I use is from GW, and I'm an outlier. I have boxes of them packed up that I don't want to part with - I could still easily put together a 5000 point wood elf army using the late 90s rules. Actually, this is making me think that I should go through them again and try to add a few more.That's why I think GW is an asterix If you're asking about how miniatures are doing post-pandemic. They're doing about the same as always. I assumed the question was more about everyone else.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Clint_L, post: 9335246, member: 7035894"] I've been pretty active on miniatures discussion boards for many years. [I]Games Workshop[/I] is its own thing - either you collect them or you don't. There is virtually no discussion of them on minisgallery, for example. I know it skews heavily towards Wizkids, but you can find ongoing discussions of Reaper, Steamforged, and so on. That's why in my first post I described them as their own ecosystem. They're very successful but pretty irrelevant if you are collecting for D&D, Pathfinder, etc. I'm unusual in that I do incorporate GW miniatures into my collection - holdovers from fantasy battles that still work. But not a lot of them. Most GW workshops very much have that signature style, a kind of Heavy Metal magazine interpretation of fantasy that looks odd with more conventional miniatures. I would say maybe 5% of my current collection that I use is from GW, and I'm an outlier. I have boxes of them packed up that I don't want to part with - I could still easily put together a 5000 point wood elf army using the late 90s rules. Actually, this is making me think that I should go through them again and try to add a few more. That's why I think GW is an asterix If you're asking about how miniatures are doing post-pandemic. They're doing about the same as always. I assumed the question was more about everyone else. [/QUOTE]

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