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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Keith Robinson" data-source="post: 4656588" data-attributes="member: 21330">You mean, like these, which were recently displayed at DDXP?<img src="http://www.ukminis.co.uk/images/minis/grimlock.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> <img src="http://www.ukminis.co.uk/images/minis/goblindelver.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />And here's an uncommon (which may be a desirable figure, but is still a very basic paint job):<img src="http://www.ukminis.co.uk/images/minis/rust_monster.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />I see no difference in quality here and the commons are as bad as anything I've seen.  Compare them to these commons from GoL:<img src="http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/GoL_Gallery/72GoL40Zombie.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> <img src="http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/GoL_Gallery/72GoL30DireRat.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> <img src="http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/GoL_Gallery/72GoL51Grick.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Also, here's the alternate paint master for the rust monster, which is kinda what I was expecting for the price hike:<img src="http://www.ukminis.co.uk/images/minis/rust_monster_alt.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />While many of the rares 'seem' reasonable enough (though at this stage it is difficult to really set them apart from the rares we were getting anyway), I was expecting a higher standard for commons and uncommons.Another interesting comparison is the goliath barbarian.  When WotC announced all the changes, here's one of the pics they used to show us how much imporved the quality was going to be:<img src="http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/news_20081023a.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />But here's the one that is being shown now and can be clearly seen in the pack:<img src="http://www.ukminis.co.uk/images/minis/goliath.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />I know which one I'd prefer <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/ponder.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":hmm:" title="Hmmm    :hmm:" data-shortname=":hmm:" /></blockquote>

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