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Message: <blockquote data-quote="trancejeremy" data-source="post: 610242" data-attributes="member: 924">Bah.I wish people wouldn't get upset about plastic figures. It's not like WOTC is going to break into your homes and steal your paints and lead figures. I don't even think they've said they'll stop making lead D&D figures.  They had already cancelled Chainmail - this just replaces the cancelled Chainmail. And if they do stop making official D&D lead minis (which I sincerely doubt), there are dozens of companies that make lead minis for fantasy games.How many companies make painted plastic minis for fantasy games? Just one, AFAIK. (Soon to be two). Secondly, it will be a great deal because of the randomness. Collectible games are always set up so that certain things are rare, and thus valuable. This has the effect of making the common things very very cheap. In CCGs, this isn't much of a bonus, because what use has a little bit of cardboard have outside the game it's made for? None.OTOH, painted plastic figures are quite useable in a variety of games. Including D&D. People like me who don't care about uniques and rares and such will make out like bandits. Like I say, I have a few hundred MK figures, and I paid probably on average 30 cents (US) a piece for them. I've known others that paid far, far less.I mean, who cares if you don't have the Hillary, Queen of the Mole people figure that sells for $30 on the reseller market. If you can get 50 decent looking orcs for $10, it's a great thing for most people.</blockquote>

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