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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pbartender" data-source="post: 3368570" data-attributes="member: 7533">How many times do I have to say it...  Just because as a consumer I don't like the current random collectable mini business model, that doesn't mean that I don't understand why WotC chose it over selling non-random minis or that I don't agree that for them it was the best decision for the company.Now, it makes me wonder...  What if they chose a different marketing angle?Right now, they have a line of random plastic figurines designed to be a roleplaying game aid, which a secodary function as a collectable strategy game.  They are marketing it as a collectable strategy game that also happens to be suitable for use as a roleplaying game aid.But I also notice that my grade-school kids have a blast playing with these figurines -- toys, really -- on their own.  in the last year or so, when I walk through Toys R Us, there has been a proliferation of fantasy-themed toys from a lot of different companies...  Dragons and knights and vikings and such.So I wonder...  Would it be worthwhile for Hasbro/Wizards to produce and market a line of plastic figurines that were toys that happen to be suitable for use as a roleplaying game aid?After all, a lot of us do that already -- buy sacks of plastic dinosaurs, animals and monsters from the Dollar Store and use them as cheap minis. That's why we've got monsters like the bulette and the rust monster in the Monster Manual.Which brings up another question...  If the molds for plastic figurines are so expensive, how do all of these no-name companies that make and sell sack-fulls of plastic toys at discount stores staying in business?</blockquote>

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