Orcus Bigiature?

[Mercurius]

Or you could just buy this beauty from Ultraforge...it will cost you $89 and you'll have to paint it yourself (its resin), but I don't see WotC manufacturing anything on this quality level. The product page is here.

 

[Scott_Rouse]

WoTC needs to market these things as toys and forget the miniature market. Let us benefit from being bystandards not the intended audience.

To WalMart Buyer: ... and next up we have Orcus: Demon Prince of the Undead. The kids will love this for Christmas.

WalMart Buyer: Is that a goat headed demon with a skull and spine war club?

To WalMart Buyer: So can I put you down for 100,000?

 

[JoeGKushner]

That's what you get with economies of scale. I know everyone would hold up the McFarland dragons as an example of how much cheaper miniatures could be. However, I regularly see bunches of them in clearance bins at huge discounts at various locations. They clearly made a huge number of them.

Sure. I agree.

But it's not like Hasbro doesn't sell their stuff in Toys R Us, Target, and other stores. Mass market it for toy collectors, not RPGers is what I'm suggesting. Heck, I remember the Dragon, Call of Cthulhu and other high detailed models were sold out before I could even get to the website and those were more like collector items as opposed to mass market toys.

I get that gamers can't get the economies of scale.

Stop selling to them. Sell to the big market.

Heck, I saw a Star Wars miniature starter set in... I want to say Target. No D&D starter set but Star Wars? Yup.

 

[vic20]

Heck, I saw a Star Wars miniature starter set in... I want to say Target. No D&D starter set but Star Wars? Yup.

Star Wars merchandising is a world of its own. George Lucas practically invented the market.

 

[JoeGKushner]

Star Wars merchandising is a world of its own. George Lucas practically invented the market.

Certainly.

But the D&D brand has a lot of power outside of the RPG. Heck, it probably has MUCH more power outside of the RPG. The novels and computer games alone make it so no?

 

[vic20]

Certainly.

But the D&D brand has a lot of power outside of the RPG. Heck, it probably has MUCH more power outside of the RPG. The novels and computer games alone make it so no?

There are tens of thousands of times more people who know who Han Solo is than know who Drizzt Do'Urden is. It's not even close.

 

[Ashrem Bayle]

It was intended to look something like this:

SOLD!

That looks amazing.

 

[JoeGKushner]

There are tens of thousands of times more people who know who Han Solo is than know who Drizzt Do'Urden is. It's not even close.

I agree with you.

But there are probably more poeple who know who Drizzt Do'Urden is than who PLAY D&D.

Unless your saying that the D&D brand itself, despite two movies, dozens of video games, dozens of NYT best sellers etc... isn't more popular than the D&D table top game itself. Or if you're saying that crowd would still be too small.

 

[vic20]

I agree with you.

But there are probably more poeple who know who Drizzt Do'Urden is than who PLAY D&D.

Hmmm. I don't know if I would agree. I'm not claiming I have my finger up the pulse of the gaming community as a hole either though.

Unless your saying that the D&D brand itself, despite two movies, dozens of video games, dozens of NYT best sellers etc... isn't more popular than the D&D table top game itself. Or if you're saying that crowd would still be too small.

I'm just saying what I said. I was surprised that you would be surprised to see Star Wars merchandise at a Target, but no D&D. As if they stood on some sort of equal footing in terms of market potential/penetration/accessibility.

 

[JoeGKushner]

Hmmm. I don't know if I would agree. I'm not claiming I have my finger up the pulse of the gaming community as a hole either though.



I'm just saying what I said. I was surprised that you would be surprised to see Star Wars merchandise at a Target, but no D&D. As if they stood on some sort of equal footing in terms of market potential/penetration/accessibility.

I wasn't surprised. I was using it as a point of reference that Hasbro can get toys into chain stores.