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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pawsplay" data-source="post: 5579954" data-attributes="member: 15538">If they kept coming up with harebrained new scans that management was willing to try? Sure. Because that makes more sense than assuming WotC kept messing with a formula that was working.DDM 2 rules came out partially as a result of problems with the line. Someone identified that the problem was that the morale rules made some players cry, and the figures needed more "exception-based" goofy special movies. Of course, that did not turn out to the solution after all. Not long after, DDM was effectively orphaned as a minis game line and focused more purely on RPG stuff, only to begin a long, slow slide into irrelevance.I think with 4e's powers approach and the cards and other new hardware, plus the DDI, WotC finally managed to capture those players they were after, but long after failing to do so with a flailing attempt at revivifying the minis game.That failure wasn't hard to predict. They already lost the Harbinger superfans, then managed to lose any lingering 3e players by producing, for the first time in D&D history, a large percentage of minis mostly irrelevant for players of previous editions, and of course bet the whole line on selling minis to the 4e crowd (whom they had already previously identified as being interested in PC options, inexpensive ongoing subscriptions, and bite-sized purchases, and hence the worst possible market for a randomized set of monster minis). Well, if you order them at different times, you can get cool repaints, which is something. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />You didn't count the multiple poses of the same creature. For instance, there are three skeletons. I wish there were multiple gnoll poses... I don't have a unicorn, as I just happen to have the equivalent sculpt in metal, but I can tell you who owns a Great Worm. I love gigantic, eyeless worms.</blockquote>

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