Pre-Painted Plastic Minis!!!

[Pylar]

Well if the goal here is to save money, head to Walmart. Go visit the Craft department and look for the silk flowers. You'll find the little flat glass beads there. (Yeah, the same kind you may have seen at your local game store) YOu can by a pack of fifty for about 2 dollars. And they come in different colors! You can use the same wet erase markers you use on your battle mats to draw numbers on the glass beads too. But I still stand behind my previous post that Minitures are the way to go. Especially if you spend time to add scenery to your battles.

 

[Mercule]

We just use dice to represent NPCs. Nine monsters? Use d10s numbered 1 thru 9. Need a boss monster? Make him a different color die from the rest and number him "1." Easy-peasy.

This is exactly what we do, except that we use minis for the PCs.

I'd also prefer to use minis for the critters. Unfortunately, I have a hard time finding minis that actually look like the monsters in D&D. I also don't want to pay $5 for a single skeleton (maybe my FLGS inflates the price, I don't know). I also don't have the time to paint the minis.

So, I'm in the wait and see category. If the minis look reasonably good at a decent price, I'm in. Otherwise, I'll continue to use dice.

 

[Dark Psion]

You know I have never understood why there are not D&D "action figures".

There are lots of people who would buy a Unicorn, Griffon, Dragons and the various monsters of mythology. These would be a good item to sell at Wal Mart and get kids interested in RPGs.

 

[KnowTheToe]

After reading many of the posts, maybe WoTC should sell bags of dice labeled as monster markers. After all, they are plastic and come pre painted, not like the old crayon days.

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

If I can buy specific figures, or a box of like figures such as a Kobald warband, I'll buy a few for less important NPC's and monsters. But if it's like Mage Knight, well I'll probably pass. The clix figures look ok, but nothing close to an average paint job from what I've seen. I'll wait until I see them to pass judgement, if they are molded to the GW regiment box quality then given a decent paint job I'll buy, if they are random figures than have bendy swords and such I'll paint them all like now.

 

[Dark Psion]

I REALLY wish I had bought those while they were out! I wanted to get them at the time but always found myself short on cash, and now they're no longer being sold.

You can find a bunch of them on eBay, occstionally a complete set. I just can't quite talk myself into paying $10-$20 for the one I don't have (Enterprise-A).

Monte Cook mentioned on another thread that these are to be "collectable" miniatures and that brings up thoughts of Magic cards in random packs.

I'm really not interested in having as many "common orc" minis as the number of Magic:TG "Lands" cards I still own.

 

[Olive]

I'm really not interested in having as many "common orc" minis as the number of Magic:TG "Lands" cards I still own.

see i probably would be... not that i know how many land cards you own. but i want lots of orcs.

 

[Kershek]

I would love to see pre-painted plastic minis. The quality can be like Mage Knight; from the little I've seen, they look like they'd do just fine. I see these as inexpensive alternatives to pewter. And when I say inexpensive, I'd want to pay less than a buck a figure. After all, these would be the hordes the PCs fight against.

If they go the collectable CCG route, I'm right out of the running. I refuse to buy those.

If I can buy a pack of a dozen orcs for $9.99 or less that could be my price point to pick up several sets. Different looking orcs would be nice. So would a way to determine numbers, like a clicker base or even painted on the base, whichever is cheaper. I would suggest doing packs of monsters in the half dozen and dozen variety. For less common monsters, group them in sets of six by monster type. For instance, pick 6 abberations and sell them in a box for $4.99.

There's plenty of room in the market for these plastic minis. For those who prefer painting pewter, they already have a huge inventory to choose from with Ral Partha, Games Workshop, and others. I think the key is to keep them very inexpensive and encourage purchasing in bulk.

For those of us who like minis but aren't really interested in painting, this would be a great alternative.

 

[Mercule]

Something else that will impact my purchase:

A lot of people seem to be assuming these minis will be random sets like Mage Knight or Magic. If this is so, there isn't a prayer I'll buy even one.

If I want an orc, I'd better be able to walk in and get an orc and not a flumph.

Edit:

I just saw that they are, in fact, coming in random, "collectable" packages. Count me completely out of the whole thing. I honestly probably won't even devote any more brain-time to the issue.

Utterly worthless.

 

[MerricB]

I'm really not interested in having as many "common orc" minis as the number of Magic:TG "Lands" cards I still own.

I am! I'd love to be able to run the Helm's Deep battle from LotR:TTT in 1:1 scale!

Cheers!