Price for Gargantuan Black Dragon

[MerricB]

http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780786941674

The Gargantuan Black Dragon will be retailing for $19.95 according to the link above.
(It is due out in June 2006).

Wow. I'd imagine the Colossal Dragon would be about $29.95, based on that.

Cheers!

 

[Rystil Arden]

Compared to what some others were predicting in the first thread about these guys, that is actually quite reasonable. At $19.95, this is just the right price for a birthday gift or the like, and it'll always be nice to have a correctly-scaled dragon mini for Gargantuan.

 

[Crothian]

Wow, that's a lot better then I was thinking it was going to be!! I might actuallyu have to buy a minature!!

 

[blargney the second]

That's definitely in the price range where I'll consider buying it. When the AT-AT came out, I was sure the dragons would be priced similarly - ie out of my range!

-blarg

 

[jgbrowning]

I ain't touching it till it's randomized for several different reasons.

1. I prefer to buy minitures without knowing what I'm getting.
2. If they'd randomized it we could have had a whole series of gargantuan creatures, but no.... they had to go and let people know what they were buying and now we don't have as many choices as we would have had if they'd gone randomized.
3. Retailers will now have to stock separate sku's for each mini, using up valuable display space. A single randomize packet only requires 1 sku and one display.
4. There won't be any "secondary market" where others can buy the mini that they really wanted to get after finding out they bought stuff they didn't want. This kills a whole section of the market in one fell swoop.
5. There is no collectability draw insuring that sales won't be as good as they could have been. I mean, you always know what's in the package so you don't have a chance to get "lucky" and get a mini that's going for the price of a whole package on ebay.

I say boo to wizards! The only people who benefit from this choice are the people who only wanted that particular figure.

joe b.

 

[MerricB]

Remember my Law of Miniatures?

"Non-Random Packaging, Cheap Prices, and a Large Range of Figures: Choose two."

Guess which two Wizards chose for the Icons range?

Cheers!

 

[KenM]

I think JoeB was being sarcastic. Any pics of it yet?

 

[Turjan]

I ain't touching it till it's randomized for several different reasons.

[snip lots of annoying reasons not to buy randomized minis]

I say boo to wizards!

I suppose you cannot make it right for everyone .

The only people who benefit from this choice are the people who only wanted that particular figure.

That sounds like a perfect reason to buy a mini .

 

[MerricB]

I think JoeB was being sarcastic. Any pics of it yet?

I think so too. No pics yet; it's still quite some way away.

Cheers!

 

[jgbrowning]

Remember my Law of Miniatures?

"Non-Random Packaging, Cheap Prices, and a Large Range of Figures: Choose two."

Guess which two Wizards chose for the Icons range?

Cheers!

Since people bought whole cases of the regular minis I'd assume that the same people would buy whole cases of gargantuan mini's if there were say 12 minis in the line. The case price could stay the same and the purchaser would get 6 randomized figs.

To me, this effectively knocks cheap prices out of the equation.

And once you consider that only 12 minis need be scupted and produced, there is a definite savings for the manufacter for a line of fewer, larger, figs which (effectively) have the same price point based upon production material costs.

It seems like a lot is lost and little gained from the consumer stand point. In exchange for having the ability to only buy what you want when you want, you lose the ability to have a choice of more than one product to buy. Although admittedly, you'll never know if you're buying what you have already bought before.

And yes, I'm being sarcastic, but also serious. So I suppose the term is "Satire." Edit: actually I don't think it's satire. I don't know what to call it, I guess.

joe b.