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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jodyjohnson" data-source="post: 2906958" data-attributes="member: 5590">2nd edition Ral Partha line - best official line variety pre DDM, maybe 200-300 sculpts including Dark Sun and Planescape lines over a numbers of years.  Still see some of these on the shelves.25th Anniversary line - still on the shelves (the crap ones) or blown out at cost3rd edition metal line - still on the shelves (the crap ones) or blown out at costChainmail line - still on the shelves or blown out at below cost (i.e. Svgames)No idea if they are some of these still in the warehouse but it wouldn't surprise me if whatever was left was melted down.Harbinger - sold outDragoneye - sold out (2 production runs)Archfiends - sold outGiant of Legend - out of stock at WotC and distributersAberrations - out of stock at WotC (except boxes included with Player Kits)Deathknell - out of stock at WotCUnderdark - out of stock at WotCFor LGS these actually go up in price instead of hitting the bargain bin (excepting the bookstores where they get cherry picked/vandalised and corporate policy won't let them sit on the shelves for the 6-18 months it takes to sell through the set).Only Angelfire, Wardrums, and the yet unreleased War of the Dragon Queen still in the warehouse.  That's no minatures more than a year old in inventory.WotC is moving a ton of miniatures and they are not sitting Mage Knight (WizKids) style at the distributors/stores by the case rotting.In comparison to the 2e Ral Partha line including the WoDQ set there's roughly 620 sculpts in less than 3 years.  More than half of those available for under $2 on the secondary market when the sets first released.The old metal figures had their own version of rarity.  Figures that sold out immediately and then were hard to find, figures that eventually sold, and then those that didn't sell even in the bargain bin.The current sets of non-random painted figures are made for Heroscape.  Non-random, cheap, but not a lot of variety.</blockquote>

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