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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Grimstaff" data-source="post: 2555056" data-attributes="member: 34880">I'm surprised no 3rd party companies have jumped on the pre-painted plastic miniatures yet, it seems like it would be profitable, especially if someone offered a packaging method that was a bit less random. Maybe the initial investment to get this started is just too big for most small companies to afford? I'm also surprised established miniatures companies like Reaper havn't expanded into plastic pre-paints as well. Picking up one metal ogre for $8.99 or 8-10 different mini's in a box from WotC for 11.99? Lets just says that as a working 30-something with kids, its a no-brainer, unless i'm in a rare painting mood.I also think cr@ppy distribution is really holding RPGs back. Book stores almost never have any kind of selection, usually only 10-15 WotC titles with the odd Everquest book mixed in. Even game stores seem to have a hard time knowing what to order, unless you are there on whatever "mystery" day a product arrives, you are unlikely to get one of the 2 or so copies they actually got in. Those of us who shop online are limited by what we see on websites like ENworld or word of mouth, there seems to be no other marketing methods out there.Until RPGs figure out a way to get on the shelves at WalMart (or Kmart, or Target, etc), sales will be a constant battle. RPGs will never enjoy the added impact of the "impulse buy" that CCGs get when a kid spots something while mommy is shopping and yells "I want that!", like they do with Pokemon or Beyblades, etc.I bought my first "red box" at Maas Brothers, my first box of miniatures at JC penny's, and my first campaign setting (City State of the IO) at my local hardware store. It was a year or two after that before I realized there was such a thing as "game stores"!</blockquote>

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