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<blockquote data-quote="SlyFlourish" data-source="post: 4603265" data-attributes="member: 54840">I've actually used those pig farmers more than a lot of other minis I have. For village setups you need stuff like that.I'm also happy to see objects like the coffin and the animated steel jaw traps in the latest set.I know your post is mostly tongue-in-cheek, but I'm pretty sure unless you yourself have tried to set up a business building, painting, packaging, shipping, and selling miniatures - you probably have no idea why they succeeded or failed. We can all sit around on our couches and pontificate, but this is a big international business we're talking about with books closed to us. So we can only guess why (or believe them when they tell us).Frankly, I never did play much Miniatures except as a hold-over when our D&amp;D games didn't work out. I'm looking forward to the new sets. I'm just glad they're still making minis.&quot;&quot;But I thought that we sold these mostly to D&amp;D Miniature Gamers?&quot;&quot;I also think that was untrue. If we believe what Wizards said (and I have no reason not to), they said that they sold the majority of miniatures to roleplayers and the majority of roleplayers didn't buy miniatures at all. That makes the D&amp;D miniature skirmish gamers a slice of a slice. I'm glad they will continue to get support but I can also see Wizards coming up with new ways to sell miniatures to the roleplayers who didn't buy them before.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SlyFlourish, post: 4603265, member: 54840"] I've actually used those pig farmers more than a lot of other minis I have. For village setups you need stuff like that. I'm also happy to see objects like the coffin and the animated steel jaw traps in the latest set. I know your post is mostly tongue-in-cheek, but I'm pretty sure unless you yourself have tried to set up a business building, painting, packaging, shipping, and selling miniatures - you probably have no idea why they succeeded or failed. We can all sit around on our couches and pontificate, but this is a big international business we're talking about with books closed to us. So we can only guess why (or believe them when they tell us). Frankly, I never did play much Miniatures except as a hold-over when our D&D games didn't work out. I'm looking forward to the new sets. I'm just glad they're still making minis. ""But I thought that we sold these mostly to D&D Miniature Gamers?"" I also think that was untrue. If we believe what Wizards said (and I have no reason not to), they said that they sold the majority of miniatures to roleplayers and the majority of roleplayers didn't buy miniatures at all. That makes the D&D miniature skirmish gamers a slice of a slice. I'm glad they will continue to get support but I can also see Wizards coming up with new ways to sell miniatures to the roleplayers who didn't buy them before. [/QUOTE]

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