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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Green Knight" data-source="post: 826891" data-attributes="member: 2723">Well, obviously I would. But would I be paying $1.25 per miniature if that were the case? Would rarer creatures like the Digester ever see the light of day if they were sold in separate blisters by themselves? I doubt it. It'd be nice if stuff like the Bodak, the Lillend, and the Girallon were made into miniatures. But really, if they were to be made into pewter miniatures and sold separately, would they actually sell? And knowing that, would anyone bother making them to begin with?    Depends what one is looking to get. If you're looking for a SPECIFIC monster for next weeks game, or a PC armed and equipped in a certain way, then this isn't the way for you to go about getting such a miniature, as you'll probably end up paying a lot more. For that, go and buy some Reaper miniatures. Me, I'm looking to expand my monster miniature collection (Been buying all kinds of Reaper figs, lately, just for that. Not because I need them, immediately, but because I want to have a sizeable collection from which I'm able to pick and choose from). And I personally don't much care what I get, so long as I end up with a large and varied stable of monsters from which to choose from for my games. So in this case, yeah, I'll be saving a buttload of cash (Example: I buy an expansion pack which comes with an ogre. While I don't immediately need an ogre, I would've gotten one eventually, anyway. Also, pewter ogres tend to run about $8. So I essentially end up getting the ogre for $8, and the other 7 miniatures for $2). At the very least, I'll probably end up getting a sizable orc horde for less money than what it'd cost to buy equivalent pewter figs of the orcs. And unlike the pewter figs, these are already painted (And I just don't have the time to go around painting orcs or any other monster miniatures. If I paint a miniature, I want it to be my PC or a powerful monster or NPC and that's it).  And again, I'm not discounting the secondary market. I got a bunch of HeroClix figures which I specifically picked out by buying them through the secondary market for no more that 50 cents, rather than blindly opening booster packs hoping to get them. Some others I got by trading away miniatures I didn't want with friends who had what I wanted. In short, if I had to estimate, I'd have to say that over 90% of my HeroClix figure collection consists of miniatures I would've wanted, anyway. And chances are, I got them a LOT cheaper than I would have otherwise had they been pewter. So yeah, while I'd prefer to know exactly what I'll get, at the end of the day I think I'll save money.  But of course, that's just me. I expect to have plenty of people with whom to trade with as well as a secondary market from which to buy specific miniatures which I'm looking to get for a pittance.</blockquote>

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