WotC announced non-randomized minis

[DaveMage]

This is very cool. I'd consider buying a boxed set with mini's for the major villains... or even all the villains.

IIRC, the box set will not have minis - it will have tokens.

 

[DaveMage]

The minis will be the prepaints, will include boxed sets (like a bunch of orcs) and will make some single PCs available as well.

Since orcs and PC types go for as low as 19 cents online now, I really hope they don't start such a line with common figures like these.

WotC: "Gee, no one's buying them."
Us: "Maybe cuz we already have them?"

 

[bento]

Since orcs and PC types go for as low as 19 cents online now, I really hope they don't start such a line with common figures like these.

WotC: "Gee, no one's buying them."
Us: "Maybe cuz we already have them?"

No worry - there are still plenty of us too lazy to buy minis online.

 

[Nebulous]

This could be really cool. I hope they go for it. I have yet to purchase a single randomized D&D miniature box, and I never will. I like knowing what I'm buying.

Just saying, the secondary prepainted minis market is really, really cheap. You can sometimes buy individual common monsters for 20 cents. Five orcs for a $1, can't beat that.

Edit: oh, i just saw DaveMage said the same thing. True though.

What we need is some common/uncommon githyanki and dragonborn.

Edit 2: One problem with the randomized sets that i'm noticing (D&D and Star Wars both) is that they're really starting to regurgitate a lot of the same monsters. 60 a set is a hell of a lot of different models, and spread out over the years it really adds up.

I would actually be very interested in a squad of prepainted minis, all of the same race, but in unique poses. $10 for a box of ten plastic minis is a reasonable price, maybe even a shade cheaper.

 

[Zaran]

Since orcs and PC types go for as low as 19 cents online now, I really hope they don't start such a line with common figures like these.

Where did you find minis for 19 cents online? So far I haven't found a good site to actually purchase any online

 

[Achan hiArusa]

Its taken them how long to realize we need specific minis for our D&D games? That we aren't buying them for the minis game. I mean its taken being lampooned by almost every gaming cartoonist out there from John Kovalic on and having most game store owners breaking open packages and selling us specific minis at a markup. They move so fast, don't they?

 

[WhatGravitas]

Where did you find minis for 19 cents online? So far I haven't found a good site to actually purchase any online

US-based people seem to love Auggies. I'm in the UK, so I don't have personal experiences...

Cheers, LT.

 

[Irda Ranger]

Wow.

I may actually purchase my very first set of minis if this is the case. I refuse to buy into that random business.

This. I have never had any wish to waste money on minis I have no intention of using. But then, I never collected stamps or baseball cards either, so it just wasn't my hobby. But this could change it.

 

[Weregrognard]

Whee! They should do sets that coincide with the sample encounters in the Monster Manual.

 

[wedgeski]

They're waited exactly as long as it took for their highly profitable randomised packs to saturate the market and for demand to start drying up. Why would they have done it a moment sooner?