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Post by jazzisblues on Mar 3, 2012 10:06:56 GMT -8
That's a valid point. I did end up with several duplicates that I could have lived without, but what I wanted out of it was mob minis and monsters that I didn't have. Does anyone ever have enough orc, goblin, skeleton or zombie minis? Quality wise I'm pretty satisfied with them for prepainted minis. JiB I can't fault the quality, but I refuse to buy blindpacked figures. If I want goblins, skeletons, zombies, etc, I want them and not some random monster that I am likely to never ever use. I have dozens of minis that I will likely never put on the table because I will never use that monster and or I just don't like the look of the figure. Thankful plenty of sites open the boxes and sell singles, but the markup can get ridiculous on the "rare" figures. The fact that I can buy box sets of goblins, skeletons, etc in pewter but not in plastic blows my mind. You give me ten goblins, maybe three different molds, prepainted and I will buy it. Same for the other common mob monsters. Then put the more unique monsters in another with a higher price. This blind packed thing jsut makes people less likely to buy direct and instead wait for someone to open them up and buy from a dealer. I do not in any way disagree, but it was fun going through the case and opening them to see what we'd gotten. But then again I like surprises. JiB
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Post by muntjack on Mar 7, 2012 13:32:05 GMT -8
I've learned to enjoy the hunt for good cheap pre-painted minis. I was at a toy show a few months ago with my kids and picked up 2 huge bags of MageKnight minis for $3 a bag. Some MK minis look horrible, but some look pretty good, so I just re-base them. I do the same thing with Mage Knight figures. A lot of the figures just pop off their bases, and I glue them to squares that I cut out of thin Styrofoam. Works like a charm for things like orcs and goblins!
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