Dorthonion wrote:
My hope is that someone with a brain will get the licence and make something better with it as the IP owners would probably like so see some royalties coming into their coffers instead of watching some organisation allow the minis/games to slip into the background. Having all the LoTR figures already I have no great need for more.
If I was a miniatures producer I would avoid Middle-Earth. We know this hobby is a niche market, and someone like you Dorthonion and myself already have all the minis we possibly need, we're not going to be buying from another range again!
Also what would this new range be?
-25mm scale, 28mm, 30mm? True or heroic scale, or cartoonish?
-Based on the films or the books?
There are people such as myself who collect only because the minis are based off of PJ's film vision. How many book fans/hobbyist would collect minis not based on the films?
Things would be great for someone like myself if a new company was making an extension of the GW line, won't happen. Independent sculptors will now carry that on or proxies.
Miniatures based on the Silmarillion and Unfinished tales would slightly be a better option, otherwise a new Lotr line would only attract a new generation that couldn't/didn't get involve in the GW era, and the hardcore Tolkien hobbyists.
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