THE TAPROOM 2

I am wondering if the solution might be keeping the same price for single figures (say a Fellowship 21 euro cost), but offering a deeper discount for multiples, followed by cheaper costs for “restocked” figures. The way they cover the cost for the 100 figure set, and pass on savings for those of us who need bunches of the things.

Imagine, if you will, that they are convinced to make Helm’s Deep 2 – Death to the Strawheads. Assumably this is a set made up of Dunlending warriors. I’m also assuming that there will be some sort of captain or chieftain model, and four Dunlending warriors. So, that’s 100 euro right there for five figures. Steep, and you can’t buy a bunch of the warriors at that price to make that Helm’s Deep diorama you’ve been planning for years.

So how about charging €20 for one figure, but €40 for four – Lars said himself that the costs in mini making is upfront. This way they could reach the break even point for the upfront costs much quicker.

At GF prices I would simply not bother, like Milo I tend only to buy 1 of each figure, and to pay over 100 euros/£’s for 5 figures (assuming you mean a discount for buying several of the same figure) would not be worth it especially as I probably will never get around to painting them .

I would hate to think that Mithril collectors would be categorised by other figure collectors as being a breed of ‘fruit-loops (crazies)’ because we pay over 20 euros for 32mm main-stream release metal figures . Having seen the Andrea prices for 54mm, that would in my mind just be exploitation of dedicated collectors.

I’ve not purchased a few of the GF releases now given the price and exchange rate, I want to, but other more important things are out there. Oh for the old days when a single Mithril foot figure cost £0.99 pence

@ arthadan, frothers unite? many sculptors even offer custom designs for a fraction of the price that mithril demands. go figure (oh, pun alert!).

well, there is a limit on how much they could/can lie to us, they may want to make some margin and profit but I doubt they intend to make THAT MUCH margin, I rather think they are using obsolete production methods and did not switch to more economic ones … which makes the production even more expensive than it was ten years ago…

I am not an expert about such things but other great brands of collection miniatures, historical or not are STILL in the business and their prices are reasonnable… and I doubt they sell thousands of references themselves…

I also think, when I read their email, that they have to cover their cost no matter if they SELL 5 or 50000 figurines….
they never said they had to cover their costs no matter if they PRODUCE 5 or 50000… I may be wrong but I think they are “fool” enough to produce 50 000 no matter if they will sell them or not…. in this case no mystery that the final prices are high if only 100 are sold but they produced 50 000

Interesting to see the first answer is £400 – £500

I’d appreciate some posts in this sense master Arthadan, in answer to the post I just made on the official board, that will bring “water to my mill” as we say and I hope they’ll answer this point, as I think THIS is a critical point they mentionned themselves and should be addressed.

… all of those questions I’m already ask on my huge angry post on GF… after all I have many dilemmas about “break even points” calculated in mithril…. all those explanations are in some segments completely unexplained. I think this question about the cost of production of a one figure, set by Master Arthadan is fine question. After seeing more than one answer and compare the amounts of produced pieces, it will be easier to discern what is specifically true in the case of Mithirl… I’m sure that 2100 GB pounds or Euros, are not represent break even point. That means that they must earn 27300 Euros each year just to be in break even every financial year ( and this is only for mithril if they make 13 x 100 single MS figures… no doubles, no troll, ents, balrog, etc that cost a few euros more….) !?!?!?!??!? And what about all other figures and activities …. in their production…. how many employees they have…. how much money they pay to Chris for his work… how much money they must to pay to ME… for the license or franchise… etc…..

And…. anyway everything what I wrote on GF stays…

Master Elf, as soon as I make up my mind about this I’ll charge into battle if is fair. But as Master Tree would say, it’s not good to be hasty.

Master Thingol, I think in the end everything could be resumed as “they will sell as expensive as we are willing to pay”. It would be a pity to see Mithril losting the license, but if they can’t manage to make profit with all the movies boom then is that they’re doing something wrong. Charging high prices and asking us to do their marketing is something I simply won’t accept.

saying all of this here… though… is pointless and won’t change a thing… on mithril side

Lars and Michael think I am alone to be be upset now when I write to them… it would be good to have some VISIBLE support on Offocial communication places…

the announcment made by Lars was to explain why the costs were high… and why they would NOT change them… to tell us “we are sorry but this is it, take it or leave it”… I personnaly would prefer to make them change their mind rather than make them understand the hard way, that we “leave it” and wont take it…

well if Lars posted this, it’s mainly in answer to my quite disapointed emails to him…
i suppose they tend to listen… now about taking actions…