THE TAPROOM 3

Good afternoon!
Seems that Barli has made an excellent work cutting the grass outside, a little more height and I think our hobbits did not find the entrance to the pony.
May I have some bread and sausages please? I am bringing spare coiny things so if some fellow wants to join it will be on my side, perhaps Tolwen wants to celebrate his new aquired position at the Wandering Company…

As I just have joined it is a good idea to commemorate this by a nice and cheery evening at the Pony. Now I might have coiny things to spare, getting more detached from the M company’s coiny-loosening grasp

Cheers
Tolwen

You are right. The “loosening grasp” was actually more about a feeling of being compelled to participate in something that you do not really feel to belong to any longer. Indeed the monetary aspect is less with the long intervals between availability of minis. But still there was some subconscious feeling of obligation to buy something since you are in this Fellowship. That has gone, is a good feeling and worth a round on me!

Cheers
Tolwen

The coiny things for a round are well spent indeed
And you are right – closing the MS would only be consequent. In my very personal opinion the range is like a comatose patient in intensive care unit, artificially kept alive only by machines
Perhaps it might be better to die with grace and in dignity rather than vegetate like this.
But let’s not talk about these sad things here in the Taproom – it’s time for scrumpy and living entertainment. I guess I’ll spend a few of the coiny things to motivate the bard

Here we are now – entertain us – an extra scrumpy for anyone who recognises this without asking Google & Co

Cheers
Tolwen

Hello Master Ent, Master Barkeeper, and all of the other Masters and Travelers. I also am frustrated by the lack of production by Mithril. I do believe that all MS figures will be produced–but we can’t be certain until they are for sale. I expect/hope that we will see a rush of MS figures put out by Mithril in the second half of the year. Hopefully we get to 7 or 8 months backlog, assuming we add monthly suggestions. That seems to be a normal timeframe for making the prototypes, getting approval, and tooling for production.

Now for the question of style–well, that is a matter of choice. We buy the figure or we don’t. I think it is rather amazing that after nearly 30 years and around 700 (I believe) figures, dioramas, vignettes, boxed sets, etc. that this company is still willing to let us hard core enthusiasts suggest a figure every month with a reasonable expectation that it will be made (we might be dead by then, but that’s besides the point!) and knowing full well it might only sell 50 or 100 of them.

The problem isn’t that Chris doesn’t sculpt things in a style that everyone likes. It is that the company doesn’t have 10,000 customers that only buy what they like.

As long as there are suggestions people are willing to buy, and Mithril/Chris are willing to produce, let’s keep going. The end will come when it comes.

Barli, I’ll have an ale and please send Nob to fetch my pipe weed pouch, Thanks, and here’s a silver.

Hi everyone,
It sounds a bit more crowdy than previous days. Thanks to Master Tolwen for drinks.

On my side, no matter if I become blind due to grass height nor drinking scrumpy, I will keep visiting this place until my last wisper. Cheers !

It will be a pint of bitter then.
Merci !