The Taproom

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March 14, 2008 at 7:31 pm #1704
Theobald
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Rhooumm … casting-kid(t)s … hom … I tried those … alas … huomm … it’s not that what might please me as a collector … rhuooommm … just imagine having to paint them all … rhuoomm.
Huoomm … as for Imrahil there’ll be 150 castings sold by Mithril for a fixed price of 29.95 € …
rhuommm … I do hope that the number of castings will keep him being an MX- figure … but in spite of that keeping it affordable for anybody interested. …. rhuoommm
rhuoomm … Master Barliman, may I have one of those liquid-filled bowls …. huomm.

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March 16, 2008 at 5:13 pm #1705
Kenakko
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Master Ent, this one’s on me…but I haven’t paid my tab yet either;)
March 16, 2008 at 5:39 pm #1706
Theobald
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Huuooommmm …. thanks a lot, Master Kenakko …. though this habit about tabs still seems to be weird to me …. huoommmm … so you pay for them? … rhuoommm … I don’t want to buy one …. huommm
March 16, 2008 at 9:53 pm #1707
Theobald
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Huoommmm … I just saw on Ebay that the Lady (without sword!) went for about 170 GBP …. huom. Quite a lot that is methinks ….
March 16, 2008 at 10:28 pm #1708
Barliman
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Bonkers (er, the price, not the Lady).
March 16, 2008 at 11:08 pm #1709
Gildor
MMP Elder
for the lady with sword it would have been too little… but without it, it is quite too much

anyway, the seller will be happy I suppose but zoetrop will have a hard time adjusting his price list with such a price considering it was incomplete..
March 17, 2008 at 6:29 am #1710
Barliman
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You must come from a very rich family of Elves if you think £175 is ‘too little’, Master Gildor! It’s an awful sum of money for one tiny piece of metal. I wonder how it compares to the price of gold?
March 17, 2008 at 7:35 am #1711
Gildor
MMP Elder
well it is not too “little” in an objective way… but you must consider that the former M16’s went for more than 350€ or even more than 410€… they were indeed complete but when I say too little I meant that it was way below the average price of the m16 when we look at the price list, Zoetrop fixed its price at 400€ average… and this time it was 221€ ….

I do not come from a very rich elf family myself I got my M16 for 45€ … (without the sword) back in time… but times change…

Besides, some say that when one loves, one does not count… it’s somehow my case , when it comes to Mithril… (alas, I have to remind that I was partly responsible for the 1988 Aragorn going up to 1600€, but if it reached that price it’s because some one(s) love(s) even more than me and do(es) not count at all……)
March 17, 2008 at 12:34 pm #1712
hsf62
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I bought my lady in 1988 blistered in “Heinzelmaennchens Buecherstube” in Stuttgart. Hmm should have bought a few more me thinks. At the time it was a lot more affordable then nowadays, but even back then I could not afford to buy all the minis I liked. You only can stretch to the ceiling as we say…
March 17, 2008 at 1:21 pm #1713
Gildor
MMP Elder
that was my case too, back in 1994 and before 2000… then I decided to invest part of my income and savings, for this hobby of mine…
I missed a lot of things too back in time but I managed… Personnaly I don’t think I would have kept building up my collection if I did not have, at first, the M16….

I was too young in 1988 and the universe of roleplay (which has dramatically changed since then) was still obscure, underground, and mostly managed by hardcore (mainly gothic) fans than professionals… that was a cliché… Anyway, in France, had I been trying to find Mithril in 1988 I doubt I would have found many in shops….
March 17, 2008 at 1:35 pm #1714
hsf62
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A toast to the good old times! Oh master Barliman just came in… Come on, sit down and choin in in this toast.
March 17, 2008 at 1:39 pm #1715
Barliman
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No time to sit down, lads, too much to do. Trying to buy some figures to represent Mordor cavalrymen at the moment.
March 17, 2008 at 1:43 pm #1716
Gildor
MMP Elder
honestly, now that I look back at this time with dank dark rooms, with strange people, small places, chaotically stuffed with tons of papers dices figurines, with fanzines, hand-drawed pictures for manuels with marks of grease, ink, or rubbed pencil… I feel nostalgic…

Now roleplaying is no more craftmanship, it is industrial, and comes along industrial wargaming and both of them are enlightened, commercial, organized, orderly, clean, with people well dressed in an environnement all too well bright… that’s not the proper mood… not at all…
But I was too young and not in the proper mood myself, to play at RPG and figurines…. during the “golden age” alas…
March 17, 2008 at 2:00 pm #1717
Barliman
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Organised? Orderly? Clean? Well-dressed people? Clearly you haven’t seen the inside of Games Workshop’s gaming and design department. None of those adjectives applied when I last saw it, believe me!
March 17, 2008 at 2:25 pm #1718
Gildor
MMP Elder
no barliman maybe not

but I clearly saw the inside of a dozen games workshop… shops… and they absolutly match my description there is not a scrap of dust or any blackened walls or scrap of papers lying everywhere… neon lights, white walls filled with organised boxes or blisters , perfectly clean glasscases, and catalogues well handled in some corners of the rooms, and in the middle a playtable with demonstration building, armies etc and a clean shaved, smart clothed vendor who’s there only to assist you , explain the rules (for War 40k, War Battle, lotr) to you and suggest what you should buy…
These shops, I have seen in several big cities in France, both in north and in south of France

well the design deparment is not what the customers see though
March 17, 2008 at 2:41 pm #1719
Barliman
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The shops are the same in the UK. But no one would go in a dank darkdirty shop that looked like a cave, would they (well, Goths might but nobody else would)? And if anyone compares the Pony to such an establishment they’ll feel the toe of my boot; Nob has been a bit busy of late, and the three inches of detritus on the floor is not our normal working environment. I shall have to get the wargskin rugs out again to eat it – I always knew they had a purpose.
March 17, 2008 at 7:59 pm #1720
Gildor
MMP Elder
well shops were like that back in the 90’s, and that’s what was doing their charm….
March 19, 2008 at 3:44 pm #1721
hsf62
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Quiet again… All these dark corners… Is this the Ranger, or only a shadow. You never know. He is in and out and you only hear him when he’s thirsty..
Yes please , Nob bring me another scumpy and something to eat. Yes, I’ve paid my tab so we can start a new one….
March 19, 2008 at 4:14 pm #1722
Barliman
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Well, I’m astonished that anyone should actually pay their tab, but even more astonished that The Man should elect to include the ‘black squirrel’ as one of this month’s Fellowship contenders. Since it would logically be only 5-10mm tall (and even that would be mighty big for a squirrel) I thought it was suggested as a joke. Was I wrong?
March 19, 2008 at 6:56 pm #1723
Theobald
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Rhuoommm … but who broadcasted news or rumours about an MX436-variant … rhuoomm?
Anyway, must have been Master O’Brian … rhuomm. … about 3 hrs ago I just told Master Caster and Master Gildor about that …. huooommm … on the other hand I left it up to Mithril-company to provide news and details about MX436 … huoomm.
What about a bowl of that clear clean water, Master Barliman …. huoommrhuoomm..
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