The Taproom
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I nearly put that suggestion forward myself after speaking to the Man at Salute and hearing about the back-log of figures building up, but I thought I would ‘fall under a hail of arrows’, so I kept quiet, but it would seem others are thinking along those lines as well so perhaps the time is right for us to suggest it rather than a decision by Mithril.
I personally think it would be a favour to CT to allow him to catch up with his schedules, do what else he needs to do etc. plus I also think it might be useful for those GF members who need to catch up with their committments to buy figures to have a breathing space.
My only concern would be how it would affect the Mithril Community (GF-wise) as apart from the threads relating to GF releases most of the other threads appear to have gone a bit quiet of late; I would hope that things wouldn’t just die a natural death through lack of a common subject, i.e. What will be the next GF figure?
Incidently he didn’t say what he would be working on after the current planned ranges, but he would love to do lots more figures.
Also what may be of interest regarding the approval process was the (ridiculous) suggestion by TE that on the underside of the figure bases every character should be named!! Apart from the space issue can you imagine if each (non book named) character had to have a personal name, Bill the Rohirrim footman, Ted the Knight of Dol Amroth, thankfully some common sense prevailed
Anyhow, for practical reasons, even if with a degree of reluctance, I would support the motion.
Perhaps instead of a pause, a switch to bi-monthly voting and suggestions, so six figures a year instead of twelve. Still a nice opportunity for creative ideas, but less of a demand on Chris (and my pocketbook!)
I agree with presto. Bi-monthly would probably help Chris a whole lot. Then we might get more M-series too! I still can’t wait until the Dol Amroth get released!
Mae govannen mellon,
Many quite interesting thoughts here. Although I am not quite sure about the bi-monthly vote, I would throw in the idea of having 9 figures instead of 6 or 12 per year as 9 is one of the magical numbers Tolkien used (well all of you know the thing about 9 ringwraith and fellows and so on
).I would be so pleased with many more M-series as I am also a Hobby-Mithril- exhibition-maker and visitiors always ask from where to get the figures. Many do not like to be GF- members and there are so many good ideas, like Minas Tirith II (or Heroes of Gondor), Orc heroes and so on, that would surely attract many more customers. So reducing the GF- figures per year would also make sense economically for the company.
So why not a voting for the next regular M-series?? 😆
Something like that was tried and died out at the GF-forum, like the wish-list because of the lack of interest from members and companys side. Bad thing!
😡Hope this gives some more inspiration on that term.
NAMARIE
estelESTEL wrote:Mae govannen mellon,Many quite interesting thoughts here. Although I am not quite sure about the bi-monthly vote, I would throw in the idea of having 9 figures instead of 6 or 12 per year as 9 is one of the magical numbers Tolkien used (well all of you know the thing about 9 ringwraith and fellows and so on
).I like your idea, Estel.
It would just mean a figure every 5 or 6 weeks instead of monthly, but it could make all the difference with the time crunch.Having noticed the man getting a little behind with deadlines, it had crossed my mind to suggest “sculptor’s choice” one of the months. I figured if he had some half done figure laying around he could just finish it up or conversely, he could pick a figure he really wanted to sculpt. However; I never suggested that because it might have caused future snaffus with suggestions. I’d still be curious what Mr. Tubb would sculpt if he were given complete free reign.
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