Looks great, but as others have said - I can't justify anywhere close to a $80 price tag for a single Huge miniature.
Vexwing wrote: ↑Fri May 24, 2024 10:58 pm
You both get a sincere thanks from me personally. The first 45 days of sales are massively important, those numbers dictate production run size on similar items in the future, which due to the economy of scale massively affects price. The production run on this was determined based on the performance of the Cloud and Umbral dragons. Early purchases on Pathfinder items really would go a long way to giving me the freedom to make more things and
hopefully in greater quantities. As I've said before, I really want to get back to PFB being broadly appealing and not a limited-run boutique line for a subset of well-off fans. No amount of assurances from me that "no, really, this would be a good product" goes as far as raw sales data.
Appreciate your position (and your transparency) Vexwing - and that you're not the one making decisions on pricing - but if Wizkids as a whole wants to make the move away from boutique-style offerings and attract a wider market, they need to take the first step and start offering things at a lower price; even if that means producing some loss leaders.
I'm the only hardcore Wizkids mini collector at my FLGS, but everyone I play with loves the Wizkids minis. I've lost count of how many people see a mini on the table, ask "Woah, that looks cool - where did you get that?" - only to be put off when they look it up and start to see price tags. Although this is just anecdotal, it feels like there's a huge number of untapped potential customers out there.
Bit of a tangent there, back to the mini at hand - it does look great, and I do like that Pathfinder has a much wider variety of dragon designs than 5e. I'm curious to see how some of the rendered features translate into the final in-hand product.
