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Oh how very perceptive of you "confused!" You can have my badge for your dutiful Police work! & as you will notice, that is me "ASKING!" & "HOPING!" not DEMANDING!
I will never deny I make my opinions on future sets known, but I would never presume to "TELL" a company what they should do! Thank you for making my point "confused!" So very nice of you! :smiley:
My preference is for the Napoleonic armies, nevertheless the world of fantasy figurines is vast, so everything depends on what you want to produce. Another brand knows how to make very beautiful figurines of the saga the lord of the rings and I do not think that it is interesting to exploit the same vein. On the other hand, if strelets was interested in armies of iron throne I think I would be likely to buy a number of boxes.
The interesting thing is, what's Strelets' point of view now?
Do they take the chance and hit the 'imitator' out of business with making an own fantasy range, so everyone can see the difference (in both - name and quality), or was Strelets just amused about them and wanted to show us this sort of joke?
- badly i have to share Bert's view but in a more modest way of formulation -
Although strelets may be making fantasy figures or not they could if they are making them release them under a different brand name to avoid confusion, maybe Hellbeasts or the like or maybe we could all send ideas To strelets & they could choose the best name for the new range & even offer a prize of say 10 free boxes of figures for the best ideas.:joy:
This is possibly the longest thread for many months (I haven't checked) but it seems fantasy isn't popular among contributors. Of course we don't know what the non-contributors are thinking.
I don't want them either but no doubt Strelets will be driven by business concerns, some people will want these and, who knows, the subsequent sales may generate more income that can be used to develop more mainstream eras.
My original comment - "I am also with those whose interest is in historical theme figures." - was only intended to give Strelets a bit of feedback if they were trying to gauge the potential level of interest in a Fantasy range.
If I have caused anyone any offence, I am sorry.
I hope you all continue to enjoy the hobby, whatever your lines of interest are.
Calm down gents, wer'e all playing with toy soldiers, if some do fantasy at the moment , they might switch to historical.
Although personally i am quite content to have a purely fantasy game using my dacians or celts versus 100 y w French.
Totally inaccurate but fun and enjoyable.
If you want 'hordes' , you don't really need loads of orcs/goblins, just use your imagination.
I have no objection to non-historical figures but I think Strelets would have to be careful what they chose as other manufacturers have got there first, with some very nice products. Personally I would be more intetested in sci fi and pulp type figures. I expect they would have to be careful about copyright issues but I would love to see figures that were reminiscent of Alien, Predator, Dark Skies, Starship Troopers (who would not want to go on a bug hunt?), I expect Star Trek, Star Wars and Dr. Who would be popular but would probably very difficult with regard to copyright. A personal want that is not quite historical is figures for VBCW, although these could have a lot of uses in other scenarios. All I want is that Strelets stay in business, as I think they are the premier figure producer now.
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