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mindx2 wrote:

I think the Watcher is a great piece!! I received my two a few days ago and am very impressed with Master Tubb's sculpt. Also it's quite heavy!!

Chunks of metal they are indeed and I echo your comments Master mindx2, it is a very nice piece, which CT has interpreted well.

Enjoy the break, Master Elf. I don't know if I should wish you good weather or not - we're sick of all the blistering heat here in Bree and if anything would dearly like some rain! Anyway, hope you have a good rest and whatever weather you want wherever you are!

Haven't ordered mine yet (see above - no cash!), and I didn't receive the No.1 of the last figure I "won" either!

Agree re aesthetics of new website, but it's early days yet - i don't think Michael has actually finished.

Well, as for that new website I will give a comment on that. But, as Master Barliman said, it might be a bit to early at the moment. Master O'Brien said he hasn't finished yet.
But I already have a very strong need again to comment on the pictures of those MZ-figures, as my anger has not been declining.
I will also need more time to see what you called "re aesthetics", Master Barliman.

I agree. It's hard to even really know where to look for figures or the different ranges. Maybe I just got used to the old site and this one will eventually grow on me... after it improves over time.

Yes, whatever form it resolves into it's what we'll have to work with. I don't imagine Michael will want to do it all again. Personally I dont have a tablet, iPad or whatever, but viewing the site on Mrs B's 'device' I see what you mean.

Have you raised this very significant point with Mithril? Their computer-generated images may be easier to peroduce, but they bear little similarity to the actual figure(s). I actually find them to be very discouraging.

Well, Master Barliman, I complained about other matters already. That was the lack in the fitting of parts (caused by assembling the Snowtroll accordingly). After that Lars [after Michael O'Brien passed my complaint on to Lars] granted me a free figure after he asked me for a detailed explanation for my, as he called it, positive criticism, which of course I passed on to him. I think that was very generous as a reaction to criticism.
By now (after that latest Lorien Boat-massacre) I'm afraid that I witness a massive lack between MZ-"sculpting" and the craftsmanship to make a mould for those obviously randomly cut pieces .... a sitting figure should be able to be casted (as in the good-old Prancing Pony series) without cutting off both legs and some parts of any arms ... alas ... the idea and concept of that boat was a good idea (as I can guess) ... but why spoil it that way? ...
Er, Master Barliman, once again I was a bit talkative ... sorry. But's not the Pony here.

Here, with this topic about criticism about "MZ"s, I don't have to mention the loss of the characteristical appearance of Mithril-figures with some, let us call it "some grey primer" again.
Yes, indeed, it was the fact that the new website does not even provide any new pictures of the assembled figures (as there seem to be none) as they are.
Sorry, Master Barliman, I don't feel like the one who is always complaining and criticising, because that's not me. But ...

Thank you, Master Barliman. - Indeed - I also cannot see a solution for this negative development. That's why I don't want to complain again directly to Mithril. Obviously someone (?) isn't realizing racing faster and faster into a dead end street for years now.

Er, what I forgot to mention yesterday (just to top my criticism only a little bit):
Since Mithril decided to reduce the production down to just MS(now MZ)-releases some time ago and with that abandonned the concept of the "original" M-series (which always has been another significant characteristic of the Mithril brand) any kind of coherance between the new releases is definitely gone for good. The idea of releasing a series of about 10 figures being related to a certain topic once kept that coherance (e.g. "The Prancing Pony", and all the others).
Now we see "new" (?) suggestions by members every month again and again. So the result simply is that we face a randomly
produced assembly of figures (MS/MZ). Then, if we're lucky, we have a Christmas figure each year, about which Master Tubb decides alone.
Sorry, I had to add this today just to complete my criticism.

Master Barliman I have been drinking scrumpy too, but we must have the same weard imagination...
The problem is that the GF aways decides every month for a figure out of the blue and it doesn't fit the figure from the month before or after... So there will be no figure-range.....
What our Master Ent is talking about, I only can agree regarding the pics. The figures look like plastic crap and through that printing the details like bows, swords and all of this nitty gritty becomes square! I havent bought one MZ so far and I think there isn't one looking right eighter. A real shame!
Please go back to ordinary sculpting! I think thats in the price included they charge for a figure, because I haven't seen the MZ getting cheaper in comparison to the MS!

Thank you both, gentlemen, your comments are very much appreciated as I thought before that I had become crazy (without scrumpy) judging about this development within the last ... er ... two years ?
... and yes, of course I forgot to mention that "problem" about the price for each figure (did I ?).
For those who still remember: Just compare the old relation of the price for a single M-release to that of an MS/MZ realease (which also has risen time after time) in days long ago. - I am aware of the fact that prices went up worldwide for everything year after year, as we all are. But for these exclusive new MZ-figures I tend to expect a golden priming.
Sorry, it's me, the angry tree.