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. . . so, Mr. David Daines, time for concentrate yourself concerning concept-art for your next diorama . . .   
I also realized the calmness, here and there. But if the man has got the same problems as myself, it is no wonder. He is working !
And he wants to meet his requirements. That can take more time as usual, sometimes . . .

Barliman wrote:

The odd thing about Mithril is when they don't even release the stuff they do have. The M range I've hinted at on several occasions - the one that's now been mentioned as the prize in the painting competition -  has been at the factory awaiting release since November, TE-approved and all. So I can't understand why they can't just get their proverbial finger out and get on with releasing them. It's not as if they'd clash with any other releases - there aren't any!

Dear Master Barliman,

interesting to hear!! But that is exactly what I mean. The marketing strategy is bad. If you have a look at other figure companies, there are always informations about what will be released next, there is rumour, there are photos and so on. That is needed to keep customers interested. I was always surprised by new releases of Mithril, which made it hard to plan saving money for small lead figures.

Huoommmm ... well, now it's me being confused on keeping records .... huom .. so far I can recall about 36 MS-releases being released ... hom ... the first 'Bonus figure' was the MS458 (Witch King of Angmar) ... rhuooommm ... unfortunately my records are not well organized, alas ... has there been a second 'Bonus figure' so far? ... and what was it? ... huooomhuoomm...
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you see, it's a bit hard as even trees grow older .... huoooooooommm ... then I tried to remind the company of the anniversary last year ... though the first idea about that wasn't mine ... then the tradition of Christmas figures, you know ... huoomm ... one year there was none, you might remember .... a lot of things to do ... huomm ... oh, and spring's coming ... I cannot haste everything    ...... but I try, of course

That´s right, Master Barliman. Being a part of the mithril-world for- at last 11 years I make up my thoughts about exactly this very often.
And it´s getting closer through the years than otherwise-interesting, isn´t it . I think the starting point was somewhere around the change of the old webside.
For me it is a little pity that mithril is not able to profit their potential, which is extremely - due to the Man´s abilities.
Wonderful miniatures -mostly- and that has not to be mentioned here in detail.
BUT...on the other side I was always glad not being a member of a mass movement. It was always something soothing, that mithril is somewhere out there.
It has something to do with, well let me call it exclusiveness.
Unfortunately that is not the thought that remains . . .

if the movie I saw is the right one... I have a full answer to give you on why Mithril don't and will never make such a movie.

This movie presents wargaming. LOTR Figurine Wargaming licences goes to Games Workshop. end of the line.
If Mithril affirms themselve at doing OFFICIALLY the same ---> Trial ---> Mithril closes, GW will have won, they only wait for that...
Mithril cannot afford to make official wargaming that is forbidden for them, the licence is exclusive to Games Workshop.

Now, if it was to make presentations, with dioramas, figurines with a context without any connotation of wargame why not.
But even if some mithril customers are wargamers... this "domain of activity" must remain unofficial for Mithril from the last news I know and that's mainly the reason why they have so many difficultires releasing army sets under special cover of not being open wargaming... and also the reason why the MW warbands were removed, or canceled from market.

(and I suggest that such discussion, and my own post here, be debated elsewhere than the Prancing Pony which is public and could be google-ized by GW addicts/spy who could use it against Mithril, no I'm not paranoïd, just careful )

I haven't, and wouldn't, suggest that Mithril should produce a wargaming video - why would they want to? I don't even suggest that Mithril figures should be used for wargaming - perish the thought! - although what people choose to do with their own figures once they've bought them is entirely up to them, not GW, nor TE, which would be ludicrous. As would presenting Mithril as a wargaming company, which it obviiously isn't even to a GW spy (are there such tnings? Do they look anything like that friend of Bill Ferny's?).

The only points I was attempting to make - though I've seemingly failed entirely! -  is that YouTube is a great means by which to promote a product, that a great video could be produced to showcase Mithril's figures, and that it should be given serious consideration by Mithril.

And I certainly can't see the harm of discussing the idea in the Pony. Otherwise the Pony might as well not be here. Or if it does need to be discussed elsewhere, then I need to know where 'elsewhere' is. Is there a secret room that can't be penetrated by these mysterious GW spies I've never seen nor heard of?

Now I'm going to have a drink. I feel the need for one.

Huooommmm ... why worry about that merchandising at all? ... rhuoomm ... as for me I think that GW-trailer is a bit, well ... amateurish ... huom ... so it fits well to most of the figures they provide ... rhuooommm ...
Concerning spies I do not care at all as the Prancing Pony has always been a place open to everybody ... rhuoommm ... with this I don't want to express that I like spies ... what I like is spice .... huoommmmmhomhooooohhhhmm

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well seems I misunderstood the statement above then indeed movies would be cool... I thought you meant "this kind of movies"... as for my other discussion about wargaming... well it has no more reason to be there if there was a misunderstanding at first.

when I say spy though I don't mean any of us here are "spies" I just mean that everything written in the pony can be, and will be one day accessible directly through a google search pointing directly to this thread of conversation.

as for critical, well you can be critical not a problem
nevermind what I said before, it is irrelevent (due to the fact I did not understand master barli the way I should have

Agreed.

As for the GW vid being, well, let's say 'unsophisticated' rather than 'amateur', that was also in part my point. It wouldn't cost very much to put a vid together that was at least as good as the GW one, and which could easily be better. In other words, a useful bit of promotion of the Mithril name could be genertated for a very reasonable cost. Blimey (as we say in Bree), even one of us could do it and put it on YouTube (well, one of us with a camera and a little editing experience, that is...which I admit excludes yours truly).

Rhuoomm...hom... "language is limited" as Master Saunders once said ... huom ... right he was ..  huoomm ... as for 2009 we should try to keep our coiny things for spending them on a lot of metal things coming ... rhuoomm ... that's what I've heard ... huoommm might be a rumour though ... huom ... in the Ent 'Im very much pleased to witness that some hassles here have been layed down   ... rhuoomm ...

It would be an ideal time to release the next range of "Shhhhh, you know who...." figures right now as Saturday sees SALUTE 2009 open its doors.

I'm not sure if I shall be there this year, nowt to do with no CT/Mithril freebie figure, but funds are low so I'm not sure if I could afford anything, and having missed the deadline for advance entrance tickets I shall have to queue up with the riff-raff, lol.

But it may be worth going along for some rumours I supose. Well if I do and if I hear anything, I'll let you know.

Barliman wrote:

The next "you know who" figures are released on 4/4 and 18/4, so technically they'll miss Salute, but I guess they'll probably be selling the 4/4 releases there. I hate to say it, but some of these are rather good (from a purely aesthetic and specifically movie viewpoint); but some are also, er, crap.

Mmmnnn! it might be worth popping along, 'brassic' as I is , I heard the exchange rate this morning , ounce for ounce of metal GF Mithrils are getting to be rather prohibitive.