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Gildor Inglorion wrote:

also other news... though I don't know if I am to tell you about it but I did not receive any non-disclosure requests...

The Helm's Deep "theme" is supposed to be made of 5 sets at all (that's not definitive though it may be less)
part 1 is Gamling's rally
part 2 is supposed to be "death to the strawheads" and it is already sculpted by Chris, he is now working on part 3
part 3 is supposed to be a lot of orcs... including those with explosives...
part 4 & 5 , we don't know yet

the Destroyer of Dwarves (PM2) should have been finished by Easter, but I received no news about it recently, but well it should appear soon.

What great news!! Lots of Helms Deep figures, very nice. It seems, that they are made to fill-in the gaps of the irregular Helms-Deep-series and to create a whole great battle scene. That's fantastic to give my scratch-built Helms Deep fortress lots of Mithril figures for diorama purposes. I like most the "strawheads"-thing- a chance to get some quite new Dunnish warriors for my ever growing Isengart army.
Maybe we sometimes can also have some "siege of Minas Tirith" sets in future.
Thanks Gildor for the news, and we promise you all spies, telling the Great Enemy, that you have told us the news, will be found and punished ;-).

Cheers again.

Do the Bree-people also celebrate the first of May??

Last edited by ESTEL (Thu, Apr30 2009 8:26am)

Huoommm ... there's not even a bonzai-like tree in the diorama ... gruuuooommm .... though those high vaults would be able to provide space for one of us .... huoommm...
respect, Master Rita.de, that diorama is absolutely perfect though there's not the original furniture (table, candles, etc) .... huoommm ... keep on, please. 

erchamion wrote:

It seems that there will be no rabbit for dinner .....
The half-troll looks set to win as new GF figure .....

You just reminded me that I hadn't voted yet.  I've been gone a week and here I almost didn't vote on my own suggestion. 

I wonder where this might come from except maybe that some members would like other kinds of suggestions (vignettes mounted etc) I know that's not possible at the moment but that may cause the lack of voting... from people who do not care about the result because they do not feel concerned... (I for once, vote every every month but it's been months I have suggested anything, that's my choice indeed...)

Maybe we should ask Michael to add a voting option in addition to all suggestions : "no opinion" or "blank vote"
this way people COULD vote even if they are not happy with the  presented suggestion (wether because they don't like any of them, OR to reflect , somehow, that they would want other kinds of figurine?  ) well, anyway, a blank vote should always be possible... because voting blank... and not voting.... is really two different things....

well sometimes people lack ideas .... or they are not offered the possibility to submit their suggestion due to the restrictions... they nevertheless would vote happily?
but that's only an opinion indeed... actually I do vote after all, but in the past months, I have to admit, I have sometimes voted for suggestions more with the goal of not letting another suggestion I did not like, win...  but this only applies to the second round votes indeed...

Last edited by erchamion (Fri, May1 2009 4:27pm)

Huoommm .... so, now it's Bert holding a club .... huommm ... still there's no clear answer about what Tom is holding ... hommm ... as I said before, I think it even might be a pony's leg ... hom

Theobald wrote:

Huoommm .... so, now it's Bert holding a club .... huommm ... still there's no clear answer about what Tom is holding ... hommm ... as I said before, I think it even might be a pony's leg ... hom

I think it is definately a pony (hopefully not the Prancing Pony) or the sheep in those parts are huge!

The final Troll looks superb as does Bard. Dead rider, Ingold and Brand arrived today and didn't dissapoint, just two more figures to get to keep up to speed with the GF releases!

Huooommm ... rhuom ... so we have mutton with William, horse or pony with Tom and a club with Bert ... right? .... huommmm .... ?

Huoommm .... I'm afraid you're right, Man in the Dark with your explanation about the low number of people actively taking part in those votings ... huom ... I have also sadly witnessed a certain decline within the GF .... rhuoommmm ... though I share your point of view that some 'great new members' have recently added themselves to this ... huoomm ...
As for me I can say that I did my best ... rhuoomm .... I always took part in the votings and even started to suggest new ideas of my own, after Master Barliman told me to do so ... huoom
What else can I do? .... hooomrhuom ... maybe another MX to keep the fire burning? ... huom
I dunno ...

the newsletter on the website has not been updated for quite some months...
the "real" newsletters are those we receive in email from Michael and yes this is a Fellowship newsletter.

@Theobald : I don't think a new MX could be achieved at the time being master ent... it would not be wise.... the workload of master Tubb seems already quite overflowing and adding a MX would only give him more and more work and delay even more the possibilities for the gold fellowship to be able -once again- to produce other things than "single unmounted" figurines...The backlog for GF figurines is currently at 6 figurines (only four, if we assume that Bert and Bard are finished) but that's still too much if we consider there is a full helm's deep regular range to be produced along with... certainly... other Prince August products not Mithril related.

I have seen that thing forever! I am with you on that! Seeing that for as long as it was on ebay, I was like no one is going to buy that broken thing.