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Don't you love it....
You people are all nutty...
Another scrumpy please, but this time with fur ball! Didn't get one in the last one.
I have to fill up my pillow you know....

The Man's intention is to have five sets. As for release dates - well, you know as well as I that TE have to approve everything first, and then Mithril have to do the moulding and casting, and sadly neither party is known for its sense of urgency. Quite the opposite.

Horrible thought, isn't it? Let's hope Mithril themselves are still with us by then!

The latter, I suspects. However, it would be nice to think that if Mithril are really keen to start making some more money then getting their future releases out a bit quicker would be a good way to start. So maybe we won't have to wait two years and more for all the figures that The Man is getting ready. (And I won't even mention the Easterlings...)

Eh? There's no new messages that I can see.

rita.de wrote:

Erchamion should know that, because it is containing to a spanish-cook-book . . .

Erchamion is not used to such delicious and choice food. Recently few people venture to the barrow. Some small hobbit, perhaps ....

Barliman wrote:

The latter, I suspects. However, it would be nice to think that if Mithril are really keen to start making some more money then getting their future releases out a bit quicker would be a good way to start. So maybe we won't have to wait two years and more for all the figures that The Man is getting ready. (And I won't even mention the Easterlings...)

Does this also mean that there will be no further serie-m until to leave in the light the five of Helm's Deep?

Last edited by erchamion (Wed, Jun10 2009 5:25pm)

Not so much hasty as mortal, Master Tree.

Barliman wrote:

I could certainly live without the GF on economic grounds, but whether or not anything equally worthwhile would be substituted in its place is a moot point. I've twice this year got to the point where I've seriously contemplated 'opting out' of buying any more GFs (some I don't like anyway, and others are too expensive for me, so purchasing my 'membership quota' has been difficult), but it is a way of getting specific figures into production that would probably never see the light of day otherwise.

Certainly if it came down to a choice I would prefer to see Mithril promoting itself better, but I can't really see how it's an 'either/or' situation. How would not having the GF actually release funds that could then be spent on advertising? I think Lars is too astute a businessman to persevere with producing a dozen figures a year that don't at least cover their costs; and if they at least cover their costs, then closing down the GF wouldn't actually save any money.

As for your first question, Master Gildor, I'm still not sure that it was the partial GF boycott that got through to Lars and Michael that we were very unhappy about the new M range prices. I think it was your 'open letter' which achieved that. But the GF forum comments may well have served to underline the point.

Now that the immediate 'crisis' has been resolved, incidentally, I'm puzzled why many people still haven't suggested a GF figure for this month.

My suggestion has now been submitted, I think that now I have tried to show support for both sides the immediate crisis is over so until the next time.......

I'm getting a bit worried about all the pink and mauve, not to mention cocktail umbrellas that are being requested around here, what on earth are the Breelanders coming to? Straight scrumpy for me please Barli with rat's tails and straw if you please!

On the Mithril or GF debate, if I had to shoot one to save the other then the GF gets the bullet as it was Mithril that I first collected and if there were more regular M series, well promoted and fairly priced then the GF does seem more like an expensive luxury, already many members are struggling to keep up myself included, and we have now had about 36 or thereabouts new and uniique figures so we have had a good run. My preference would of course be that both live on to reach a very old age.

Anyhow you must be worked off of your feet Barli with cutting all this pineapple and stuff, I'm just having the one drink and turning in!

Straw please Barli, I hear drinking scrumpy through a straw makes you a bit giddy

I don't know how you Master Dave, can drink a scrumpy with a straw.....
The ones I get are always that thick, I need a spoon for it!
Now wonder you become a bit giddy!

Unless it comes in a leaky barrel with lots of 'X's on it and foams when you pours it in a mug, I don't think we've got any.

There you go Master Ent, I just have casted some of these coiny things for you.....
Master Barliman won't mind....

Last edited by hsf62 (Sat, Jun13 2009 1:37pm)