Online Survey Bones

One comment from the online survey we are conducting was the lack of the Bones line of figures from Reaper. Agreeing with the respondent, we got in the top 100 figures in the Bones line today as well as a box of the new figures Reaper released this month.

More on Kickstarter

I still have some concerns about Kickstarter.  One is that more companies will look at the success of the Reaper campaign and last February’s very successful drive by Giant in the Playground  to reprint the Order of the Stick books and decide to rely on Kickstarter for funding as well.  These two campaigns worked because they had products that people wanted (both Bones figures and the Order of the Stick books sell steadily) and the company’s both added very nice incentives to their various levels and stretch goals, with GITP’s  incentives targeted towards the individual customer while Reaper’s aimed at both customer and retailer.  Each one had a number of levels , allowing funders quite a bit of flexibility in their investments, as well as encouraging funders to bump up pledges.  Unless a company looking to fund through Kickstarter is willing to make the effort that these companies did and create excitement for their campaigns, they won’t see the results that either company achieved.

New Reaper

Check out these new Reaper figures:

Dark Heaven Legends Fantasy Miniatures
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REM03609 Hell Hound $ 8.49 SRP 25mm Heroic Scale Fantasy Miniatures Integral Bases Unpainted metal models that may require assembly	REM03610 Achilles, Mythical Hero $ 9.79 SRP 25mm Heroic Scale Fantasy Miniatures Integral Bases Unpainted metal models that may require assembly

Savage Worlds Miniatures
REM59025 Female Huckster $ 5.99 SRP 25mm Heroic Scale Fantasy Miniatures Tabbed figures on plastic slotted bases Unpainted metal models that may require assembly	REM59021 Bone Fiend $ 6.99 SRP 25mm Heroic Scale Fantasy Miniatures Tabbed figures on plastic slotted bases Unpainted metal models that may require assembly

Pathfinder Miniatures
REM60106 Pathfinder Explorer $ 7.29 SRP Miniatures are supplied unpainted and assembly may be required.	REM60109 Styrian Kindler $ 6.79 SRP Miniatures are supplied unpainted and assembly may be required.

P-65 Heavy Metal Miniatures
REM65143 Griffon $ 18.49 SRP 25mm Heroic Scale Multi-Genre Miniatures Integral bases Unpainted lead-alloy metal models that may require assembly	REM65144 Silver Dragon $ 24.49 SRP 25mm Heroic Scale Multi-Genre Miniatures Integral bases Unpainted lead-alloy metal models that may require assembly

A Tale of Two Paints

Probably going to drop the Howard Hues line of paints.  We brought these in about two years ago and have sold less than half a dozen bottles, despite their quality and value.  We currently stock, in depth, the Games Workshop and Privateer Press lines, because both of those sell steadily, the GW paints outselling the PP ones by a factor of 4 to one, mainly because of the high number of Warhammer 40,000 players compared to Warmachine and Hordes players in the area.  We have looked at expanding the Reaper line but haven't been able to get any info on a rack.  We have toyed with bringing in the Vallejo line of paints as well, as people speak quite highly of them, but the Vallejo paint sets we brought it, to test the waters, moved very slowly.  Ergo, we are pretty leery of bringing in the entire Vallejo line, given that it would amount to a significant investment on the store's part to do so.