Avi_dreader said:

It's called reverse psychology.

I mean... it ISN'T called reverse psychology! Aha!

I'd like to pick em up but the sticker shock is getting to me. The announcement claimed that if produced in pewter the cost would have been $9.95 per figure. That pretty eyebrow raising for me as I regularly buy highly detailed 25mm wargame figs for less than a quarter of that and just a week ago bought some just produced 28mm RPG figs for less than $4 apiece. A well known manufacturer sells packs of 24 x 15mm figures for $9. In other words something outa whack with the pewter comment or maybe I'm confused with thinking 'cost' doesn't include the branding markup.

I'd certainly like to paint the figs myself but I can understand the attraction of pre-painted. The Wings of War planes have fantastic paintjobs but small scale planes are a different matter from 32mm human figures. I wasn't too impressed with the Mutant Chronicles paintjobs (let alone the huge 54mm scale problem).

32mm scale doesn't fit with my existing metal 25-28mm scale 1920's roleplaying collection but after reading the comments that it's the same scale as Heroclix I understand why FF decided on that size. I just assume that if monsters where ever to be produced the scale would have to be pretty flexible or they wouldn't fit on the gameboard.

A suggestion to Fantasy Flight: Along with the rollout of the prepainted plastic figures licence out the figures to one of the dozens of existing experienced metal figure manufacturers to produce unpainted metal Arkham Horror figures. FF gets the licence fee, fans get cheaper unpainted metal figures, and in all likelyhood sets and monsters out faster. While the 'heroic' scale prepainted plastic fanboys can still be satisfied with the existing announced rollout.

I'm waiting for the official Arkham Horror air freshener.

avec said:

Already have one:

www.madameblavatskyoverdrive.com/2009/09/scents-inspired-by-cthulhu-mythos.html

Oooh, just in time for Saturday night!

Perhaps they'll offer packs of more than 2 investigators at a somewhat reduced rate for those who may want to pick up all (or a bunch) of them? *nudge*

I'm on the fence, but intrigued. I do like Twilight's suggestions, as well...

I can see the production cost and the risk being high. After all, you only need one of each figure. There won't ever be a need for 3 Jenny Barnes figures in the collection. With that in mind, how many do you make? 5000 of each figure, more, less? Just looking at this board, less than 50% would buy the whole set. FFG could end up with a huge inventory of figures that never sell. Most likely, sales of the first month will drive the viability of future offerings.

I just hope they don't cancel the run. I need me my Skids figure!

This was cancelled, check the front-page!

I'm glad! Now maybe they will consider upgrading the game to have unpainted minis standard just like all their other games. They just need minis for the investigators like Runebound, Talisman and Decent!

And for all the old-schoolers they could sell un-painted investigator packs with all the investigators for each expansion. (sell a pack for each expansion).