For those who know me (I can already sense the flinching...), you may know I've been at this GZG thing for a year or ten now. For those who've seen some of the games at ECC, they may recall I have a fair collection of GZG 25mm stuff. I think my current count runs somewhere in excess of 1200 25mm figures, most of whom are GZG. I think (given the boxes of unassembled resins I just found), I likely have 50 GZG 25mm vehicles. Then on top of that we can throw in some TAU vehicles, toys from Walmart, DLD vehicles around a dozen in number, Ainsty/Denizen Ventaurians and mid-tech Marines, Ral Partha Battletroops, WEG Star Wars, new Star Wars plastics, some GW space marines, and so on... and one can imagine I'm pretty heavily invested into 25mm. By dint of the work of my superior painter pal, most now have paint on them. The total investment is probably well over $10K in 25mm stuff at today's prices, if you count my seriously discounted painting fees. It was accumulated over the last twenty years.
So that's my preamble. One can understand why I might not want to just unload all of this on E-bay. And now, I see GZG is shifting off into 15mm. I haven't seen much of anything new in 25mm lines from Jon for some time. No new vehicles, no new figures or figure lines to speak of - last I recall was probably the Phalons or a few individual figures in the street level ranges. Lots of new stuff in 15mm and nothing to speak of in 25mm. Old Crow has produced some nice 25mm and DLD did/does, but I'm not sure they're not in hiatus (which is too bad, because David does excellent work). But not much from GZG - still selling existing stuff, but I own pretty much all of it in profusion. I've been a good customer of Jon, of KR, and of other people stocking Jon's wares over the years. I'd like to continue to be a good customer for GZG. But I'm pretty much stuck into 25mm and opening out a new 15mm range makes marginal sense. And yet, that's where the market is. Brigade and GZG and others are making 15mm galore. Don't get me wrong, I see the advantages: Cheaper figures, cheaper shipping, more bang for your buck, closer to WYSIWYG in stargrunt, let's you play in CM if you want, easier to paint to a decent standard, lots of toys in the same scale, etc. But that doesn't change the fact I'm like a Dinosaur at La Brea. I've got both feet planted firmly in the 25mm Tar Pit and no signs of getting out anytime soon. The fact I too would buy 15mm if starting anew today is utterly irrelevant. So, to my questions: 1) Is there anyone else who is still a 25mm player? Are there many of us left? Is anyone choosing to buy 25mm over 15mm nowadays when buying new stuff? 2) Are most 25mm players biting the bullet and migrating to 15mm? Or resisting that transition? 3) For Jon T/GZG: Is there any practical likelihood of more 25mm models coming out? Does it make any sort of business sense? Would a number of 25mm players coming out of the woodwork and asking for some new 25mm sculpts affect that decision? I'm just curious if there are a bunch of potential 25mm consumers sitting quietly out there or if I'm literally the last of a dying breed. If there are a bunch of people in 25mm collections that intend to stay there, perhaps there might be enough market incentive to convince Jon to do some more 25mm stuff. I don't necessarily suspect this is the case, but I thought I'd put the questions out there and see. I'd rather send Jon my money than a lot of manufacturers for a variety of reasons, but if there isn't new product I'm interested in buying coming out in a scale I use, that is a bit problematic. I certainly understand the move to 15mm in the hobby, but I'm like a steam train in the age of the electric locomotive.... Thomas B. -- "Now, I go to spread happiness to the rest of the station. It is a terrible responsibility but I have learned to live with it." Londo, A Voice in the Wilderness, Part I "To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead." -- Thomas Paine Thomas Paine --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ground Zero Games" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gzg-group?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
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