Wow, that would be the ideal situation, but, a business/community deal is unlikely to happen IMO. I would imagine Lucas wants as much control over a product on the shelf as possible (even if the stats cards are provided separately). I can see Lucas supporting V-sets after a product is out of commission, but I don't see Lucas supporting community stats while actively producing a miniatures product. Still, you never know...

heres why i think that any company that plans to pick the SWM game won't be doing very well on the tournament side of things.

Its been stated here,among other sites that if the mechanics are changed players won't player,or if the scale is changed they won't play. Attitudes may have changed or they may not have. And with from what i'm understanding in the above post the new minis may be restated to play,which could nudge out any trounament acitivty the new company wishs to start.



This isn't to say that folks won't buy it,I'm sure they will. It is Star Wars after all

Um, please don't talk about things of which you know nothing about. You don't know any tournament players, or anything about us aside from what you've read and reinterpreted. And let's be clear, your understanding of us has never been very flattering, or very accurate.

New company of not has very little bearing on anything you've said.

As for the issue of the mechanics, guys, it isn't a big deal. If someone wants it, they can get it easily enough, it isn't nearly as cost prohibitive as I've seen some of you with no knowledge of it make it out to be. As Sithborg already said, all we know is that someone bought the license. We don't know if they are 1-3 of his possibilities at this point, and we will not know anything until the end of the month at the absolute earliest (odds are it won't be that quick, so please don't start a new thread on June 1st saying, "It's the end of May, what's going on". As soon as anything is known, it will be posted all over the place.

@Circrush. You are mistaken. The game mechanics for Heroclix were purchased. It doesn't matter if the company goes under, intellectual property does not become free game. They bought it from someone (likely a creditor or from Wizkids/Topps itself) at some point. Game mechanics are a pretty small price to pay for things like this. WotC was offered the CCG mechanics from Decipher (and LFL which also has a significant say in these negotiations) for next to nothing (I think it was like 50K or some such) and they turned it down. As it was, they didn't want competition for Magic (Sithborg's #3) and bought the license to take it away from Magic's top competitor at the time.

Odds are a new company buying the game would want to continue it as is. Doesn't mean the others aren't possible, its just the most likely.

Would you like to me find all of the quotes about not getting into game with a new company if parts of it are changed?

not to be a buzzkill but this game wont last much more than maybe a year unless it is picked up by an official company. SWM is a small niche game with a very small inner circle that is small enough to almost die out in the next few months. A lot of signscof the game dying came before an official announcement.

SWM simply doesnt have the size of SWCCG, HeroClix, Magic, etc. when the biggest minis forums/sites have only 1000 members and that is the signed up amount not even the posting amountyou are in trouble. Problem is also all the infighting between members/sites killed it even more than canxelling could have.

We could have nade it work if this was more of a community than it is.

HeroClix died but it had 100 times the following of minis. Sad, but true.

The same splintered groups may play for a little while but V sets wont have much impact if only 200 or so dedicated players in one or two regions of the country is all we have.

I know I will probably get blasted for thos post, but that is the real state of minis IMO.

I searched around and have come to the conclusion that returning them to the store you bought them from is the best bet. Come June 1st, I will head into town and hand in all my dice.

Lets keep it on the topic, not the posters please.

This game will only die if we allow it. V sets are only one aspect.

Well, no, you can't... they've got to go back!

I really don't see NECA picking up SWMs as is and continuing on with the d20 system. I would think it's far, far more likely that, if they were to acquire the SW rights for minis, they'd use their fairly popular and already established clix and dials system. Plenty of long term WK fans and customers already salivate every time the subject comes up about how much they'd love to have Star Wars clix that are compatible with their Heroclix/Haloclix/etc. They'd probably all blow a gasket if NECA did acquire the rights and then didn't make it a clix game.

Even so, personally, I wouldn't mind if NECA got the rights because it's easy enough to remove a miniature from his clix dial and glue him to a more proper sized Star Wars minis base, and it would provide a whole new source of figures for the Virtual sets to plan new stat cards around. Most of WK's collectible miniatures have always been around the same scale as SWMs. It could work nicely.