cool! anyone have any stats yet?

New Intel on Galaxy at War sheds light on a startling fact...

BREAKING NEWS!!

WOTC has just revealed one of the pieces in their latest miniatures expansion Galaxy at War. Galaxy at War features characters from the Clone Wars Era(The MOST OVER-RATED AND GOD-AWEFUL TIME LINE IN STAR WARS)and who is this piece we might add? well its something so frightening,so bizzare, out of deep left field, a piece we never expected...ANOTHER GOD FORSAKEN BATTLE DROID!!!

Cade Skywalker is not as popular just because hes a popular mini. i read SW Legacy religiously, and people who have known Cade, only know him because of splash, and double twin.
ask someone who Ben skywalker is, and they get this cute look on their face, not knowing what your talking about.
I can see A sweet Ben skywalker Mini.
How many people know that Cade has Vaders leg armor? how many people even know that Cade is Drug addict?
i Dont want to hear that you need a popular Character to sell minis. I WILL BUY THEM REGARDLESS, and so will more then half of you. look at the custom armies we make on this site, half the characters added to said armies, are just grunts and vigo's.
Bith Black sun Vigo? i never saw a Bith, as a Vigo, Ever. He is in 70 % of our armies. why? because hes popular.
Cassus Fett, KoToR cannon. Wheres he at? almost 800 minis, And no Cassus.

and as far as a consumer goes, Im a customer, and the occassional slave, to this game. last I heard in free America, the customer was always right.
Screw Grievous! he doesnt get better then DAC.
Vader?! really!!?? How many are there!!??

a new Nym would Be nice........

Another well reasoned and articulated post. Guess what, I'm a customer too, and I enjoy seeing different variations of my favorite movie characters (always happy to see a Vader).

There are three main groups that buy this product. Players, RPGers, and Collectors. Collectors and RPGers could careless about the stats. And if you look at players, a lot of people only play certain factions. The PT, OT, and EU set cycle is the best way WOTC has balanced these different interests.

Amen, Brother!

Hahahahaha, this whole "My opinion is right and everyone else can go to @#$%^" is laughable at best. Just because you feel a certain way doesn't mean it's the RIGHT way. It just means it's your preference.

Sure, the customer is always right (though that is less and less apparent than it used to be). But if you as Customer #1 want a Cassus Fett, and I as Customer #2 want a new Han Solo....well, then which customer is right?

WOTC isn't stupid. They've done market research. They know what is going to sell the best. The people who post on these forums is a VERY VERY VERY small percentage of the people who actually buy the miniatures product. Again, I'll say...VERY SMALL. And around the forums like this, you'll likely find other people who also want things like Cassus, Celeste Morne, etc. But you won't see the casual collectors who are only interested in the OT stuff, because they usually can't stand reading tirades like this by the EU "fanatics".

And let me add to all of this by saying, that to some degree, I definitely agree with you. I'd love to see new pieces like Celeste, Cassus Fett, other characters from comics, EU novels, etc. But I have also taken the time to think rationally about things, and know that the longevity of this game depends on the casual buyers too, who aren't interested in the EU stuff, typically, and aren't interested in playing the game either. They just buy to display the pieces on a shelf.

So yes, reprints and re-dos of characters we already have are frustrating to some of us "hard-core" player/collectors. But those are the bread-and-butter type of things that attract new players and collectors, and in the end, help the game survive in the long run.

Besides, if they did all your favorite EU characters now, what would keep you buying things down the road?

-Cassus Fett
-Jodo Kast
-General Rom Mohc
-Jan Ores
-Rosh Penin
-Jaster Mereel
-Tahiri Veila
-Jerec
-Marn Hierogryph
-Vandar Tokare

The list goes on....

haha, that's the best list ever. Not one, and I mean not one of the characters would sell a set to me. I know next to nothing about any of them. You certainly proved the point being made, that EU characters alone cannot sell sets, if that's the best you can come up with.

Honestly, none of this matters anyways. WotC has long decided this issue, so none of our opinions matter on bit on it. In fact, WotC has already decided that the EU fans who decry reprints are in fact wrong. They have plenty of market research, and plenty of sales numbers of sets with which to back it up by this point.

And yet, they continue to mix the EU in here and there, while following the model that brings us lots of well recognized characters as well. That shows you, that the best answer for WotC is the current model. So quite simply, all of your opinions, are in fact wrong in this case.

I, for one, know squat about EU stuff. I really enjoyed KOTOR and LOTF and most of my EU knowledge came from finding out more about the minis. I enjoyed those sets so much that I told myself "this is great cause now I can spend more money on these and totally bypass Clone Wars altogether and save some pain and money" then I saw the pieces and stats. Then I started to watch the cartoon series and I loved them both to the point of now stating that Clone Wars is a way better set "overall" than KOTOR or LOTF, so if GAW is Clone Wars 2.0 then I welcome it. I look forward to Grievous, Assaj, Kit Fisto because they will all be commander versions. :D And no, I would never say that Grievous DAC is the best he is ever going to get. Wizards could obsolete him in a heartbeat if they wanted too. When the seps start getting great CEs that help the living then lookout!

"D@mn fool, I knew you were going to say that."