Thursday, November 01, 2007

| Best Halloween Costume Evar


I only wish I was that cool back in the day.

Thanks for hosting the party Enron. "Ghoulies" was a marvellously stupid movie and a fun movie to drink beer to. Also, congratulations on your astonishing outlay on D&D Minis, you've far surpassed my collection in one fell swoop! Brutal!

Meanwhile, I've gone a little nuts buying stuff on ebay for this pre-painted squad-based wargame called AT-43. It is kinda pricey at MSRP, as a squad of pre-paints costs about the same as a similar box of nicer unpainted stuff for Warmachine, but at 50-75% off on ebay or Warstore it almost seems reasonable.

Meanwhile, it looks like some distribution problems with AT-43 have caused some brick and mortar stores to actually increase their prices over MSRP on the minis. Gamescape has a decent selection of the minis but their prices are completely insane. They were asking $96 for the starter, which has an MSRP of $80, and similiarly crazy price increases for most of the unit boxes. Endgame also has marked up a lot of the box prices for $5 or more. Not as bad, but enough to make me default to buying online. Way to compete with the online environment, guys.