Miniature Building Authority - New High Adventure range scenery

[uti long smile]

Some great new Pulp pieces from MBA!!

http://www.miniaturebuildingauthority.com/products.asp?cat=29

Anyone know of any European sellers?

[Hammers]

That's some veeery nice items right there!

[Backyardpatrol]

After slugging through hours and hours of painting the basic details on GW's fortified manor set I can really appreciate why MBA charges so much for their terrain!

Videos from Gencon of the MBA tables:

http://www.tabletopgamingnews.com/2008/08/15/16394

http://www.tabletopgamingnews.com/2008/08/15/16393

[Regulator]

After slugging through hours and hours of painting the basic details on GW's fortified manor set I can really appreciate why MBA charges so much for their terrain!

Videos from Gencon of the MBA tables:

http://www.tabletopgamingnews.com/2008/08/15/16394

http://www.tabletopgamingnews.com/2008/08/15/16393

These buildings look great.  Very nice colors and realy nice figures on the table.

[Bravo Six]

Does anyone have the MBA rope bridge? If so, what are your thoughts? Looks pretty good from the pics. Just wondered if it is AS good up close.

-Todd

[uti long smile]

Picked up the bridge, huts and sacrificial poles from Ebay - i'll let you know when they arrive.

And if anyone wants to part with the Temple or Trading Station just let me know!!

[Argonor]

And if anyone wants to part with the Temple or Trading Station just let me know!!

"THIS ITEM WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE UNTIL THE END OF JULY. "

Does this mean 2009??

EDIT: Aaaarrghh... they're all limited ed. !! 

Why on earth does a manufacturer do that with a perfectly sellable product???

[brigadegames]

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EDIT: Aaaarrghh... they're all limited ed. !! 

Why on earth does a manufacturer do that with a perfectly sellable product???
"

Because they were made in China under a contract before they judged what the response was going to be.  Many MBA buildings were done in very large quantities to keep the costs as low as possible which in turn has caused MBA to still have stock of those items many, many, many years after they were first released. This was a large capital outlay and they really don't want to do that ever again.

This range was done in much smaller quantities and some pieces like the Trading Post and Temple were much more expensive to do and the owners felt that the best way to sell through the bigger pieces was to limit the initial run and make it a limited edition. I don't think they expected to sell out as fast as they did.

We ordered a large amount of the LE items but were allocated 25% of our order.

We do however have the other items in stock (and have restocked) and I have shipped a bunch overseas.

[Argonor]

OK... I can see the problem when they do it that way...

but when an item has been cast up, the mold should still exist... and when a mold exists, further runs of an item are not as expensive as the first run (at least should not be).

A sound policy might be to make such stuff as 'semi-limited' instead - telling the customers that the first run will be limited to x pieces, then when sold out, the next run will be limited to x-y pieces - or limited to being made when x-y pre-orders are in...

Should be more profitable in the end, I think...