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Post by Gildor on Nov 17, 2010 20:22:00 GMT
well maybe some collectors or customers have always tried to understand or know why some figurines have always been rarer than others... There can be several reasons... mould breaking, small number of castings, promotional figurines never publicly released it would be cool to have a little history behind those rarities... Some are quite well known: The M16, M10 and M7 are known to be the top 3 rarest Mithril from the M range... why so? (I may know the answer but the purpose is to participate in this debate so I won't give all the details in the first post hehe) there are also other unexpected rarities... MS437 Halbarad, from the MS Gold Fellowship range, or the M247 the elf warrior of Nargothrond? and there is also the story behind the rarity of the early Christmas 54mm figurines , those prior to 1994, from 1988 to 1993.... well let's discuss rarity causes for a while
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Post by imisel on Nov 18, 2010 10:41:57 GMT
I have no idea about the reason of differents raritys, except M93 Zalg, that I believe there was a problem with the mould.
For me, the most strange about rarity is m329 the ringwraith, that many people have talked about its difficulty to be found. Any clue?
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Post by dwood on Nov 24, 2010 16:51:19 GMT
I believe the M16 is rare as it was pulled due to the fragility of the miniature - this is evidenced by my own copy (a lucky find indeed!) as the ankles are very thin and the sculpting cuts make them even more prone to breaking - I can certainly envisage an issue with casting it! Not sure on others though. I hunted the Razorac down finally a few years ago and have picked up 2 more since......all things come to he who waits!
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Post by thorondor on Dec 13, 2010 12:20:54 GMT
in my mithril list tehre are 2 spots still empty: M495 Christmas 2005
do any such figures exist? any clarification is much appreciated. thakns!
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Post by Theobald on Dec 13, 2010 13:05:46 GMT
That's not a problem, thorondor. 2005 was the only (!!!) year in which no Christmas figure was released. So there is none. M495 is "Glorfindel and Lord of the Nazgûl". It was a Mithril release for the "Salute Zero Seven"-event in 2007. There were about 4000 figures casted. That's all there is.
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Post by ddaines on Dec 13, 2010 21:31:25 GMT
in my mithril list tehre are 2 spots still empty: M495 Christmas 2005 do any such figures exist? any clarification is much appreciated. thakns! Thorondor, you have a pm
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Post by thorondor on Jan 6, 2011 13:04:02 GMT
thanks for the replies. glad to hear i dont have to chase down these figures ;-)
and sry for the late reply. i have bookmarked this thread, but i never got a notification about your answers ...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2011 7:40:58 GMT
M495 is "Glorfindel and Lord of the Nazgûl". It was a Mithril release for the "Salute Zero Seven"-event in 2007. There were about 4000 figures casted. That's all there is. actually, the cat # is MS495, hence the confusion, i believe.
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Post by Gildor on Jan 28, 2011 9:02:42 GMT
well, M, MV, MS, MB, MW, MX all share the same referencing continuity except for two oddities : M369 and MB369... a sad mistake in the referencing PM496 and MS496... a mistake about the second salute event...)
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2011 11:10:34 GMT
PM496 and MS496... a mistake about the second salute event... yes, i found it interesting that it had tubb's phaeton miniatures cat #, when it was clearly a mithril range release.
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Post by Gildor on Jan 28, 2011 22:29:10 GMT
well it is not really a mithril range in itself.... since it was made for Salute Event... I suppose that they used the PM prefix when they noticed there was a mistmatch because MS496 did already exist
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2011 6:26:39 GMT
well it is not really a mithril range in itself.... since it was made for Salute Event... I suppose that they used the PM prefix when they noticed there was a mistmatch because MS496 did already exist i disagree -- ms495 was made for the salute event as well and is part of the mithril range regardless. i suppose the fact that ms496 was already assigned, as you pointed out, was the primary reason for the different prefix. apart from that, the number 496 indicates that it's part of the series, otherwise they could have used a completely unrelated cat # (or no cat # at all).
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Post by Theobald on Jan 29, 2011 18:07:49 GMT
Right, my dear fellows. All this misunderstanding might be caused of a mix of numbers, at least that's what I Think. So let me try to explain, please. MS496 is the "The witch-king" MS495 definitely is the Salute release. I dare to say as I still keep one in blister.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2011 19:27:39 GMT
theobald, you are correct -- but gildor and i were discussing whether the salute release pm496 is part of the mithril range or not, and this is where our opinions diverge.
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Post by Gildor on Jan 29, 2011 22:17:26 GMT
oh they certainly are from the mithril range, I fully agree... I just meant that maybe at first it was not meant to be so
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2011 11:31:46 GMT
The M16, M10 and M7 are known to be the top 3 rarest Mithril from the M range... why so? (I may know the answer but the purpose is to participate in this debate so I won't give all the details in the first post hehe) Oki now tell us, why are they rare. I have the M10 myself
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Post by Gildor on May 18, 2011 16:27:15 GMT
well it seems those three figurines had casting problems, and the moulds broke quite fast thus reducing dramatically the number of ever profuced figurines of this reference. in the end, there indeed were less for sale or stocks were out faster than the others.
since these were released in 1988 they were among the first to be removed from the catalogues and from the distributors and were thus very hard to get, already back in the early 90s..
this is the case for M16 at least. but I think the same occured for M10 and M7
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Post by Theobald on May 29, 2011 14:24:16 GMT
Well, about the rarity of the M7 I remember to have heard once that this figure was liked very much by people playing table-tops those days (especially in the USA).
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