I thing i always go on about is the uruk hai boxed set. why cant we get 8 crossbows 8 pikes and 8 sword like normal box sets? i cant get much crossbowmen cause thier all in metal! i bet the fighting uruk hai is one of the most bought lotr products being a basic trooop type for a core army so why is the box annoyingly disposed. i also thinnk warriors of the last allience should be split into 2 boxes

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It comes in pints? I'm getting one!

Several things: they want to make more money. They want to make more money. They want to make more money. All three are in different ways,b ut the gist is, that it gets them more money. Also, due to Citadel Finecast, there will be no more metal models - they will be replaced with resin models.

Because Games-Workshop are evil people like that.

They released a new box set of plastic Warriors of the Dead with the release of War of the Ring to make them easier to collect, but they decided to only put in 20 figures instead of 24.

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"If you can imagine something, then it is possible."
-Whiskas, 26th May, 2009

That would be nice as one of the last things they do in plastic but there are WAAAY more important things for them to put in a plastic slot first.

Remember, even if what you want is the numenoreans, it is still cheaper to get 8 plastic ones than to buy the metal ones, and you get 16 elves free to boot.

The fact that the kit is combined is a slightly annoying idiosyncrasy but far less annoying that the lack of plastic fiefdom troops, or plastic royal guard, or plastic kataphracts, plastic khandish warriors, plastic vault wardens, and so on and so on. Even a plastic hobbit kit should come out before the redo the last alliance kit (well, maybe)

Money is for everything. So they usually change a blister into plastic when the blister sales are very low...

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I am a ranger of the north.

Because whoever is in charge of packaging the products is an idiot. Same reason why they don't make 4-man blisters so people can make wotr companies, or even put some of the metals into plastic sets. They're too busy coming up with fancy new stuff instead of fixing up problems with the existing range. Grrrr
Yes, this is a rant. I have a friend who was almost forced to make a new army mainly because of the Last alliance box issue (plus the fact that high elves are pants in WOTR )

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Backlog reduction Oath Participant

Well you will be pleased to see that the Finecast Uruk-Hai Berserker and Crossbow blisters do have 4 miniatures in them. Hopefully this will be norm for standard (i.e., non-hero) blisters going forward!

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".......but the power of the Ring could not be undone."

Probably will.

Blisters haven't been coming in groups of 4 before because most of them were released before WotR so there was no need. Since WotR came out they have done a very good job of making sure new stuff can be made into WotR companies and have even repackaged a few old things.

This finecast switchover will just continue that, though with the price hikes, it'll probably end up being about the same anyway.