Interesting poll results and suggestions and it confirms pretty much what I already thought. Everyone wants something different, there isn't any clear favorite amongs treefroggers save perhaps the two categories that are missing (WWII and Napoleonics) and the results of the poll are about as helpful as the raw list without any votes!
As such, we'll just make what we want, make it well, and if you guys like it, that will be fantastic. If not, well, at least I'll like it.
Regards,
Matt
First Legion Ltd
While these polls can be a lot of fun, I think we take ourselves far too seriously, and possibly have an overblown image of this forums self-importance, if we think that manufacturers really sit and sweat over the results. Polls such as this one probably do provide some useful feedback to the manufacturers in the sense that they indicate interest in certain eras of history - and maybe they do pay at least
some attention to them; how would I know? I do believe that certain of the ranges presently on the market, and one in particular that has just recently been announced, may in fact be due to lobbying on this and other forums, but I think it's more due to personal lobbying of the manufacturer and an appeal to what attracts him into producing that range in particular.
Having said that, at the end of the day, as Matt indicates here, and as toy makers have stated many times before, the manufacturers will go ahead and produce what they like - and much, much, more importantly - what they think will sell in droves.
As has also been stated many times, this forum only represents a proportion of the world-wide collecting community, and it's without a shadow of doubt heavily biased towards one era only - and there's nothing whatsoever wrong with that. However I'd suggest that members here who seem to think that manufacturers are going to jump and pander to our personal preferences
every single time we spout, "
Give us this, and give us that", are obviously living in some alternative universe where their personal preferences are somehow - important. I tend to doubt that my own preferences for a Mongol range or a Trojan War series will see the light of day anytime soon, but I don't think that I go on and on about it at every given opportunity - and even then, I tend to only mention them in relevant forum threads.
I also truly believe that books and movies play their part in influencing our collecting preferences. Who doesn't like at least some of the scenes in, for example, Waterloo, Last of the Mohicans, Gladiator, SPR, The Patriot, Band of Brothers, The Light Horsemen, El Cid, A Bridge Too Far, Gettysburg, The Seven Samurai, The Longest Day, The Sharpe Series, and so on?
Personally, I'm happy to sit back and enjoy the speculation. And when new ranges and accessories for those new ranges eventually appear, (from anyone), then I'll decide for myself what I'll add to our collection. As I already have decided in one particular case.
All just generalisations and personal opinions of course and no offence intended.
Harry
