Growing the Hobby!

[WEIRDWOLF]

Great conversation. I like the banner ads idea. I have a friend that might be able to help us get into this affordably. Along with that, we need a starter package product.

I think that eventually, we need a forward thinking toy company (maybe a new company formed by member investors) that finds a way to get a starter packaged product that works out of the box available to the masses. This would be followed by individual packaged customs detailed figures sold individually to enhance their starter teams. The field needs to be completely rethought to be made into a requires assembly unit that would take less shelf space in a toy store, probably battery powered or you will be faced with massive fees to get the UL symbol on it. (Remember starter set-big fields powered by DC come later) This would be the best advertisement as well as having a truly national event under 1 rule set and weight. There is nothing wrong with individual leagues running under their own set as we do with the MFCAL and this could be used as the seeding for the national event. All leagues would know that whatever rule set they used would only be there to get them to the nationals where a one rule set for all would rule. Over time, many leagues would adjust their rules to fit more closely to the national set if that was important to them to be competitive.