I went and checked out indiegogo. One other campaign to make Cthulhu miniatures exists there. Funnily enough it is by Reaper Miniatures (another established company *sigh). They seem to have realized that their miniature range sucks and are running the campaign to update certain figures. They got 17K to create a small handful along with a couple of new sculpts.

I like how in their presentation they say it takes an "astronomical" amount of time and money to sculpt and cast a figure and that is why they are running the campaign. Really? Takes me a couple of days to make a miniature and £50-100 to make the mold. The cost of casting is taken into account for the retail price. What I need is money to hire a web designer and create an online store, purchase packaging, commission an artist for the box art, etc - all things that Reaper already has sorted out. So what's the money they are asking for again? Nothing. Just milking the public and able to do so because of brand recognition.

I think I'm going to go ahead and make a go of my line anyway. I wonder whether Reaper will get pissy and throw a cease-and-desist order at me? I would hope not considering that when they first started out (before they bought the rights to 'Call of Cthulhu') they had to call their Cthulhu model an "Elderich Demon" to keep the law off their backs. Besides there are plenty of other sculpters who have done limited releases of Cthulhu miniatures and seem to be doing alright.

Also I apologize if I'm sounding angry and frustrated here. It's because I am. I feel a bit like I'm going up against the man here: no room for newcomers; a monopolized market; big wigs getting richer while the poor get nothing. What a horrible economic trap commercialism is.