"How Worried Are You About the Future of the Hobby?" Topic
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robert piepenbrink  | 11 Jan 2026 3:49 a.m. PST |
There is no "the Hobby." There is fantasy & SF miniatures, which seem to be getting on fine, and historical miniatures, which are limping along--except for those periods not GW-adjacent, which are dying. |
| advocate | 11 Jan 2026 3:53 a.m. PST |
Worried? Not at all. I have enough to keep playing for the rest of my life – figures, rules and most importantly, fellow players. |
 Parzival | 11 Jan 2026 6:43 a.m. PST |
About as worried as I am about the future of cathode-ray television sets, microwave ovens, Ethernet LANs, and buggy whips. Maybe even less. |
| Grattan54 | 11 Jan 2026 10:03 a.m. PST |
Seeing how we are in a golden age of figures, not very. |
| PzGeneral | 11 Jan 2026 12:11 p.m. PST |
Zero. It'll be here when I'm not. Dave |
 20thmaine | 11 Jan 2026 12:46 p.m. PST |
Zero – it's done nothing but grow for the last 60 years, it's bigger than ever and if everyone closed down tomorrow there'd be billions of figures left to paint. And if it did somehow stop tomorrow – I've got a lifetime's worth of stuff, and less than a lifetime to do something with it. |
| Dave Crowell | 11 Jan 2026 1:59 p.m. PST |
"Miniature Wargaming" seems to be in absolutely no danger. Literally every day I see a new product being announced. We wouldn't be seeing all that new product if no one was buying. We are spoilt for choice. Any scale, any period, any subject you like. |
| huron725 | 11 Jan 2026 4:01 p.m. PST |
Not worried considering the popularity of 3d printing, new rulesets, new editions of existing rulesets, practically everyone who is anyone has a youtube channel showing their hobby acumen. We are living in the golden age of the hobby. |
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