WizKids no more

[dvandom]

Boom. Topps claims to be seeking a new company to make the WK properties, and that they'll continue various promo support for now, but things look bad.

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[veloxiraptor.livejournal.com]

As unlikely as it was I had always hoped for a return to Mage Knight. :/

[lord-xiphos.livejournal.com]

Dang.
Any word on what's to happen to the BattleTech or Shadowrun properties?

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

Battletech already got sold off last year, IIRC. And FanPro had Shadowrun years ago.

[liabrown]

Now I'll never get my Top Heroclix!

[finback.livejournal.com]

There's a discussion on it on the Heroclix lj community; there seems to be a lot of hatred for Wizards of the Coast, and the idea they might pick it up seems to be anathema.

But then, who else would? Someone suggested McFarlane Toys - theoretically, yeah, but a) McFarlane refused to allow them to make an Indy HC of Spawn since they wouldn't go with his ideas of poseability and cloth capes, etc; b) DC and Marvel wouldn't let him near their licenses.

Funnily, I had no idea Horrorclix had been cancelled until this news broke; but as far as I'm aware, I'm the only person who ever buys anything from it here - and I can't even get any of my close friends to play using my stuff, let alone find another player..

[grant-p.livejournal.com]

Ok, so I'm a disgrace to the nerd community I'm sorry, but isn't Wizards of the Coast the people who do D&D? Why wouldn't they be on the short list for this stuff? And what would be wrong with MacFarlane? I don't know enough about the politics of it to see what's wrong with what, to me, just looks like another corporate merger.