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Re:The Guide to Not Buying a 3D Printer by jonhohle on Thursday August 28, 2014 @10:06AM (#8237232)
That sounds great until you realize you miss out on the economies of scale that injection molding provides.

A toy soldier that costs the better part of a dollar in materials, or one that costs fractions of a penny? Which one is going to provide better margins?

Re:The Guide to Not Buying a 3D Printer by GFischer on Thursday August 28, 2014 @11:14AM (#8237581)
Yes, but when we were kids we wanted to design our own weapons and toy soldiers :)

I was thinking along the lines of printing kid-designed soldiers or weapons :)

Absolutely niche (though maybe not that much niche for stuff like Warhammer 4000 or tabletop war games or whatever :) ).