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You know what would have been a killer use for 3d printers when I was a kid? Toy soldiers and GI Joe accessories. Maybe there's a startup idea in there :)
by GFischer 12y ago
You know what would have been a killer use for 3d printers when I was a kid? Toy soldiers and GI Joe accessories.
Maybe there's a startup idea in there :)
- jonhohle 12y agoThat 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?
- GFischer 12y agoYes, 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 :) ).