This is probably a very stupid question...but do we know if any businesses have ever approached GW/SG about manufacturing the Epic-scale miniatures?

I'm just wondering if a smaller-scale operation could produce the miniatures more cheaply, and therefore make Epic a tad more palatable to the wider audience...?

Apologies if this has all been discussed a million times before.  

GW will not release their IP for minatures. At all. GW do deals with outside companies to licence out IP, but only for non-miniature related products. Consider the new version of Talisman which has been licenced out, on the condition that counters rather than miniatures are used.

It's just not going to happen.

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Yes, I figured that might be the case. Pity.

Oh well. Apologies for re-raising what has probably been discussed ad nauseum.