You know what would have been a killer use for 3d printers when I was a kid? Toy...

jonhohle · on Aug 28, 2014

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?

GFischer · on Aug 28, 2014

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 :) ).