[Michigan Joe]

Coach Rip, I think your perspective is very well respected and everyone is listening to you!

You are spot on about standards vs. classes. We should be calling this playing "classes" and not standards. However, I don't think so many peole are getting caught up in those semantics, they are just sharing their preferences. This is the consumer talking! From a manufacturers point of view, don't you want to create a new item that is so great and well recieved that it becomes the standard? Take for example your figures. Tudor didn't have arms foreward figures or tall reciever figures. You broke from standard with these didn't you? Now your figures are standard because they were so well recieved! If someone comes out with a 2.0g bases that runs out of the bag without tweaking required it will become standard.