Editing Ral Partha (section)

==== Death by Wizard ====
Anyway Ral Partha lost their license to make DnD models.

By 1997, [[WotC]] had become one of, if not the biggest tabletop gaming company in the US, and solidified that particular claim by picking up TSR, and with it, the rights to Dungeons and Dragons. Ral Partha only got a year's extension, before Wizards told them they wouldn't be making anymore models for them after 1998. Collectors see the '97-'98 models as extremely valuable nowadays because it's been long rumored that the master moulds were destroyed. We wouldn't put it past this particular rumor being completely real because if there's one thing Wizards hates, it's money and fun.

But that license loss meant that Ral Partha basically went into a death spiral; they still had Battletech, but Battletech even at it's height was still not nearly enough to keep a single company going for years to come, and in 1998, the dream was gone. Ral Partha was bought out by FASA, where it would spend two years as a brand for their models before being picked up by WizKids, and even then they basically just decided to let them go while keeping the rights to the name before spinning their factories off into another brand, which still made Battletech stuff.

Thus ends the tale of Ral Partha...