In terms of sales many sellers I know are saying it's a lot slimmer than usual. While thats not uncommon after xmas, I sense from this year the recovery period is longer as many folks are still struggling. But (based on freebie downloads) I wouldn't say theres any less interest in 3D, far from it. Where my freebies used to average 3-4GB a week now it's 6-7GB. Though I will agree the forums do seem less busy than usual. Not sure why, but I do feel those "lets blame the vendors" threads or attacks on freebie makers are not helping in anyway. Especially after the winter, where Joe rightly points out, a lot of folks have been ill. Get a few bugs like that and you don't feel burning the midnight anyway, let alone if you know your reward is likely to be some pratt who couldn't texture a cube even if you did for them. OK sure the majority of folks are great, but after a while the idiots do wear you down. Which is one reason why I've stopped releasing a weekly freebie. So it was nice to see basicwiz posting his thread about civility. Which I think will help and hopefully get more people back on the boards. As for products, yea Dawns nice enough but only if you have P9, same for the genesis stuff, and I hear from folks who like to see theres still stuff for V3/M3. So maybe the answer (product-wise) is not to think about new "super-figures" but to make stuff for the existing ones.

Pinky - you left the lens cap of your mind on again.