NEWS: GW repackages infantry boxes and increases prices

Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Fri Jan 13, 2012 10:58 pm

theavenger001 wrote:

IsleStaggerholm wrote:

This brings memmory of the time the OOP 3rd Lurtz was on Ebay and someone posted it up and my $2 near victory (because the seller labeled it poorly) went to a $33 grumble.

I wonder who that could be......
(If I find the rare mahud a pm rather than a post might be in order.... :wink:

)

as long as it comes my way

Dezartfox · **Posted:** Fri Jan 13, 2012 10:58 pm

Draugluin wrote:

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat470005a&prodId=prod1140216 Mines of Moria is still on the website, you just have to look for it.

It still there.. for now

Remember that lotr initially came out 6 months before the films did.. not saying that it will happen again, but it might

GothmogtheWerewolf · **Posted:** Fri Jan 13, 2012 10:59 pm

Dead Marsh Spectre wrote:

theavenger001 wrote:

IsleStaggerholm wrote:

This brings memmory of the time the OOP 3rd Lurtz was on Ebay and someone posted it up and my $2 near victory (because the seller labeled it poorly) went to a $33 grumble.

I wonder who that could be......
(If I find the rare mahud a pm rather than a post might be in order.... :wink:

)

as long as it comes my way

Or to everyone who doesn't want it. {you should have put :twisted:

]

Draugluin · **Posted:** Fri Jan 13, 2012 11:06 pm

GothmogtheWerewolf wrote:

You're right the Goblin paint set is now very good value. And you can still by MoM now, but DezartFox works at GW so if he says it will be cancelled, then I believe him.

AHH, so his word should be trusted. I can see a "Trapped in the Misty Mountains" starter set that includes the 13 dwarves, Bilbo and Gandalf versus whatever new molds of goblins and the great goblin. There really won't be any other part of the movie that would translate into a starter set imo.

GothmogtheWerewolf · **Posted:** Fri Jan 13, 2012 11:09 pm

Draugluin wrote:

GothmogtheWerewolf wrote:

You're right the Goblin paint set is now very good value. And you can still by MoM now, but DezartFox works at GW so if he says it will be cancelled, then I believe him.

AHH, so his word should be trusted. I can see a "Trapped in the Misty Mountains" starter set that includes the 13 dwarves, Bilbo and Gandalf versus whatever new molds of goblins and the great goblin. There really won't be any other part of the movie that would translate into a starter set imo.

Quite possibly, as I don't think the warg encounter or the stone trolls are big enough in terms of bringin in. Also, that is the closest Hobbit scene to MoM.

theavenger001 · **Posted:** Fri Jan 13, 2012 11:19 pm

They might do a bofa starter set.......Goblins against dwarves, elves, or lake-men.

GothmogtheWerewolf · **Posted:** Fri Jan 13, 2012 11:23 pm

theavenger001 wrote:

They might do a bofa starter set.......Goblins against dwarves, elves, or lake-men.

Nah, because that's only in Part 2 of the film

theOneRider · **Posted:** Sat Jan 14, 2012 7:29 am

Abminiatures wrote:

The prices are becoming a bit of a joke, £31 for a Gondor trebuchet is an awful amount of money for what you get, Will certainly be looking on ebay for all my models!

Something tells me that this is more on scale with the films anyway.

Leonardis · **Joined:** Wed Oct 05, 2011 4:06 pm **Posts:** 891

I have just been on games workshop website, infantry Is now in new quantities - 10 army of dead (plastic) / 12 others are now £13.50! WOW only 18 months ago 24 WoMT were £15....

Abminiatures · **Joined:** Sun Dec 11, 2011 11:25 pm **Posts:** 60

Leonardis wrote:

I have just been on games workshop website, Gindor infantry Is now in new quantities - 10 army of dead (plastic) £13.50! WOW only 18 months ago 24 WoMT were £15....

Ahh yup, he's right, new boxes of 12, rip off really! Like you said, 18 months ago 24 were £15!

Chris · **Posted:** Sat Jan 14, 2012 3:59 pm

Abminiatures wrote:

Leonardis wrote:

I have just been on games workshop website, Gindor infantry Is now in new quantities - 10 army of dead (plastic) £13.50! WOW only 18 months ago 24 WoMT were £15....

Ahh yup, he's right, new boxes of 12, rip off really! Like you said, 18 months ago 24 were £15!

Not realy? You pay almost the same for half mini's!!! :-X

Leonardis · **Joined:** Wed Oct 05, 2011 4:06 pm **Posts:** 891

????? Not sure what you mean Chris:
24 minis £15 - 18 months ago
12 minis £13 - now, therefore:
24 minis £26 - now = nearly double the price!

Time to sell and trade all my spares!

Abminiatures · **Joined:** Sun Dec 11, 2011 11:25 pm **Posts:** 60

When i first got into the hobby, i remember going into my first games workshop with my parents when shopping for christmas presents, this must have been 6/7 years ago and seeing a box of the last alliance warriors, 24 to a box £12 and thinking back then that it was a lot, never though they'd be an increase like this!

Chris · **Posted:** Sat Jan 14, 2012 4:13 pm

Leonardis wrote:

????? Not sure what you mean Chris:
24 minis £15 - 18 months ago
12 minis £13 - now, therefore:
24 minis £26 - now = nearly double the price!

Time to sell and trade all my spares!

Oh im sorry i saw it wrong :oops:

Abminiatures · **Joined:** Sun Dec 11, 2011 11:25 pm **Posts:** 60

I'll be honest, this has encouraged me to consider buying models such as galadhrim warriors and dwarfs as it's cheaper n some respects if you only want 12, but in the long run it's not... oh Games Workshop

Dezartfox · **Posted:** Sat Jan 14, 2012 7:02 pm

Annnnd the new boxes are in the stores. We put them up on the shelf today as they came in the order..
Might go and buy all those harad I wanted afterall...

orc-archer · **Posted:** Sat Jan 14, 2012 7:32 pm

Oh well this is just terrible, eBay you are my only hope!

Telchar · **Posted:** Sat Jan 14, 2012 7:41 pm

Well, so much for my new GW-bought Dwarf Army...

-goes off to ebay and tries to find some good Dwarf models-

RAHHHHHHH!!!!

Xelee · **Posted:** Sat Jan 14, 2012 8:08 pm

In the interests of WOTR scale armies remaining viable for new players, my suggestions are: Conquest Games, Perry Miniatures, Wargames Factory (and their Orcs are MORE Tolkien, IMO), Warlord Games, and Gripping Beast for massed plastics. There is an even broader range of metals from other manufacturers to support this.

I've seen a number of blogs (in addition to mine

) where people have been putting a lot of historicals in their forces.

GW must LOVE SBG afterall

BoromirofIpswich · **Posted:** Sat Jan 14, 2012 9:28 pm

I thank the Lord that over the last two years I bought and bought plastics off ebay even though I didn't need them. I have ALL I need to create a 1500+ army in WoTR with what I have already purchased. I worried at the time because I thought it was (which it was) another sign of my 'addictive' (in the sense that I have no willpower) personality.

So where, GW, is the incentive for me to add to my collection?

More worrying is the enticement of new players. Who wouuld enter into WoTR given the start up costs?

Yet WoTR is the best rules system GW have written (with one minor glitch: the cost of Epic Hero Ringwraiths).

Sad, truly sad.

Stephen

Tag: WoTR is brilliant if you use these two 'house-rules' - You cannot have more Ringwraiths than you have Winged Nazgul; you cannot cast 'Strength Through Corruption' on enemy units. Try it!

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