LOL Games Workshop is bonkers

[commissarmoody]

Yeah I just got the same message.

AND CHAOS FALLOWS NO MANS RULES!!!!! !

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[Funghy-Fipps]

It cannot be denied that nobody makes cheese as cheesy as GW's cheese. Even Vieux Boulogne doesn't come close.  This new crime against gaming decency is merely further proof that GW are muscling in on the as yet untapped six-to-nine-year-old market.  You can certainly tell that whoever painted that hog clearly wasn't getting into the vibe of the miniature, which ain't really surprising given how utterly insipid it is.  I mean the moneyed ones can get it right sometimes, - from what I've seen of them, last year's Empire plastics were pretty spiffy - but when they foul up don't they really foul up?  Personally I've still never fully got over the godawful Ogre Kingdoms army anyway, so to be fair this latest atrocity barely raised my eyebrows...

[former user]

I agree

the old plastic "Heroquest" Ogres were better

the only plastics I really like are WE and DE, but this might have to do with my Elf fixation

[Doomhippie]

This... bull ist utterly bull...
I don't know, something has gone terribly wrong somewhere. I admit I really like some of there stuff, especially if it's not too much into comic style. This stuff, however, leaves me really feeling rather put off.

[YPU]

Well this saves me a lot of money, a friend and I had the plan to build a minotaur army assuming you could still field them as troop with a doombull (which you can) and the next taurs would be plastic, but with those at that price I will gladly not spend the money on GW.

To be honest I do quite like the plastic infantry, seem to be a improvement over the previous ones.

[wellender]

Saw these Minotaurs on TGN with a little description and thought I'd share it.

http://www.tabletopgamingnews.com/2010/01/11/32703

Some more pictures here.

http://www.sciborminiatures.com/en_,monstrous_news.php?id=857

[former user]

that's what I would call minotaur
"na geht doch!" in German

[commissarmoody]

I 2nd that! those ones look pretty good 

[Christian]

The GW Minotaurs are the way they are becaue they are the way they are.

4 pages of this? Honestly...

[Blackwolf]

 This thread while an awful subject (those figures are terrible),has also made me feel rather nostalgic.Still have some original GW RQ figures,Broos (beastmen to those ignorant of Glorantha).Shall I post up some pics?

[former user]

4 pages of this? Honestly...

Apart from the delight of EE rant, there are many younger gamers who do not know of anything other than GW - pointing out the decline in sculpting quality alone can be beneficial for competitors (see above) and collectors alike and raise awareness. I must admit though that posting alternatives would be a better contribution towards this aspect.

I was wondering the other day if there might be some kind of "adolescence issue", so young wargamers would insist upon the qualities of GW as opposed to aged wargamers who would point out the flaws in a way perceived as "parental" and condescending and thus enforcing the "GW-identification" as a form of adolescence protest 
just a thought...

[Gluteus Maximus]

The GW Minotaurs are the way they are becaue they are the way they are.

4 pages of this? Honestly...

Then read another topic 

Honest criticism of a product/range that people find is substandard is something all companies should accept.

Maybe if GW just once decided to read threads like this and realised that the figure-buying public actually know what they are talking about, they might not have had such a rocky time as they have recently.

And, lets be honest, it is quite funny to read

[Christian]

Then read another topic 

Then don't buy GW miniatures...? 

While LAF has definitely expanded the horizons of my miniature hobby "stuff", if it wasn't for GW a lot of people wouldn't be in the hobby.

Does anyone else offer plastic minotaurs out there? No. The potential for converting (or "correcting" as some would put it) is also there... which no one seems to have pointed out. As well as not even using them for minotaurs at all... I see a lot of potential here.

I get the criticism, and yes some interesting miniatures as alternatives... but it is the cynicism that dissapoints me.

Anyway, carry on.

[commissarmoody]

Hey dude that's the whole point of this rant, GW has so much patintal and then they squander it. I would never have got into TBWGing if it wasn't for games like hero's quest and WHFB, but they pretty much priced them self's out of my range and then produce horrible mins like the minotaurs tht were talked about earlier.

[joroas]

Does anyone else offer plastic minotaurs out there? No.

No, they offer metal versions for less money...............