The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Games Workshop

[Timbor]

The preorders are up on the website and the 'Lord of the Rings' category has been changed to 'The Hobbit'.

Regardless of whether you like GW or not, you have to agree the prices for this stuff is rather offensive, especially considering the fugliness of many of the sculpts re: goblins

At least the older LOTR stuff was for the most part full of awesome sculpts.

[Mr.J]

Had a look and I'm really unimpressed. Don't mind the dwarves or the White Council, but it seems the only way to get the dwarves is to shell out £75 on the boxed set and the White Council are in finecast which I don't like. Everything else is pretty poor.

[Timbor]

The White Council, while decent sculpts, are totally not worth $90CAD for four miniatures on foot.

[Hildred Castaigne]

Actually, who is sculpting these figures?
They don't look like the Perrys' work, am I right?

[Njall]

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat970003a&prodId=prod1830102a

 

And I thought some kickstarters had exaggerated prices ...

[Lowtardog]

Goblins are ideal as mutants, I can see me picking those up and £20 isnt too bad

[joroas]

Well, those prices are what I expected but too expensive for me to buy now, I was tempted but I have other games to play........

[Lowtardog]

Well, those prices are what I expected but too expensive for me to buy now, I was tempted but I have other games to play........

Give it 6 months and they will be cheap as chips oin ebay

[joroas]

...or a carboot sale!!!

[Gibby]

Quite like the hunter Orcs. Still not sure on the design of the goblins.

I love how the Hobbit has totally overthrown the entire LotR section of the site which is now a tiny three column afterthought.

[Modhail]

Damn, I thought I had gotten used to GW's disproportionate pricing, but these... wow...

I'm looking forward to "Joe Public's" reaction to finecast...
The LotR line attracted quite a few non-wargamer/modellers back then, I think this will as well. Wonder what someone with an average consumer's expectations will think of the stuff?   

[Captain Blood]

Presumably the design of the goblins etc are determined by the character designs of the movie, so maybe not entirely fair to blame GW if you don't like the look...

So (depending on what we see when the movie comes out in a couple of weeks), maybe the question should be directed at Peter Jackson / Weta / Alan Lee et al - if the 'Moria' goblins under the Misty Mountains looked like they did in the Lord of The Rings movies, why would the goblins under the Misty Mountains look so totally different in The Hobbit?

Just to ring the changes presumably... Because 'same old' is boring and 'new' is clever and interesting. 

I think the 'hunter orcs' look rather good. Slight flavour of Woodland Indians about them to my eye.
Will be interested to see if this is cited as one of the design references when we get to see all those lovely appendices on the eventual DVDs of the movies...

The prices are a different matter of course. But that's a complaint that never changes and probably isn't going to go away as long as there are parents doting enough to let their kids pester them into paying silly prices for toys... Because let's remember, that's the market GW are aiming for.

I do think it's a bit cheeky that they've repurposed one of the original LOTR cave trolls into one of the Trollshaws trolls though

[Hammers]

The projection is that I will be as thrilled about The Hobbit movie as I was about the LotR. 

[Hammers]

I do think it's a bit cheeky that they've repurposed one of the original LOTR cave trolls into one of the Trollshaws trolls though

You really think so? I am glad they have *some* sense of consistency within their interpretation.

[Conquistador]

Come on... That is the same as saying "If you don't like reading criticism towards GW, don't read it." Why should we not discuss poor wargaming marketing strategies and bad wargames theme interpretations? This is a wargames forum after all.

Perhaps my intent was misunderstood, I am one of those "GW haters" another poster referred to while saying we shouldn't have critical threads on LAF.  Granted we are not TMP but bash away if you like, I just have grown tired of posting (to me obvious) how bad GW can be at sculpting design recently, how asinine their pricing has always been and always will be, and how much hubris the "GW hobby" lobby has/will always have.  I generally stick to one, "... And you expected what else from GW?" type thread nowadays.

I don't own any LOTR but those were the one GW produced figures I ever was tempted to buy.  Third sigma for GW norms...

Gracias,

Glenn