The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Games Workshop

[Doomhippie]

I bought the White Dwarf yesterday to have a closer look at the minis. Well, I think the dwarven models are really beautiful and I do really like the Gandalf model from the White council box. I was shocked by some of the other models, but those are actually design flaws by the movie makers. The great goblin looking like a mixture of troll and goblin is really a turn-off. The goblins are a little too diseased for my taste. And why does Bolg have to be a large creature? He might be king of all orcs in the misty mountains but should still only be an orc. Final judgement on that after watching the movie...

What really grossed me out was the painting on some of the models. While the dwarves were very nicely painted the rather too simplistic approach for the goblins and the wargs sucks. Just a basecoat of some grey skin color with a wash of sienna - that's what it looks like. Sorry, in my taste greys and reds don't mix well like that. So a lot of the disappointment after seeing these models comes from sloppy paint jobs.

I am shocked by the prices but then again I didn't expect anything else. I have long since given up hoping for any reasonable pricing-policy on their side.

Still; I'm very excited about this new movie. As a teen I was rather bored with the hobbit as I had read the LotR first and the Hobbit is a long shot away from that in terms of mood and language. I am looking forward to seeing PJ's translation of the childish language into a story that hopefully appears to be closer to "what really happened" - if you get my drift.

[dijit]

I do really like the Gandalf model from the White council box. I was shocked by some of the other models, but those are actually design flaws by the movie makers. The great goblin looking like a mixture of troll and goblin is really a turn-off. The goblins are a little too diseased for my taste. And why does Bolg have to be a large creature? He might be king of all orcs in the misty mountains but should still only be an orc. Final judgement on that after watching the movie...

What really grossed me out was the painting on some of the models. While the dwarves were very nicely painted the rather too simplistic approach for the goblins and the wargs sucks. Just a basecoat of some grey skin color with a wash of sienna - that's what it looks like. Sorry, in my taste greys and reds don't mix well like that. So a lot of the disappointment after seeing these models comes from sloppy paint jobs.

Ditto
The goblins I think just look shoddy and a long shot away from what I imagined as goblins. I'm feeling very underwhelmed, and if these models are based on the movie, then I'm no longer sure I wish to see the movie.
Duncan

[Hildred Castaigne]

Ditto
The goblins I think just look shoddy and a long shot away from what I imagined as goblins. I'm feeling very underwhelmed, and if these models are based on the movie, then I'm no longer sure I wish to see the movie.
Duncan

Not what a lot of people imagined I should think. I understand that is what creatures who live in the bowels of the earth would mutate into. But The Hobbit is fantasy.
They are meant to be goblins, not mole-people... 

[Conquistador]

 That and you cant buy they dwarfs separately.

One word - Ebay.

Patience, they will show up on Ebay, everything shows up on Ebay eventually.

I have always used my own dwarves (Der Kriegspieler and very early Ral Partha primarily) to represent JRRT's Dwarf personalities and never worried about "official" figures ever.  Intentional lack of concern for "official" figures has always been my way.  Not for Starguard, not for LOTR based games, and even not for Historical games.  "Sure that is Lee - says so on you roster sheet.  See?  C1 on the base = Lee on the roster."

Gracias,

Glenn

Iconoclast First Class

[Timbor]

One word - Ebay.

Patience, they will show up on Ebay, everything shows up on Ebay eventually.

Yeah, I am sure the dwarfs will be available on ebay.  Though it is odd that GW is not offering them for individual resale.  I mean, for 13 dwarfs they could charge what, like $100? 

Not what a lot of people imagined I should think. I understand that is what creatures who live in the bowels of the earth would mutate into. But The Hobbit is fantasy.
They are meant to be goblins, not mole-people... 

Heh, mole-people...

[Hatemonger]

Though it is odd that GW is not offering them for individual resale.  I mean, for 13 dwarfs they could charge what, like $100? 

If you look at the pictures on GW's site, the breakdown of the sprues suggests obvious opportunities for splitting into separate boxed sets. They've already done it for the goblins and the wooden plank Goblin Town set. Give it a few months and they'll have a box for the... whatever the not-Fellowship hero group is called.

Or, as suggested already, wait for the bits sellers on ebay. Or you could always buy the box and offload the other bits yourself.

- H8

[Dolmot]

Didn't we get something like five different variants and repackagings of the LotR fellowship? Last time I checked, the Hobbit movie was going to be a trilogy. (Although by now it could just as well be six or seven parts. I haven't been following the news.) There's plenty of time to re-sell the dwarfs and other characters several times. Don't worry.

The point of initial launch sets is to bundle up stuff and sell you far more than you could possibly need. As if we wouldn't be doing that anyway.

[Hildred Castaigne]

Heh, mole-people...

Man, that's brilliant!
How did I forget? 

[Legion1963]

Yesterday late i ended up, by purpose, on the GW website to have a look at the new Hobbit miniatures and stuff. The orcs now look like radioactively disfigured Mongolian herdsmen.

[Hildred Castaigne]

Yesterday late i ended up, by purpose, on the GW website to have a look at the new Hobbit miniatures and stuff. The orcs now look like radioactively disfigured Mongolian herdsmen.

While we are on the subject...
Are you in the market for a radioactively disfigured Mongolian?

[P_Clapham]

Not a fan of the goblins.  I liked the look of the goblins from The Lord of the Rings, I don't know why they had to go back and re-do the look.  I don't like the goblin king being so large either.  The figures do have potential, I could see them being used as morlocks in a pulp game.  Pretty disappointed this is what the goblins of the Misty Mountains are going to look like in the film.  I'll end up using the Moria Goblins in my games, with Durbuz subbing as the Goblin King.

The Hunter Orcs look pretty good.  Very lightly armored orcs that look like they could have stepped out of the LotR trillogy.  Not a fan of the Mohawks on them, but those can be easily shaved off.

The Hunter Orcs on Fell Wargs I find very interesting.  They are a move away from the hyena looking Wargs from the Trilogy, and look more like gigantic wolves.  Pretty much the way they were described in the novel.  I prefer these over the LotR Warg riders.  Again not a fan of the Mohawks, but that can be easily fixed.

The cost of the figures is pretty likely going to keep me away from buying them right away.  I'm going to end up waiting for the figures to appear on ebay, and in the meantime use my existing collection of LotR miniatures to play the new game.

[Hammers]

Those goblins would work quite well in a Chtulu setting.

[spevna]

GW Trolls


Movie Trolls


GW has screwed the pooch on this one. Utter tripe!

[CptJake]

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It is rather odd that the only way to get the core game content is to buy the 'limited edition' boxed set.  Once that is gone, there will be no other way to get a starter set for the game.  Likely they will release a 'regular' starter after this one runs out, and it won't have Radagast in it and will likely cost the same.  That and you cant buy they dwarfs separately.

The Radagast figure is unique to the limited edition box, the regular box has everything else though, and is a few bucks cheaper.

[myincubliss]

Worst comes to worse, the hunter orcs could be a good basis for converions for Reavers from Serenity/Firefly... (though I'll probably wait until someone else sells them in disappointment rather than buying a box from the off...)