The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Games Workshop

[Hildred Castaigne]

Sad to see that GW brought out the game before the movie. With this in mind the movie experience will be not as good as I will always be reminded of the GW rip off (e.g. $125 for 4 white council figures) This whole "let's cash in on some movie franchise" is getting worse and worse

Should we follow the spirit of the time and organise an Occupy Games Workshop?

[Timbor]

I thought it was already occupied?




...By 12 year olds with boxes full of SPaec Mareens! 

[Doomsdave]

The Radagast figure is heinously bad. What is with the running/leaping pose and feet that look too small and triangular.  Is he holding a hedgehog? Uggh.

I have the old metal one and love it to bits.

I have almost all of the original GW LOTR figures and really enjoyed the game's last incarnation.  But these new minis are not even remotely tempting. 

[Mason]

We are talking someone that shaves his pubes and sticks them on his feet to feel more like a hobbit level of fanboi. 

 
That cracked me up!

Scurv: You are a nutter!

[CptJake]

My daughter and I love to pull out the Mines of Moria set and play, she even helped out painting the terrain and figure bases. 

We read the Hobbit a couple of years ago and watched the animated movie not too long ago.  When I showed her this set she thought it was cool and asked if we could get it so she could help paint it and then play. 

So, though I don't shave my pubes and glue them to my feet    I am excited to get the basic box set. 

[commissarmoody]

What about us folks that were born with  hairy feet and toes?

[CptJake]

You're still allowed to shave your pubes if you want to.

 

[Doomsdave]

I'm still aghast that he's able to bet a "sack of Yeti pubes"  Honestly, who keep that around the house?

[commissarmoody]

You're still allowed to shave your pubes if you want to.

 

Thanks for the permission Captain   

[Hammers]

I'm still aghast that he's able to bet a "sack of Yeti pubes"  Honestly, who keep that around the house?

What? Is it not fashionable any longer?

[Momotaro]

With you Scurv (on the game, not the, uh, ladies...):

Goblins, dwarves, Bilbo, Gandalf - really nice models;
Great Goblin - not great;
Scenery - OK, I do like the great Goblin's poop pot

Rules - looking good.  Complete ruleset (including sieges), lots of new rules for weapons (whips and picks and the like), and big monsters get some scary new options to make them suitably nasty again (Hurl and Rend are the ones that I remember - yes, you can throw smaller opponents around).  After a very short glance through, these seem like a sensible rounding out of the LotR rules.

Downside - the only stats in the boxed game are for the models in the box, and no points values ("The scenarios in the box are perfectly balanced" said the blackshirt in the shop).  So the starts for Bolg, hunter orcs, etc. are on the GW website, and their points costs and special rules are in... the £50 hardback.  Probably won't be buying into this just for that reason, although I may pick up a couple of the individual boxes at discount.  I'll see what the rules booklet goes for on eBay, although most likely the jokers will be charging £20.

[CptJake]

Ok everyone stop shaving.

Too late.   And let me tell you, the hot glue from the hot glue gun does not feel nice on one's toes. 

I ordered the main box during the Warstore's Black Friday discount so paid about what GW was charging for the Moria set.  Mine should be delivered next week.   

[CptJake]

Ouch, let me say that using the hot glue gun to put the hair back where it came from was worse than getting it on the toes...


 

Still, better than the staple gun...

 

I do intend to paint the critters to match my Moria set.   I'm actually excited about getting this, not so much because it is The Hobbit, but because my daughter is excited.  It is cool to see it through the eyes of a 10 year old.

Jake

[twrchtrwyth]

All I can say is I like them  . I can see those goblins as the Martense family from Lovecraft´s "The lurking fear", http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/lf.asp.

+1

[FramFramson]

Oh and some 'chunky' fellow in there had the cheek to tell me it was all the tax departments fault with their import duties that the prices were so high.  THen again this is the same chap that turned undercoating a terrain peice into setting off a fuel air bomb in the smokers alley of my mate the brothel inspectors work. Some people eh.

Now THAT is a mental image not easily forgotten.