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Offline Argonor

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Re: The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread
« Reply #225 on: December 01, 2013, 11:40:08 AM »
I should try selling some of my collection... I have Droves of 80's Citadel stuff still in original blisters.

I wonder what Goodwin wood elves would fetch...  ::)
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Re: The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread
« Reply #226 on: December 01, 2013, 11:55:43 AM »
GW has now relegated LOTR/The Hobbit to Specialist Games status, so it's near death. The lack of a starter box for Desolation is a sign of how dire things are. GW is actually pricing themselves to death. Shame they don't realize the solution is to offer better value again, not less choice by killing lines.

Being charitable, I reckon the change to three films messed them around something awful.  The Battle of Five Armies would be my choice for a boxed game, and that was going to be this Christmas... then July 2014... now it's Christmas 2014.

So I imagine they had plans to do a Bo5A set this Christmas, then when it went to three films shifted it to next summer.  By the time the third movie was put back again, they probably didn't have enough time to do a dwarves vs spiders or elves vs orcs box for this Christmas.  Heck, an "Assault on Dol Guldur" set would have been fantastic :(

Agree about the pricing though.  I'd be interested in a box or two of hunter orcs, some warg riders and wargs, but that's £83 for 38 plastic figures :(

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Re: The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread
« Reply #227 on: December 01, 2013, 12:14:18 PM »
How about the original Bot5A boxed set they did, is that still for sale?

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Re: The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread
« Reply #228 on: December 01, 2013, 12:27:41 PM »
GW has now relegated LOTR/The Hobbit to Specialist Games status, so it's near death. The lack of a starter box for Desolation is a sign of how dire things are.

where have you seen that? on the websites the Hobbit still has his own section out of the specialist games group.
IMHO the lack of box for Desolation it's a result of the awful sales of the first hobbit box, which probably had sale previsions at the level of the followers of the ring (just to make the final sales even worse)

I don't know in other countries but in Spain the sales of the Hobbit box where so bad that I have seen lots of retailers opening the boxes to sell them as bits.

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Re: The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread
« Reply #229 on: December 01, 2013, 12:46:19 PM »
How about the original Bot5A boxed set they did, is that still for sale?


Doesn't look like it - it's not on their website.  Reckon they'll want to do one with the movie characters.

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Re: The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread
« Reply #230 on: December 01, 2013, 12:55:34 PM »
So maybe it's a last, desperate attempt to make sales before they cut it completely and just rely on the two main selling ranges then?

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Re: The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread
« Reply #231 on: December 01, 2013, 01:22:31 PM »
You know I'm in with all the rage at the prices these days, but partially I am kind of sad about all this as well. I used to drool at GW miniatures as a kid and dream about what I would by when I grew up. Now I am an adult...ish, I have given up GW altogether because of their prices. I look at the website and I see new released that I would have been enthusiastic about year ago and now all I do is shrug.
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Re: The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread
« Reply #232 on: December 01, 2013, 01:39:22 PM »
Well I bought loads of the Rings stuff when it was a big seller, but I am mightily pleased that I steered clear of The Hobbit.  Their prices are now at officially outrageous levels.........  I don't even venture in to the local store anymore!
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Re: The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread
« Reply #233 on: December 01, 2013, 02:15:41 PM »
YPU I agree. After a year of boycotting GW when I check back at their website to see their latest enormities just for old times sake, everything looks so disappointing.

Argonor, no idea what the elves would fetch. Based on my observations, these things dont seem to have much relation to quality. Some stuff sells for reasonable amounts and some is wildly inflated, depending on whats in vogue and what is deemed to be rare.

I have been boycoytting GW for a while. But on a personal note, it is slowly dawning on me that the ebay oop thing is also something I dont really want t participate in, because of the way it is set up to create a constant sense of bargains slipping through your fingers.


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Re: The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread
« Reply #234 on: December 01, 2013, 02:17:56 PM »
YPU: IMO, that's where a lot of the rage comes from. GW know they're constantly pricing themselves past once-loyal players' cost and value thresholds, but they just don't care; even now, when their sales are dropping because of it.
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Re: The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread
« Reply #235 on: December 01, 2013, 06:38:25 PM »
YPU, I understand the feeling all too well.  :(
I just can't get excited anymore, because, no matter how cool a new miniature looks, I know in advance it just never will be value for money anymore. The last thing that really killed it for me was the Adepta Sororitas and Inquisition codexes. They're two parts of the setting that I really like, but GW insists in only making them available in a format I neither can, nor want to, use. It's all just become so predictable and tiresome I can't even be bothered to get annoyed about it these days.

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Re: The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread
« Reply #236 on: December 01, 2013, 06:43:03 PM »
IMHO the lack of box for Desolation it's a result of the awful sales of the first hobbit box, which probably had sale previsions at the level of the followers of the ring

Given that the original "Limited edition" box is still available it makes you wonder just how limited it was.
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Re: The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread
« Reply #237 on: December 01, 2013, 07:02:30 PM »
Given that the original "Limited edition" box is still available it makes you wonder just how limited it was.

Actually those goblins make pretty nice muties for sci-fi or post-apoc and the platforms are good terrain fodder from what I hear so getting one of those at a deep discount might not even be a bad idea.

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Re: The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread
« Reply #238 on: December 01, 2013, 07:07:59 PM »
It's all just become so predictable and tiresome I can't even be bothered to get annoyed about it these days.

I think that sums up the sheer ambivalence towards GW these days.  lol
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Re: The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread
« Reply #239 on: December 01, 2013, 08:51:49 PM »
Given that the original "Limited edition" box is still available it makes you wonder just how limited it was.


Limited to the number of copies they can sell?
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