The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread

[Constable Bertrand]

Looks like a country pub to me. Will they put up trendy blackboards with chalked pictures of the new releases?

Bit amiss of the preteen age demographic if you ask me.

Cheers
Matt.

[Tactalvanic]

Looks like a country pub to me. Will they put up trendy blackboards with chalked pictures of the new releases?

Bit amiss of the preteen age demographic if you ask me.

Maybe/maybe not - ever had to go in any Hollister shop? Dark and full of two demographics:

1. Teenagers.
2. Adults returning clothing bought for demographic number 1. that turned out to be the wrong thing/color when seen in daylight...

Went in the Reading one once looking for the wife, went round 3 times until she appeared out of the darkness. One of the staff asked if i was looking for something before that - I said yes my wife - answer "yeah we get that a lot with older people".....

Don't get it, they are a california originated shop and they don't light the bloody shops!

So maybe they are going for that DArk effect... so you only find the store if you already know about it - eg your a member of the in group, - nudge nudge. Then, and this is the subtle bit, turn the lights off inside the shop.

Saves on the 'lectric, stops you seeing the prices, or how bad the armored ball thing your buying is, and as an extra bonus, when the shops close down, they look just like they did when open 

[Constable Bertrand]

Are all the products packaged in discreet brown paper bags?

I could see GW going down the dark lighting option TBH.
1) It would help all those that don't like the sun 
2) Fits the GrimmDark theme
3) I can see GW including 'glow in the dark paint'/LEDs in their range for more PEW PEWs during combat
4) No one will be recognised by school peers passing by when within the safety of the gloom


Matt

[Tactalvanic]

Are all the products packaged in discreet brown paper bags?

I could see GW going down the dark lighting option TBH.
1) It would help all those that don't like the sun 
2) Fits the GrimmDark theme
3) I can see GW including 'glow in the dark paint'/LEDs in their range for more PEW PEWs during combat
4) No one will be recognised by school peers passing by when within the safety of the gloom


Matt

I think Black bags, boxes etc would be more in keeping - why not even black light-bulbs....

With Big white 'W' printed on them all.

[Modhail]

We weren't stealing, honest! We couldn't find the cash register in the dark. After a while we panicked and headed for the light...

[FramFramson]

Hmmm, darkened shop, only a single overworked employee, overpriced products with high-resale value... nope, no problems here!

[Cubs]

Are all the products packaged in discreet brown paper bags?

Maybe there's a copy of 'Big Jugs' on the till to hide your 'White Dwarf' in.

[beefcake]

Maybe there's a copy of 'Big Jugs' on the till to hide your 'White Dwarf' in.

As in "Big Jugs and other water containing vessels"?

[weismonsters]

New FW robots do look quite good. They remind me of the old Crusaders, but much more detailed of course.

[Ajsalium]

As in "Big Jugs and other water containing vessels"?

Big jugs contain milk, not water...

[FramFramson]

That reminds me of how someone I know was talking about some fantasy game spec that was 88 and all I could think was "This fantasy game has flak cannons?"

[beefcake]

Big jugs contain milk, not water...

Or beer. 

[von Lucky]

£40! (for Australia it's listed as $90!)

It's a black (!) plastic box for goodness' sake!

http://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Citadel-Project-Box

[Argonor]

It's a black (!) plastic box for goodness' sake!

No, it's the one and only official project box from the one and only official provider of the one and only official wargames hobby!! The value is unassessable! 

[von Lucky]

As Freelancer stated on another forum: "It's clearly made of the finest hand carved polyeurethane, lovingly packaged for your hobbying pleasure and offered at a special executive price for the discerning idiot."