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 adamsouza wrote:
$49.99 is the MSRP.

Currently though it's 10% off at my FLGS.

So Amazon is selling it for $5 more than MSRP?

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:

 adamsouza wrote:
$49.99 is the MSRP.

Currently though it's 10% off at my FLGS.

So Amazon is selling it for $5 more than MSRP?

Here in the UK the Death Masque box set is on sale on Amazon for £35 more than GW price, I dunno who buys this stuff

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:

 adamsouza wrote:
$49.99 is the MSRP.

Currently though it's 10% off at my FLGS.

So Amazon is selling it for $5 more than MSRP?

It's not Amazon selling it. It's another retailer using Amazon's Website to sell it.

Price: $54.99 & FREE Shipping. Details
In Stock.
Sold by MyQuickMart and Fulfilled by Amazon.

The stock is sitting in an Amazon Fullfilment Center, but technically belongs to MyQuickMart, in this case.

My guess (though I'm not an expert in Amazon shenanigans) is that this is a reseller who does not actually expect to sell any units at that price until the set is sold out elsewhere, but who fancies using Amazon to save money on warehouse space in the meantime.

Is there still no retailer selling these things in SoCal? Or online without shenanigans?

It feels like GW doesn't know how to make an accessible introductory kit.

I was assembling one of these sets and I've got a mystery piece on one of the sprues. It's round and has a peg on the back. Any ideas?

Can you describe it in more detail? Does it have a skull or a few spent shell casings on it?

It's base decoration. Either a skull with a hole or bullets. In the original AOBR set they could be used to fill the holes in the 40mm bases for the Terminators and the 60(65?)mm for the Dreadnought which had more holes than the models needed. These bases were designed for easy construction (without glue).

Ah, that makes sense. It does look like bullets, so I guess it goes with the terminator.

Exciting news for those of you asking if the Battle for Vedros range will be available outside North America. We are delighted to announce that later this year, you'll start to see these sets in stores across the UK.

We'll have more details for you soon.

(via Battle for Vedros on Facebook)

Ooh!

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
Exciting news for those of you asking if the Battle for Vedros range will be available outside North America. We are delighted to announce that later this year, you'll start to see these sets in stores across the UK.

Exciting news would be that it's actually available inside North America. I live in a city of almost 2.5 million people and can't get hold of it.

Last time I was in the UK you could buy Citadel miniatures next to Matchbox cars in small toy shops. What happened? (This is a rhetorical question.)

Iain.

You still can in some.

Yeah, their saturation into North America is something of a joke. Apparently I can travel farther than the diameter of England in any direction without finding anyone selling Vedros kits, and I live in and near some of the most populous cities/metro areas in the entire US. Who are they trying to sell to?

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Yeah, their saturation into North America is something of a joke. Apparently I can travel farther than the diameter of England in any direction without finding anyone selling Vedros kits, and I live in and near some of the most populous cities/metro areas in the entire US. Who are they trying to sell to?

Probably big retailers; which isn't gonna work unless they sell in bulk at a discount.

From their announcements is seems like they were expecting retailers to magically sense their products existance, not worry about from gaming shops already selling 40K, and contacting the regional sales reps on their own.

I asked multiple toy shops and none of them had ever heard of Battle for Vedros. The few people at the shops who new what 40K was, automatically insisted they didn't carry 40K models, and didn't listen long enough to get that this was supposed to be a board game style product and not a Wargaming one.

 adamsouza wrote:
From their announcements is seems like they were expecting retailers to magically sense their products existance, not worry about from gaming shops already selling 40K, and contacting the regional sales reps on their own.

I asked multiple toy shops and none of them had ever heard of Battle for Vedros. The few people at the shops who new what 40K was, automatically insisted they didn't carry 40K models, and didn't listen long enough to get that this was supposed to be a board game style product and not a Wargaming one.

This is still a pilot program. GW has a history of making too many products and not selling them. My guess is that this is a multi year plan. Growing slowly store by store is a very sensible plan and severely limits the risk of this venture.
I am sure that they are deliberately staying away from big retailers as they would be expected to produce a large quantity of stock which may not sell.

It was suspected that GW stayed away from Big Retailers becuase it is assumed that they would still enforce their "no selling our crap" online policy, which is something Walmart, Target, or any other big retailer would laugh at.

If they ever make it to Michaels, A.C. Moore, or Hobby Lobby, we'll have a feeding frenzy with 40-50% coupons.

Apologies if this has already been shown, but the Game Christmas catalogue came out, and there is an interesting entry for UK folks.

Hey, that's pretty neat. There's at least one GAME in pretty much every town centre in the UK, for better or worse.

 Bull0 wrote:
Hey, that's pretty neat. There's at least one GAME in pretty much every town centre in the UK, for better or worse.

yup, plus most towns with a Games Workshop have a Game, so there is some cross pollination there too.

Not the most obvious choice for a sales location for the range, but actually not a terrible one on reflection.

I suppose with the dearth of 40k games and Apps about it kinda makes sense.

Still that's a big chain for GW to be tied in with.

 notprop wrote:
I suppose with the dearth of 40k games and Apps about it kinda makes sense.

Still that's a big chain for GW to be tied in with.

Game seems about as into the discounting culture as GW are... so there is that too

Plus its only a few letters off the same place

It's a good fit really, with Dawn of War 3 out soon.

It seems there is now a store in SoCal selling Vedros kits. Haven't had a chance to check it out yet, but hopefully later this month I will. Amazing era we've moved into.

http://www.game.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/AjaxCatalogSearch?storeId=10151&catalogId=10201&langId=44&pageSize=48&beginIndex=0&sType=SimpleSearch&resultCatEntryType=2&showResultsPage=true&pageView=image&predictiveSearchURL=&searchTerm=vedros&searchBtn=z#Page2

Released in 5 days' time according to their website.

 JonWebb wrote:
Apologies if this has already been shown, but the Game Christmas catalogue came out, and there is an interesting entry for UK folks.

Wait a sec? Only 1 Deffkopta? I thought this was a reprint of Assault on Black Reach where you got 3 deffkoptas?
Less marines and terminators as well?

 MadCowCrazy wrote:

 JonWebb wrote:
Apologies if this has already been shown, but the Game Christmas catalogue came out, and there is an interesting entry for UK folks.

Wait a sec? Only 1 Deffkopta? I thought this was a reprint of Assault on Black Reach where you got 3 deffkoptas?
Less marines and terminators as well?

My understanding is that it's a box containing a single sprue unlike AOBR which had multiple sprues.

Huge nostalgia seeing these models again. if I wasn't saving for BB and plastic SoB I would actually pick up a set to paint.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
It seems there is now a store in SoCal selling Vedros kits. Haven't had a chance to check it out yet, but hopefully later this month I will. Amazing era we've moved into.

What store in SoCal?