GW's Mystery Box? WTF is it already?!?

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**MattRendar**

so every ones saying go the 17th of august to GW ? ill be there when it opens at 12.00 p.m.

**Platuan4th**

MattRendar wrote:so every ones saying go the 17th of august to GW ? ill be there when it opens at 12.00 p.m.

Why? What it is is going to be announced Aug 17th, it's not released until September.

**BrassScorpion**

It is going to be announced next weekend at Games Day Germany. GW has already promoted that unveiling. After that it will be all over the Internet.

**BrookM**

And after the unveiling, all hell will break loose faster than an under-age drunk gigolo dropping his shorts at a NAMbLA convention.

**ghosty**

hhe ^^ you do realise that if it is spacehulk its not gonna be a hit like the first one? i mean,all these new super special plastic bits n' pieces that will make it fancy are gonna cost money. imagine how much this game will cost? anything from 30 to 50 quid is my guess. i mean it will be awsome and i guess ill buy it for the tyranids (and i suppose the termies) but it wont be a hge hit.

ofc it might not be space hulk but instead the trolls in the pantry game GW indorsed eons ago ^^

**Brimstone**

The T-shirts IIRC have nothing to do with Space Hulk that was the mystery box.

**rowan-thats-me**

if its space hulk, will it be simlar rules to the original, cos I stll got that here somewhere

**BrookM**

Regardless of what the contents might be, retards will wail and neckbeards will roar.

**NAVARRO**

And foreigners, with no GW,interested in the thing will not be able to get the space hulk.

**mikhaila**

NAVARRO wrote:And foreigners, with no GW,interested in the thing will not be able to get the space hulk.

Not quite sure how they are doing it yet. I've heard at times that you can pre-order off their website. Other rumors have been only actual GW stores. I was told that I would be able to get them for my independent game stores. (And no hints were given about what it is, just that I'll be able to get the 'mystery box'. Guess we'll know in a week.

**Lint**

BrookM wrote:Regardless of what the contents might be, retards will wail and neckbeards will roar.

Neckbeards. lawlz.

**BrassScorpion**

Boxed games like Space Hulk and Advanced Space Crusade circa 1990 cost about $50 US. Expansion sets were $35 US (e.g., Dark Millenium for 2nd Edition 40K in 1993). Five to seven years later boxed game prices had crept up to $75 and then $85. The 3rd Edition 40K boxed set cost $85 when it was replaced by the Battle For Macragge starter set that initially cost $45 US.

If this Mystery Box is a boxed game, Space Hulk (or not), one can expect that it will cost at least as much as it would have ten years ago and perhaps more. In other words, don't be surprised if it costs at least $75 to $85 US or even more.

**TBD**

I was told in the GW store that it would cost approximately 90 Euros.

(still doesn't have to be true obviously)

**BrassScorpion**

That would be pretty consistent with what I was saying just above. Five days to go till the big reveal!

**WarhammerTabletop**

Its space hulk go on over to bols con and go to older posts, its gonna have terrain,termies,genestealers and 2 metal miniatures, supposably.

**TBD**

WarhammerTabletop wrote:Its space hulk go on over to bols con and go to older posts, its gonna have terrain,termies,genestealers and 2 metal miniatures, supposably.

What is this bols you are talking about?

**JonnyDelta**

Bell of Lost Souls - BOLS

**TBD**

Cool, do they have real bells and are they are credible source of information like GW?

**typhus**

spoke to a staff member today he said it was NOT space hulk but was definatly a splash release and and a different game that was NOT space hulk

**niceas**

typhus wrote:spoke to a staff member today he said it was NOT space hulk but was definatly a splash release and and a different game that was NOT space hulk

Yay! the black box of devouring! You put your models inside, it devours them, then you have to buy more models!

**TBD**

typhus wrote:spoke to a staff member today he said it was NOT space hulk but was definatly a splash release and and a different game that was NOT space hulk

The GW employee who claimed to have actually seen the product in China said it isn't Space Hulk as well.

If it does turn out to be Space Hulk I will rub their lying in their faces though.

**Platuan4th**

TBD wrote:
typhus wrote:spoke to a staff member today he said it was NOT space hulk but was definatly a splash release and and a different game that was NOT space hulk

The GW employee who claimed to have actually seen the product in China said it isn't Space Hulk as well.

If it does turn out to be Space Hulk I will rub their lying in their faces though.

It's not Space Hulk.

It's a game called Hulks in Space. It comes with 10 Space Infantry and 20 Chromosome Thieves, as well as a full set of Space Corridors and Industrial Towers.

**FlammingGaunt**

Well sence everything we've been told is a lie that includes that statement so the mystery box could be anything. so this will be my last post about trying to figure out what it is.

**Disjointed Entity**

Alpharius wrote:
Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:I dunno mate. All GW have said is that there is a release on the 16th, and thats it.

The rest as far as I can make it purely Interweb Speculation. As I said earlier, the BolS report is more a rumour consolidation than a single, cohesive rumour. All those things could have been mentioned individually...

Um, it wasn't quite as simple as that.

GW HAS hyped this a bit more than that, what with the "never been done before", "limted quantities, when they're gone they're gone!" and some strange "We're droppin' the bomb on the 16th" talk...

That's a tad more than "Stay tuned for...{yawn]...some odd release at GD Germany."

Dropping the bomb thing...

Possibly a limited edition Deathstrike model?

**number9dream**

BrassScorpion wrote:That would be pretty consistent with what I was saying just above. Five days to go till the big reveal!

90 euros is more like 130 USD :(

**Necros**

So wait you're saying if everything we've been told is a lie, then that means the box is a lie? there is no box!

Lets get "The Mystery Box is a Lie" t-shirts and go on strike in front of every GW store.

**Yggdrasil**

Platuan4th wrote:
It's not Space Hulk.

It's a game called Hulks in Space. It comes with 10 Space Infantry and 20 Chromosome Thieves, as well as a full set of Space Corridors and Industrial Towers.

Truly, completely different, never-done-before-thingy!!! I'm hoping you ARE right, Platuan!!!!

Disjointed Entity wrote:
Alpharius wrote:some strange "We're droppin' the bomb on the 16th" talk...

Dropping the bomb thing...

Possibly a limited edition Deathstrike model?

Now THAT is an interesting theory..... Can I change my vote and choose "a Deathstrike model" from the poll?!?

+1 for Disjointed Entity!

**BrookM**

The house of cards collapses.

**jp400**

Just throwing some more chum out in the sea of sharks....

Gorkamorka.

Enjoy.

**H.B.M.C.**

jp400 wrote:Gorkamorka.

Why would GW re-release a game that wasn't successful in the first place? Gluttons for punishment?