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£32.50..hmm..pricier than I'd hoped for.

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...hmm... yeah, give that a miss perhaps

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..they'll come in handy then..

And last but not least..

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Sweet.

It's cool that they're releasing that pack of old Chaos Marines, but 33 bucks, sheesh. Bloodcrushers are pricier than I expected too.

Yeah... (sarcasm).. the Traitors of Chaos (on the US site)..

$33 for 4 metal chaos marines? Get real!

Crushers at $54? Nope..

Ninja'd by 15 seconds!

Hahahaha! £20 for four one piece sculpts from 20 years ago. Oh my sides! Those Juggers are really nice, not £11 each nice obviously.

... and I just started a OTS army

That Blood Crusher price...crushed any hope I had of buying them and starting a Daemon Army.

So, I guess, thanks GW!

Not sure why the hate on the BloodCrusher price. If you bought three now it would be $90. So saving almost $40 is still pretty good in my book.

Some Chaos Space Marines really aged well

Those chaos marines are funny.. Buy some of our worst sculpts (compared to now) for more than 10 of the better versions!!

I was hoping the crushers would be 40$ but as said even 53 is better than the current

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Hey hes from the dark crystal movie!
And 33$ for 4 marines F#!k that

JHall wrote:Not sure why the hate on the BloodCrusher price. If you bought three now it would be $90. So saving almost $40 is still pretty good in my book.

i think it's because you should compare them to other plastic kits and not the now OOP metal ones. are three bloodcrushers really worth $10 more than three of the recently released killa kans for the orks? they have about the same size, same amount of parts/complexity, etc. there is something to be said about having consistent pricing for like items. unfortunately for consumers, GW is counting on your reaction more than the other.

Some people will complain about anything. Almost 50% off the current price and it's just to much.....

Did anyone actually think the bloodcrushers would be anything but fifty bucks? That's what we've been saying for months.

I must admit, I didn't realize that the metal Blood Crusher price was so high!

So, I guess it is an OK deal, but it still seems a bit dear for 3 models!

$53 for three is a deal compared to $25 a piece for things like sentinels.

it's a high margin item for GW, no doubt.

Hulksmash wrote:Some people will complain about anything. Almost 50% off the current price and it's just to much.....

QFT. Tyranid players pay $44.50 for 3 Raveners. That's only around a 25% discount from the metals and they're much smaller models than Bloodcrushers.

Don't get me wrong -- GW pricing has gone bonkers lately, and I can understand balking at $53 for 3 plastic models. But *relatively speaking* these aren't that bad.

I like how the 40k "Traitors of Chaos" (the 4 marine set) is also listed in the fantasy pre-order section. Does that mean we'll be able to field them in fantasy too? har har har.

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As I pointed out yesterday, at a minimum the Bloodcrushers were going to be $44.50 because that's the price for all of the other recent new kits that contain three monsters on one plastic sprue. I was expecting anything from $44.50 to $57.75, another common price point these days, so $53.75, while not cheap, is not unexpected or unreasonable given the price structure of existing and similar sized plastic kits. I'm not sure how anyone could have been expecting anything so significantly lower than $53.75 that this price announcement kills the idea of buying them now as opposed to expecting them to be too expensive for their taste even before the announcement.

yeah,
I think the price is good.

We can't compare them to KillaKans since there are more ork players out there power of economics blah blah bla....

Panic...

I think you all should remember that they are usable for 2 systems, fantasy AND 40K. Players have to be charged for the extra compatibility as well as the model itself. GW is charging you for convenience. That and they know that if a player plays both systems, they will simply magnetize the bottom for easy base swaps. That's what I'd do.

Hulksmash is right: it is almost 50% off-this is a far better deal than GW could have done. They could have made it $75 for a box-$25 each. Right now they're $17 each and cheaper than fiends of slaanesh! Also in favor of a plastic fiends box now for $44.25...

Hmm, the crushers are nice, real nice, I want to buy a box to build one for fun and the rest for kitbashing with but I think I'll have to wait now.

Players have to be charged for the extra compatibility

Juggernauts as s concept have been around for about 20 years. Making the newest ones compatible for two game systems consists simply of including square and round bases in the box. Compatibility for two systems in this case increases the profit on the set significantly, not the cost. I'm still not complaining about the price, just debunking that argument.

Gobstomp420 wrote:I think you all should remember that they are usable for 2 systems, fantasy AND 40K. Players have to be charged for the extra compatibility as well as the model itself. GW is charging you for convenience. That and they know that if a player plays both systems, they will simply magnetize the bottom for easy base swaps. That's what I'd do.

That is a silly rational. No doubt its what GW is doing, but its silly on their part. The "conveniance" is an illusion. It only applies if you play both games. Compared to similarly sized and capable products of similar design effort, this is over priced. Its this sort of price gouging that keeps me from starting new armies.

aka_mythos wrote:Its this sort of price gouging that keeps me from starting new armies.

Aye, same here. I wonder if these unacceptable prices arereally worth it for GW in the end.

Just buy the damn Bloodcrushers off a discount retailer and, voila, same price as the Killa Kans. I like the Fateweaver model (I know that's a mixed opinion) but doubt I'd ever use him.

When the current metal Bloodcrushers were first released they were $22 US each and have been hiked in price since then to near $25 and then $30. Even at the original $22 each the $53.75 per box of 3 is still cheaper per model. The current plastic ones are certainly not cheap, but they represent a far better deal than the current metal ones at either their current price or even the original one from two years ago.

To me the Fateweaver model is the problematic new Daemon release. After 20 years in the hobby I've grown weary of the time and effort it takes to pin these large, expensive metal miniatures and their fragility and the ease with which their paint gets damaged are also annoyances I'd rather avoid at this point. GW has gone mostly plastic in the past few years and so have I. I have no interest in buying another large, fragile and expensive metal model.

WOW !! $33 for 4 old Chaos Space Marines ?!!

I'm sure GW can do a better product-demand analysis than watching random Ebay auctions !!!

You can rationalize it all you want. The prices are still too high.