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Falconlance wrote:The staff at my local GW have started wearing new shirts that say "everything youve been told is a lie," when I asked the manager about it he said it was in reference to bell of lost souls and warseer spreading rumors about some mystery box.

and dakka! don't forget dakka! heck, we're gossiping just as much as much as those other old ladies!

Falconlance wrote:The staff at my local GW have started wearing new shirts that say "everything youve been told is a lie," when I asked the manager about it he said it was in reference to bell of lost souls and warseer spreading rumors about some mystery box.

I call BS. They were just messing with you.

George Spiggott wrote:

H.B.M.C. wrote:fething

That's my least favorite intenet meme right there, the GW approved almost-swear kiddy safe version of a popular epithet.

To be fair, HBMC did in fact use the real F-word, the Dakka filter simply bowdlerized him. Just quote his post and check the un-PC version of his post in the textbox.

And then don't try and get around the filter while you're at it...

Getting round the filter is no problem atall
keeping your account away from suspensions afterwards is another matter.

Perhaps it's an inflatable Sororitas, with 3 working orifices?

whitedragon wrote:

Falconlance wrote:The staff at my local GW have started wearing new shirts that say "everything youve been told is a lie," when I asked the manager about it he said it was in reference to bell of lost souls and warseer spreading rumors about some mystery box.

I call BS. They were just messing with you.

No, it's the truth. I talked to a regional manager at the Seattle Battle bunker and he said the same thing about the new shirts. Apparently the studio doesn't like how far and wide the rumors are on sites like BoLS, etc (how wrong they are), so they had the shirts made.

However, that's a problem of their own making by choosing to keep their cards so close to their chest about unreleased product. Don't comment on things: people will speculate. Don't like it? Say something concrete. Or make a new shirt. Or whatever.

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:Perhaps it's an inflatable Sororitas, with 3 working orifices?

You'd better be talking about the Bolter-hole, the Flamer-hole and the Melta-hole, son. This is a family website!

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How long before those shirts are available on GW mail-order for $30 USD? Make sure to snap up all the XXLs while you can.

Iorek wrote:

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:Perhaps it's an inflatable Sororitas, with 3 working orifices?

You'd better be talking about the Bolter-hole, the Flamer-hole and the Melta-hole, son. This is a family website!

Erm....yes....thats exactly the three I was meaning.........

(runs away and hides)

H.B.M.C. wrote:Probably none. I mean, it's not like GW supports their other games beyond 40K/Fantasy/Rings, so this would be no different.

If it is not something players/collectors/whatever group(s) feel is equal to Space Hulk (if it is not Space Hulk), there will be "raging" when the product is announced, even though GW itself has not directly claimed it will be Space Hulk in anyway.

H.B.M.C. wrote:And why must it be 'nerd rage'.

Sorry, I have not as yet heard a proper alternative term that accurately describes this phenomenon better than "nerd rage". If you have one, please share, we will try to not let it become a meme.

If it doesn't "measure" up I think that there won't be as much Raging but it will land with a 'thud' and then the sound of crickets chirping will take over.

Maybe.

Maybe if they get pissy enough about rumors they'll do something about it and actually tell us what's coming more than 1 month from now. Problem solved.

Moopy wrote:Apparently the studio doesn't like how far and wide the rumors are on sites like BoLS, etc (how wrong they are), so they had the shirts made.

I can see this being true... Only GW would deal with the problem with some vague, meaningless platitude on a T-shirt instead of actually opening their chubby fething yaps and communicating with their fans about upcoming releases.

Although "Everything you've been told is a lie" does sound vaguely like Dark Angels.

Now you can "Hunt for the Fallen" in a box!

"Everything you've been told is a lie" is one of the two slogans used by Inquisitor.

It is an all new game, it's RC40K, with little mini robot army men that you still build and paint, but instead of rolling dice they can just walk across your kitchen table and beat the styrene out of the other guy's models.

BrookM wrote:"Everything you've been told is a lie" is one of the two slogans used by Inquisitor.

It's also used by daft programs like Lost to make anything revealed in the previous four series null and void.

Disclaimer - Possibly not used by Lost, but you know what I mean

Nah lost is "Everything happens for a reason", which is slightly different.

The reasons that everything happens for are a lie.

Did I do that right?

I doubt GW is going to send free product to independent retailers so...

What do the independent retailers have to pay to ge the box?

Archonate wrote:

Moopy wrote:Apparently the studio doesn't like how far and wide the rumors are on sites like BoLS, etc (how wrong they are), so they had the shirts made.

I can see this being true... Only GW would deal with the problem with some vague, meaningless platitude on a T-shirt instead of actually opening their chubby fething yaps and communicating with their fans about upcoming releases.

Trouble is, when we find out about stuff really early, we all want it there and then, and by the time it comes out, it's old hat as we are drooling over the next big thing due in three months time!

Tight Mouthed Larry can be a very good tactic.

Oh, and don't forget how often people hear rumours which are inaccurate, and judge the new model or book according to the wrong rumours, leading to disappointment and unfair rubbishing of a product!

BrookM wrote:"Everything you've been told is a lie" is one of the two slogans used by Inquisitor.

New Inquisitor Codex you say?! *wild speculation begins anew*

combatmedic wrote:

BrookM wrote:"Everything you've been told is a lie" is one of the two slogans used by Inquisitor.

New Inquisitor Codex you say?! *wild speculation begins anew*

They should hang you upside down and beat you to a pulp like a slow with his first piñata.

Moopy wrote:

No, it's the truth. I talked to a regional manager at the Seattle Battle bunker and he said the same thing about the new shirts. Apparently the studio doesn't like how far and wide the rumors are on sites like BoLS, etc (how wrong they are), so they had the shirts made.

However, that's a problem of their own making by choosing to keep their cards so close to their chest about unreleased product. Don't comment on things: people will speculate. Don't like it? Say something concrete. Or make a new shirt. Or whatever.

The manager I talked to said that people who register with the GW website and elect to get the newsletter will find out about these kinds of things sooner than someone who doesnt. Which still means its going to be up on BoLS, but its going to be from the horses mouth rather than speculation.

He also mentioned that the newsletter is going to go weekly rather than monthly. I hope thats not their "mystery box" right there.

What will just kill me is if it was just something silly and whimsical I bet it was just being released for a laugh and it has now been blown so out of proportion that the people who are in the know are looking in the box and just going "oh, shoot".

I bet you that this is something they didn't realize would get this out of control and take a life on of its own.

My bet is still a space marine bobble head.

The day the news is released I think I we will all hear "oh" followed by a big sigh. The posts on Dakka that day will be amusing no doubt.

fullheadofhair wrote:What will just kill me is if it was just something silly and whimsical I bet it was just being released for a laugh and it has now been blown so out of proportion that the people who are in the know are looking in the box and just going "oh, shoot".

I kind of agree. GW marketing tends to be ham-fisted at best. It may be something entirely uninteresting by the time it comes out, quite posibly something that is new for GW, but everyone else has been doing for years or something.

Followed by a big "I told you so!" from fullheadofhair.

fullheadofhair wrote:
The posts on Dakka that day will be amusing no doubt.

Well said!

I know that, if nothing else, I will certainly enjoy THAT!

"Everything you've been told is a lie."

The Squats weren't wiped out and they have returned to save the galaxy on their three-wheeled pizza delivery scooters.

I just hope it's something people actually want, and not just something GW wants to sell.