Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

GW is releasing Kriegsspiel and Little Wars with new models.

a toaster shaped like a bolter....or an ultramarine

Full-sized space marine armour in plastic - why should those Star Wars Storm Trooper nerds have all the fun?

The announcement that GW is packing in the whole 'miniature' business and will now only support Fantasy and 40K-based LARPing.

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

I know you do malfred, I know... That's what we all want, but everyone knows that GW doesn't care what we want. I guarantee that what tumbles out of that mystery box will be some gimmick that nobody asked for.

Archonate wrote:

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

I know you do malfred, I know... That's what we all want, but everyone knows that GW doesn't care what we want. I guarantee that what tumbles out of that mystery box will be some gimmick that nobody asked for.

OK, you're on!

If you're wrong, per your guarantee, what do you plan to do/offer as compensation?

Well, whateve it turns out to be, its ona be one of 2 things, 1: its gona be smething packed with models and well worth the price, or 2: something really crap and bad , with people saying "why the hell would i pay 60 or 70 quid for that crap"

i would laugh it was some really useless planetstrike army in a box

Im still voting chaos dwarfs of space hulk

Chaos Dwarfs of Space Hulk?

Well, that would be something new I guess!

40k Blood bowl.

I'm tellin' y'all it's a wacky waving inflatable tube man... tailored for the grim dark, of course.

40K Blood Bowl would be awesome! And so would a new army, can be used in ANY of their 3 games . . . a whole army of intergalactic proton powered electrical tenticalled advertising droids . . . with Darth Harrington as their leader! That would be freaking awesome! =D

But seriously, no-one knows, and yes the T-shirts are about getting people to sign up to the website as this gives GW a better idea of how many hobbysits there are, and allows them to send info about new things to everyone, including people don't go into stores regularly.

Don't they already have that system in place, and isn't that where they are pulling their 'prize draw' info from?

Yes, Yes they do. and heaven forbid someone with their own mailserver, a.org domain, and a random name generator would so something uncouth with their system.

Er, what?

Uh...

Okay, I haven't been to any LGS in a while, so when is this "mystery box" supposed to be released?

It's going to be unveiled on the 18th. Though there are some smuggies around who already know what it is and act all high and mighty about it. Gits.

Let's just call the factory where the product is being made with some smart story to tric them and find out

TBD wrote:Let's just call the factory where the product is being made with some smart story to tric them and find out

Yeah, why not. Who does the best Jervis impression?

BrookM wrote:It's going to be unveiled on the 18th. Though there are some smuggies around who already know what it is and act all high and mighty about it. Gits.

Yeah, cause I'm sure they actually know

Alpharius wrote:

Archonate wrote:

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

I know you do malfred, I know... That's what we all want, but everyone knows that GW doesn't care what we want. I guarantee that what tumbles out of that mystery box will be some gimmick that nobody asked for.

OK, you're on!

If you're wrong, per your guarantee, what do you plan to do/offer as compensation?

I'll take your wager and raise you a testicle if I'm wrong.
GW has pretty much said "It's something completely new and absolutely unexpectable!!!" Which really means "We spent a bunch of time on something nobody asked for!!!"
I'm fine with GW churning out new 40k projects... AFTER they update 5th edition codices.

Betcha there's no box at all. It's a myth about something that will never happen, like how the world is supposed to end in 2012.

Ya maybe the lie that the T-shirts want us to forget about is the mystery box itself...

You're right. It's really a mystery rhombus.

Eight Ball wrote:

BrookM wrote:It's going to be unveiled on the 18th. Though there are some smuggies around who already know what it is and act all high and mighty about it. Gits.

Yeah, cause I'm sure they actually know

Personally, I doubt it.

I still think it's Space Hulk, which makes this whole t-shirt business even more pathetic than it already is.

The answer you are looking for is just a click away...This would not surprise me at all.




This clip was all I could think about when this topic comes to mind. I do hope it is cool and becomes the next, must have thing. Based on its own merit not this cloak and dagger advertising.

Agamemnon2 wrote:I still think it's Space Hulk, which makes this whole t-shirt business even more pathetic than it already is.

Sometimes it is the obvious.

But don't you think after all this build up it will be greeted with "meh"

It really depends on presentation. I half expect them to just upturn the box, toss the sprues on a table and go "so yeah.." with a shrug while sipping coffee.