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

I am surprised by the two big blank spaces on the sprue. GW have been filling every square inch of their sprues ever since they got their computer tech up and running, so these 'gaps' are very odd.

And yeah, the first thing I thought when I saw these was "You could make a cool Vyper out of this turret".

**Nurglitch**

I agree, those spaces look really odd considering the way the rest of the sprue is packed in there. They could have crammed extra crew bits in those spaces.

**vitki**

There's only so many Soulstones, Phoenixes and weird bulgy things you can do before your eyes bleed.

I wouldn't have minded some craftworld symbols though.

**Aramus**

Alpharius wrote:
Aramus wrote:Yep, here's hoping that 1 - it won't be $50 and 2 - you can get the sprue separate!

1) It probably will be, or close to it!

2) Doubtful, at least for a long, long time!

Well, the DO offer the new Redeemer sprue separately, so there is at least a chance that they might release it. I was hoping the pricing would be more in line with the Falcon/Wave Serpent ($41.75 or whatever it is)

**Cannerus_The_Unbearable**

Therion wrote:Thanks for posting these. Prism is a huge improvement over the old one and the Night Spinner is cool. I would've liked the Falcon/Serpent hull to be re-designed to look more like the FW Eldar superheavies (longer, sleeker, more aggressive and more modern) but of course that won't happen untill 2020 the earliest.

By that point they'll already have been invented for real and the models will only be good for "historical gaming."

**Alpharius**

Extra crew would have been nice...

**Scottywan82**

So apparently the IG tank LR sprues are ALSO at GW for looking at. If someone would be so kind as to go to theirs? Maybe someone in a timezone ahead of me???

Apparently it IS all four variants. We can all breathe a sigh of relief. No Basilisk repeats.

**shabbadoo**

H.B.M.C. wrote:I am surprised by the two big blank spaces on the sprue. GW have been filling every square inch of their sprues ever since they got their computer tech up and running, so these 'gaps' are very odd.

No, thrye still not filling all space, and on many sprues. this one aius prettybad though. it is not like they couyld have put...oh...*Craftworld symbols* in the blank space. A lost opportunity to be sure.

**Alpharius**

Scottywan82 wrote:So apparently the IG tank LR sprues are ALSO at GW for looking at. If someone would be so kind as to go to theirs? Maybe someone in a timezone ahead of me???

Apparently it IS all four variants. We can all breathe a sigh of relief. No Basilisk repeats.

Now THAT is some welcome news indeed!

(Quick someone - pics!)

**BrassScorpion**

So apparently the IG tank LR sprues are ALSO at GW for looking at. If someone would be so kind as to go to theirs?

I was in a US GW store Thursday, but no Black Box for Spearhead yet. I hope we'll have more luck in some of the US stores on Friday.

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

Well I braved Warseer, and there's a report there that the new Russ kit is the same as the Demolisher kit, so one sprue which is the generic Russ Hull sprue, and then another for the non-Demolisher-based Russ turrets. It has all four turret types, the Vanquisher just being an extended standard turret (as you'd expect). No word on the sponsons though.

The other comment was 'No Manticore', but then again, the guy was just going off of what was in the Black Box (Prism & Russ), and Black Boxes don't always contain everything.

**Scottywan82**

H.B.M.C. wrote:Well I braved Warseer, and there's a report there that the new Russ kit is the same as the Demolisher kit, so one sprue which is the generic Russ Hull sprue, and then another for the non-Demolisher-based Russ turrets. It has all four turret types, the Vanquisher just being an extended standard turret (as you'd expect). No word on the sponsons though.

The other comment was 'No Manticore', but then again, the guy was just going off of what was in the Black Box (Prism & Russ), and Black Boxes don't always contain everything.

He was pretty quickly shouted down, too.

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

Over the 'no Manticore' thing, yeah, I know. No mention of the Eldar Platforms either, but that doesn't mean they're not coming.

**Archonate**

H.B.M.C. wrote:Well I braved Warseer

Yikes... You gonna be okay?

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

Commissar Calgar is impervious to the idiocy of Warseer.

**lord_blackfang**

bhsman wrote:Looks like I was right; the smaller, one-piece crystal is put at the very tip of the weapon.

It's easy being right about something that was seen on the photo in the original post

**Farmer**

wuestenfux wrote:Is it really a prism?
The cannon looks really small.

Yerp, the cannon looks like it could snap

**Corvus**

I'm sure its been noticed already, but the original Fire Prism is listed as "no longer available" on the GW website

This pleases Corvus

As soon as I get my paycheck I will be ordering the new Prism

**ruminant**

Well its the 10th and no pre-order info.

think we'll be waiting a while myself

**bhsman**

lord_blackfang wrote:It's easy being right about something that was seen on the photo in the original post

It's easy when not a small number of people I spoke to believed the barrel ended in some sort of claw shape, but whatevs.

**Saintspirit**

Mwahaha! I posted it here first!
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat1300103&prodId=prod770019a

**Daba**

New platform looks kinda like a Vyper turret. I'll probably pick one up to finish my trio of D-Cannons along with the tank kit.

How modular do you think it'll be, for swapping the Prism/Weaver options?

**JohnHwangDD**

Saintspirit wrote:Mwahaha! I posted it here first!
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat1300103&prodId=prod770019a

$50 USD? No thanks.

**insaniak**

Might as well move this discussion over to the new release thread now that they're actually up...

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/294106.page