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Just scrool down this link and check the big scaled miniatures bellow.

http://www.rackham.fr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=199&Itemid=1

When asked on french forums J bey answered...

"yes, it is indeed the first preview for a range of large scale figures with articulated limbs"

super hey?...

Nice models, however...

I can't help feeling Rackham would do better to support the games they currently make, rather than trying to establish new games.

Wow.

Just wow.

I knew R had lost their way, just not how far afield they'd gone!

Wow.

Maybe its another new awesome product that will be discontinued anytime soon.

Killkrazy, I dont know if its a game or just action figures to collect... Either way defenitly not what I look for in wargaming miniatures companies.
Maybe rackham just wants to go to other areas.

Yes, not a wargame product at all.

Action figures and statues only work off the back of another popular product.

For example, Halo action figures, Batman figures and Anime statues and so on get bought because people like the original game, film or animation, not because they like the figures as such.

So I don't see these figures selling any good numbers.

Maybe I am weird, but that could be kind of cool playing on a larger scale such as that!?!

That would be a very long game...

But I don't think the game there for is meant to be played with that many models all the same, it was more then likely just for show.

The main thing you get from larger scales is character and uniform detail. The trade-off is you need more space and money.

Hm, articulate action figures to put on a shelf and posed into obscene poses with the lass' obscene plushies on boring rainy days..

Hey, if GW made a line of those for 40K, I'd buy 'em. Imagine a foot-tall Dreadnought!

BrookM wrote:Hm, articulate action figures to put on a shelf and posed into obscene poses with the lass' obscene plushies on boring rainy days..

Did you see Grandma's Boy?

warpcrafter wrote:Hey, if GW made a line of those for 40K, I'd buy 'em. Imagine a foot-tall Dreadnought!

Fully articulate space marine figure with wargear options so you can add and remove things on the go, just like that silly anime figure statue that my brother has. Hmm, I can already see a marine fighting off the penicorn. Only downer would be the price tag with these things. And it would be a limited run, because 40k isn't the cup of tea for everyone.

malfred wrote:

BrookM wrote:Hm, articulate action figures to put on a shelf and posed into obscene poses with the lass' obscene plushies on boring rainy days..

Did you see Grandma's Boy?

Nope, I just read the synopsis on Wikipedia

So, basically, they now produce pre-built, pre-painted articulated models.

Or Toys, as they are also known?

Have the owners of Rackham had a unilateral Brainspazz recently?

BrookM: Reread the first paragraph of the wiki and picture the bathroom scene with him
standing in front of a posed, disrobed action figure. THAT'S when the mom walks in and as
he goes, he says

"It feels so good I can't stop!"

Or something like that.

malfred wrote:BrookM: Reread the first paragraph of the wiki and picture the bathroom scene with him
standing in front of a posed, disrobed action figure. THAT'S when the mom walks in and as
he goes, he says

"It feels so good I can't stop!"

Or something like that.

I am glad that the penicorn is all plush and no plastic, I'd hate having to come home one day when the girl is alone and well.. Let's just say he ends up in the rubbish bin then.

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:So, basically, they now produce pre-built, pre-painted articulated models.

Or Toys, as they are also known?

Have the owners of Rackham had a unilateral Brainspazz recently?

I believe the correct term would be collectible action figures before the "experts" go bat-poo insane I know my brother got pissed when I called his figure a doll.

Rackham has lost it.

I don't think Jean Bey bothers wearing pants anymore.

Kilkrazy wrote:Nice models, however...

I can't help feeling Rackham would do better to support the games they currently make, rather than trying to establish new games.

Here's Rackham's track record on new games so far:
Confrontation - formerly flagship system, now effectively DoA after the change from metal skirmish scale to PPP army scale
AT-43 - not sure, but it seems to be doing ok
Hybrid/Nemesis - neat concept, but no support and some very confusing rules
Cadwallon - see Hybrid/Nemesis
Fire Industries - Forge World type deal, but closed up shop in short order

So far, they had one good game they ruined (Confrontation), one decent game (AT-43, which gave them PLASTIC FEVER apparently), and a whole bunch of nonstarters. So yeah, I'd have to agree that they should focus on the systems they have (also a little support for C3 please) instead of funneling resources into projects that will go nowhere.

Fire Industries was not a project started by Rackham, only supported.

And let´s not talk about specalist games.... looks like no company can keep them alive over a decent space of time

Duncan_Idaho wrote:
And let´s not talk about specalist games.... looks like no company can keep them alive over a decent space of time

No company? I dont know but maybe some companies actually live from their skirmish small games or boardgames? Like rackham did for a decade with confrontation?
Besides I dont see the backup for your argumentation... By that line of argumentation rackham failure is ok because some others also failed?

GW mucks it up so it's ok for Rackham to do so does seem like an odd line to take.

Jean Bey used to work for GW France did he not? You can take the man out of GW...

Hey, anyone remember the Shadowrun clix game from Wizkids with the action figures?

Nice figures. It was great until we tried to play it. Found you couldn't really swap equipment without the pegs breaking, and the game play was awful.

Alpharius wrote:Rackham has lost it.

I don't think Jean Bey bothers wearing pants anymore.

All will be revealed next week. Suffice to say the figures are not for a game.

@Navarro
I was talking about "Specialist Games", aka systems that run besides the main product line, and virtually no company was able to keep them alive.

Platuan4th wrote:

Alpharius wrote:Rackham has lost it.

I don't think Jean Bey bothers wearing pants anymore.

All will be revealed next week. Suffice to say the figures are not for a game.

Well, there is that then!