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Sprue pics here:

http://johnstoysoldiers.blogspot.com/2009/08/battlescape-sprues.html

Crisp stuff.

Is it good?... It's good!

Glad to see this is a decent product after those other things (shudder).

Oh look, it's hard plastic like I kept telling the sheeple, but nooooooo, they wouldn't listen.

Please try not to dislocate your shoulder while patting yourself on the back!

If only the Blastscape pieces were made this way...

No pic of those weird tree things. It looks good without them.

It's a lot nicer than I'd expected, and I'd be very happy to get one for Xmas (if you're reading this, Grandma), but... just doesn't seem an essential purchase, and I remain puzzled as to why GW thought it was needed.

Or why THIS was in 'traditional' plastic and the Blastscape (which would have been much cooler and perhaps deserving of a longer shelf life) was not...

BrookM wrote:Oh look, it's hard plastic like I kept telling the sheeple, but nooooooo, they wouldn't listen.

Hell, I told all y'all two months ago the Battlescape would be moulded plastic (like the Temple of Skulls) while the Blastscape would be vacuformed. But if there's one thing I've learned about the internet is that even when given the information on a silver platter, people don't listen.

Her Majesty's Buxom Commissar wrote:

BrookM wrote:Oh look, it's hard plastic like I kept telling the sheeple, but nooooooo, they wouldn't listen.

Hell, I told all y'all two months ago the Battlescape would be moulded plastic (like the Temple of Skulls) while the Blastscape would be vacuformed. But if there's one thing I've learned about the internet is that even when given the information on a silver platter, people don't listen.

Welcome to the slowed generation.

BrookM wrote:Welcome to the slowed generation.

Ain't my generation that's for sure! *wags finger at all the young whippersnappers*

BrookM wrote:Oh look, it's hard plastic like I kept telling the sheeple, but nooooooo, they wouldn't listen.

Her Majesty's Buxom Commissar wrote:

BrookM wrote:Oh look, it's hard plastic like I kept telling the sheeple, but nooooooo, they wouldn't listen.

Hell, I told all y'all two months ago the Battlescape would be moulded plastic (like the Temple of Skulls) while the Blastscape would be vacuformed. But if there's one thing I've learned about the internet is that even when given the information on a silver platter, people don't listen.

I guess it bears repeating then:

Please try not to dislocate your shoulder while patting yourself on the back!

Though I suppose BrookM could pat H.M.B.C. on the back, and then H.M.B.C. could then return the favor?

Either one of you Internet Prophets of Truth want to take a break from grandstanding and tell us what's in the Mystery Box?

I'm glad to see I'm not the only old timer out here...LMAO.

Flashman wrote:No pic of those weird tree things. It looks good without them.

They're on the sprue, but if I were to get one I would leave them off.

Her Majesty's Buxom Commissar wrote:

BrookM wrote:Oh look, it's hard plastic like I kept telling the sheeple, but nooooooo, they wouldn't listen.

Hell, I told all y'all two months ago the Battlescape would be moulded plastic (like the Temple of Skulls) while the Blastscape would be vacuformed. But if there's one thing I've learned about the internet is that even when given the information on a silver platter, people don't listen.

Ever since you changed your Avatar, people stopped paying attention to what you post. I am just glad this one is what it appeared to be, now I just need to find my spare Rhino parts to spiffy mine up.

I can't wait to get my hands on this! This is gonna be good!

All I see is the "40K Action Playset".

I'll pass.

That is an odd sentiment from the guy who buys every dollhouse GW makes.

Which means it has to be pretty gakky to get me not to buy it.

This would be one of those times.

H.B.M.C. wrote:Which means it has to be pretty gakky to get me not to buy it.

This would be one of those times.

Why don't you like it? It's just a hill, a few trees, and a crashed rhino. It's a good fifth edition line of sight blocking piece with elevation but sides that aren't too steep to stand on.

Looking at it again, I am vaguely tempted to buy it then chop it up to get 3 bits of terrain - two non-flimsy craters and a nice wrecked Rhino. Wonder what I could sell the leftover tree stumps for on eBay...

Clang wrote:Looking at it again, I am vaguely tempted to buy it then chop it up to get 3 bits of terrain - two non-flimsy craters and a nice wrecked Rhino. Wonder what I could sell the leftover tree stumps for on eBay...

You'd be paying people to take those ugly POS things off your hands ;D

ShumaGorath wrote:Why don't you like it?

Because it screams cheesy 80's/90's toy-playset - The Space Marine Action Battle Playset. I'm surprised the Rhino doesn't have a springloaded missile launcher that fires little red plastic rods, and sound effects that make the eyes on the trees light up.

What's next, the Dark Eldar Hideout? The Necron Technodrome? The Ork Battle Wagon... oh wait...

H.B.M.C. wrote:What's next, the Dark Eldar Hideout? The Necron Technodrome? The Ork Battle Wagon... oh wait...

Necron Technodrome! YES! I'd buy that just for the tmnt reference... And because Necrons would totally use a technodrome. It's like a mini, underground world engine.

I'm not really seeing a difference between this, the crashed aquila or any GW terrain that makes this particularly 80's playset

I think i can buy badly painted rhino on ebay for $5 ,
chop it up into 3 pieces and make terrain out of it.

I do like the rhino battle scape terrain , but everything else seems pretty useless , ugly.

nice!

They have the Forge World crashed Valkyrie pack hanging at one of the local game/hobby stores.

That one is a nice terrain piece as well, although I still haven't decided if I'd want it or not (it will probably be sold by the time I have decided).

Clang wrote:Looking at it again, I am vaguely tempted to buy it then chop it up to get 3 bits of terrain - two non-flimsy craters and a nice wrecked Rhino.

Same here, cut rhino and craters for terrain boost.
Just this week I finally played a bit with the Macragge terrain sprues, good stuff, so this rhino would be a cool extra for the displays I'm builting up here.

Niccolo wrote:I'm not really seeing a difference between this, the crashed aquila or any GW terrain that makes this particularly 80's playset

I think he might mean the old Star Wars ones, which would be 70s/80s.

BrookM wrote:

Her Majesty's Buxom Commissar wrote:

BrookM wrote:Oh look, it's hard plastic like I kept telling the sheeple, but nooooooo, they wouldn't listen.

Hell, I told all y'all two months ago the Battlescape would be moulded plastic (like the Temple of Skulls) while the Blastscape would be vacuformed. But if there's one thing I've learned about the internet is that even when given the information on a silver platter, people don't listen.

Welcome to the slowed generation.

All us lesser beings can only aspire to be as awesome as you...