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I came back from my local game store to look around and play a game and an employee told me that GW is thinking of doing a Tervigon/TyrannoFex set. like the Trygon/Mawloc set where you have the option to make either two creatures. He said the bodies might be bigger than the Normal Carnifex body and Based off the art in the Codex. I think its true because look at the two pictures in the codex. They look similar in body.



I thought it was really awesome news. I want it to be true!!!!!

Thank you for putting a question mark. I think every Tyranid player is hoping for a set like that.

I have it on authority that there will be a set for these released in the next five years, for more than you normally carry in your wallet.

Elric of Grans wrote:I have it on authority that there will be a set for these released in the next five years, for more than you normally carry in your wallet.

Holy crap! Serious? Awesome! I can't wait!

Heck yeah!!! only 5 years? Awesome sauce!! Now if it was 6 then I'd be upset.


GG

Elric of Grans wrote:I have it on authority that there will be a set for these released in the next five years, for more than you normally carry in your wallet.

More than $220.52 USD?

Kanluwen wrote:

Elric of Grans wrote:I have it on authority that there will be a set for these released in the next five years, for more than you normally carry in your wallet.

More than $220.52 USD?

*cough*Cokedealer*cough*

Nahuh!

I find that keeping anything under $200 isn't helpful if you have to do anything that requires a cash down or if you get unlucky enough to find somewhere that won't take a credit card in the case of car repairs.

The 52 cents is in case the cell phone doesn't work.

I IZ PREPARED.

That kit would be awesome. Look forward to it coming out before the Dark Eldar codex =D

Oshova

GW really does live in some sort of fantasy world.

*Creates units that Every Tyranid Player Ever will want to have
*Does not create kit for it
*?
*Profit?

Railguns wrote:GW really does live in some sort of fantasy world.

*Creates units that Every Tyranid Player Ever will want to have
*Does not create kit for it
*?
*Profit?

Ya its been that way for a while sad but true. Hopefully sets will come out within the year.

Railguns wrote:GW really does live in some sort of fantasy world.

*Creates units that Every Tyranid Player Ever will want to have
*Does not create kit for it
*?
*Profit?

Not to break the South Park reference, but the following does seem logically sound from the perspective of a GW-apologetic:

1 - Create unit that every Tyranid Player will want to have
2 - Don't spend money and time creating a kit/model for it
3 - People convert model using Carnifex, Trygon, Stegadon, and/or Tryanid Bits Sprues; some people buy more than one.
4 - More profit!

GW sells more kits, more sprues, and does not need to spend money on R&D and on creating expensive plastic injection-molds. Instead, GW can stand back and smile knowing it gave us metal models whose molds are much cheaper to manufacture. Until then, I'm putting naughty-bits on my now-mostly-obsolete Carnifex and calling it a Tervigon.

South Park Reference?

In any case, either GW is shamefully ignorant of what they're doing when they re-write codexes, or they are shamefully evil and manipulative. They usually don't come off as coordinated or smart enough to convincingly look the second.

Something to keep in mind is how GW has been working lately. The models are really turning out to resemble the artwork. Take the Ork Battlewagon, for instance. It was released a while after the Codex, looked like the picture, and now we no longer have to put up with crappy toilet-roll and construction-paper $%^&-wagons that losers with no modeling skill were trying to pass off as battlewagons. The people with well-modeled battlewagons or Forgeworld kits carried on as usual.

I want one of theese too! I want a tervigon! Though i won't be holding my breath.

I think GW does do these kind of things on purpose, for the swarmlord for example they say "Mr. Whatshisface built this swarmlord using a hive tyrant kit and the boneswords from 4 KITS (hint, hint, nudge, nudge)" Do they really expect us to buy 4 £30 kits to convert a swarmlord!!??

I would like for a tyrannofex/tervigon kit to come out though.

While doing research for new kits, I have heard from numerous well-informed sources that GW does NOT plan on releasing any Tyranid new kits this year...

Take that for what its worth, but I think GW seriously thinks we will buy a carnifex and trygon kit for every tervigon we want.

Nick

Does that mean Chapterhouse has an "Bugasaur Queen" in the works?

Dunno, do you know something I dont?

Chapterhouse wrote:Take that for what its worth, but I think GW seriously thinks we will buy a carnifex and trygon kit for every tervigon we want.

I don't think you need a trygon kit. It looks easy enough to do with a carnifex, a few spare termagants and a couple of monstrous arms bitz packs.

Or about 20$ in Greenstuff, carnifex model and some sculpting skill, so about $65?

Chapterhouse wrote:While doing research for new kits, I have heard from numerous well-informed sources that GW does NOT plan on releasing any Tyranid new kits this year...

Take that for what its worth, but I think GW seriously thinks we will buy a carnifex and trygon kit for every tervigon we want.

Nick

Doesn't mean it won't be a Forge World kit.

Well, when the employee told me, He repeated about 4 times "They might" I hope it's a least a Forge World kit. Remember when the Codex was released people were spreading rumors of a Mycetic Spore model coming out in December 2010 or next year of Jan? Maybe a 2nd wave is coming! I don't see why they have to stop making tyranid kits for this year!! What are they gonna release for the summer? or how about if they aren't gonna do it, we bug them to.

It seems awfully strange that FW haven't released any Nid stuff for the new codex - that could either mean they're busy sculpting something right now, or that they've been told not to because GW has some nid kits at least planned.

FW are too busy doing Orks, Eldar, Raven Guard and more Elysians. Their plates are full.

I doubt the "wave" plan of model release will see any new Tyranid kits. It's been erratic and unreliable as far as schedules and what actually gets released is concerned, leading me to believe that it isn't so much a plan as it is a backdoor for "we don't want to work on these things right now (for whatever reason) so we'll get to it later". The "GW just wants us to go buy a bajillion dollars in extra kits to make one model" thing seems like a tinfoil hat extrapolation from suggestions they made to cover their lack of an actual model. I'd love for their to be a combined kit but it who knows if it ever gets released at all. How long did it take for Orks to get models for every unit? Space Marines get multiple versions for each one as far as I know while some armies never even get Forgeworld options for some things. It's silly and an elementary mistake for a company as large as GW to be making.

I say we spread the rumor. I really want this to be true.
My big brother was there with me I don't think he heard though. But why should they not make this set? It sounds like an AWESOME idea for a set!!! Just because they released Tyranids recently doesn't mean we will be angry at them if they surprise us!!! come on GW make this come true!!!

H.B.M.C. wrote:FW are too busy doing Orks, Eldar, Raven Guard and more Elysians. Their plates are full.

Some of GW's "mainstream" sculptors also do work for Forge World.

I would be very surprised if we don't see something, either way.

Meh, I hope it takes a few years.
I'm enjoying seeing what modelers are coming up with.

Doesn't matter really. Even if there was a Tervigon/Trannofex/Misanthrope kit on the way, GW would rather go to their graves early than tell us anything about it.

Kanluwen wrote:

H.B.M.C. wrote:FW are too busy doing Orks, Eldar, Raven Guard and more Elysians. Their plates are full.

Some of GW's "mainstream" sculptors also do work for Forge World.

I would be very surprised if we don't see something, either way.

Is the GW sculptor team big?? How many people do they have?