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Who is to say this is a mispack and not simply a warehouse employee thinking he was pulling a clever prank on a future buyer? Items may not have ended up in that box by mistake which could easily account for the blister pack included there.

Heck this sounds like something I would do just to mess with the customer service people. Imagine the face of the guy picking up the phone when a customer calls to complain about buying a box of chaos and getting a full grey knight army. You have to wonder at that point if that customer isnt trying to pull your leg.

I think its true in IMO.

Voldrak wrote:Who is to say this is a mispack and not simply a warehouse employee thinking he was pulling a clever prank on a future buyer? Items may not have ended up in that box by mistake which could easily account for the blister pack included there.

Heck this sounds like something I would do just to mess with the customer service people. Imagine the face of the guy picking up the phone when a customer calls to complain about buying a box of chaos and getting a full grey knight army. You have to wonder at that point if that customer isnt trying to pull your leg.

As it happens you may be right, I know a chap that was involved with the packing at GW a few years back, they quite often used to mix and match stuff in boxes for s***s and giggles and the chance that they might actually buy the aformentioned miss packed items, by some random chance !
Its not really that unrealistic, its a shame that so many people feel the need to come down on the OP like a ton of bricks.

chaos0xomega: I think they stopped doing it sometime in the early 2000's. Rest assured it is a Blister pack with red card backing.
I'm curious now; do you remember when regiment kits came with a movement tray in the box?

It's them damned mail order trolls.

inquisitorlewis wrote:It's them damned mail order trolls.

I hate those bastards.

"Hello? I think you sent me the wrong package."
"What did you order, and what did you get?"
"I ordered a SM codex, and got a AOBR set."
"Well, good for you. You can go ahead and keep that."

And then he hung up. Love that guy.

Wow, coming down harsh on the OP here. I believe him, I mean it could be perhaps some of the packers having a laugh, it could even be one of the packer's attempt to steal something maybe? "I just want to buy this battleforce" "didn't you buy one last week Larry?" or something similar.

darknightwing wrote:This is a good example of how the Grey Knights totaly remove Choas marines from the game.

haha this is great. I think you win the thread.

I bought an empire army box that was supposed to come with a Templar Grand Master, and it actually included an Orc Shaman.

so... yeah, wierd stuff happens.

Matt Ward's new buisness plan.

GREY KNIGHTS FOR ALL!

There's a big difference between people saying they got the wrong parts in a box, or they got the wrong models in a small blister. The only way I can see this being true is if it was some sort of Grey Knight Release, and someone didn't get the memo that extra Chaos Force was actually their first look at the new Grey Knights. Otherwise I'm calling shennaingans. But that's my opinion on this matter!

I'm actually inclined to believe this, and would like to know when the op bought it. The reason being, this sounds pretty much identical to the Grey Knight black box that was sent out to promote the new models last year. I could easily see a factory goon mixing up what goes in what box and sending them to the sealer.

Y'know, that actually makes sense.

Crazy_Carnifex wrote:Y'know, that actually makes sense.

Shhhh, everyone prefers becoming an angry mob that sets out with torches and pitchforks, tar and feathers to destroy the OP. Nobody wants to believe something could be mixed up like that. I too believe the OP-with pictures, what's the point of trolling? He buys all of it and spending at least $100 to 'make us look like idiots?' Yeah, I doubt it. I think a lot of people in this thread were just being visited by their Aunt Flo and were feeling a bit butt-hurt towards the OP.

I recieved a box of old metal terminators that actually contained 3 metal terminators, a metal grey knight terminator (the old 25mm based one), and abbadon the despoiler minus his sword arm.

most confusing box ever?

I once order a large infantry based empire army ... and they sent me all knightly orders (back in the edition with the empuire puffy looking clothes)

How recent did you purchase that box? I think most boxes are premade and stocked up years before the GK codex was released. Still, a cool find (but useless for a real Chaos player. Sell them or your a traitor and the Chaos Gods will make you roll 1s for every 2+ save!)

In early 2000, I bought an Iyanden army box deal. I was surprised to get a bunch of Eldar stuff, but not a single wraithguard or wraithlord. I forget what was in the box exactly, but I think that the majority of the models were warlocks and heavy grav platforms.

I called em up, shipped them back to GW and they sent me the proper item + some other stuff for my time.

I've had a few more mispacks here and there, but nothing that bad again.

I once got a spare Mad Doc Grotsnik body in a MadDok Grotsnik blister.
A friend once got an obliterator sans head.
That was the best mispack ever OP, congrats!

I once ordered a snack box and got given a family 8 piece bucket instead. I ate that stuff asap!

Although the cashier seemed very into me with the suggestive comments he was making, and was also male. O.o. I don't... I er... Yeah...

My favorite one that i've had personally, was buying the old necron battleforce afew years ago, and it came with a rhino in addition to the normal stuff.

I don't know for what reason he would do it, other than to have a strange busy thread here on Dakka, but, I believe this is not true.

I've had my own share of mispacked stuff with calls made in to GW to have replacement parts sent.

The reason I think this is not a real package is pretty simple, the sprues in the package are split in half so that they will fit into the smaller boxes. In the case of the pack above, every sprue is broken along the break lines. If his grey knights he is holding up were unsnapped, I would give the story above a lot more gravity, since the only way to get an unsplit sprue of grey knight models would be from the factory, or in the not-yet-existent Grey Knights battleforce.

sharkticon wrote:I'm actually inclined to believe this, and would like to know when the op bought it. The reason being, this sounds pretty much identical to the Grey Knight black box that was sent out to promote the new models last year. I could easily see a factory goon mixing up what goes in what box and sending them to the sealer.

I cant really tell you when I bought it. Things tend to get a bit confused in my Bits closet...
This is what it looked like before I got everyting put away....


I know I got it at least 1 1/2 to 2 years ago (if not longer).

I think grey knights were released April last year? FWIW I am inclined to believe OP, and the black-box mix up theory seems about right to me. I remember making a thread about the G black box, and I checked - the black box was released to stores on March 12 (in the UK at least).

The codex says its release date was 2010. I dont know when however in 2010 they were released.

Here.

This was a thread from the time when the black box was released.

I once had a Chaplain on a Bike come with a sprue of 3 second edition shoulder pads, bolters and combat knives. One of them is now resting on the shoulder of the commander of my Baal Predator looking plain badass.

I recieved the old Coteaz box with retinue as a gift about 2-3 years ago, and I found a High Elf Shadow Warrior in there. /shrug

Today I got a new and sealed box of Dwarf warriors (wanted some Short men to run about DnD nights.) and it had an extra sprue of heads and and bodies meaning I basically got 20 dwarfs over 16.

Wife looked at me like I was mad when I rambled on about how it was the greatest mistake I've ever had in my favor....my life is sad