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Das Reich! Oh wait, wrong group of sheeple. But yeah, if he posts it like that then it has to be!

May be GW are giving up doing gaming stuff? It would link 'dropping a bomb', 'never been done before', 'not linked to any army', 'limited print run' and they def would not want the staff to know before the announcement! On the other hand they could be releasing something at a price that relates to how much it really costs to produce rather than at a hyper inflated price, again covers all the above...
Mick

It is going to be space hulk...

Guys what came out last year at this time? It was 5th ed 40k

GW will have to match those numbers with a great release, a possible one-shot release...
So you have to ask yourself, Are they redoing "Fantasy" or "LoTR/WoTR"? The answer is no. So what can compete against those numbers of dollars made and units sold? It has to be big and encourage the masses to drop money to match if not exceed the last years release...

PS Remember that the last 3 years have seen new starters released in August/September...

Cheers

Kinghammer- or more likely they haven't got anything they think will shift like 40k last year and Apocalypse the year before so they are trying a new marketing idea hoping it will generate interest and help shift something of a lesser game/supplement...
Another thought occurs to me as well, if its a board game and going to be 'limited edition' could that mean after the intial run it will be handed over to FFG as Dark Heresy was? So you will still be able to get it but with FFG stamped on it rather than GW. This could also link it to the Dark Heresy photo...
Mick

That only happen with Dark Heresy because GW didn't think an RPG's development made a big enough return. The books cost $50+ but for it to have been viable GW needed to make $80+. So they sold the licensing rights to FFG. The idea of GW handing anything over to FFG is unlikely. The only way FFG will take another GW proprty is if A) they are sharing the development costs for the new game, B) FFG is paying GW to develop a new game, C) GW develops the new game and determines it to be not viable, but offers a license to FFG and FFG buys it.

Interestingly FFG are releasing the Rogue Trader RPG at Gen Con, so would they also do another major release at the same time?

But what if FFG are the games developers under licence from GW? This could explain the 'only three people in GW know what it is' rumour and to stop FFG l etting the cat out of the bag they are told they will have the licence pulled if they reveal it. This way GW gets all this hype and interest, they release what ever it is as a 'limited edition/run', which it is for them, then let FFG release their edition of it after. Its a win, win situation for both companies...
Mick

Well, If we are looking for clues I may have found something rahter interesting, not sure if it has been said before and I'm just being slow , buw here it comes.

There has been word about these new Geedubya T-shirts, with "everything you have been told is a lie" on them, Now I was looking through the specialist games today, and was looking through the rule book for Inquisitor, and on one of the first few pages the exact same quote is there.

Now my guess would be these t-shirts may be pointing towards Inquistor, or something related to the Inquisition ? It's a possibility.

Yeah, because Inquisitor went over so well the first time, that it naturally deserves a big, hyped-up re-release...

Normal scale inquisitor with a good campaign book has the potential to do much better.

Wolf wrote:Well, If we are looking for clues I may have found something rahter interesting, not sure if it has been said before and I'm just being slow , buw here it comes.

There has been word about these new Geedubya T-shirts, with "everything you have been told is a lie" on them, Now I was looking through the specialist games today, and was looking through the rule book for Inquisitor, and on one of the first few pages the exact same quote is there.

Now my guess would be these t-shirts may be pointing towards Inquistor, or something related to the Inquisition ? It's a possibility.

You're actually about the 10,000th person to spot and point this out.

No.

The T shirts are purely to get people onto and registering on the GW site... just like the swanky competition which involves... being registered on the website.

If the Mystery Box contains ANYTHING for LOTR I am flying to the UK to kick someone in the balls!

Well then the likelyhood of someones testicles being spared I think are good. I really doubt its LotR.
Random thought: Not that anyone would want it, but I wonder if GW has considered releasing a miniature line for some other movie franchise (possibly scifi) to mirror what they've done with LotR...

Sorry if it was repeated, I havnt followed this forum strictly enough

And If you want someone kicking in the balls over in the UK just give me a call I'll video the whole event for you too

aka_mythos wrote:I wonder if GW has considered releasing a miniature line for some other movie franchise (possibly scifi) to mirror what they've done with LotR...

Like, say, Starship Troopers? That should be a dirt cheap license to acquire.

Although Aliens vs Predator would be OK.

Star Wars would probably bankrupt the company.

i doubt this is going to be helpful, but earlier today i saw a poster for the mystery box, with blue harvest written underneath, wheter or not that is a clue of some description or not, i don't know

I think it's going to be a great re-imagining of 40k, in Pogs!

This misery box had better be something so special
that any GW fan will want to buy it up. If it turns out
to be something lack luster it will leave a sour taste
in the consumer base that's for sure. This "keep it a
secret" stand GW is taking can backfire-bad.

I sure do hope it's something I'm interested in and if so
something I can get my hands on.

statu wrote:i doubt this is going to be helpful, but earlier today i saw a poster for the mystery box, with blue harvest written underneath, wheter or not that is a clue of some description or not, i don't know

Blue Harvest was the fake working title for Return of the Jedi.

These aren't the minis you're looking for. Move along... move along.

I am sure they will probably decide what it is they are putting in the boxes a couple of days before they have to send them out to the stores.

"Damn it! We have already used up all the post-it notes from accounting! Quick - someone go and see if any of the bathrooms still have toilet paper left... and someone start chopping up the tables from marketing into pieces small enough to fit in some more of these damn boxes!"

Necros wrote:I think it's going to be a great re-imagining of 40k, in Pogs!

How would you rep the Chaos Dread's frenzy rule in pogs?

whitedragon wrote:

Necros wrote:I think it's going to be a great re-imagining of 40k, in Pogs!

How would you rep the Chaos Dread's frenzy rule in pogs?

I don't know, but I'm sure GW's designers are smart enough to figure out a rule for that, and then follow it up with a faq for each pog.

whitedragon wrote:How would you rep the Chaos Dread's frenzy rule in pogs?

You cut yourself on the edge of your razor sharp Chaos Dread pog and bleed all over your pogs?

Chaos Dreadnoughts don't have a "frenzy" rule...

Nurgleboy77 wrote:If the Mystery Box contains ANYTHING for LOTR I am flying to the UK to kick someone in the balls!

Thats BoLS, not balls. Youd be kicking empty air otherwise....

Necros wrote:I think it's going to be a great re-imagining of 40k, in Pogs!

How would you rep the Chaos Dread's frenzy rule in pogs?

JohnHwangDD wrote:
Star Wars would probably bankrupt the company.

WotC has the star wars license pretty much locked up, I think...

I suppose after 18 pages nothing can really be expected to stay on topic.

And, the 16th isn't so far away now...

I'm leaning more towards the FFG/GW Dark Heresy Board Game thing now.

Either that, or Space Hulk with limited edition models and/or terrain. Which won't be in the box later, thereby "justifying" the limited edition label...

H.B.M.C. wrote:

Nicorex wrote:It looks to me like someone took a peice of sprue and just lay it around the mini...

Why on earth would anyone do that?

Well first thing to spring to mind is.. "HAHAHA Look at the photoshop job I did and it got EVERYONE! into a uproar.. hahah what a bunch of Mooks!"

or just to mabye hint that they will be in production at somepoint later.
also if you look closely at the upper right of the sprue, it looks like something has already been cut off of it.