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Yes, it´s official. GW will resurrect the beloved Tomb King faction due to popular demand. These are very good times to be in the hobby and finally I can get my hands on a nice Sphinx. Jesus, I am so hyped right now.

This breaking news comes from where?

edit - DARN IT its not fair to do this at Midnight (GMT) You at least have to wait until breakfast!!

Too obvious. My head went "April Fools" before I was done reading the title.

 Kanluwen wrote:
As a reminder, Monday is April 1st.

Yknow other countries exist

Sub par effort. You could at least have included the battletome cover art.

Chikout wrote:
Sub par effort. You could at least have included the battletome cover art.

Thanks for helping me out, pal. So folks, brush the desert sand off your skeletons and assemble your Ushabtis. The dead will walk again and the Mortal Realms will tremble in fear.

So, just like it is always 5 o'clock somewhere...

 Kanluwen wrote:
As a reminder, Monday is April 1st.

Explaining the joke always makes it funnier.

 winnertakesall wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
As a reminder, Monday is April 1st.

Yknow other countries exist

Yes, and as Overread showcased some people won't notice it because there's an idea of "fairness" to at least wait until the morning pops up.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 winnertakesall wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
As a reminder, Monday is April 1st.

Yknow other countries exist

Yes, and as Overread showcased some people won't notice it because there's an idea of "fairness" to at least wait until the morning pops up.

It's still the 31st were I live =B

Haaaaha....you got me. Good one.

This was honestly so cruel. My heart leapt at the thought of it. Only to be destroyed anew. F you GW, F u.


Signed

Setra THE Imperishable


P.s. I still do not serve.

P.s.s. Only slaves feel the heat

What'd be funny is if this were a thing they added to WarCry later on.

For better or worse, there are countries in which we don't do April Fool's, so sometimes we do fall for the joke.

Then again, I wonder what the new Warhammer TV joke will be...

They should have saved the 40k movement trays reveal for today. Noone would have believed it.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 winnertakesall wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
As a reminder, Monday is April 1st.

Yknow other countries exist

Yes, and as Overread showcased some people won't notice it because there's an idea of "fairness" to at least wait until the morning pops up.

Yeah, I wonder what most of you guys would think if I posted this kind of thing on december 28th.

Low effort, but it made me double check the date!

I came to Dakka to find GW's annual April Fools joke, spotted this thread, went to it immediately.

 Deadshot wrote:
I came to Dakka to find GW's annual April Fools joke, spotted this thread, went to it immediately.

Imagine if GW actually did this, people went berserk and they had to make amends and actually re-release kits like the Necrosphinx (whyyyy didn't I buy one). Sorta like their SoB jokes.

Chikout wrote:
They should have saved the 40k movement trays reveal for today. Noone would have believed it.

Now that would actually be funny.

Darn you! Darn you! For a moment you made me feel alive again... back to the depression...

I can't believe you all fell for the obvious trick here. Not that Tomb Kings are coming back, but that they're never coming back. Really? You all have such little faith in GW that you think they'd just delete an entire range of models just because they couldn't trademark something based on world history? You honestly think they'd wash their hands of a lovingly crafted faction and make it useless to the people who invested hundreds of monies and hours into making their army? For shame. Next you'll tell me that they'd just blow up the oldest wargaming setting on the planet to replace it with something scribbled on the back of a napkin.

I've got some news for all you naysayers: GW already brought back Tomb Kings and they did it right under your noses. In fact they've had an entire range of them around for years and none of you noticed their bold, new direction:

1. All the Tomb Kings are alive again.
2. All the names are changed and some of the units are different. For example, the Necrosphinx is now just a sphinx and it's also inanimate. And you have to buy the model somewhere else, preferably a tourist stall in Egypt.
3. All of the available models are hosted on a different site to Games Workshop's.

Here's the link for anyone who is curious - https://store.warlordgames.com/collections/new-kingdom-egyptian

Praise Nurgle wrote:
I can't believe you all fell for the obvious trick here. Not that Tomb Kings are coming back, but that they're never coming back. Really? You all have such little faith in GW that you think they'd just delete an entire range of models just because they couldn't trademark something based on world history?

I've never understood people who think that TK were removed due to trademarking. Especially when Daughters of Khaine are running around with medusa and harpis and heck the recent Slaanesh update has Keeper-Xerses from the 300 film.

Nothing GW produces can be protected as a concept by copyright or trademark. Dwarves with airships; half snake people; men wearing power armour; ww1 style infantry - etc...
GW can protect the specific sculpts, the lore, the name and suchlike, but the actual concept can't be protected at all. Heck there's several very large 3rd party companies that make alternate army lines and such without legal issues.

TK were, far as we are aware, dropped due to lack of sales. Lets not forget AoS at launch was a totally different product. It wasn't a traditional wargame and GW weren't marketing nor building it as one. It's changed and GW of today would likely not have dropped TK if they were still around. As for bringing them back - we can cross our fingers and hope.

 Overread wrote:

Praise Nurgle wrote:
I can't believe you all fell for the obvious trick here. Not that Tomb Kings are coming back, but that they're never coming back. Really? You all have such little faith in GW that you think they'd just delete an entire range of models just because they couldn't trademark something based on world history?

I've never understood people who think that TK were removed due to trademarking. Especially when Daughters of Khaine are running around with medusa and harpis and heck the recent Slaanesh update has Keeper-Xerses from the 300 film.

Nothing GW produces can be protected as a concept by copyright or trademark. Dwarves with airships; half snake people; men wearing power armour; ww1 style infantry - etc...
GW can protect the specific sculpts, the lore, the name and suchlike, but the actual concept can't be protected at all. Heck there's several very large 3rd party companies that make alternate army lines and such without legal issues.

GW can't trademark dwarves, elves, or power armour, but they can trademark and copyright designs, such as specific Aelvean symbols, styles, units, etc. The name changes and refinement of symbols are so that and third-party will have to make "not-GW-Duardian Dwarves in Blimps" and generic, non-space marine look power armour models.

Tomb Kings on the other hand are highly generic because they are both undead and Egyptian based. You can't trademark myths such as sphinx, or generic skeletons, or Egyptian Pharaoh inspired headgear on a skeleton.

 Deadshot wrote:

Tomb Kings on the other hand are highly generic because they are both undead and Egyptian based. You can't trademark myths such as sphinx, or generic skeletons, or Egyptian Pharaoh inspired headgear on a skeleton.

You can't trademark a sphinx but you could a sphinxis
It's the same as you can't trademark medusa but you can trademark a Bloodsister who is a Melusai.

Overread wrote:

Praise Nurgle wrote:
I can't believe you all fell for the obvious trick here. Not that Tomb Kings are coming back, but that they're never coming back. Really? You all have such little faith in GW that you think they'd just delete an entire range of models just because they couldn't trademark something based on world history?



I've never understood people who think that TK were removed due to trademarking. Especially when Daughters of Khaine are running around with medusa and harpis and heck the recent Slaanesh update has Keeper-Xerses from the 300 film.

Nothing GW produces can be protected as a concept by copyright or trademark. Dwarves with airships; half snake people; men wearing power armour; ww1 style infantry - etc...
GW can protect the specific sculpts, the lore, the name and suchlike, but the actual concept can't be protected at all. Heck there's several very large 3rd party companies that make alternate army lines and such without legal issues.

I agree, it's a ridiculous idea to think GW would act in a litigious manner to trademark terms they didn't invent. By the way, I'm really enjoying all the new Orruks and Ogors!

Had to

edit: Personally I think Tomb Kings in some shape or form are an inevitability. At this point their model lines are reaching Sisters of Battle level.

 Overread wrote:
As for bringing them back - we can cross our fingers and hope.

PSA brought to you by the Khemri Bureau of Tourism:

We can do more than that. It may not achieve anything, but two weeks from now we'll have this little community survey we can raise hell in.

I don't think Tomb Kings have the same chance of success as plastic Sisters, being on the fantasy side and I'd bet even more niche, but there's no harm in trying.

 Geifer wrote:

 Overread wrote:
As for bringing them back - we can cross our fingers and hope.

PSA brought to you by the Khemri Bureau of Tourism:

We can do more than that. It may not achieve anything, but two weeks from now we'll have this little community survey we can raise hell in.

I don't think Tomb Kings have the same chance of success as plastic Sisters, being on the fantasy side and I'd bet even more niche, but there's no harm in trying.

We can also ask the new iServe Pro!
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2019/04/01/introducing-the-iserv-pro/

Well at least it's somewhat undead, even though it's only a head.