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ummm where is the news of new models???

Just takes you to a blood angels page with models already released....

Weak.

Are you effing serious???

That is beyond BS... announcing big news tune in tomorrow and then announcing NOTHING beyond what was already said in the announcement is effing horrible marketing. Honestly this can achieve absolutely nothing but pissing people off.

Hey there is big news! Actually no there isn't, bet you feel stupid now ha ha! Buy our stuff!!

This pisses me off to no end. Yes it was just a small announcement even if they did reveal new mini's, but the totally unnecessary bait and switch with announcement and all is just crap. Screw you too GW.

Queue the apologists running in with their 'oh you should just be grateful they release anything at all!' and 'They don't have to tell you anything'.

What news? It tells us exactly nothing about the Blood Angels. Neat Skaven though.

That is beyond BS... announcing big news tune in tomorrow and then announcing NOTHING beyond what was already said in the announcement

That is now, at least for a while, SOP from GW. It's exactly what they did in the last couple "big" announcements. :(

me - disapoint

article is a mega fail, and as for the storm-raven, I just think it's a lazy ass way to make a poor model. To me it looks like someone somewhere said, lets make a cool model of the stormraven that got all the cool bits of current models.. right, front of a thuinderhawk - check, wing tips from the valk - check, funky little turret -check, WWII tail - check, glues, saw check, hey presto a model!

It looks awful to me. Does anyone know if it looks any better in real life? and as for those weapons, they look like smaller versions of the current model bits, and then some cut in half to squeeze them into the kit for the sake of it. I was expecting something a bit more impressive and better thought out myself. And the rear of it to me screams out 'let's leave a convienant space for forgeworld to tinker with to add dreadnaught harness etc'. I just think it's a pure money grabber. I've seen so many conversions for this model on here, some pretty poor attempts, yet the thought and ideas behind them put GW to shame.

it seems like the most ambiguous 'Incoming!' news from GW ever. Its like they dug into their archives for the article from march of 2010 and added a small paragraph about non specific models to be released in february 2011....sigh, disappointment

Nothing......

boo hiss. I love the skaven though. I hope it's a dread with blood talons, maybe a sprue with lasplas and tl Asscannons for razorbacks. And while I don't use any some termies would be nice.

Dear GW:

Go yourself!

Furioso and Stormraven are pretty much a sure thing at this point, so my questions are:
1) What other models are released in Feb. 2011?
2) Does the Furioso model come with variant options like Blood Talons or possibly even Librarian type bits too?

Acardia wrote:boo hiss. I love the skaven though. I hope it's a dread with blood talons, maybe a sprue with lasplas and tl Asscannons for razorbacks. And while I don't use any some termies would be nice.

Ive heard rumors, but its all speculation unfortunately. It might have Lib parts. Apparently since GW already dropped their ground-breaking news on us today, we still wont know for now. yep, GW sure gave us all colonoscopy's today!

MajorTom11 wrote:Are you effing serious???

That is beyond BS... announcing big news tune in tomorrow and then announcing NOTHING beyond what was already said in the announcement is effing horrible marketing. Honestly this can achieve absolutely nothing but pissing people off.

Hey there is big news! Actually no there isn't, bet you feel stupid now ha ha! Buy our stuff!!

This pisses me off to no end. Yes it was just a small announcement even if they did reveal new mini's, but the totally unnecessary bait and switch with announcement and all is just crap. Screw you too GW.

Queue the apologists running in with their 'oh you should just be grateful they release anything at all!' and 'They don't have to tell you anything'.

Not gonna lie, feeling the same here. I'm slightly shamed to admit it, but it does annoy me quite a bit. I may just have emailed them to that effect... Oh well, nevermind.

Element206 wrote:Lets try to keep in perspective that we are basing this entire argument/thesis of aethetics and detail of the new stormraven kit off of a SINGLE leaked photo of the model.Personally I think the angle of the model in the photograph does no justice for it.

A single leaked photo, that some GW photographer thought was the best angle. Now maybe they shouldn't be taking the pictures any more, but its a leak from an article meant to generate hype, you'd expect it to be the best. So maybe, just maybe the model isn't a failure, but some one failed here. I've said that its success all hinges on the back side of it that I'm waiting till its shown to make my final decision. I think its just understood, that my opinion and the opinion of other is based on a single view; that as a matter of short hand we shouldn't be expected to preface each and every post with "based on what we've seen" or "given that angle." This discussion has gone on long enough some things are just understood.

Element206 wrote: When you consider the dimensions and style of Space Marine vehicles in general, I find the stormraven kit to have a certain aspect/quality that accurately ties it into the range between a land speeder and thunderhawk.

Other than the angles on the tails and wings and the wierd intake on top there aren't any other detail to tie it into a Landspeeder. The Thunderhak comparison is limited to thing having a door on the front and maybe the forward slope of that door. The cockpit, and turret and weapon mounts aren't in line with established aesthetics of either aircraft. The wings are this strange blend of landspeeder and valkyrie that end up too high up to do what they appear "to do". The wings are so high up off the ground that it appears the landing gear was completely an afterthought. The balance is off, the placement of the wings and engines imply that what's carried at the rear is heavier than the front half; that a dreadnought is somehow heavier than this big bulky transport section, doesn't make sense.

If you were to sub-divide the components, there is nothing wrong with them individually, but together they are less than the sum of their parts. There are already a good number of modified versions of the picture floating around showing how it could have been done without making it look like the Valkyrie.

On the other side of this I think its has some positive qualities. I think the basic angles of the front half do a good job of conveying its function while tying it into the different landraider models as a heavy transport. The engines look nice and bulky and their housings I think convey a better sense of "marine" than even the thunderhawks do... though their location over the wings looks odd.

The point of my previous post was to summarize all the discussion that's occured on this, in as neutral language as possible. I really didn't want to open up the can of worms again.

Yeah, these "no announcement" announcements are already quite tiresome. I don't usually criticize their marketing techniques, it's a business after all, but this borders on being a bit dishonest. Customers don't like being misled. If you have something to announce, great, then do so. If you don't, then hold your teasers till you actually plan on fulfilling your promise to actually announce something as stated in the teasers.

I, a OP, apologise.
Its my fault to even recognize them when I should have ignored them.

Edited OP to cease interest.

My friend likens it to a pug, some would like it and go "d'awwwwww" while others would avert their gaze in disgust.

At least you can all actually find the 'incoming' article - I feel like a bigger doofus than the person who thought the way they've done this is a good idea.

Can anyone tell me where this thrilling article can be located?

there was no update.... usually they say at least something! what was that! it was a sickening way to show us what we can already get!!!!!! I know what we can already get! why can't you show us something new, and if you can't then DON"T TELL US YOU CAN!

this is really annoying! Really really annoying, it isn't even about if the models are any good at this point, just the fact that they tease us in this way then give us this description of the codex and a list of products we "should" buy, it just gah, i can read the codex for that! not waste my time with a newsletter that brings my hopes up only to crush them!!


gah, sorry for my rant, reading that really got to my nerves.

@ColdSadHungry

It's in the what's New Today section.

Here is the link to the American "story".

Linky

So none of that stuff on that website is new?

<<Out of the loop.>

Correct.

The Gamesday fig ( Skaven ) could count as new.

I noticed that GW put up some type of 360 deg view of a model to be released....I cant capture it on my work computer. Can someone tell me what it is?

^^^ Try linking to it and we might know what you're talking about.
EDIT: It's this year's Games Day mini, says so right in the blog post: http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/blogPost.jsp?aId=14300016a


I think GW runs on nerd tears.

Ok, sent an email to the GW customer service email detailing how unhappy I was with that tease of an "announcement" .... I also linked to this forum page to show your "reactions" as well...

ajefferism wrote:Ok, sent an email to the GW customer service email detailing how unhappy I was with that tease of an "announcement" .... I also linked to this forum page to show your "reactions" as well...

Good... although I think it will quickly be filed in the customer support folder/recycle bin lol

MajorTom11 wrote:

ajefferism wrote:Ok, sent an email to the GW customer service email detailing how unhappy I was with that tease of an "announcement" .... I also linked to this forum page to show your "reactions" as well...

Good... although I think it will quickly be filed in the customer support folder/recycle bin lol

You never, ever, ever email GW Customer Service "about how unhappy I am with <insert qualm here>". Especially not something like this.

You call them, or write a letter. They take those complaints far more seriously, because any idiot can write an angry email in a moment of disappointment.

Writing a letter shows "commitment" and more interest in what's going on.

Thaanos wrote:Why not something new, such as a new Inquisition

well, apparently GK will be coming out feb/march time, along with the SR, so...add it up... new BA= stormraven. stormraven = GK.

@ Kronk

Thanks for the link - never would have found that! Guess I'm just not thorough enough with my searches!