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A £120m company will protect itself against the prevailing economic condition no matter the individual lndustry one. Mostly be clause it is common sense but also as the biggest fish in the little pond thy are more susceptible to any negative effects.

And they're doing such a good job of it!

Are they lining the company up for a sale soon?
Once the models and books are out for every army (which won't take long now), someone else could keep the shops running, and orders flowing....
As long as the shareholders get out beforehand.

 Kingsley wrote:

 scuddman wrote:
Fair enough, tabletop gaming is increasing.

But what about GW's market share in tabletop gaming?
You could say...the boom marks the end of the GW monopoly. They've done the same thing Nintendo did in the early 90's and lost their advantage.

Warhammer 40k is still a solid first place. However, The Hobbit isn't even in the top five. Interestingly, Warmachine is no longer #2, having been bumped out of the spot by X-Wing.

I still want to see a more accurate chart with numbers. Warmachine and Hordes are the same game, so they should be listed together. X-wing could still be a fluke, anything Star Wars will sell alot initially.

 Kingsley wrote:

 scuddman wrote:
Hmm, I don't know. That's like saying Microsoft Windows is still #1 in sales, but their sales volume is shrinking. That doesn't mean they aren't in trouble.

Perhaps. The next round of GW financial reports will be interesting.

That will be an easy answer. They will show a profit. The question is how will the show this profit within their financial reports. Some of last years profit was the change over of their paints and reporting on a 53 week year period. Some of its profit was from licensing projects.

I'm just waiting to see how much of the usual price increase that is coming in June.

 jonolikespie wrote:

silent25 wrote:
As for "fan feedback" releasing that early concept art only allows for knock-off companies to take the pics and make their own ripoffs.

That makes no sense. GW could put out concept art after already starting work on the model, giving them a head start on anyone trying to rip it off. They then will inevitably have a much larger production capacity than any knock off makers so they should get the model done and in store well before anyone else could. And, most importantly, if they were to put out a good model at a fair price they shouldn't need to worry about knock off models.

GW is already well over a year ahead of it's release schedule in terms of concepting and sculpting the models. I would get metal masters or master molds anywhere from 6-8 months ahead of the release date to give us enough time to cast up the product. The UK mold/casting dept gets theirs even earlier.

The last time I was in the UK, in early 2007, Jes Goodwin was already sculpting the Dark Eldar models. I was able to watch the mold room manager make the RTV master molds and resins for the Succubi, Hellion and the new Skyboard. Jes had also already started on the new jetbike as well.

GW has enough time to get everything sculpted, their time is just poorly managed now.

 Sean_OBrien wrote:

Regarding Sony...those were last years numbers...this years are fast approaching and they look to be on track for $200-250 million in profit on the year. Not to bad to go from $5.7 BILLION loss last FY to a profit of any kind this year...Hirai has been doing a solid job.

Yea, by selling property and relying on a weakening Yen (depreciated 25% recently) to try to turn a profit.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-07/sony-unexpectedly-posts-eighth-quarterly-loss-on-tv-demand-slump.html
Hardly the financial genius and I seem to recall you dismissing positive financial news from another company on such a basis.




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 jonolikespie wrote:

silent25 wrote:
As for "fan feedback" releasing that early concept art only allows for knock-off companies to take the pics and make their own ripoffs.

That makes no sense. GW could put out concept art after already starting work on the model, giving them a head start on anyone trying to rip it off. They then will inevitably have a much larger production capacity than any knock off makers so they should get the model done and in store well before anyone else could. And, most importantly, if they were to put out a good model at a fair price they shouldn't need to worry about knock off models.

You don't seem to understand how fast a knockoff can be made. There were knockoffs of the large beastmen models within a month of release. Even if GW were to take the feedback and redo the design, it would be several months from design to production. Even then there would be a number of lost sales.

Unrelated industry, but a co-worker use to design custom parts for a motorcycle shop. They were developing a new set of parts and had it under tight security. Only him , the owner, and the machinist (the owner's brother) had access to a code locked room. When everything was ready, they took the cycle out to photographed for advertisement in the various magazines for next month. When the magazines came out the following month, there were advertisements for ripoffs identical to theirs. They were crap, but they were cheaper than the ones they did.


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mechanicalhorizon wrote:

 jonolikespie wrote:

GW is already well over a year ahead of it's release schedule in terms of concepting and sculpting the models. I would get metal masters or master molds anywhere from 6-8 months ahead of the release date to give us enough time to cast up the product. The UK mold/casting dept gets theirs even earlier.

The last time I was in the UK, in early 2007, Jes Goodwin was already sculpting the Dark Eldar models. I was able to watch the mold room manager make the RTV master molds and resins for the Succubi, Hellion and the new Skyboard. Jes had also already started on the new jetbike as well.

GW has enough time to get everything sculpted, their time is just poorly managed now.

So from you previous experience at GW and current job, how fast a turnaround time is it from concept to fabrication? More curious than anything else.