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Gwaihir - AUD$70

*falls off chair laughing*

What a rip!

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Did the eagles really have bright orange feet in the film?

Looks kinda dumb.....

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 DiabolicAl wrote:
Did the eagles really have bright orange feet in the film?

Looks kinda dumb.....


I was thinking that, I know they have yellow feet, well some species at least

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 DiabolicAl wrote:
Did the eagles really have bright orange feet in the film?

Looks kinda dumb.....


No, their feet are yellow in the film. Pretty much everything other than the dwarves has had questionable colour choices but I expect these were painted before the painters had seen the film (although the eagles were at the end of the LotR trilogy). It's the same with the trolls. THere's a pre production image of them with similar coloured skin as the GW painters have used but in the film they seem closer to the colour of the cave troll in The Fellowship of the Ring. Admittedly that scene is by firelight but thats how I interpreted them.

For me the eagle are ok but I will be interested to see how the wood elf or high elf eagles look as the Warhammer stuff tend to be a bit more stylised. I'm still unsure about the wargs as they seem bulkier in the film but then I guess that's compared to Dwarves. I'm curious about how the white warg and Azog will look as his warg seemed more like a cross between a tiger and a wolf.
   
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Who is stupid enough to buy Gwahir when you can get 2 Giant Eagles too?

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Guys who like 3 different eagles?
   
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 ExNoctemNacimur wrote:
Guys who like 3 different eagles?


Aka 0 conversion skills :O

   
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Precisely, but unless the kit is different from other LOTR kits apart from maybe theEnt and Troll, then the chances are that the kit will offer few options.
   
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Here are some alternative eagles with reasonable prices: http://gamezoneminiatures.de/elfen.html

   
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The Burn, Lancashire

Apparently the eagle leader is bigger than the other two, I'd buy it just because it'll look different than the first two and their variants.

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Here are the advanced orders for Feb.

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/armySubUnitCatsLarge.jsp?catId=cat970003a&rootCatGameStyle=athletic

Enjoy.

Mainly found in the LOTR section..... 
   
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Spoiler:


No, no it must be a mistake. It can't be £25, it just can't. That's, that's not possible!

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat970013a&prodId=prod1830008a

But, but no...

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat970013a&prodId=prod1870036a

What.....

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Were you expecting it to be more expensive then?

At the end of the day, who's going to buy it when you get the Goblin King in the box.

   
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Gah. I actually want those Knights of Rivendell...
   
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Chatteris, UK

Same, and proably yazneg. as i want a large Gundabad Force

Also, i love the fact the rivendell knights come with casutlys for thrown riders! Awsome touch.

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Mainly found in the LOTR section..... 
   
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Those prices...

Rivendell knights are really nice but at $10 a pop it just 'aint happening!

   
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Australia

 Commander Cain wrote:
Those prices...

Rivendell knights are really nice but at $10 a pop it just 'aint happening!


Yep.
And I was so excited about them

Just to point out how bad the pricing is over here, the foot and mounted finecast Elrond with the terrible faces are $70, this is a much nicer 75mm Elrond http://www.knightmodels.com/product.php?id_product=137 that, once converted, is $71au

 Fafnir wrote:
Oh, I certainly vote with my dollar, but the problem is that that is not enough. The problem with the 'vote with your dollar' response is that it doesn't take into account why we're not buying the product. I want to enjoy 40k enough to buy back in. It was my introduction to traditional games, and there was a time when I enjoyed it very much. I want to buy 40k, but Gamesworkshop is doing their very best to push me away, and simply not buying their product won't tell them that.
 
   
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Whoa. I never knew knight models sold lotr stuff. That Elrond is stunning!

   
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Australia

Yep, they all are, I can't wait for a Gimli model.

 Fafnir wrote:
Oh, I certainly vote with my dollar, but the problem is that that is not enough. The problem with the 'vote with your dollar' response is that it doesn't take into account why we're not buying the product. I want to enjoy 40k enough to buy back in. It was my introduction to traditional games, and there was a time when I enjoyed it very much. I want to buy 40k, but Gamesworkshop is doing their very best to push me away, and simply not buying their product won't tell them that.
 
   
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Elrond? AUD$70?

Oh dear Lord these prices are pure comedy gold.

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what happened to the €26 cavalry boxes!? seriously....€40 for thouse knights? i knew GW was expensive but those Hobbit prices are ridiculous!
i was looking forward to the knights, but right now i doubt wether i'll even buy anything at all

I'm not sure wether that is a sword... it's more like a letteropener, really. 
   
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I don't get their pricing - £20 for 12 armoured dwarves sounds about right, £12 for Finecast Radagast, sounds about right but £25 for the Goblin King and £30 for 6 knights is just beyond ridiculous!

I've ordered Yazneg because I like the look of it, and it'll go with my Wild Wargs, Fimbul the Hunter and Hunter Orcs on Fell Wargs I've got


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 supremeoverlordVECT wrote:
what happened to the €26 cavalry boxes!? seriously....€40 for thouse knights? i knew GW was expensive but those Hobbit prices are ridiculous!
i was looking forward to the knights, but right now i doubt wether i'll even buy anything at all


Imagine if you're a Warhammer Fantasy and a LOTR player, you're gonna have to start selling body organs to pay for them!

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 supremeoverlordVECT wrote:
what happened to the €26 cavalry boxes!? seriously....€40 for thouse knights? i knew GW was expensive but those Hobbit prices are ridiculous!
i was looking forward to the knights, but right now i doubt wether i'll even buy anything at all


$30 a box...$5 a model
* Knights of Minus Tirith (plastic)
* Riders of Rohan (plastic)
* Warg Riders (plastic)
* Haradrim Raiders (plastic)

$38 a box...$6.33 a model
* Knights of Lothlorien (Galadhrim Knights) (plastic)
* Easterling Kataphrakts (metal?)
* Morgul Knights (plastic)

$50 a box...$8.30 a model
* Khandish Horsemen (metal?)
* Serpent Riders (metal?)
* Knights of Rivendell (plastic)

Can't figure out the pricing scheme either...

And I now fondly remember the good old days when Riders, Rohen, and Wargs were $20 and $25 a box.
   
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Khandish Horsemen and Serpent Riders are metal models. Easterling Kataphrakts are now, thank goodness, plastic.

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New hobbits release list;




The Hobbit - Warriors of Erebor

This box contains a plastic kit that makes twelve individually posed Warriors of Erebor – grim Dwarven fighters

The Hobbit -Warriors of Dale

This box contains a plastic kit that makes 10 dynamically posed Warriors
The rules for using collections of these warriors are included in their box

Finecast
The Hobbit - Grim Hammer Captain

A clampack that contains one highly detailed Citadel Finecast resin miniature



The Hobbit - Thror

A clampack that contains one highly detailed Citadel Finecast resin miniature



The Hobbit - Lindir

A clampack that contains one highly detailed Citadel Finecast resin miniature






Note: These will be released at the end of februrary

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Rules in the box eh ?

... perilously close to a sensible decision/move there !

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 reds8n wrote:
Rules in the box eh ?

... perilously close to a sensible decision/move there !


That or they got the models ready to go and realized they left them out of the rulebook.

 Fafnir wrote:
Oh, I certainly vote with my dollar, but the problem is that that is not enough. The problem with the 'vote with your dollar' response is that it doesn't take into account why we're not buying the product. I want to enjoy 40k enough to buy back in. It was my introduction to traditional games, and there was a time when I enjoyed it very much. I want to buy 40k, but Gamesworkshop is doing their very best to push me away, and simply not buying their product won't tell them that.
 
   
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Gathering the Informations.

They might not have been allowed to put rules/references to "The Men of Dale" into the book on the grounds of "Spoilers".

That's the only non-crazypants reasoning I can come up with.
   
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I'd really like the Radagast because he was one of my favourite characters in the film, but I'm not buying Finecast. No way at all, even if I could stomach paying £12 for a single 28mm figure, it would have to be metal.

I like the set of 'Grim Hammers' Dwarves. Although they don't look quite as nice as when I saw the first photos of them, so I'm not sure now. Still, I'm a bit disappointed that as they are LotR infantry, it'll be a single sprue in the box. Which isn't very satisfying for £20. When LotR first came out, about 10 years ago admittedly, you got two sprues of 12 men, totalling 24, in a box for £12, now it's half that content for £20.

When this Hobbit fad passes I'll keep my eye open at wargames shows, LotR stuff has been pretty easy to pick up cheap at events I've been to.

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That's another February release not mentioned in the WD. Weird.

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