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Well, i live in Australia, so its much more expensive :(

 
   
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 Sean_OBrien wrote:

Regarding the original question though - I stopped buying GW because I didn't care for the direction the rules took primarily. Add into that that I didn't like the stylistic direction they were taking. And add onto that that the manner in which GW dealt with (or failed to deal with) the community. Price has never been a significant factor for me - or at least it hasn't been for quite some time. I pay much more for miniatures now on average than I did when I played GW games. I don't mind paying quite a bit for miniatures...though I prefer to feel good about it. GW doesn't make me feel good when I spend money with them (or even just avoid making me feel like I am supporting a relationship between crack hos and their abusive pimp).
This is essentially my feeling as well, hit pretty much every point I would want to make, except I still do buy GW models from time to time, just mostly for the sake of painting rather than army building.

My only point of difference might be that I actually like the stylistic direction they were taking, except I dislike the miniature scaling choices (hero scale is one thing, many GW models border on "comical" rather than "hero" which I dislike). I really like the LOTR models though, I own quite a few LOTR models despite being completely uninspired by the LOTR rules or playing LOTR games. One thing I'd like to do is do a Fantasy Dwarf army based off LOTR Dwarf models... until they changed the Fantasy rules and now I'm not even that interested in doing that

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Yeh since is been mentioned several times i have also started to play infinity. I tried to break into 40k and wfb but after spending a bit and seeing how much more i had to spend i put those plans on hold. With infinity i have already bought one whole army plus half another and I'm loving it. Sure you may say that "you don't get as many models" but the quality and detail is superb, much higher than a lot of what you get from gw. Plus they are in true 28mm scale which makes games look a bit better on the table

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nkelsch wrote:
We need a fact-checker thread which shows all the people who said they had quit or were quitting last thread, then crosschecks with the news threads or the modeling threads to show those people who had quit continue to buy new models as seen in modeling or claim they are going to buy 'that sexy model' in the news thread.

When you actually do the homework it is comical to see how dishonest people are about their purchasing habits most posters on Dakka are and how much of this is chest-thumping. My Favorite was seeing outspoken haters who quit 3 years ago playing Necron air force with Finecast HQs at tourneys after saying they would never buy GW or Finecast again.

This is why GW is not worried.


I never did big tourneys, but I can see how easy it. Is to grumble online and accept in real life. For me, I haven't bought a single GW product since 6th hit shelves, and the only GW model I traded for was a Vindicare assassin--for my Mantic Corporation army!!

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AllSeeingSkink wrote:
My only point of difference might be that I actually like the stylistic direction they were taking, except I dislike the miniature scaling choices (hero scale is one thing, many GW models border on "comical" rather than "hero" which I dislike). I really like the LOTR models though, I own quite a few LOTR models despite being completely uninspired by the LOTR rules or playing LOTR games.


Think we might actually not be too far off there...

I don't mind skulls and what not on "evil" or otherwise dark models. However, they put skulls everywhere. When there isn't someplace to put skulls - they put a gash in open terrain, and fill it with skulls. Bit ridiculous, we get it - everything is hopeless...now take a Xanax.

The stylistic direction which I found to be annoying is that they seem to have been taking the "chibi" aspect of their heroic scale to the extreme. I look at the recent vehicles and they look like someone who is satirically making fun of GW's scale...but nope, they are serious - and if you try to make them look less comical, GW will file a lawsuit against you (or the company who is selling the product to make it less comical). The recent Chaos releases are comparable - but for a different reason. Those look like they were designed by Toho Company - with skulls.

LotR models are what they are in spite of GW not because of them. I am certain that NewLine placed strong restrictions on GW going outside what made it onto the big screen. The designs which were created for the movies were translated fairly faithfully in miniature. You see comparable results with other stuff which is based on licensed properties (Predastore, Knight Models, Phoenix Icons...). They make what we see on the screen - because that is what their license says they have to do.
   
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I guess we'll see when the numbers are out. I have the feeling the new Land speeder will be about as common as seeing exclusive forge world models. The worst part about it all is that it seems like they didn't even try with this range. Everything is Static and lacks a Dynamic poses. Frankly its boring. A failing grade this go around.

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I started to collect in the early 90's, how much has changed! i always had lot's discussions with GWfanboy's about prices increasing, When i started it was cheap, i could buy all armies, but when GW started to become a real company, prices started to increase more. I had a simple system, a set budget, over the years that means that i buy less and less, i bought the first terminators for 54 guilders (about 25$) for 8 metal terminators, now it is 60$ for 5? And always their excuses for increasing the prices so much. now my 40k purchases are very sporadic.

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 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I’m trying to think what GW stuff I bought last year...

Crusade of Fire


The funny thing is that was one of the books I was fairly interested in, until GW wouldn't let me buy it because it sold out in pre-orders.

As much as people bitch about high prices, crappy sculpts, finecast, annoying redshirts, bi-annual price hikes, etc, this is the "new feature" I dislike the most that started becoming common this year.

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 Calgar's messenger wrote:
Well, i live in Australia, so its much more expensive :(


So I just noticed that on the Au and NZ GW sites you can still purchase the limited edition DV sets, and crusade of fire (might be able to get your hands on it after all Ouze, if you want to pay $70).

I think that says a lot about whether or not people in Australia are being priced out of 'the games workshop hobby'.

 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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 jonolikespie wrote:
So I just noticed that on the Au and NZ GW sites you can still purchase the limited edition DV sets, and crusade of fire (might be able to get your hands on it after all Ouze, if you want to pay $70).


Yeah, I know a place in the US where I can get it if I want to pay twice as much, but I'm not going to buy it. Partially because I don't think i'd value it as $60, but almost completely more because I'd feel like I was enabling their stupid shenanigans. Thanks for the idea though.

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Sean_OBrien wrote:Think we might actually not be too far off there...

I don't mind skulls and what not on "evil" or otherwise dark models. However, they put skulls everywhere. When there isn't someplace to put skulls - they put a gash in open terrain, and fill it with skulls. Bit ridiculous, we get it - everything is hopeless...now take a Xanax.

The stylistic direction which I found to be annoying is that they seem to have been taking the "chibi" aspect of their heroic scale to the extreme. I look at the recent vehicles and they look like someone who is satirically making fun of GW's scale...but nope, they are serious - and if you try to make them look less comical, GW will file a lawsuit against you (or the company who is selling the product to make it less comical). The recent Chaos releases are comparable - but for a different reason. Those look like they were designed by Toho Company - with skulls.

LotR models are what they are in spite of GW not because of them. I am certain that NewLine placed strong restrictions on GW going outside what made it onto the big screen. The designs which were created for the movies were translated fairly faithfully in miniature. You see comparable results with other stuff which is based on licensed properties (Predastore, Knight Models, Phoenix Icons...). They make what we see on the screen - because that is what their license says they have to do.
Yeah, we probably agree there as well then. Most of the GW models I don't like are the comedically silly ones (and I'm not talking about Orks, I'm talking about stupidly proportioned or just overly cartoonish).

You're probably right about the licensing thing on the LOTR models, they probably dictated that they needed to be correctly scaled rather than hero/cartoon scale. But it has (IMO) produced some really nice looking models. I have considered multiple possible Warhammer armies based off LOTR figures, but most LOTR armies don't quite have the range required to proxy as a Fantasy army.

jonolikespie wrote:So I just noticed that on the Au and NZ GW sites you can still purchase the limited edition DV sets, and crusade of fire (might be able to get your hands on it after all Ouze, if you want to pay $70).

I think that says a lot about whether or not people in Australia are being priced out of 'the games workshop hobby'.

The presence or lack there of for "limited edition" sets is a poor measure of anything. You never know how many "limited edition" sets they actually released. They may have released a disproportionate amount of DV limited edition sets in Australia expecting more sales than the UK or US and they didn't materialise, we just don't know. Same with things like The Hobbit vs. Space Hulk vs. Dreadfleet, we don't know how many of each set they released so we can't say how popular they were based on stock levels. Like the Skyrim collectors edition game. I wanted to get one, but it sold out on preorder in Oz within a very short period of being listed, where as in the US I could find them on store shelves weeks after release, it could be that Ozzies were overwhelmed and out-purchased the Yanks, or maybe they just didn't supply enough to Australia...
   
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If i look at the players that i personally know i definitely see a denial and a lot of people starting to scratchbuild or buy minis from other companies like mantic. Especially for fantasy.

Also other game systems start popping up. 1 year ago everyone in our club was playing either 40k or Fantasy. Nowadays people in our club have armies from multiple systems. Where they wouldve bought another 40k army they now just start a different system. We have dystopian wars, warmahordes, flames of war, songs of blades and heroes and a lot of other systems that are played in the club regularly. People dont stop playing 40k but they are definitely starting to appreciate the alternatives too. I dont think that the gw pricing policy is the only reason for that but it definitely is a factor.

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GW really needs to lower its prices. Plenty of people I know now, including myself, only buy second had GW stuff eg ebay etc then repaint them etc

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AllSeeingSkink wrote:
Yeah, we probably agree there as well then. Most of the GW models I don't like are the comedically silly ones (and I'm not talking about Orks, I'm talking about stupidly proportioned or just overly cartoonish).
I was just thinking, one good example of this is the Bretonnian models. I really like the older Bretonnian models, particularly the archers and men at arms, but even the knights, the newer ones just are freakishly proportioned and while they are more detailed, often it's not for the better.
 aosol wrote:
I guess we'll see when the numbers are out. I have the feeling the new Land speeder will be about as common as seeing exclusive forge world models. The worst part about it all is that it seems like they didn't even try with this range. Everything is Static and lacks a Dynamic poses. Frankly its boring. A failing grade this go around.
I'm actually not adverse to static poses *when it suits*. Some models just look silly when you have a full regiment/squad posed dynamically. Imperial Guardsmen, I have absolutely no problem with half of them looking the same in a static pose looking down the sights of a lasgun. Even Marines, having most models just in basic "gunning you down" poses actually looks better. That way your elites and characters, the models that SHOULD stand out, can actually stand out with more dynamic poses. It's a mistake I made earlier in my hobby days, converting each and every model to have a dynamic pose and realising it doesn't work artistically as well as some more statically posed models with dynamic characters.
   
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Forgeworld models are now looking like great discounts from the normal GW stuff in Australia. While I haven't bought any GW things in the past year or so, it seems that the prices keep going up.

That said, a lot of the newer sculpts really appeal to me, too. I simply don't buy them because there's much more other stuff that I love.

 
   
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Yeah, FW are great value now.

But I just got a bad feeling about that. The new FW catalogue has some weird prices in it... and I'm really worried that they're not just badly calculated exchange rates but are in fact the upcoming prices, where FW adds as system that has prices based on the location of the buyer (which makes no sense, as, ignoring shipping costs that are always in addition to the base price, why would a Warhound cost more if someone orders it from US than someone ordering it from the UK, especially when it is shipped from the same location?).

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Some of the FW stuff (especially their newest stuff) are only marginally less expensive than GW. And the tac squads are significantly more expensive.

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 warboss wrote:
 Mathieu Raymond wrote:
Then by the same argument, 75$ is a single vehicle that is not to everyone's taste, while 75$ of Infinity will generally net you more models that, if painting is an important part of the model, will surely give you more satisfaction that that Heldrake monstrosity. Imho.



While I'm hesitant to defend GW, Infinity is hardly a good counterexample as its the only company that outprices GW when you compare apples to apples... i.e. gram for gram and mm for mm in models.


A single model in Infinity usually costs 8.75 euros.

A single Finecast/Metal GW model costs depending on the model, but looking at the GW website on the Space Marine HQs the cheapest one is 11 euros. Average pricing is 16 or 13 euros.

If we're talking gram for gram, mm per mm, GW is still more expensive if we take the material into consideration, because all Infinity models are in metal.


 
   
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Lanrak wrote:

Compared to Perry Minatures box of 40 fine quality multipose plastic minatures in 28mm for less than £20...GW plc pricing has been a bit excessive for a while.


That's a pretty good comparison; same sculptors, same material, smaller outfit (less overheads, but less economy of scale), similar scale (28mm Vs Heroic 28mm), for a fraction of the price. That can't help but make GW plastics feel overpriced.

 GaussGuy wrote:
I would have to say it has priced me out of the GW store and into FLGS during boxing week holidays in order to nab at ridiculous 50% off boxing week blow out sales. Which any enterprising, not myself as my morale compass points the good way, could just remove the stickers and trade back to a GW store for what they really want.


To be fair, they'd make the same profit anyway; someone still paid them for both boxes.

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$75 of WH40k (CSM Plastic Helldrake) is 170pt of 1850pts or 9.1% of an army

$75 in Infinity (Military Orders Starter, De Fersen, Holy Night with Spitfire) is 290pts of 300pts or 97% of an army

Along with that I don't have to worry about my models being power creeped, nerfed, and in general the company not caring about their game. That is why GW no longer gets my $.


These arguments are common but have a big problem associated with them-- regardless of how many models it takes to play a full game, more models is more models. Models have value beyond that of gameplay. If you only care about gameplay, Starcraft is fifty bucks. One of the main reasons to get into the tabletop wargaming hobby is the modeling and painting aspect. Thus, quality and cost of models is in fact important beyond the amount required to play a game.


More models can be good, yes, if you enjoy painting them, but more models can also be a problem. Do you still like painting marines once you've done 30 of them? Do you have the time and space to play massive games with 28mm figures?

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I just bought a couple boxes of 15mm WW2 Soviet Infantry from Plastic Soldier Company. A box of their heavy weapons, a box of T34 tanks and some Zvezda KV-1 tanks.

I now have an absolutely enormous mid war soviet army for Flames of War for the price of a 40k battleforce.

Historicals are the place to be if you want huge armies for a small amount of money. GW lost me as a customer a long, long time ago.
   
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'Limited Edition' is meaningless unless they put a number on the box telling you it's number 145 of 5000 or something. Otherwise its could be as limited as any other product. The Hobbit has a limited edition sure, but the normal version will only be available for a year until the next film appears. Limited Edition is just a thing to encourage sales, they probably aren't that limited in number, if it meant a damn they'd be more open about how many they are limited to.


Personally I stopped gaming when 3rd edition 40k was released. They killed the game for me back then, they sucked all the fun out and dumbed it down. Especially the Orks, who lost their clans, many heavy weapons including the Shokk Attack Gun (since returned) and Squig Catapult, and removed many units like madboys. It was a fething joke, as were many things done to the main game, like grenades just giving a close combat bonus, bikes just giving a stats bonus instead if being an actual vehicle, the vehicles rules were cut back to the bone, the psychic rules were gone, over watch was gone, I could go on, it was dreadful. All that and the way that suddenly all the points values were lower and there was the expectation of much larger armies.

After that I concentrated on their smaller games but oddly those Specialist Games dried up because GW have given up on them.

Anyway what with college and university I found I didn't have the time for actual gaming so I just stuck to a little painting, mostly stuff I'd already bought but I did get some LotR and other odds and ends over the years. I now value GW figures largely for painting not army building, so paying more for models that are good in the game doesn't wash with me. Oddly enough GW have claimed they are a miniatures company not a games company, yet for collecting and painting purposes they use a god-awful material like finecast, of which many seem to avoid or only buy because they feel their arm twisted if its essential to their army.

Last GW figures I bought from anywhere were some Forgeworld Nurgle characters when I was passing Warhammer World the April before last. That's nearly two years ago. I like their models, but their prices now are so high that I can't justify the expense even though both myself and my wife work full time and have never been better off.
   
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Well, I'm not priced out, but I'll buy less randomly. I'm planning to build up a DA detachment using DW and RW from the DV box set. No Tacticals here.

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I stopped buying most GW stuff a couple of years ago, and price was part of the reason. I can get a lot more for my game dollar from many other systems (especially Historicals).

However it is also true that I don't any more armies. I have two built and two more ready to start building. The ones I am still building will be done with as few GW models as possible.

I would buy an awesome kit like a Tau Orca.

It is the price of the books that worries me. To refresh my codexes for 6th edition will cost £100 at least.

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 aosol wrote:
I guess we'll see when the numbers are out. I have the feeling the new Land speeder will be about as common as seeing exclusive forge world models. The worst part about it all is that it seems like they didn't even try with this range. Everything is Static and lacks a Dynamic poses. Frankly its boring. A failing grade this go around.
I'm actually not adverse to static poses *when it suits*. Some models just look silly when you have a full regiment/squad posed dynamically. Imperial Guardsmen, I have absolutely no problem with half of them looking the same in a static pose looking down the sights of a lasgun. Even Marines, having most models just in basic "gunning you down" poses actually looks better. That way your elites and characters, the models that SHOULD stand out, can actually stand out with more dynamic poses. It's a mistake I made earlier in my hobby days, converting each and every model to have a dynamic pose and realising it doesn't work artistically as well as some more statically posed models with dynamic characters.


Yeah, I actually like that new DA minis are "static". I just don't like figures like Terminators in all kind of fancy ninja positions, like some DV and SH Termies are. It's same thing with many recent Fantasy models, for example Storm of Magic monsters: they're all in all sort of aggressive and leaping positions. It may look good in one figure, but when you have army full of them, it looks silly and gets tiresome real fast.

I definitely agree that some GW minis tend to be too "busy" of late, with too much decoration. Sometimes less is more. Also I am also not too hot with some recent vehicle designs with their toylike proportions. Though, GW is not only company guilty of this. Some recent PP miniatures suffer from same problems.

Finally, one reason for dislike towards new GW minis is how their studio paints them. They use bright colours and very strong highlights to bring out all the details, but overall effect is exaggarated and childlike.

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What GW used to do was create numerous rules sytems and fully support them in all their stores. This creates a lot of 'dead stock' which just isn't selling. Poor business, so stuff gets discontinued. Let's not forget, their stores still carry a huge range of fairly low-turnover stock. If you were setting up a business today from scratch, you wouldn't come up with GW, but these guys make it turn a profit year in year out. The high pries are part of that... if stock was flying off the shelves they could ask lower prices, but it isn't. their market has been significantly eroded by computer games, not least those based off their own IP that let you 'build' and 'paint' and battle your own army in seconds, without other pesky humans being in the way. The appeal of miniature-based games has waned considerably, and I'm constantly surprised GW keeps going.

GW launched Necromunda off the back of WH40K, and it was their best game since Space Marine (possibly their best game ever). But it required a low model count and people would stop at a couple of gangs. The product had a good few years' life cycle and they discontinued when cost of production/stockholding outweighed return on investment. Putting the rules up for free under 'Specialist Games' is shrewd, as it lets people keep playing... and ordering 'collectors' models into the bargain. Communities online and offline keep the game alive, they don't need to give it store space unless they want to do a re-release for a sales spike.

Black Library has kept a whole legion of people reading GW fluff who might have left GW's realm altogether. Good return on investment, and even better as more sales become digital.

FW hooks in older gamers and collectors with even more disposable income. Great business decision. With the Horus Heresy books generating interest in Heresy era FW miniatures, they're having a high priced field day! And releasing updated versions of the original Rhino, Predator and Land Raider? It's pretty funny... sure they're a nice 'Mini Cooper' update, but wow, what a price you pay for nostalgia!

Colector's and Limited editions are DESIGNED TO SELL OUT. No use getting pissed about it. I used to manage production of children's books collector's editions at Waterstone's. Sure, we could have done 2,000 Terry Pratchetts and sold them at some point, or we could do 1,000, sell them in a week and guarantee no overstocks. So we did that. You pick a number just under what's comfortable and achieve it, instead of reaching for the sky and being sat on stock. You also need the item to be super-limited to justify the higher price tag, so lower the better in this regard. You may argue that they should keep Space Hulk for all time, but that requires production and/or expensive warehousing. Instead, they caned through all their stock super-fast and their shareholders had a nice dividend. That's good business. And they can do a new new version in a few years' time... look at how successful 'moratorium releases' are for Disney! They let some of the greatest movies ever made disappear for 7 years between editions. Lets them build excitement and make a shedload of cash every time, and excess stock gets bought up by third party sellers in a frenzy to tide every over for the 'gap'. It's business genius, despite seming like a stupid idea on face value.

Moulds wear out. I imagine every time a mould is coming up for replacement they do very careful calculations to determine whether to make a new one, move to a different production method, or simply discontinue. Injection moulding kit last a lot longer than pewter/resin moulds, but still wears out and is MASSIVELY more expensive. Again, using my books example, I was sat at a publisher's office one day when they were doing a reprints meeting and they took one of my favourite ever books out of print. Harrowing for me, but good business for them!

OK, chuck in all kinds of stuff GW do wrong, don't get me started on Catachan or Chaos scuplts in particular, but it's worth noting what they GW right from a business point of view. Whatever we think, they turn a profit at the end of the day and keep going. No mean feat in the current climate.

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Damn the Kool Aid must be tasty...


At the rate that some people chug it down, it must be downright delicious!
   
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 scarletsquig wrote:

It's all there in the financial reports, GW has been posting healthy profit lately, as a result of their increased margins and new "no-rumours" policy.


If thats what you think the financial reports say, I suggest rereading them VERY carefully again. Those profits come at inflated price rises. They do not come at selling more models. GW has been selling less units at higher prices. They do not say what you think they say.

Hope more old fools come to their senses and start giving you their money instead of those Union Jack Blood suckers...  
   
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 H.B.M.C. wrote:
But I just got a bad feeling about that. The new FW catalogue has some weird prices in it... and I'm really worried that they're not just badly calculated exchange rates but are in fact the upcoming prices, where FW adds as system that has prices based on the location of the buyer (which makes no sense, as, ignoring shipping costs that are always in addition to the base price, why would a Warhound cost more if someone orders it from US than someone ordering it from the UK, especially when it is shipped from the same location?).
My guess is GW is trying to adjust for the exchange rate in their pricing. If the US dollar is 1.5 per pound and GW wants to make the same money as when it was 2.0 per pound, they jack up the US price to cover the 1/2 pound loss.

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Christ on a bicycle...

Seriously? £30 for a single codex? £70 for 8 models? IN A BATTLEFORCE?

...

Goodbye, GW. You used to be pretty neat.

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