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This sounds like an April fools to me.

Sounds more like they just put a resin Thunderhawk in a photo to me.

 kronk wrote:

 Smitty wrote:
A thought just occurred to me: people are saying it's a forgeworld thunderhawk. Currently, the only way to field a thunderhawk is how?

Apocalypse.

Alright ladies and gents...

Discuss.

The same can be said of the Plastic Stompa, the Plastic Baneblade, and the Plastic Shadowsword

What is your point? I'm not trollilng. I'm just honestly not following you.

If the only thing that you can use a thunderhawk in is apocalypse, and that picture is appearing in the April addition of White Dwarf, then maybe they are teasing the new version of Apocalypse?

... because GW is well known to do sneak peaks months ahead?

Like I said, it is probably my optimism.

Last month's parting shot was a hive tyrant and some thunderwolf calvary. Bearing pretty much no relation to whats going on this month. So I'm going to say 99% this means nothing.

Goresaw wrote:
Last month's parting shot was a hive tyrant and some thunderwolf calvary. Bearing pretty much no relation to whats going on this month. So I'm going to say 99% this means nothing.

Every single 'parting shot' since WD was updated has had absolutely no bearing on anything upcoming. They are simply cool looking photos.

Whether it's real or not, I simply posted what I saw.

Also, in regards to the "April Fools!" claims, this is what GW did for a previous joke:

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/blogPost.jsp?aId=16100001a

 Dr. What wrote:
Whether it's real or not, I simply posted what I saw.

You called the topic "Plastic Thunderhawk Sighted!" So you actually saw a plastic Thunderhawk? No doubt? No question mark in the title necessary?

Blind trust in proven questionable rumour sources will lead to confusion and disappointment of dakka readers, with some of them expressing their disappointment.

Have to say, given the certainty expressed in the thread title I was expecting to see sprue pictures.

 warboss wrote:

theninjabadger wrote:
If it is real thats stupid marines 3 flyers, tau 2 crons 2 orks 3, DA 2, chaos 1,deldar 1, eldar none

LOL, yeah... it's not like the marines sell better as a group than all other armies combined or anything, right?

just gonna add this bit too, WHO CARES IF MARINES HAVE ANOTHER FLYER that they cant field in normal games of 40k..... i dont think its a concern, its not gonna be Mainstream 40k in plastic or in resin or metal..... you wont see more of them cos not enough people play apoc for it to REALLY matter....

When I went into my local GW to get my WD, the first thing the manager started going on about was this picture and that it definatly wasn't resin. He have anyother details.

Don't listen to redshirts. They knows nothing more then we do. He was most likely trying to excite you into a frenzy so you would forget what you were doing and drop your wallet into the till.

He's a black shirt, we only have a one man store.

BlackShirts are the new RedShirts....

Why hasn't anyone discussed the possibility it could be a finecast thunderhawk!

 Dr. What wrote:
Whether it's real or not, I simply posted what I saw.

Also, in regards to the "April Fools!" claims, this is what GW did for a previous joke:

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/blogPost.jsp?aId=16100001a

I remember that.
I wanted it.

 CURNOW wrote:
Why hasn't anyone discussed the possibility it could be a finecast thunderhawk!

 Rainyday wrote:
The joke's on everyone when it turns out to be a finecast thunderhawk

 smUrfsrUs wrote:
He's a black shirt, we only have a one man store.

Redshirt/Blackshirt. It's six of one, half a dozen of another. If he was by himself then he probably was trying to get you to drop your wallet in the till.

I asked the manager at their NYC store and he told me that its not coming out in plastic. Its just a random Kool pic with the Thunderhawk in it. Well, we can still dream.

 NYPetey88 wrote:
I asked the manager at their NYC store and he told me that its not coming out in plastic. Its just a random Kool pic with the Thunderhawk in it. Well, we can still dream.

Anything said in a store by any worker or manager or anything of the sort is completely and utterly worthless. They know no more than we do and often less.

 pretre wrote:

Trasvi wrote:
Devils advocate: there could became plastic thunderhawk and the one in the pic could be the forgeworld one. GW still uses forgeworld piranhas in their studio tau army.

Devils Advocate: There could be a plastic ANYTHING and they just aren't showing us the pictures.

GW's magical way of buisiness don't let on your making something new let someone leak news and allow it to be found on a forum like dakka, only to have people having pictures months before a scheduled release. if it is another Apoc release then i could see this as being the new "stompa" apoc release. otherwise i'm doubtful it is anything but GW hinting at a update addenum for the APOC/Planetstrike expansions.

 Snrub wrote:
Don't listen to redshirts. They knows nothing more then we do. He was most likely trying to excite you into a frenzy so you would forget what you were doing and drop your wallet into the till.

If they come out with a plastic Thunderhawk I will drop my wallet into the till!

 Commander Cain wrote:
This would be amazing were it true. Knowing GW it is not and is simply the FW model. On that note, didn't they say that they were no longer going to be making current FW kits in plastic?

yeah, but this is plain nonsense. If it was selling well enough... they'd be fools not to.

 pretre wrote:
This has been pretty much debunked in the 40k release schedule thread. It is a FW thunderhawk.

Damn you guys, getting my hackles up for nothing. Plastic Thunderhawks are like the plastic Sisters of Battle - they're just trolling us at this point.

For the record, they could easily make one, anime resin model kits range from $150-$2000. The various wings and engine pods could be "flippable" so they could repeat the sprue, and so could the landing gear. And they could break it up into smaller boxes or make it Mail Order only so they don't get hit by returns.

There's a guy selling styrofoam titans for $300 as a garage kit, they could easily make a kit like this.

--Chris
www.chrisvalera.com

 chris_valera wrote:
Damn you guys, getting my hackles up for nothing. Plastic Thunderhawks are like the plastic Sisters of Battle - they're just trolling us at this point.

Wasn't me who claimed that. Give your thanks to Natfka who posts everything sounding like a rumour and the OP copying it without asking questions

Edit: Breaking News on Faeit212: The Thunderhawk might actually be the old Forge World model :
http://natfka.blogspot.de/2013/03/thunderhawk-found-is-this-our-gunship.html
Watch us tomorrow, when we reveal that Hastings made up all his rumours ... and the day after tomorrow, when we present anonymous posts from reliable sources contradicting this rumour

 CURNOW wrote:
Why hasn't anyone discussed the possibility it could be a finecast thunderhawk!

Don't put that evil on me, Ricky Bobby!

Now, i want to propose my thinkings about.

Really, i think GW is owned and operated by Jokaeros. Do you know why ?

Well, now or this teaser is just a "guerrilla marketing" strategy to mount hype or a web marketing cover poll...

Because almost every power armored player wants one, and not just wants they will buy regardless the price....
what is the sense to have a Baneblade as a plastic kit and not a Thunderhawk ?

So, please, Jokaero Boss, let us have a plastic thunderhawk.

Ippi77 wrote:

Really, i think GW is owned and operated by Jokaeros. Do you know why ?

Because it feels like management has been flinging poo at customers for years? Or because it feels like corporate decisions are made in a random d6 fashion like the Jokaero ability roll?

Ippi77 wrote:
Well, now or this teaser is just a "guerrilla marketing" strategy to mount hype or a web marketing cover poll...

How do you figure? They've put this same Thunderhawk in pictures previously and nothing has come of it, least of all a plastic Thunderhawk kit. Still, every time they (GW) take a picture with the Thunderhawk in it, a rumor thread like this one pops up. So, since this is neither news nor rumor can we get this closed or at least moved to one of the discussion forums?

I tell you, I'm really losing faith in the people posting on Dakka.

My other half bought me a FW thunderhawk for Christmas... After the amazing shock my freshest thoughts were "watch the bastards make a plastic kit now!"




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