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What's next, a whole Legion from forge world?

Well, it does say:

We will also contact you personally to arrange a delivery time that is convenient for you, so please ensure that the contact details which accompany your order are accurate and up to date.

So it does make me curious just how big the packaging for $US 12k worth of models is.

Edit: 47 rhinos.

Yeah, I wonder if they are shipping it in individual boxes or if you get one huge crate with all the sprues just dumped into it?

I may get two.

If you buy 30 you've basically bought a new house.

 Harriticus wrote:
If you buy 30 you've basically bought a new house.

That would be $330,000. I could buy 2 of my old house for that and nearly 2 of my new house for that.

 vitki wrote:
Yeah, I wonder if they are shipping it in individual boxes or if you get one huge crate with all the sprues just dumped into it?

There would have to be some sort of organization, right? I mean, short of the special characters, it might get a little overwhelming matching things up at first glance.

That's got to be one huge box of cereal by the way.

 Harriticus wrote:
If you buy 30 you've basically bought a new house.

No, you've bought someone at GW a new house. On the plus side, your bix box will be the envy of the neighbourhood.

I'd like those art prints. Wish they sold them (unsigned) separate.

They'd have to ship in their retail boxes, it would get too jumbled up.
The Battle Company that came with the original release of Apocalypse had all the sprues stacked naked in the box.
That was fine as it was just a 100 or so marines and a few rhinos.
A chapter would get messy instead if done like that. There is also danger that the sprues themselves might get damaged rubbing together with so many of them pushing down on each other.

 Scrub wrote:

 bu11etmagn3tt wrote:
Pic doesn't show all the vehicles either....
I would pay it, IF it were all painted in the chapter of my choosing & came with lmtd edition codex & lmtd edition rulebook & carry cases for everything, plus dice, templates, Apoc lmtd book(s).....
and a thank you card....
all hand deliverded by Kayden Kross....

I agree with you, not the Kayden Kross bit but more with the sentiment that for the amount you're paying you'd think they'd offer a bit more incentive to buy it as opposed to just offering a mountain of the standard boxes of units.

Well, I'd never heard of Kayden Kross before this thread (just googled her) and so I guess we can agree that something good came out of GW's chapter deal after all...

WAY to much to be spending on man-dollies

I think you'd O.D. on glue fumes before you even get half way thru this.

I'm kinda confused by there being only two Vindicators.

Yeah, a part of me is curious on only one thing: if GW calculated to the dime what it would cost if the whole thing was ordered by kits.

Chapters have thunderhawks. Where are the thunderhawks?

Here's a kicker. How about If someone buys it they'll advance the storyline

'And after the entire UM chapter went missing, the imperium crumbled and fell inwards'

Might be worth it just for that...

BairdEC wrote:
'Cos no one would ever want to play like that!

Correction: no one would spend $12,000 playing that.

I mean no one's going to buy this gak either, but still.

 Harriticus wrote:
If you buy 30 you've basically bought a new house.

I could keep a roof over my head for a year in a major metropolitan area or buy more Space Marines than I could conceivably paint in the next decade of my life.

 Harriticus wrote:
I have no idea what kind of person buys this? A multi-millionaire? That's the only kind of person that could dump $12,000 at once like that for something like this.

Though someone will inevitably buy it, it isn't really intended to be purchased. It's like the diamond bra from Victorias Secret... Except for nerds.

When I found out that this was true I could only think of Ian Malcom's line in Jurassic Park when he first sees the Brachiasaurus. "You did it, you crazy son of a bitch you did it"

This truly takes some balls on the part of gw...but hey, if they sell even one I'm sure it'll be worth it. They have the stock anyway.

when you absolutely positively need a 100% guarantee that your wife will divorce you, it's just a few clicks away.

Its 17k in Oz and I had to stop laughing.
I mean yeah I have a plastic crack addition but still wouldn't drop 17k at once unless its FW.

 Void_walker wrote:
Its 17k in Oz and I had to stop laughing.
I mean yeah I have a plastic crack addition but still wouldn't drop 17k at once unless its FW.

It's obscene isn't it?

I have a feeling that this is the result of an office betting pool, while it likely began as a joke wagering has been placed to see if somebody actually buys one.

 Liquid Squid wrote:
What's next, a whole Legion from forge world?

That would make this look like chump change, a 15 man strong squad with a small amount of discount for buying the set is £160: http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Warhammer-40000/Space_Marines/Space_Marine-Infantry-and-Accessories/LEGION_MKIII_TACTICAL_SQUAD.html

I've been collecting my UM chapter for years and I'm finally getting to the end of building and painting it, I cannot imagine the living nightmare that it would be to have all this turn up at once and have to build and paint it.

I've done marines and guard in batches of 80 before now and even using a few tricks (like leaving the guns off the models and spraying them silver, base coating in blue with army painter spray, etc.) it is still an horrendous PITA to sit down and paint. I could only do one layer of one colour at a time so strong was the urge to chuck everything across the room.

Looky Likey wrote:

 Liquid Squid wrote:
What's next, a whole Legion from forge world?

That would make this look like chump change, a 15 man strong squad with a small amount of discount for buying the set is £160: http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Warhammer-40000/Space_Marines/Space_Marine-Infantry-and-Accessories/LEGION_MKIII_TACTICAL_SQUAD.html

I've been collecting my UM chapter for years and I'm finally getting to the end of building and painting it, I cannot imagine the living nightmare that it would be to have all this turn up at once and have to build and paint it.

I've done marines and guard in batches of 80 before now and even using a few tricks (like leaving the guns off the models and spraying them silver, base coating in blue with army painter spray, etc.) it is still an horrendous PITA to sit down and paint. I could only do one layer of one colour at a time so strong was the urge to chuck everything across the room.

buying 200 worth from a discounter is overwhelming enough as it is.

It's a nice idea.
After all it' not costing GW anything, and it's certainly got people talking about it.

I worked out the points of a chapter (using the old codex/army builder) and coincidentally it comes in at around 40.000pts.
I wonder if that's intentional.

What amazes me is that GW managed to make a $12k bundle that is incredibly boring. No customization, no cool FW kits to add diversity, just a giant pile of the same old boring stuff everyone else has. It's like they decided to drain all the fun out of dreaming about owning an entire chapter.

I've got a feeling that this deal (well, I called it a 'deal', more of a 'convienent way to pay retail on a large order) is meant more to drum up discussion than to actually make money.

I mean, aside from sci-fi-geek-multi-millionaires no-one is going to buy this (and even if I was a multi-millionaire with this kind of money to burn I still wouldn't buy it, for that kind of money I can hire a half-decent costume maker to produce a bunch of power armour costumes complete with NERF gun bolters, then gather my friends and go LARPing as SMs).

But when you consider the amount of interest it has generated (I mean, look at the frothing cauldron of nerdrage it's generated here on Dakka, enough for a thread to be locked and another to be spawned, it's done it's job.