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Hello,

I had an order come in from GW today and included in it was a plastic bracelet with "Champion of Khorne " written on it.

I didn't see any other posts about this, so I figured I'd post about this promotional item.

Looks like another one of their unspoken promo items that are inconsistently placed in various order.

I wear my Nurgle and Skaven buttons with pride, and even got employee of the month 4 times running for having the most flair at TGIF!*

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I would actuly buy something like that :0

People's deliveries have been turning up with trinkets for a while now.

I received the Khorne band this morning with the plasma guns I ordered.

Zomg so news worthy.

Tell the story again, bro.

 HisDivineShadow wrote:
Zomg so news worthy.

Tell the story again, bro.

Ironically you just bumped it back up to the top of the page, considering it had been sinking down for the past five hours.

 HisDivineShadow wrote:
Zomg so news worthy.

Tell the story again, bro.

If you're not interested in a topic, you can always just choose to not participate in the discussion. As in, don't post. This sort of nonsense accomplishes nothing positive.

Would have been cooler in red and bronze.

Yeah, but plain white with black is probably a lot cheaper to make.

Needs spikes.

Maybe a sign of upcoming releases?

Skaven got released when i got my skaven themed tie-pin, so i'm betting on a warhammer fantasy chaos release.

 Sidstyler wrote:
Yeah, but plain white with black is probably a lot cheaper to make.

Needs spikes.

Yeah, on the inside, so the wearer can snap it whenever they have unclean thoughts about non-GW games!


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 SirDonlad wrote:
Maybe a sign of upcoming releases?

Skaven got released when i got my skaven themed tie-pin, so i'm betting on a warhammer fantasy chaos release.

What, like maybe a new Bloodthirster, a new specialist Khorne unit for WHFB and the final, Chaos-themed, End Times book?

Something like that?

Clearly GW is ramping up to launching an etsy store.

Little known fact. Those bands were created when GW was toying with the idea of going into the LARP business...




...this has no basis in reality.

 Azreal13 wrote:

What, like maybe a new Bloodthirster, a new specialist Khorne unit for WHFB and the final, Chaos-themed, End Times book?

Something like that?

Yeah, something exactly like that!

Haven't paid attention to anything GW for a while now; 30k all the way!

 agnosto wrote:
Little known fact. Those bands were created when GW was toying with the idea of going into the LARP business...

I just had the mental image of people running around in a field swinging foam "hammer flails" at each other in real life (all of which were available direct only from GW's website and cost 2-3x what comparable LARP weapons cost despite being lower quality and full of holes).

 Sidstyler wrote:

 agnosto wrote:
Little known fact. Those bands were created when GW was toying with the idea of going into the LARP business...

I just had the mental image of people running around in a field swinging foam "hammer flails" at each other in real life (all of which were available direct only from GW's website and cost 2-3x what comparable LARP weapons cost despite being lower quality and full of holes).

Lemme guess, they'd brand it Finefoam™?

I believe these are called: trinkets. Apparently they impress some people to no end, that they'll trade valuable items in exchange for them.

Citadel Battlefoam. Because GW doesn't care about the trademarks of other companies.

Anyway...I dunno, I find these cheap little trinkets and stuff placed in random orders kinda weird, personally. I don't necessarily get why they're doing it or what purpose it serves. I guess it's not really bad but I don't see many people caring that much. Usually I throw stuff like this in the trash, but that's just me.

 insaniak wrote:

 HisDivineShadow wrote:
Zomg so news worthy.

Tell the story again, bro.

If you're not interested in a topic, you can always just choose to not participate in the discussion. As in, don't post. This sort of nonsense accomplishes nothing positive.

It made me laugh. This thing looks like a flea collar for a cat.

How about GW do some useful promo stuff like dice, scenery etc.

Good to see a skull on there, wouldn't be a GW product without it!

Computron wrote:

 insaniak wrote:

 HisDivineShadow wrote:
Zomg so news worthy.

Tell the story again, bro.

If you're not interested in a topic, you can always just choose to not participate in the discussion. As in, don't post. This sort of nonsense accomplishes nothing positive.

It made me laugh. This thing looks like a flea collar for a cat.

How about GW do some useful promo stuff like dice, scenery etc.

Yeah GW, start giving away stuff like dice and scenery and models and...

I'm annoyed someone started this thread, I logged on to do this because I enjoy the smell of rustled fanboy on a Sunday morning.

Don't people tend to go weak at the knees for the WarmaHordes pin badges? Are they free? They better be!

 Torga_DW wrote:
I believe these are called: trinkets. Apparently they impress some people to no end, that they'll trade valuable items in exchange for them.

$24 in trinkets for yon island......and your SOUL!!!

The Division Of Joy wrote:

Computron wrote:

 insaniak wrote:

 HisDivineShadow wrote:
Zomg so news worthy.

Tell the story again, bro.

If you're not interested in a topic, you can always just choose to not participate in the discussion. As in, don't post. This sort of nonsense accomplishes nothing positive.

It made me laugh. This thing looks like a flea collar for a cat.

How about GW do some useful promo stuff like dice, scenery etc.

Yeah GW, start giving away stuff like dice and scenery and models and...

and...

What's wrong with free stuff being usable?

I suppose I could use the band as a cat collar, Champion of Khorne with some added mouse skulls, but I'd rather have a free pot of paint - yeah that's right, a whole pot of paint - omg they'll go out of business if they do that!!!

I also don't see how giving away dice as a freebie is so stupid, either. They're useful, they're a common gaming tool that you need to play (and often get for free in starter sets anyway), I don't imagine they're terribly expensive for a company like GW to produce anyway (even with a custom symbol on them)...

Contrary to what GW wants us to believe, dice are not a super premium product that should be sold for insanely high prices, in insanely low numbers ($17 for 10, when a fancy-looking block of 36 Chessex dice still comes in at less than that, albeit without the custom symbol), and for an insanely limited amount of time (in most cases with the window to purchase lasting mere minutes, as the super limited nature of them has attracted a special group of knobs who buy up as many as they can to sell on eBay for 2-3x retail price).

I just don't think it would be a terrible idea if, for example, on the release weekend for a new codex or army book they had an offer where if you buy the new book then they'll throw in like 6 of those special dice for free or something. Just something neat you can use for special rolls. But like I said, GW has everyone trained to think that dice are speshul now, and also doesn't see any point in providing an incentive to buying their overpriced gaming rulebooks because they expect everyone to be buying them anyway. Gaming rulebooks are also speshul and now everyone happily pays $50 for books that are barely thicker than a pamphlet and continuously keep having content removed from them. People pay upwards of $250 for super speshul limited edishun collector's gaming rulebooks that literally have no more "value" than the regular $50 release and will be worth just as much as soon as the rules content inside becomes outdated, which is also happening a lot faster than it used to. Don't even get me started on the fething cards...

Now stuff like faction pin badges or patches, I do like the idea of those as a freebie. That's something I wouldn't even mind paying for if it was on general sale and for similar prices to what PP offers (though the warjack pins that cost almost as much as an actual warjack model are pushing it in my opinion...). I'll never understand why GW doesn't offer more in the way of "merch", because clearly there are a lot of people out there who love their game worlds, the art, the aesthetics etc., and I think there's a lot of money that could be made selling posters, t-shirts, art prints, etc. that they're content to ignore for whatever reason. I personally have spent over $100 in the past few weeks on Riot Games store buying toys and posters for fething League of Legends of all things because I just love the characters and art for the game that much. I know I'm not the only one that really likes that kinda stuff.

These gimmicks are not free. You're still paying the GW premium rather than shopping at discount retailers.

I'd rather not pay $10-$30 USD for a rubber livestrong bracelet.

 Theophony wrote:
Would have been cooler in red and bronze.

Mine was red with "TREMBLE BEFORE KHORNE" written in black.

I don't mind freebies, useless or not.