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**reds8n**

http://warhammerworld.games-workshop.com/fantastic-40th-birthday-party/

2nd and 3rd January 2016

Warhammer World, Nottingham

2015 saw Games Workshop reach its 40th Birthday, and 2016 will see us enter our 41st year – an auspicious number if ever there was one! It may not be our 41st millennium, but it’s still a great excuse for a party!

Get your free ticket now – space is limited so please order now to avoid disappointment! Entry to all of Warhammer World will be ticket only on these days, to ensure a safe and enjoyable experience for everyone.

We’ll celebrate the New Year by looking back at 40 years of fantastic miniatures, whilst also looking forward to our 41st year. And what an amazing year we have planned for you all.

So what can you look forward to at Games Workshop’s Fantastic 40th Birthday Party?

Be one of the first to get amazing pre-release Forge World models.
New t-shirts for both the Forge World and Citadel ranges.
New art prints to purchase, including some classic and iconic images from the last 40 years.
Gaming area to join in with both new and old favourites.
Have a go at digital games like Talisman, Xenos, Freeblade and more.
Fast and fun hobby challenges, including Scrap Demon.
Team up and take on our special Birthday quiz.
And it wouldn’t be a celebration without free cake and party nibbles!
For these two days only, your free ticket give you entry to the Exhibition Centre.
Of course, you’ll also be able to enjoy all of Warhammer World’s usual facilities and services, with the stores, Bugman’s Bar and the Exhibition Centre.
We’ll be announcing more over the next few weeks, so keep watching for updates!
It’ll be a weekend of relaxed fun, and hobby celebrations, so get your ticket now for a great day!

**CragHack**

Yeah, but what's the price?

**Lithlandis Stormcrow**

CragHack wrote:
Yeah, but what's the price?

Your soul.

**reds8n**

Free entry but ticketed to control the numbers.

https://whw.ticketbud.com/games-workshop-s-40th-anniversary-celebration-saturday

Gaming area to join in with both new and old favourites.

hmm ...

**Lithlandis Stormcrow**

Also, this whole 41st year thing sounds... ominous >_>

**CragHack**

Oh yeah, it was right there. So used to see prices near GW logo...

**AegisGrimm**

Celebrate pur 40th anniversary with a 40% price increase! Yay to everyone!

Honestly, though. Crazy that the company has been aroind in some form for that long. Seems wierd I remember seeing the 25th anniversary.

**Yodhrin**

AegisGrimm wrote:
Celebrate pur 40th anniversary with a 40% price increase! Yay to everyone!

And promote that celebration with an image of the horrifying mutant we murdered the product which gave us those 40 years of existence to birth! Yaaaaaay!

Honestly, though. Crazy that the company has been aroind in some form for that long. Seems wierd I remember seeing the 25th anniversary.

Oh crikey, now I feel auld

**Paradigm**

reds8n wrote:

Gaming area to join in with both new and old favourites.

hmm ...

Wonder if that means there will be some kind of hint or even display for the upcoming Specialist Games revival on show? Now, that's ludicrous to suggest based on the GW we know, but so is a plastic Horus Heresy, engagement in festival-based sales and a re-acknowledgement of Specialist Games, and we've seen all of those in the last month...

**Charax**

This is GW, "Old favourites" could easily mean "Hey, remember WFB? or even - SHOCK - 6th edition 40K?"

**Jadenim**

Just got tickets for the Sunday; been looking for an excuse to go see the revamped facilities.

**Alpharius**

Jadenim wrote:
Just got tickets for the Sunday; been looking for an excuse to go see the revamped facilities.

We are looking forward to your full report and review, complete with many pictures!

(Please!)

**Talys**

Lithlandis Stormcrow wrote:
Also, this whole 41st year thing sounds... ominous >_>

haha... good one

**Jadenim**

Alpharius wrote:
Jadenim wrote:
Just got tickets for the Sunday; been looking for an excuse to go see the revamped facilities.

We are looking forward to your full report and review, complete with many pictures!

(Please!)

I'll see what I can do!

**reds8n**

http://warhammerworld.games-workshop.com/2015/12/11/what-to-see-and-do-at-games-workshops-40th-birthday-party/

On January 2nd and 3rd here at Warhammer World we are celebrating Games Workshop reaching its 40th Birthday, and entering our 41st year – an auspicious number if ever there was one!

If you have a ticket for one of these great days, here is some of what lies in store for you…

Exhibition Centre and The Horus Heresy Special Exhibition

Your event ticket includes entry into our exciting Exhibition halls, to see the massed miniatures and specially built dioramas.

Games Workshop Through the Years

Feel nostalgic and look back over our timeline and cabinets, featuring memorable classic products.

Licensing

Explore something new, with our official licensed partners here and showing off some of their latest products and computer games.

Gaming and Hobby Activities

Bring your miniatures and drop into a battle using our open Bring and Battle gaming tables.
Take part in a participation game being run from selection of our board games through the years – from Warhammer Quest to Siege of Calth.
Rise to the Scrap Demon challenge, and see what miniature masterpiece you can create using our spare bits and your imagination.
Try the classic fun and frantic Speed Painting challenge, and find out how a time limit changes your painting skills!

The Warhammer World Studio Get ideas, advice and tips for techniques such as airbrushing and weathering. Meet some of the team behind Warhammer World’s stunning dioramas, including the largest display Games Workshop has ever built, and ask your hobby questions.

**gorgon**

Birthday quiz!

For the 25th celebration, I had the highest quiz score at my local GW and won myself $100 in free stuff.

Hmm...that would indicate that I was a bit of a grognard back THEN, which makes me...really old now.

Anyway, I still have a Land Raider on sprue that was part of that free loot.

**Kilkrazy**

$100 of prizes?

If you win again this time you can get three Vanguard cavarly figures.

**Lithlandis Stormcrow**

Talys wrote:
Lithlandis Stormcrow wrote:
Also, this whole 41st year thing sounds... ominous >_>

haha... good one

Pray to the Emprah my gut is wrong Talys, since it may be the Fajitas. Pray.

Kilkrazy wrote:
$100 of prizes?

If you win again this time you can get three Vanguard cavarly figures.

Or a Archaon-less Archaon?

**gorgon**

Kilkrazy wrote:
$100 of prizes?

Those were the days.

(Why date yourself a little when you can do it a lot?)

**Dryaktylus**

Take part in a participation game being run from selection of our board games through the years – from Warhammer Quest to Siege of Calth

They wrote 'our' - so they play the original? Nice. So to all participants: play it and pester them with questions about a re-release!

Feel nostalgic and look back over our timeline and cabinets, featuring memorable classic products

Probably. And sad...

**Wulfmar**

Lithlandis Stormcrow wrote:
Also, this whole 41st year thing sounds... ominous >_>

I hear the introduction to 8th edition, which is being released to celebrate will be something along the lines of this:

For more than four decades the Executives
have sat immobile on the leather thrones of GWHQ.
They are the Masters of Plastic by the will of the
investors and master of a few hundred gaming stores
by the might of their inexhaustible copyright claims.
They are a rotting carcass writing invisibly with greed
from the Dark Age of Capitalism. They are the Carrion Lords
of the Franchise, for whom a hundred store workers lose their
jobs every day, for whom prices are raised and profits raised.
Inhuman prices, obscene profits. To be a player in such times
is to be one amongst untold millions. It is to live in the cruellest
and most expensive bloody gaming regime imaginable. This is
the tale of those times.

It is a torment you can live today - if you dare - for this is a dark
and terrible era of wargaming where you will find little comfort or
hope in discounts and 'special' offers. If you want to take part in the
financial debt then prepare yourself now. Forget the power of fanbases,
common sense and consumer demand, for there is no compassion
amongst the executives, only an eternity of price increases and re-releases
and the laughter of thirsting investors.

But the marketplace is a big place and, whatever happens, you will not be valued.

**Zywus**

Wulfmar wrote:
Lithlandis Stormcrow wrote:
Also, this whole 41st year thing sounds... ominous >_>

I hear the introduction to 8th edition, which is being released to celebrate will be something along the lines of this:

For more than four decades the Executives
have sat immobile on the leather thrones of GWHQ.
They are the Masters of Plastic by the will of the
investors and master of a few hundred gaming stores
by the might of their inexhaustible copyright claims.
They are a rotting carcass writing invisibly with greed
from the Dark Age of Capitalism. They are the Carrion Lords
of the Franchise, for whom a hundred store workers lose their
jobs every day, for whom prices are raised and profits raised.
Inhuman prices, obscene profits. To be a player in such times
is to be one amongst untold millions. It is to live in the cruellest
and most expensive bloody gaming regime imaginable. This is
the tale of those times.

It is a torment you can live today - if you dare - for this is a dark
and terrible era of wargaming where you will find little comfort or
hope in discounts and 'special' offers. If you want to take part in the
financial debt then prepare yourself now. Forget the power of fanbases,
common sense and consumer demand, for there is no compassion
amongst the executives, only an eternity of price increases and re-releases
and the laughter of thirsting investors.

But the marketplace is a big place and, whatever happens, you will not be valued.

Bra-vo man, bra-vo

If it would fit, i'd put it in my sig.

**bubber**

exalted!

**reds8n**

http://warhammerworld.games-workshop.com/2015/12/28/exclusives-and-pre-releases-at-games-workshops-40th-birthday-party/

On January 2nd and 3rd here at Warhammer World we are celebrating Games Workshop reaching its 40th Birthday, and entering our 41st year – an auspicious number if ever there was one!

If you have a ticket to join us at Warhammer World for one of these great days, we’ve already revealed some of what you can see and do here, and as birthdays are all about getting exciting and cool new things – here is more news about what you can get your hands on!

Forge World pre-releases and first chance to buy!

The big exciting news is that we’ll have a limited number available of the latest addition to The Horus Heresy Character Series: Corvus Corax, the Primarch of the Raven Guard Space Marine Legion. You can see the miniature and get him here before anywhere else! There may be other Forge World pre-releases to announce as well…

This is also your first chance to get two brand new Forge World t-shirt designs.

Birthday Event Exclusive art prints

We’re adding 10 new prints to our art range for this event only, commemorating some classic moments from Games Workshop through the years, right up to today. These prints are mounted and ready to frame, so are a great way to share your love of the hobby at home!

Event Exclusive models

As the birthday celebrations for Games Workshop are a very special event for Warhammer World, it’ll be one of the final chances to get the 2015 event exclusive models from Forge World. Don’t miss them!

New Warhammer World exclusives

This event is your first chance to get the newest t-shirt designs we’re adding to the Warhammer World exclusives range. Of course you’ll be able to buy the HQ Command Tanks, Blood Oath campaign book, mugs, hoodies and more that are only available to purchase in person here at Warhammer World!

It’s the perfect chance to get something unique to remember your visit, or as a gift for someone special back home.

A Birthday isn’t complete without a few surprises, so at the event you may find some other great pre-releases and special opportunities to help with the celebrations!

Gonna assume this will be the last of the 2015 event exclusive models, otherwise ..well...

**SilverMK2**

Are they actually giving anything away at this event, or is it just a "bring your wallet!" event?

**kitch102**

I have tickets for the Sunday, going with my dad and brother in law. Hopefully GW won't mind that I'm turning up skint though!

I wonder if they'll have security guards on the door, patting people down to check that they have enough money to enter. Kinda like Australian customs.

**Yodhrin**

I still can't get over how monumentally stupid it is for them to limit merch sales to events only. I mean seriously, one of the main reasons to even do merch in the first place is to turn people into walking billboards for your products, and then GW go and severely limit the pool of people who can buy one?

I mean maybe, maybe if they were trying their usual "better than solid gold!" BS and selling the shirts for £500 each you could justify limiting it to the people who love them enough to attend events just to buy things a few weeks early and hear the staff tell them there's nothing they're allowed to tell them, but they're priced similarly to a lot of band and brand-style shirts, so it makes zero sense - any amount of sales you might be generating by touting them as event exclusives would be dwarfed by the amount you could make by simply making them available to a wider audience through the internet or stores.

**Buttery Commissar**

Got a ticket for the Saturday. None of my friends stirred their stumps and did the same, so I'm going solo. :(
With it being free tickets and no confirmation, they went quickly, and people who have no intention of going could just as easily grab a spot.

That said, I'm looking forward to it. The staff are always lovely, the new reveals will doubtless be lost on me, but scrap daemon sounds fun.

I hope there's cake.

[Insert complaint about something here]

**Vermis**

Buttery Commissar wrote:

[Insert complaint about something here]

I think it can wait 'til you get back.

(Tho seriously, I hope it's a decent day out.)

**Buttery Commissar**

Always is. If nothing else I hide out in the Black Library store and wait for things to quieten down. Guy in there is a gentleman and a very cool person to talk to.
Somehow my card just ends up in the machine, so I suspect also a Jedi.