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How far back can they go and can I get old plastics? I would love Diaz deamonettes and more plastic empire free company.

Diaz deamonettes don't pop up often on ebay and when they do they are so expensive. Totally worth dealing with resin casts.

Please bring back all the commissars, please being back all the commissars, please being back all the commissars, seriously GW please

Would absolutely LOVE some of the original multi-part plastic kits, for conversions. That plus old school Blood Bowl, and WHFB Halflings.

 Lockark wrote:
How far back can they go and can I get old plastics? I would love Diaz deamonettes and more plastic empire free company.

Diaz deamonettes don't pop up often on ebay and when they do they are so expensive. Would totally really with resin casts.

If they brought back Diaz Daemonettes I'd be so hyped i'd want at least 60 for another flayertoupe.

from reddit

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**BIG NEWS**
Made to order items:
From 15/10 we will be re-issuing some discontinued models, on a made to order basis. Watch this space for more info.

I guess it depends on how far it goes back and what they will be cast in. If it's Fineca$t™ I wont touch it. I worked with enough of those models to have a VERY healthy hatred for that medium. If they will do old metals from like the 90's...( not fething likely but one can hope) to cash in on the Ebay scalpers turf then well "shut up and take my money". Altho I think the molds to those where lost many many moons ago sadly.

EDIT: Posted to the wrong thread somehow.

If they make the old commissars in metal, awesome. If they make it in finecast, everything is horrible

My guess is that it will actually just be discontinued resin models. But if so, I hope one is the Crimson Fists Standard Bearer. I would LOVE to give that standard to my current bearer. Perhaps they will rerelease the vehicle icons as well. I need more.

Immolator When?

What I want: the discontinued plastic WHFB scenery kits, the discontinued plastic WHFB regiments AND the discontinued metal/finecast WHFB characters, the old Specialist Games ranges(BFG, Necromunda, Mordheim primarily but GorkaMorka would be welcome), and the full SoB/Inquisition/Ecclesiarchy range that went away with the demise of the combined Inquisition 'dexes.

What will actually happen: a half-arsed rerun of Last Chance To Buy with a tiny selection of Finecast models, mostly 40K and mostly Space Marines.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Ash Wastes gangers for Necromunda.

Any Necromunda minis, really.

I'd buy the Cawdor minis if I could.

Hope it is true. I can buy the old blast master noise marine with the bolter guitar. Or the Orc Cheerleader.

 conker249 wrote:
Hope it is true. I can buy the old blast master noise marine with the bolter guitar. Or the Orc Cheerleader.

YES! I would buy a bunch of these just to have! If they brought back some of the corny stuff like Boltguitar, this would already be a winning idea.

My concern is that they will start to move all Finecast stuff into this format. Everything is already direct order, this would just allow them to limit stock sitting in a warehouse. All the while probably giving everything a 30% price increase.

Hahahaha!

This mean the investors might pushed GW at their yearly shareholder meeting. We might even see a Warhammer Fantasy comeback next year.

Also Bretonnian and Tomb kings FLC and DLC comes soon on TW:W.

Hahahaha!

I need to prepare my wallet.

Pygmies.



If GW allows me to order a set, I would.

 JohnHwangDD wrote:
Pygmies.



If GW allows me to order a set, I would.

I would dish some cash out for some Dogs of War, Bugmans Rangers and Ulthers Dragon Company.

I'd be all over Tomb Kings kits.

I think hoping for terrain is pushing it, but I'd go crazy on that too.

As much as I would love to see some of the classic minis come back, I think this will initially be limited to the minis that went out of stock last year. I am also worried about how expensive these things will be.
There is potential for this to be a great thing for gw, but the devil is in the detail in this case.

Hmm, this is great news indeed but I'm a little unsure if I should tell the fantasy forums about it and get their hopes up.

My worry is this might be just be for 40k products with fantasy molds gone.

I guess I'll spread the word but I'm still doubtful. Would be lovely to have more Bretonnians balance out my Stormcast purchases, though.

 Rydria wrote:

 Lockark wrote:
How far back can they go and can I get old plastics? I would love Diaz deamonettes and more plastic empire free company.

Diaz deamonettes don't pop up often on ebay and when they do they are so expensive. Would totally really with resin casts.

If they brought back Diaz Daemonettes I'd be so hyped i'd want at least 60 for another flayertoupe.

Tell me about it. I'm trying not to get my hopes up, but thows are mini's are what I'm REALY hoping for. Considering that they go for like $20 per model on ebay it's clear their are alot of slaanesh fans who miss them.

So they will bring back fantasy?

Parts of it, if fortune favors us.

 casvalremdeikun wrote:
My concern is that they will start to move all Finecast stuff into this format. Everything is already direct order, this would just allow them to limit stock sitting in a warehouse. All the while probably giving everything a 30% price increase.

My concern is that they'll use this to effectively squat nominally supported legacy lines without booting them from the game/setting completely. Things like aspect warriors, Black Templars, Kroot, the entire SoB range and Slaanesh.

 Abadabadoobaddon wrote:

 casvalremdeikun wrote:
My concern is that they will start to move all Finecast stuff into this format. Everything is already direct order, this would just allow them to limit stock sitting in a warehouse. All the while probably giving everything a 30% price increase.

My concern is that they'll use this to effectively squat nominally supported legacy lines without booting them from the game/setting completely. Things like aspect warriors, Black Templars, Kroot, the entire SoB range and Slaanesh.

Given recent behaviour there's no reason to assume that without this new thing, they wouldn't just get rid of those things anyway with a full-bore Squatting. I'd rather have the thrown bone than nothing at all.

 MrMoustaffa wrote:
Please bring back all the commissars, please being back all the commissars, please being back all the commissars, seriously GW please

This.

And a few of the Vostroyans that were discontinued.

Made to order Space Hulk sets...

Maybe I can get the last Escher in the collection (leader with power sword). Oh boy, I am dreaming with this news - but something tells me it's only going to be plastic kits that have gone through LCTB.

It will be interesting to see if the newer, more interactive GW will use any of their social media outlets or their website to organise polls or votes on what may be made to order.

I am a bit uneducated on the mould front, do they have the old moulds stored or can they use old casts to create new moulds? Possibly a very interesting project anyway.

There was something a couple weeks back where they did a single day re-release in metal for two OOP LotR sets.

I wondered if it was to avoid killing the value for collectors.

That'd be my one worry about going too deep into the back catalogue; killing off army values for folks who paid a lot.

Even when they had it, GW never made very good use of their back catalogue. For example when they brought back militia for the Witch Hunters/SoB they could have done a Cawdor/Redemptionist bundle, or an Arbites/Enforcer bundle for Inquisition Storm Troopers. Unless you had intimate knowledge of GW's product lines a customer wouldn't even know some of these lines existed.

I've suggested something like this for a while, staggered limited releases of different lines. Someone else suggested something like an internal kickstarter, pledge to order a package then when the pre order number hits the goal it's released.

I doubt we will ever see the days when GW had almost every model and bit ever made in stock in US and UK warehouses (remember the great bits collapse of 2002?) but I'm psyked to see something come back from the darkness of shady ebay offers.

 Thraxas Of Turai wrote:
It will be interesting to see if the newer, more interactive GW will use any of their social media outlets or their website to organise polls or votes on what may be made to order.

I am a bit uneducated on the mould front, do they have the old moulds stored or can they use old casts to create new moulds? Possibly a very interesting project anyway.

I remember hearing years ago, that GW more or less kept all of it's master sculpts and master moulds archived for IP purposes. The only exception to this are master moulds and models that former members of GW bought or took with them as part of their severance when they left the company.

So for example this is why Foundry Miniatures has a back catalogue of some of GW's Early catalogue. (Most well Known is they own alot of GW's former Historicals that were re purposed at the time into the original Empire Miniature Line.)

So I imagen that their will be a limit to how far back GW could go with the back catalogue. I don't except any of the realy rare mini's like Chaos Snake men, Saharduin, ect to be available this way. But hopefully it means gaps in the IG metal ranges, SoB, ect can get pluged at the very least.