PETA asks GW to ban Fur from Warhammer characters

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**Marxist artist**

What about all the leather straps, garments and hats! Half the grimdark going to be naked!

**AegisGrimm**

Just remember, everyone. Fur of alien wolves is so bad, it proves those inhuman monsters the Space Wolves are evil. They need to stick to good, honorable body-horror material like the good guys of the Imperium deal in:

**jhe90**

Vulcan wrote:
Relapse wrote:
Imagine you are in the middle of a game at your local store and a PITA character pops in and drenches your minis in a bucket of red paint!
Hilarity ensues.

Knowing the group I play with, it would be a big boot party immediately afterwards.

And many of them wear steel toed boots...

You know I think man at arms.. The smiths who make movie props etc make a working chainsword

And a model minis skulls.. They even exist lpl

**Marxist artist**

Leather coats are out, death korp of kreig, get off your horses!

**Byte**

Liberal ridiculousness creeps into minis. To funny.

None of the Primarchs are female. Thats sexiest. Lol

**streetsamurai**

Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:
Snake Tortoise wrote:
As utterly ridiculous as this is, it does make me nervous that triggered snowflakes are paying attention to 40k. Hopefully GW ignore this crap and it goes no further

If there are triggered snowflakes involved, it's definitely those that wrote, signed, and took that petition seriously. That got to be the most absurd thing ever. GW is known for NOT engaging into any meaningful conversation with its fanbase. They would never listen to any petition, and you should know it. Especially not a petition that asks them to do something that could only hurt from a PR statement. PETA is doing this kind of publicity stunts all the freaking time. Don't you remember the Pokemon one? And the Mario one? And the other Pokemon one? And… They do it because it works. It works because thin-skin outraged gamers spread the word far and loud.

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streetsamurai wrote:
Considering what PETA just did I have a lot of objections with calling this petition one of the dumbest thing ever

PETA's publicity stunt, while not very clever, definitely is much more cunning and efficient at reaching their goal than that literally useless and pitiful (66 needed to reach 100 LOLOLOL) petition is.

If their goal is to make fools of themselves and completely delegitimize their cause, yeah this publicity stunt achieve this. I'm nitpicking though. Agreed that this petition is a waste of time.

**jhe90**

Salamanders... Oh fire drakes. Please de cloak.

**Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl**

streetsamurai wrote:
If their goal is to make fools of themselves and completely delegitimize their cause, yeah this publicity stunt achieve this. I'm nitpicking though.

A lot more people think they are stupid but a few will give them money so it's worth it.

It ain't affecting how anyone with a brain think about their cause because they can make the difference between the cause and PETA's publicity stunt.

**streetsamurai**

Disagreed strongly. It only make them look like irrationnal extremists, who waste their times on futility instead of trying to make something worthwhile. They seems to be believer in the ''Any publicity is good publicity'' adage, but it is completely discredited.

I would think that these kinds of stunts only results in persons turning towards other animal protection groups.

**Relapse**

Vulcan wrote:
Relapse wrote:
Imagine you are in the middle of a game at your local store and a PITA character pops in and drenches your minis in a bucket of red paint!
Hilarity ensues.

Knowing the group I play with, it would be a big boot party immediately afterwards.

And many of them wear steel toed boots...

What if it was Khorne or Blood Angels, though? Might save some money on undercoating!

**Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl**

streetsamurai wrote:
I would think that these kinds of stunts only results in persons turning towards other animal protection groups.

I assumed “their cause” meant “animal protection”. If you meant “their cause” as in “PETA's funding” it's another matter entirely ^^. Plenty of people despise PETA even among hardcore animal right activists, for a bunch of reason.

**Lord Kragan**

Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:
streetsamurai wrote:
If their goal is to make fools of themselves and completely delegitimize their cause, yeah this publicity stunt achieve this. I'm nitpicking though.

A lot more people think they are stupid but a few will give them money so it's worth it.

It ain't affecting how anyone with a brain think about their cause because they can make the difference between the cause and PETA's publicity stunt.

It's actually more damaging. Sure, a thousand people may see and maybe one of them may pay. Compare that them making a good publicity (ie: them NOT being involved in scandals and doing good noteworthy stuff) where a hundred people hear it and 20 buy it. 20vs1, even though the afforum is smaller, is a better result. And this scenario would scale up better as word diffused. People will be more willing to contact and need you if they hear you do your job. I still have to see people going to the village idiot's "clinic" to get medical help willingly.

**Thargrim**

I find it odd they would even target such a niche hobby. But yeah this is pretty stupid. If GW allows themselves to be intimidated by this then I will be immensely disappointed in them as a company. Considering this is a fantasy universe where people have chopped off heads on their armor, clutched in their hands etc and heavily mutilated people etc.

Just a joke, really..

**Matt.Kingsley**

I'm not sure if it's just a coincidence or on purpose, but one of the local GWs here just reposted the Warhammer TV's Tip of the Day - Fur Coats on their Facebook page.

"Whether it's for a Chaos Warrior, Space Wolf or the new Stormcast Vanguard out in February. What's an easy way to paint fur coats? ... If you'd like to join the fun and learn how to paint some fur coats. We have you covered."

**dosiere**

this is just sad, considering all the real problems in the world for both humans and animals.

**Dakka Wolf**

Here's hoping GW release some 'Fur Keeps' edition Space Wolves models.

**Jehan-reznor**

I hope GW will release a Fur enhancement kit,

Fur capes, Fur Gloves, Fur underwear and Fur hats to make your mini's Furry!

**Dakka Wolf**

Jehan-reznor wrote:
I hope GW will release a Fur enhancement kit,

Fur capes, Fur Gloves, Fur underwear and Fur hats to make your mini's Furry!

Davey Crocket hats!!...Surely raccoons would survive to the 41st millenium with PETA on the case?

**Peregrine**

Byte wrote:
Liberal ridiculousness creeps into minis. To funny.

None of the Primarchs are female. Thats sexiest. Lol

PETA are not liberals, they're attention whores that transcend the liberal/conservative scale.

**Thargrim**

I do find it amusing this happens right as we're about to get a subfaction of stormcast eternals whose main visual difference is being decked out in pelts and furs. But they also fight alongside/ ride animals and presumably treat them with respect.

The liberal junk has already tainted star wars and mass effect, but don't dare try to change my beloved warhammer stuff.

**Peregrine**

Peregrine wrote:
PETA are not liberals, they're attention whores that transcend the liberal/conservative scale.

**Bi'ios**

Maybe it's really a deep cover guerilla advertising scheme

**Rootbeard**

Relapse wrote:
Imagine you are in the middle of a game at your local store and a PITA character pops in and drenches your minis in a bucket of red paint!
Hilarity ensues.

My god, you're just evil!

**chromedog**

kronk wrote:
Tycho wrote:
Nah, they're okay. It's human skin, not animal skin/fur. Everything's good.

PITA cares not from whence the *HUMAN* blood flows!

Mistyping PITA for PETA is LOL worthy!

Edit: Dammit, you fixed it as I was typing! I totes changed it back for posterity!

Well, to be honest, most of the time those knob-jockeys at PETA ARE a bunch of PITAs (and not the bread).

**VeteranNoob**

still laughing from this morning. this is the stupidest thing I've seen in some time on soooooo many levels. Maybe they;ll go after PP for gators and pigs, wolves and of course, trolls. (Internet)Trolls, Scandinavian or otherwise, deserve respec..

oh, I just can't do it.

**KingmanHighborn**

PETA.....that is all, you may continue about your daily routine.

**oldzoggy**

Dakka Wolf wrote:
Here's hoping GW release some 'Fur Keeps' edition Space Wolves models.

Why would they. We the community have just been trolled by PETA.
PETA cares about awareness, they want the world to know that fur is bad. They do not really care about the infinite small portion of the population who happens to be a GW customer and be inspired to buy fur.
They do however care about poking us as a vocal and easy to stir fan base into a response that spreads their message for free.

So what GW, and we should really do is just ignore this troll attempt. We do not want to show them that this is an effective way to market their message or we are in for more of this crap in the future.

**Azazelx**

DarkTraveler777 wrote:
As an animal lover, this kind of crap infuriates me.

This move does nothing to actually help animals, or reduce animal suffering in the world. It just makes those concerned about animal mistreatment look like fething lunatics.

Feth you, PETA. Stick with what you know - stealing and killing people's pets.

Well said, mate.

**oldzoggy**

Bi'ios wrote:
Maybe it's really a deep cover guerilla advertising scheme

Jup this. Thats all what the largest branch of PETA and most other NGO's are about.
We are being trolled and used guys, please move along in an orderly fashion unless you really want more of this sort of hip new commercials in your hobby.

**Azazelx**

jhe90 wrote:

Not a irrational reaction.
All they need to send is a polite neatly made up no letter to Peta.
No fuss, no anger just a firm refusal.

That would be silly. All they "need" to do is not address or acknowledge the silly "press release" or the equally silly petition in any way and the whole thing will be completely forgotten in less than a week.