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It surprised me too. Does anyone know how it is as a terrain piece? The price seems all right, if nothing else.

 Kanluwen wrote:

tneva82 wrote:
Stuff goes out of stock and back all the time.

This isn't an "in and out of stock" situation. They flatout were not for sale for a chunk of time.

So were Easterling Kataphracts but with Defence coming out soon no way were they getting rid of those.

I'd just blame GW's bizzaro IT system/website being it's usual self.

Nah. This is something different. They announce when things are coming back.

They've been available to purchase at WHW for a long time, I haven't ever seen them disappear from the shelves. I'm fairly certain that I've also been able to find them online too, most of the time, so maybe this is something made visible for those outside of the UK?

Ok, nice to know I'm not going mad.

Eiríkr wrote:
They've been available to purchase at WHW for a long time, I haven't ever seen them disappear from the shelves. I'm fairly certain that I've also been able to find them online too, most of the time, so maybe this is something made visible for those outside of the UK?

WHW has had a lot of stuff like this still available over the years...but yeah. It wasn't available on the US webstore for at least two years. I had it on a wishlist I made a few years back, it ceased being there--and it was the only item removed.

 Kanluwen wrote:
It wasn't available on the US webstore for at least two years.

Definitely wasn't available on the OZ site either for I couldn't tell you how long. A few years at least.



As an aside, it's come back at the same price too! Which is nice.

Well this doesn't sound good: https://variety.com/2022/film/news/lord-of-the-rings-hobbit-tolkien-zaentz-rights-sale-1235176036/

Hollywood is about to stampede into Middle Earth. An array of movie, merchandising, gaming and live event rights to “Lord of the Rings,” “The Hobbit” and other titles from author J.R.R. Tolkien are coming up for auction now that the Saul Zaentz Co. has decided to sell its Tolkien holdings.

Unlikely to affect anything for years, if at all.

 krijthebold wrote:
It surprised me too. Does anyone know how it is as a terrain piece? The price seems all right, if nothing else.

It's one of the best terrain pieces in an already excellent range of scenery. Seriously great value for how characterful and useful it is.

You think there is a chance we'll get an easterling chariot model in this new book?

I hope so.

zombie_sky_diver wrote:
You think there is a chance we'll get an easterling chariot model in this new book?

I hope so.

I hope so too. That would be great. I would also like so Rhun Drakes as well.

The Captain of Dale is metal, is this the first time that a model that was originally Finecast has returned in metal?

zombie_sky_diver wrote:
You think there is a chance we'll get an easterling chariot model in this new book?

I hope so.

Seems to be a surprising lack of Khand in this book, so I doubt it. If there's anymore than the Dragon Emperor to reveal it'll be a pleasant surprise.

Santtu wrote:
The Captain of Dale is metal, is this the first time that a model that was originally Finecast has returned in metal?

I'd not be too shocked if it was a mistake on their part. I think there's a few cases on the webstore where a model is listed as metal/Finecrap and it's the opposite.

 Snrub wrote:
Have the Ruins of Osgiliath quietly slipped back into production? I'd swear blind that they weren't available earlier in the year....

It seems to be 'temporarily out of stock' on the UK site, and also has all its copyright information in German, for some reason.

I put in an order for 2 of the Easterling MTO lots; it'll be nice to finally have a proper number of pikemen without having to try to come up with 3rd party bits or something.

Santtu wrote:
The Captain of Dale is metal, is this the first time that a model that was originally Finecast has returned in metal?

Confirmed by the MESBG team on Facebook it's an error.

 judgedoug wrote:

 krijthebold wrote:
It surprised me too. Does anyone know how it is as a terrain piece? The price seems all right, if nothing else.

It's one of the best terrain pieces in an already excellent range of scenery. Seriously great value for how characterful and useful it is.

Much thanks! Today may be the day that I actually buy some terrain, then

I broke down and grabbed 2 sets of Osgiliath ruins, a set of armored Moria goblins, and chucked in a Galadriel at the last minute.

Maybe old news for the rest of you but I only just came across this…

https://variety.com/2021/film/news/lord-of-the-rings-anime-the-war-of-the-rohirrim-new-line-cinema-warner-bros-animation-1234993740/

That might sell some Rohan minis.

Well that's got me infinitely more excited then the amazon show.

Hope the animation quality is up to scratch.

Does gw have the license for the Amazon show? I thought the trailer looked pretty good.

Chikout wrote:
Does gw have the license for the Amazon show? I thought the trailer looked pretty good.

If they have, they haven't announced it as far as I know. Would be an entirely separate deal to their existing license (one would assume) so they may just not have seen the value in attempting it.

 Grumpy Gnome wrote:
Maybe old news for the rest of you but I only just came across this…

https://variety.com/2021/film/news/lord-of-the-rings-anime-the-war-of-the-rohirrim-new-line-cinema-warner-bros-animation-1234993740/

That might sell some Rohan minis.

That does sound more promising than the Amazon show. I can't find any indication on when this might be released yet.

It's a bit hard to get excited about an anime without seeing any images yet, for me at least.

 krijthebold wrote:
It's a bit hard to get excited about an anime without seeing any images yet, for me at least.

What you need is that time machine people are using to unconditionally say the Amazon series is gak.

 .Mikes. wrote:
What you need is that time machine people are using to unconditionally say the Amazon series is gak.

Same as with Witcher, racists see someone with slightly darker skin color and start rabidly screeching. Even for a character who comes from a place (in either setting) located where Africa or Middle East is in real life. Not that logic has any bearing for these types.

And the even funnier part is, the 'white' medieval Europe these imbeciles imagine never actually existed to begin with, and the trope had been debunked thousands of times, not that, once again, facts can do anything about these delusions:

https://fakehistoryhunter.net/2019/09/10/medieval-myths-bingo/#notraciallydiverse

Yeah. Could we just not go there in this thread please?

It's even worse when idiots assume that if you don't like the thing they like, you must be a racist.

Ok personally I'm just not trying to pass judgment on either one until they come out.

I was not trying to make this a thing.

The idea of an anime based in Rohan might be a lot of fun, I'd just like to see more than a few paragraphs, you know?