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 Overread wrote:
Because this is a physical product not a digital product of course.

It's a box full of random stuff from the warehouse, not a new or newly packaged product.

 Arbitrator wrote:

 Undead_Love-Machine wrote:

 Arbitrator wrote:

 Undead_Love-Machine wrote:

I remember the usual suspects on Dakka saying how terrible the value would end up being. They were wrong.

I remember a lot of people being disappointed with the AoS and Underworlds ones mostly being accessory tat.

The 40k ones were pretty okay I think?

If you think that getting 40k models for half price is "pretty okay"...well, I guess you're a bit of a glass half empty kind of guy

I mean, isn't that better than or equal to trade price?

The underworlds one was listed at the time as being models and accessories, so they made that clear?

GW defo can't please everyone, but from your comments they can never please you.

It's 'okay' because unless you're someone who only buys to paint it's kind pretty so-so if you're getting stuff you're not interested in or don't collect. Yeah you can sell it on but so is everybody else who bought the box.

They made nothing clear. You could have got a deck box and everything else be models. Or it could have been entirely tat except for one model. Not being clear is kind of the point of these loot boxes.

They made it VERY clear in the previous "Loot drop" that the Underworlds box was not only models but also gaming aids. Yes, the point of these loot boxes is that you don't know exactly what you are getting, well done for stating the obvious.

 Arbitrator wrote:
But I'm sure GW could literally defecate in the box and you'd thank them for it.

No thanks, I'm not into that.

Let me make something clear to you: when your opinion is always negative your opinion is effectively worthless.

And before you accuse me of the opposite (again), my post history is far from being all positive.

Yeah, obviously there is a set sling of warehouse floor scrapings that are available to be poured into the boxes

Presumably in order for them to ship this week, the stock for these boxes is already prepared just waiting for the shipping labels. GW aren't just sending pickers to grab random stuff off warehouse shelves, there will be a short list of items ready to go. There will be a finite number of each box they can sell in each region.

 Flinty wrote:
Hah. It wasn’t available, I took the dog for a walk, and now it is sold out

Says temp out of stock, not sold out. So maybe they'll throw some more together.

 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:

 Flinty wrote:
Hah. It wasn’t available, I took the dog for a walk, and now it is sold out

Says temp out of stock, not sold out. So maybe they'll throw some more together.

I hope so, but I doubt it.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Overread wrote:
Because this is a physical product not a digital product of course.

It's a box full of random stuff from the warehouse, not a new or newly packaged product.

Because random and infinite aren't the same thing? The drops are probably put together from warehouse overstocks and the like, so once that stuff has gone that's it. Just because a retailer is selling a product with random contents it doesn't follow that they're throwing everything they have into them.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Overread wrote:
Because this is a physical product not a digital product of course.

It's a box full of random stuff from the warehouse, not a new or newly packaged product.

The GW Warehouse is a magical wonderful place, but even GW haven't harnessed the power of a dimensional portal to the realm of infinite sprue to just fill infinite boxes with.


Again its a physical product, once the stock allocated for it is gone its, well, gone. Considering its likely GW clearing overstock they likely boxed it all up already and are just selling off X amount of boxes to clear space in their warehouse for a new production year and all.

 Overread wrote:


The GW Warehouse is a magical wonderful place, but even GW haven't harnessed the power of a dimensional portal to the realm of infinite sprue to just fill infinite boxes with.

I'm liking this new version of you.

It's like you woke up one day and thought "logic and reasoning just doesn't work with these people, I need to stoop to their level"

Can we just not instead? Would be a wonderful start to the new year to not have a n&r thread cluttered up with the usual tired nonsense.

 Overread wrote:
The GW Warehouse is a magical wonderful place, but even GW haven't harnessed the power of a dimensional portal to the realm of infinite sprue to just fill infinite boxes with.

Cool... that's helpful.

 Overread wrote:
Again its a physical product, once the stock allocated for it is gone its, well, gone. Considering its likely GW clearing overstock they likely boxed it all up already and are just selling off X amount of boxes to clear space in their warehouse for a new production year and all.

I would've thought their extra stuff would have lasted more than a few hours. That's all I'm saying.

It’s clear from the start they’ve said limited stock.

It’s not random stuff, it’s mystery content.
So they can easily run out of however many of a box they prepared.

Random is an entirely different thing.

No need to bash GW (as usual) when they’ve actually done discount deal boxes which by last year were great offerings really.



Personally I won’t go for it in the end. Too much random option in there that I may end up not using etc.
Elves is cool but there are various factions that could be, would it be a mix or would you get all Idoneth and so on.

Underworlds is a possible. If no accessory bags etc this time then even better. I’d happily have a spray in there too as they’re always useful.
That’s gonna be what. Maybe a starter box, a single warband, and then a spray and some paint, or a deck of cards etc.

The only issue is repeats there. If it’s only S5 and S6, then I’d be fine as I never got any. But too unknowns..

Only idoneth is least likely. Too good of a value then rather mix of elves.

Tempted but too much for my taste for gambling.

Chopxsticks wrote:
Will these be dropping on the US site and do we know when?

*Supply Drops are only available in the UK, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan regions.

 Breotan wrote:

Chopxsticks wrote:
Will these be dropping on the US site and do we know when?

*Supply Drops are only available in the UK, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan regions.

Yeah, I thought that was odd. I guess they just didn't want to make enough to meet the expected US demand?

I’d get the Aelves one if I knew it only contained Daughters of Khaine and/or Idoneth. There’s too much of a risk that what it actually contains is left over old wood elf kits and stupid looking cow elves.

 Tannhauser42 wrote:

 Breotan wrote:

Chopxsticks wrote:
Will these be dropping on the US site and do we know when?

*Supply Drops are only available in the UK, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan regions.

Yeah, I thought that was odd. I guess they just didn't want to make enough to meet the expected US demand?

Not sure that works as an explanation. They didn't make enough to meet the expected anywhere demand.

Are the old High/Dark elves considered to be solely 'Cities of Sigmar' these days?

Quite a few of the older Warhammer kits I wouln't mind getting my hands on, the new bovine elves... not so much!

It does say that the order one is themed so hopefullly it’s a coherent lot.

My expectation is that it’ll be older cities of Sigmar and Stormcast probably.

Aelf box ….. I’d expect Lumineth

Ordered one of each so will see ! 40K one seems to have been out of stock since they went live this morning on U.K. store so who knows ?

 Tannhauser42 wrote:

 Breotan wrote:

Chopxsticks wrote:
Will these be dropping on the US site and do we know when?

*Supply Drops are only available in the UK, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan regions.

Yeah, I thought that was odd. I guess they just didn't want to make enough to meet the expected US demand?

Considering supply drops are more likely the result of excess stock at warehouses it likely means that the USA warehouse has no major overstocks in any one product line to make it worth doing any kind of drop-bundle discount.

Remember GW's products are valid all year round and don't depreciate after release. As a result this is purely them clearing floorspace and nothing more. They aren't clearing out christmas jumpers before the Easter-egg themed ones stock in; or clearing out winter clothes for the spring line or such. They also have no reason to over-produce to meet demand for these kidn of releases; they don't have to maximise productivity to meet demand for 50% off prices when they can just produce at a regular rate and sell at 100% or trade prices etc..

This is just sweeping out the warehouse. It's a great deal for people who might have multiple armies and can find value in a grab-bag of models within a niche; or for those who are painters/collectors who really don't care if models fit into armies or such. Heck those who do a lot of bits crafting and such might also love this kind of release to get a boatload of bits on the cheap.

All but the Aelf one are gone.

No one mentioned it might be the lizards?

I'd expect GW to dump old, bad sculpts of units they are about to replace with teased brand new stuff...

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Flinty wrote:
Hah. It wasn’t available, I took the dog for a walk, and now it is sold out

How does one "sell out" of a box filled with random stuff?

In typical fashion they underestimated the demand and didn’t produce enough boxes .

Wonder if any might have scented candles in them?

 Theophony wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Flinty wrote:
Hah. It wasn’t available, I took the dog for a walk, and now it is sold out

How does one "sell out" of a box filled with random stuff?

In typical fashion they underestimated the demand and didn’t produce enough boxes .

You don't understand what's going on, do you?

The whole point of these is to clear excess stock.

The 'Elf' box is probably a bunch of old High/Dark/Wood Elves that are about to be replaced by an updated Cities of Sigmar line. So, I wouldn't mind being able to get my hands on one, if they'd been available in the US...

I feel this is going to be less excess stock and more like clearing out old empire high/dark elf stuff for the arrival of Cities of Sigmar. For the Aelf and Order boxes anyway.

 Manfred von Drakken wrote:
The 'Elf' box is probably a bunch of old High/Dark/Wood Elves that are about to be replaced by an updated Cities of Sigmar line. So, I wouldn't mind being able to get my hands on one, if they'd been available in the US...

I was thinking the same, fortunately I was able to pick one up. Too late for the 40k one though, oh well!


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 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:
I feel this is going to be less excess stock and more like clearing out old empire high/dark elf stuff for the arrival of Cities of Sigmar. For the Aelf and Order boxes anyway.

Well, yes...it's all in the "excess stock" category isn't it?

I got the elves and order boxes, I'll be over the moon if it's all Cities of Sigmar stuff. I'm getting really excited about incoming new range, but equally I want to make sure that I get all of the current stuff before it's no longer available.

I hope it's not Lizardmen stuff like Irbis suggested...

I found the 2020 lists for the "Imperium supply drop":

Australians got:
Knight Castellan
Kor'saaro Khan
Kayvaan Shrike
Scouts
Scouts with sniper rifles

The UK/Ireland version was:
Marine bikes
Arco-flagellants
Fenris wolves
Adrax Agatone
Master Lazarus
Mephiston
Khan (UK)
ETB Redemptor dread (Ireland)

I really don't think it's Cities. Last time I checked they were on concept art stage and won't come for quite a bit yet. Lizards are around the corner judging by big teaser. Also, last year the random boxes were almost all brand new items GW overproduced, so it's probably cow or shark elves. I'd bet on shark ones because Lumineth used to be very strong and sold well. Unless of course they stopped selling that good after nerf

You may well be correct. I wouldn't be sad about receiving any sort of elves though, be they cow or sea variants.

I'm expecting both Sigmarines and Lizardmen in the order bundle (but hope for neither), but either way if I'm unhappy I'll be able to get back at least what I paid unless I'm very unlucky.