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How many have been made since GW started, how many are still alive and kicking today. Its got to be in the millions surely ?

Anyone know a figure or a good guesstimate ?




ADDED , did a bit of maths and my guesstimate is that there are about 25 million Space marines still out there somewhere

Ill have a go

taking gross sales to be 100 million a year for the last 25 years

100 million a year
say 50m was miniatures (1/2)
say 25m was 40k (1/2)
say 12.5 was SM stuff (1/2)
say 6.25 was marines (1/2)
say 2.08m @ 3 quid a marine (1/3)

2 million marines a year x 25 years = 50 million marines produced

say half are still alive and kicking = 25 million marines still in circulation ( 100 tons total by weight , 75 million pounds total cost , SM soldiers cost 750,000 pounds a ton that's 1.30p a gram)



so if you have a starter army of 25 marines the you own 1 / millionth of the worlds population

if you have a huge army of 250 marine foot soldiers you have one hundred thousandth of the worlds population





my figures could well be out by a factor of 2 to 4 , but not likely to be out by a factor of 10. So i reckon there must be somewhere between 10 million to 100 million marines still out there on planet earth.

That's a foot slogger army ( upper estimate of 100m ) of roughly 2 billion points , lol



some one care to check my maths or have a better go ?
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my dad has 50 terminators
my uncle has 190....
Yeah the number is well over 1 million.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/379279/2998641.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/379279/2998641.page GMT How many Space Marines are there on planet earth ? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/379279/2998656.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/379279/2998656.page GMT Re:How many Space Marines are there on planet earth ? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/379279/2998662.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/379279/2998662.page GMT How many Space Marines are there on planet earth ? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/379279/2998795.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/379279/2998795.page GMT Re:How many Space Marines are there on planet earth ? <text redacted; the topic is "How many Space Marines are there," not "why Muhr is unhappy with GW's business practices." Stay on topic! --Janthkin>]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/379279/2998920.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/379279/2998920.page GMT How many Space Marines are there on planet earth ? GW calls for ridiculous amounts of money for relatively few models, but this isn't the place to discuss this.

The OP specifically asked a question; how many SM models do you wager exist? He's also looking for some math on the matter.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/379279/3000506.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/379279/3000506.page GMT How many Space Marines are there on planet earth ? FLGS owners should chime in as to the percentage of SMs they sell compared to everything else)]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/379279/3000514.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/379279/3000514.page GMT How many Space Marines are there on planet earth ? GW" chain of posts is unnecessary.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/379279/3000811.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/379279/3000811.page GMT How many Space Marines are there on planet earth ?
Shadelkan wrote:Fine, but starting another "omg, I hate GW" chain of posts is unnecessary.

Heh I never brought it up, only thing the price hikes mean is less product is bought in one spree.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/379279/3000817.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/379279/3000817.page GMT How many Space Marines are there on planet earth ? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/379279/3001404.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/379279/3001404.page GMT How many Space Marines are there on planet earth ? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/379279/3001448.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/379279/3001448.page GMT How many Space Marines are there on planet earth ? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/379279/3001473.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/379279/3001473.page GMT How many Space Marines are there on planet earth ? SM figures

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Now to find my hobby knife...

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