| Tango01 | 08 Jun 2014 11:02 p.m. PST |
Games Workshop is taking orders for their new Flash Gitz unit over on their webshop.
From here
link Amicalement
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| Mithmee | 08 Jun 2014 11:07 p.m. PST |
So they still paint in the Clan colors even though they hardly ever mention the Clans any more. Plus for what they want for these there are better things to put into an Ork army. |
chuck05  | 09 Jun 2014 5:59 a.m. PST |
Old news. This one is from last Friday. TMP link |
 Miniatureships  | 09 Jun 2014 8:48 a.m. PST |
May have been old news from Friday, but I didn't see it. Also, compared to this posting, Like the pictures here which do more to draw my attention then just a post about price and such with a link. |
| Mithmee | 09 Jun 2014 12:11 p.m. PST |
Well that is why GW uses petty pictures of their overpriced models. If they showed you the price up front you would not think about giving them any money. |
 javelin98  | 09 Jun 2014 12:42 p.m. PST |
Pshaw, Mithmee! That's what second mortgages are for! |
| Patrick Sexton | 09 Jun 2014 1:01 p.m. PST |
Over priced is in the eye of the beholder and also in just what value the product supplies for what the cash cost is.
Myself, I have never bought any GW products that I found to be overpriced in the long run. Except for the latest Tyranid Codex.That should have been one third to one half less expensive. |
| 15mm and 28mm Fanatik | 09 Jun 2014 3:36 p.m. PST |
I like the red Gorkanaut with the crazy hypno-eye. if you paint it yellow, put a wig on it and paint its 'lips' red, it can be called 'Mindynaut' to go with 'Morkanaut.' Get it? |
| Mithmee | 09 Jun 2014 7:32 p.m. PST |
Over priced is in the eye of the beholder Yes it is and I could make a list of all of the GW miniatures that I have and then have you price them out at today's prices. It should be somewhere around $13,000 USD give or take and that is just for the 9 armies that I have for 40K & WFB. Does not even include any of the five armies for 40K Epic. Oh and if I was going to buy the Army books & Codexes for these 9 armies those alone would be right around $500. USD So there is a limit on what I am willing to spend my money on. Oh it not buying plastic miniatures that cost $11 USD-$30 dollars for one. To build a Flash Gitz army that I would want that would take around 200-250 models. At the current price of around $58 USD for five that would mean the 150-180 Ork Boyz would cost around $1,750 USD-$2100. Then I would need the support stuff. Would cost over $3,000 USD just of buy one army. |
| Pictors Studio | 10 Jun 2014 11:13 a.m. PST |
I guess don't play orks then if you can't afford it. I'm not sure how that is overpriced, though. They are very high quality models that are expensive to produce. If they were actually overpriced then GW wouldn't sell any of them. They seem to be selling them so they must not be overpriced. |
| peterx | 10 Jun 2014 3:03 p.m. PST |
Pictors Studio, in fact, GW has cut workers, stores and whole national divisions from their payroll. They are trying to save money because they have lost sales lately, and their profits have declined or gone into the red. So, maybe we old GW "Longbeards" are a grumpy cheap bunch, however, we may be right on this overpriced issue. |
| Mithmee | 10 Jun 2014 3:04 p.m. PST |
Thing is I already have several hundred Ork & Gretchen miniatures. Plus I can find vehicles for far less than GW prices. I did mentioned that I have 9 armies: 40K – Dark Angels, Guardians of the Covenant, Eldar, Imperial Guard & Orks WFB – High Elves, Empire, Dwarves & Orks & Goblins 40K Epic, Space Marines, Eldar, Imperial Guard, Squats (they aren't dead here) & Orks Sure I spent around $1,500 USD – $2,000 USD for them but that was for everything. Today that amount will barely get you one army. So yes GW prices of today are way overpriced. |
| Pictors Studio | 10 Jun 2014 4:32 p.m. PST |
They might be doing all of that. Their stock prices have risen fairly steadily over the last 5 years. link So, in fact, they seem to be moving along okay. They are almost back to the level where they were during the height of the LotR thing back in the early 2000s. I'd say your estimate of their financial health is probably off. Mithmee, Your argument is essentially this: Flowers need carbon to stay alive. Toaster use electricity. Therefore wheels are square. The fact is that the armies today are not overpriced because the company selling them is still selling them and they seem to be doing okay doing so. I'm not sure where your basis is for something being overpriced. Is Megan Fox overhot because she won't date you? |
| Mithmee | 10 Jun 2014 7:52 p.m. PST |
Their stock is quite volatile and is not one I would ever invest in. As to their Financials they are not doing okay. link link Sure they have recovered somewhat but that is more to releasing 40K then any thing else. Oh plus spreading their costs as much as possible. Like cutting back on store hours or just closing them out right. link link Plus they totally revamp White Dwarf (which by the way has not been worth buying since the late 1990's) What happens after the 7th Edition of 40K spike dies off? When you have a company that needs to close a good chunk of their business plus cuts back on items or totally revamps them… You have a company that is doing whatever it can to stay afloat. They are not growing and a big reason for that is the cost to get into today. |
 Legion 4  | 11 Jun 2014 7:10 a.m. PST |
Their stock prices have risen fairly steadily over the last 5 years. Proving P.T. Barnum's famous saying …  |
| wehrmacht | 12 Jun 2014 1:33 p.m. PST |
What happens after the 7th Edition of 40K spike dies off? 8th edition, duhhh…. |
| Mithmee | 12 Jun 2014 5:27 p.m. PST |
So in around 6 months or less than. |
