DISQUS

FreemanAIT · 4 months ago

Its the GW corporate strategy game. All you need to simulate a company hemorrhaging money, treat employee and customer both like they were something they stepped in and still have them crawling back for more with a price increase. Game book, board and pieces are all included!!! GW lube sold separately! (It doesn't work but that's the point for the realistic experience)

Drunkencorgimaster · 4 months ago

What you dare criticize GW? Heretic!

-Remember when they said the last (sorry, second-to-last) price hike was caused by the increased price of plastic due to high oil prices? I am still waiting for the corresponding post-oil-price-drop price reduction.

ben · 4 months ago

It going to be a life size inflatable emperor with internal lighting. So you can have your very own icon of his holiness to worship / up lighter in the corner of your living room. It the first stage of GW new finical plan to turn them self into a religion for tax reasons.

Skragger · 4 months ago

"Life size golden throne sold separately" DAMNIT!

Myu · 4 months ago

Curses! :P

Mick A · 4 months ago

Which looks like John Blanche...

hludwig11 · 4 months ago

You know they would if they could, and Jarvis would be their Pope.

mordiano · 4 months ago

ho ho

Alessander · 4 months ago

"It is something that GW has never done before."
… DEAR GOD, ITS A GW PRODUCT THAT WENT THROUGH A SOMEWHAT DECENT QA AND EDITING PHASE!

Molochi · 4 months ago

No, no, it's an product that actually focuses on non-Imperium factions. ;)

Spawn_of_the_Warp · 4 months ago

It is something that GW has never done before.

How about a race of short people for 40k call them squats or something

Snyderson · 4 months ago

"16. August 2009
We drop the bomb!
The top secret highlight of the year -
for the first time ever live at the german Games Day!"

Maybe they start selling shampoo?! You never know when Mark Wells is around... *g*

Daniel Victor Hill · 4 months ago

I am sick of the whole "Shampoo Salesman" bit. We get it, you don't understand business management. Now please stop before you embarrass yourself even more.

Snyderson · 4 months ago

You my friend, obvoiusly do not have the slightest sense of humor.
Aswell you shouldn't judge people depending on your mood - you do not know me and believe me I do understand business management. I work as a business consultant so I think I know a tiny bit about that subject...

an mous · 4 months ago

Or, as shown on the box, it could be a very large foam Question Mark "?". Yeah, that's probably it.

Faolain · 4 months ago

There may or may not be a cat in the box. Or maybe there is and isn't all at once. And it may be alive or dead. Maybe.

fade_74 · 4 months ago

Maybe it's a dead cat.....and a string to swing it with!

Lord Boofhead · 4 months ago

Its Shrodeger's Space Marine!

Capt_Forrix · 4 months ago

"Something GW hasn't done before"

Maybe it's a price cut...

Myu · 4 months ago

But can you really sell a price cut in a box?

faultie · 4 months ago

GW could.

Myu · 4 months ago

Maybe, maybe

Andrew · 4 months ago

40k Trivial Pursuit, fits the bill for all those criteria. :)

Skragger · 4 months ago

You know.. back when I worked at Chapters/Indigo books.. there was a Warhammer 40K trivia book.. a slim little paperback trivia book lol

CHIFF_MoA · 4 months ago

Space Hulk has of course been done before, but my money is on it. Alternatively how about:

Warmaster 40k (15mm in the wh40k universe)?
Horus Heresy game?
Jervis Johnson sings the hit audio recordings of NWA?
Talisman 40k?

Poochute · 4 months ago

well... the third one has comedic value... maybe not $70 USD, but still value.

Beliade · 4 months ago

Warmaster 40k.... You mean Epic?

TheRealChris · 4 months ago

Why not warmaster 40k? There is warmaster ancients, fantasy, WW2 and Sci Fi...

Son of Dorn · 4 months ago

It could be an Imperial Fist board game.
A boy can dream.

Word_Bearer · 4 months ago

"Louis, a boat is a boat, but the mystery box could be anything, even a boat!"

Jonathan · 4 months ago

Who the hell is Louis?

an mous · 4 months ago

Louis Armstrong? Louis Riel? Louis Pasteur? Louis XIV? Louis Vuitton? Louis Braille?

I don't know.

Antikos · 4 months ago

Louis de Funes?

Drunkencorgimaster · 4 months ago

In memorium, I say it is the old Lichemaster "Mikhail Jaxson" skeleton figure from the Warhammer Fantasy Battles Role Playing Game.

Gyar · 4 months ago

Lets hope its not 40k: The Clix Game. :-/

DrPepper · 4 months ago

dear lord that would be the worst thing to 40k ever.

Brian · 4 months ago

I think this is a really crap idea. I'm tired of GW making some of their coolest items "limited, you better be here the day it comes out or you aren't getting one" BS. Yes, I wanted the limited 40K in ammo crate release. But I have a job so I wasn't able to be at the GW store and get one of the 3 or so they had. I tried the local independent store, but they could not get any in. I know others who also wanted this and they were not able to get one. Same thing happened with the Harry the Hammer limited fig. Wanted one, even was able to get there the afternoon they came out, but they were gone and no more were coming in. Again...FU GW. How f'ed up of a company do you have to be to take a cool idea and only make about 1/3 of what would actually sell? What kind of idiot says "hey, we could probably sell 3000 of these so let's just make 1000" and then "hey, the original run sold out in one day, let's not make any more. It somehow makes sense to our tiny little almost non-functioning minds to not make any more of a product people want." I also didn't appreciate the local GW store looking at me like I was 'tarded when I asked if they may get any more.

BrassScorpion · 4 months ago

You can still buy the 40K Gamer's Edition with the AMMO CRATE COLLECTIBLE online from GW at :
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/produ...

Additionally, some GW stores have the Gamer's Edition for sale on the shelf and Battle Bunkers are also selling the AMMO CRATE separately for $20.

That said, I agree with the gist of what was said and had this conversation earlier today with a friend at the Battle Bunker. It should not require a Herculean effort by customers to obtain new, exciting products.

an mous · 4 months ago

I got an ammo crate for free. GW at West Ed had so many that if you bought "anything", you got an ammo crate. Yay. Ammo crate.

an mous · 4 months ago

Sorry, I meant the cardboard one, the plasma ammo crate. Not the really nice metal one. Muh bahd.

Brian · 4 months ago

Thanks...I was actually unaware that was available online. When it came out, I actually called GW Direct to ask about it and they said it was sold out and no more were planned. Since it was a limited item, I never bothered to go and check online. I just went with what they told me over the phone and at the local GW store (Games Workshop - Mall of Georgia).

Also, responding to posts above and below. I have never seen the metal ammo crate for sale at the local GW store or any of the local independents (Atlanta, GA area). If stores around you have them, great, maybe this area just doesn't do well with limited items and restocks. Note that my 'vent/bitching' is based on what is available around me or within reasonable driving distance. When the box came out, I even called stores in Birmingham, AL (about a 3 hour drive).

an mous · 4 months ago

Well, you do live in the south. That's limiting in itself.

faultie · 4 months ago

To be fair, one of the best comic and game shops I know of in the States in is Birmingham.

an mous · 4 months ago

Well, GOL-LY! Never been there, people say it's nice.

I live in Alberta, the "south of the north", and we too happen to have one of the best game shops in all of North America. Despite a population that can barely read, drives trucks that make truckers wince, and in many places it's ok when your daddy and your uncle are the same man.

Yep, the shallow end of the gene pool washes gently at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Some say Deliverance was based on an Alberta Love Story.

Paddle faster, the banjos are getting louder!

faultie · 4 months ago

It's strange where you find good game shops. For example, there's not a single (good) game shop in all of D.C. The majority of the ones in the area are rubbish. I have to ride the metro for an hour to get to a decent one. Sure do miss San Diego.

As for Alberta, I've not been there. Sounds like I shan't be going!

Black · 4 months ago

Brian - have your GW store (Mall of Georgia right?) call any other GW store in the chain - chances are they have them. Heck I know the store I go to (In Michigan) has 4.

They should be around - at least if the mgr is any good he'll try an hook you up.

grimsnikk · 4 months ago

uh.. you can still get that 40k book in ammo crate. They have em at my local store.

Mosien · 4 months ago

aww poor you, taking up space here bitching isnt helping either just makes me waste my life reading it thinking there may be something usefull said.

Brian · 4 months ago

So your rational response to me 'bitching' is to add a post bitching about it? Smooth.

My intent was to vent my frustration about the fact that some of the coolest items GW makes, they make limited quantities of or cost an arm and a leg to get here in the States (I'm looking at you Forge World).

Just a note, I did not attack anyone here and while you may not agree with me, your tone is rude and shows that you must lack basic social skills. But hey, it's the internet so insult away.

MeanAngel · 4 months ago

This is weird for you to say, because for instance, in my country, we have just two independent retailers (yes, we don't have an official GW store at all) and yet we can still buy and take straight away (no ordering from UK so far) the 5th Ed. Ammo Crate and even the old Apocalypse backpack - both of which were accompanied by the "limited, rare to come by later, buy now!" bollocks ....

Sathos · 4 months ago

"I think this is a really crap idea. I'm tired of GW making some of their coolest items "limited, you better be here the day it comes out or you aren't getting one" BS"


Sorry but I lol'd...

You dont even know what this is, it could be Barney the Purple dinosaur's happy adventures in pedo land for all you know and yet you give it all the big wah-wah.

quit crying at least until you know for certain what the release is lol

Illiterate Scrub · 4 months ago

>Barney the Purple dinosaur's happy adventures in pedo land for all you know and yet you give it all the big wah-wah.

want

Brian · 4 months ago

I agree with you that this release may be an over-hyped item than on one wants. However, in my opinion, GW has a poor track record when it comes to their limited editions.

snowblizz · 4 months ago

Indeed! That's the important issue here.

Don't even get me started on GW's basing kits. Limited edition basing kits? Seriously? You don't expect to sell many of those, some people make their living selling nothing but terrain kits and bits...

And the limited edition armydeal only battlestandardbearers? Sheesh, core units only available in a limited edition fashion. Now there's a great idea. Why not make all the core units unavailable as well. Generate some hobby incentive in people.

retail guy · 4 months ago

Can you blame GW? Anytime they make decent profits the executives break out in hives!

If I was allergic to profits, I'd be trying to limit the amount of those in my diet as well.

Grid Reaper · 4 months ago

And hopefully i will be there at aug. 16th ;)

Grantavius · 4 months ago

I have absolutely no idea, nor have I heard any rumours, but suddenly I want one.

Drazhar · 4 months ago

And this is exactly what they want you to do, isn't it?

I bet It's gonna be something largely useless to anybody except 12-year-old fanboys.

Damnit, I want that too! ;)

gunstar · 4 months ago

gotta be space hulk, i can't wait, and i love surprises! feels like christmas! woopee!

Norsehawk · 4 months ago

Well, except for the fact that they have released space hulk before.

KaneBlaireau · 4 months ago

Not with 3D terrain they haven't!

Conrad · 4 months ago

And Space Hulk is connected to other races

Chaoslord127 · 4 months ago

That sucks, the local GW was closed. The nearest one is a three hour drive. Wonder what it is.

JON · 4 months ago

hopefully it'll be space hulk, or at least something like it :)
still got my crappy old blue plastic terminators from the first one :P ha ha
I hope all this talk about not being able to advance order it doesn't mean you wont be able to buy it online,..hmmmm ?

Shane · 4 months ago

if i can order this online, im definetely ordering it.

an mous · 4 months ago

Isn't the new "mystery army" supposed to be announced at GD Chicago?

Also I think the August release is Space Hulk.

Anonymous · 4 months ago

"-It is something that GW has never done before."

Can't be Space Hulk, then, can it? :(

Bigred · 4 months ago

That would depend on how you define "something"...

Kirsch · 4 months ago

Seems highly ambiguous.

SiamTiger · 4 months ago

That's basicly what i was thinking. None of the informations i got from the german HQ, said something like "-It is something that GW has never done before."

Basicly beating around the bushes about space hulk.

Sathos · 4 months ago

Depends how technical they wanna get as I'm not sure Space Hulk was ever actually released by GW directly...rather under licence fromg GW, published by MB games

gwensdad · 4 months ago

Space Hulk was all GW. Space Crusade was MB.

Sathos · 4 months ago

Aaaah fair enough :) I got SC first so that probably stuck in my memory ^^

Conrad · 4 months ago

Was Space Hulk not technically a Rogue Trader product?

Hyperion · 4 months ago

Hmmm... or Judge Dredd or Elric for that matter

mordiano · 4 months ago

Could be the process of relasing/marketing that they are refering to, not the actuall product..

FoxPhoenix135 · 4 months ago

Yeah... sucks for me.... nearest GW store is a 7 hour flight. Living in Alaska sucks sometimes.

cliff · 4 months ago

I'll take Alaska over living somewhere with a GW store any day of the week. You may occasionally suffer inconveniences such as these, but it's hard to give up the quality of life up here... the 20% discount at Hobbycraft's not too bad either.

gwensdad · 4 months ago

A reprint of all the old OOP board games in one package?
If it's "regular" game stores and not just GW stores that can order it, I'm sure I can get my store to tell everyone what it is before it's "announced"

Anon · 4 months ago

40k version of Talisman?

BuFFo · 4 months ago

Something GW has never done before huh?

Maybe its a coupon for a discount on 40k items?

BrassScorpion · 4 months ago

Actually, GW has done coupons before. They had them recently in US White Dwarf for store Grand Openings and when I started in the GW hobby many years ago there were coupons in the local free City Paper for 50% off one item in the store. I remember getting my "Mighty Fortress" with one and my "Realm of Chaos" book with another.

Grandjester · 4 months ago

Right, they used to do coupons in White Dwarf all the time back in the day. Of course 10% off for the Lenton Grand Opening didn't do me a lot of good.

Macfeegle · 4 months ago

Yeah, I seem to remember the first example of a coupon was GBP5 off Rogue Trader hardback from GamesDay, and also a GBP5 off the WHFB 3rd edition hardback at Games Day.

Yes, I am THAT old. I was there each year and bought both...sad but true...

David · 4 months ago

i've got no idea. i don't think it's space hulk but who knows.

Mr. H. · 4 months ago

I remember that on Ebay, last year, someone was selling an unreleased prototype Harry Potter Quiddich board game. The seller claimed that it was from GW studio.

Frostclaw222 · 4 months ago

Just what we'd need. An influx of muggles into the grimdark.

Ahriman and Voldemort storm the Black Library. Oh NOES!!!!!1!!1!

I'd love it if it was xenos terrain, but it's too niche. I expect, rather, that there's something more generalized. What that might be, though, I have utterly zero clue.

Evernevermore · 4 months ago

It would be kinda funny to see any of the named Chaos Lords or the Demon-Primarchs wipe the floor with Voldemort... Just imagine Angaron or Magnus having a little "talk" with him

gwensdad · 4 months ago

Yeah, Angron would kick his ass, but Magnus might have a good conversation about Horcruxes with him..
"So all I do is kill someone, cast a spell, chop off a bit of my soul into an object, and I can return to the physical world within a few years? Might I interest you in becoming an advisor (before I order these Lords of Change behind me to take that knowledge from you)?"

manton · 4 months ago

Sounds like you get the same thing for a lot more fun by just ascending to the ranks of daemon prince, kill one person and get the chance to come back? Magnus and his brothers got to kill millions! not to mention throwing the entire human race into a pit of despair

Molochi · 4 months ago

Niche?! Half the players of the game are Xenos!

Frostclaw222 · 4 months ago

Yes, niche. While half the players may be playing a xenos force, a necron or eldar or tau ruins set would cater to just necrons or eldar or tau, not all xenos. Ergo, niche, Molochi. Understand your exasperation; I'd like nothing more than for my Space Wolves to be taking the fight to the enemy instead of saving Governor So-and-So's fallen hive, but I think we were lucky enough to get modules for all the xenos that got serviced with the Apoc "command vehicle" upgrade stuff. A whole series of boxes of xenos terrain, whether ruins or as part of the Planetstrike Bastion rollout, would be great, but ultimately wouldn't move enough product and would call for suspension of other production in a big way.

MeanAngel · 4 months ago

I think (hope, also) it's not Space Hulk. Firstly, Space Hulk doesn't fit that "never done before" premise and secondly, I think that the amount of profit that could be made out of a remake of Space Hulk would be vast, according to the HUGE interest in it from the gamers, and thus it would seem foolish to me to limit it just for one shipment.

I own the original Space Hulk, but I would buy it again, should it come out with new models and stuff ...

ColCorbane · 4 months ago

It's probably the Bugmans board game. I overheard in Bugmans that they'd got a load made up and they weren't selling well in the bar.

Bloodthirster · 4 months ago

I've got it!!! A price decrease.

Blackmane · 4 months ago

Some people at GW just had a heart attack because somewhere someone said the words 'price' and 'decrease' in relation to their products

Myu · 4 months ago

Don't forget GW Canada dropping their prices

Tommo · 4 months ago

Duh, like that'd ever happen

mordiano · 4 months ago

"-It is something that GW has never done before."

rahakanji · 4 months ago

this will never happen, sry...

AnthG · 4 months ago

So no chance it is a Thunderhawk for a select few??

bluesfart · 4 months ago

said not related to any of the current races, keep hoping though

Trve · 4 months ago

Damn circle bases getting all the love.

JohnS · 4 months ago

Maybe it's a boat!

More seriously, I'd be majorly ticked if they do such a "limited" release for the new (rumored) Space Hulk.

But the mystery box could be anything, it could even be a boat!

Vale,

JohnS

gwensdad · 4 months ago

I'm on a !#@$!% boat!

(maybe a battlebarge. But "I'm on a barge" doesn't work as well.

MeanAngel · 4 months ago

Haha, yeah, good old Family Guy! :)))

SpartanTau · 4 months ago

It's probably a free boat ride for three, as I doubt they could fit a boat in a box (and a store).

Now, who are you gonna' take...?

faultie · 4 months ago

SpartanTau.
Aaaaaand....T-Pain.

Myu · 4 months ago

Naval 40k maybe? (water ships not space ships)

Cliff · 4 months ago

Back when I used to work for GW, we used to joke that GW could put poop in a box, slap the GW logo on it and it'd sell. Fans would, of course hate it, but they'd buy it nonetheless.

Here I am wondering with just a wee bit of hesitation...

FiscalHermitCrab · 4 months ago

My money's on the fact that it's Space Hulk, to my knowledge GW has never re-released a game so that fits the bill. It'll probably be an advance release on the 15-16th of August and have like an October full release.

It would be even cooler if it was a primarch that they were releasing in an official capacity, preferably Leman Russ to tie into the Space Wolf release later this year. Once again, something GW has never done.

Hell I'd even be cool with it if step 1 was to cut a hole in the box.

an mous · 4 months ago

Two, put your junk in the box.

Lane_S · 4 months ago

They have re-released games before. IIRC the first Space Hulk was out of production before the second edition came out. Blood Bowl may have as well.

faultie · 4 months ago

Wasn't there an old, old Leman Russ model already?

mordiano · 4 months ago

yeah, with his 2 dogs... looked a bit like a smaller version of raganr blackmane, in fact i think they based ragnar on that model

FiscalHermitCrab · 4 months ago

I meant something with actual Primarch level rules and the like, though they may have done that too. Though releasing the Primarchs for as strategic assets in Apoc would be SWEET!!!

gwensdad · 4 months ago

Warhammer historical: modern? 40K-ish rules for "modern" (1915-near future) warfare. Comes with complete WW2 era armor. (any guess seems valid right now, no matter how outlandish)

gwensdad · 4 months ago

Not being able to advance order it doesn't make much sense. How would a store know how many copies to get? And if people don't know what it is, how can they make sure they'll sell any? Seems like an attempt to create hype and then they'll leak what it really is about a week or so before the 15th.

Lane_S · 4 months ago

Rumor stated "announce 14-15 AUG, ship in SEP.

Plenty of time to generate interest. Order quantities are probably fixed based on sales for each retailer.

Anon · 4 months ago

Could be "Horus Heresy the Board Game"

Bomster · 4 months ago

Well, that has been done before, too. Still have it lying around here somewhere.

Lane_S · 4 months ago

"Some local stores are only getting one shipment" could mean independent retailers but may mean as I doubt corporate stores would get this treatment.

In that case the "never done before" could be "a Game" that is limited release to all but corporate stores.

IIRC all games have been available by mail order so a "store only" could be the first.

anon · 4 months ago

"I was told today from a Black shirt that it is a Plastic thunderhawk !!!!!"

an mous · 4 months ago

Is it a Pony?

Charlie · 4 months ago

Needs moar rending. kthx

David · 4 months ago

may b. can it haz cheezburgars?

automatonsleuth · 4 months ago

Obviously not Scyla, since he's now available to advance order on their website.

automatonsleuth · 4 months ago

I have to say, I'm a little disappointed with its appearance, although I an't think why, since it fits the artwork just fine, not to mention looking just random enough to make a spawn.

Ernie · 4 months ago

Never done before... board game... lemme think...

Risk 40k!

m0rm0k · 4 months ago

SPACEHULK

Eldanesh · 4 months ago

GW does Steam-Punk? My money's on Space Hulk, but they have done that before and I figure they wouldn't make a limited edition run for the game. It is possible that they're test-marketing a new genre of miniature game.

This news really blows for anyone living in Florida. We don't have a single GW bunker in the state. Enjoy your goodies Texas.

Commander Spera · 4 months ago

That's ok - try living in the north east . For all of New England , NY , PA , and Ohio , there are only two GW stores - one in NYC and one in Philly . Sure , my local game store sells the full line of GW products , but they're to busy selling CCG cards to care about organising anything for 40k . So as far as I am concerned - GW can send my "mystery box" to Texas , California , or Washington .

Old_Paladin · 4 months ago

Well... you can either have the washer and dryer set next to where the lovely Smithers is standing... or you can trade it all for what's in this box!

BeastOfShadow · 4 months ago

The box. The box!

Dek Coro · 4 months ago

The Box! The Box!

an mous · 4 months ago

Can I have Smithers?

Drale · 4 months ago

im guessing space hulk

BossSkarsong · 4 months ago

"Lord of the Rings" back-stock liquidation?


i just hope it's somthing functional or atleast cool. 2 other friends of mine are gonna pitch together for this for a mutual friends birthday, and if it's crap, we will all feel like crap

an mous · 4 months ago

More like the dog Fantasy liquidation.

Nick · 4 months ago

This is most likely the 'shadow' product they have been rumoured to be working on. The one which the studio is amazed hasn't hit the forums yet.

So, building hype like this is great, but running it as a limited edition? I think they are missing the boat, unless they do what they did with the master of the ravenwing on the jetbike, limited edition, until it turns out it is really popular and it becomes general release.

I don't think they would do a limited edition space hulk, possibly a limited edition with special metal miniatures to roll out a different generic version later on.

If it IS a stand alone game, it would possibly be something to do with the marketing of dropping the bomb. Non race specific and you can use any of your own miniatures in it, much like a necromunda style simplified kill team game. One side trying to stop the button being pushed, whilst the other tries to push the button to drop the bomb.

I am curious, but I can wait to see what they come out with.

ben · 4 months ago

are you suggesting it would be a 40K version of mouse trap??? if so i want one

Rich · 4 months ago

Its probably Space Hulk but the first shipment is going to be Pre-Painted Plastic. Ha!

The Dim Reaper · 4 months ago

Does anyone else think it looks like the power up boxes from Super Mario?

Its a power mushroom!

andrew · 4 months ago

Guys don't you realize it? Forget everything they say about this "new product". you all know deep in your hearts that it is a new ultramarines unit.

an mous · 4 months ago

That would be so sweet. I love more Marines. MORE MARINZE!

Waggerz · 4 months ago

I'll sit over here in my corner and quietly hope for a Necromunda re-release or a game in that style.

Macfeegle · 4 months ago

So, being that it is described as being "something new, and totally unheard of", but is a board game (allegedly) it cannot be:

Space Hulk - done...twice
Hero Quest etc

Maybe it is Monopoly WHFB or WH40K?
Cluedo "Heresy Style" - Horus, on the bridge, with a power claw.

I don't see that Harry Potter would fit the GW mould, plus a company like Hasbro would be more likely to be approached to create a board game due to their track record.

Who is to say it is 40K related anyway? I don't think it says that anywhere does it?

Justen Hunter · 4 months ago

Just for Clue, Horus Heresy, you win. XD

Hyperion · 4 months ago

Ooo 40k Risk!

Hwilam · 4 months ago

Maybe it's a 3d printer (like the ZPrinter 450) and you could mix and match different heads and bodies and arms and then pay $5 or $10 and have it "print" your own special custom figure...

or, y'know, underpants or something...

rahakanji · 4 months ago

YES, i know what it is, the whole unwashed underwear from the Design studio team...

Kid Kyoto · 4 months ago

Guys we know in our heart it's Space Hulk. It's been leaked, we have no images or details (so it's close but noty 100% under wraps).

The 'never been done' part is plastic corridors or some other new feature (wasn't there a rumor it would have some electronics in the game?).

Skragger · 4 months ago

I dont know if it'd be Space Hulk.. I mean, wouldn't it be silly to only offer it one day? I know that's $70 they'd never get from me if it was only offered on one day, as like many others, my nearest GW is about a 3 hour drive for me, and I dont even have a car!

Michael · 4 months ago

$100 on it being another price rise. and its now going to cost us money to find out that its a price rise..... bwahahah.

No, just kidding, clearly its space hulk.

Auxellion · 4 months ago

Space Hulk, hands down

Anonoymouse · 4 months ago

We know it has question marks on it and says "Mystery Box" but not what's inside it? No way I am going to buy this unless I know what's inside. I predict a lot of returns if they are going to package it like this.

Dosadi · 4 months ago

I could tell you what they have not done before, but you are not going to like it.

Pre-painted models.

I'm calling it now, Space Hulk will be pre-painted.

PaD · 4 months ago

Damn - I was going to say that! :-(

That's why it's a "Limited Edition". Once the pre-paints are gone, they will roll out the regular version that you paint yourself as normal.

Makes sense to me.

Completely Anonymous · 4 months ago

If Space Hulk will be a limited run I'll be incredibly disappointed.

Slurpeemourne · 4 months ago

Perhaps a Black Library compendium or e-Book database? With some package of books broader than the expected general release? Caters to the fanboys and perhaps drums up crossover players.

Maybe they have several products ready to drop, and are waiting to see which one generates the most buzz. Would show that they're interested in hearing and responding to what the community wants, something they've been loathe to do.

Shades · 4 months ago

I wonder if it's the BUgman's Bar Game I spied at the ForgeWorld Open day this year?

http://www.facebook.com/photo_search.php?page=3...
link to the photo of the poster of the game.

Lane_S · 4 months ago

Someone at the local store pointed out that the "Chaos in the old World" is due out in the time frame of the rumor and as a third party product would be a first in GW corporate stores.

Culial · 4 months ago

I thought that Space Hulk was tentativly slated for an x-mas release?
I would have thought that would rake in a lot more profit, as well as long-term sales, than a 'one off' release mid-year?

Please God-Emperor don't let it be Hulk! I really want the new version, and my luck has always sucked with limited release stuff in the past!
No Aquila Bag, Guardsman Bag or Cities of Death resin Strategem markers for me...
:-(

Mark Hibbert · 4 months ago

It could be a time-limited release. So many released in August and then goes on sale just before Christmas.

eldargal · 4 months ago

It is OBVIOUSLY going to be a 12 inch Michael Jackson mini.

LittleLeadMen · 4 months ago

It is Spacehulk. 1st, Spacehulk is a stand alone game/set. Spacehulk could potentially be played with more than one race (Marines, Genestelaers, Orks, and Chaos) due to the Spacehulk background.

As for the "It is something that GW has never done before." Games Workshop has never rereleased 1st edition Spacehulk, and it has also never released Spacehulk with Plastic tiles, which is what that is referring to.

According to my sources, it was something that a lot of HQ guys wanted to do and rerelease, but it wasn't really viable to keep it as a mainstream product available for sale for years and years. Hence the limited edition/release.

-It is not Planetary Empires. -It is a board game.

Obviously, Spacehulk still fits these conditions.

-"Very limited GW people know what it is".
Well, again, I have friends and contacts that all know what it is. In fact, I was first told of Spacehulk resurfacing over a year ago. I remember being told of the new terminator sculpts back then, which supposedly include a great new librarian, as well.

It's Spacehulk. ONce you get over the "something that GW has never done before." and realize that's just hyperbole/razzle dazzle (*because they have never done it before.... with plastic boards), its pretty obvious, even if you don't know people that have explicitily told you what it is.

jcflanker · 4 months ago

I don’t think it’s going to be a board game because GW has licensed Fantasy Flight games to produce board games. My money is either on a Thunder Hawk or following the release of Planet Strike it may be the Indomitable Fortress from the Planet Strike book.

RealGenius · 4 months ago

Oh, plastic THawk would be epic. And an epically well kept secret, if true.

obsequiousmelon · 4 months ago

I'm sorry... I know that I'm gonna reset the clock but...





Squats (but... you know, as demiurg or whatever to justify the we've never done these before [in 40k]).

Thatguy · 4 months ago

in "getting started with planetstrike" it talks about the "Fortress of Redemption"

"This is no normal scenery either - in Planetstrike the strongholds that the defender has available to him range from gun-bunkers and rockcrete bastions, to the mighty building known as the Fortress of Redemption."

maybe that?

oni · 4 months ago

It's Space Hulk. The "It's something GW has never done before." is in reference to the fact that GW has never brought back a game once it went OOP.

Swordlord · 4 months ago

A re-issue of "Bommers Over da Sulfa River"?

Rissan4ever · 4 months ago

Heck with Space Hulk. My money's on DARK FUTURE.

a german person · 4 months ago

In the german edition of WD containing the Planetstrike stuff was a small ad about the new boardgame "Chaos in the Old World" wherein you play one of the great four Chaospowers intend on corrupting the world or some such thing. This was to be out very soon, the ad had a small picture of what was probably box art (mostly black)
BTW GamesWorkshop did quite a lot of boardgames back in the golden age, Chainsaw Warrior, Curse of the Mummy's Tomb to name a few

Alex · 4 months ago

By date and size of the box it more looks like tabletop game, Chaos in the Old World CE\LE?

Pullo_07 · 4 months ago

what about the shrine of retribution from the Planetstrike book... the size seems right for the money and it is such a specific piece I can see limited release.

joedog · 4 months ago

Type your comment here.http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2009/07/gw-40k-rumors-mystery-box.html#

Malibu Stacy in Sisters of Battle outfit?

Hwilam · 4 months ago

Two words (well, two acronyms): 40k LARP

Rissan4ever · 4 months ago

One acronym: LOLZ!

an mous · 4 months ago

Most gamers would be too feeble to wear the Space Marine armour, or simply waaaay too fat to get it on.

Lord Boofhead · 4 months ago

Its an inflatable sex doll in the shape of a Space Marine.

Daximu · 4 months ago

Its Chaos in the Old World. I have no solid proof, just observations

-August/september they are selling a box set for around £50. (@$70 USD)
Estimated Shipping time is around Sept and thats the same price point as Talisman(roughly)


-It is a completely stand alone set that is not related to any race.
Its a board game and doesnt tie in with the existing games(not WFB or 40k)

-It is something that GW has never done before.
see above

-Some local stores are only getting one shipment; when that sells out it will no longer be available.
its not produced by GW, but by Fantasy Flight games. the reason its limited its because its not one of their products, but more like a partnership deal
.
-You can't advance order it. You have to be there on the day to get it.
See prevous point :)

-It is not Planetary Empires.
Dud :)

-It is a board game.
need I say it again?

Antikos · 4 months ago

Why would they make such a secret about it, when there is already so much known about the game here:
http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_minisite...

And it already shows up in the online store here:
http://store.fantasyflightgames.com/showproduct...

Asymmetrical Xeno · 4 months ago

why anyone would want it to be space hulk is beyond me. I mean its going to be limited edition, if they redid space hulk why would anyone want that to be limited-ed ? and besides, the minis exist, the first edition of the game is fine and its more fun building your own 3d board out of plaster ect.

Personally id like a war in heaven 6mm/epic game with necrons/Old Ones/Enslavers, now THAT would be awesome...but awesome is rarely in the GW vocab..

Conrad · 4 months ago

They could have like...orks...and trucks..and race them...and they could shoot each other!

No...wait...that's GorkaMorka....

Poor GorkaMorka...never gets any love.

Frost · 4 months ago

I heard it was a board game. You play as one of the chaos gods for dominance over the others.

Mick A · 4 months ago

I heard two things from a good source- 54mm and Orks...

Michael · 4 months ago

As an indy stockist, the one shipment only would refer to stockists.

i would gladly bet that retail stores will get multiple and that ordering online will get you one as well, GW often says they have less then what they actually do just to generate more hype for something limited edition. - see how the 40k collectors back and limited edition fancy thing is still available.

now just on the lighter side of things, "something GW has never done before"
We can be certain to assure ourselves that it wont be another price rise :)

james · 4 months ago

my money is on either space hulk or new necromunda box id really be happy with either considering i had lots of fun playing both games an will def drop $70 on either one

Why not · 4 months ago

guess - Updated Dungeon Bowl (Blood Bowl precursor) or maybe a Mordheim variant on it. Did you notice all the new Blood Bowl Players on the web site and a new Blood Bowl PC game. Needs to lead somewhere.

Dax · 4 months ago

will this only be at official GW stores or will Local Game Stores have access to them as well?

Saw · 4 months ago

I'm thinking either those crazy quotal( spelling, sorry) race ( think gaunt's ghosts mid series) with the crazy predator shoulder shotguns, or a board game where you get to pick a side for the horace herasy....

Either one would be cool, but they did just release planet fall, with these limited terrain pieces, so maybe it's a limited, limited expansion, lime instead of drop pods, there ww2 inspired water landing crafts.... beaces of normandy being held by the I.G., as orks start storming up... that would be awsome!

Steel Rabbit · 4 months ago

Bugman's Bar Room Brawl! That's what I think it is...

Conrad_Dakarn · 4 months ago

I have news!!!

And yes, the last poster is correct (to a degree).

Bugman's Bar Room Brawl has been announced in August White Dwarf!!!

No joke.

My WD hasn't arrived yet (on subscription) but I was in the store today and got my hands on their copy and in the front sections it was confirmed that they WILL be releasing Bugman's Bar Room Brawl.

This is 100% true and anyone with access to August's WD can confirm this.

I've not been able to read the article that surrounded it as, unfortunately, the WD was whisked away out back by the managed after letting a few people flick through for a sneak peek.

But yes....again...Bugman's Bar Room Brawl has been confirmed.

Whether this is the Mystery Box or not....I cannot say....but it seems very likely as it fits all the rumours to date.

TheRealChris · 4 months ago

Can't be it - they have released two games like that before.

Jason Byles · 4 months ago

I'm pretty sure that was a just a promo piece on the game for "when" you visit Bugman's Bar to grab a copy... of course GW was put things in thinking you'd not notice, but it didn't say it would be available anywhere else (UK edition)

klotbeck · 4 months ago

unless its Tyranid or Tau terrain i couldn't give a rats... I for one am sick and damn tired of all this Imperial Terrain and then the creaters say that they only do it because it caters for all races, LIKE HELL IT DOES!!

TROLL_ · 4 months ago

Can it be the very old HeroQuest Return ??!
Or perhaps the more GW-like Warhammer Quest ?

sirstompalot · 4 months ago

August 16- my birthday! Thank you GW!

sirstompalot · 4 months ago

oops double post

dude · 3 months ago

Space Hulk with prepainted figures

Lycurg0s · 3 months ago

the company has produced Space hulk a number of times but bever released its own copy of space crusade . . .with MB games reowned by GW and Quest coming next year perhaps it is a viable contender?

Loken · 3 months ago

Ok,
I have a theory about this:
There is a shirt that GW staff is going to wear after the 17th
that says "Everything you know is a Lie" or something like that.
So think about that and add it into the rumours that have been
circling
like it's a board game
etc.
that indicates, that the whole joke is that everything that
has been told about the whole "mystery box" is a lie,
and that means it could be anything.
It could be Space Hulk (or something similiar)
even though it has been made before
but there comes in the "lie" part

also one other thing..
isn't it that in 40k universe it's about year 999?
so that would mean Warhammer 41K
so who knows if it's something to do with that

well that's my thoughts on this matter

Geordierocker · 3 months ago

I know it says not race related but I think it may well be Horus Heresy box set

Waddya think?

agermanperson · 3 months ago

I got an e-mail inviting me to buy the severely limited edition of the 20th anniversary version of space hulk ,probably for really huge amounts of cash

Jesse Aranki · 3 months ago

ok guys, the secret is out now.

my local gw has just revealed the mystery box.......

the box is SPACE HULK ^.^

the models look EPIC!, its a plastic version of the original one

juzuze · 3 months ago

hey my local gw store revealed the mystery box......its SPACE HULK ^_^ the models looks so epic, there are 11 terminators, and i dunno how many gene stealers though, sorry bout that, but yeah in Australia its $165 and i say its sooooooooo worth it, hope this settles some peoples nerves. awsome box, the models are not just normal looking terminators of gene stealers as they are in like awsome poses, gene stealers on walls are some of the models, and yeah its just pure epicness