Steve54 wrote:
All that chaos has lost is the infantry, other than that its the same situation as pre the plastic chaos box (2009?)
That's a good point. I continually forget that GW didn't actually produce anything else for Chaos any more. That's what comes from never visiting the specialist games section of GW's website.
Still, a pretty major blunder on my part there, thanks for the correction.
jimmyzimms wrote:
Sorry I should have clarified my meaning better. There's very little that can be IP protected in the GW Daemon Engines and Chaos Daemons. They all draw heavily on existing archetypes from art and legend. So much so that a 3rd party designer could easily fill the gaps. For instance, take a Bloodthirster of Khorne: Big classic winged demon from classic European religious art. Easily something that a convincing model proxy could be created. I can't call it a Bloodthirster but I can call it a hellspawn demon. Hell, the chaos symbol itself isn't even owned by GW. The Slannesh symbol is actually taken from real ocult symbols. Just saying that demonic things are pretty safe in comparison to something like Eldar and Marines of both alignments.
I also have to point out that all the items you mentioned have been OOP for ages so I find that rather amusing. Nothing's changed for them.
I'm not especially concerned about the Daemons, as their appearance is pretty flexible by GW's own background in any case, I'm more concerned about the vehicles, and war engines, as I alluded to earlier. Of course, it was a mistake to think that they were still made

.
What I am concerned about though is that the available models which are still circulating around places like e-bay will disappear even more quickly, or start going for silly money. Still, it was always bound to happen anyway, regardless of this action by GW.
CyberShadow wrote:
Honestly, for the 'purist' who has to see a 40K Eldar Falcon in 6mm, this means the end of the production of 6mm Eldar Falcons, just like McDonalds stopping the Big Mac. Other companies may produce something similar, but if you love the 'special secret sauce', you are out of luck.
There are only three options left to you:
- the good; expanding your taste, justifying it with background and finding a 'best fit' in your own mind from other proxy ranges available
- the bad; buying on the second hand market
- the ugly; (illegally) recasting
I'm lucky, in that I don't really need anything to play (Space Marine and Net Epic), so my concern is only for new players, or players with large gaps in their collection. A few gaps would be useful to fill to enable me to play EA, but if I find myself unable to fill the gaps for whatever reason, it's not a major issue for me.
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