Quote: (Chroma @ 15 Nov. 2008, 13:31 )
Quote: (Irisado @ 15 Nov. 2008, 13:12 )
I would actually be happy if they would just make all the old Epic models available via the online store again.  They were such good models, I'm thinking in particular of old Eldar skimmers and Chaos Daemon Engines (but they are my armies, so I am biased ÂÂ
) which you just can't get any more.  Making the Chaos stuff available again would help LaTD players in particular.
Here's the problem with getting a lot of those old models into production: the molds were destroyed and many of the masters lost/discarded in a big "clean up" years ago.
So, GW would need pristine models to recreate molds from, which isn't very likely either to find or for them to do.
Imagine, if you will, going back through the mists of time, to a period when there used to be seasons, Christmas wasn't talked about until December, there was no such thing as reality television, and mobile phones were something of a rarity (you can guess my feelings on all of those subjects can't you?
). Anyway, back in those heady days, there was something called Mail Order, and Mail Order had a promise. That promise was that they could send you any model from the GW collection. There was not a model that GW had produced that they didn't stock.
Fast forward a decade or so, and that promise has long since turned to dust (yes, I'm paraphrasing the Beautiful South, if anyone can give me the title of the song, there is a cookie available), and I think that it's really sad. There were so many wonderful old models, and now it's impossible to get them unless you can manage to trade with somebody. The trouble is that most people understandably don't want to part with the really good old stuff, so you are pretty much stuck.
I hadn't realised that GW had even destroyed all of the original moulds during the big clear out. I think that was such a short sighted and unwise decision. They would undoubtedly argue that they needed the space, but considering many newer models that have been made for various ranges in recent years have not necessarily been up to much, it makes me wonder why they bothered to clear out so many of the old ones.
Before somebody says it's all because of money, yes that's highly likely, but you would still have thought they could have at least found the space to keep the original moulds.
I don't think that we will see new models for Epic any time soon, which is something of a mixed blessing. On the the one hand, it means that it will be just as hard as it has been for some time to field certain armies, and to attract new players of these armies to the game, but on the other, I fear that newer models would not be very good if they were made, especially if they were Forgeworld Resin kits, so perhaps it's just as well we won't be getting new models.
It all makes me weep for the past. How I wish I had bought more models back then. Such is the benefit of hindsight.
Thus ends the trip down memory lane.
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        And on another horror story ... many years ago, my buddy worked at G/W US ... and I was amazed to hear what they destroyed and/or threw away ... Like Man 'O War blisters ... because it was too much work(ie. cost) to open them up and melt them down again ... Old rule books, etc., etc. ... So don't be surprised that G/W was in financial problems before the current worldwide crash ... 