GW's supply drops are coming (mystery models inside)

[GreenScorpion]

Essentially you have now mysterious boxes with supposedly 50% discount, but boxes are fixed per region, multiple boxes will give you the same contents.

Check the warhammer community post for the full details.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2020/08/05/mystery-models-unmissable-prices/

[G8Keeper]

And the wait for someone to get one and spill the contents begins.

[GreenScorpion]

Would be nice to know what the "rest of EU" boxes contain, but I doubt it will be that much of a bargain if you get extremely overpriced models as part of the set.

[Khornestar]

I guess I’ll restrict myself to a single comment, but I feel like someone is either wealthy or insane to buy loot boxes for products this expensive, 50% off or not. Maybe some folks collect enough armies that this will work out.

 

Seems absolutely insane.

[Marshal Loss]

With the boxes being fixed per region there's room for people to discover what they're going to get, which makes it a more attractive proposition, nowhere near as bad as the sorts of loot boxes you find in video games etc. Not a fat chance in hell I'd ever be the first one to pull a trigger though. Potentially seems like a tactic to get rid of models they don't want

[Joe]

Calling them "loot boxes" is incredibly snide - especially given the practice of "mystery boxes / blisters" has been employed across the miniatures industry for decades now.

 

Trying to connect them to a predatory digital practice that operates under an entirely different set of rules is just poor form.

[sairence]

And the wait for someone to get one and spill the contents begins.

That seems to basically be it. If they ship them before orders close, that is.

[Jukkiz]

100€ for stuff worth of 200€

No thanks... Gambling is bad enough and i remember talks about kids and legal stuff about loot boxes not long ago.

[RedFox]

Wow that's a new low for GW, freaking loot boxes! I guess that's their latest idea for getting rid of models that don't sell well from the warehouses. Pretty disgusting marketing imo...

[Sergeant Centurion]

"They´re not loot boxes, they´re surprise mechanics!" What i feared most, GW looking video games company metods to sell more.

[Firedrake Cordova]

Calling them "loot boxes" is incredibly snide.

They're not.  They're calling them "Supply Drops" (unless they renamed them in the last hour). :)

 

Still, not something I'll be buying ...

[Vassakov]

Have to agree with other commentators that these aren't really "loot boxes" - more like something akin to MTG repacks or the crates you can get. It's probably actually potentially pretty good value if you can use enough of it, but "Imperium" is so broad that it's not worth the gamble.

 

If it was "Astartes" or "Mechanicum" or "Chaos" then I could be tempted, but then it's probably too close to a Start Collecting box.

[Mandragola]

GW must want to throw a bone to its community of ebay scalpers again. Resellers are the only people I can see this helping.

[AenarIT]

There's simply too much rubbish in the whole Imperium range for this to be interesting. 
If I were to drop €100 on "€200 worth of models", I'd hope not to find some useless, overpriced character models.

And note one more thing: now Space Marines are not under Imperium on GW webstore anymore. They have their separate category.

 

Edited August 5, 2020 by AenarIT

[Burni]

I bet it’s a box full of First Born Marine sets and maybe a box of Primaris Reavers!

 

They only one I’d ever consider is an AT theme box. And maybe an AI one.

[MrSpoon]

GW must want to throw a bone to its community of ebay scalpers again. Resellers are the only people I can see this helping.

To be fair I think the only way to approach this is to purchase with the knowledge that you may need to sell a chunk on. I am happy to purchase and then throw what I don't want on Facebook/ebay at cost so I don't lose out. 

 

Edit: By cost I mean cost from this price, not the RRP. 

Edited August 5, 2020 by MrSpoon

[firestorm40k]

Hmm, I sense someone trying to clear some warehouse space for newer releases...

[Jukkiz]

Vote with your wallets, give them feedback on social media too. Hey, they might actually broaden this to include mini (pun intended) crates of specific lines.

But to me, these kinda boxes should have easy to miss or ye olden days of models in them.

[Sete]

101 of how to get an even bigger pile of shame. Just buy them boxes.

But might be good for ebay resell.

Edited August 5, 2020 by Sete

[FormelyKnownAsSmashyPants]

I bet it’s a box full of First Born Marine sets and maybe a box of Primaris Reavers!

They only one I’d ever consider is an AT theme box. And maybe an AI one.

I'd buy a box full of firstborn marines at a huge discount for sure. I'd use pretty mu h everything, I've got two loyalist marine armies I'm working on, with plans for a couple more.

[MrSpoon]

One thing to mention is that it is normal process from them to offload old models at Warhammer fest. As we all know that didn't happen this year. Last year it was some deamons, cadians and a tonne of terrain. 

[WrathOfTheLion]

Space marines have been separate for weeks.

 

The simple reason is that with all FF chapters, it blows up the imperium category too much.

[MrSpoon]

Just checked the site. It's gone. 

[Robbienw]

Could be full of Catachans, old Finecast stuff and ETB kits

[Mendi Warrior]

They only one I’d ever consider is an AT theme box. And maybe an AI one.

 

I am with you on this one, even though I prefer to avoid buying blindly. AT, well I love it so the more the merrier, and AI, I have only one box of valkyries so far (not delivered yet), so that could be interesting.