Rick Priestley reports on some important revisions to our range, and the way Games Workshop's mail order and online store service is changing.
The wind of change is blowing through the dung-encrusted hole in the ground where niffy Trolls labor day and night, fulfiling your mail orders in the time-honoured fashion endowed upon Troll-kind by nature and society. Actually, our mail order chaps don’t much like being referred to as Trolls… it makes them all tearful. They stick out their lower lips and mumble, “…I wanted to be a Space Marine…sniff”. Pitiful really. Anyway, changes are afoot in the Trollery, and consequently some bright spark thought it a good idea to ask me to write few brief words all about it. Even now, you can imagine said bright spark entertaining doubts concerning the wisdom of his decision. I know I am. Ah well, press on.
For years I’ve been banging on about improving our mail order service and adding more interesting and characterful models to the range. “Banging on” obviously pays off, because last year I landed the job of reviewing the range and making recommendations for the future of mail order. Some of those recommendations are being worked on at the moment and will start to take effect next year. This includes simple and obvious things such as being able to order a specific individual model from our webstore rather than a random one, making it possible to buy multi-part models as a single purchase rather than having to order every bit separately, and putting previously discontinued models back on sale where there is no current alternative.
We’ll also be offering a range of models just for mail order, including some new top-notch design work from our finest sculptors - someone will doubtless reveal more once these are ready (my lips are sealed… which goes some way to explain the dribbling of course). There is also a new range of converters’ components in preparation, featuring all manner of useful and inspiring bits and pieces such as individual weapons and equipment, including such things as comms gear and ammo-packs for Warhammer 40,000 and banners and magic items for Warhammer.
So that we can get on with all this new stuff we have to clear the decks a bit and take a lot of our back-catalog and all of the currently available individual components off sale. This means we won’t be selling some very old models any more - although popular collectable models for Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 will be transferring over into the new ranges once these are ready. The individual components will also be disappearing for a while, but only to give us time to reorganise and relaunch our new “Bitz” range. The best and most useful components will be incorporated into the new range alongside new designs and will be available in due course.
If you collect models from our back catalog of otherwise discontinued miniatures, then now is a good time to make any purchases you need whilst they are still available. If you’ve always meant to add that coveted “classic” to your collection, then this might be your last chance. Similarly, if you particularly want individual components for conversions, and don’t want to wait until the new range is launched next year, then it’s recommended you buy what you want straight away.
I can’t tell you exactly which models we’ll be dropping as we’re working through the ranges as I write, so instead please take a look at our web site and online store for up-to-date information. In case anyone was wondering, the ranges for our Specialist Games will be largely unaffected (aside from components). The Specialist Games and models will continue to form part of the range and will be available via mail order and the online store as before.[/b]
