Games Workshop Shoots Themselves In The Foot

Just received my White Dwarf, complete with a two free plastic figures from the new edition Warhammer range. You get a free Night Goblin spearman and a Dwarven axeman.

However that is a marketing gimmick that has spectacularly failed. Because these are the worst plastic fantasy figures I've ever seen! The Grenadier plastics from way back in the eighties were better! All previous editions of Games Workshop figures have been better!.

You get a Night Goblin and a Dwarf on a single sprue. The entire figure including shield is a single solid piece. And they have lumpy, un-animated designs, obviously intended to make them simple to cast, rather than for any aesthetic purpose. There are quite noticeable flash and cast lines, but the mould is at least straight.The base is part of the sprue, like the second edition WH40K grots.

So basically, if this is an example of the normal figures in the Battle of Skull Pass set, then unless you want the terrain pieces and "special" models, I would advise you not to bother! I'd advise people to search for previous edition regiment boxes of Dwarves and Night Goblins if you want those troops.

How Product Reviews should be done!

Hah! Via ChaosKitty I just watched a decidedly amusing review of an MP4 player, that was almost Douglas Adams-like in it's British sarcasm. I enjoyed it, being both British and sarcastic.

And then there's the Politically Incorrect Alphabet Flash Cards. They so call to be used as icons, or the style at least. I like these ones :



But the best bit, via BoingBoing is the guy who got an operating vibrator past airport security.

He seems to think it's not a big deal, but think about it for a moment, that thing has a battery and a large amount of "unused" space. Hell it could be molded from an explosive! Surely far more potentially dangerous than a bottle of babies milk I would have thought.

I suspect the "swab" they took of it was to try and detect explosives, so potentially they may have stopped him if it was actually an IED.