| Quote (primarch @ 21 2004 Nov.,22:40) | Hi!
Unlikely for now Magnus. They killed the archive to "make way" for Epic A. Now with Fanatics demise we have nothing.
Primarch |
Well, as weird as this may sound, the demise of Fanatic is exactly what gives me a faint hope: with few newer models in the pipeline, maybe they will just put back in production the old ones - after all, it would cost them less than producing new moulds.
But, as far as the archive goes, I was thinking more of some sort of private arrangement. From an economic point of view, it makes sense for GW to drop it; I imagine it comes with rather high overhead costs, between the need to mantain the web site updated, the order dispatching etc. But if GW was to receive a big order, with a list of product codes and quantity requested, maybe it would green light a one-time production - they would just need to dedicate one day to fetch the moulds and cast the requested pieces. I'm not familiar with the process, but I think GW factories have some sort of small-scale casting machine used for low production runs?
Anyway, this is all daydreaming without some sort of inside contact. Maybe I could ask Jervis on the E:A webforum. Would anyone here be interested in acquiring significant quantitites of old bits? Assuming there's the smallest glimmer of hope, I think much would depend on order size - it would have to be huge to raise any interest on GW part.
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