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Any hope of GW Epic archive ever coming back? |
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Magnus
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Post subject: Any hope of GW Epic archive ever coming back?  Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2004 5:58 pm |
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Ok, so the GW US Epic archive is discontinued. Just looking at the list of very hard - impossible to find things makes my fingers itching for a way of getting copies of those items (you know, the titan weapons variants for Imperial, Chaos, Orks and Eldars, the Exodites, the Psi-Titan parts(?) and Dropship(?) which I didn't even knew existed, etc.).
I know very little about this, and was wondering if someone here has some better info on any hope of the archive coming back.
Heck, even a one-time sale could be a God-send. Maybe if we combine to place a big order they would recast the pieces? (no website management overhead, just a long list of bits and a price).... well, one can dream.... 
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Legion 4
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Post subject: Any hope of GW Epic archive ever coming back? Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2004 6:03 pm |
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Based, on everything we know at this time ... put money on the little grey aliens landing before that happens ...
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Magnus
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Post subject: Any hope of GW Epic archive ever coming back? Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2004 11:30 am |
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| 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.
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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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Post subject: Any hope of GW Epic archive ever coming back? Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2004 2:43 pm |
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Odds are slim. But ask anyways......and report back! 
my 2cents,
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Justiniel
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Post subject: Any hope of GW Epic archive ever coming back? Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2004 3:00 pm |
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Serps
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Post subject: Any hope of GW Epic archive ever coming back? Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2004 2:32 am |
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I confess; the only reason I'm looking forward to the Epic Chaos release is so I can convert more Silver Towers and Daemon Engines to BFG...
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