Brother_West Posted November 17, 2008 Share Posted November 17, 2008 Greetings brothers, I get most of my space wolves off of the website miniwargaming.com its a great site if you guys haven't heard of it, anways. I have noticed that they have a slim amount of space wolves, so i emailed them asking why they don't stock some of the other models (scouts,terminators, stuff like that). I got an email back from them today stating that "GW has discontinued the product of a good amount of the Space Wolfs." :blink: I dont go to GW all that much anymore, but do any of you know if they are taking their space wolves off the shelf? And if they are do you think they are doing this because the new codex space wolves is coming up? Any information would be great! Cheers, West... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muzzyman1981 Posted November 17, 2008 Share Posted November 17, 2008 As far as I know they are not discontinuing them, as a matter of fact GW has a seperate section in the Space Marines area for Space Wolf models. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted November 17, 2008 Share Posted November 17, 2008 They actually stopped sending out a lot of SW stock nowdays asits such a small profit margin and they want to make space on their racks for newer release products. If you go to the GW website you can still find them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Betrayed_Spacewolf Posted November 17, 2008 Share Posted November 17, 2008 alot of the wolves are getting taken off the shelves however you can still find them online a plenty (although gw continues to delete my shopping cart everyday) alot of their models are in the old pewter molds and dont sell well. such as all the good looking space wolf models and wolf guard. however in 2009 you can expect to see the shelves and most of the world filled with wolves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest WG Vrox Posted November 18, 2008 Share Posted November 18, 2008 Fantastic, my economics 101 course pays off in the end as I can now answer your question. Fear not young wolf. Yep, They are slowing/stopping production in order to use up back stock before they release new models for warehousing and marketing reasons. Basically they know after the new models come out, the demand for old models drops to almost nothing. So in order to not have to store and deal with old stock, they allow the backstock to sell out. The added benefit for them is OOP stock become rare and thus more valuable.... basic supply and demand. WG Vrox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother_West Posted November 18, 2008 Author Share Posted November 18, 2008 Whew......Thats a relief, if the space wolves got cancelled i'd probably shoot myself :). So i guess that means our new codex is comnig out next year? I thought it was coming out in decemeber, i know alot of people brought that up lol...but i'm pretty pumped for it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Betrayed_Spacewolf Posted November 18, 2008 Share Posted November 18, 2008 i heard earlier that it was stocked for this year however it got pushed back to next christmas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master Elias Posted November 26, 2008 Share Posted November 26, 2008 I can't imagine them discontinuing Space Wolves because if they did, I wouldn't have anyone to fued with and that was one of the reasons I took up DA, I always enjoyed the (not so) friendly table talk with my friend between the problems with the others army. I would probably be pretty mad if they got rid of the ferocious friends fron the Fang... *strightens robe, puts up hood, kills someone for knowing too much* Cheers Master Elias, 3rd Company Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WolfScout Posted November 27, 2008 Share Posted November 27, 2008 The GW store I work at actually seems to get SW stock on a regular basis....and no they are not currently slated for discontinuation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Het Masteen Posted November 28, 2008 Share Posted November 28, 2008 I was talking to my local Independent Stockist a while back. He was tring to get me to buy the Space Wolf Battleforce he had in the shop. As the only committed Wolves player, I was his best chance at shifting it. When he originally ordered it, he was warned that SW stock doesn 't sell.His GW agent said it's down to the age of the codex and the similarity between Wolves and normal Marines (model-wise). So fear not, they're not being discontinued, it's just good business sense from their perspective. No point in stocking shelves with stuff that won't sell. Now that the codex has been removed from retail sale, there'll be a further slump. The new SW models shown at Games Day will probably help shift some related stock when they're released but otherwise, expect to see less and less SW stock until we get our new codex, next January, September, December 2009/2010. :blush: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marek Grimfang Posted November 28, 2008 Share Posted November 28, 2008 The current SW range of boxes has the older box cover art. Not the newer photoshopped box cover art as well. It doesn't "Fit" on the shelves with the newer look product lines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoneSniperSG Posted November 28, 2008 Share Posted November 28, 2008 GW could never risk discontinuing the Space Wolves. If they did, a few thousand people would descend upon GW HQ with battleaxes. This reminds me, I need a couple more SW kits.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bran Scalphunter Posted November 28, 2008 Share Posted November 28, 2008 GW could never risk discontinuing the Space Wolves. If they did, a few thousand people would descend upon GW HQ with battleaxes. This reminds me, I need a couple more SW kits.. Ya know, every time one of these threads comes up, someone mentions this fact and personally, that is why I think GW would never axe the Wolves- they fear our wrath. Also, I could some more SW kits too... *grabs battle axe and heads out for GW* :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Brother Sargent Tiberius- Posted November 28, 2008 Share Posted November 28, 2008 thousands of space wolves with battle axes charging gw. but if you kill them all they wont make more stuff... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grey Mage Posted November 29, 2008 Share Posted November 29, 2008 You just have to make sure you know some good sculpters and a couple of buisness majors to take their places..... 1) sculpters... check. 2) Buisness majors... check. 3) British accents.... check. 4) Website admins... check. Though personally I dont want to kill them at all... theyve not done anything worth that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother_West Posted November 30, 2008 Author Share Posted November 30, 2008 I went to my local GW a couple days ago to buy some blood claws and all they had were 3 rune priests sheesh lol. They had 2 Blood Angel Baal Predator tanks and not a single wolf box ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muzzyman1981 Posted November 30, 2008 Share Posted November 30, 2008 Well that's like at my local store, barely a couple of SMALL shelves for ALL Warhammer 40k stuff and not a single box set, although they do have some single pack Wolf Guards and Scouts. Although the place I go to that is about 45mins away have ALOT of Wolf stuff including 13th Co. stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JEFF4i Posted November 30, 2008 Share Posted November 30, 2008 My local place has wolf stuff, but I'm one of the only Wolf players in New Mexico it seems. Honestly, I'd just get it online if they didn't have it locally, and if GW decided to cancel them...well...at least I'll have something to do for a week or two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hagar_The_Bear Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 It is common for GW to discontinue a line of models before the release of a new codex and therefore a replacement line. Likely, they will be repackaging/remodelling the Space Wolves for an upcoming release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitewolfmxc Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 I was worried when i saw the sw batleforce taken off the online shops even in Australia >< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iams Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 Hello I've been gone for awhile and will be posting more soon. In a GW I went to there was 3 boxes out of the entire store. May Russ be with you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mynameisowen Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 Just to let you guys know, its not only the Space Wolves that have suffered from this plague. I can no longer find any metal Blood Angels models online anymore (apart from GW themselves) and the Blood Angels have many metal models which is quite frustrating!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vassakov Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 Ok, if any of what I post here is unacceptable PM me and I'll get rid of it. I work for an indepentent Stockist in the UK and so I have a list of EVERYTHING any Indie store can get. For the Space Wolves, there is: Grey Hunters Blood Claws Long Fangs Rune Priest Blister I know that the SW Battleforce is OOP, as I tried to get one back in July and was told by the Rep that all remaining Battleforces had been distributed - therefore if your lcoal Stockist has one, my advice would be to grab it. The smaller box sets are also OOP - they are shifting remaining stock. I don't know about the Priest, but my guess is they have a backlog of him too. For those of you panicking over lack of Ragnar/Logan/Ulrik - GW recently as part of their restructuring cut back on a lot of more "specialist" metal kits and blisters that are know ONLY available through GW direct - for example, Tau Commander Shadowsun and Khârn the Betrayer. This is extremely annoying, as nowhere other than the GW Order form is this made clear - that only Indepents have access to. I have had to call several customers who have placed orders for these items through us that we can no longer get. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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