Ted C wrote:GW has been trying to get something together on these lines for years. Lots of studios want to use the setting, and they're willing to give GW some creative control. It always breaks down at merchandising, though. GW won't allow any other company to make toys based on their copyrights, and the movie studios won't make the movie without the merchandising rights.
You know, my first thought on this explanation, besides it being not surprising whatsoever if true, is GW's demand wouldn't be so hilariously retarded if they would/could sell a 4-inch figure for under forty dollars.
They can't maintain a widely-known property when they make their customer base as narrow as possible.
They'd probably insist on selling only unpainted action figures. Overpriced Citadel paint for everyone!
Plus, considering the confuckulations surrounding the Damnatus incident, I can't imagine they'd allow merchandising to be done at all.
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"It would just be Unicron with pew pew instead of nom nom". - Vendetta, explaining his justified disinterest in the idea of the movie Allspark affecting the Death Star
Would it be possible to use the Custodes as a base, powerful enough to get started and close enough to the Big Guys that 30K'ers like myself would'nt feel left out in our own movie.
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Pretty sure GW have done some limited merchandising deals. There was a short-ranged line of SPace Marine statuettes, a while back, plus the company who make/made dog tags and belt buckles and things.
"So you want to live on a planet?"
"No. I think I'd find it a bit small and wierd."
"Aren't they dangerous? Don't they get hit by stuff?"
Anyone know what killed the Blood Quest movie? That had been signed, was gearing up, casting decisions made... Then it crashed.
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andrewgpaul wrote:Pretty sure GW have done some limited merchandising deals. There was a short-ranged line of SPace Marine statuettes, a while back, plus the company who make/made dog tags and belt buckles and things.
Those all sound like items made by BL Publishing or Forge World, divisions (or at best subsidiaries) of GW itself.
andrewgpaul wrote:Pretty sure GW have done some limited merchandising deals. There was a short-ranged line of SPace Marine statuettes, a while back, plus the company who make/made dog tags and belt buckles and things.
What's Blood Quest?
Are those technical demos still around somewhere?
IMO the quality of the Dawn of War intro is good enough for a CGI movie.
"..history has shown the best defense against heavy cavalry are pikemen, so aircraft should mount lances on their noses and fly in tight squares to fend off bombers". - RedImperator
"ha ha, raping puppies is FUN!" - Johonebesus
"It would just be Unicron with pew pew instead of nom nom". - Vendetta, explaining his justified disinterest in the idea of the movie Allspark affecting the Death Star
andrewgpaul wrote:Pretty sure GW have done some limited merchandising deals. There was a short-ranged line of SPace Marine statuettes, a while back, plus the company who make/made dog tags and belt buckles and things.
Nope. Artemis is techincally a gaming figure, not a display piece, and both that and the Forgeworld statuette are made 'in-house'. There were a few Marines available (the same sculpt, different chapters _ remember Blood Angel, Ultramarine and Space Wolf models)> I think they were 'polystone' statuettes from Warp Artefacts, but there's sod all infor I can find on the web.
"So you want to live on a planet?"
"No. I think I'd find it a bit small and wierd."
"Aren't they dangerous? Don't they get hit by stuff?"
You gotta admit, it's pretty amazing what GW's in-house painters can do.. the level of detail is amazing. Sometimes it's hard to believe the figure you're seeing in the photo is that small.
"..history has shown the best defense against heavy cavalry are pikemen, so aircraft should mount lances on their noses and fly in tight squares to fend off bombers". - RedImperator
"ha ha, raping puppies is FUN!" - Johonebesus
"It would just be Unicron with pew pew instead of nom nom". - Vendetta, explaining his justified disinterest in the idea of the movie Allspark affecting the Death Star
I was trying to post the link to the 'index' page for warpartefacts.com, rather than one individual archived page. The syntax looks fine in the second post I made; I think the asterisk in the link is confusing it.
"So you want to live on a planet?"
"No. I think I'd find it a bit small and wierd."
"Aren't they dangerous? Don't they get hit by stuff?"
And yes, I will admit to the ulterior motive of wanting to have Samuel L. Jackson as a Space Marine. In Terminator armour.
If you're going to have Samuel L. Jackson in a 40k movie, he would have to be a badass inquisitor. He has much more opportunity for badass one-liners than as a Marine. Plus, then you can put him in power-armor, anyway.
Plushie wrote:
If you're going to have Samuel L. Jackson in a 40k movie, he would have to be a badass inquisitor. He has much more opportunity for badass one-liners than as a Marine. Plus, then you can put him in power-armor, anyway.
Personally, I'd like to see him telling a fearful Guardsman to reciting the Litany of Stealth so as not to be heard by the nearby Chaos Marine/Ork/Lictor etc, with a straight face.
An Ancient wrote:Personally, I'd like to see him telling a fearful Guardsman to reciting the Litany of Stealth so as not to be heard by the nearby Chaos Marine/Ork/Lictor etc, with a straight face.
"Louder, damnit! You think the Emperor will hear you whispering it like that?"
Samuel L. Jackson is clearly made for the role of a Chaplain.
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