Liverpool GW opening till midnight 22/06

[Shadow Marine]

More news from GW liverpool page:


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[Austinitor]

Checked with my local store in Indianapolis, and they're closing at their normal 8pm.

[Stormbrow II]

I'm still slightly shocked that a store would open at midnight for no other reason than to let you pay for a preorder you could do online at home.

Online at home on a website that'll give you discount of anywhere between 10% and 20%.

[dienekes96]

If I didn't know anything, if my store told me I *had* to be there at midnight for this awesome event but they couldn't tell me what it was until 12:01, and I showed up with excitement and anticipation for my favorite hobby, only to be shown the GW Home Page and pre-order box for VIth and some drone trying to sell me the new White Dwarf...



I would not be pleased.

[Starchild]

Regarding the GW Liverpool message: "anouncement/viewing/aquiring" (they can't spell ).

The keyword (as properly spelled) is acquiring and the message implies limited quantities. So the question is, acquire what?

[Commissar Merces]

The limited amount of free pizza.

In all seriousness though when someone signs off as Alpharius, I am suspicious. Look, I am really really trying not to burst anyone's bubble here.

Do I think these events will be fun? Yes if you have a good community. Should you expect a new rule book. ABSOLUTELY NOT. My guess: posters, white dwarf for sale, little pamphlets, and stuff along those lines. Many of the stores seem to be having 40k tournaments as part of the hoopla for one last 5th edition event. Again, I can only report what I have heard from multiple sources that there will be no 6th ed books leaving the store that night. You can purchase a book via pre order, but you can't take it with you.

More importantly, it seems like not even all the shops are having a gathering... that should tell you something.

[tiger g]

Not all of the stores have posted the event as they are just getting back from the big meeting. Only one I know for sure that will not have this event will be in New Jersey as it is closing the next day.

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More importantly, it seems like not even all the shops are having a gathering... that should tell you something.

[Stormbrow II]

If I didn't know anything, if my store told me I *had* to be there at midnight for this awesome event but they couldn't tell me what it was until 12:01, and I showed up with excitement and anticipation for my favorite hobby, only to be shown the GW Home Page and pre-order box for VIth and some drone trying to sell me the new White Dwarf...

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I would not be pleased.

I'm thinking of the parents that have to take little Timmy to the shop after midnight and they've either taken the following day off or have work and are not told until then that they can't buy the book (having not been told beforehand). Angry parents can do crazy things. Like assault shop staff...

[Darnok]

I'm thinking of the parents that have to take little Timmy to the shop after midnight and they've either taken the following day off or have work and are not told until then that they can't buy the book (having not been told beforehand). Angry parents can do crazy things. Like assault shop staff...

If parents are indeed stupid enough to take their kid to a store for a thing like this, without checking for details first, they deserve whatever they get.

[Spiney Norman]

Not all of the stores have posted the event as they are just getting back from the big meeting. Only one I know for sure that will not have this event will be in New Jersey as it is closing the next day.

Yeah, doesn't look like its anything to do with the launch of 6th, just some random craziness Livpool thought they'd do... None of the other stores are doing anything.

[Spider-pope]

Like most people have said - I'd go if I knew I'd walk out with the new rule book. I know I won't so I don't understand why anyone would bother?

Free Pizza?

Good look with that? When was the last time GW gave out anything for free? I heard we're now even paying them to give us their advertisements...

The 25th Anniversary party thing? Free cake, free snacks, and if you got there early enough, free far too small 25th anniversary pin badge.

I'll probably go to the Liverpool thingy just for the apocalypse game. Doubt i'll stay till midnight though, i rely on public transport and so would like to leave Liverpool when there's at least a small chance i'll make it home without being mugged.

[jtrowell]

If parents are indeed stupid enough to take their kid to a store for a thing like this, without checking for details first, they deserve whatever they get.

To be fair, what info can the parent get from a rapid search ?

Not everybody, especially parents not in the hobby themselves, will know the usual procedure of GW preorders nor be as informed as sites like warseer or dakadaka.

A parent (or little timmy himself) can very well be aware of the next edition because 5th has been removed from the store, and maybe because an older player told him that it was coming, and think that the big event is clearly 6th edition being available for sale.

He wouldn't be too far off, except for the part of being able to leave the store with the book ...

[Daigar]

++++To Alpharius++++
...
+++From Alpharius+++

I never imagined Alpharius using this kind of language, or that he sends messages to himself.

[StraightSilver]

I believe some stores will receive stock of the limited edition Servo Skull tape measure, the Psychic cards and metal effect templates which will be available after midnight, haven't heard anything about the rulebook being available though.

And that Liverpool FB update made my eyes bleed from the all spelling and grammar issues!

[Memnos]

Sorry guys. Just got vague confirmation from Gee Dub on this:

"If and when it is announced on the website and in White Dwarf, that is when you'll be able to pre-order it."

If we can pre-order it when it's announced in White Dwarf, then it's not coming out in stores that day. There would be no pre-orders, but just 'orders' at that point.

Looks like the 23rd is just the announcement, meaning that release date is either the 30th or the 7th.

[Rick Blaine]

More news from GW liverpool page:


http://i835.photobucket.com/albums/z...t/8549c6bb.jpg

Dude, put a warning on it, the grammar nearly killed me. The pedo teacher didn't help, either.

[Starchild]

@StraightSilver: That's better than nothing. The nerd rage may be contained if they at least sell *something* new.

[Emperors Teeth]

Fabulously entertaining might be that any staff that keep the store open past midnight, cannot be legally made to open the store at 10.00am the next day in the UK. You must be allowed 11 hours rest between shifts as an adult. Of course, there's nothing I can think of to say they can't waive that right, but I thought it was funny nonetheless.

On topic; If you can buy the book, and my store has a similar event, I may go. If it's for pre-orders, I think not.

[underhivetrader]

dude, put a warning on it, the grammar nearly killed me. The pedo teacher didn't help, either.

hahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!

[Voss]

Short version: no. Long version: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

Well, the nice thing is, once the preorders _don't_ go up on the 16th, it will be perfectly obvious that the 23rd really is the preorder date and some of this will die off.