I am completely out of the loop with Games Workshop. Are there any plans of this shit show getting miniatures?

I am completely out of the loop with Games Workshop.
Are there any plans of this shit show getting miniatures?

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Not from GW, would have to come from Amazon or some partnership they have.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      GW signed a televised media deal with Amazon so its not unlikely that they might have some RoP licenses in the contract.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        they didn't sign it yet.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Probably gonna happen, lets be real. Amazon is desperate for 'content' no matter what it is. With Henry backing it up then a lot of excitement is being thrown towards the show without any money being spent on it yet. Honestly GW is trying to milk amazon for as much as they can and Amazon probably isn't happy that GW has as much say in this matter.

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    No. And go frick yourself for even considering it

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    hopefully, it was an excellent show if you ignore the writing, acting, special effects and music.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      What does that leave? Costumes? Sets? Camera work? Editing?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Costumes were shit too. Sets were okay but the shit camera work and editing made it hard to appreciate.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          SLOW MOTION HORSE RIDING

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Costumes?
        I wouldn't say so.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I forgot those on my list and you should ignore them as well.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        This is 2023, pal. The only thing you need to derive satisfaction from in a modern show is the knowledge that it's making "the chuds" angry online. Anything else is a bonus.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        The Black person elves and Black person dwarfs made me break out in laughter. That's a positive right?

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    You can bet your collection gw wants to do it- most normies loved rings of power and releasing a new line will only create more pay pigs.
    That said, it's not part of the Tolkien estate, whereas GW has exclusive rights to produce miniatures for said estate. They'd need a contract involving all three parties- gw, Tolkien, and amazon. Unlikely to happen/too expensive, although given the upcoming cavill/40k project there may be more scope and interest for amazon and gw to work together.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >You can bet your collection gw wants to do it
      They've already stated they don't and aren't interested

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I'm pretty sure amazon was careful about making it some kind of sub-IP they can legally own

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I hate Amazon.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Top ones are suppose to be 7 foot übermenschen

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >top ones are supposed to be the people so powerful that they subjugated Sauron without a fight and invaded Valinor

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >Twinks subjugated Sauron
          This is more embarassing that one time he got mogged by a dog

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      is that slender lad wearing a cloth shirt underneath with scales drawn on it?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Top ones are suppose to be 7 foot übermenschen

      A lot of the extras in the both the battle in the epilogue and the battle before the black gates were actual soldiers, both those battles were filmed on land that belongs to the New Zealand Defence Force. Somehow Peter Jackson managed to convince the powers that be here to allow that.

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I think some other manufacturer is going to do some shitty boardgame and/or pre-prepainted clix type game for RoP.

    Maybe GW should have anticipated new interest in the 2nd Age and people circling back to the Jackson movies though, and did a Last Alliance starter with new plastic Gil-Galad, Sauron, Numenor, and elves. Osgiliath set feels underwhelming, basically the evil half of Pelennor Fields vs Faramir.

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    GW's rights to make a Tolkien miniature wargame are licensed from what is now called Middle-earth Enterprises, owned by Embracer Group and formerly owned by Saul Zaentz. This bundle of rights, which are basically to LotR and The Hobbit, were sold off cheap by JRR himself in the 60s to United Pictures. The Tolkien Estate ran by his family has no real control over them. This is the same "bundle of rights" used by Warner Brothers and New Line to make the films.

    Separately GW must have some license or agreement with New Line to use their designs in miniature form, hence why a lot (not sure if all) of miniatures are ©NLP on the tabs.

    Anyway, Amazon's license to use the appendices from LotR (and some Silmarillion stuff on a case-by-case basis) is from the Tolkien Estate directly, and there's a reason they're so byzantine. Basically in JRR's 60s sale, there's an agreement that the LotR/Hobbit film rights holder gets first option if the film rights to any other Tolkien works are up for sale. So the Tolkien Estate has to be very careful with the span of their licences, or they'd have to sell away even more rights to this Middle-earth Enterprises lot.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Didn't actually include my point lel. So GW might have unofficial agreements with the Tolkien Estate but their rights aren't from them anyway. They'd have to get a license there.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Pretty soon it all goes Public Domain anyways does it not? Some of it might already be.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Intellectual property law is a fricking mess. The man is dead, just make it all public domain

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    No. The show was an absolute flop

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It’s still gonna get a second season though. Namely cause they did that thing where they started work on the second season before the first was even out.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Didn't stop them from shitcanning Batgirl

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          It honestly depends how far along they were with season 2 when season 1 came out. If they were like less than halfway done filming then I can see them just cutting their losses, but if they were most of the way done or had some contractual crap in play then they’re likely to drop a total rushjob for season 2 just to recoup some losses

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        And they're pretty much rebooting the whole thing because it did so badly.

        I hope it's good, I want a decent fantasy to watch so I'm not just endlessly watching the LoTR trilogy, Excalibur and Conan.
        I don't have high hopes though.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          House of the Dragon was good

          Rings of Power S2 will be even worse than the first one

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Yeah HoTD was great. But not really something you would re-watch regularly.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              That's fair

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            did they even bother explaining the black valyrian? Was he at least from the summer isles, or was it just "these pale inbred people are black now, deal chud"?

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              No, the explanation I received from Ganker was that the characters were still white the actors are only black or because driftmark is close to the equator and the summer isles they would be black. This is all moronic for multiple reasons and came down to "deal with it chud!"

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I dunno about this but I think GW is going to go hard on the Lord of the Rings shit this year and not RoP crap either.

    Lego is releasing Lord of the Rings sets from the movies again this year, Magic the Gathering is releasing a special Lord of the Rings edition card set.

    I've noticed a big uptick at my local stores of people playing the LOTR tabletop in the past few month so people might be swapping because it's a bit cheaper than 40k and much easier to play.

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >black beardless female dwarf...

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The Black person elves and Black person dwarfs made me break out in laughter. That's a positive right?

      Ironically Disa was probably the best character in the show.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Only because she put on Kiltface and appropriated Scottish mannerisms.

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    OH LORDI LORD O DEM RANGZ WE WUZ KANGZ NIGOLAS DO A KICKFLIP

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