fbpx JOIN LOGIN JOIN

40K: GW Battle for Vedros Website Spotted

By Larry Vela | February 13th, 2016 | Categories: Games Workshop, Tabletop Gaming News

vedros-collage-horz

GW is rolling out a brand new website with a new line of 40K products aimed squarely at boys and girls! Take a look!

This news provided by our friends at Bell of Lost Souls:

 

vedros-1

Let’s get started…

First of all, go here:

Warhammer 40,000 Battle for Vedros

And take a look at the new products and pictures.

 

vedros-2 vedros-3 vedros-4

Some Notes:

These look to be in roughly the same vein as the earlier “toy store products” spotted at the toy fair in Germany.  These are reboxings of existing quick-assembly miniatures – aimed at newcomers to the hobby.

The videos are designed for viewers with zero background and experience with GW products.

The rules are DIFFERENT – this isn’t a set of 40K starter sets. The miniatures are identical, but the rules themselves are a super simplified version of 40k. (more on that later)

Note the example customers in the pictures, young boys AND GIRLS.  GW looks to be trying to widen the appeal of thier customerbase.

 

vedros-5

The store locator at the bottom of the Battle for Vedros site includes both GW Retail stores AND independent stockists – so this isn’t a GW-Internal project.

vedros-6

 

This looks to be yet another initiative by GW to widen thier customer base with very basic products aimed at young children. The difference is this looks to aimed at the existing GW retail and FLGS channels while the German Toy Fair line was even more basic and aimed outside of GW current retail channels.

~More on this as it comes in.  What do you think of the new line and site?

About the Author: Larry Vela