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Concern : unavailability of some Lord of the rings / The Hobbit products.

Dear Sir or Madam,
I'm a passionate of wargames and I collect, paint and play with the lord of the rings miniatures for some yearsBut for a few time, I've seen that the Lord of the rings / The Hobbit Strategy battle game takes no more importance in Gw publications such as the white dwarf, and even in the GW hobby centre, or on the website. Then, some miniatures are currently unavailable such as Duinhir, mahud king foot and mounted, mahud warrior with blowpipes, kandish king on charioteer, Captain of Arnor, Umbar's corsairs with crossbow, Knights of Dol Amroth on foot, and even some recent model such as the captain of erebor, from the Hobbit game.
Furthermore, with the release of the third movie from The Hobbit, GW gave us a new book for the battle of the five armies. Actually, it appears that lots of important character from this movie haven't their miniatures yet, such as Dain ironfoot and thranduil on elk.

All this elements give me reasons to think of the possible end of this game by GW. Personally, I like this (those : Lotr & the hobbit ?) game and I'm wondering about this future. I've still some projects and armies to make, but I dare not buy anything now because of that. I don't want to begin a dwarf army inspired by The battle of five armies without having Ironfoot on pig to command it.
So, what will happen of this game in the future. Will you still support it and give us new miniatures, and will you sell again all the miniatures witch are no longer available ? What can I expect about Lotr strategy battle game and The Hobbit strategy battle game ?
Please apologize for my poor english
Thank you very much for your answer

Hello Valentin,



Thank you for your email.



Unfortunately we have no prior information as to what items are being removed from the website and when that will happen I am afraid. Over recent months we have seen products from the Lord of the Rings ranged removed, however most of these are different variations of the same model.



For example we produced several different Aaragon models; we now have now downsized the range to 2. So while we are still producing the models, we are not producing them with the same variety as before. This is mainly to accommodate the new Hobbit Range we have been introducing over the last 3 years with the new films, this has meant that some of the older Lord of the Rings sets have been discontinued to make way for these.



If there is anything further we can help you with, please feel free to contact us again.



Kind regards,

Customer Services

Claire de chez GW a écrit:Hello Valentin,

Thank you for your reply.

Unfortunately, we do not sell this model.

I am sorry that we could not help you this time. Have a great day.

Kind regards,
Claire
Customer Services