Massive Spiders and Price Hikes

Trapped in Bradford for the weekend, due to the ongoing car debacle; the only Wargaming exposure I got was a trip to the local Games Workshop (not five minutes from my apartment).  Their in I snapped a picture of the Arachnarok Spider in the flesh:

A pound coin (same size as a 1 Euro piece folks) gives a sense of scale.  To be brutally honest, it's a lovely looking model, but not as big as I first thought, still it is an impressive centrepiece; and probably worth splashing out the £36 asking price (though as I'll get mine at the FLGS instead, rather less).

Not so can be said of the 'New' Orc Boys Boxed set:

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat440079a&prodId=prod900162a

Yes, their the models from the old boxed set; but where that retailed for £20 for 19 models, the new box contains 10 of the same miniatures, for £18!

Quite frankly, the most phenomenal piece of offensive price raising GW have ever done.

You know I could see the point when the new Empire infantry went to ten for £12, they were a much better set of models, even if they were as pricey as historical lead miniatures.  I could understand the logic of their making elite troops more expensive; I didn't really agree with it, but accept the point that units people would buy less of will need to sell for more to be viable.

But this is one of the most common rank and file units an Orc player could field, and until a few weeks ago they retailed at just over £1 per model.

The price has gone up by 80%  for absolutely no change in product whatsoever.

Indefensible.

Games Workshop, you should be ashamed of yourselves.  Truly, ashamed.