Reply To: Shopping on Temu

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Speaking of ripping off someone else’s IP’s: The very first Citadel miniatures I ever came across were multipart metal medievals, very obviously inspired by Monty Python movies. This would have been in the late 1970s or very early 80s, in a full-page ad in some magazine. I don’t remember if it was White Dwarf – before it became an in-house only publication – Dungeon, Dragon or something else. So I suppose we might say that Citadel miniatures got their start by ripping off Monty Python.

Their entire universe is VERY heavily influenced by Michael Moorcock and John Tolkien, their High and Dark Elves are basically Moorcock’s Melnibonéans, their concept of Chaos is pretty much a combination of Moorcock and Lovecraft, their Tyranids are a clear and direct ripoff of Swiss artist H.R. Giger’s Aliens.

Are GW paying royalties to any of these people ? Doubt it.

The idea of an undying God-Emperor guiding mankind isn’t a GW original, either, the German Science Fiction series Perry Rhodan, published continuously on a weekly basis since 1961 and, as far as I know, still going, beat them to that punch by a cool 2 decades.

So GW have done quite a lot of ripping, not to mention dissing and, quite frankly, mocking their very own customer base.

While it is, as stated, crucial to pay VERY close attention when shopping on Temu, I do not find their stuff to be ‘polished turds’ at all. For example, I got a very nice old-fashioned writing set from them for about $20, complete with quill, ink well, sealing wax, stamp, and ink, which would have cost me well over $100 IF – and that’s a huge if – I would be able to find something even remotely similar at a local store. Which I can’t, because we have lost all art supply stores. There are none.