Warhammer 40,000 Legends Collection Hits Stores & TV
September 14, 2016 by brennon
Games Workshop and Hachette Partworks have taken to TV to advertise their new magazine collection focusing in on a whole host of Warhammer 40,000 stories to expand upon their grim dark universe. Have you checked out the Legends Collection yet?
Of course you get yourself the novels when you pick up this magazine but you also get your hands on bonus material like artwork, background on the characters and their factions and much more.
Games Workshop has done additional magazines alongside White Dwarf in the past but this is a pretty big step towards bringing the Warhammer 40,000 world to more people. The books look like they're of good quality and the art is, as always, stunning, so this could well be something to pick up.
In keeping with many collections of its type, the first issue of this is only a snippet of the regular price at £1.99 with a regular price of £9.99.
Free Gifts are part of the deal however if you look to grab a subscription for this series of magazines and books.
Will you be giving this a go?
"The books look like they're of good quality and the art is, as always, stunning, so this could well be something to pick up..."
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This is interesting for being UK only thing.
At the risk of being nit-picky this isn’t coming directly from GW. It’s a licensed product from Hachette. The TV spots are done by Hachette rather than by GW, much like the D’Agostini LotR magazines, which Tom Kirby was very clear in pointing out that this wasn’t GW doing TV advertising.
@redben saved me the effort of commenting 😉 Worth pointing out that the usual price is £9.99 an issue starting at issue 3 onwards, but as they are hardback versions if you were to buy the same thing from black library you would be paying £20 an edition, and several of the upcoming books are printed versions of ebooks, of course usual caveat of expect the quality to be variable as i doubt many of the 80 planned books in the collection will be by the 4 good (well by good i mean dont make me wish to loose the… Read more »
The … variable quality of BL authors is the thing that puts me off. When they’re good they’re good, etc. and so on
I know what you mean. There are authors who’s novels I won’t touch anymore even with long stick like Ben Counter while there are those that I trust like Gav Thorpe that I know delivers good well written stories every time.
great for new GW book collector’s & to get any that readers have missed.
I will defo grab issue one for the intro price but that’s it. I don’t fancy the £8.99 e (I think thats what the ad said).
Yeah, it follows the usual partworks format of offering issue 1 at heavily discounted price, issue 2 at a higher price, then hitting the regular price with issue 3, which is £9.99. It also ships free gifts with the early issues to keep you on board as the price goes up.
http://www.warhammer40klegends.com/free-gifts
£9.99, but to be fair you’d probably pay up to double that to get the same thing from Black Library directly (although on the other hand some of them can probably be found, sans artwork and other mag exclusive content, for under a tenner on Amazon, or less on eBay if you don’t mind second hand).
Nearly £800 if you want the set.
Would you say is it cheaper or more expensive than buying same amount of Horus Heresy novels from store?
@mecha82 half price if you buy hardback only plus this is HH and 40k novels i expect gaunts ghosts to be making an appearance somewhere in this run for example as well as some of the piss poor (well the ones i have read anyway) space marine battles series and probably some of the anthologies as well
If you think SM Battles are bad you should try SM Heroes. Cassius and Lemartes are two of the worst books I’ve read. Had to drag myself through them and it put me off buying Shrike. Utter garbage.
they will look good on the shelf as part of a 40k collection and not a bad price for hardbacks.
waving 40k art in front of people might reignite a passion for a few who haven’t played since their youth. if you are young and just getting into 40k these may get them into reading. nice to see some airtime for the hobby.
will be interesting to see if people who already have some of the novels buy in as collectors or if they stick to the black library version.
I’ve got the first one and it’s a good quality hardback book. The art is fantastic too.
I’ve subscribed and I’ll see how it goes. I don’t know if I’ll stick around for all 80 books though.
I’m usually pretty skeptical whenever it comes to these magazine deals because they are normally a con (my favorite ones are the ships where it takes 100-200 magazines to build, with each magazine costing £5+).
While there are a lot of issues, it seems you get a pretty good deal in terms of getting a hardback + nice artwork.
Indeed – I’m planning to see how it goes. I expect I’ll do it until I’ve got all of the free gifts and then cancel…. but we’ll see 🙂
Can only be a good thing for the hobby IMO. More coverage to a wider audience is always great to see.
I have picked up issue one, the book is really nice quality. Decent hard back, theres a few pages of extra background information, for example it has a piece about the Warp, theres also a couple bits of info accompanied by some nice artwork. There is on one of the pages a kind of “advert”, basically along the lined of “if you want to find out more, subscribe”
But yeah definetely considering following this series
Is it £9.99 per book after the first few, or each month after the 3rd? Because a tenner for a hardback book isn’t really all that bad (not the cheapest, but not the most expensive) and if it’s £9.99 a month (you get two books every month), £4.99 is downright cheap.
It’s £9.99 per issue from #3 onwards, and each issue comes with one hardback book.
Typical … not for the US. Even if this is a licensed product, why would GW allow it to be UK only. So fans anywhere else in the world have to pay scalpers premiums on eBay … or just pound sand … shortsighted … typical.
Probably because the company who approached them about gaining a license for this don’t distribute in the US, meaning it was either this or nothing. I’m sure a US partworks company would be just as welcomed by GW to do a similar product in that market.