Shout-Out for Le Griffon!

Most often when you walk into a liquidation area or discount store, you don't know what you'll find - in fact, chances are, you don't even know what you are looking for other than that it should be cheap and good. Once in a while, you stumble on something you really were specifically looking for.

I was in my hometown visiting the local gaming store, Le Griffon, where I've made a habit to check their clearance section. The store offers the usual -10% on suggested retail price on all Games Workshop product (a practice I've seen pretty much at all indie stores). But from time to time, something will be oddly priced and I don't know if it's a mistake or if they did that knowing it would never sell at the SRP (like this rubber-foam thing I got for $27).

And sometimes... things like this weekend occur: I found a Space Marines Megaforce for a ridiculous $157. There it was sitting in the clearance area with the usual sticker price ($250-10%=$225) and the clearance sticker of -30% bringing this sucker down to a crazy $157.5 ...told you it was crazy. I chose not to mention the other box sitting in the regular aisle without the -30% sticker.

For the uninitiated, every once in a while Games-Workshop likes to put out a big box which features a severe bulk discount on the contents. The "megaforce" size boxes contain quite simply enough parts to build a fully playable army. The Space Marine box gives a commander and his squad, several troops units, assault specialists and scouts, a Predator tank, a Razorback APC model and a Dreadnought mecha. And yes... this'll take me forever. Over the weekend I finished the APC and have since started on the Assault Marines...