{"id":16568,"date":"2026-10-12T16:25:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T20:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/?p=16568"},"modified":"2026-10-12T16:25:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T20:25:47","slug":"halloween-countdown-day-12-in-strange-aeons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/?p=16568","title":{"rendered":"Halloween Countdown: Day 12 \u2013 In strange aeons"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the days of old, when T’Pau was in the Top 10 charts and Games Workshop was a weirdly cool alternative to TSR’s stodginess instead of a punchline attached to its most profitably prominent IP comes White Dwarf<\/em> #91 (July 1987), which featured the following house ad for its line of “Gothic Horror” miniatures.<\/p>\n

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Why “Gothic Horror?” Because GW couldn’t or wouldn’t get the licensing rights to brand them as Call of Cthulhu<\/em> figures.<\/p>\n

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Putting aside the regrettable but hardly surprising problematic sour note aside, I genuinely miss the Games Workshop of this era, and it pains me that I lacked the spending money or foresight to scoop up more of its manifestations back when they were heaped high on Excalibur Hobbies’ clearance table in the early 1990s. <\/p>\n

And check out those prices — 2.50 GPB for six figures came out to about five American dollars. In fact the first GW figures I bought were a half dozen Eldar Harlequins for exactly that. Even adjusted for inflation, that comes out to less than what a single figure will set you back today. <\/p>\n

Of course that was almost forty years ago, which is where the real horror comes in.<\/p>\n

Recommended listening:<\/strong> Nothing else to do but keep driving.<\/p>\n