Me too. On Apple it’s always been blue until recently.
Not right IMO.
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David, why didn’t our community get the inside scoop on the 50th AE re-release announcement… AH didn’t even announce it at the A&A tournament at the same convention where they told BGG… was there anything that could have been done?
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What?
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I have a bunch of info from Wizards, finally. Including a tentative release date.
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I have not seen it for sale in Europe yet. Will not be buying for myself, of course. Will be a good present though!
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@wittmann:
I have not seen it for sale in Europe yet. Will not be buying for myself, of course. Will be a good present though!
It’s available for preorder at Amazon Germany, 80 EURO, October, 6th 2017:
https://www.amazon.de/Avalon-Hill-Wizards-Coast-C39720000/dp/B0734BWNV9/ -
I’m more interested in the date in which the brick and mortar shops will release it.
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@Young:
I’m more interested in the date in which the brick and mortar shops will release it.
October 6, 2017, according to this…
http://wpn.wizards.com/en/products/axis-allies
Axis & Allies Anniversary Edition
Release Date: 10/06/2017…which is the date it gives today, although back in July the same source said 9/22/2017.
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Thanks for that CWO Marc, looks like we won’t have Anniversary Edition prizes for my tournament in September after all.
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80E: That is a good price, Panther.
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@Young:
Thanks for that CWO Marc, looks like we won’t have Anniversary Edition prizes for my tournament in September after all.
Actually, there’s a way you could still have Anniversary Edition prizes (in a manner of speaking) at your tournament: use a variation of the “empty box” Christmas marketing gimmick that Kenner Toys used in 1977 for its Star Wars action figures.
When the summer 1977 release of Star Wars turned into a cinema blockbuster, Kenner, which had the marketing rights for certain Star Wars toys, realized that they’d never be able to produce enough units in time to meet the unexpectedly huge demand they would face at Christmas 1977. Their solution was to sell a package that contained “a Star Wars Space Club membership card, a cardboard display stand depicting 12 Star Wars characters, and a rather apologetic set of stickers. Most importantly of all, there was the certificate itself: a postcard which, when filled in and sent off, promised to send back a set of four Star Wars figures before the spring of 1978.” Various sectors of the industry ridiculed the concept, but Kenner’s gamble paid off: they ended up selling about 40 million Star Wars toys over the course of one year.
So perhaps you could similarly offer some kind of “early bird” prize consisting of a souvenir certificate (which the person would get to keep) saying that the person has won a copy of the game that will be shipped off when it’s released. To sweeten the deal, perhaps you might even be able to arrange to have the souvenir certificate autographed by Larry, since he’ll be at your tournament.
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And it was because of that, that George Lucas introduced to the world the scourge of Ewoks and Jar Jar Binks…
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@CWO:
@Young:
Thanks for that CWO Marc, looks like we won’t have Anniversary Edition prizes for my tournament in September after all.
Actually, there’s a way you could still have Anniversary Edition prizes (in a manner of speaking) at your tournament: use a variation of the “empty box” Christmas marketing gimmick that Kenner Toys used in 1977 for its Star Wars action figures.Â
When the summer 1977 release of Star Wars turned into a cinema blockbuster, Kenner, which had the marketing rights for certain Star Wars toys, realized that they’d never be able to produce enough units in time to meet the unexpectedly huge demand they would face at Christmas 1977. Their solution was to sell a package that contained "a Star Wars Space Club membership card, a cardboard display stand depicting 12 Star Wars characters, and a rather apologetic set of stickers. Most importantly of all, there was the certificate itself: a postcard which, when filled in and sent off, promised to send back a set of four Star Wars figures before the spring of 1978." Various sectors of the industry ridiculed the concept, but Kenner’s gamble paid off: they ended up selling about 40 million Star Wars toys over the course of one year.Â
So perhaps you could similarly offer some kind of “early bird” prize consisting of a souvenir certificate (which the person would get to keep) saying that the person has won a copy of the game that will be shipped off when it’s released. To sweeten the deal, perhaps you might even be able to arrange to have the souvenir certificate autographed by Larry, since he’ll be at your tournament.
Interesting Ideas CWO Marc, I will definitely look into this.
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When you follow the link besides Germany it says color grey. Is that correct or is it a typo? The back of the box picture clearly shows black German pieces.
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I hope they went grey like Milton Bradley German grey. It would be a dream