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So...You all realize that the fact that they're able to get any types of approvals for anything over the next two weeks is practically a Christmas Miracle, right?

But miracles do happen at Christmas, do you not ever watch the Christmas movie channel?!

biggusdoggus wrote:


But if I were a betting man, right now I'd rather be betting on a more likely result than the state of this game.

I don't even want to think about that!

Right now, I'm just thinking of painting that Predator-using-wrist-computer miniature.

We need some kind of AvP-themed '12 days of Christmas' song to sing while we are waiting..

On the first day of Christmas Prodos promised me;
An update once approved

News from Prodos forum.

"There will be no update this week due to the holiday and we are still waiting on approval of an update from fox."

I'd be happy with an update just to say Merry Christmas. I hope they don't need Fox approval for that.

Merry Christmas everyone and Happy Holidays if Christmas ain't your thing.

Sorry all, I've lost track of what's been happening with AvP - I didn't get in on the KS (looked to chaotic, and issues with others I'd already invested in) and was waiting for the board game version to come out.

What's the current status of the KS? Sounds like the KS has been deleted from the Kickstarter web site and Prodos is waiting for approval on some of the miniatures before it can ship? Or has the whole thing on indefinate hold? Can't muddle through the many pages to make proper sense of where things stand.

Read back over the past few pages

Summary: Awaiting final approvals from Fox, the game is still on its way.

It is still on track, just delayed. Best guess for Kickstarters getting wave one is Feb or March.


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It is still on track, just delayed. Best guess for Kickstarters getting wave one is Feb or March.

I'm going to hyper sleep ...... Have bishop wake me up when we arrive

 MattRendar wrote:
I'm going to hyper sleep ...... Have bishop wake me up when we arrive

On the seventh day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, seven marines hypersleeping..


..Wait! Too late for that now..

We need some other AvP-orientated games to help pass the time.

Anyone any ideas?

 Pacific wrote:

 MattRendar wrote:
I'm going to hyper sleep ...... Have bishop wake me up when we arrive

On the seventh day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, seven marines hypersleeping..


..Wait! Too late for that now..

We need some other AvP-orientated games to help pass the time.

Anyone any ideas?

This could hold you over: http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/57803/forlorn-hope

Get some minis from Khurasan to replace counters/standees if you desire.

 MattRendar wrote:
I'm going to hyper sleep......

Hopefully it doesn't take 57 years to fulfill...

 CptJake wrote:

 Pacific wrote:

 MattRendar wrote:
I'm going to hyper sleep ...... Have bishop wake me up when we arrive

On the seventh day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, seven marines hypersleeping..


..Wait! Too late for that now..

We need some other AvP-orientated games to help pass the time.

Anyone any ideas?

This could hold you over: http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/57803/forlorn-hope

Get some minis from Khurasan to replace counters/standees if you desire.

Cheers for that, looks very cool!

Love what that person on BGG did with the Kurosan miniatures.

Funny I just tried to look on the Kurosan website, they have a picture of some stockings and a big 'away for the holidays, back in the new year!' message with no option to buy anything or look at the rest of the site! Got to love these little garage operations

Well I've tried getting a refund but got no where. They have told me I can sell it though so if anyone's interested in a real aliens ain't from Mars pledge feel free to get in touch

Found this on the Prodos AvP Forum:

Big Jim V
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2014 6:36 pm
Just a heads up from Prodos, there will probably not be an update this week due to the New Years holiday. Mind you it could happen, but I want everyone to be prepared if it does not.

Cheers,
Jim

Yay! More news that there's no news!

Beats extended silence though, I guess.

I'm lurking the Prodos forum. Solely because I think it's the only place I'll hear anything. Miss the KS comments section. Couldn't bring myself to share on Dakka another "no update" update. Anyways, to satisfy my Predator cravings I went to Predastore. Fingers crossed it'll be a pleasant experience.

Prodos Games Ltd says:
Happy New Year!
It's 2015, it's January and we are raring to go with the new year. We've got big plans as a company, so you can expect to see all of our product lines grow and see a host of exciting events we will be attending and running!
However, you're all here for AvP, so we wanted to update you with where we are.
Our final stage for approval is pending with a master document of all the materials that will come in the main boxed set combined. The printed book did not meet the requirements, so we are currently reworking the fiction and background in order to meet the requirements that have been stated.
With that in mind, we are starting to order in the large packing boxes, rolls of packing tape and part-time staff to get your orders packed up and shipped out. It is very soon indeed and, though we cannot express an exact date, we hope that you realise just how soon this should be.
Once again, many thanks for your patience.
Prodos Games LTD

I wonder if river horse are going to have similar issues re aproval with the terminator game their doing?

Who knows! Terminator is owned by Fox as well right? I think certainly if I were Alessio Cavatore I would be on the phone to the guys at Prodos for some advice!

OK.. Re. the Prodos email if they're going to be getting in temp/agency staff soon, that's a good sign. You don't do that unless you are ready to roll, or are sure that you will be soon.

The fiction is the hold-up? Since when did Fox start caring about the quality of Aliens or Predator fiction?

*Sigh* for feths sake...

Hope though that this is good news - i.e. fluff being re-written to make a better product...

As to Terminator - I saw this on Beasts of War. This was my next wishlist game... Would go all in for a good Termintator(tm) miniatures game...

I'm curious if the next update will specifically deny that the fiction is the holdup and that they're purposefully changing the background of their own accord. Anyone mentioning the previous post will be deemed not constructive and banned; if that doesn't work, they'll turn off their fax machine and close their twitter account.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
The fiction is the hold-up? Since when did Fox start caring about the quality of Aliens or Predator fiction?

Haha yeah

Maybe it was deemed to be better than the script material for the AvP films and therefore inadmissible? If they have to make something that is equally bad we could be in for a wait, that would take some doing..

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
The fiction is the hold-up? Since when did Fox start caring about the quality of Aliens or Predator fiction?

Ever since mega-movie universes have become a thing (ie: Marvel Universe). Typically movies have always been stand alone, maybe a trilogy but they have always been self-contained. That momentum sold products, toy lines and other items until that horse was dead. When they needed to update the story or universe, they would then do a reboot or remake. Although it was semi-started with Lord of the Rings which lead to Hobbit and a huge commercial success. At that time also movies like Iron Man, Captain America, Thor and Avengers which also cross-platform not only to movies but to TV shoes like SHIELD... Fox has hopefully figured out they are sitting on untapped and wasted resources, which they keep screwing up with each new movie release or remake (ie: X-Men) because they don't pay attention to fiction.

Fox has so much wasted potential with what they control with licenses it isn't funny. Sure its made money but it is now proven that when handled differently, it could make a lot more. Unfortunately they don't seem to work well with planning for the future, it seems that each project are treated as stand-alone instead of planning for possible future releases. While everyone else has been adapting they have been left behind. There are a few times they could of been the first to really pioneer something like that, even with Aliens and Predators... there was potential with Prometheus before they decided to make it "Not-Aliens". Maybe now they are trying to get that together... highly unlikely but one can hope.

 Pacific wrote:
Who knows! Terminator is owned by Fox as well right?

bit OT but Paramount and Skydance Productions have the rights to the Terminator franchise now not Fox.

are they 28mm heroic like 40k??
fmj

 Dark Severance wrote:

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
The fiction is the hold-up? Since when did Fox start caring about the quality of Aliens or Predator fiction?

Ever since mega-movie universes have become a thing (ie: Marvel Universe). Typically movies have always been stand alone, maybe a trilogy but they have always been self-contained. That momentum sold products, toy lines and other items until that horse was dead. When they needed to update the story or universe, they would then do a reboot or remake. Although it was semi-started with Lord of the Rings which lead to Hobbit and a huge commercial success. At that time also movies like Iron Man, Captain America, Thor and Avengers which also cross-platform not only to movies but to TV shoes like SHIELD... Fox has hopefully figured out they are sitting on untapped and wasted resources, which they keep screwing up with each new movie release or remake (ie: X-Men) because they don't pay attention to fiction.

Fox has so much wasted potential with what they control with licenses it isn't funny. Sure its made money but it is now proven that when handled differently, it could make a lot more. Unfortunately they don't seem to work well with planning for the future, it seems that each project are treated as stand-alone instead of planning for possible future releases. While everyone else has been adapting they have been left behind. There are a few times they could of been the first to really pioneer something like that, even with Aliens and Predators... there was potential with Prometheus before they decided to make it "Not-Aliens". Maybe now they are trying to get that together... highly unlikely but one can hope.

I don't think the people at Fox understand how to "grow" a franchise in today's movie environment.

As for the fiction, if the new Dark Horse comic series or Titan Books novel series are any indication, I don't think Fox cares too much about the "quality" and "cohesion" of the stories being told.

The only way Alien and Predator can compete with the current franchises is to do a reboot or retcon. I think this is what is happening with Terminator, but what little we have seen doesn't leave me hopeful for the continuation of the series.

 Pacific wrote:

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
The fiction is the hold-up? Since when did Fox start caring about the quality of Aliens or Predator fiction?

Haha yeah

Maybe it was deemed to be better than the script material for the AvP films and therefore inadmissible? If they have to make something that is equally bad we could be in for a wait, that would take some doing..

I could help. I have a colostomy bag full of ideas.

Like, what if they're in a sporting goods store fighting a brazillion aliens and the Predator runs out of ammo and blades and he's all riding a skateboard around smashing aliens with a baseball bat and a hockey stick, and there's a vuvuzela in there somwwhere, and then later he decides that the ultimate hunt is taking on UFC champions in hand-to-hand, but one of the champions is secretly an android, and a facehugger got him but the baby alien can't break out because he's an android, so it's growing and growing, and then at the end the Predator breaks the androind in half over his knee and the fully-grown andralien jumps out and he's all like, "Hssssssshhhhhhhh!" and the Predator goes "Reeeaarrrrrrr!" and it's all like "TO BE CONTINUED" bruuuump (inception horns)..?


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Did I mention that the vuvuzela makes an alien's head explode?

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:


I could help. I have a colostomy bag full of ideas.

Like, what if they're in a sporting goods store fighting a brazillion aliens and the Predator runs out of ammo and blades and he's all riding a skateboard around smashing aliens with a baseball bat and a hockey stick, and there's a vuvuzela in there somwwhere, and then later he decides that the ultimate hunt is taking on UFC champions in hand-to-hand, but one of the champions is secretly an android, and a facehugger got him but the baby alien can't break out because he's an android, so it's growing and growing, and then at the end the Predator breaks the androind in half over his knee and the fully-grown andralien jumps out and he's all like, "Hssssssshhhhhhhh!" and the Predator goes "Reeeaarrrrrrr!" and it's all like "TO BE CONTINUED" bruuuump (inception horns)..?


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Did I mention that the vuvuzela makes an alien's head explode?

It's like you're channelling Matt Ward and CZ Dunn at the same time! Amazing... a hitherto impossible feat of fanfic. The story you've written sounds more epic than the one in the videogame Destiny already and you've only started!