Back in the day, our game store used to have this video running on a TV to help promote 40K. Those were better days, when armies were affordable and the game was better. Old school 40K had its own charm and I miss those great times with friends. With the current state of 40K, it's not a game for the young and broke.
Not a fan film. These were made by Bright Light Productions as a pitch for a WH40K movie. They're the same people who did the cutscenes for Final Liberation.
with warhammer tv we could actually get that and with the popularity of the horus heresy game theres a stronger possibility we could get a heresy series.
these are a pair of trailers that were played after the 1996(35th Anniversary) release Inquisitor which saw very limited sales and has basically been forgotten about. one is called Hive Infestation the other Blood For The Blood God.
The guy playing the Magus looks like he's having a lot of fun. Can't say the same for the space marine actors though. Also the Orks in that second trailer looked FANTASTIC (along with the other Xenos suits too, dumpy Tyranid warrior design not withstanding). If they ever make a 40k live action movie I would love for them to do practical costumes like this.
You know I got to say it amazed me that dude from the fucking 90s were able to make not only a really good terminator armor, but the fact they were able to walk around in it with how the need for fucking stilts, an somehow made you able to move quick enough to turn.
WRONG!!! It is an official GW product from 1996! For a fan movie it would be awesome. But these GW-suckers have made the Ultramarines movie since then:(((
The sad part is that if 40k was real, this might be the closest it’d get to looking real without resorting to CGI... that or unethical genetic experiments 🤯
I NEED THIS. these should have been on monstervision and early scifi channel. that they weren't made stinks of heresy. the feeling shouldn't be about these not being made; it should be about asking for a blu ray release.
I love watching something from 40k's roots, yes it's all so cheesy and poor production values but it's not bad considering it was low budget and the space marine armour suits look great too
These have such a grade A old hammer charm to them. Good god do I love the way the genestealers look here. Would kill for a movie or miniseries with this level of practical effects for the genestealers
+badfoody Some of the costumes I've seen people make are fantasic. I've seen people at cons in amazing suits of Power Armour and even one time a Dreadnaught
Patrick LohKamp these two trailers were played along with the short film Inquisitor. Using footage and clips from an ultimately rejected movie pitch, it was shown to fans at the 25th annual Games Day in 1996. Bright Light Productions would go on to do the cut-scenes for Final Liberation, using a number of assets from these shorts. That's about all I know.
2:31 and 4:32 After more than a decade, I've never forgotten these parts. I don't even have to close my eyes to see and hear these scenes in my mind for whatever reason. Final Liberation also has scenes that scenes that stick in the memory.
Dude this comment takes me back to when I started. I remember there being a Tyranid army and then being confused that they added genestealers and mechanicus armies. I wasn't a lore hound like I am today so I thought GW was making a bunch of crappy armies out of nowhere for no reason.
@@gabrielwarren6955 Yeah it's crazy how bad my comment has aged. I didn't know back then that they'd actually bring Genestealer Cults back! Haha your reaction to GSC is pretty much what my reaction was to Tyranids coming out back in the early 90s :D "Who's this weird spin off army that are changing the lore of Genestealer Cults?" look at Tyranids now though, they're in the new starter box!
i have to say, watching these little reels from teh 90s world of wh40k get me far more in the mood to play 40k than everything i see today. Now everything is either too highly polished, too stylised, and even too manga-esque that has lost that grimy british boltthrower metal vibe that 40k first ht me with as a teen in the 90s. This makes me want to def go play some space hulk 1 and 2
Brooo that power armor look amazing!! It only makes me want to see a live action of warhammer 40k even more! That or seeing that Fallout series showing off the goat, the legend T-51b
With how much Warhammer figures cost, GW would have more than enough money to produce what is obviously cheap. Cheap doesn't mean bad. In fact I like cheap movies. Makes the directors have to be more creative instead of just hiring a guy to slap some CGI bullshit in there.
I'm sure that if you have a working tape player and are willing to dig through abandoned storage rooms in downtown London, there is a 50/50 chance that you find it.
+Adam Dobbs um, that's not how i remember 2nd edition space wolves. i mean, sure, they weren't as well fluffed as they are now, with the expansion of the black library range and so on, but it was made perfectly clear that the wolves weren't the same hide-bound formal knight types as the other chapters tended to be. even back then it was made clear they were more likely to shout things ( quote from 2nd edition wolves codex, btw. ) like ' a gift from the sons of russ' when attacking, than random stereotypical space-marine exhortations.
+John Browning This only got made the year after codex SW came out (made in 1995 released in '96). I think they drew more from RT than 2nd ed for this.
+John Browning They're actually using the same quotes as the Dark Angel from the original Space Hulk PC Game. The movie in general seems to be based on Space Hulk, specifically the Necromunda campaign published in White Dwarf, which pits the Space Wolves against Genestealers in a hive city.
These Orks In This fan film didn't even use the cockney accents When spoken. They just spoke in a foreign language and the subtitles were used to show what they are saying.
+Shadowhawk28 Da orks dunt speak english. Dat iz just a tranlashun for da puny oomies. Dem pointy eard girlies and dose bloo scrotes dunt speak english neiva.
That's not a fanfilm, this was produced by GW and shown on GamesDay. Some of the costumes and even scenes were recycled for use in the Final Liberation game (or was it the other way around?)
