A promotional screenshot of Da Red Gobbo 2024 miniature from Warhammer 40,000. It shows a gobbo in a Santa outfit standing in the snow next to a snowman.

Games Workshop Announces Da Red Gobbo 2024, Bringing Holiday Cheer to Warhammer 40,000

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Published: October 25, 2024 4:36 PM

Games Workshop has revealed Da Red Gobbo 2024. The tabletop publisher has a tradition of releasing Christmas novelty miniatures for Warhammer 40,000, and this year's miniature continues it proudly, sporting a red coat and a snowman with a deadly surprise.

Da Red Gobbo 2024 Announcement

In an official Warhammer-Community post, Games Workshop shows off photos and features of Da Red Gobbo 2024. Referred to as the A-Bomb-inable Snowman, the miniature, much like last year's, is a gretchin unit for the Ork army.

A screenshot of Da Red Gobbo 2024 miniature. It shows a snowman with the head removed, revealing a warhead

As the name implies, the miniature depicts a gobbo in a red coat, a smaller gobbo in an elf outfit, and a happy looking snowman wearing the Goff Rocker's top hat.

That snowman contains a surprise. You can pop the snowman's head off, revealing the snowman's body is built around a gigantic bomb. This destructive mischief is compounded with a pile of snowballs next to the gobbos. Snowballs that are barely concealing what appear to be live grenades.

Da Red Gobbo 2024 is a great continuation of the Ork's farcical nature in the world of Warhammer 40,000. The grimdark sci-fi setting is mostly characterized by the bleak and grotesque. Interdimensional demons, torturous death cults, fascistic authoritarian states enforced by religious zealots.

By contrast, the Orks are inherently absurd creatures. Battle-obsessed meathead warriors whose simplistic reductive perspective, referred to by the fans as "Ork logic," can subtly break physical reality.

A screenshot of Da Red Gobbo 2024 miniature. He is holding a grenade covered in snow.

Battle vehicles can drive through a warzone despite having no engine or fuel. Guns that fire hundreds of rounds despite being just twisted pieces of metal. A giant hunk of space junk becomes space-worthy because Orks drew red spikes on them. The list goes on.

In that context, a gretchin unit showing up with snowball grenades and an explosive snowman is absurd, but does remain in line with the lore of the setting and its maximalist design sensibilities.

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