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**Alpharius**

I submitted my PM fairly quickly, and I was already #125 to do so - looks like you'll hit that 70%+ return rate pretty quickly!

Light Blue and Orange Cubes FTW!!!

**Theophony**

Backer number 248, looks like people are eager to get these

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**kronk**

I was #18. Black and Yellow cubes 4evah!

**Alpharius**

Theophony wrote:
Backer number 248, looks like people are eager to get these .

Double the number of responses in only two hours - impressive!

And yeah, I'd say people are VERY eager to get the Cubes in hand!

And now he's 1/3 complete on responses in only a short amount of time!

**Anpu-adom**

Black, Red, and 2 extended rainbow sets. I'm also getting the X-Wing, and all three 40k sets. I sprung for another infantry set, since I play orks.
Man... tough tough choices all around.
X-Wing is going in Black for sure. I went with Red for the Objectives and black on yellow for the infantry and vehicle sets.

I was completion number 31, so they are certainly rolling in quickly.

**Sinful Hero**

I should be filling mine out later this afternoon. Maybe I'll be the last.

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Actually, I don't think I've gotten my link yet.

**RiTides**

Sinful Hero, I've sent you a PM to get your backer name / email, and I will check on yours manually / resend the link.

I've gotten just over 300 responses so far

which is great! Uncovered a small number of bugs (need to add multi-colored as an option for the SciFi crates, white as an option for blank, etc) but mostly smooth sailing so far. I can see why BackerKit is popular - while it was quite a pain to set up, and they take a fee, it will make collating the data to place the cubes order next week so much easier! And also will help with laying out how many of each color acrylic we need to cut per set.

**Theophony**

Well I'm in for all black, all grey triple rainbow and two x-wing sets. Probably get another set of tokens and cubes later, but I think my MODplan is covered for now.

**ced1106**

Dark Severance wrote:
Well that happened sooner than I expected, that is how you know that ModCube was a good idea, it is already being emulated. Should have had the design patent. ^_^

Yep. Here's something for the fantasy wargamers: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/723213649/elite-gaming-tokens-bring-your-gaming-table-to-lif?ref=kicktraq

Also laser cut acrylic. Too expensive per token for me, tho.

**Theophony**

ced1106 wrote:
Dark Severance wrote:
Well that happened sooner than I expected, that is how you know that ModCube was a good idea, it is already being emulated. Should have had the design patent. ^_^

Yep. Here's something for the fantasy wargamers: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/723213649/elite-gaming-tokens-bring-your-gaming-table-to-lif?ref=kicktraq

Also laser cut acrylic. Too expensive per token for me, tho.

RItides actually pimped that one in the last update, cool but more $$$$ than what I want to shell out.

**varag**

I'm 441. Which means we're over half in under 24 hours. Good stuff.
Let the waiting commence.

**Alpharius**

I'm thinking that the First CItizen of Rhode Island is aiming to buck a major KS trend here - I think he's trying to...

...

...wait for it...

...wait for it!

....keep waiting for it!

...SHIP HIS CAMPAIGN REWARDS EARLY!!!!`~!`1!!!

**Solar_lion**

Oh the Humanity!

mine all doe as well.. yes eager to put these to use.

**RiTides**

We're certainly trying really hard to be on time, Alpharius / Solar_lion

. There's tons to do, but the laser cutting intern starts tomorrow, so we are officially entering the production stage!

Here's an update with late backer instructions and a few bug fixes, please forgive the wall of text:

Update #27 - Late Backer Instructions, and a few bug fixes!

The response rate to the pledge manager has been really great so far - 433 answered, 303 to go! This adds up to 736 instead of 740, because 4 folks chose "no reward". If you are one of those folks and change your mind, just let us know =) and we can add you.

On that note, here are the late backer instructions! If you know someone who missed out on the campaign but wanted to join in, just point them to this update =)

Late Backer Instructions

Send a message to info@modcube.com, or message us here on Kickstarter (by clicking our account name "3rd Dimension Gear", then "Contact"). Please include:

1. Your name

2. Email Address

3. Desired pledge level (you can change this in the survey): $30 for 1 set, $55 for 2 sets, $80 for 3 sets, or $100 for 4 sets (plus shipping, automatically added in BackerKit)

That's it! We'll then you add you into the pledge manager, and you can pay right in BackerKit. Your card won't be charged by BackerKit until the pledge manager is closed, which will be around the end of July. Once we add you (which should be shortly after receiving your info) you will receive an email from "support@s.backerkit.com" with a link to the pledge manager.

Pledge Manager Bug Fixes

BackerKit has been mostly amazing so far, there were just a few small bugs that needed fixing! They are:

- The Maelstrom's Edge theme wasn't showing up as an option in the pledge questions, and now has been fixed to show up for just the first two token questions in the survey (it's a very manual process to add an entirely new set once the survey has gone out). So, if you want Maelstrom's Edge tokens please select them as one or both of your first two pledge questions!

- The "mixed colors" option wasn't showing up for the SciFi Crates set, and is now fixed.

- For the Blank sets, the top of the token is the first color listed. So, for example, Metallic on Black selected as a Blank token set, would be metallic on top, black on the bottom. You could use the bottom, of course! Many of the tokens are white on the bottom.

- Finally, the survey does not prompt you to select your ModCube Tool color and free token for sets you add on in the survey (as opposed to sets that come with your pledge level). This was an oversight, but it is hard to get the genie back in the bottle now that the survey is out! We will still include a ModCube Tool with your add-on sets, you just can't select the color (when packing, we'll try to match it to your others - if you picked red tools with arrow tokens, that's likely what you'll receive for the add-on tool). Sorry for the oversight!

Please also note that it is the full add-on sets (cubes + tokens for $25 total, listed as $12.50 each in the add-ons section) that come with the bonus cube and tool, but we will try to toss in extra tools where we can for folks who added on a lot of things, even if they aren't full sets =)

Until next time, keep on modding!

**Sinful Hero**

Number 457 just completed.

**notprop**

Late Backer success for me - another victory for the jonnie-come-lately brigade profiting from the better intentions of others. Huzzah!

Nice one RiTides.

**Theophony**

Well, thanks to upgrading my $55 pledge to $100 (plus add ons) I now have five sets headed my way including the 2 full rainbows, all black, all yellow, and all grey. 2 x-wing sets, infinity set and a translucent set which I have a light kit ready to play with

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**RiTides**

You were the very first late backer, notprop, so thanks for leading the way

That's a nice set, Theophony, and I'll be interested to see your light kit! We're hoping to make the one Vanguard-13 is working on something we can offer as an add-on later (but are focused on producing the tokens here first, of course).

**RiTides**

Update showing the first 112 token sets produced, we've got about 1500 to get through to fulfill the Kickstarter! This is after just a few days of production and we have picked up the pace now that the intern is trained on the laser cutter, so things look good to have all the tokens cut in July:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1388589874/modcube-part-tokens-part-dice-fully-modular/posts/1279786

Update #28 Production update, and 78% of surveys are in!

Here's a quick pic of the first 112 sets we've produced just a few days into production:

We've got another 100 full sheets of acrylic en route to us, and will be looking to produce about 1500 sets of tokens to fulfill the Kickstarter. Production times are looking good to get all the tokens cut in July!

While our laser cutting intern is hard at work cutting the tokens, I've been doing a lot of the logistics. Here are where a few other items are at:

- Final production samples of the cubes are expected later this week, and the 50,000 parts (25,000 cubes) production run will be begun as soon as I approve these! This last set of samples is just to approve the surface finish of the outer faces of the cubes.

- 78% of surveys have been returned, which really helps us know what tokens to cut, so thanks to everyone who has gotten these back to us!

- By far, the most popular token sets are Dogfight, SciFi Vehicles, and SciFi Infantry. These are also 3 of the 4 initial sets, so we're doing all of these first before moving onto the stretch goal sets. We'll show pictures of each set as it is completed in case anyone wants to adjust their selections based on the final content of the sets (SciFi Infantry, for example, will no longer have Pinned since it is the same as Gone to Ground in the current rules, but will have LD Test and Jink added).

Last but definitely not least, we've gotten a great review from Brazil for the Dogfight ModCubes, so if you know Portuguese (or just want to see some visuals of an X-wing player putting the ModCubes through their paces) check out this video review!

We've also gotten quite a few late backers from Brazil after this review went up, which is awesome! See the previous update for instructions on how to become a late backer if interested =)

Until next time, keep on modding!

**Solar_lion**

Ah, More international fame for you. Good show!

**Stormwall**

Really enjoyed filling out the survey. I went on (and still am on,) vacation so I forgot about having to fill out the Pledge Manager.

I hope that won't cause issues but, if it does I am happy to wait. I am really pleased with how this KS was handled.

Great stuff. Edit: To my shame since I took so long to notice it, I'm backer six hundred and forty something.

**RiTides**

You're still in plenty of time Stormwall

but I appreciate it, getting in the responses really helps us figure out what to cut and how to do it in the most efficient manner!

The backer numbers are always a bit higher than the actual number of returned surveys (I think due to test submissions while we were setting up the BackerKit interface) but we've had 628 surveys returned and 117 still outstanding. The laser cutter is running pretty much all day cutting tons of the initial sets, and I'm going to use the holiday weekend to finalize some of the stretch goal sets and get them queued up to cut after Dogfight

Also going to watch the US women win the World Cup on Sunday... hopefully!

**Theophony**

Any big surprises so far on colors, sets or add ons? Like only two people ordered set color xxxxxxxx while a close third place after black and ???? Was yellow (which I ordered

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**Sinful Hero**

Would be interesting to know what are the most popular sets, colors, and such. Would you be willing to share that kind of info RiTides?

**RiTides**

Definitely! The top 10 token sets ordered so far have been:

Dogfight (X-wing)
SciFi Vehicles
SciFi Infantry
SciFi Mysterious Objectives
Game Creator
Infinity
SW Armada
Malifaux
Warmachine / Hordes
Tie between Blank and SW Imperial Assault

The first 4 alone make up over 50% of the orders! The above are also the ones I will try to get into FLGS (although all the sets will likely be available on the website, and a store that wanted Guildball for example could definitely have them!).

The top 5 token colors (not counting mixed sets!) are:

White on Black
Black on Yellow
White on Red
Metallic on Black
Black on Silver

The top 5 cube colors are:

Black
Red
Dark Blue
Orange
Grey

Black alone makes up 30% of the total! But I think this list is a little misleading, because there were so many green options, for example.

It's been fun looking at the numbers

**Theophony**

Thanks, it's always kind of neat seeing how ones choices compare against the majority.

**Anpu-adom**

I seem to be boringly mundane... oh well. It also give RiTides information on what to focus in bringing to retailers as opposed to keep special order.

**Triple9**

Based on that list, the Firestorm Armada tokens I selected are destined to become collectors items.

**Sinful Hero**

Interesting that X-wing is the top dog. How much more was it selected than Scifi vehicles?

**RiTides**

They are basically neck and neck (nearly tied) with SciFi Infantry just behind. Every one of the top 10 sets above has at least 65 ordered, but those top two are at about 250 of each. I think it's possible that the SciFi sets would have been higher, but because there are three options for SciFi many people selected one of each.

The numbers will go up a bit still as we've got around 90 people (other than $1 pledgers) who haven't submitted their pledge manager, which will account for up to another 200 sets. So we may have to circle back and cut some extras later, but for now we're just producing the sets and colors people have already selected

(with a few extra of the really popular colors, since they're likely to be in the straggler's selections

)

We're also extremely close on getting the cube production run underway - I've been on the phone with the factory quite a bit the last two days working out color ratios for the run, along with shipping speed, etc. Just waiting on the very last set of samples showing the final surface finish (they showed me a picture which looks good, but I just need to approve them in-person) which I am set to receive Monday. Due to the delay getting that surface finish finalized, I'll be having at least the "first to ship" cubes sent by air. I'm waiting to hear back the cost of having the entire run shipped by air, just in case it's feasible (but unfortunately I think it probably won't be, since the whole run is 10x the amount of the "first to ship" quantity). If the main production run comes by boat, the projected date to arrive in the US would be the last few days of August (with the "first to ship" cubes getting to me at the very end of July hopefully). I'll be putting this all in an update later this week once the production run has been given the green light!