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Wow. That is really all I can say.

It is really a pity that the treeman won't be offerred. He was among my first choices...

I'm more saddened by the fact that Rot Demon wont be available at the start, but rather as a stretch goal. Aside from him being a bit too big, I thought the model was absolutely perfect.

le sigh. Canadian shipping and Early Birds.

And what is "Midnight on the 1st?" Midnight being problematic with differing interpretations of which day it falls on. (don't bother telling me when you think it is - it only matters when CC is calling it!)

 CreatureCaster wrote:


Check out the campaign when it launches on Feb 1st, 12:01 PST. There will be door-crasher specials on the first day, and those units will sell out fast, so be there the minute it launches.

PST seems like a pretty definitive time frame. Shouldn't be any quarrels as to when those early birds are happening. So Friday/Saturday depending on how you want to look at it.

Man, I'm torn on this one. I love the sculpts, but they're just too big to use as greater daemons for my army... at least not without giving my opponent a huge advantage. I can't really see myself buying minis that I won't use. :|

 Buttlerthepug wrote:

 CreatureCaster wrote:


Check out the campaign when it launches on Feb 1st, 12:01 PST. There will be door-crasher specials on the first day, and those units will sell out fast, so be there the minute it launches.

PST seems like a pretty definitive time frame. Shouldn't be any quarrels as to when those early birds are happening. So Friday/Saturday depending on how you want to look at it.

PST? Whaaa?

I mean, perhaps I'm being East-Coast centric but... 3AM? I thought this company was in Toronto (which is on the East Coast and EST). Who is this convenient for?

EDIT: And I am almost certainly wrong about the Toronto thing, since in the scale video they are at a Vancouver store (which is on the West coast).

Still, from a business perspective, I honestly think having it at 9 local time (midnight East coast) is a fair sight better then having the East coast be asleep. Really convenient for continental Europe, I guess...

I assumed it was 12:01 and not 00:01...

What time does it start in the UK?

PST is GMT -8 If I'm remembering correctly so that would make it 08:00 on Feb 1st, so much for that saturday lie in.

I agree 100% the rot demon was wonderful as is, hopefully they don't do much outside of scaling.

I really do think that all Kickstarters should be banned from Dakka. It's clear that, from a psychological perspective, we just can't handle them. I mean, this one hasn't started and we're already complaining about the start time.

 Azazelx wrote:
le sigh. Canadian shipping and Early Birds.

You'd better pre-withdraw your pledge on this one Az. Save yourself the bellyache.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I really do think that all Kickstarters should be banned from Dakka. It's clear that, from a psychological perspective, we just can't handle them. I mean, this one hasn't started and we're already complaining about the start time.

Maybe we can have a separate section just for KS & Indigo's?

Been discussed to death - and no, it still isn't happening!

I also find the concept of H.B.M.C. commenting on others negativity as positively hilarious!

 Alpharius wrote:
I also find the concept of H.B.M.C. commenting on others negativity as positively hilarious!

Laugh it up fuzzball.

Still doesn't make me wrong.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Alpharius wrote:
I also find the concept of H.B.M.C. commenting on others negativity as positively hilarious!

Laugh it up fuzzball.

Still doesn't make me wrong.

Heh, true. Other things make you wrong, this just makes it funny.

 Yodhrin wrote:
Oh crud, it didn't occur to me that these guys are Canadian, the shipping on these is going to be atrocious isn't it :(

Can anyone confirm this? I was really looking forward to these (not-so-mini-)miniatures, but a quick look at Canadian shipping costs has seen me change my mind VERY quickly about buying one of these...

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I really do think that all Kickstarters should be banned from Dakka. It's clear that, from a psychological perspective, we just can't handle them. I mean, this one hasn't started and we're already complaining about the start time.

This is definitely the best outlook to have. A few people can't handle something so ban it for everybody.... Works so well in real life too... /sarcasm

Looks great guys, glad to see you are back swinging away at making great giant models. Best of luck to you!

So who wants to take a ballpark guess as to how much a single "mini" will cost with shipping to the US?

I'm going to say 75 US with shipping.

Then again there will be early birds, but the size and shipping costs... that's my guess.

What'cha think?

That would be great! I anticipate them being more expensive than that. I'd actually pick up quite a few if they were at that price point.

$100+ maybe a little less for early birds or group deals. I mean, they are basically Forgeworld minis, only bigger.

 drazz wrote:
$100+ maybe a little less for early birds or group deals. I mean, they are basically Forgeworld minis, only bigger.

There are very few minis of that scale, outside of FW, that charge that much.

I'd expect somewhere around the $75 mark too, as that would make them ~£50 which seems like a sensible, worth backing the Kickstarter but not too excessively discounted type median.

Would expect a final RRP nearer $100, but we'll know for sure in a few hours.

That much huh?

Then again I was kind of basing my (imaginary) price point on the cost of the ultraforge stuff.

Considering these are in pretty close competition with Mierce's megatures in terms of size and scale I guess 100 or so isn't out of the question.

As much as I like the demons they've got, I want to know what they've got tucked away in stretch goal land.

Would it be wrong if I hoped for some kind of dinosaur mount?

Mierce are probably a good benchmark.

KS1 their 100mm base uber creatures were mostly £40, which they've subsequently admitted were under priced, and I think they're mostly around £60 or so in KS2, so I'm expecting somewhere in that ball park.

Too far off that and I doubt I'll go in, as I really like these minis, but I don't have a playing need for them, nor do I have a lack of stuff needing paint right now.

I've never been involved with a kickstart project before but they have a couple of models that I can't resist. That said, I seem to be missing something. I gather the kickstart starts at 0000 PST tonight (0300 EST) so I thought I'd go to kickstarter.com to take a look before things kick off and have my browser ready to pledge. I was a little distressed to find that using their search tool fails to find any results for "Creature Caster". I'd hate to miss out due to not being in the right place. Is it possible that I won't be able to find anything for Creature Caster at kickstarter.com until 0000 PST or am I missing something obvious?

It won't appear in KS until the project is live, no hovering for you!

Thanks for clearing that up. Never done this before.

"Hovering" is a bad thing? Why is being prepared for something knowing that there are early bird specials a bad thing? (Yes, I'm a Black Friday shopper who is standing in line hours before the store opens.)

Sorry if I misinterpreted the hovering comment.

No, exactly that.

It prevents people (whether intentionally or not) camping and hitting F5, not that it would give you more than a slight advantage, but at least everyone starts from exactly the same point.

So.... you just get on the Kickstarter page and search "Creature Caster" after midnight PST?