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Central Cimmeria

Geez, I think they are going to hit a million dollars today.
   
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California the Southern

With stretch goals only to the halfway point so far...

My guess is they'll pile in all the extra heroes early, perhaps with some extra plastic tokens, then when things slow down, slowly dole out all the cool monsters.

After all, who wants another regular human when this hits the 24hour mark rather than more crazy monsters?

Still hope for some sort of Others crossover at some point.

Poorly lit photos of my ever- growing collection of completely unrelated models!

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The option to bring over some of the characters and creatures from The Others (and vice versa) would be a big selling point for me here.


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They have added unlimited at $250 with a April 2020 delivery date now. Over 1,750 taken so far so hopefully they can actually full-fill that after the original estimate of 100 per month.

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Maybe if they get enough orders they'd convert him to plastic? Shutter to think the cost of that mold though.
   
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SoCal, USA!

They have something like 3,000 orders paying $150 each. That's $450k, and likely to keep growing. They can afford the mold with the minimum 5000 unit production volume

   
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Cymru

The Kickstarter refers to It as a plastic statue already, where did resin come from?

I’m torn on pledging if they stick to the we can only maKe 100 per month thing it won’t be until April 2022 before I’d get my bigthulu.

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RogueSangre



West Sussex, UK

Wait until they release expected shipping costs for Bigthulu later in the campaign, that should release a number of the limited pledges so hopefully you can grab one and up the queue.
   
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 JoeRugby wrote:
The Kickstarter refers to It as a plastic statue already, where did resin come from?

I’m torn on pledging if they stick to the we can only maKe 100 per month thing it won’t be until April 2022 before I’d get my bigthulu.


Just assumptions due to the slow production cost. Resins can be plastics ala restic that Privateer and Mantic use as well as troll cast.

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Aeneades wrote:
Wait until they release expected shipping costs for Bigthulu later in the campaign, that should release a number of the limited pledges so hopefully you can grab one and up the queue.


A person who's willing to drop an extra $150 on a bigthulu is going to pay the extra $30 to ship it.

   
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Affton, MO. USA

 JohnHwangDD wrote:
Aeneades wrote:
Wait until they release expected shipping costs for Bigthulu later in the campaign, that should release a number of the limited pledges so hopefully you can grab one and up the queue.


A person who's willing to drop an extra $150 on a bigthulu is going to pay the extra $30 to ship it.

$30 in the US. Probably $60-70 in other parts of the world.

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Honestly, I'm worried that bigthulhu will be a ball and chain around CMON's ankle. Big miniatures just seem to bring a special curse (see the saga of the heresy dragon, the creature caster debacle, etc.). This guarantees that in every CMON campaign launched between now and 2023 there will be people in the comments going "where is my Cthulhu statue? Why are you spending money on this instead of producing the Cthulhu statue I paid for two years ago?" Etc. Also, think about the poor sod whose whole job will be casting these things for the next 4 years...
   
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The reaper 5-headed plastic dragon (very large) is being sold at retail price for $150 while the resin version is $700. I think the Reaper dragon and CMON mega-cthulhu are comparable in size, so fairly confident it is going to be plastic.

Not that big of a Cthulhu fan to get that expansion...hoping rules/gaming components minus that sculpture will be available as a Stretch Goal or add-on...especially when they call it the "finale" of the game.
   
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Same here!

No need for Giant Cthulhu, but would like to get the game materials for The Finale too.

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Central Cimmeria

I have hope for the rest of the campaign, and I'm turning into a perpetually grumpy backer/unbacker, but this is shaping up to be another campaign loaded with the things nobody wants (buckets of investigators) while they keep all the cool stuff people actually want for add-ons (monsters). I understand this approach, but it is starting to really rub me the wrong way as a customer.
This same approach (among other issues) made me drop my pledge for Solomon Kane, and we seem well on our way to me dropping my pledge for this one too. To make matters worse, CMON is currently asking for 130k to add a single investigator miniature to the core...
   
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The more backers that get more free stuff the more it costs. Reaper had in one if their kickstarters a post about how they had to deal with that and why some of the free SG where hundreds of thousands between. Part of that was they purposefully had smaller SG at the start to build hype hoping/knowing that later on in the campaign they'd be able to pay that off. There are other considerations too outside of just "the mold is already done and the plastic is .05 for the figure" like packaging, handling at the factory, shipping from the factory and other costs that are added for every extra figure per extra backer.
   
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 Monkeysloth wrote:
The more backers that get more free stuff the more it costs. Reaper had in one if their kickstarters a post about how they had to deal with that and why some of the free SG where hundreds of thousands between. Part of that was they purposefully had smaller SG at the start to build hype hoping/knowing that later on in the campaign they'd be able to pay that off. There are other considerations too outside of just "the mold is already done and the plastic is .05 for the figure" like packaging, handling at the factory, shipping from the factory and other costs that are added for every extra figure per extra backer.


Naturally, but we didn't get this size of stretch goals until the 10000+ backers mark in previous campaigns. Even at 10000 backers, it is hard to fathom that a single miniature adds $13 per box of costs to CMON. If you believe that then you believe that the core box is costing them $650+ per box. $130k is an absurd goal size for this point in the campaign when you do the numbers.
   
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CMoN is "100 minis for $100" for $1M raised. That is their model. It's a good one, too. Until the total deal has minis under $1 each, they're good.

   
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 Monkeysloth wrote:
 JoeRugby wrote:
The Kickstarter refers to It as a plastic statue already, where did resin come from?

I’m torn on pledging if they stick to the we can only maKe 100 per month thing it won’t be until April 2022 before I’d get my bigthulu.


Just assumptions due to the slow production cost. Resins can be plastics ala restic that Privateer and Mantic use as well as troll cast.

Big Cthulhu is PVC, said so in the comments.


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 JohnHwangDD wrote:
CMoN is "100 minis for $100" for $1M raised. That is their model. It's a good one, too. Until the total deal has minis under $1 each, they're good.

I google image searched your avatar, disappointed...

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 Theophony wrote:
 JohnHwangDD wrote:
Aeneades wrote:
Wait until they release expected shipping costs for Bigthulu later in the campaign, that should release a number of the limited pledges so hopefully you can grab one and up the queue.


A person who's willing to drop an extra $150 on a bigthulu is going to pay the extra $30 to ship it.

$30 in the US. Probably $60-70 in other parts of the world.


The overseas shipping is what I was referring to. The most recent update has estimates for Bigthulhu alone and the us shipping is for the most part very reasonable but some countries are over $100. I’m looking at $55 for the UK.
   
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SoCal, USA!

The bulk of the backers will be from the US, so no worries.

I wonder what post-Brexit import fees will be like.

   
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RogueSangre



West Sussex, UK

According to the Community page 4,067 of the 9,312 backers are from the US. Germany is next with 704 and UK at 663.

Brexit is a big worry for me in respect if shipping and import charges so may end up selling pledges if Brexit goes badly. At the moment these projects are EU friendly which means lower shipping and no tax, leaving the customs union could lead to a hefty tax increase if companies move distribution hubs outside of the UK (CMON use a UK hub for all EU shipments at the moment but suspect that will change if no deal reached).
   
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SoCal, USA!

If the UK leaves the EU, "EU-friendly" won't apply, as it becomes a Force Majeure situation that CMoN won't have to honor - the UK leaving the EU is completely outside CMoN's control. I doubt smaller companies like CMoN are going to retain UK hubs, etc to support EU customers if Brexit actually happens like it was supposed to when your pols were beating the Brexit drum prior to the vote. OTOH, if Brexit is only in name, it'll be fine.

   
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Dragon -- er, Dagon -- sculpt looks rather nice. Not the classic oversized frogman, but CMON's not going with the classic mythos look, so far. Comes with multiple teeny tiny eyes.

"Dagon's Mythos cards can transform Cultists into Deep Ones and "spends" Innsmouth Look tokens on investigators to hinder them permanently (by locking out a high level skill of their choice, putting a wound token on it, turning their companions into Deep Ones, etc). When Dagon is finally summoned, he starts pulling players towards Deep One monsters (which also makes other enemies follow) and he starts flooding spaces if left alone too long, possibly drowning the entire map."

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Crimson Scales and Wildspire Miniatures thread on Reaper! : https://forum.reapermini.com/index.php?/topic/103935-wildspire-miniatures-thread/ 
   
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I like him. He and the Cthonic are both great takes on monsters already well served in the miniature market. Cthulhu, on the other hand...I wasn't the biggest fan of the Reaper Cthulhu, but it beats the Adrian Smith version hands down.

   
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I love that Hastur miniature.

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I just don't get what's so exciting about this game. I dunno it just seems like it'll be bland and get repetitive quickly.


 
   
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I’m just glad I’m not into Cthulhu or tentacles. It will save me plenty on this one.

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Shadeglass Maze

Even if you were, I don't see why someone would get this game, rather than Cthulhu Wars or Arkham Horror. Both of those are absolutely fantastic games, and of course chock full of gribbly goodness

That said, the sculpt posted above looks quite good! But most of them left me a bit unimpressed, especially the 2 foot tall Cthluhu...

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 RiTides wrote:
Even if you were, I don't see why someone would get this game, rather than Cthulhu Wars or Arkham Horror. Both of those are absolutely fantastic games, and of course chock full of gribbly goodness

That said, the sculpt posted above looks quite good! But most of them left me a bit unimpressed, especially the 2 foot tall Cthluhu...



All dem Call of Cthulhu minis you get, which when priced compared to FFG, are so cheap you can't afford not to buy them!
   
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To be honest half (or more) of the reason I’m backing is for Strange Aeons and Pulp Alley minis.

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