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I'm guessing some people have had some issues. Whenever I go to actually fill it in, there is one model I may try to ask a question about to see if they can answer it for me. I can see how having a safety net like that might make people feel more secure.

The live chat is only ever useful because of the convoluted mess that is a KS campaign. Once they are into a regular webstore, it's going to be much more straightforward. There will not be any issues of renders, dropships, material availability or release dates.

I'm still trying to figure out what I'm doing... and hoping I have a permanent address to ship my gak to.

Are you on speaking terms with your parents? And living relatively close to them?

If you're anywhere near Southern Illinois, we have a drop ship location.

 Mathieu Raymond wrote:
Are you on speaking terms with your parents? And living relatively close to them?

I am and will be. That's plan B.

Sounds like it really should be "Plan A"!

It'll be Plan A if the current Plan A, the plan wherein I find a place to live in the next two weeks, falls through. At which point I will have a clusterfeth on my hands.

Fingers crossed for you

I upgraded my pledge to the Connoisseur box (from an original $15 entry-level one lol), added an Iron Empire Mecha and the Lulus as well, and called it a day. Closed/paid out the extra, now I wait! :3

Happy birthday~

I almost hope the models turn out to be gak just for the reaction. But only almost because I would never wish that to really happen to any of you.

It would be...

Seditious.



(Yes, I'm making that into a thing.)


But seriously, the fallout would be tremendous.


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PS: Brook, which one of those two ladies represents us, the consumers?

I don't know, we could be either one really. We could get wall slammed for being so demanding and unreasonable in our requests, or it could be them for being so, well.. You know.

And if, a really, really small if here, the models would turn out to be crap, I'm pretty sure that the overwhelming majority would still give it two thumbs up, then blame us for rushing the artiste into doing things rashly.

 BrookM wrote:
I don't know, we could be either one really. We could get wall slammed for being so demanding and unreasonable in our requests, or it could be them for being so, well.. You know.

And if, a really, really small if here, the models would turn out to be crap, I'm pretty sure that the overwhelming majority would still give it two thumbs up, then blame us for rushing the artiste into doing things rashly.

Oh good lord. If the models turned out to be crap? I would lose my mind. It would be total-nuclear-meltdown time.

I think it won't be a case of the models being crappy, I think for some the long wait and build up to the eventual moment of having models in hand may let some people down.

Wow... a year already.. NOTHING is ready.

I wonder, will we be getting an update today and if so, will it be the obligatory clip show one with a look back at a whole year of running this thing?

If anything, I'd expect the surprise launch of their next kick starter today. Just a little while after the last one started, so there's over a year between projects, of course

It would be interesting to see the reactions to that. Will it be overwhelmingly negative (or at the very least one of "Seriously you guys?"), or will we be told to shut up by the rest of the brigade because these miniatures will be worth the delays and they've learned from their mistakes on running a good KS by now.

I think it depends on what they actually come out with for the next one, whether they focus on a single faction or do the four way split they were talking about at one point. Either way, the first couple of hours will be a frenzy of pledging and stretchy stretch goals.

Maybe this time round they'll be prepared for that.

Brook, I inoluntarily loled out loud here in the restaurant! People immediately turned their head to see this lone lunatic!

Please add a warning to such delicously sarcastic comments!

It's hit and miss with me, a lot of the time I'm decrying Raging Heroes as war criminals who should be put on trial for their crimes against neckbeards (Am I doing it right, Matty?) but sometimes..

Am I the only one who has pledged to *so* many kickstarters as to have become completely unphased by being behind schedule? I've seen other Raging Heroes (non-Kickstarter) miniatures in person before and they were great, I have no reason to believe that they are going to deliver us a crappy product after this. Of course, yknow I'd prefer to have my stuff sooner rather than later, but seriously.

Thing is though, just because it is a KS should not automatically mean that it is okay to be behind on schedule or that we as backers should just deal with it.

 BrookM wrote:
Happy birthday~

Spoiler:

Fun fact : this anime is about the members of a model building club, wich makes this GIF even more relevant. It's also completely insane.

Well, the way I see it is that 95% of the kickstarters out there are unrealistically scheduled anyway, especially taking into consideration 'stretch goal bloat' which often times increases the product range to be released by several times (and thus adds a significant amount of time to the release, as most production has to be done in series rather than in parallel due to personnel/facilities limitations), thus far I've pledged precisely one kickstarter - for a poker set - that delivered on time (actually slightly ahead of schedule), and wouldn't you know it they had just barely raised enough funds to meet their goal, no stretch goals whatsoever.

 Erzanj wrote:

 BrookM wrote:
Happy birthday~

Spoiler:

Fun fact : this anime is about the members of a model building club, wich makes this GIF even more relevant. It's also completely insane.

Would you happen to know the name of the show? I got asked by someone else not that long ago and now that it's about model kits, kinda interested as well.

Google image search to the rescue.

The anime is calle Plastic Nee-san

http://myanimelist.net/anime/10711/Plastic_Nee-san

Okay, three minutes in and already they lost me.