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Thread has been pretty quiet lately. Here are the last big updates(although they're not that big really). Everything seems to be chugging along.
Update #86
Mar 10 2014
Update
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Spoiler:
Sorry we're late with another update. As an apology, please accept this picture of TrollSlayer Sophie! This is an uncleaned resin master copy, held together with blue-tac. Some marks can be seen on this copy that were cleaned off and removed before the original was sent off for mold making.
Everything is still on track, no delays or problems have been uncovered. We appreciate your patience.
~Reaper
Update #88
Apr 4 2014
First Friday of April; How to Change your Address; Art Update!
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Spoiler:
We're still getting a lot of questions about this, so we want to take the opportunity to remind people that if you need to change your shipping address, you can do so by logging in to the pledge manager at https://ks.reapermini.com
Simply update the address there and when we are ready to Ship your rewards, the address that is saved there will be the address we ship to. You can change this address at any time until it has actually shipped - once it has shipped it cannot be recalled to be changed.
Also, a lot of people are confused about when we begin shipping. Please log in to Kickstarter.com and look to see which reward level you selected. This reward will be highlighted in green and include at the bottom the Estimated Delivery Date. Estimated Delivery ranges from September 2014 through December 2014.
We are on target to meet our estimated ship dates, and will use this update tool to notify everyone if this changes.
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And in fun news, here's a preview of the Gnoll Warrior from the Highland Encounter portion of the Thank You Option, designed by Wayne Reynolds.
As you can see, Knight ForScale has managed to get the Gnoll to turn its back!
Glad to see production continues to move along smoothly. Just went in for around $20 in stuff plus S&H; the dungeon dressing packs, Sophie and Mr. Bones, so I'm not really sweating this one. If they make my wave target of October, I might get this stuff along with or shortly before Dwarven Forge's next campaign delivering, which would be awesome, especially since the dressing stuff will fit their caverns really well.
I don't see why they would. We paid S&H, and our money spends just as well as that of Americans. If they wanted to keep international stuff separate, it would've been wise to have international tiers that indicated as much.
Obviously we're still 6-7 months from it being anything but academic, but I'd be kind of annoyed if they pushed my little box back a few months just because I lived across the boarder.
Why, where there international shipping issues with Bones 1? I did a bunch of research on the first campaign before I backed, but I don't recall seeing anything off the top of my head.
We got kicked to way after the end of their US shipping and their communication became pretty much useless/non-existent except for snippets that Bryan was able to communicate. Well, Canadians were sent earlier, but they screwed up something to do with getting them through Canadian customs.
Basically, we got screwed around with, bigtime - and I don't fully trust them to do what they say they will.
Yeah, I will be extremely unimpressed if I get kicked from wave 1 after having had to pay a fairly hefty shipping fee. It was really annoying to see the international backers get messed around last time... some people were still waiting for months after mine (finally) arrived.
Huh, good to know. Hopefully they have things better sorted out this time. The waves system was a damned fine idea to draw people in without messing around with a dozen different slightly different costs in the early birds that a lot of projects have ended up doing, to incentivize joining early. It'd be a real shame to gak on that by throwing it to the wind.
I guess being a Canadian and having a minimal contribution keeps my risks down in comparison, but yeah, that'd be awfully frustrating.
On the last kickstarter they shipped by complexity-simplest to more complex. I seem to remember what held things up was a sheet of paperwork that no one told them to fill out until the border held it. May have been the shipper they used not filing it if I remember correctly.
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They didn't ship by complexity at all, at least not for international backers. I've msged them several times for their original KS, especially when they were shipping international backers and this is what I got from them
"It's more random. Whatever order we grab from the stack is what we are processing. I believe that was the plan when Kit posted that, but things change."
Also, yes Azazel is correct in that information from Reaper was pretty much non-existent or very very passive aggressive when we got any information at all. This kind of response was pretty much the norm during that period
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More than I care to go count. I'd rather ship them than count them.
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I am a little surprised at how many international shipping issues Reaper had last time. Only a little though; I used to work bringing things into the US and Canada from ports foreign, and a large part of my job was just making sure the paperwork got to the right people and they got it to other right people in a reasonable amount of time. There seriously were about 3-4 people whose only job was to get paperwork filled out and sorted. And this was back in '04; things have only gotten worse.
What surprises me though is that Reaper go caught out. I would have assumed they were more familiar with that end of things, and have gotten their ducks in a row sooner. But then again the differences in regs for only slightly different practices can be pretty immense. Great for people whose job is to know how to get through the hoops, and really, really crappy for everyone else :(
Also to be fair, as I recall at least, Reaper noted the shipping issues and costs and whatnot when they launched Bones 2: the Reapererening. While it'd be unreasonable to expect them to be perfect, hopefully they learned enough to smooth over a bunch of those rough edges.
Hell, if nothing else they have nearly 3,000 fewer backers this time, or a good 15% less. Along with the splitting them into delivery waves across 4 months, that seems pretty reasonable.
Maybe there'll be snags, that is definitely a common thing in KS campaigns, but for now I remain cautiously optimistic.
It seemed (from what we were told) that the major international shipping barrier was that they seemed to be unable to get significant numbers of packages into the postal system as USPS just wouldn't/couldn't provide trucks to take packages and if they were taken direct to the post office/sorting office Reaper were told they would be refused
(it was never clear why)
so rather than making a big issue of it and pushing to solve t they basically decided to complete all the US shipping
then they were left with the same issue, lots of angry (or confused) international backers and USPS still slow playing things
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It depends of course just how much of that you believe. They were waiting on a near-mythical "truck" to take international orders for weeks. I personally found the truck excuse to be not a mile away from "Chinese New Year" after awhile.
This international shipping thing sucks =/ I hereby promise not to flaunt my goodies ahead of time if international backers are getting shafted too this time around. It will be hard, since I nabbed a first wave early bird on the last day, but I will persevere for my foreign friends!
Hehe, yea keep your mouth shut My paints and 3-4 models are going to be so far out, I will have forgotten, remembered, then forgotten again 3-4 times before they get here. Hopefully not just after I invest in all new GW Foundations or something ... so maybe we need to keep bumping this thread periodically
Maybe I missed something, but are there any actual international shipping problems for Bones 2 or is it just people saying they're hoping that there won't be problems?
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Until we see signs otherwise, I remain cautiously optimistic that they learned enough from the first project that they'll have fewer problems this time around. Good to know they've happened in the past, but at least they mentioned them from the start, and seemed to be making efforts to learn from previous mistakes.
Do we have any idea of how many backers -- and how many countries were involved in the -- pledge for Bones II? Reaper switching to "actual shipping costs" made many potential international (and domestic) backers unhappy, but this obviously cut down on the number of international pledges, which should make shipping easier for the rest of the backers. The total number of backers went down from 17.7K to 15.0K, or down 15%.
We're launching the First June Update today instead of on Friday because tomorrow is Commencement (Graduation) ceremonies for our local area High Schools and not only will ReaperBryan and his family be attending to watch his son graduate, but our CEO and CFO will be attending for their son and nephew. Since so many key personnel will be celebrating this achievement tomorrow, we decided to present the update a day early!
What to do if your Address Changes
If you need to change your shipping address, you can do so at any time via our Pledge Manager Tool at ks.reapermini.com. This continues to be the most common question we are getting, so we're going to keep answering it!
Also, a lot of people are confused about when we begin shipping. Please log in to Kickstarter.com and look to see which reward level you selected. This reward will be highlighted in green and include at the bottom the Estimated Delivery Date. Estimated Delivery ranges from September 2014 through December 2014.
Convention Schedule!
June 12-15th, we will be in Columbus, Ohio, USA for Origins Game fair, with a Paint and take and a sales booth. July 4-6 We will be in Seattle, Washington, USA with our license partners Paizo for PaizoCon running a paint and take event! And August 14-17 we will be running events at GenCon! More details on GenCon, and a few other conventions after that, in a future update. if you're going to be at any of these events, come by and say hello!
NOTE: This means the Regular July 4 Update (First Friday of July) will be delayed until the second friday in July (July 11). The June 20 update should not be affected by ay of these shows.
Production and Manufacturing Progress!
We've had excellent communication with our manufacturer, everything is humming along great and we're working out some last-minute details regarding artwork for the boxes. Boxes can't be created until the parts exist (so the boxes can be guaranteed to fit the actual parts) so this step is always near the end of that product's cycle. We'll be able to show the box artwork in a future update!
Art Update!
What we do have today is another larger view of the new models from the first 30 models that were part of the Core Set - the Barbarian, Dwarf Priest, and Tiik Baron, all presented with Sir Forscale.
Models shown are metal Masters, not Bones
Models shown are metal Masters, not Bones
We're keeping a list of what has been requested for future updates, and we'll be getting to many of them in future updates. If there's something specific you'd like to see in an Art Update, leave a comment and we'll see if we can get to all of them!
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