o.supreme wrote:Wow, that is surprising. I figured it would be a smaller dump. Still great to see. Makes me wish Hasbro would have offered a 3rd tier at 20 K though..
william-james88 wrote:o.supreme wrote:Wow, that is surprising. I figured it would be a smaller dump. Still great to see. Makes me wish Hasbro would have offered a 3rd tier at 20 K though..
the key word I'd throw is "secret" tier, because it could be that we are only seeing this many because Deathsaurus has been funded at all tiers. If we had a higher tier that was harder to achieve, it might prove counterintuitive, like Haslab's early bird thing with Ghost Rider, and people not wanting to back a figure that is not "fully" funded.
I'm sure you'll have plenty of opportunity to sell him. I wanted to back him but Hasbro will charge the full amount tomorrow and I don't have it to spare right now. So when he actually ships I might be in the market for him, if the mark up is not insane.chuckdawg1999 wrote:Well, against my better judgment I backed Deathsaurus. All my concerns aside I know this will be the only way to get this character this way and I frankly don't want to miss out. I just really hope I don't get burned.
Emerje wrote:This is really proof to Hasbro that we'll pay the price for somewhat obscure characters if they're made well enough. The odds were really against this campaign and it has performed spectacularly. Sure, they could have probably sold more for less at retail, but it wouldn't have looked even close to as good as this. I don't think anything is truly off the table now, managements' eyes must be wide opened after we've gone 3 for 3 on Transformers HasLabs. Marvel can't say that, Star Wars can't say that.
2 hours to go and we should be ending at around 25K.
Emerje
SpaceEagle wrote:Hell, even with the shorter time frame compared to Sabey it still reached near that amount of backers!
King Kuuga wrote:SpaceEagle wrote:Hell, even with the shorter time frame compared to Sabey it still reached near that amount of backers!
Deathsaurus's campaign was actually two days longer than Victory Saber's. They all average at 45 days.
Emerje wrote:This is really proof to Hasbro that we'll pay the price for somewhat obscure characters if they're made well enough. The odds were really against this campaign and it has performed spectacularly. Sure, they could have probably sold more for less at retail, but it wouldn't have looked even close to as good as this. I don't think anything is truly off the table now, managements' eyes must be wide opened after we've gone 3 for 3 on Transformers HasLabs. Marvel can't say that, Star Wars can't say that.
2 hours to go and we should be ending at around 25K.
Emerje
Emerje wrote:Early bird bonuses have been very hit or miss for HasLab. It worked for the HISS Tank, but the way that thing sold it probably would have hit its goal in the first week even without it. On the other end it didn't benefit the Ghost Rider campaign at all and then the backers started going backwards fast. The Mattel Masters of the Universe Eternia playset had a better idea where the early bird figure was for early backers which is more like Kickstarter campaigns do it and it seemed to work for them (though they ultimately changed plans that could have seriously pissed fans off and the third stretch goal wasn't achieved). The whole idea of only getting an early bird figure if the entire thing funds in a week is just ridiculous and people are going to feel like they've had something taken away from them if that isn't successful as was the case with Ghost Rider.
BTW, I think Liokaiser would be a good candidate for MPG after Raiden. It'd probably be our best shot at a figure in the same quality as Victory Saber and Deathsaurus.
Emerje
o.supreme wrote:They've only done the "Early Bird" incentive on 2 Haslabs (IIRC). On the GI Joe Hisstank it worked, for Marvel Legends GR, it failed miserably.
Emerje wrote:That's just it, we don't actually know if it worked or not for the Hiss Tank because it was funded so ridiculously fast, it's impossible to say what kind of effect it had on that campaign. But for the GR EOV campaign not only did it not help it succeed we could actually see the campaign hit a wall after the first week was up and then start going backwards when people started cancelling their orders because now, in their eyes, something had been taken away from them and it was no longer a complete set.
Emerje
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