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Post by Shockprowl on Aug 16, 2021 14:40:23 GMT
My rage is absolute.
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Post by Benn on Aug 16, 2021 15:41:50 GMT
You should be happy you have backed more Prowl in the world.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Aug 16, 2021 17:02:37 GMT
Prowl isn't any chess piece. He's the guy who moves the chess pieces. Opposite Shockwave.
Martin
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Post by Shockprowl on Aug 16, 2021 18:57:22 GMT
Prowl isn't any chess piece. He's the guy who moves the chess pieces. Opposite Shockwave. Martin Thank you, dear DEAR Martin. |
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 16, 2021 21:11:15 GMT
123 backers...
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 22, 2021 22:30:21 GMT
Still not hit 25% funding and seems to have levelled off a bit.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 22, 2021 21:57:42 GMT
£62,477 pledged of £219,778 goal
187 backers
49hours to go
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Post by Toph on Sept 23, 2021 7:04:41 GMT
I wanted Eaglemoss to do Transformers but... I guess I should have been more specific with my "wish."
(I wanted them to do starships and their fantasy alt modes.)
Unsurprisingly this is falling flat, and now I worry that Eaglemoss will take this to mean no one wants TFs from them.
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Post by Llama God on Sept 23, 2021 7:18:36 GMT
Unfortunately that will be their takeaway, as opposed to "no-one* wants to pay that much for an oversized chess set with pieces that are of that poor of a sculpt"...
(*Okay, 188 people would, but that's not a huge number.)
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 23, 2021 7:29:24 GMT
189...
-Ralph
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Post by Shockprowl on Sept 23, 2021 16:07:56 GMT
I will back it.
*IF* Magnus Carlsen agrees to play me on it.
Just need to find his email...
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 23, 2021 21:55:40 GMT
194...
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 24, 2021 9:38:58 GMT
198 backers.
13 hours to go.
-Ralph
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Post by Stomski on Sept 24, 2021 9:50:04 GMT
As a chess set it's too big, too expensive and not functional as different pieces have different moulds.
As a Transformers collectible the moulds aren't particularly good and the figure->chess piece pairings don't always make sense (although there's no reason why you couldn't play Prowl as a Knight if you wanted to.)
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Post by Shockprowl on Sept 24, 2021 11:01:12 GMT
198 backers. 13 hours to go. -Ralph How many backers does it need? |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 24, 2021 12:45:40 GMT
It's not so much the number of backers as what they pay.
Currently £64,917 pledged of £218,591 goal with 10 hours to go. So they're not even a third of the way there.
Chess is the new Cookie Monster
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Post by Shockprowl on Sept 24, 2021 16:51:44 GMT
I don't think this thing is anything to do with chess.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 24, 2021 21:30:02 GMT
89 mins to go. It's not going to make it...
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 25, 2021 0:07:17 GMT
It is over.
Finished.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 25, 2021 5:29:33 GMT
Funding Unsuccessful
£67,266 pledged of £219,218 goal
205 backers
Not quite a third of the way there. Ouch.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 25, 2021 8:53:47 GMT
Cookie Monster plays chess in Hell.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 21, 2021 8:45:11 GMT
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Post by Shockprowl on Oct 22, 2021 12:42:32 GMT
Hmmmm, similar problem: hard to tell the pieces apart.
I've never tried to play 3D chess though. I'll have to look up the rules, I'm sure I read some somewhere once.
But Staunton all the way when it comes to pieces.
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 24, 2021 21:08:53 GMT
What is Stauntun?
-Ralph
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Stomski
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Post by Stomski on Oct 24, 2021 22:28:37 GMT
They make a cozy shelter in cold environments if you can stand the smell. |
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Oct 25, 2021 5:20:13 GMT
It's a town in Somerset between Sweston-super-Smare and Sexeter. Martin |
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Post by Pinwig on Oct 25, 2021 6:52:37 GMT
Martin has listened to far too much Clue.
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Post by Shockprowl on Oct 25, 2021 12:38:23 GMT
Well I don't know what Stauntun is, but Staunt on relates to the nineteenth century English chess master, who was regarded as the strongest player in the world from 1843 unti 1851. He promoted a chess set of clearly distinguishable pieces of standardised shape – the Staunton pattern designed by Nathaniel Cooke – that is still the style required for competitions today. He was the organiser of the first international chess tournament in London, 1851, which was won by the Prussian Adolf Anderssen who then replaced him as the recognised strongest player in the world. |
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Post by Benn on Oct 25, 2021 12:53:19 GMT
Strongest? Did they make the pieces, like, really heavy?
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Post by Shockprowl on Oct 25, 2021 12:56:58 GMT
Yes they did. They were steam powered.
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