Haslab

[Andy Turnbull]

Not a shock this has smashed the target.

[Philip Ayres]

10,016.

No sign of what the Tier Unlock is (if there is)

[Shockprowl]

Whuuuu wha what's a 'Tier Unlock'?!?!

[Philip Ayres]

It's a bonus item for when they get to a certain number of backers. They said there's one for every thousand.... but we suspect they may not have expected it to go this far!

[Toph]

At 10k, they're into full retail production run numbers at this point, yeah?

[The Doctor]

10081.

-Ralph

[The Doctor]

Jul 14, 2020 15:46:30 GMT Philip Ayres said:

10,016.

No sign of what the Tier Unlock is (if there is)

Tiers were only announces for 7, 8 and 9K.

-Ralph

[Philip Ayres]

They promise something for every thousand over 6K

We need to hit 6,000 backers to fully fund this project. But we don’t want to stop there. For each 1,000 additional backers, we’ll unlock more marvelous stuff for every single backer. We can’t tell you what those are just yet, but we have big plans…

I don't think they expected it to do 10K

[The Doctor]

No, I watched the live stream. Bonus were promised for breaking 7, 8 and 9k which were to be revealed later (and now have been). Nothing else. Your quote refers to that.

It is of course possible that other things may be added but as of right now, customers are getting everything they were promised to get.

-Ralph

[Toph]

I agree they probably didn't expect this, or at least not this fast. We burned through three tiers in like... Two days.

This is the fourth haslab project, yes? The SW passed, but no idea how it performed. Cookie Monster crashed. Unicron was a vanity project that only passed with some weird numbers shenanigans.

[The Doctor]

SW and Unicron struggled then 'suddenly' surged way over the line near the end. The latter had the deadline extended.

Cookie Monster received little promotion and only attracted customera in the low hundreds.

-Ralph

[Toph]

So yeah. Three bad performances in a row. They probably expected this to be the same.

I'd not be surprised if from here out Haslab projects start to zero in on marvel content as itcs main product.

[Shockprowl]

This 'tier unlock' business smells fishy to me. Not sure why.

[Philip Ayres]

Transformers tried it with Legends Grand Max offering a pretender shell for the small headmaster made with the Waverider retool of Decoy Cloudburst. The goal wasn't met and the Waverider shell never got made in it's original form either!

[The Doctor]

10,325. It's slowing.

-Ralph

[Stomski]

Jul 15, 2020 6:44:37 GMT Shockprowl said:

This 'tier unlock' business smells fishy to me. Not sure why.

It's typical on crowdfunding platforms to include extras as backer levels increase. Due to economies of scale, larger production runs lower in manufacturing cost and the design phase costs will have been recouped so that extra profit can be put into making the product more inticing in some way.

[The Doctor]

10617 with 39 days to go. I guess it will calm down a bit until nearer the end and/or if any further add-ons are chucked in.

Certainly, Hasbro must be happy. It's been shown there is a market for very high priced items made to order if they get the product right for that platform.

-Ralph

[The Doctor]

10971 with 36 days, 17 hours and 15 minutes to go.

-Ralph

[The Doctor]

11029 with 35 days, 19 hours and 23 minutes to go.

-Ralph

[The Doctor]

Hasbro Pulse FB updated to show that Zavvi is doing Europe orders and links to here:

www.zavvi.com/merchandise/hasbro/haslab.list

www.zavvi.com/merch-action-figures/hasbro-haslab-marvel-x-men-legends-marvel-s-sentinel-premium-action-figure/12646588.html

So the old $1 = £1 conversion rate has been used.

£350!

-Ralph

[Toph]

Yikes!

[The Doctor]

I like it. I want it. But £350 for one toy of anything is way above my pay grade! It could be possible if I saved up for one over half a year but this requires full payment on August 24th and my income has dropped anyway due to furlough so no chance. Also: need to pay rent!

11,123 with 34 days, 18 hours and 3 mins to go.

-Ralph

[The Doctor]

11,392 with 32 days, 16 hours and 37 mins to go.

-Ralph

[The Doctor]

11,506 now with however many International Orders.

If this had a payment plan, I may have gone for it but £350 at once for a toy? Not doable.

-Ralph

[Philip Ayres]

Been a while but ....

hasbropulse.com/products/x-men-legends-marvel-s-sentinel


14,401 Backers

Target 6,000
Funding ends in:
6 Days 9 Hours 6 Minutes

But apparently

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Robotkingdom/posts/3542360595782630

RK Preorder www.robotkingdom.com/f0211.html

[The Doctor]

I saw the live stream. The designer chap discussed how the new head was designed in the last 2 weeks.

-Ralph

[Toph]

I must say that I would personally prefer one head with swappable faces.

But then for me, it topped out with the Master Mold head. I'd be more interested in having Trask.

[Shockprowl]

Jul 24, 2020 19:26:21 GMT The Doctor said:

11,506 now with however many International Orders.

If this had a payment plan, I may have gone for it but £350 at once for a toy? Not doable.

-Ralph

ARMY BUILD!

[The Doctor]

I don't have a few spare grand for toys. Or indeed a few spare grand at all.

-Ralph

[Shockprowl]

In all seriousness, this is the first Haslab toy to be army buildable. I wonder if anyone out there is planning on army building this?