Kitz Concept Toy Thread 2.0

[Radioguy]

13 minutes ago, varitechs said:

As we said in this thread, they are a small company, they have a lot of ideas but not enough funds and that's the whole idea of Kickstarter, it's a crowdfunding campaign to help them produce. It's in all of our interests if we want really cool products like the Battlepod otherwise who will ?

Don't be suspicious, they haven't scammed anyone and their products are good.

You don't happen to work for them, do you? Not that one can't have that opinion otherwise, of course.

[Atomski]

23 minutes ago, varitechs said:

As we said in this thread, they are a small company, they have a lot of ideas but not enough funds and that's the whole idea of Kickstarter, it's a crowdfunding campaign to help them produce. It's in all of our interests if we want really cool products like the Battlepod otherwise who will ?

Don't be suspicious, they haven't scammed anyone and their products are good.

The fact that they are doing this via Kickstarter when they already have a mechanism in place to do preorders on their own site and have 3 different items outstanding to paid customers is very suspicious. 

Edited 2 hours ago by Atomski

[varitechs]

30 minutes ago, Radioguy said:

You don't happen to work for them, do you? Not that one can't have that opinion otherwise, of course.

no, i am just a fan 😅

[jenius]

I don't think it feels 'suspicious' but I don't think it makes sense either. 

STEP 1: Deliver on the products you've already accepted POs for. It doesn't even have to be all of them but it at least has to be MOST of them. The PO to delivery cycle is way out of whack right now.
STEP 2: Choose ONE product and do a Kickstarter for it. Start with low hanging fruit. Do a Kickstarter for a weathering version of the Battlepod or a Kickstarter exclusive color variant to pay for the costs of that toy and earn some profit to apply to other things they want to do.
STEP 3: After creating a track record of success, do a Kickstarter for an item that will only be made if there's enough interest. A low target item could be some alternate Zentraedi pilot figures.
STEP 4: With a couple successful Kickstarters done and all the POs delivered at this point, do a big Kickstarter for the Officer's Pod without a pilot.
STEP 5: If that Kickstarter is successful, give us an armored pilot figure Kickstarter. If it's not successful, try the scout pod with hopefully a lower target since some of the engineering from the standard pod carries over. 

Pairing a huge target for many items with a huge backlog of undelivered promises is a terrible strategy. For a single item... I would have been tempted to contribute... but I have preorders for all the GBP iterations and the two battlepod variants so I might still have waited until I at least had the battlepod variants to contribute any more funds. With how this is set up? Not a chance. I do look forward to more of their products but I'm not in the market of giving out open-ended 0% loans. 

Edited 19 minutes ago by jenius