[Joe Moore]

The Unslain - New 1/18 Scale Action Figure Kickstarter

[Cheezah95]

yoo these look awesome! the sculpts look great, but could do with a bit more female representation. Still, i'm backing it and hope they make their goal. I always appreciate quality figures at that scale

[BagJo]

These do look super cool. I especially like Ferus and Ferox

[Spooked]

Where's the Conan head?

[LordMudd]

The only figure I want right now is the female, but she is the last stretch goal at $210,000. I have my doubts about this succeeding, mainly because of the Tariff war going on. Dime Store Legends is already whining about a $7.000 shipping cost increase to fly everything in as opposed to $51.000 if it comes by ship. If it doesn't get resolved soon, it could kill Kickstrters outright. I will have to wait and see how it goes.


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[icematta]

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Originally Posted by LordMudd

Tariff war

And it's just getting started....

[Sean C]

Based on other kickstarters, it'll be years before you get these figures. We'll all be dead by then. I mean, the trade war might be over.

[0reser0]

4" only?

*Snore*

[webz]

These look good, but sadly too small for my collection. Best wishes and I’ll pass on the info to those I know that collect this scale.

Oh yeah... and...

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Originally Posted by 0reser0

4" only?

*Snore*

That’s what she said...

[LordMudd]

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Originally Posted by webz

These look good, but sadly too small for my collection. Best wishes and I’ll pass on the info to those I know that collect this scale.

Oh yeah... and...


That’s what she said...

It's not what you got, it's how I use it.




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[Tony_Bacala]

https://news.toyark.com/2019/06/03/t...starter-347591

I added some additional shots of the prototypes to the story, bigger size so you can zoom in.

[BagJo]

It says on their kickstarter that the paint apps on the final product will be closer to the renders than the prototypes, which I think is a good thing.

[Il Cattivo]

that figure just screams ka-zar. just needs a different head.

[LordMudd]

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Originally Posted by Il Cattivo

that figure just screams ka-zar. just needs a different head.

Absolutely agree.


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[BagJo]

I could see Efferus being made into a custom Druss the Legend pretty easily.

[Ninjinister]

Jason Todd looks a bit different than the last time I saw him....

[Il Cattivo]

newest member of the ex-men.

[RD22]

I'm totally getting the badass Santa figure!

[icematta]

They are smaller than I thought, I wanted to use them as gods among the 4', but well...

[RolandofGilead]

Updates from Unslain creator on the future of this line if it succeeds.

[RolandofGilead]

Just 12 days left and The Unslain is offering up blank figures, gear, and heads as add-ons.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...in/description

[LordMudd]

This will not be the first Kickstarter to fail because they offered up the wrong figures first. There should be at least 1 female in the primary offering and 1 in the stretch goals. Holding figures like that hostage to blackmail buyers into getting figures they may not want just to get the ones they do want is a recipe for failure.


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[RolandofGilead]

That's a very interesting take on things. And here I thought the creators were trying to wring all the figures they could out of the initial tooling and then offer up more complex tooling when and if they can increase their funds to afford it.

But "blackmailing" potential customers sounds so much sexier.

[BagJo]

it's a shame this project probably isn't going to be funded, I know they reached out to BBTS, so I suppose that could help if they put orders up on the site in the next day or so. I really would have liked to pick up a few of these.

[LordMudd]

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Originally Posted by RolandofGilead

That's a very interesting take on things. And here I thought the creators were trying to wring all the figures they could out of the initial tooling and then offer up more complex tooling when and if they can increase their funds to afford it.

But "blackmailing" potential customers sounds so much sexier.

These people are affiliated with Fresh Monkey Fiction who recently conducted the failed Amazing Heroes 4" superhero Kickstarter. I went in on that one but the main figures I wanted were too far out of reach even if it had funded. These people need to realize that their target customer base does not have that kind of money and they do have competition in spite of Hasbro and Mattel being effectively absent from the market.


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