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Originally Posted by ShabbyBlue

With 2 weeks left and not even at the halfway mark, I don't see this thing hitting its target goal, let alone any stretch goals. I don't think e-tailers like BBTS and EE are ordering a bunch of these either to flip, compared to the Marvel and Star Wars Haslab stuff, so I doubt any hidden numbers from them are suddenly going to push it much higher near the end. I also don't see the FOMO factor pushing this past the goal in the last couple days either.

So yeah it's going to be embarassing for Mattel when it fails. This isn't the first time a Mattel kickstarter failed to meet goal. I'm still hating that the 1/12 scale Ghostbusters Ecto-1 Mattycollector kickstarter failed years ago. We're probably never going to get one in that scale. Now would have been the perfect time for it with the new film coming, but Hasbro hasn't indicated any plans at doing one for their 6" figures even though it could easily sell well at retail and help encourage sales of the 6" figures.

Is it embarrassing though? It is the point of kickstarters that they are not a sure thing. Some things just don't have the support, and it's probably less embarrassing to have this not go through at all rather than the old method of sinking millions into a big playset only to have it collecting dust on clearance while all of the extra unsold stock gets dumped off at Ross or Ollie's.

Also Matty not having enough support for Ecto 1 is likely the exact reason Hasbro isn't going to do one that big.