[TheBlueMarvel]

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Originally Posted by ariellagunas

Yep, Blue Marvel. I don’t get how you do a Kickstarter without showing the strech goals from the get go. Same as I don’t get the whole, who’s gonna be reveal? In general. We’re not little kids. Like , we are doing this 110 figures this year, and then just announce the pre orders or sale dates. Couldn’t care less about the three (lovely as they are) babbling about on YouTube.
That way we have an idea of yearly budget, since most of us collect other lines too.

Agreed. The silly stretch-goal secrecy represents counterintuitive marketing to the extent that it almost smacks as amateurish. As you point out, the whole coy nature of the 'Easter-Egg' approach to reveals and 'oh boy, what's on Ryan's shelf/mind today???' is beyond infantilizing. Without being privy to the numbers, I'd hazzard to guess that the people that love this sort of thing don't buy in 'waves'. Instead, they're likely buying one-offs here and there, which is fine as there's room for all. However, for collectors that still buy nearly everything, speaking for myself only, this shit has long since become tedious. Just tell me what I can expect, leading me around by the nose with glimpses of a foot here and a hand there will only have the opposite effect. The fatigue inspired by this tactic is bleeding through on this thread, if I take the comments I've read at face value. I only visit the Ark for toy news now and no longer frequent other sites like TheFwoosh, but I imagine a similar exhaustion is developing in a more global sense.