Chicken Fried Toys/Dime Novel Legends

[Damien]

CFT sent out a new update and I'm actually pretty disappointed with them right now. For context, let's remember that the Kickstarter to produce these items, which let's also remember were technically part of the PREVIOUS Kickstarter but just didn't get to funding, ended on NOVEMBER 18, 2024.

According to the September 10th email update; files will be going to tooling IN 30 DAYS.

Almost a full year out from the Kickstarter and they haven't even started tooling yet. In fact, the email also said that it'll be about 8 weeks after that before tooling samples should arrive. Which means this Kickstarter, for items that were part of the previous Kickstarter, will be reviewing tooling samples MORE than a full year after funding was met.
That seems pretty fucked up to me. These guys aren't new at this. This is a company that has been producing quite a few figures already, and has been producing items during this time frame.

Still no allocation set up for backers, about 1 year out from Kickstarter conclusion. No tooling. 1 year and it's still basically vaporware. I don't understand how they think this is acceptable. It feels very much like the old 'whatever, you don't like it, don't buy from us' attitude is still in full effect, unfortunately.

 

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According to the September 10th email update; files will be going to tooling IN 30 DAYS.

Almost a full year out from the Kickstarter and they haven't even started tooling yet. In fact, the email also said that it'll be about 8 weeks after that before tooling samples should arrive. Which means this Kickstarter, for items that were part of the previous Kickstarter, will be reviewing tooling samples MORE than a full year after funding was met.

Got that too, but I was too annoyed to even post about it.

I was curious if they had started any production work but figured they must have done something by now. I really don't get it, but now I'm guessing the real reason they haven't launched the allocation page is they knew they weren't going to start any steps for production for awhile...and knew that nothing would be in hand until mid-2026 at best, so better to slow play the website so they didn't have to admit the "expected delivery date"...