Harvinger Studios, Savage Crucible
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Gotcha.
I just finished the Rob Post interview. Very insightful into the manufacturing process. I get the impression they live between 3 to 5,000 figures for their IP. This reinforced a lot to me that my assumptions about their business philosophy are largely on the money. Really enjoyed this.
I just finished the Rob Post interview. Very insightful into the manufacturing process. I get the impression they live between 3 to 5,000 figures for their IP. This reinforced a lot to me that my assumptions about their business philosophy are largely on the money. Really enjoyed this.
That's interesting, Harvinger must be doing a lot of sales through their own website then.
I wasn't really positing about the potential profit as much as thinking about the economics of it, if he did want to make more for those interested in the figure. If I was running my own action figure company I'd probably (likely mistakenly) want to err on making too many than too few to reduce disappointment, but of course there are limits to that.
I think for any smaller company (producing anything) it is hard to know if a sellout and customers asking for more to be made means there is true additional demand or not. I tend to forget how low the production numbers are on so many figures these days, some of these production runs of a few thousand figures was considered a crisis by collectors 25 years ago if a popular line did an exclusive with that few produced.
3,000 to 5,000 helps explain why we ended up with 9 figures based on the first lizard-style body, the reuse was needed.
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3,000 is the minimum order quantity from the factory. Harvinger has never publicly stated, as far as I'm aware, how many figures are actually produced in each run. They're always vague about it by saying things like 'we produced more Elrics than any other figure.' We don't really have any way of quantifying that statement.
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Did they have a preorder for Elric on their own site? Just want to make sure I’m ready for the Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser preorder eventually.
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I POed mine thru their page on the Shop app.
Was just replying to Dek's comment that those numbers were his takeaway from the interview.
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I was just clarifying, potentially for you, but also for anyone just reading the thread that did not listen to the vidcast, that at no point was 3-5k given as an official or even suggested production number for SC figures by anyone. It's purely (mostly baseless) conjecture.
Ditto.
Shipping was gross, though. Hoping I can start doing pre-orders reliably through a Canadian e-tailer like DJC or something.
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Has Rob or anyone from Harvinger explained why BBTS hasn't received their full alottment of Elric? What's the delay caused by?
As someone whose preorder of Death Dealer is undoubtedly in the absolute dead last position (I'm very much on the naughty list), I'm curious.
As someone whose preorder of Death Dealer is undoubtedly in the absolute dead last position (I'm very much on the naughty list), I'm curious.
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Interestingly, Rob had an example for why we may see a specific SKU show up across multiple shipments, and the example he used was 'if a cape is wrong, we get them to fix it but we tell them to ship all of what they have first and we'll take the corrected figures at a later date.' Maybe this was specifically referring to Elric and BBTS. But that's just my speculation. It seemed like a very specific example, though.
Totally tracks with his 'we should have him in 9 weeks.' I believe he said in the same interview that typical time on the water is 8 weeks. Crazy how fast that update went out after Rob saying exactly that.