Snow C.A.T. Live!

PantherCult said:
I think Hasbro is leaving money on the table if they don't at least try to repurpose their Classified HasLabs into lower cost options.
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Even if you allow for only the fact we hear all the time from all the collector-based teams: There's new collectors joining up all the time. If you lock potentially fan-favorite, important items behind a 'once in a lifetime opportunity' pre-order, you are absolutely leaving money on the table AND potentially slamming the door on creating new customers.


Fletch said:
Otherwise, why do HasLabs?
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I would argue because of the massively lower cost for Hasbro by essentially crowd-funding the development and manufacture. It takes a potentially very high risk item and makes it exceptionally low risk. If it doesn't fund, Hasbro is out very little. If it does fund, the low risk yields a high reward in big sales AND all this tooling and development now paid for.
For the fan, it means an exclusive version of an item, possibly with more bells and whistles, and definitely WAY sooner than any other version that might one day be available.
Time will tell how Hasbro themselves view this model and whether or not to open that tooling up for later use. I think we're getting close to the HISS being long enough ago that Hasbro will dip their toe into re-issuing it pretty soon. But I'd also be very surprised to see any announcement to that effect while there's an ongoing HasLab funding period - just in case you're right about the adverse affect on collectors it could have. Be interesting to see, one way or the other.


Ashtalon said:
I'd be tempted by a blue HISS. And now that the Snow Cat is in the pipeline, a white HISS would be tempting as well.
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Same here. I didn't get the HasLab, but I'd be tempted if they re-issued it somehow in blue or white. But only one or the other. If I get a blue one, I'm out on a white one. I just don't need/can't justify both.
 
These are the slow days. The very long slow days of the campaign. We'll see a tick up around SDCC due to people seeing it in person at the show. And potentially supporting items, like arctic themed figures, being revealed at SDCC. And then the surge the last couple of days. Hoping the base funding happens before SDCC. Would help give it a bit of an oomph as well.
 
Ashtalon said:
These are the slow days. The very long slow days of the campaign. We'll see a tick up around SDCC due to people seeing it in person at the show. And potentially supporting items, like arctic themed figures, being revealed at SDCC. And then the surge the last couple of days. Hoping the base funding happens before SDCC. Would help give it a bit of an oomph as well.
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Yeah it would be nice to go into SDCC saying "This is funded and will be made so get your orders in today."
 
Y'know, if this thing doesn't fund all the way, I'm going to be more disappointed by missing out on the sausages and eggs than Flint's figure. #doitforthesausage #sauagesizzles

Not counting the figures, my Haslabs ranking:
1. Snow Cat
2. Hiss
3. Dragonfly
4. Rattler
 
I thought I was 100% on this but I hadn't watched the video, just read the recaps, and when I saw Lenny standing in front of it I was like "that CAT is f*cking ENORMOUS" and I've got some hesitation about where I'd put it. I'll probably still cave in the last week but this thing made Lenny look kid-sized on camera.
 
As much as I like the Snow Cat, I think it's safe to say the Mauler would've been a better choice. I believe there was a smaller Snow Cat in the running for Haslab and even before that, Snow Cat's original release was not planned as a Haslab? Then Hasbro got scared over some year end financials, pulled the Snow Cat as a non-Haslab, and decided to release an oversized version nobody was asking for. Do they have anymore bullets left to shoot themselves in the foot a few more times? Perfect world is a Mauler Haslab and higher priced Snow Cat preorder.
 
If they don’t reach the Flint stretch goal, I might cancel. I might cancel if they don’t reach LJ too.
 
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