roan
Super Freak
I know it's limited to InArt direct. I personally don't care for the cloak, but a lot of others do and now they are unsure if they will even receive it. I just don't understand why they made that specific piece exclusive, it's essential for most of his looks. Hot Toys does the same thing, but for smaller accessories/extras no one cares about.Roan, you should get your facts straight man, but the cloak is limited to inart direct. Plenty of companies do this. For all we know, inart might have authorized retailers that carry these inart products out there, but only accounts that purchase direct to inart store will get the exclusive item. I personally don’t see how this matters because the majority of the world that doesn’t live in China (only region Aragorn is licensed in) would need to obtain this product via a third party avenue aka resellers/unofficial retailers like OneSixthKit, etc. Hence, your problem therein lies with whomever you purchased from. If they purchased directly from inart, and you purchased from them, you’ll get the cloak. It’s really on these third party retailers/resellers to solicit that information to us (the end customer).
Now checking the Aragorn thread it seems you won't get it even if you order from Kit. Pretty disappointing.
Well, how many people have received Harry Potter so far? Almost no one apart from influencers. Hearing stories of wrist pegs breaking this early is a bad sign, I think this will be a major problem when it starts shipping to more people, especially because there are no spares. I wouldn't even know where to look to find those smaller size wrist pegs. But you're right we do not know what happened, maybe it was user error and the guy wasn't careful enough.Lastly, you’re going to base your opinion on the Harry QC on the word of one guy? I’ve seen various people act like the world is falling because magnets slide out of the neck connector on Gandalf - it also does this on my copy - should this be happening? Ideally, no. But at the same time, am I going to discard the entire release as “horrific QC” because of that? Speaking for myself, probably not. The dainty pegs breaking on Harry and the fact that spares are not included is a legit problem, no doubt about that, but perhaps the user simply broke it by not being careful? I’ve seen countless of people break things on Hot Toys figures and they blame “lousy QC” but if they were just a bit more careful, it wouldn’t have happened. Just saying.
From what I've heard and seen Gandalf came with a lot more QC issues than just the magnets popping off.
Honestly one of their biggest issues is the influencer batch. I don't know why it exists when all of their figures are long sold out literally everywhere.. They delay the figure by more than a year and then give you the middle finger by sending the first batch to "influencers" that didn't even pay. If you're unlucky and ordered late you will have to wait another 6 months after the figure released. I'm not against batches, but the way InArt does it is irritating. Also the wait should be a lot less between each batch.There are legitimate issues with INART, but they aren’t a “hot mess” overall. Imo, only real issues I see with them is the overall speed of their production and they should optimize their rolling batch system. But I guess I’m willing to be more understanding and reasonable since they’re a new company. They’re probably aware of and scrambling like mad trying to meet these demands and expectations in this 1/6 market, but I do think the overwhelming majority of the community is unreasonable and uninformed. The other con would be general communication, I guess. I don’t know about you and others but technically they can’t really speak much to orders that are being made “illegally” (for lack of a better term, seriously I don’t know what other term to use here), since most of their products are NOT globally licensed but 99% of their vocal consumer base on their social media are customers that don’t reside in those licensed regions where that specific figure is officially licensed. Which is why they sort of come off as “vague” and don’t outright address certain concerns and questions from the community and even the YouTubers’ lousy interview questions. Me personally, after all this time, I’ve been able to discern what they mean (what they’re trying to get at) but most people simply still don’t get how it works and what’s happening. How I wish they’d be able to address the whole situation and kept it real for the sanity and well-being of the community, but they sort of can’t…
Also, their releases up to Harry Potter are technically “released”, but most people seem to disagree since they don’t have their own figure in their hands and don’t accept the fact that inart has a rolling batch system. People should probably realize that Hot Toys also do that, but they have more of a larger wide release which is “felt” more by the entire world after receiving their Hot Toys from Sideshow. AOTC Anakin’s 2/3rd batch is still on hold it seems and “delayed” too, btw, but no one seems to be disputing whether or not it’s released.
You're right about the communication, but they should give us more insight in what their production line looks like. It's pretty frustrating to see influencers receive Aragorn and Harry while you're still waiting on Batman. Just a simple post on Instagram or their official website would be enough.
I know Hot Toys has delays, but they are working on far more figures than InArt.
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