bigchiefstudios
Freaked Out
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Total and utter lies. This person is lying to the community and making up their own nonsense to stir up trouble. None of this is true.Take this with a fistful of salt, but I live in Birmingham and a 'friend of a friend' works with BCS.
They claimed they're fulfilling the Definitive 4th Doc and Delgado before 'potentially' cancelling all remaining pre-orders. Pre-orders on items with a TBC timeframe have a very high probability of being cancelled, altogether. Apparently this is to avert a mass-cancellation of orders all at once.
One of the reasons given was that the 6th Doc's coat is proving costly and difficult to produce in high quantities, as well as the investment in new moulds for the K9 and Daleks (the latter having very underwhelming pre-orders).
The companies move towards becoming a sole vendor of 1:6 figures and statues is to generate liquidity to fulfil these cancellation costs and keep the company afloat for future ventures.
I asked about how they're able to invest and produce the 3.75 inch figures, and this is for several reasons:
Existing infrastructure in China to rapidly produce these types of figures. (even YouTubers are able to make very small runs of these figures in their own likeness to sell at a reasonable price)
Manufacturers more familiar with this 'style' of figure, making communication and signing-off easier.
Far fewer components, only 6 parts, fewer if you reuse similar arms and legs on other figures.
Cheaper to paint and faster to assemble.
Cheaper packaging.
Reduced shipping costs to UK due to carton size.
Like I said, take this with an almighty pinch of salt, but the person absolutely would be in a position to be privy to this information.
It is no secret that we have been plagued with delays from the outset, with one delay creating further knock on delays to other products. We have only just taken delivery of our Peaky Blinders figures that were originally scheduled to be completed last July!
Need we remind you that China were still suffering intermittent lockdowns and restrictions to their daily lives pretty much up until Q4 of last year. The knock on effect of this has resulted in our long overdue products being put into a production queue, with factories prioritising higher volume orders over our more niche lines.
We understand that people waiting on products are frustrated, as are we as we want them shipped as soon as possible.
We have not offered any new BCS 1:6 scale figures for well over a year now, as we do not think it fair to expect customers to pay more out in advance whilst they are waiting on products. We have even stopped taking payment plans for new pre-order third party products from Hot Toys etc as these are now seeing release dates of up to two years, sometimes more.
We are very aware that customers want updates, but when factories are reluctant to give dates, all we can say is a vague "summer" or "autumn". Working with China is becoming increasingly more difficult - our problem, not yours, we know,
We are still very much operational and working to deliver your figures. This is NOT a LIE. What has been claimed above is not BCS it is TOTAL BS!!!