Re: Big Chief Studios - 1/6 Doctor Who - #04 Tom Baker
You may be willing to pay top dollar for second rate results without raising even a hint of disappointment or complaint, but not everyone feels the same way. Besides, there is an argument to be made that if they couldn't do it right, then perhaps they shouldn't have done it at all, and instead made some other accessory instead.
Yet one would think that given that there wasn't an issue with the prototype version, that there was a way to do it right, it just wasn't done that way. Somewhere along the line a corner was cut, things were rushed, and the end result was not up to standard as a result, with the end product being full of visible bubbles. Something that plenty of much cheaper pieces with cast clear pieces (also made in China) have managed to avoid over the years, as my own collection is testament to. This may not be a big deal in the grand scheme of things, but it's not an unrealistic expectation either.
And it's also not about pointing fingers, as much as identifying something that went wrong so that next time the same thing doesn't happen, the same result isn't accepted. That why, just on general principal, I refuse to lower my expectations of quality on products released at this kind of price point.
Add to which, if we can't talk open and honestly about these figures, both the good and the bad aspects, then what's the point in even having a discussion thread to begin with? Not to mention the fact that you can't expect products to improve over time if you accept without question the errors and mistakes along the way, without ever mentioning them, and hoping for better things in future. The only way to expect a company to bother going to the trouble of improving over time is by telling them what was wrong with past releases, as well as what was right. If customers don't demand quality then they are unlikely to get it. After all, if people are willing to freely accept second rate, then why go to the added time and expense of trying to produce something that's truly first rate? Standards only slip if we accept them doing so.
Big Chief is still a young company, and they need honest feedback on their products, even if sometimes it's not what they want to hear. And that was all that was happening above. I haven't seen any attacks here, just honest critiquing of an accessory that fell below many customers expectations for some pretty obvious, and understandable, reasons.
You may be willing to pay top dollar for second rate results without raising even a hint of disappointment or complaint, but not everyone feels the same way. Besides, there is an argument to be made that if they couldn't do it right, then perhaps they shouldn't have done it at all, and instead made some other accessory instead.
Yet one would think that given that there wasn't an issue with the prototype version, that there was a way to do it right, it just wasn't done that way. Somewhere along the line a corner was cut, things were rushed, and the end result was not up to standard as a result, with the end product being full of visible bubbles. Something that plenty of much cheaper pieces with cast clear pieces (also made in China) have managed to avoid over the years, as my own collection is testament to. This may not be a big deal in the grand scheme of things, but it's not an unrealistic expectation either.
And it's also not about pointing fingers, as much as identifying something that went wrong so that next time the same thing doesn't happen, the same result isn't accepted. That why, just on general principal, I refuse to lower my expectations of quality on products released at this kind of price point.
Add to which, if we can't talk open and honestly about these figures, both the good and the bad aspects, then what's the point in even having a discussion thread to begin with? Not to mention the fact that you can't expect products to improve over time if you accept without question the errors and mistakes along the way, without ever mentioning them, and hoping for better things in future. The only way to expect a company to bother going to the trouble of improving over time is by telling them what was wrong with past releases, as well as what was right. If customers don't demand quality then they are unlikely to get it. After all, if people are willing to freely accept second rate, then why go to the added time and expense of trying to produce something that's truly first rate? Standards only slip if we accept them doing so.
Big Chief is still a young company, and they need honest feedback on their products, even if sometimes it's not what they want to hear. And that was all that was happening above. I haven't seen any attacks here, just honest critiquing of an accessory that fell below many customers expectations for some pretty obvious, and understandable, reasons.
