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No horse in this race, but I think Kit going out of his way to check with Inart regarding the cloak not being included as well as checking with customers that received an Aragorn from him shows that he was under the same impression as the majority of people: the cloak would be included as an optimization for the figure. TBH you could always just ask him on here to clarify too.Where does Kit outright mention that?
I’ll stand by it was properly communicated. What was up in the air at that point was: Where are these third party stores going to get the product from - from an authorized retailer out there or INART direct (exclusions may or may not apply aside)? For example, a known collector on Facebook/YouTube got the cloak, but they have an exclusive hookup in China who got it for them.
Back to your original point, I do think there is a grey area here, but bottom line, I do think there is a sense of entitlement on display here and really, I guess I’m just grateful the collective community has a chance at all to be able to obtain these products via third party avenues like OSK, etc.
The YouTubers have a worldwide platform and the big ones like Justin’s Collection, Jedha Patrol and DeanKnight are big time 1/6 channels, so I don’t know why we hold them to the same standard as the rest of us peasants/commoners.
Biggest issue with Inart's post if the formatting. The first point is- Official self-supporting channel special accessories- with the cloak listed right underneath. If they had listed the optimizations and then separated that phrase and mention of the cloak, it might have not caused this backlash. We can say that people should learn to read (it's clear in hindsight), but the fact that this confusion was en masse shows that some of the blame has to be on Inart.