Re: Molecule8 - 1/6th Scale John Lennon
Yeah, except some of us are buying this figure and would like to talk about it without some **** hole telling us we're idiots and everything's Photoshoped and you're stupid if you don't get a refund, etc., etc. ad nauseum.
You said your peace - we all get it - we're all suckers. Congratulations on your insight. Now take your 1/6th ball and go home.
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Funny, you're the one lowering things to the level of personal insults. Maybe some kind of projection of your own insecurities as you try to rationalise this post-purchase. Nobody here called anyone a "**** hole" for preordering, we did however all suggest you cancel direct orders with M8 and go through Sideshow, BBTS, etc instead. Yes, a good number of the images they've released have been photomanipulations and computer renders, that's not even open for debate.
I've got no idea why you feel the need to vitriolically white-knight the honour of Molecule8 either. The idea that only people who've paid for a product in advance are allowed to have an opinion is the kind of stupidity I expect to find on the IGN forums, not here. Remember,
they're taking
your money, not the other way round.
Pretty much this. I have got a couple of whiners on ignore because of constant complaining about figures that actually get released however what I see on this topic is a legitimate concern over the poor choices some fellow boardies are making with this company.
Comparatively this figure has been as delayed as the Hot Toys' Hulkbuster itself if not more. Granted, it's by no means the same amount of time however HT never boasted about releasing the damn thing the same month pre-orders went up.
I do believe this toy will eventually see the light of day but no way it will be worth the torturous wait and outlandish price tag. Lennon might be M8's debut and farewell.
That's actually debatable at this point. What really set alarm bells ringing for me, is the fact that I've been suckered into working for companies like this in the past. Never let a seemingly professional website fool you, there are people who can lash those things together in a weekend. It's always the same, they try to pretend they're one of the "big boys" when they're actually being run out of a shoebox shared office somewhere on the outskirts of a major city. I guarantee their single biggest expenditure will have been hiring KA Kim, things like 3D modelling and tailoring they'll have suckered some young hopeful into doing freelance for pennies or worse, "exposure".
https://www.linkedin.com/in/vijay-chadha-ba840420
A few minutes with Google will find you the remains of companies M8's CEO has been involved in previously. One got shuttered amid the unfinished development of a multi-million dollar project, the rest like Balloon27 never seem to have had much traction in the first place - even when B27's Twitter was active, it got tumbleweeds in terms of engagement. Also he's never been involved in anything relating to having to actually execute and deliver a physical product outside of a short tenure with a budget joypad manufacturer.
Nobody'd be happier to eat crow over this than me if they somehow knock it out the park - Hot Toys needs some competition - but if I were a betting man I'd be split between "massively underwhelming QC issue-ridden eventual release" and "company runs out of preorder capital and sinks before the figures ship". Rather than being honest about being a small, inexperienced company looking to make outside-the-box, innovative products, they chose to bull**** from day one, and as such even if they do manage to release products the memories of lies, evasiveness, missed deadlines, terrible handling of social media, etc are going to be with them always.
Great case study in how
not to start a business in this field.
