Last Knight Posted August 17, 2013 Share Posted August 17, 2013 http://www.reapermini.com/forum/index.php?/topic/50930-bones-kickstarter-2/ (Brace for merge.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eriochrome Posted August 17, 2013 Share Posted August 17, 2013 Should they be announcing another kickstarter when they have not finished the first? I am still missing parts for minis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Humansquish Posted August 17, 2013 Share Posted August 17, 2013 Their getting all the hype up for the second kickstarter, then it only going to be for the big pirate flag that didn't sell in the first kickstarter. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slendertroll Posted August 17, 2013 Share Posted August 17, 2013 They probably won't start the second one until they've finished the first; they're just announcing that it's going to happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Last Knight Posted August 17, 2013 Share Posted August 17, 2013 Should they be announcing another kickstarter when they have not finished the first? I am still missing parts for minis.My headless Cthulu agrees with you, but would like to point out that there's a big difference between running a Kickstarter now, when things are left undone, and saying you'll run a Kickstarter sometime between a month and four months from now, when things will presumably be less undone. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CashWiley Posted August 18, 2013 Share Posted August 18, 2013 Snippet of my reaction from my blog: I was pretty surprised to hear about this. The first Bones KS has been hell on the staff there and basically the company has been shut down the entire year. There were signs of the stress as early as last November when the site stopped getting updated properly, they’d miss a lot of things when it was. The amount of overtime and lack of vacation, pulling non-labor staff in for labor, it has really put the company through a rough time. That said…Reaper is owned and operated by a couple accountants. So I imagine this KS blew the doors off the books. Thomas is a good start, but Bryan has said it is not even close to capable of keeping up with the demand for Bones (the original non-KS Bones demand). I think they got it as more of an educational tool for staff and to learn the logistics of casting in plastic before moving the operation in house. That said…there is a good chance this is the next phase of that and they’ll be putting a couple more plastic casting machines in that new space. They’ve also learned a lot about what does and does not work in Bonesium, they’ve already pulled several SKU from the catalog. Overall it should be interesting at the least. I’m not sure given my experience with Bones minis that I’m interested in the next KS (whew). My hope is that they’ve learned enough about the logistics that they can run their company while fulfilling this next KS. I had the metal for a year pledge and took the buyout because I was concerned (despite statements to the contrary) about Reaper’s commitment to producing metal minis in an ongoing capacity (ie new sculpts). I’m happy for their success with Bones, you won’t find a nicer bunch of folks with amazing customer service, but I’m a painter, not a gamer, and Bones just isn’t for me. 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buglips*the*goblin Posted August 18, 2013 Share Posted August 18, 2013 With the first KS as a demo, I expect some of my group will want in on the sequel. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonwirn Posted August 18, 2013 Share Posted August 18, 2013 If I can get at least 25% of my bones painted by the start, I'm all in! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug's Workshop Posted August 18, 2013 Share Posted August 18, 2013 Not enthused. Still prefer metal for man-sized figures, and metal production has been delayed for over a year so far. No relapse of the dreaded F5 Disease for me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buglips*the*goblin Posted August 18, 2013 Share Posted August 18, 2013 I have the enthusiasm of twenty people! I've already started making new pom-poms. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MonkeySloth Posted August 18, 2013 Author Share Posted August 18, 2013 Anyone have a post of the flyer that works? All I get is the wheel going round and round. Sorry, I wasn't able to make it to the painting area today so I don't have a shot myself. I'm sure more will turn up soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassu Posted August 18, 2013 Share Posted August 18, 2013 Honestly given that my minis from the first one haven't arrived yet (but should be here this week some time) and they haven't even started to do the final clean-up with regards to replacement parts and what-not I'm hesitant to get excited about another Kickstarter. I wanted to wait and see how they handled things until the very end and let the dust settle and lessons learned sink-in before they started a new project. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slendertroll Posted August 18, 2013 Share Posted August 18, 2013 Again, they haven't started a new project; they're just announcing that they're going to start one once the current one is done. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassu Posted August 18, 2013 Share Posted August 18, 2013 But if it starts so soon, won't they be in full-on planning stage around about now? i.e. while their last one hasn't finished. (Is what I'm getting at.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prophetic_joe Posted August 18, 2013 Share Posted August 18, 2013 You have to think about how much of the production was done out of the US this last year. They were busy I am sure but with all of the casting being done in china I am sure they had a bit of downtime over the last year to plan out their next move and since the delays they faced were shipping delays from China it's not as if they could do much during that time as far as actually working on the current KS. I don't think they were just sitting around twiddling their thumbs while the product was waiting to get shipped to the states and passed through customs. It's a really good chance that a lot of the wait time here was spent planning the next KS and figuring out based on forum comments and feedback with how to make it work better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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