CMON Presents: The Animation Collection

[KruleBear 4908]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cmon/cmon-presents-the-animation-collection?

 

 

I checked out the Scooby Doo cooperative game play looks like something fun to play with the kids (since he will probably be 10 when it delivers )

[ced1106 5680]

No SG's, so pledge $1.

Miniatures are painted. The Mayhem mini's will be painted at retail and SD ones will not.

$5 to $7 per mini, which is about the same price as figures on Amazon. 

[KruleBear 4908]

Yeah, I thought it was a tad high for a KS. I will probably drop down to just the Scooby Doo, but my non gaming wife showed some interest in Looney Tunes. 

[JoeGKushner 564]

Completely safe from this one. 

[Olaf the Stout 275]

Tempted by this one. My kids love both Scooby Doo and Teen Titans. Still thinking about it.

[Disciple of Sakura 10594]

My son loves Teen Titans Go!, and my wife and I are big fans of the prior Teen Titans cartoon, but I think we can avoid this one.

[Arkady 1239]

Seriously, making Beast Boy a fake stretch goal instead of promising a full-team Teen Titans base game? That's dishonest-low even by CMON standards.

[Olaf the Stout 275]

3 hours ago, Arkady said:

Seriously, making Beast Boy a fake stretch goal instead of promising a full-team Teen Titans base game? That's dishonest-low even by CMON standards.

It wasn’t a stretch goal though as there was no dollar total needed to reach to get it. It was a “daily promo”, which is just CMoN’s way of trying to maintain interest in the campaign all the way through.

 

I agree that it is dumb making one of the Teen Titans not part of the initial set, so it’s a bit of a fake daily promo, but CMoN have has core components as stretch goals for most of their Kickstarters, so them doing that with Beast Boy is hardly surprising.

[ced1106 5680]

Most retail American family games are 2-4 players. Include all five in the box, and some parent's gonna cry out why you can't play with five players (because his kid invited four friends over today). Costs more to develop a game for 2-5 players than 2-4, plus they're gonna put another component in the box for retail, which would increase base game prices. Hobby boardgames are already expensive compared to other family games and non-game toys. (Cryptozoic already puts out a TTG game that's half the price of the CMON game.) You'll also note that there are no coop rules, which would further cost game development and component cost.

 

Now, was omitting BB a good idea? Well, it does mean CMON can put out an expansion to get more money -- just like how the rest of the publishers will break up a game into a base game and expansion because marketing convention says you have to keep the base game to such-and-such a price, or fewer units will be sold. You've probably heard of "Settlers of Catan"... 

[KruleBear 4908]

2 hours ago, Olaf the Stout said:

It wasn’t a stretch goal though as there was no dollar total needed to reach to get it. It was a “daily promo”, which is just CMoN’s way of trying to maintain interest in the campaign all the way through.

 

I agree that it is dumb making one of the Teen Titans not part of the initial set, so it’s a bit of a fake daily promo, but CMoN have has core components as stretch goals for most of their Kickstarters, so them doing that with Beast Boy is hardly surprising.

Yeah, since this one doesn’t really have stretch goals and you are vaguely interested, you would be better clicking remind and seeing what is part of the package at the end. Iirc they have done this with a few of their smaller kickstarters. 

[Olaf the Stout 275]

8 hours ago, KruleBear said:

Yeah, since this one doesn’t really have stretch goals and you are vaguely interested, you would be better clicking remind and seeing what is part of the package at the end. Iirc they have done this with a few of their smaller kickstarters. 

Yep, that’s exactly what I did. I’ll pick my final pledge, if any, in the pledge manager.