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Thanks Thunder Badger for the glue info.

Paulo = Paizo

Archon said they were only given one sculpt for the Skittermanders. What happened to all the work ND did that Paulo approved?

Not sure WizKids is aware of this forum as I have not seen any posts from them.

They could always put more of the same sculptures on future molds to make up for the shortages.

From an email from Dave at Archon

"At the minute yes, we are currently looking into the matter, this ismainly down to the way that the minis were tooled. As this mini was printed on the same tool as all of the other wave 2 mins, this would mean that extra wave 2 minis will need to be printed to facilitate all of the Skittermander minis."

This to me is really bad from a planning perspective as they knew in advance that to satisfy the kickstarter they would need multiple of some minis.

I have tried to tell Archon that a few times. When I posed the problem on Archon’s new thread, Michal said it was “Irrelevant “.

Has Paizo seen any prototypes yet?

If it was a case of what is on the mold, they could have put more than just one version on the mold. Say if the goblin pack of 6 had 2 different versions of the goblins, they could put 3 of each version on the same mold. Currently this defeats the purpose of getting a group of monsters to fight the party.

I think the question about the packs arose from the Ferani miniature being released without the other 3 figs that were supposed to be in the same pack. I had a question about putting different models on the same sprue: If one sold better than the others, wouldn’t you be left with a large stock of those that did not sell as well?

I don’t go for the same mold idea as they are selling the figures separately. If one sold more than the others you would end up with a lot of the ones that did not sell well. Seems then they could send more than one version of a figure for the KS backers.

Can Paizo get a rough schedule from Archon on which figures are going to be produced at what time? Such as ‘these’ figures will be in ‘this wave’ projected to ship on ‘this date’?

I would still like to know more about the behind the scene talks on switching from the solid casts to the spruce pieces.

Did Archon give a good reason why they were not going to use their touted Unicast method for the Starfinder minis to Paiso?

I noticed how a lot of staff wrote in this blog when the Archon announcement was first put out, but now not very many have commented since it came out how Archon is actually going to fulfill the kickstarter. I too am not happy I have to build all the miniatures; but something is better than nothing at this point. Major time loss in life to put together the whole set, especially for those who have no experience assembling such small pieces. Just cleaning up the parts after taking them off sprues is a pain. I was willing to put the time in to paint these minis, but now I have to add in more time. Does anyone at Paizo know why there has been no word/updates from Archon on the kickstarter page?

Nazrath wrote:

I am seriously torn between hoping beyond hope that we will eventually get the miniatures we paid for, and more realistically holding ND management legally accountable for their financial actions. The more I see of saying/not saying things without any noticeable progress the more I move towards taking legal action which would surely kill the dream of getting the minis. I have held off moving that direction because Paizo was at least commenting to us, but if you review not much has really been said or any movement seen by the backers.

I'm not trying to be disruptive or abusive but....

Talking about "legal action" is a waste of breath, I would bet my hat that even with the best lawyer money can buy in your pocket you'd still get laughed out to the courtroom... Kickstarter as a platform explicitly lays out that you have NO legal recourse to go after KS or ND in this manner.

As has been said MANY times here and in other places, you were giving them money to support their project regardless of the final outcome, and talking about legal threats on here only makes you look ignorant of the ToS you signed once when making your KS Account as well as the more specific one you agreed to when buying into the ND Kickstarter.

I TOTALLY understand your frustration but even an armchair lawyer would tell you that you'd be wasting your own emotional investment and money trying to pursue this.

If however ND DID ship something to you and it turned out to be a hazardous/illegal product that endangers your safety instead of the Minis then MAYBE you'd have a leg to stand on but otherwise...

To clarify, I am not talking about a lawsuit against a broke company. At this point I don’t see my money coming back. I am talking about holding ND management accountable for possible criminal actions with Idaho. Which, as said, would surely squash any hope of this Kickstarter ever completing.

I am seriously torn between hoping beyond hope that we will eventually get the miniatures we paid for, and more realistically holding ND management legally accountable for their financial actions. The more I see of saying/not saying things without any noticeable progress the more I move towards taking legal action which would surely kill the dream of getting the minis. I have held off moving that direction because Paizo was at least commenting to us, but if you review not much has really been said or any movement seen by the backers.

This looks like real bad news.

So they took on new appointments with empty coffers due to blatant mismanagement? Might go out of business and all the pledges are gone?

That would really stink big time.
I don't believe doing a KS is like a possible investment.
What happened here looks a lot like fraud to me, because the money from the pledges should be bound to the actual project pledged for and not be redirected to different projects or used to fill empty coffers.

I don’t consider this a ‘failed’ Kickstarter. The money was raised & collected, sculpts done & a manufacturer lined up to produce. As for being an investment, look up Ponzi Scheme & what happened to Bernard Madoff.

Kickstarter states in their terms in starting a Kickstarter that the person/company are responsible for the finances & can have legal action taken against them by the backers if they do not deliver.