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    Did the Santa Pirate Minimate get cancelled?

    in Minimates of Licenses Future

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    Crap. I really really wanted that one for Christmas.It would have made a awsome christmas ornament.Right by my ginger bread customs, I'll be buying....DANG ! :verymad:

    I know, I wanted 1 and now I'll have to wait because DST (no disrespect) can't put out these so they can focus on BB and Marvel. Oh also, fixed it.

    Sorry, Sky Dive -- we solicit items to retailers (that means list them in catalogs, show them to buyers at shows, etc.) to gauge interest and to collect the majority of our orders for an item. We always hope that the number that are ordered is large enough to at least pay for the production run, with the added hopes that we'll sell more and it will be a profitable item for us. When the minimum order quantity for an item -- the smallest number we can order -- is (for example) 3,000, and the number of actual pre-orders is (for example) 100, we really can't justify the expense. The likelihood we'll sell enough to cover costs is low, and we'll lose money on the manufacturing. Sitting on a ton of Santa ships until enough Xmases pass to sell them all (30?) was not an attractive proposition to us.

    We didn't cancel it so we could give more time to Marvel and Battle Beasts -- the time was already invested. We developed it as a holiday item for buyers, and we cancelled it because there was simply not enough interest outside of this message board. Marvel and Battle Beasts are unconnected, and if this had happened to either one of them, we would have done the same thing. (Although, since both lines have already been bought by Toys R Us, this sort of thing is less likely.)

    Hope that clears things up. I'm sad we're not making it, and regret not doing more to promote it when it was up for order. It was pretty cool.

    again, no disrespect, I just... had to vent. with all the things that are starting to change, I just had to say something

    Toys R Us 2012 Fan Poll Box Set

    in Marvel Minimates

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    Are we still allowed to have pics of the protos up? I thought we had them before and they had to be taken down because of the no-photography sign.

    Do mods take down pics with "no photography" signs? That's awesome. Thank you mods.

    They most likely will. Generally prototypes aren't done in translucent plastic because it's just easier not to or something. I don't mind the sold pink, but I am always for more translucent pieces.

    We paint up prototypes using resin castings of sculpted parts sent from the sculptor. They're usually grey, I believe. They don't do special castings in different materials.

    I'm intrigued, just in case what? :unsure: Oh, and back to the main topic, any idea roughly when we might expect to hear the official results for this poll?

    Just in case we can't do one of the others for some reason? We made the next highest vote getter in one of the categories.

    I'll see if the voting on this set is closed. I think it is.

    So Zach, if the set sells well, will we see the remaining Phoenix Force that weren't part of the poll possibly?

    Let Chuck know you want them! (Ask DST!)

    So the gray Vorin was just like what the prototype looked like?

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