We have received the final production schedule from the factory.
They are busy addressing all of our notes as they move forward and have informed us that our full order of all 17 SKUs has an ex-factory date of December 31. Our freight forwarder will pick them up on the 31st and transport them to our distribution center here in the U.S., and we are anticipating one month door to door. Our distribution center will begin shipping Kickstarter rewards and pre-orders in February with the goal of getting everything out before the end of the month.
We will be closing preorders on January 1. We will open up orders for any remaining stock after we have completed shipping all Kickstarter rewards and pre-orders. Just as our Kickstarter backers received the best pricing per figure and shipping costs, our pre-order customers will receive the same treatment and remaining stock items will likely be a few dollars more per figure and shipping as we continue to learn about the numerous expenses and fees that occur when you manufacture an item overseas.
It’s been quite a learning process for us, and we are so grateful to all of our supporters who have helped us navigate our way through our first toy line (17 SKUs in wave 1 — what were we thinking?!?!?). The finish line is in sight and we’ll all have our toys in just a few short months. Yes we were eight months off on our Kickstarter estimated ship date (those last minute additional stretch goals didn’t help either), but we are extremely happy with what we’ve been seeing and hope all of our supporters are as well.
With all of that said, here are a bunch of pics of the basic red ninja standing next to various other toy lines so you can get a sense of the final product scale. Our basic ninja is just a hair over 6 inches tall (approx 6 1/8 inches), which in 1:12 scale puts him between 6’1″ and 6’2″. Enjoy the pics and keep your eyes peeled for some other cool updates coming soon!
