I think Classified team knows Wild Bill and Wild Weasel are desired figures. In time I’m sure they find an offering for both not tied to the Haslab.
Baroness is in this offering just like that shot up panel on the Rattler due to the comic. It’s an homage for sure. Baroness looks great! Look forward to getting her.
Thwipp!
@prophet Yep. There will be a release of some of the Haslab figures, specifically the core characters (Wild Bill, Wild Weasel, etc) somewhere down the line. I mean they did Cobra Commander already so maybe we'll see the pilots within a year of the Haslab delivering.
Anyway....
Cobra Rattler:
13,411 / 9,000 (+239) 149.01% of funding goal with 30d 17h left.
Well looks like it was payday (maybe?) because we had a nice little bump in the daily backers.
Still chugging along nicely.
As a filthy casual, the difference between the figures included here and previous Haslabs is actually making a significant difference in my interest in backing this. The overall lower number, yes, but also the Baroness variant being the top tier is just less interesting to me than a new character or trooper. It's probably a more consumer-friendly move to put an item-specific variant like this in that tier vs a new character, but it does make me marginally less interested in backing.
I agree, and it's definitely something where Hasbro can't really win. You either get a very unexciting tier, or you get something people actually want and will be mad is locked behind a 400-dollar paywall AND might not even get made if not enough people go in for the bigger paywall item.
Personally, I'd rather see a troop builder redeco as some type of specialist than a named character in a different deco for a project like this. Particularly when I just don't care about Baroness, and don't feel like I'd ever need a version that looks like the one presented here. It won't make any decisions for me, but it definitely doesn't help either.
I still don't know if I'm going to back this. Part of me REALLY wants it, and part of me knows (just as with the Dragonfly and HISS) that I don't really have the space for this kind of stuff and that's unlikely to change in the foreseeable future.
I'm totally sympathetic to the people not wanting characters locked behind the large paywall, and I definitely think Baroness is a sign that they get that too. The troop-builder specialists are a great middle ground - something unique to the project, new to the people getting it, but not a vital named character.
But, as was pointed out, with her full helmet on this Baroness works just as well as a generic pilot - so in some ways that is kinda splitting the difference. Maybe I'm coming around on that!
I haven't been closely following this, but I was waiting for the MA tax free weekend to back it. I was never NOT going to get it, but it's always better to save some cash.
Cobra Rattler:
13,452 / 9,000 (+41) 149.47% of funding goal with 29d 18h left.
Small bump today which should be expected at this time in the funding period. I did notice yesterday that the numbers went down a bit after my update so it fell below yesterday's update (13,411) then gained it back and went up some more into today's update.
I had not poured through the details of the plane and figures. I’m even more impressed. Baroness wears the tank smashing patch which makes that patch even more interesting. It looks great!
Thwipp!
I really hope we get a Baroness on this modified Retro Scarlett buck soon but in her classic black costume. I'd have no qualms about shelling out $40 or so just to have this one but I am not really into the Rattler itself. While I do think the Baroness that came with the bike is one of the better early figures, I still strongly dislike her single-joint elbows and would welcome an "updated" version. I did buy an extra Scarlett that I can dye black just in case.
Cobra Rattler:
13,497 / 9,000 (+45) 149.47% of funding goal with 28d 19h left.
Looks like the funding could be slowing down a bit and settling into the mid-double digit daily gains for the next little while. Could make unlocking the Gunner take a bit longer than expected.
It will be interesting to see if we get a noticeable increase in pledges once the gunner is unlocked. Without the gunner this does feel incomplete.
@buttmunch There might be a short bump, but this still has 4 weeks to go and unlocking the last two tiers is all but a forgone conclusion.
It will take something drastic happening for this not to unlock all the tiers. The last day alone should be at least 2,000 backers. The Dragonfly had 2,361 backers added on my last update for that project (so the last 24ish hours). I imagine the Rattler can do that easily.
I will be surprised if the Rattler doesn't get over 20,000 backers by the end.
Cobra Rattler:
13,523 / 9,000 (+26) 150.25% of funding goal with 27d 17h left.
Smallest daily gain to date. IT"S OVER!!!!!!!! THE END IS NIGH!!!!!!! END THE HASLAB IT ISN"T GOING TO FUND ALL THE TIERS!!!!!!!!!!!
Ok, now that that is out of the way. Slow and steady progress.
The slow crawl right before an unlock does build the tension though, doesn't it?
Cobra Rattler:
13,608 / 9,000 (+85) 151.20% of funding goal with 26d 18h left.
Still just chugging along.
Cobra Rattler:
13,632 / 9,000 (+24) 151.47% of funding goal with 25d 18h left.
Weird how the last few days this has gone up and down in regards to the daily backer increase. A couple days ago it was around the same as today, then it went up closer to triple digits, and now back down to low double digits.
Clearly they are toying with our emotions.
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