Ooh I hadn't seen the prototype shots, just the renders they'd been posting! I don't know that I'll be in a position to back this when the time comes but I'm really tempted to buy a couple even just to stash for later - it looks pretty amazing.
Unassembled it should lay flat-ish for storage, so I'm tempted to get one anyways for some future date with more space.
In fact, if you buy two, it comes with extra stuff for less than 2x the cost.
In fact fact, he showed how the building front can be expanded upward with an interlocking fire escape.
If only he'd designed it for shelves instead of arbitrarily deciding on 24" x 16". Whose shelf is 24x16?
That door is way too small, and I don't think they will fix it at this point. Needs to be about 1" -1 1/2" taller.
I knew they were working on one, but I hadn't been keeping up. Whenever it goes up for sale, I'll certainly give it a look and decide then. As others have indicated, I'm not sure if it will work with my setup. My shelf depth is around 11" where I'd want this to go. I have NECA street dios there now which have about 2" in overhang which I'm fine with, but this would be substantially more and might not work as well as I'd like.
@flexion-dynamo, definitely a mistake to show the size of his 1/12 diorama with his 1/10 scale Silverhawk.
I did ask Ace a while back why he chose these measurements and his answer was pretty much because that's in line with NECA's dioramas (which I personally don't actually know anything about.)
Because it's modular, you can configure the sewer room to be 32"x12", but that's still too big for my Billy Bookcases, and you can't rearrange the street scene the same way.
I just thought it'd be cool to have a playshelf set aside where I can rotate in some characters for different scenes, but that's a much space as I'm willing to commit.