>>11117386>they literally have their own 4H tier retard crowd fund going on right now and its failing miserably.Oh wow, i forgot about this.
And yeah, it's fucking retarded, but i assume it's because of how the licensing works. You can't fund raise a licensed product through a third party, because of the way the license is written and/or the fees Kickstarter takes out of the project too. Shit would be overpriced even more to even out the costs.
So McFarlane needs to do that from their own website due to the license, whereas 4H became so greedy, they thought their name alone could draw people who aren't into third party He-Man ripoffs to trust them in giving them an interest free loan for a product that wouldn't be released for another 2 years.
>theres no fucking way in hell that they need 600k to produce theseIt's a licensing issue. When the contract is written, there's a minimum sales clause, where the toy company is expected to sell AT LEAST X-amount of units and if they fail to do that, the toy company is expected to pay out the difference from their own pocket.
It's a royalty fee from every unit sold, which is ontop of the licensing fee.
>>11117423Given how the toy market is today, thanks to Target and Walmart being assholes in shrinking space and minimizing orders, crowdfunding may be the future.
REemmber when McFarlane, Hasbro, and others started using Walgreens to carry their toys and needed to make exclusives to drive toy fans into a fucking drugstores, thanks to ToysRUs and other toy vendors going out of business? Yeah, even Walgreens is dying and they're closing thousands of stores.
Since we haven't heard about walgreens exclusives for years, I think those distribution deals also dried up years ago too.
