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PROJECT UPDATE 69:
>ACBA will be doing a live stream on Instagram tonight, April 14th at 7pm PST. If you aren’t able to catch the live stream they are also planning on recording and posting a video to their youtube channel soon and we will send out a link in a future update.
>With that said, as the 3 of us were looking over everything, we came across some issues that had not been present in previous reviews of samples from the factory. There were some incorrect accessory pack-outs and a minor paint issue here and there, but the bigger issue to us was the interchangeable parts (specifically the hands and alternate packed heads) were not easily swapped. With a little bit of heat (hot water / a hairdryer / a heatgun) there are no issues. However, without applying heat to the hands or alternate heads, we were not satisfied with the amount of potential breakage that might occur.
>We debated between the 3 of us what to do; frustrated that this was an issue that we had not come across before. We discussed warning everyone about this issue and asking them to use heat when changing parts but ultimately decided that that is a compromise that we did not want to make. We made this line with the intention that people would be mixing and matching parts and pieces right out of the packaging. So the 3 of us decided that we would rather deal with the frustration and disappointment from yet another delay then to risk the frustration and disappointment of our backers receiving product that was not what we promised. The factory is currently making the necessary changes to address the heads and re-injecting all of the hands in a slightly more flexible PVC in order to correct the issue.
>ACBA will be doing a live stream on Instagram tonight, April 14th at 7pm PST. If you aren’t able to catch the live stream they are also planning on recording and posting a video to their youtube channel soon and we will send out a link in a future update.
>With that said, as the 3 of us were looking over everything, we came across some issues that had not been present in previous reviews of samples from the factory. There were some incorrect accessory pack-outs and a minor paint issue here and there, but the bigger issue to us was the interchangeable parts (specifically the hands and alternate packed heads) were not easily swapped. With a little bit of heat (hot water / a hairdryer / a heatgun) there are no issues. However, without applying heat to the hands or alternate heads, we were not satisfied with the amount of potential breakage that might occur.
>We debated between the 3 of us what to do; frustrated that this was an issue that we had not come across before. We discussed warning everyone about this issue and asking them to use heat when changing parts but ultimately decided that that is a compromise that we did not want to make. We made this line with the intention that people would be mixing and matching parts and pieces right out of the packaging. So the 3 of us decided that we would rather deal with the frustration and disappointment from yet another delay then to risk the frustration and disappointment of our backers receiving product that was not what we promised. The factory is currently making the necessary changes to address the heads and re-injecting all of the hands in a slightly more flexible PVC in order to correct the issue.
