Agreed! It's a real pleasure to have you here to communicate with us directly.thegreatgalling said:
Agreed! It's a real pleasure to have you here to communicate with us directly.thegreatgalling said:
Be great only that i reside on the east coastStudio Art and Technology said:
If you can talk anyone into a tour of the massachusetts branch be very HAPPY !
i will not bring a camera .
Studio Art and Technology said:
Do a payment plan and you've just sold an Agent J "set"
I agree. You're offering a lot of great props here, and that adds up to a lot of dough. It's definitely less of a hit to our wallets if we pay a hundred or two every month rather than $500 at one time. I know for me, it always "feels" like I'm paying less for something if I can pay it off over time.
I agree. A payment plan is great idea also taking PayPal would make it easier.
Well, I'm glad to see these offered and I just ordered the Standard Issue. Hopefully they'll be spread our a little (and ship on schedule) so that we can pace out payments. It's gonna be a LONG wait until November though!
I saw the movie on Saturday and absolutely LOVED it. I had a big smile on my face through the whole thing. We haven't had that many decent (and affordable) non-Star Wars props for a long time (barring a few exceptions). The design of these is props is great and the differences to those in the first film are logical, seein' as it's been 14 years since J joined and things have advanced a little since then.
Looking forward to seeing more!
I have been following this since seeing the interview at ComiCon. I am about ready to pull the trigger on the K Standard (pun intended), but is there ANY chance these (or some) could go out before Halloween? My jaw dropped when I found out the ETA was November. Won't stop me from getting it, but if I could grease the right palm....
Damn... November! I was so gonna go as a Man in Black this Halloween, well there's always next year. Ever since you guys showed these props at comic con I have been dying to get one (or all) specially the Standard Issue. Been a looooooong time since I've seen props from a movie that are this beautiful, grate work you guys. I work at the only comic book store here in Iceland and the only prop replica we have been able to sell is the Force FX Lightsabers, there are not that many movie replica collectors here but I'm definitely gonna buy and sell this for the store and one or two for me!!
Welcome to the RPF, SAT
I'm loving the Standard Issue
Looking at your line-up of forthcoming items, it looks like I have to go sweet talk my wife AGAIN!
Good morning.
Layaway Plans:
We are currently working on a layaway plan for the site. I'm not sure that we will offer Paypal as an option as Paypal isn't really seller friendly.
Shipping Date:
I can't promise anything but we may be able to get these out sooner. The problem is dealing with China and manufacturing schedules. There's almost no way to put pressure on these guys to speed things up without sacrificing something. In the end, we will need to receive these and verify quality prior to shipping to you. I know other companies are behind on shipping but after dealing with overseas manufacturing for the past 9 months, I can see why.
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I understand if you won't provide Paypal as an option, and don't blame you at all for that with their fees and crappy service, but a payment option would clinch it for me and I'd buy one in a heartbeat. Right now I'm having to wait a few more days to see if I'm going to have an additional expense come up or not.
Yep payment plan would make it affordable for me, and i'd be able to hide the payment from the wife!!!
Further information on the Time Jump Device:
I'm sure it will be metal as well. There are a few items that had CGI elements that made them "complete". The Time Jump Device is one of them. The date that looks like metal in the movie is CGI. We will be producing these replicas as they were made for the film to keep true to "replica".
My thoughts on this:
Don't push them out sooner if the quality will suffer. In the past year or two we've had both high- and low-dollar prop replicas offered that have come out with serious defects, causing a whole mess of trouble. (Which could possibly been avoided by more stringent control of the manufacturing plants...) We don't need to go through that again.
This may sound a bit demanding, but at $599 with a non-refundable deposit, these things need to be near flawless and be virtually non-discernible from the current photos ("may change" disclaimer or not). Especially considering that any defects on a clean, chromed replica like this will stand out even more.
Take your time and ship them when they're perfect. If they need to be delayed beyond November, be open and forthcoming with why and keep people in the loop as to what is happening.
I'm sure that all of you have purchased or looked at replicas over the years. As you know, manufacturing is EXTREMELY expensive. The price for this item is as low as we can make it for the manufacturing process required produce these. Unfortunately, the time frame is out of our control.
I'm sure you've heard this from many replica manufacturers if they've had any presence on the boards. It's a balancing act. Truthfully, we'd love to produce these ourselves here in the US but there is no way to make them affordable for everyone. We would have complete control over them being "perfect" though. The truth is that the screen used props were never perfect. Each one has certain "flaws" that make them individually recognizable.
Our goal is to make them as accurate to the screen used props as possible.
I'm always in the camp of gladly waiting longer for a product than to sacrifice quality. I'm going to place my order later tonight, so I'm hoping (and I'm sure) you guys will deliver a pitch-perfect product.Studio Art and Technology said:
Also, if a payment plan is set up in the near future, will we be able to take part in that if we place an order now?
Yes. We will send out emails directly to those who have placed pre-orders through the site with two options for final payment. Layaway and full payment.
Are these machined? Or are they cast in metal?
So the SAT site is still down? Need to put the order through eFx?
It's currently still down.
We hope to have it up before the end of the day.
That pretty much says it all nicely.joatrash said:
As a manufacture of aerospace products, I do know what you mean about it been a balancing act, it is a fine line between quality and the cost to produce a finished product at an affordable price.
Starting off with the design and then to manufacture a prototype then tooling up, machine setup costs at any stage along that path can be issues and big one’s, the customer don’t care about tooling issues manufacturing issues, he or she is more concerned about $$$, I’m not just talking pacifically about props I’m talking in general.
But Joatrash is very much right, and I quote:
Take your time and ship them when they're perfect. If they need to be delayed beyond November, be open and forthcoming with why and keep people in the loop as to what is happening.
Very nice work guys, looking forward in seeing the rest of your work on the forum, excellent to see another prop manufacture on the forum.
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I can't say enough how much I agree with this statement.MooMooEgg said:
Also, please keep us posted on how many reserve spots are open. Id hate for these to sell out before I can put the deposit down.
Could you please let me know what the price would be on this. I'd also be down with a layaway plan alsoStudio Art and Technology said:
We don't have pricing on any of the other replicas yet, but as soon as we know- so will you guys.tain669 said:
We are currently working on a layaway option.
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