Hopefully the preorder of the beyond tunic will all go smoothly expected to be delivered this month apparently so fingers crossed.
Did Anovos tell you this themselves? I'm wondering since the Q4 status means any time from now until the end of the year. (I'm waiting on the tunic, a dress and the jacket.)
Crazy. Not sure why people buy from them when there are alot of builders with better things for less money.
It shouldnt take a two years or more to pour some resin in a mold and cast a bunch of copy's and paint them and send them out to the people that buy from avanos.
If you cant keep up with orders you should put a cap on them insted of tatking more peoples money.
It's quite a bit more complicated bringing a
licensed item to market. Two years is actually a pretty short time in bringing a commercial product out, if we're talking from start to finish. (A new car model platform can take
a decade, for example) Most companies don't announce as early as Anovos though, so most likely they need the pre-order money to make sure they can do a project due to being a small operation. (I can't really blame them for it either. If they ended up with a couple hundred Vader suits too many without having coverage for most of them, it could be a huge problem.) You also have to take into account that making commercial,
accurate and high-grade costume replicas is such a small niche area that there are very few "standard practices" in place when it comes to manufacturing. With several rounds of prototyping needed, then approval from license holders, then translation into an assembly-line... it takes time. Even finding a trustworthy place to make them can be hard; a lot of places are not interested in doing runs of goods unless the volume is in the
thousands. If it were as simple as just "pouring some resin", there would be more companies doing it.
As for "better things"... Anovos' soft-goods (uniforms) are generally
very well put together- way beyond amateur hobbyists. (I know enough about sewing to have made business suits for myself in the past, but I doubt I could match their Monster Maroon in manufacture quality for example.) The fabrics they use have been high quality as well. What little I've seen of their hardware (I only have the TFA Stormtrooper and their Trek emblems) has been good too- especially for the price. Also, under $500 for an entire Stormtrooper suit is dirt-cheap, even if some of the details are slightly softer than certain fan builds. I just looked at the Vader ensemble as well; it remains to be seen how the quality holds up but $2750 for a full leather suit and all the other stuff that comes with it, as a
finished ensemble and not a kit, would be hard to beat even from a private maker (and they don't have to pay license fees).
Yep. Two Years and about 5 months from order date.
I feel sorry for the people who cancelled recently. this is one time i'm glad i stuck it out.
But it got done. It didn't end up as vaporware. And it wouldn't surprise me if a motivating factor behind those that canceled came from the negativity that tends to spring up from threads like these.
It also depends on the item too. Once you have all the licensing paperwork in place, the licensing fees paid up and your company is ready to go and you have the molds etc you should be able to cast and make things like an assembly line. If this was'nt the case there would be no toys in the toys are us.
