Tiamat26Never thought this would happen
After collecting for over 7 years now I never thought I would see the day when a figurine is actually cancelled. I am un accustom to this as when most figurines are in the pre-order stage I always believed that they were actually in production.
Maybe it is naïve of me to think that but I have never had proof of the contrary. To me when a company announces a product and it is the pre-order stage then I think that it is good to go.
Now I understand that there are prototypes and those are subject to not being even released to a pre-order faze. Are companies now testing the waters to make sure that the product that they want to bring out is going to fly? I understand this but could you imagine just how many prototypes could be created only to have them cancelled.
I wrote a blog a while back about a company that went bankrupt thus all of the prototypes obviously were cancelled.
There would be many fans of certain figurines that would be upset at seeing a figurine announced only to have it cancelled. What brought this blog on was a cancellation of a pre-order.
Imagine my surprise when I received an e-mail this morning from Nippon-Yasan stating that Neko no Wakusei – Seisui Neko was announced as cancelled.
Well I was like “What the hell” it’s not like I see a lot from this series but I have collected most of the figurines from it because I love Cat girls. It is a disappointment to see this little lovely go into the cancellation bin. I have never had this happen in 7 years. It was a surprise to me that this could even happen at this stage of the game with this figurine considering that she was pre-ordered.
Has anyone else ever had this happen where a pre-ordered item was cancelled just before release?
After collecting for over 7 years now I never thought I would see the day when a figurine is actually cancelled. I am un accustom to this as when most figurines are in the pre-order stage I always believed that they were actually in production.
Maybe it is naïve of me to think that but I have never had proof of the contrary. To me when a company announces a product and it is the pre-order stage then I think that it is good to go.
Now I understand that there are prototypes and those are subject to not being even released to a pre-order faze. Are companies now testing the waters to make sure that the product that they want to bring out is going to fly? I understand this but could you imagine just how many prototypes could be created only to have them cancelled.
I wrote a blog a while back about a company that went bankrupt thus all of the prototypes obviously were cancelled.
There would be many fans of certain figurines that would be upset at seeing a figurine announced only to have it cancelled. What brought this blog on was a cancellation of a pre-order.
Imagine my surprise when I received an e-mail this morning from Nippon-Yasan stating that Neko no Wakusei – Seisui Neko was announced as cancelled.
Well I was like “What the hell” it’s not like I see a lot from this series but I have collected most of the figurines from it because I love Cat girls. It is a disappointment to see this little lovely go into the cancellation bin. I have never had this happen in 7 years. It was a surprise to me that this could even happen at this stage of the game with this figurine considering that she was pre-ordered.
Has anyone else ever had this happen where a pre-ordered item was cancelled just before release?
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It sucks, and I've never had it happen to a figure I pre-ordered [yet], but economically it makes no sense for the company to produce a figure they can't break even off it, let alone make a profit.
Tho some items i got i wish they were cancelled ^^; po regrets
This Sakura figure ITEM #721701 got cancelled 2 times even, lol.
First time when she was only an unpainted prototype. Then they showed her painted and revived her, just to cancel her again! x'D Sad times, because she looks amazing.
Aw man! I was planning on nabbing her too >.> Ah well it happens!
Its cheap to cancell and pay a small fee to the artist, and posibly distribuitors the troubles, than expect the aftersales were better than the preorders sales and eat all the cost pf manufacturing, distribuition and the warehouse to maintain the stock that dindt sale... even so, if the distribuitor preoder stimate wasnt fullfilled they could cancel the order (i dont think they want merchandise without sale) and ultimately trigger the cancelation of the figure
All in all, this move can make the small figure producers, keep enough funds to continue.
That is what I thought.. with a finished prototype and actually going to the pre-order market I thought this was a done deal.
= (
Tia
Wow 3 times that is really unlucky...
= (
Tia
It sucks, and I've never had it happen to a figure I pre-ordered [yet], but economically it makes no sense for the company to produce a figure they can't break even off it, let alone make a profit.
Yeah I have a good grasp of the economics behind producing an item. So I understand what you are saying. A small producer like this cannot afford to make to many mistakes and survive. There are way to many small businesses that fall in the world because they do not follow market demand.
Regrettable though as Embrace Japan was often the company that brought us unique figurines. Not the mainstream Miku or Sabers.
Hope they are not about to close their doors.
Tia
This Sakura figure ITEM #721701 got cancelled 2 times even, lol.
First time when she was only an unpainted prototype. Then they showed her painted and revived her, just to cancel her again! x'D Sad times, because she looks amazing.
Wow cancelled 2 times that is even worse then this case. Sorry to hear that she was not produced for you.
Tia
This Sakura figure ITEM #721701 got cancelled 2 times even, lol.
First time when she was only an unpainted prototype. Then they showed her painted and revived her, just to cancel her again! x'D Sad times, because she looks amazing.