The Risks of Backing Kickstarters

Today on Toy Domination, your hosts Dom and Joe examine the pros and cons of kickstarters for action figure lines!
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[@TheLeadWillWalkTheEarth-4d4m]

Never dived into an Action Figure Kickstarter but I have backed 16 other KS projects (mostly board games and tabletop gaming STL's) and thankfully all have delivered.

[@toydomination]

Nice! I've only done 4 KS games. Did you get the massive board games? The ones with 1.5k minis and a billion dice? Thanks for watching, Adam!

[@TheLeadWillWalkTheEarth-4d4m]

@@toydomination Yup, those ones! Reichbusters, Gotham City Chronicles, TMNT Adventures, Conan... to name but a few!!

[@toydomination]

@TheLeadWillWalkTheEarth-4d4m oh Conan! I wanted in on that one, but my toy funds overruled my game funds

[@joeylandry4933]

Hello 👋 I am a big kickstarter fan. I’m currently waiting for the Vietnam Kickstarter from Marauders. I originally backed their Valkyrie’s kickstarter which was cool waiting for it to arrive. Most people don’t like waiting but for an old curmudgeon like me it’s like waiting for Christmas 🎄 I’ve backed some DNL and Eagle Force as well.

[@SameTimeToys]

Man I really wanted in on that eagle force.

[@toydomination]

Hey, Joey!. Yeah, I did the first two Marauders, but passed on the Vietnam (purely out of not wanting that era). And I forgot that Eagle Force was a KS! Another good one. Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@toydomination]

I forgot Eagle Force was a KS! Those are great. Another good case point. Thanks for watching!

[@joeylandry4933]

The Vietnam era was my dad’s era, but in the early 80’s when I served all of my platoon sergeants seemed to be veterans of Vietnam waiting to retire. I loved the stories they shared and read tons of books about the conflict. I have the 21st century toys M113 APC and the M48 Patton to go with these marauders if they are able to cross the pacific 😉 I also have several M151A2 1/4 ton utility trucks for the MP’s 🫡 I do wonder if my other 1/18 scale troops might have to go on a search and rescue mission to Asia to bring our troops back home 🫡

[@NebulasNexus]

Great episode guys! This is one I will rewatch multiple times and take copious amounts of notes from. I’d love to partner with some station people, & develop a 1/18th scale toy line of different alien species. Something similar to Cosmic but in the god scale for us 1/18th people. Develop the characters, the art, have some prototypes in hand, have all the ducks in a row before launching a kickstarter. I’d love to be a toy maker, and to have some unique alien figures running around the various stations & worlds out there.

[@toydomination]

Oh wow! Jump I with World Maker's Consortium! Those dudes are talented creators and I'm sure have the same drive you do. I'd gladly back it! Thanks for all your support, man!

[@joeylandry4933]

Ok, so I just went and logged into my kickstarter account and looked at the projects I’ve supported. Besides the coming Vietnam and the earlier Valkyries Kickstarters, Marauder Task Force had the WW2 and the K9, Exo suit, contract and agency ops projects which came through okay (after a while). I’ve backed a couple that failed which were Legion XIV 1/18 scale female military figure and Welcome to the world of the unslain 1/18 figures that were like barbarians if I recall correctly.

[@toydomination]

Oh, that's right. The K9 and exo were KS, too. I forgot just how many KS the Marauder team has done. I'm going to go look for these other too. Just for posterity sake.