Statues & Figures Thread - Any & All Game Related

[Veggz]

Originally Posted by comatose_vigil

Did you ask them about the shipping or did they send you that message on their own?
I neither received the shipping notice nor did I receive this info about delay.

They sent it on their own.

Originally Posted by 0329liuken

I got the shipping soon email on Monday and then got the delay email yesterday...

That sucks even more.. Hope we get it soon, really excited for this one!

[Dr_Jengo]

Originally Posted by Veggz

Weird. Sideshow just sent me a message letting me know that there have been a delay and that they did not know when they will receive the statues..

Yeap, they sent another mail after that to say it's been delayed.. Oh well.

[g6t9ed]

I have the last payment for my Nathan Drake statue for the 25th of October and a ship date of October. I didn't receive a shipping soon or delay notice either but if the website is accurate, it should ship at the end of the month.

[garybarth]

Hi All,

I can shed some light on the Drake statue delay. The statues arrived Stateside last week and were shipped to the distributors. However, I noticed a potential problem that I wanted addressed before the statues were shipped. The factory suggested that they add an additional attachment point between Drake's knee and the soldier's arm to ensure that there would never be any structural issues over time because of the amount of weight being held up. This wasn't in the original prototype and was added during production.

Unfortunately, in doing so, they pushed the main attachment point of the post that comes out of Drake's hand and goes into the soldier's shoulder over just enough that if you don't slide it in carefully, you could snap off Drake's pinky. Rather than risk sending these all out and having to send out hundreds of replacement units because of broken pinkies, we're opening each unit, doing a QA check, making sure the figures fit together correctly and adding a foam insert in the post coming out of Drake's hand to aid cosumers in putting the statue together.

We're also having the factory make some extra Drake figures for the distributors to have on standby in case they need to replace one for a customer. We're locating a facility in the L.A. area and it should take us only a few days to go through the shipment. The replacement units should be arriving around the 16th, so we should be able to get the statues out pretty quickly after that. I appreciate everyone's patience, but I'd rather make sure that you're getting a quality product that doesn't break while you're attempting to assemble it.

Thanks,
Gary Barth
Sr. Manager
Fabrication Arts
SIEA

[KnightOfTruth]

Originally Posted by garybarth

Hi All,

I can shed some light on the Drake statue delay. The statues arrived Stateside last week and were shipped to the distributors. However, I noticed a potential problem that I wanted addressed before the statues were shipped. The factory suggested that they add an additional attachment point between Drake's knee and the soldier's arm to ensure that there would never be any structural issues over time because of the amount of weight being held up. This wasn't in the original prototype and was added during production.

Unfortunately, in doing so, they pushed the main attachment point of the post that comes out of Drake's hand and goes into the soldier's shoulder over just enough that if you don't slide it in carefully, you could snap off Drake's pinky. Rather than risk sending these all out and having to send out hundreds of replacement units because of broken pinkies, we're opening each unit, doing a QA check, making sure the figures fit together correctly and adding a foam insert in the post coming out of Drake's hand to aid cosumers in putting the statue together.

We're also having the factory make some extra Drake figures for the distributors to have on standby in case they need to replace one for a customer. We're locating a facility in the L.A. area and it should take us only a few days to go through the shipment. The replacement units should be arriving around the 16th, so we should be able to get the statues out pretty quickly after that. I appreciate everyone's patience, but I'd rather make sure that you're getting a quality product that doesn't break while you're attempting to assemble it.

Thanks,
Gary Barth
Sr. Manager
Fabrication Arts
SIEA

Wow! That's dedication. Appreciate this kind of service to your customers! Way to go guys! Only seen this level of service from F4F before, so its great to hear from others that you're jumping through some hoops to make it top quality! Cheers!

[Mike1888]

From the F4F NYCC booth:

[Mike1888]

New figmas:

Kojima Productions Mascot



Genji


Preorder

[comatose_vigil]

Has anyone else received a "Flexpay Schedule change" notice for the Drake statue? The final payment has been pushed back again, to November.

[garybarth]

Hi Comatose,

Not sure why they pushed it back that far (this is my first collectible I'm workinfg with SS on). We have secured a temporary warehouse location and have moved all the units there. We will start going through each and every unit on Monday and we hope to be done by the end of the week. The location is only a few miles from Sideshow, so they will have their units quickly (units ordered from the PS Gear Store will take a little longer as their warehouse is in Kentucky). The goal is to address the issue and get these in transit before the end of the month. I appreciate everyone's patience.

Thanks,
Gary

[Mike1888]

I noticed this new Kojima Productions figure https://www.nin-nin-game.com/en/japa...335883454.html