Statues & Figures Thread - Any & All Game Related

[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!

[g6t9ed]

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

Hello Gary,

I didn't want to spam your inbox but I had a question for you that I posed to the Customer Support team but wouldn't receive a response for a couple of days. I was curious to know regarding the statue if there is supposed to be more than one connection point for the Shoreline soldier to the base at his right boot? The reason I ask is the left boot heel shows a hole that was filled in as well as the designated spot on the base showing the same. With this one connection, my statue tends to "wobble" and has me concerned of its longevity of being able to handle all that weight at a single point.

I hope I'm just being overly paranoid and wanted to see if you could calm my nerves to make sure there isn't something wrong with my statue in particular.

Thank you for your time and attention to this, sir!

[0329liuken]

Originally Posted by g6t9ed

Hello Gary,



I didn't want to spam your inbox but I had a question for you that I posed to the Customer Support team but wouldn't receive a response for a couple of days. I was curious to know regarding the statue if there is supposed to be more than one connection point for the Shoreline soldier to the base at his right boot? The reason I ask is the left boot heel shows a hole that was filled in as well as the designated spot on the base showing the same. With this one connection, my statue tends to "wobble" and has me concerned of its longevity of being able to handle all that weight at a single point.



I hope I'm just being overly paranoid and wanted to see if you could calm my nerves to make sure there isn't something wrong with my statue in particular.



Thank you for your time and attention to this, sir!

Mine doesn’t have any connector on left foot either. I think the instruction says “put left foot on the step” so I guess there isn’t supposed to be a connector.

Overall I’m happy with what I got for the money. The statue has very good quality but the plastic feel makes me feel weird...

[garybarth]

Hi Guys,

There is only one block connection point under the Shorline soldier's right boot. Drake's weight should keep the characters locked in pretty well. There might be a little play because of the casting shrinkage but once it's displayed in a shelf or desk, it should be fine. This was a really complex piece to engineer because of the two characters and the pose, but we have about 12 of them around the office and no one's has fallen out of the peg hole.

I chose to go with plastic for the bandolier and holster as they were too thin to
Mass produce in polystone, and I wanted them to be separate pieces so that they wouldn't hug the body like if they were sculpted on. I feel this gives the statue the look of motion and makes it a bit more dynamic.

Thanks!

[g6t9ed]

Originally Posted by 0329liuken

Mine doesn’t have any connector on left foot either. I think the instruction says “put left foot on the step” so I guess there isn’t supposed to be a connector.

Overall I’m happy with what I got for the money. The statue has very good quality but the plastic feel makes me feel weird...

Originally Posted by garybarth

Hi Guys,

There is only one block connection point under the Shorline soldier's right boot. Drake's weight should keep the characters locked in pretty well. There might be a little play because of the casting shrinkage but once it's displayed in a shelf or desk, it should be fine. This was a really complex piece to engineer because of the two characters and the pose, but we have about 12 of them around the office and no one's has fallen out of the peg hole.

I chose to go with plastic for the bandolier and holster as they were too thin to
Mass produce in polystone, and I wanted them to be separate pieces so that they wouldn't hug the body like if they were sculpted on. I feel this gives the statue the look of motion and makes it a bit more dynamic.

Thanks!

Thanks, guys for your input! I'm glad to know that there isn't anything wrong with my statue.

Once I get some things in order, I guess I will post some pictures of mine.