Official Ultimate Edition New Gen Arena Megathread

I'm planning to back as well, but with 30 days of time I'm going to wait a bit. Hope it makes the 7.000 at least. Once it reaches the higher backers and more and more stuff become included the price doesn't seem soo bad any more. $250 for the basic seems a little high to me, but with at least Doink included I feel it's somewhat worth it! Wonder what else could be included if it reached 9 or 10.000.

You just paraphrased exactly what I said. You’re not making the connection between how his personal priorities have anything to do with Mattel. Do you want them to make the toys free so he never is caught in this dilemma again?

Meh.  There's been other projects up and at much better 24 hours in than way less than 1K.  I hope it achieves the goal, but it's not looking great right now.

How many of those other products either don’t charge up front and/or aren’t at a $250 or higher price point?

Guys, it's not good. I've ordered the Barge, the Razor Crest, and most recently Galactus, which sold about 7,000 units in 24 hours at a cost of $430ish shipped. This needs to be at around 40-50% backed by Monday, and that seems virtually impossible. Maybe it'll go a bit differently because Mattel is charging in real time, like a bunch of idiots, and I do expect there to be a bigger push at the end, but this is going to limp across the 5k finish line, assuming it can even get to that point. Which means no Doink, and, most disappointing for me, no skirts.

I'm guessing some of the people who are waiting to order don't want to spend the money at all without Doink and/or the skirts. Those people likely never end up ordering based on how this is going so far. I have quite a bit of commentary on why this entire thing has gone poorly already. Maybe I'll get into that when it's all over.

I ing love Diesel. He's driving my love for this project. But I'm a New Gen kid who has sentimental feelings towards that entranceway, and somewhat towards that ring that I don't need and absolutely won't display without those other ring skirts. I 100% want this to get made. Do I think this would have done better with Razor or Shawn as a tier over Doink? Absof*ckinglutely. Ladders, maybe an announce table, a bucket and chair? Yes. I think Mattel overshot their value, or rather perceived value, and I also think people can math. 2 million made off of two figures, a ring and an entrance piece?

Typically speaking these sorts of things are front loaded. It’s going to be a slow crawl up over the next month after that first kind of 24 hour period. Aside from potentially at the end (if it hits its goal it is close to it). It should be at least 50% by now if we had any hope of seeing Doink.

The thing is that these are all items that don’t need to be crowd funded. These could all be sold individually and do well. If Jazwares can do an AEW ring with a figure for $110, Mattel can do this ring with a figure for $140 or $150. Diesel would sell as a regular Ultimate. I’d buy it. The stage could be packaged with one of the smaller rings for like $40 or $50. There really isn’t much too that stage. This would probably seem like a better value if they changed the tiers to include a cage and/or commentary table. Maybe even increase the backers needed to maintain the same profit margin.

The pieces in the set are really nice, but the price misses the mark even if all tiers are met. I’m not so sure a WWE line really has anything that needs to be crowdfunded. It feels a little like this is crowdfunding for the sake of crowdfunding.

Maybe, there can be a debate to crowdfund larger stages, but even those have been done plenty before without crowdfunding. I just feel like there are other options that are comparable and cheaper.

No, they need to make more of their 30 second sellout exclusives for future releases so that people don’t have to choose between scalper prices or backing the one shot we have at ever producing a crowdfunding campaign.

Crunching the numbers here:

5,000 backers (5,000 ÷ 30) equals approx. 167 orders per day.

7,000 backers (7,000 ÷ 30) equals approx. 233 orders per day.

8,000 backers (8,000 ÷ 30) equals approx. 267 orders per day.

Currently, the project sits at 763 backers.

So, for 5,000 backers, it's currently ahead by 596 orders (approx. 5 days at 167 orders per day)

For 7,000 backers, it's currently ahead by 530 orders (approx. 3 days at 233 orders per day)

And for 8,000 backers, it's currently ahead by 496 orders (approx. 3 days at 267 orders per day)

So I'd say we're off to a pretty good start so far - you can't really compare WWE with Star Wars or Marvel, they're in a league of their own.