Official Ultimate Edition New Gen Arena Megathread

i cannot believe people sit around all day and just complain about every single little thing about this. they made it clear: if this doesn't get funded, we don't get anything else. even if you don't want the damn thing, that seems like incentive to back it even if yr just gonna resell it?

buy it and be a cool fella 

People are acting like $250 isn't a significant buy-in if it's something you don't want. Even if you're looking at it as an investment, you're still spending money right now for a potential gain months down the line. That's a significant risk for a lot of people.

I mean, don't blame people's disinterest. Blame the company that, against all precedent and common sense, decided that requiring immediate payment on an expensive crowdfunded item was a good idea. Because I guarantee you that's the biggest barrier for most people.

I've backed a lot of Kickstarters (and Hasbro's HeroQuest project). Anyone who's backed stuff can tell you the problems here, beyond the obvious issues with immediate payment and its incompatibility with a crowdfunding model:
1. It's not a very impressive set for the cost. Everything's nice, but a ring, entrance, and Ultimate figure doesn't feel equal to a $250 price point. Look at that beast of a Galactus HasLabs is releasing. Obviously it's much more expensive than even this, but it's impressive even to see pictures of. It has presence. This just feels like a collection of pieces.
2. Almost everything in the project is a more expensive version of stuff people already own.
3. The project is locked to a very specific era of wrestling with a niche level of popularity. Maybe including ring skirts from other eras would've helped broaden the appeal.
4. There are very few tiers here, when we can all think of a lot of potential value-adds and incentives that might cost out pretty reasonably (outside mats, show-specific signage, maybe even a generic ref figure). It doesn't feel very full as is, if that makes any sense. Even barricades or an entrance ramp would've made it feel more like an arena set. I think a lot of people would've jumped for the old blue cage.

My main want from this is the entrance, to display with my New Generation Elites. Which isn’t worth tying up $280 for a month. Let alone the “hassle” of selling the ring and Diesel. Haha

After that, I’d be down to own that Doink… but I definitely don’t see this reaching 7,000 backers. It might cross that 5,000, but I don’t see that 2nd Tier getting unlocked.

817 backers so far. Definitely don’t see it making it to the doink lol. Honestly don’t see it making it the 5000

I think it’s pretty obvious at this point that people ARE voting with their dollar. The thing isn’t gonna make it to 30% funded in the given time frame.

Now next we’ll have Mattel “extend the time frame to give collectors an opportunity to get in on the fun!”

I have my doubts and worries about it being funded but it's really odd to see people just straight up give up on this after 2 days. if anything, i'd expect a decent surge of buys next month when it's about to end. why would you pledge $250 and have it sit in limbo for a month rather than just buy on the last few days

i feel like a good amount of people who are willing to fund it are on the fence rn because they are worried to pay $250 now for no reason when they can do that on like august 20th. i'm 100% going to back this (maybe even twice), but i'm honestly waiting cause doink is a big part of why i want it

I do hear what your saying and I expect that to be the best case scenario here for sure, it’s a valid conclusion to be made.

It will be interesting to see what happens though if it’s the 12th hour and it’s a distance away from being funded, who bites? Does everybody just fund it at once, or do people get turned away because it’s so far from being funded

And the Doink goal just seems like an impossibility honestly haha. I wish they’d just include Doink in the regular goal and call it a day.