[RETRO] Ring Masters by Rush Collectibles

Giant Panther is coming in wave 2. 

Give the guy a chance to improve. From what I see he is trying. 

I'm looking at my French Angel figure that I received (After he shipped it out to people who paid for it). It's much better than the first 3 figures (I have every variant). The figure is put together a lot better than the first three, it is molded in skin tone rather than being molded in white and painted, and he released a version with soft goods which was a first for the line. That is 3 improvements just off the top of my head. 

Then I look at the samples of Trump and CVV and they have obviously improved from series 1. My distain for one of them personally aside, the figures look good. As far as it taking 18 months. . . . . and? Power and Glory from Zombie took just as long if not longer, Bulldog 92 and Diana from Hasttel took what 2 years? It took a long time because Mitch decided to switch factories. 

He's also been a little better about keeping the reels/videos on instagram rather than deleting them. 

I don't expect your opinion to change in the slightest, but these are improvements. I choose to be optimistic about the future, time will tell. 

I only have the original figure that was up for pre order, black pants no cloak. I missed out on the cloak, so I ended up passing on the variants. I'd like to hunt them down possibly, but I wont pay more than $40 for them. I havent seen a review of the variants either. Are the pants painted over the black? If they are molded I'd like them, but if they are just paint overs I don't need them. To me that's more of a custom. 

there's almost 150 mugs out there, still prepared to give him money??

wow!

Meh. Not to go all Kanik on this place but I’m 99.99% sure he is making these illegally so while it is a fun idea, other people would have done it first if it were that easy.

The second point is that the molds are all the same minus the heads. Not the worst idea by any means as it keeps costs and errors to a minimum. It shouldn’t take long to produces these in a half decent factory. There are also no royalties for him to pay nor does he have to pay to have someone assemble them. Not hating on that as a whole but there are reasons why this is half the cost of your standard Retro release.

Last but certainly not least: it speaks volumes that his reputation and credibility is so damaged that he can’t even get 300 people to unlock this bonus (as of a few hours ago they were less than half way there). So that is under 150 sales in a week. I’m not hating on him just to hate on him. It’s just a lot of red flags. This model of getting people to pre order four projects in order to fund one is basically a house of cards.

While you’re not necessarily wrong, you’re also maybe not looking at this from a fairly standard business perspective….that being that it is not always common for people to front up all business costs themselves - that’s why there are investment firms and how Dragons Den even became a thing. Using other people’s money to grow a business.
And I suppose that’s where the pre-order model becomes a viable option, as it takes away accountability to a specific investor, but rather to a faceless group.

But the main problem here is that Rush have blown buyer confidence….and I don’t think many people have confidence that he can deliver based on those past experiences.

Have not ordered any of these and glad I didn't. This was the concern I had with powertown. If this company has nothing to show for itself since December of 2022 than this thread should have been locked already

I really don’t know if that person is telling the truth about their French Angel figure but I don’t have any reason to doubt them either. Sal has not yet earned the benefit of the doubt in my book. But given the mini figures not being delivered nor updates given (according to one of the performers themselves) - that should constitute a scam. But I’ll leave it up to you; I’m not a mod.