Metal Weave Games
CREATOR
5 months ago
Project Update: THank you, we did it!!
Hey everyone!! Thank you so much for joining me on this journey to produce some large foam die!
The results from the poll were pretty close, but it appears that we will be making our the second color for our large foam die purple!!
In addition, we also hit the stretch goal where we will get started on another prototype (I put d8 as a placeholder, cause thats the one im most curious to see, but i will pose it to you which die would you like to us to prototype next?)
Also, I have already put in the order to the manufacturer, (ill be ordering 400 red and 300 purple die), they tell me that they can have the production done before the end of the month which is kinda of crazy (will still have to go through freight, which will probably take all of January), putting us perfectly at a early Feb fulfillment.
Due to the size of these die, i did underestimate how much freight might be. Turns out for the 700 die, it will cost us about $2300 (the cost to produce just the die came out to 6370, so freight came out to 25% of the total cost, which puts the die at around $12.3 each), It's a manageable number, but it won't allow us to sell the die into retail (which is fine, at least with this kind of volume). But this is why I wanted to invest in this test to see how it would go (knowing I would pay a little bit out of pocket, but could recoup with the extra die produced.
Anyways, Thank you so much for me on this journey!
I'll keep you updated as I get updates (and as we move into backerkit).
Andreas
The results from the poll were pretty close, but it appears that we will be making our the second color for our large foam die purple!!
In addition, we also hit the stretch goal where we will get started on another prototype (I put d8 as a placeholder, cause thats the one im most curious to see, but i will pose it to you which die would you like to us to prototype next?)
Also, I have already put in the order to the manufacturer, (ill be ordering 400 red and 300 purple die), they tell me that they can have the production done before the end of the month which is kinda of crazy (will still have to go through freight, which will probably take all of January), putting us perfectly at a early Feb fulfillment.
Due to the size of these die, i did underestimate how much freight might be. Turns out for the 700 die, it will cost us about $2300 (the cost to produce just the die came out to 6370, so freight came out to 25% of the total cost, which puts the die at around $12.3 each), It's a manageable number, but it won't allow us to sell the die into retail (which is fine, at least with this kind of volume). But this is why I wanted to invest in this test to see how it would go (knowing I would pay a little bit out of pocket, but could recoup with the extra die produced.
Anyways, Thank you so much for me on this journey!
I'll keep you updated as I get updates (and as we move into backerkit).
Andreas
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