Since the last update I have been in contact with the factory almost nightly working through Pantone colors, tooling plans, packaging requirements, and pricing, and other questions and concerns they have. There is almost 200 individual molded parts so there are a lot of details to nail down. We’ve also been waiting for a slot in the factory’s production schedule. The factory came back this week and said the order will be finished by the end of July. I also secured the funds and paid for the order. A couple of things to note.

To expedite the order the cloth goods (capes) and packaging are starting now as well. The package will be collector friendly with the figures able to be removed.

I’ve paid extra to include an extra head with each figure. One of the heads is new and wasn’t part of the Kickstarter.

I’ve paid extra to have the paint applications upgraded on some of the figures. This also included making additional paint masks to accommodate the the upgraded paint apps. Matt did an excellent job painting samples and coming up with the paint schemes.

We are going to include stands with every order no matter how big the order is. This is just for Kickstarter backers. This doesn’t mean if you ordered 20 figured you’ll get 20 stands. There will be at least some stands in every order, exact number to be determined. I’m still negotiating a price with China on these.

If there is an opportunity to pay extra to expedite the shipping from China to the USA, I’m willing to pay that to get things in your hands quicker. We will negotiate that in the coming weeks.

The factory has agreed to document as much of this process as possible when they get to a stage where pictures can be taken. These will come more frequently in the last month or so of manufacturing. – Jason