by Tolio
breegull wrote:
The new characters' cards are not exclusive to the Samurai level. They've been added to all the levels that are eligible for stretch goals.
Personally I very much doubt that any of this stuff will remain truly KS exclusive, as this is FF's first delve into miniatures, and the costs of molds are really high. It would be a huge waste to make the molds and then never use them again. I also don't see them hamstringing the retail collector's edition by not including the 16 extra minis. What's the point of a collector's edition that's missing the most recent stuff?
The KS front page says that the prepainted minis are kickstarter exclusive, which leads me to believe that the other stuff will eventually make it to retail in one form or another, just not painted.
Personally I very much doubt that any of this stuff will remain truly KS exclusive, as this is FF's first delve into miniatures, and the costs of molds are really high. It would be a huge waste to make the molds and then never use them again. I also don't see them hamstringing the retail collector's edition by not including the 16 extra minis. What's the point of a collector's edition that's missing the most recent stuff?
The KS front page says that the prepainted minis are kickstarter exclusive, which leads me to believe that the other stuff will eventually make it to retail in one form or another, just not painted.
However the new miniatures are only available to kickstarter samurais.
They have said that you will not get the minis if you aren't a samurai pledge. Same with Matsuri. You do however get the card with the alternate characters in the base collector's edition.
I imagine this will turn into a zombicide season 1 debacle at the end of the day when they start selling unpainted minis a year down the road when they were supposed to be exclusive.
All in all while i'm getting it and will be happy with it this kickstarter was poorly planned, and poorly executed. They scrapped together and made a good collectors edition in the end that costs 115 dollars to call any other pledge level a collector's edition is just a joke at this point, and sadly that's what 80% of people will get as that's what is going on sale in retail after this finishes.