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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 9630399" data-attributes="member: 907">I know Reaper has had some variations on that, but their Bones kickstarters tend to be fairly complex affairs with dozens of possible add-ons. For Bones 5, in addition to the core set there were 7 expansion boxes, 16 subsets of the core set you could buy as extras, and 37 additional addons (plus some more added between when the KS itself closed and the pledge manager opened) – that sort of complexity is kind of hard to have a third party handle, and creates lots of opportunities for logistical screw-ups.For Bones 5, they had a separate fulfillment center in the UK that supplied Europe. The problem with this was that a lot of orders got stalled because one or more items from that particular order was missing, so they couldn't start packing that yet – e.g. if they hadn't gotten the container with War Mammoths shipped, every order that had a War Mammoth in it got stalled. This caused a lot of dissatisfaction, particularly because neither Reaper UK nor Reaper Central were all that good at proactive communication, and much of what they did communicate they did through their Reaper Live on Twitch rather than via Kickstarter updates. With Bones 6, they shipped everything to Texas first, where they fulfilled orders both to Europe and the US (and I believe the rest of the world as well), and shipped pallets of pre-packaged orders to the UK fulfillment house for further distribution.I don't know if they have a Bones 7 planned, but if I was running the joint I would be very hesitant to start any projects on that timescale in today's climate. Bones 6 launched in March 2022, and I got my delivery in January 2025 – that's almost three years, and with the current chaos I would not bet on anything with that kind of time horizon.</blockquote>

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