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All the best.

Great Uncle LROG

 

As I stated, it is my opinion, nothing official.

 

I was referring to the store site, not here in the R'osity forum.  Not only are there no ads there yet, there's no site yet. Dawn and the Hivewire site is an enormous undertaking.  It takes an enormous amount of labor to bring a release like this all together.

 

My point is that with distribution to the content creators taking place now, the public release is still logically a ways off.  Yes, the public release could be timed illogically and happen tomorrow, but I wouldn't bet on it, because there is too much experience in this production crew to act that illogically.  The logical thing to do is to time the release of the figure just prior to the release of a wave of supporting items.

 

Let's look at what has to happen.  First, you want to get your store ready to roll for the release.  That means the I's dotted and the T's crossed technically, not 100% perfect, but good enough not to cause customer riots and sour grapes when it opens.  Then you need to get your content creators all on the same page, orientation on what to expect from the store, the submission process, NDA's, etc.  Since not all the content creators are present at any given time, this is staggered and takes some time.  Questions have to be answered for a certain comfort level to be reached and submissions to begin.

 

Then you want a certain level of items at the point of release, created by the core team, followed by a certain level of additional support in short order.  You need that flow to keep up the enthusiasm of the community.  So a certain number of third party (CA) of products need to be ready or close to ready to sell when the public event takes place.

 

And you need to throw in a few days off for the crew so they don't burn out before it all begins.

 

All this takes time, weeks at a minimum.

 

Yes, this is my projection, not the official word.  Personally, I'm not holding my breath until mid-month, at the earliest.  Maybe even later, depending on what I see in the weeks ahead.