{"id":14908,"date":"2014-02-26T22:12:24","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T03:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=14908"},"modified":"2024-08-18T18:49:40","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T22:49:40","slug":"mech-ideas-toon-titans-mario-dying-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2014\/02\/mech-ideas-toon-titans-mario-dying-sound\/","title":{"rendered":"Mech Ideas' Toon Titans! (*Mario dying sound*)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, Transformers \"Third Party\" manufacturer Mech Ideas announced the Techno Toon Titans<\/a> Bluster and Trench, a pair of figures based on TF Animated<\/i> Huffer<\/a> and Pipes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"Bluster<\/p>\n

Today, they announced they were cancelled<\/a>, because there weren't enough preorders.<\/p>\n

Allow us to say: WTF<\/a>?!<\/p>\n

Pulling a product like that is asinine. The excuse is that \"day one\" preorders are a significant part of all the orders there will ever be, which may be fair, but you also can't expect people to immediately throw money at a project they'd never heard of before. Even with some prior teasers on Transfan fansites (Transfansites?), this was a new<\/b> item. Give it a week, or a month, see how much demand is really there. And before you pull the listing, maybe tell<\/b> people that preorders are low? Mattel does that all the time, and the MotU<\/i> fans seem to love it. Spread the word that preorders are essential, rather than making it a total surprise.<\/p>\n

That's poor business, and poor customer relations.<\/p>\n

<i>And now, some more OAFEry:<\/i><\/H5>