SOTA: Darkstalkers Fans, Your Support is NEEDED!

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SOTA: Darkstalkers Fans, Your Support Is Needed
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Message from Jed Haigh
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"SOTA Toys has always tried to please the hardcore fans. It is these fans that give us the support and input that helped make our toys some of the best out there. We are now taking this to the next level. We are going to take a more "grass-roots" approach to some of our figures. As you may or may not have noticed there are now temperature gauges on some of the products on our site. What these gauges reflect is how close the figure is to being produced. In the past we needed to solicit a certain amount of orders to justify manufacturing a product. No matter what some people may claim one does not manufacture product unless you have a guaranteed amount sold before the product even arrives. So what we've decided to do is let you, the fans, play an integral part in getting something made. These gauges will show you how close we are to producing a figure. We won't do this for all of our figures, but we will do it for the ones that we know you want, but the buyers don't seem to get.

The first line for this will be Dark Stalkers. We know you want it. We know you like it. But the problem is, we just don't have the orders to warrant manufacturing the figures. That's why Dark Stalkers has been "coming soon" for about three years. That's why this line has been delayed, pushed back, and stalled out for so long. But now, using this "grass-roots" approach we really believe that you as fans can show that this is a line that you want produced. It's really simple. Order the figures. Get your friends to order the figures. Spread the word. Let people know. All youpeople that believe in Dark Stalker it's time to show your support! As soon as we hit our mark we'll begin the manufacturing process.
As it stands right now there are a few retailers and distributors out there that have orders for Dark Stalkers. No doubt some of you have pre-orders with these companies. All these order will be honored. These will also count towards the total amount of pre-ordered figures."

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God damnit SOTA, stop being so damn ghetto!
 
They shouldn't be wasting thier time on these...this is effort that could be spent on a line that actually does sell......Street Fighter.
 
They shot themselves in the foot making too many variants that ended up having to be basically given away. And the last lineup was dumb. I liked all the figs, they were great. But Only having Fei Long from SF2 was dumb. They should've done Fei Long, Zangief, Remy & Ibuki OR Fei Long, Birdie, Dhalsim and Ibuki. They should have 2 prominent characters and then 2 obscure. Having SF2 heavy waves to begin with and them wavering off was not smart IMO. I'm not saying make full SF2 waves. No, that'd be dumb too. THey admitted that. But 2 SF2 characters and 2 from SF3 or whatever would've been better. Plus with re-made characters it would've lasted another couple waves. They had votes for the jumpsuit Chun Li and the slimmer M. Bison.
 
They wanted to save the SF2 characters to help the line run longer....it was an error because now they need to finish out the SF2 lineup in the next wave or else be forced to hide out in a bunker to save themselves from the gathering hordes of angry fans.

But they really should hav made the switch gradually and just started putting the Darkstalkers into the SF line.
 
Exactly. But they went from SF2 heavy waves to just one SF2 guy in the last wave. How hard would it have been to put 2 main SF guys and 2/3 obscure characters. It should've started sooner, in wave 2. The final wave was just so bizarre with only one SF2 character. I believe thats why it tanked.
 
Akuma/Gouki was its saving grace, not Fei Long.
 
Everybody knows that Captain Obvious. Thats why I didn't bother to mention him. ;)
 
Didn't they plan to release Demitri in one of the Street Fighter waves? Should've planned more accordingly.
 
Initially from what I remember then they decided to do the 4 and now its back down to two.
 

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