Sweet! Thanks for the heads up.

 

And it took only 6 months for them to finally give us that total.

 

why does the total matter?

 

After market value and a sense of exclusivity, that’s about it.

 

and curiosity for people like me

 

Just a little over a year to go!....wonder if they will provide the haslab backers any periodic updates on production/etc.

 

I do hope so or it's gonna be a loooong wait

 

Bragging rights.
We are more successful than the Star Wars Barge.
Metrics.
It's the new standard for future crowd funded campaigns in this demo and category.
Rarity.
It's fun to have something uncommon.

 

...at twelve-thousand-plus pieces, unicron is not going to be a rare piece, ever...expensive, yes; large, yes; and by association a flagship in many folks' collections, which may limit his initial availability on the secondary market, depending upon how many folks bought spares to resell...

...long-term?..he was sold to a limited audience which isn't significantly growing and whose median age grows older each year; i expect in a decade or two supply will significantly outpace demand and everybody who really wants one will be able to readily find and afford it...

 

Wow

 

No it didn't. The total looked liked that within a ~week of the crowdfund closing.

 

No. After the campaign ended, it said 8000+. And for a few hours it might’ve said 11000ish maybe , but it stayed at 8000+ until recently. I can pull up pics if you want.

 

Maybe it was via the page source code and the percentage counter then, but either way, the information isn't new. I swear the counter itself was updated to say 12,000+ a long time ago, though.

 

This is what the page looks like after the campaign ended. By looking at the stats in the page code, fellow TFW members were able to see that we were possibly in the 11,000 ball park. So we all had the impression that might’ve been the true number. The actual Pulse site remained at 8000+ up until recently. It took about that long just to have Hasbro revise and update the 12000+ number. You can go back and read the events of the campaign and the aftermath on this thread, we’ll see I was here posting every night.

 

fwiw, the counter total was modified several times as to what was displayed after the campaign ended.

The earliest mention of the page displaying 12000+ was in late October.

I think at some point it changed to 8000+ and then changed to 12000+ again in early December...

 

That’s cool. Glad I don’t have to wait 20 years to get mine.

 

Because guessing what will be popular/rare and won’t be has always been accurately guessed.....

 

I kind of want to sell mine now

 

...you and me both, along with another eleven thousand or so collectors...

 

That’s assuming you accurately predict the market in over a year and that’s also assuming that not enough people will exist that like unicron to buy this. I would have said the same for the sail barge but look where that ended up. It’s surprising how many people can want something that’s niche. Also, as all limited production runs, it’s still going to be considered rare, because only a certain amount is produced, unlike all other TF’s that have tens of thousands made weekly.