Also remember that the more of us that pre-order the more that will be made in general! All these companies take their pre-orders and add a certain percent to them (say 20%) and thats their final order. So if 1000 pre-orders come in they will tell Hot Toys 1,200, if only 500 pre-order it they might say 600... Once the deadline for pre-orders hits, thats all Hot Toys will make (at least until 2 years later they re-release it)
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Where does this information come from? I work in the manufacturing industry and we use Chinese factories all the time. Lead-time on things such as a simple shirt can be 120-150 days and that is on a simple shirt that has only one main raw materials supplier(the fabric mill). For an item as complicated as a Hot Toys collectible where you are talking about a lot of various raw materials suppliers from fabrics to raw plastics, etc I'd be surprised if the production quantities weren't set on this and the order already placed with the factory.
There is simply no way that Hot Toys waits to the end of a pre-order phase in order to set a production run. I apologize and do not mean to appear as if I am personally attacking you, but the above post's information has absolutely no basis in reality.
Or next to Abagail Whistler who has sculpted female hair, one of them is going to end up looking wrong or like they are wearing a plastic hair helmet.
