Larry Hama gets an action figure of his own, courtesy of Fresh Monkey Fiction, REMCO--and YOU!
We finally got a couple of samples in hand and wanted to share some images and a quick video we posted on social media.
The figures are in production now and we’ll post images as they move forward.
Thanks
FMF
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Hello everyone,
Couple of updates as we move into March.
As per our last update the factory was closed for most of February for Chinese New Year, sadly as most of you know China has been hit with the Coronavirus.
This has had a huge impact in China, including the workforce as factories had had to remain closed post Chinese New Year for many weeks. We just got word that our factory is coming back online over the next couple weeks. I don't currently know how this will effect our schedule, but would imagine it’ll push our the dates on our schedule about 3-4 weeks. As we know more we’ll send updates.
Not much more to say on this front, but many folks have been asking, so I wanted to provide some info.
I also wanted to mention that Zica Toys Comic Action Heroes is now shipping. Although this is not at line from Fresh Monkey Fiction, it does have ties to our lines in some way.
1st: These figures are being produced at our new factory and the quality is amazing. For those of you who have these or the Sectuars figures, this is the type of quality we’ll see with Larry Hama. You can see a review of Comic Action Heroes here.
2nd: Originally we were going to share tooling with the Comic Action Heroes line for Eagle Force, but Zica decided to move to a new factory shortly after we redid and upscaled our molds (which included ALL the Comic Action Heroes parts). The upside to this is we can use a majority of the Comic Action Heroes parts moving forward.
Zica re-produced ALL their tooling molds after they left the original factory. So although we do share the some of the sculpting, we are not longer sharing the tooling molds with Comic Action Heroes. I mention this as many folks have gotten the Comic Action Heroes in hand and noticed they are a tad shorter than some other 1/18th figures on the market. As we are still using our upscaled tooling, Larry will be larger than Comic Action Heroes and fit closer to other 1/18th figures on the market.
Thanks again everyone, more to follow as we get into March.
Fresh Monkey Fiction
Hey Everyone
I hope you all had a great start to the New Year. We are really looking forward to 2020, as we’ll be able to finally get Hama complete and do Larry proud. Below is an update to our delivery timeline and a few images of the latest samples.
We just got our new production schedule from the new factory, it’s outlined below.
This is subject to change, but from talking to folks at The Four Horseman and Zica, who are currently using this factory, they said things can shift a week or 2 but they have always found the factory schedules to be pretty much on target. Our Project Manager Chris is on board to help us get to the finish line and we’ll of course continue to keep everyone updated as well go. If things shift around you’ll be the first to know.
I wish we could speed this up, but the new factory is basically revising most of what Tiandeng Liu did so we’ll have a quality product. They are 100% committed to making it right for our backers.
The factory produced new samples...see images below. They looks great. I gave them some notes on blending the black & grey area of the hair line, so they turned that around after the inital images and they sent me an image of that as well.
I know this has been a long road but thanks for sticking with us on this. We have a clear path to the finish line & I'll continue to post updates as we go.
FMF
Hey everyone
The new factory as completed it’s assessment of the mess that was left by Tiandeng Liu. Here is an image of them trying to make sure we have what we need to move forward.
They are going to have to reproduce many of the pieces that Tiandeng Liu did not do correctly and manufacture things that he did not complete when we moved everything over, such as upper and lower arms, new joints and hands. We also need to manufacture the bubble for the card back.
We don’t have a new date yet, but progress is being made. They’ll start making the corrections in January but Chinese New Year is in February and all manufacturing in China closes down for a month, so don’t expect many updates in February. My best guess is we’re looking at May for delivery, but until they get me a schedule I can’t be sure. I will say that once we have the new schedule the factory will stick to it as I have used them on my Amazing Heroes project and they have met and exceeded every expectation. They’ll send images along the way, and as I have them I’ll be posting them.
Happy Holidays and have a happy New Year. More updates in 2020 as we get closer to the finish line.
Thanks again for sticking with us.
Fresh Monkey Fiction