Status Update

Hey everyone, it's been a few weeks since we last talked about status updates and I wanted to send this one off for now. Here's everything that's going on and some more thoughts about the future.  

APRIL, MAY AND THE HELD DECEMBER PACKAGE
The last parts of December, April and May arrive in the next week or two (except the RPGs are still pending - and may ship on their own when they arrive to not hold up the packages - more on this below). Depending on how everything lands here, we may be shipping these each one after another, or maybe 2-3 in one big package. It all depends on what is fastest.   Going back to that previous post, everything should be on a 2 month turnaround, so June and July should not be considered late until after August and September.  

JUNE PACKAGE
This is expected in August as mentioned previously. We're just running on a 2 month turnaround.   

JULY PACKAGE
This is expected in September as mentioned previously. We're just running on a 2 month turnaround.  

ROLE PLAYING GAMES
I mentioned above that they are still pending. There are two (December and April) and we should have 1 here in about 3 weeks and the second in about 4 or 5. We still need to assemble everything after that, but they are just behind everything else. Once again, if needed, we will hold these and ship separately just to keep everything else moving. The role playing games seem to run behind everything else a bit, as it's partially a different team than the main line. I need to look into this.  

THE FUTURE
I revisit this and say the same thing so many times, but typing it out is really helpful. I want to look deeper into the issue of one thing holding up all of the packages. It's the number of individual parts that really amounts to delays, as if any one is delayed it'll freeze things up.

But there are two ways to look at it. 1) Have fewer parts. We've done that with the new reward levels, but those old ones are still lingering. And 2) have more stuff on hand to pull from so that when one is delayed, we pull the other. That just requires us to sign / develop a few more things, and it's harder than it sounds. Mostly because we need to bump it up the priority list, and it's not exactly a priority as it's a backup thing. Definitely a tough one to wrangle.   

Anyway, our big big backlog should be over soon. I think we'll have a lot of the parts here in a week or so and I can post an update showing things if you'd like to see that.  

Thanks everyone!