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MediaShelving + Kickstarter = NES Cases?
UncleBob:
6 years ago, when I planted the seeds that started the NES Cover Project, I contacted MediaShelving to see about having custom cases made, based on their Universal Media design, for NES games.
This was the reply I got...
--- Quote from: UncleBob on October 26, 2006, 06:23:19 PM ---Well...
This is the reply I got from MediaShelving:
"Those are the only cases we have. They could probably do custom made. But it you would have to order in the 1000's."
Hmmm....
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We joked about how we could get that many ordered and such... but nothing has ever came from it and we ended up using the self-modded MediaShelving cases.
I stumbled across this old thread today and got to wondering - would this be something that we could tie in with MediaShelving and Kickstarter to get actual NES cases made? Would they be interested? Would our community be interested?
I know that this is something SeymorOnion was/is looking at, and I don't want to step on his toes either. The advantages of having MediaShelving create the cases would be that they virtually already have the mold (I don't know how hard it would be to "fix" it for NES cases) and it would allow Seymor to focus his attention on the smaller-scale cases that MediaShelving would NEVER touch due to lack of wide-scale demand.
Anywhoo, thought I'd throw this idea out to the general population and see if it sticks.
tbonesteak4dinner:
Could be cool, but I think the Onion cases will turn out better for a couple reasons. The main one being full manual support.
The only reason I don't have any UGC's is that the manuals don't it all that well, and there's no clips. If they used the same mold (and thus same dimensions), it would be the same story: no manual clips and weird dimensions for fitting a manual. I for one don't want to have the manual fall out on the floor every time I open then case... ;)
Azarkhel:
NES manuals would fit just fine?
I think it's a good idea if for no other reason that Mediashelving have proved they can get these done. That said, i'd wait for Seymours big October update to see where he's at with his cases and plan your idea around that.
wiggy:
I would require all new tooling. Modifying the existing tools would make them useless for the existing product.
The tooling for that sort of thing would likely be in the 20K+ range on top of a minimum order requirement. The way to make it at all profitable would be to do what has already been done; make it so it is universal.
As mentioned before, nobody here wants to step on seymore's toes, but I could get a quote for such tooling if it's something that you guys feel really strongly about. Just be prepared for about 30K worth of expenses not even including design/engineering, shipping (which is NOT cheap), and whatnot.
Azarkhel:
This would have to be advertised as well, no way your going to reap 30k from this site's community to fund this, need to tap that new audience of kids that have started collecting as well. So you'd need to get kotaku, joystiq, destructoid etc to do a little article.
Ultimately I think it could work, they're all youth oriented blogs with a large audience and kickstarter is very fashionable right now.