FANtastic Exclusive 2007 Update

To bring everyone up to speed, the first factory gave everyone the run around trying to avoid being shut down. Eventually, they were closed their doors and neglected to let 4H in on the situation. Fortunately, with a little intervention from some friends over at NECA, the molds were salvaged and a new factory was hired. That is a very short description of what happened over a very long period of time. The figures were produced at the new factory and pre-production samples looked very very promising. The large shipment of figures was scheduled to be shipped March 20th, 2008. They are hopeful that they will be in with enough time to bring them to NYCC to sell at the booth the Four Horsemen will be sharing with Action Figure Express. Eric Treadaway mentioned that due to some order cancellations that there would be a good opportunity for singles and sets of the whole Anitherian Nine lineup available, though, he was not specific on details.

You can read it all here or look after the jump for the original text. The link also has some pictures the factory sent the 4H of Ramathor in production.

We’ve been following this series of figures for a while now:
Ramathor revealed
Variants Revealed 1
Variants Revealed 2
Variants Revealed 3
Variants Revealed 4

It’s been a long road for Ramathorr and the rest of his Anitherian Nine buddies, and if the timing’s right, their road may finally lead them to the 2008 New York Comic Con!

‘since beginning production on their latest wave of action figures, the Four Horsemen have encountered snag after snag with the first factory they were dealing with, ultimately resulting in the need for to hire a new factory altogether. Details on the long journey can be found here: http://www.FANtasticExclusive.com

The remaining portion of the Ramathorr and Anitherian Nine action figures from the Four Horsemen’s popular, fan chosen property – Seventh Kingdom are finally scheduled to be shipped out from the new Hong Kong factory on March 20th, 2008. The Horsemen are hopeful that this new ship date will get the figures into their warehouse just in time to display and sell many of them at the upcoming New York Comic Con (April 18th-20th, 2008).

The Four Horsemen will be attending the 2008 New York Comic Con, and will once again be sharing a booth with the popular online toy and statue retailer Action Figure Xpress (http://www.ShopAFX.com).

The Four Horsemen’s Eric Treadaway spoke up on the subject. We’re going to be cutting it extremely close getting the shipment of pachyderms through U.S. customs and into our warehouse in time. It usually takes about three weeks to get a shipment from Hong Kong to one of the New York ports.

The Horsemen’s Jim Preziosi added, Our shipping company assures us that we should just make it by the skin of our teeth. We’re all definitely keeping our fingers crossed.

Of course we’ll begin taking care of all of our loyal customers and who’ve pre-ordered Ramathorr figures and Anitherian Nine sets, and vendors who’ve ordered exclusive variations of members of the Anitherian Nine first and foremost, said the Horsemen’s Cornboy Mayse, but with some of the order cancellations we’ve had, there should be quite a few more singles and A9 sets up for grabs! We’ll have more details on that and a few other special announcements soon.

The Four Horsemen added that if for some reason the shipment doesn’t make it through customs in time to have them at the New York Comic Con, then the whole shipment would definitely be in their warehouse ready to send out to vendors and customers within a week afterwards.

We got in final production samples of all of the Elephants and exclusive variant figures last week, said the Four Horsemen’s Chris Dahlberg, We’re astonished with the job this new factory’s done for us. The paints are beautiful and the articulation points are all tight and solid! We’re really excited to finally get these figures into the hands of collectors who want them.

So grab your four leaf clovers, polish up your lucky horseshoes, and keep your fingers triple crossed. After everything this shipment’s been through so far, the Four Horsemen will need all the support they can get.