Reflections on Grandpa Clone Customs...

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[maydayfigs]

CORRECTION:

DOOM IS $34, not $36

Every single person that had loose legs on Lambant Seeker was issued a replacement via GCCs customer service. They were parts on BL that were not satisfactory. GCC customer service is worth talking to, and I have had great customer service interactions as mentioned.

Thank you all for watching!

[TheChaizeRiley]

There’s a rule in sales, that the cheaper your product the more you sell. I think it would be beneficial for both GCC, other pad printers, and the consumer if prices were lower. If I could spend $100 and get 10 figs I would do that way more often. But idk what their production costs are currently, but mass producing always lowers your price point

[gonk]

Great points, Id love if they start offering more options like troopers without arm printing to keep prices down

[valorbuilds]

This video was highly appreciated. Thank you MayDay.

While it's expected that products from custom pad printing companies come with higher prices, it's pretty ridiculous how small alterations such as arm printing or official helmets can significantly increase the price of figures, particularly named characters.

Also, many products from recent releases seem to lack perfection on their initial launch, leading to the need for V2’s and V3’s. This can be seen in figures like Wolffe, Doom, Bly, Comet, Boost, and Sinker, which were released in a rush without fixing printing details or figure quality, leading to fan frustration. For example, Comet, Boost and Sinker were all missing a grey elbow pad and stripe printing on their arm prints.

I wonder if GCC perfected their replica helmet for p2 clones and used them for all future figures would help fix the pricing issue.

I love GCC and I’m optimistic that they’ll address these issues in the future as they’re always innovating with their products.

[gateworm]

I always thought the high prices were kind of them being 'kickstarter' prices and as it's grown popularity and much more customers, the price could calm down a bit more.

[noahmolchain]

I agree with most of your points, I believe they need to do fewer releases making time for feedback and making time for there customers wallet to recover, I love Gcc but they are quite expensive and as someone who is starting a pad printing customs business here soon I see the main reason it is so expensive is mark up and more profit which is a shame. This is why I am excited to start my own business as I want to expand past just P2 clones and make P1's, a lot more sw characters and way more characters outside of sw, I think this would be a smart move for GCC to do as well. This is one reason I love Bo-katan bricks so much yes they have done a clone, rex but he was unique and they continually release banger figures like tonights release that I am choosing to buy over the past few Gcc releases.

[FriendlyEwok]

Ph1 and pilot helmets is a must move from GCC 👌

[Absols]

I think GCC quality is phenomenal, lots of unique characters we would never see LEGO make. It’s just unfortunately not reasonable to pay $22-36 per figure.

I recently started decaling, for approx $100 I’ve been able to make 35 clones I wouldn’t be able to get normally, make those GCC and it would be 3-4 figures for that same price. Obviously pad printing and UV printing is so much higher quality but it’s just not as easy to justify price.

For example in Canada a $35 figure becomes a $47 figure when converted, then another $15 cdn for shipping making it $60. Even through re sellers you are still looking about $40 CDN.

I love GCC’s quality and I own a few figures, but you need to have a decent disposable income to be able to consistently get all these drops.

[legoman]

My goodness would I love a 2020 style episode 2 phase 1 clone trooper pilot helmet. I think we’ve all been patiently waiting for one since 02’

[EscrimaNight]

I gotta agree with all that. GCC is getting pretty expensive now. I pretty much have to get the bare minimum, only focusing on some named fugures. I'd love to get more grunts but they just aren't priced at a good army building price. As for the V2s and V3s, yeah, they definitely should be releasing renders of the figures before production. Community feedback is a good way to catch any errors before a product is produced, and would allow them to make any changes deemed necessary. I bought the V1 Wolffe knowing a V2 was coming knowing I wasn't bothered by the visor issue. Well, now they announce a V3 WITH helmet holed and I now need to buy a whole nother figure because that's what I'd wanted in the first place. I love GCC products but also would love to see them improve.

[tom.the.builder]

On GCC’s quality control: some figures arrive with damaged prints, but GCC will ALWAYS replaced damaged parts. Just reach out to GCC or the reseller you purchased from.

Thank you for this video, Brian! Feedback is essential for GCC and their partners, yours comes from the best of places 🫶

[Dragsio]

FYI markings on the wolfpack trio arms are wrong, grey should also be present on bicep and elbow.

[paulus_bricks]

This Video is so good

So many good points

Best lsw you can get 🎉!

[shaggy]

GCC has always been expensive to me. Now its prices are just ludicrous.

Also, I feel like people only care about 1 or 2 clone legions, maybe 4 if they're big clone wars fans. What I'm getting at is clone legions/characters that have a collective .5 seconds of screentime might not have as many fans as say, the 501st.

Not that I think having these in Lego form isn't neat. Just that we may be overestimating the amount of people that actually want to have them.

[izerz]

I love seeing your nuanced discussion about these custom figures! Keep it up man! You're definitely _the_ content creator for Custom LSW figures.

[rodrign]

I still don’t understand why they can make arc trooper helmets but not phase 2 helmets with a single hole in the right place for Rex and wolffe

[pitboy]

not only does it feel like we’re being priced out but for the last 2 drops at least for me their website was too broken to buy anything. i’ve been a GCC diehard collector for over a year now but i think i might need to say goodbye. last time i missed a drop and spent a bunch with a reseller and that was over a month and a half ago and the package is still stuck at customs. can’t keep justifying it to myself with all these issues :(

[TheBrickPublic]

I've been watching GCC's work for months, maybe even a year now, but I've never bought a figure from them. The price is just too expensive, especially if I can A. decal 5 figures for the same price, or B. Buy UV-printed bodies from sellers like Jonak and pair them with CAC helmets. I really hope GCC reduces their prices or at the very least, sells some misprinted parts for cheap.

[FabuBrik]

Batching orders, streamlining the offering, and consistent stock would all go a long way to make these more accessible and bring down costs.

[Menevolence]

GCC makes the best custom clones that are identical to real lego and they're not even the most expensive but imagine if lego would hire them as a branch of lego and gave them a small factory, they could mass produce more for way cheaper and make bank