Hi everyone,
First off I wanted to thank everyones patience in between major updates. As you can imagine, there has been a lot to take in and the backwards-and-forwards is not always so timely when everyone tends to operate in different time zones.
Before I begin, I wanted to firstly show thanks in particular to the following people:
- Andy from GMK: Thanks so much for working through this with us. The late night video chats and Discord messages. I'm glad we could work forward and get this happpening
- OneCreativeMind: This set would not have been possible without your endless patience. Going to and fro with amendments to novelties and coming up with that absolute banger of a second deskmat. Love you man
- Nathan: Bro I can't begin to even know where to start. From the initial concept, the infinite kitting revisions and adjustments you've been by my side since the beginning so thanks brother.
Now, I'll move straight into the elephant in the room. You'll notice we've made some changes to the novelties in the kit. We had to adjust some for tooling tolerances, but obviously the big omission is the absence of the sun. After extensive talks with all parties (GMK, MiTo, Drop, ProtoTypist, OneCreativeMind) sadly we could not come to a mutual agreement regarding using the sun as is. We tried revisions, rotations etc but it detracted from what we set it out to be. For this reason, we have omitted it from the base kit
on our own accord. It will however remain as is in the form of the Rama.
I won't speak on behalf of Andy, nor of GMK for any specifics regarding this as it is not my place. I'd also request we keep the IC on topic and focus on Retrowave as we are excited to be submitting these for quotation immediately. Discussion is fine, but inflammatory comments do not achieve anything.
Why the name change? It's back baby. I had a bit of a misunderstanding on my end re the naming of this set, and ended up making it temporarily worse.
*EDIT* Some of the thumbnail previews are a little jank. I will correct but enlarge them for proper res.