Just wanted to give a huge shoutout to all the vendors. Without them this set wouldn’t become a reality. They all deserve your business.
I am happy for you that your set will be made.
Personally it's not for me.
But I feel with the current GMK queues, and the huge growth this hobby had that if a set needs heavy vendor support to meet its MOQ that maybe it should have not been made.
The current lead time for sets running now is Q1 2023, and clogging the queue with sets that have very low demand isn't really helping.
Your set isn't the only one, there have been quite a few other sets in this same situation recently that got saved by vendors, but personally (and I don't think I am the only one) it just turns me off from buying any GMK sets atm due to the ridiculous lead times.
edit:
I am not "blaming designers" for the GMK queue.
I also did not say this set doesn't deserve to be made based on how it looks, this is purely subjective and I never said that.
All I said was that recently a few sets (including did one from what mvkb said) were pretty far off their MOQ, and only happened due to vendors saving them.
And imo (and I heard some other designer agree with that) a set should be able to reach or at least get close to its MOQ without needing to be "saved", else it just indicates that the demand for it is too low.
What's the point of a MOQ, if vendors will just buy it out anyways?