But I never took money for something I didn't have one hand to ship (or could make in a few days). It's the primary reason I quit making stuff for the WW2 re-enacting community, because it got annoying to get emails asking when I'd start making something specific again. But in the end, that is not the buyer's problem. It's easy to fall behind when you make stuff yourself or are at the mercy of small company suppliers. Each time, I'm left baffled as to how the seller should think the buyer should care about any of that? It speaks for the burning want for something, that people will trust someone with a lot of coin on the promise of delivering someday.Įven with the best intentions, you hear stories of these sellers having all kinds of personal issues and then getting mad at the "Dude, where's my stuff?" contacts. There's an excellent thread where collectors have been sharing info about Master Replicas Group on the RPF forum.įrankly, I've never understood all this. But even if I get my money back, they still got $1000 from me, which is so upsetting. I'm still expecting them to refuse it after this long, but there's a bit of hope. It's been over a year, but my bank did allow me to file a dispute on the charge, which is a good sign. As far as we can tell, not a single model was ever produced. In the initial bankruptcy filing, they claimed that the company had absolutely no money left, which seems impossible. So that could put it closer to $5,000,000.Īnd they were allowed to declare Chapter 7 bankruptcy, which is even worse, because it totally wipes their slate clean. They also sold an even larger edition of the regular version. And that's just for the Command Console version. So the actual amount they took in was between $2,000,000 and $2,500,000. They sold out their entire run of 2,001 Command Consoles, which were $1250 each (or $1000 on a sale). After that, they continued to sell them on the website. That $650,475 was only from the initial crowdfunding campaign. Thanks so much for your reply! It's very helpful. No, but some friends of mine are, for other things they ordered and never got.
I hope none of you are in the same situation! I've read that Master Replicas had $650,475 in pre-sale money from various items. This has angered a lot of sci-fi fans who also lost out. Once they declared bankruptcy (no clue if chapter 11 or 13), your order vanished from the universe. I hope none of you are in the same situation!Ĭontacting the credit card company is your only recourse. $1000 is a huge amount of money for me, so I'm really crushed by this. Does anyone know if I have even the slightest chance of a refund? I don't think VISA will honor a chargeback request after 18 months. However, I ordered mine from their official site. This HAL project originally started on a crowdfunding site, and all of those backers are completely out of luck. It was supposed to ship by winter 2019, but there were massive delays, and I just learned that the company has declared bankruptcy and will not be producing the items.
I love their Apollo 11 bootprint replica, their blueprints, and their models.Īfter attending the screening of "2001: A Space Odyssey" at Spacefest 2019, I decided to preorder their $1000 replica of HAL 9000. Over the years, Master Replicas Group has been a great company for space memorabilia. Profile | register | preferences | faq | search Prices will be announced in April wen these go up for pre-order.Master Replicas Group bankruptcy - collectSPACE: Messages
#HAL 9000 MASTER REPLICA SERIAL NUMBER#
Each replica will be given a serial number ranging between. Otherwise, the tablet will answer queries with Alexa’s normal voice (though Dymszo is currently lobbying Amazon to try and get Alexa’s voice on this machine tuned to respond as HAL would). As of right now, Master Replicas’ HAL-9000 will only parrot back famous lines from the film back to you if you ask it to. This officially licensed replica will run off of an Amazon Fire HD tablet and utilize the online retailer’s voice assistant Alexa for answering any of your queries about the news or weather. Steve Dymszo, the CEO of the company promises that this one won’t try to lock you out of your own home.
Master Replicas, a company known for their high-quality reproductions of props from Star Wars and Star Trek, is getting ready to release a working version of HAL-9000 for the 50th anniversary of Stanley Kubrick’s famous film 2001: A Space Odyssey.