Question for those of you, unlike me, who backed the sail barge. Did they give you more updates than we've had for the Razor Crest?
For the Barge, Hasbro provided 8-9 updates to the Fan Sites in those first two months of the campaign because no one was sure what was going to happen - if it would fund of fail or whatever.
Then, after the campaign was funded (April), there were six emails that went out to the backers with updates:
#1 - 04/20/18 - booklet shipped
#2 - 07/11/18 - mold and paint deco specs
#3 - 09/11/18 - 3D printed full-scale model
#4 - 10/16/18 - photoshoot for boxed images
#5 - 12/19/18 - final product and packaging shots
#6 - 02/19/19 - expected shipping date in March (about two weeks notice)
For Razor Crest, they have released similar updates just not in convenient email form. Instead of keeping the backers informed, the onus is on the backers to go out and find the info themselves in all the various "Fan Friday" Pulse live-stream events. They showed off the 3D model on a live-stream video. They showed off the final paint master in a live-stream video. I'm sure they are saving the packaging reveal for the upcoming Fall "Hasbro Pulse Fest" online live-stream.
The Barge had a separate "HasLab" site where Hasbro archived all of the various reveals and updates/emails. With HasLab now integrated into the Hasbro Puse site, it seems like they either can't or don't want to maintain that type of info archive anymore.