Sandy Petersen has Changed the Terms of Your Interest-Free Loan to Him

Pro tip: don't search Google for "mystery package"

From the BGG thread:

www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=901886511952573

www.linkedin.com/company/quimbleys
piki ventures - www.linkedin.com/in/david-m-evans
I can't get the FB link open, what is it about

EDIT: Nevermind, switching browsers and machines helped.

So, if that is their new partner, they seem to have sprung into existence last august, and the one guy identifiable is from aircraft business.

EDIT 2: this is their owner www.linkedin.com/in/thepaulhallett/ - who was apparently looking for a creative director with print experience two days ago.

So if this is accurate, Petersen games new partner is a very new company, and their principals have no / very limited experience if toy and game manufacturing.

Apparently, they found some people to create a new company, Quimbleys, with zero experience in the industry. That's the downside. The upside for everyone still involved is that they're not Sandy and Arthur. There has been some concern, based on random statements made, that instead of the usual gobs of plastic approach that is PG's, this new company might be a little more, uh, expedient in terms of production, which means that you might end up seeing pressed wooden figures (easier to tool for, I guess?) and/or standees created just to get the games into production.

Looks like they've got a few things going on along with H.C. Quimbley's Games.

Quimbley's Manufacturing
opencorporates.com/companies/us_ut/13852944-0142
Quimbley's Inc
opencorporates.com/companies/us_ut/13848492-0142
HCQ Management
opencorporates.com/companies/us_ut/13791302-0142

Call me crazy, but I look at my mountain of CW and find myself wondering how much space I'd save if everything were colored acrylic standees.

After the I heard about Lincoln throwing a tantrum with the Discord server, I decided to go pop my head back in there (I still had access, though I generally spend very little time on Discord). Unfortunately I could be misremembering (this may have come from BGG), but I think Lincoln hinted that they were considering a path where they would give you an option to get a different version of Hyperspace with "different components" sooner, IE. probably laser-cut standees, or wait for the mini version. Now, for a company that struggles mightily with logistics, this seems absolutely idiotic. But tell me Hyperspace is now going full-color acrylic standees only, I'd probably be fine with it...

As to the Mystery Box, I went ahead and threw my personal info at it. I just did a quick Google search and found my home address very easily, it's not like you're giving up that much. But yeah, I'm expecting basically an advertisement for this new company with some piece-together laser-cut somethingorother. Maybe a dice tower?

It looks like the new company is entirely new and the people involved have project management experience, but not game publishing experience.