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== Indiegogo Campaign ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' Yep. While we're talking about Kickstarters, I want to just mention an Indiegogo campaign that I have backed. It's huge and I am dubious about it actually becoming a product even though I've backed it because if it does, it will be awesome. It's called Nimuno, the Nimuno Loop. It is a tape, a rubber tape that you can stick onto stuff and then put Lego blocks on the tape. It's like a big rubber Lego that has adhesive on the back of it. So, you can put Lego bricks on it and it can go up in any, like you'll stick up on the wall and then put Lego on the wall. Right. It's raised one and a half million dollars. It has 14 days left. I think it looks really freaking cool and if it works out, like I would love this, right? Like I could do weird things with Lego, you know, from like a presentation perspective. I just, I mean, they try and get around it by being like, you can use any toy block thing. Yeah. I just don't know if they're going to be able to ship this without Lego being like, no, you're not doing this.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right. That's my first question, right? Are they going to get, you know, cease and desisted, sued, something?

'''Myke Hurley:''' And I don't think that they necessarily should. Like this is an inventive product. I think it's a good idea. Like it's not one of those things. I mean, I don't look at this and think to myself, oh, they're just profiting off the back of Lego. Like I don't think that, honestly. Like because you could use other toy blocks and you could use Lego, but it's just, it's like an accessory to Lego. Right. But Lego is very protective of their product.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And this is big enough. They sure as heck know that this is a thing.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, Lego are very aware of it, right? Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Because I started seeing this about a week ago. I started seeing it kind of go across my feeds. And I was actually going to put this in one of our show notes because even though it's not pen related, I like, I think it's interesting enough that like the people that listen to this show are into this kind of thing. Yeah. I think it's really cool. Like I would totally be for this. It's a great idea. It's a really great idea. Yeah. And you can do cool pen stuff with it too. You know, make a different pen cases and pen holders on your desk and have them stuck on there and have some rad little Lego things going on. But yeah, you certainly can't say Lego in the name. And I just wonder, you know, well, I know you will keep an eye on this and I would like an update.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. I mean, I'm a backer. I mean, and they're saying they'll ship August.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. And that's the thing about this Indiegogo is if it funds, the money's gone, right?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' They are essentially a money in advance thing. So if they get their pants suit off of them, you're stuck. Yeah. It would have to be canceled beforehand. So there's two weeks left, but that doesn't necessarily mean you're to the good.

'''Myke Hurley:''' There was a big Kickstarter recently that got, that this happened to, I can't remember what the product was now, but I think it was like, it was some kind of like, it was a digital product. You know, like it was, it was like, you know, it wasn't like just like a pen or something. It was like a little computer thing. I wish I could remember what it was, but they were just like, yeah, no, it's gone. And then all the money's gone and you're not going to get refunds. You're not going to get any products. It's all gone. We went bankrupt. And it was like one of these Kickstarters that raised over like a million dollars or something. Like it happens. You got to be prepared for that when you go in on it. Like I've put $29 into this thing because I would really love it if I can get it. But I actually think that there's a very strong chance that that money's just going to be gone.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I think there is well over a 50% chance. Like I think this is a dice roll.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, but it's again, like by the time this episode comes out in a few days after we record it, it might not exist anymore. Who knows?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It might not be there anymore.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' What will be there when this project is there or gone and will be there somehow for the rest of your life because you can track it is something called the cross. Are we going to go tracker or track R?

'''Myke Hurley:''' It is tracker and I will say at this point that tracker has been a previous RelayFM sponsor. Brad found this clearly not knowing that or not remembering that tracker had been a sponsor and he put it in the notes. I do want to mention that straight up front. Like no one's asked us to put this in there, but tracker have been a sponsor of some RelayFM shows in the past. Okay.