The C3G Cave - Hangout

[Ronin]

You might be stuck picking up the shipping cost or making your own proxies. So far as I can tell, small plastic bumblebees are not a booming business and you don't have a ton of options there.

[quozl]

Throw wings on an ant.

[Lazy Orang]

Thank you guys (including Yodaking on Ant-Man's thread) for the replies about the bees. - still not sure what I'll do, but your responses are appreciated

[Soundwarp SG-1]

Safari Ltd. has what seems to be the same model of bee as the official one available in bulk here, maybe you could get a few other people to chip in for a group buy.

[L0B5T3R]

Originally Posted by Lazy Orang

still not sure what I'll do

What about whipping up a sticker proxy? Like with the Ant Swarms?

[Lazy Orang]

Originally Posted by Soundwarp SG-1

Safari Ltd. has what seems to be the same model of bee as the official one available in bulk here, maybe you could get a few other people to chip in for a group buy.

I only play with my immediate family, and I doubt we'd really need more than 4, sadly, maybe 5.

Originally Posted by L0B5T3R

What about whipping up a sticker proxy? Like with the Ant Swarms?

Doesn't really work, sadly, on account of them flying.

[L0B5T3R]

Originally Posted by Soundwarp SG-1

Doesn't really work, sadly, on account of them flying.

Excuse my ignorance (I printed out Ant/Rat Swarms for the 1st time yesterday) but, why does that matter?

[japes]

Originally Posted by L0B5T3R

Excuse my ignorance (I printed out Ant/Rat Swarms for the 1st time yesterday) but, why does that matter?

Good question. That's actually what I use here. I printed stickers for the ants, rats swarm, and bee's. I then stuck them on craft store wooded disks. Works just fine.

[laughing matter]

Originally Posted by L0B5T3R

Excuse my ignorance (I printed out Ant/Rat Swarms for the 1st time yesterday) but, why does that matter?

Well, obviously they wouldn't stay on the base long enough for the glue to dry if they can fly!

[Lazy Orang]

Honestly, it's a silly aesthetic thing, for me - I'm fine with the aesthetic of the sticker bases for rats and ants as they should be really close to the ground, but I'd rather my bees actually looked like they were flying.

[Soundwarp SG-1]

Originally Posted by Lazy Orang

I only play with my immediate family, and I doubt we'd really need more than 4, sadly, maybe 5.

I meant more like see if a few people on here are interested, then get one person to act as the distributor to receive the bulk order and ship everyone else's requested bees out. You'd still have to figure out if getting someone to ship them to you is worth it given your location, but the bees would probably fit into a padded envelope so it might not be too bad.

[Lazy Orang]

Originally Posted by Soundwarp SG-1

I meant more like see if a few people on here are interested, then get one person to act as the distributor to receive the bulk order and ship everyone else's requested bees out. You'd still have to figure out if getting someone to ship them to you is worth it given your location, but the bees would probably fit into a padded envelope so it might not be too bad.

To be quite honest, the logistics of finding enough people interested for it to be worthwhile (which would be unlikely, considering the cost of that), choosing a distributor, somehow splitting the cost - it just sounds like a logistical nightmare to me.