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Thursday, November 5, 2015

Indiegogo - Scrote'n'Tote: The Satchel of Life - I've got the Biggest Balls of Them All!


I've been bombarded with emails and social media messages about the Scrote'n'Tote: The Satchel of Life project on Indiegogo.

Don't want to bother reading the project website? No worries - watch the video:


How serious is the project?

I give them credit for using the fixed funding option at Indiegogo, so it's not a quick money grab at your crotch.

Bad. I know.

But it does seem legit-ish.
Although the video may suggest otherwise, this is an actual and legitimate project.
The aim of this campaign is to produce sturdy, functional, durable, high quality and of course stylish Scrote'n'Tote backpacks to be made available to aesthetes  all over the world.  
The funding goal of $33,000 will cover the cost of producing the mold for the skin textured part of the bag, which is the biggest pre-production expense.  The money also covers various smaller research costs including testing out different materials, different methods for attaching the skin part to the backpack part, producing various prototypes, quality tests, trying out different production facilities in different locations to see who can make the best product, etc.  
The Scrote'n'Tote prototype you see in the images was produced by hand by special effects prosthetics artist C.J. Goldman and is too heavy and delicate to be used as a proper backpack, on top of costing almost $1000 to produce per bag, which is why we can't use that method or materials. 
Once we've produced something functional and sturdy that looks as close to the original as possible, we'll sell the Scrote'n'Totes online for $120 USD each, plus shipping. 
However, everyone who donated $10 will be entitled to buy one for only $69 plus shipping, as well as getting the satisfaction of knowing that they helped bring the gift of scrotes into the world.   
There's also the option to put the whole $69 down right away which saves you the extra $10.
Not much to say. The whole thing kinda speaks for itself.

6 comments:

  1. How can they possibly know how much to sell it for when they don't even know what materials, manufacturing process or manufacturer they'll be using yet?

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  2. I've seen a lot of really stupid things on the internet... probably countless stupid things. Perhaps this one doesn't quite take the crown, but it's certainly close.

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  3. I know some people consider us all to be "man-children" because we still play RPG's at our ages, but this is amazingly juvenile by any standard.

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  4. I'm guessing most of the people behind this have a theoretical knowledge on that subject at best.

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  5. If you overstuffed them would that be a case of elephantiasis?

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  6. Still, it would make one hell of a dice bag.

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