Juan Carlos 8 - Streets of Cyberpunk
tsarist
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Well we have a new bundle... https://www.daz3d.com/juan-carlos-8-Streets-of-cyberpunk-bundle
I guess Millawa has a boyfriend & Niko has a best mate.
He seems ok. Nothing wr haven't seen yet. The bundle is smallish.
I like the character of Juan Carlos. He sounds like he would be the leader of a Mexican Cartel (or leader of Spain) with a name like that, but he does look cool. I know Serene Night is going to be pleased.
I like that there is a city environment, but there are more interesting ones in Daz Marketplace & beyond.
The same can be said of the motorbike.
I know many of you will be unhappy about the presence of female items in a male bundle, in this case a female outfit, especially since Juan only has one outfit in his own bundle!
I'm going to wait to see if I get a banner and what the offer may be. There really isn't much for me here.
Also, with the size of the bundle and small amount of add ons, I think it would be a safe bet there will be another mini bundle tomorrow.
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The deal could be better, but the bundle itself is quite interesting
Easy pass for me this time. Although there is stuff I could use don't need another guy as a have all other 8's. Will probably get the Eletra hair or a non bundle release to trigger the 1$-tutorial thing though.
I mean ... I like him just fine, and I like Charity and Raze just fine, but bundles are getting weird lately. When they first started the themed bundles, with Kayo and Kwan (I think), they at least made sense. There were characters based on the main character, and the clothing matched the theme. Now there's a theme, but the characters are just random.
Nothing in the Messages section at the moment. (Also, I just realized that they reworked the Messages as part of the site change. There used to be three sections -- Exclusive Offers, and two other parts that I don't remember because I can't remember them even once getting used. Which would explain why they went away.)
Also, I see the expensive bundles are here to stay. Which isn't a surprise, to be sure.
I wonder if this three bundles in four weeks thing heralds the return of the holiday season madness like last year, which had something like six bundles in seven or eight weeks, and a major character bundle released on Christmas Day, as I recall.
And they've been carrying themes through multiple sequential (... well, sort of) bundles, as well. Millawa, Niko, Juan Carlos all on the cyberpunk theme, and Drutherson and Topsy as the holiday dwarf/elf theme. (Clearly, Millawa, Niko, and Juan Carlos are characters on the run through Cyberpunk City/Alley/Club, or some such.)
You are quite correct, the last king of Spain (father of the current one) is named Juan Carlos (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Carlos_I)
Mildly interested, but too expensive for me, unless there's a banner beyond.
When I saw him in the newsletter I immediately though Antonio Banderas. He looks awesome.
The bundle looks not too bad, besides the price tag... It is somewhere between a "Starter" and a "Pro" bundle, but the regular price iis much higher than a pro bundle. Even with the loyality discount, it is way above what I usually pay for a bundle that (small) size. Unless an orange banner magicaly apperas, this is a no-buy for me. I might go with the character, as I think it is very well done (judging from the promo pictures).
As per @Mousso, I can see some similarities to Antonio Banderas. I guess the big enticement is supposed to be the tutorial for $1, but that coupon crowds out using my monthly PC coupon. Regarding the rest of the items, I like the twins. Nicely done, RedzStudio. Back to Juan Carlos character, here is one of the promo pics next to a pic of Antonio Banderas.
It's an interesting bundle to me, though I see the figure more as an "extra". If it wasn't a bundle, I probably would've wishlisted Seven of Nine (sorry, couldn't resist) items, but only bought one of those seven right away. (The Electro Hair). As a bundle though, the whole set gets a total discount of 73%, down to $41.15, which is more than fast grab. And it would take a year before the first pieces would even start to appear in fast grab, so it's not a bad deal to me. Seeing the HD Add-on thrown in doesn't hurt the deal either.
I think including female and dual gender items in these bundles may actually help sell these "male character bundles".
With the old pro-bundles, I was way more hesitant to buy the male bundles, and would usually only buy the hairs and maybe one outfit, then wait for a good deal on the main figure later. The new bundles have way more interesting things for people who primarily render female figures: female outfits, hairs fitting both males and females, environments, props.. And people just starting with Daz now get a much more complete bundle to play with: a character with matching outfit and poses (like before), but now also a matching environment (Neo City Ally), matching props (a bike and weapons) and something for a side character (female outfit).
I like the newest Daz characters in terms of quality, but I'm not going to buy bundles over $30, as I often only could need 1 or 2 items of them.
So buying the single items I really want would be the better deal at the moment, but I don't want to buy them as I know there will be a better offer for the whole bundle in 6 to 12 months, which would be less interesting then, if I'd already own stuff from it.
So I end up in buying nothing because of a bundle starting price that's just a few dollars over my sweet / greed spot.
It's a good looking character but the Pro bundle is a bit pricey and I'm not that interested in the other bundle items. Although I own nearly all the Pro and character bundles I didn't get any orange banner. Even with 3 "sidekick" items the lowest price I could get for the bundle was $41. So, a pass for me this time around.
I wouldn't expect an orange banner during the Holiday Loyalty Discount period. 30% Loyalty Discount > 20% Pro Bundle Collector anyway. Maybe we'll see some Flash Sale later today, though that would usually only mean additional purchases, not any discount on the new bundle.
Bundle is a bit pricey, though I do like the character. Pass until I see if a banner is going to pop up. Even with my 30% loyalty discount, he's still $41.
Another inflated price bundle. Another Pass, even if the bundle is nice, cause is very good. Just too expensive.
Even considering the out of proportion price for the environment (there are bigger for that price or less), all 9 items are 213,55. So only 30% base dundle discount.
Pro bundle have more value than that and give 50% base discount.
Add that today's release promo is also really bad. At least this year Fantasy had a lot of love, not inflated prices and amazing release promos. Why can't sci-fi have the same?
I may buy the figure but I'm disappointed. I need mens cyberpunk clothing. Just one outfit and a unisex hair? Hard for me to get excited because these new bundles seem to have fewer men's items than before.. I guess I'll vote with my wallet and buy ala carte.
At this point, they should just allow us to build our own sets. Seems the kitchen sink approach, just dilutes the male content. I don’t want to pay for women’s things As far as female items, and generic hairlines hair in male, bundles goes? For those of us who render men, no thanks.another flying thingy with antigravity and no means of propulsion
a flying carpet makes more sense
They definitely need to stop calling these bundles and change the official name to "stack of random stuff that was lying around." I'm seriously beginning to wonder about DAZ's long term prospects if this is the best that they can put together on a theme concept. Like others, I'm especially getting tired of all the female stuff in supposedly male bundles. No purple/orange bar offer either, despite the fact that I own every single G8 Pro Bundle plus all the G* figures that have been released since they went off the reservation, and there are literally only four items in the stack up sale that I don't have (all expression packs for female characters) so those are a pretty poor incentive to buy just to get the extra discount.
All that said, JC IS a nice looking character, but I'm hard pressed to think of anything that he actually adds to the gene pool. I think someone needs to kick whoever's in charge of this stuff a couple of times, as they're starting to look like a skipping record. Like, maybe, can we actually get some base teen males or new monstrosities or male toons? Or, maybe, just take a little more time with these bundles and get theme content that actually relates to the character?
Juan Carlos? Like the former spanish King?
Yes. That is probably the most popular known example. Is actually two names and very common in Spain and Latin American countries, both alone (Juan or Carlos) and combined.
In some countries almost always use both names when refering to one person, no matter what the names are. In others, the second name is not used often unless the first name is too common like in this case Juan, José, María and some combinations starting with Carlos too.
BTW, both are spanish equivalent for popular historic names in other languages. Like Juan is equivalent to John and Carlos is to Charles in english/french or Karl (germanic).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_(given_name)
Considering JC looks a lot like Antonio Banderas I feel the cyberpunk theme doesn't really fit with his character.
I do love the character and the hair. If we would have gotten a banner as well this would have been ok for me. It feel like they think of what final lowest price they want for a bundle and then they adjust everything else to fit to it. Because we have loyalty discount for this sale, they decided not to offer banners to people that own a lot of bundles. Nice going!
Actually most of the items that are in discount categories have had at one time or another a bigger discount. Which makes the loyalty bonus just a marketing gimmick in my mind.
I guess I'll wait to see if they release a second bundle either with this character or complementing this and stacking discount somehow. If not, it's a skip for me and I'll wait for it to get discounted more down the line as there's nothing in there I need. It's just stuff I like.
Wow, Neo City is like 6 files 500MB Each.
the way things going around here, I would expect something to be taken away before we get a banner discount.
Like the $1 tutorial thing which is too good to pass up. The "but 3 for 70% off deal isn;t bad either if you need something in that group. I threw 3 low cost items in my cart to trigger the additional 20% off the bundle and their total came to $3.80.
I agree 100% that the bundle is way too high in price. Looking closer at it, other than the poses, motorbike thing, and the weapons, I like it.
I saw Antonio Banderas as well ;).
Laurie
Well for the moment I got Sickleyields Blushing to trigger the tutorial offer together with todays christmas gift (the free PC+ was removed for some reason). No reason to get the bundle yet. Might change my mind once there will be a follow-up bundle coming tomorrow. Otherwise I will probably only go for the hair.
I like Juan Carlos himself. I agree with people above who see a resemblance to Antonio Banderas. I put him on my wishlist.
The bundle, though. Nah. I feel like there's nothing there I don't already have, and cyberpunk isn't my schtick anyway.
How much is it supposed to cost? (if you usually have the max frequent bundler discount)
I don't know how to make sense of Daz new pricing. See attached, he won't even stay in the cart if I navigate away. And note the count of 1 in the cart icon top right.
Time for them to move some folks aside and hire some professionals. Sorry to say but the site trainwreck is beyond belief.