The 19th is the last ship date on their calendar
Hopefully the ALICE frame will also ship. I’m planning on waiting until the 19th for either the shipment notice or the excuse. If the excuse is good and credible enough, I’ll give them a little more time. Otherwise, I’m heading for the surplus store.
I am very confused as to how they cannot have these. I understand they probably don’t want a warehouse full of them, but they are readily available I’m sure as some companies still produce them, and the few things they need to add like the foam isn’t that hard. I am wondering if they have a minimum order they need to sell before ordering and are hoping they hit that number.
While A.L.I.C.E. Pack-style frames are semi-commonplace, a lot of these are cheap(ish) copies compared to the frames made during the Vietnam era, and there have been reports from users here who’ve bought them that the vertical struts are prone to breaking - which would rule those out as a viable option for use with Proton Packs.
As for the padding: getting the straps (either buying vintage or manufacturing reproductions), opening them up, padding them and then sewing them up again is a bit of a labour-intensive task in itself, I’d be wary about describing it as “not that hard”. And we have to remember this is not a factory production line, it’s a small team handling the whole project.
Reinforcing the ALICE straps isn’t too difficult, but it does require some patience; it only took me about five hours to stitch the new straps on for my GB2 Hero pack (plus about three hours of removing the old pads, cutting the foam, test-fitting, etc.).
While eBay is your best source for an accurate ALICE frame, avoid sellers that use a stock photo, as you’re best bet is an olive drab LC-2 military-issue frame (not ‘mil-spec’, which is the aftermarket version for civilian-use). LC-1 frames are definitely out there, but tend to be a bit rarer and often command a higher price.
Ah balls…you’re right.
Maybe I am wrong, but based on the pricing I can’t believe this going to be an exact reproduction of any frame/straps used in the films. I’d be surprised if they could make one of military quality and include all the additional details for only $40. The going price for repros is $40 from Rothco.
Has any frame from Anovos been shipped to a customer? That would answer a lot of questions… I’m not trying to demean what Anovos has done and I understand they’re a small company and a small team is working on this, but I still think this would be the easy part of the proton pack.. not the hard part.
I lucked out and bought an alice frame in 2002 for a Halloween pack.. The straps are reproduction and could use an upgrade, but the frame is an original LC1 and very sturdy. Seems nearly indestructible.
I ordered day one, haven’t received Alice yet. . i have 3 packs now and $40 was reasonable enough, I figured I’ll just use the best out of the bunch. So I’m not to worried about about the quality. However if I didn’t already have a few frames , I’d wait and see or just buy from somewhere else. Anovos stuff is a guessing game
I nearly ordered one as well. Like you said, $40 isn’t too bad, but after discovering mine was a genuine LC1 frame I figured I would just never use it.
I don’t think it could worse than a Rothco frame. I’d be surprised if the frame isn’t identical to a current Rothco frame, save for the color.
I just got off with “Samantha” from anovos customer service, according to her, “as far as I know both pack kits and frames are on schedule to be shipped out by the end of day on the 19th”
So there’s that…hopefully!
Samantha, don’t fail us now!
I hope that’s true
Happy last day of “Winter 2017” everyone!
Oh…how I want to believe that these get shipped out today, but I am expecting an email that their pushed to Spring 2018 for those that haven’t received them yet. Plus, I ordered in November of last year.
Should note that I expected all of this as I’ve worked with Anovos a lot in the past, beginning with their stormtrooper armor. If you ever get in stock items from them they come pretty quick.
Confirmed, I just talked to a rep on the chat, before I even gave any info they will be sending out a “detailed breakdown” regarding proton packs moving forward. Its sad to because I talk to them every week and everything is set to order then today everything magically changes. I just wish they were up front.
Oh, geez… well; proof of life would be a welcome change of pace from radio silence, haha. Here’s hoping it sheds some light on the end of this tunnel.
Disappointing, not unexpected. Hopefully they can tell us more about the status of our orders soon.
Anovos is being rotten. Delays? Okay. Production problems? Okay.
POOR to no communication with their customers? Absolutely NO excuse. Not at all. It is 2018 and they’re deflecting and not being straight with customers? Appalling.
OUCH again…
Unfortunately, I had a contact in France who cancelled his Anovos Pack… I’m little Sad, Because I wanted to see how it looks like in REAL… 
Yeah…this was the first and will be the last time I do anything with anovos. Worst customer service I’ve dealt with.